They need to concentrate on the non-citizens who are coming into the country, not the citizens who are traveling abroad. Just last week there were strikes because too many people are coming into the UK. The UK is already overcrowded and the government seems to be able to do very little to control the borders effectively. Allowing Workers to freely migrate within the EU was a big mistake and will drive wages down.
If you spend alot of time on Linux friendly community sites and spend most of your computing time in Linux then it's very easy to start thinking that Linux is bigger than it really is. Then you get out into the real world and realise almost everyone is using Windows and the most people don't even know what Linux is.
Two dead hard drives on different laptops was enough to convince me. Coincidence? Maybe... Worth taking the risk? No. I do run Ubuntu on my SSD based eeepc though. It was only £180 so I'm not too worried if it breaks and I also know this hard disk issue probably wont occur because SSD works differently. Now m only problem is that the fans dont work properly and it runs hotter than Xandros did. I've had it for about 6 months and it hasn't burnt out yet.
The hard disks on two of my Ubuntu laptops have died prematurely. It's sad that this issue get ignored or labelled as flamebait when it is an issue that has cost many people alot of money.
If like me you'd lost two laptops to this bug then you wouldn't consider it flamebait. Ubuntu is fine on Desktops but it has fan issues and hard disk issues on many laptops I've used. I have Ubuntu on my eeepc now and it seems to work ok but it runs pretty hot sometimes. The main issue I've had with Ubuntu on laptops is premature hard disk failure.
I think the European ATV is looking quite promising for transportation of goods and eventually people to the ISS. It'll be interesting to see what China and India come up with as they also seem to be making major inroads into space travel. It's quite exciting that so many countries can do stuff now and I hope that competition leads to better advances in technologies. A new space race might be a good thing (for people who are interested in space travel)
Having a missile that can orbit the earth gives it the ability to have a longer range. Also, having a satellite that can shoot a laser with pinpoint accuracy would surely be very handy.
In WWII and the Cold War eras aerial dominance was of great importance. That's partly why the Soviets and USA scrapped over the German technology after the WWII.
Now however the main threat seems to be from the ground in suprise attacks carried out by organisations rather than countries. Why risk getting hit with nukes when you can hire an external 'terrorist' group to do your bidding?
Thing is, although the newish threat of terrorism grabs all the news, the old threats are still there too.
Or maybe the government just wants to scare you so that you become more 'patriotic' and allow them to hold power.
Youtube is better. Also, the BBC has a blatent left-wing political stance. It's ok for a normal media corporation to be politically biased because you can just turn over, but a taxpayer funded one should be a little more balanced. Yes you can turn the BBC over, but you still have to support them financially whether you watch BBC channels or not. I've nothing against people who are left of centre, I just dont like paying the BBC if they are not being even-sided. I also don't see the point in funding the BBC when the Internet has brought us plenty of alternatives.
If it isn't scrapped then it should be an optional subscription like virgin or sky that you only pay for if you use it.
This whole story bores the crap out of me... It's been going on pretty much since the mp3 was invented. I remember it being an issue back when the original mp3.com was founded in the 90's. The RIAA cant ever stop people recording or distributing sound. Maybe they have some influence in the US, but there are billions of people on the web who don't live in the US and will continue to copy and share music/videos. I've heard that there are chinese p2p programs like ppstream that allow you to watch hundresds of recent movies on demand and there's nothing the Americans can do about it.
Virtual Box is good for playing around with on your home desktop. But running a complete desktop OS and another complete desktop OS in a VirtualBox is going to have obvious implications in terms of performance.
VMWare ESx however is an operating system with a very small footprint. This gives you more resources to allocate to your virtual machines. Also vmware ESx is pretty good for accessing virtual machines on from a remote location because it comes with VMware infrastructure client which is pretty good.
Make it like something out of Indiana Jones.... Linux is a power which makes the makes the PC better. Macs and PC's carry a heavy burdern of DRM that slows them down and makes them incompatible. When they see the light and find Linux that burden falls away. Linux and open source is the peacemaker.
Why waste money producing cd's, dvds or whatever when you can sell it online and make a bigger profit.
I hardly ever buy physical games or software for my PC, why should it be any different on a console?
Nobody here has actually seen the software they will be using. I think that if the techicians behind the equipment are happy with a modded Windows environment then they are probably more qualified to make this decision than anyone here.
Windows is alot more stable than people here give it credit for, but I can see that many of the Linux fanboys have alterior motives and exaggerate the problems with Windows. I also use Linux but I accept that Windows is better in some situations. I certainly don't think open source software would be suitable for this kind of system. If people have source then it's easier to find exploits.
no doubt next year will be the year of the Inetbook. A little white netbook that everyone can carry around with them.
Oh wait they already exist as eeepc's et al, but this will be the first one with MacOS and will be super trendy. They will revolutionise portable computing
Mark Shuttleworth had loads of money already and just wanted to make a user friendly version of Linux for the masses. There is a reason why it's called Ubuntu, it's not really to do with profiteering. If you think that's strange or eccentric then you should remember that he was one of the first space tourists. Ubuntu has never been in profit and has been sending free cd's to all kinds of places. I don't think Mark will care much if he has to spend a bit of money to realise his dream.
This version of Ubuntu works better on the EEEPC than Hardy did. They have included alot of eeepc modules so less tweaking is needed.
If you have a 701 with 4gb, compressing/usr will give you a
at least 1gb free space, possibly 2gb. I used this tutorial too do it:
http://po-ru.com/diary/linux-liposuction-or-xubuntu-in-under-a-gig-on-the-eee-pc/
The tutorial works on Xubuntu and Ubuntu, possibly Kubuntu but I haven't tried that. Read the comments on that page for extra help.
I've heard that phone masts may be harmful. Do I really want to be trapped in a huge flying phone mast for several hours? There are people who will site reports that no link has been found between phone masts and cancer, but really there hasn't been enough time for anyone to do research on the longterm effects of being near phone masts. I'm not convinced that this will be good for peoples health.
One Linux user bashing another distro is insane. They both share alot of the same code and apps. The developers come from across the board. All Linux distros are built from bits and pieces of different distros.
Fedora is directly benefitting from the successes of Ubuntu. Canonical is pumping quite a bit of money into many of the open source projects that are part of Fedora. Ubuntu also benefits from code generated by Fedora/Red Hat users. In the computing industry it's quite simple, he who puts more money and effort into advertising gets the hype. Just look at Apple.
They screwed up bluetooth on phones... It could've been so much better if they'd let people send sms messages to people nearby using bluetooth or having bluetooth chat on all phones. Then I'd be able to stalk people while commuting.
Microsoft owns most of Facebook and Hotmail. If they had Yahoo E-mail as well then they would have far too much personal informations about people. I dont like it that companies like Google and Microssoft can just buy out the internet and I dont think it's good that any company should have access to that amount of personal information.
ROFL! GIMP is a load of crap compared to Photoshop. It's really not an acceptable program for perofessionals to use. That's why most a photographers choose to pay for Photoshop. The GUI on photoshop is abysmal.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.......... We already know there are planets. When someone actually finds a planet with life on it then that might actually be worthy of making the news.
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They need to concentrate on the non-citizens who are coming into the country, not the citizens who are traveling abroad. Just last week there were strikes because too many people are coming into the UK. The UK is already overcrowded and the government seems to be able to do very little to control the borders effectively. Allowing Workers to freely migrate within the EU was a big mistake and will drive wages down.
If you spend alot of time on Linux friendly community sites and spend most of your computing time in Linux then it's very easy to start thinking that Linux is bigger than it really is. Then you get out into the real world and realise almost everyone is using Windows and the most people don't even know what Linux is.
Two dead hard drives on different laptops was enough to convince me. Coincidence? Maybe... Worth taking the risk? No. I do run Ubuntu on my SSD based eeepc though. It was only £180 so I'm not too worried if it breaks and I also know this hard disk issue probably wont occur because SSD works differently. Now m only problem is that the fans dont work properly and it runs hotter than Xandros did. I've had it for about 6 months and it hasn't burnt out yet.
The hard disks on two of my Ubuntu laptops have died prematurely. It's sad that this issue get ignored or labelled as flamebait when it is an issue that has cost many people alot of money.
If like me you'd lost two laptops to this bug then you wouldn't consider it flamebait. Ubuntu is fine on Desktops but it has fan issues and hard disk issues on many laptops I've used. I have Ubuntu on my eeepc now and it seems to work ok but it runs pretty hot sometimes. The main issue I've had with Ubuntu on laptops is premature hard disk failure.
Where is this free orange juice of which you speak?
I think the European ATV is looking quite promising for transportation of goods and eventually people to the ISS. It'll be interesting to see what China and India come up with as they also seem to be making major inroads into space travel. It's quite exciting that so many countries can do stuff now and I hope that competition leads to better advances in technologies. A new space race might be a good thing (for people who are interested in space travel)
Having a missile that can orbit the earth gives it the ability to have a longer range. Also, having a satellite that can shoot a laser with pinpoint accuracy would surely be very handy. In WWII and the Cold War eras aerial dominance was of great importance. That's partly why the Soviets and USA scrapped over the German technology after the WWII. Now however the main threat seems to be from the ground in suprise attacks carried out by organisations rather than countries. Why risk getting hit with nukes when you can hire an external 'terrorist' group to do your bidding? Thing is, although the newish threat of terrorism grabs all the news, the old threats are still there too. Or maybe the government just wants to scare you so that you become more 'patriotic' and allow them to hold power.
Youtube is better. Also, the BBC has a blatent left-wing political stance. It's ok for a normal media corporation to be politically biased because you can just turn over, but a taxpayer funded one should be a little more balanced. Yes you can turn the BBC over, but you still have to support them financially whether you watch BBC channels or not. I've nothing against people who are left of centre, I just dont like paying the BBC if they are not being even-sided. I also don't see the point in funding the BBC when the Internet has brought us plenty of alternatives. If it isn't scrapped then it should be an optional subscription like virgin or sky that you only pay for if you use it.
This whole story bores the crap out of me... It's been going on pretty much since the mp3 was invented. I remember it being an issue back when the original mp3.com was founded in the 90's. The RIAA cant ever stop people recording or distributing sound. Maybe they have some influence in the US, but there are billions of people on the web who don't live in the US and will continue to copy and share music/videos. I've heard that there are chinese p2p programs like ppstream that allow you to watch hundresds of recent movies on demand and there's nothing the Americans can do about it.
Virtual Box is good for playing around with on your home desktop. But running a complete desktop OS and another complete desktop OS in a VirtualBox is going to have obvious implications in terms of performance. VMWare ESx however is an operating system with a very small footprint. This gives you more resources to allocate to your virtual machines. Also vmware ESx is pretty good for accessing virtual machines on from a remote location because it comes with VMware infrastructure client which is pretty good.
Make it like something out of Indiana Jones.... Linux is a power which makes the makes the PC better. Macs and PC's carry a heavy burdern of DRM that slows them down and makes them incompatible. When they see the light and find Linux that burden falls away. Linux and open source is the peacemaker.
Why waste money producing cd's, dvds or whatever when you can sell it online and make a bigger profit. I hardly ever buy physical games or software for my PC, why should it be any different on a console?
Nobody here has actually seen the software they will be using. I think that if the techicians behind the equipment are happy with a modded Windows environment then they are probably more qualified to make this decision than anyone here. Windows is alot more stable than people here give it credit for, but I can see that many of the Linux fanboys have alterior motives and exaggerate the problems with Windows. I also use Linux but I accept that Windows is better in some situations. I certainly don't think open source software would be suitable for this kind of system. If people have source then it's easier to find exploits.
no doubt next year will be the year of the Inetbook. A little white netbook that everyone can carry around with them. Oh wait they already exist as eeepc's et al, but this will be the first one with MacOS and will be super trendy. They will revolutionise portable computing
Mark Shuttleworth had loads of money already and just wanted to make a user friendly version of Linux for the masses. There is a reason why it's called Ubuntu, it's not really to do with profiteering. If you think that's strange or eccentric then you should remember that he was one of the first space tourists. Ubuntu has never been in profit and has been sending free cd's to all kinds of places. I don't think Mark will care much if he has to spend a bit of money to realise his dream.
This version of Ubuntu works better on the EEEPC than Hardy did. They have included alot of eeepc modules so less tweaking is needed. If you have a 701 with 4gb, compressing /usr will give you a
at least 1gb free space, possibly 2gb. I used this tutorial too do it:
http://po-ru.com/diary/linux-liposuction-or-xubuntu-in-under-a-gig-on-the-eee-pc/
The tutorial works on Xubuntu and Ubuntu, possibly Kubuntu but I haven't tried that. Read the comments on that page for extra help.
I've heard that phone masts may be harmful. Do I really want to be trapped in a huge flying phone mast for several hours? There are people who will site reports that no link has been found between phone masts and cancer, but really there hasn't been enough time for anyone to do research on the longterm effects of being near phone masts. I'm not convinced that this will be good for peoples health.
great movie :-)
One Linux user bashing another distro is insane. They both share alot of the same code and apps. The developers come from across the board. All Linux distros are built from bits and pieces of different distros.
Fedora is directly benefitting from the successes of Ubuntu. Canonical is pumping quite a bit of money into many of the open source projects that are part of Fedora. Ubuntu also benefits from code generated by Fedora/Red Hat users. In the computing industry it's quite simple, he who puts more money and effort into advertising gets the hype. Just look at Apple.
They screwed up bluetooth on phones... It could've been so much better if they'd let people send sms messages to people nearby using bluetooth or having bluetooth chat on all phones. Then I'd be able to stalk people while commuting.
Microsoft owns most of Facebook and Hotmail. If they had Yahoo E-mail as well then they would have far too much personal informations about people. I dont like it that companies like Google and Microssoft can just buy out the internet and I dont think it's good that any company should have access to that amount of personal information.
ROFL! GIMP is a load of crap compared to Photoshop. It's really not an acceptable program for perofessionals to use. That's why most a photographers choose to pay for Photoshop. The GUI on photoshop is abysmal.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.......... We already know there are planets. When someone actually finds a planet with life on it then that might actually be worthy of making the news.