"I don't like the idea that I must submit to Allah. Does this make me hateful? A bigot?"
Which is why the Constitution prohibits a state religion. And at any rate, the President does not legitimately have the power to declare law, only enforce it.
"The President has the ability to veto and make decisions, and these in turn affect me, you and the world. What is his or her ideology? Are they pro women's rights? A Muslim, holding to Sharia law, sees women as less-than-human."
Is this much different from the fundamentalist Christain view that women belong in the home (a view that itself is far more moderate compared to what the Bible says about women's rights)? Just like everyone doesn't agree with the Christain fundamentalists yet still claims to believe in the religion, not everyone who labels themselves as Muslim necessarily has the same strict interpretation. Not to mention that if this kind of thing does happen, the President risks losing his or her re-election because of the small amount of Muslims in the country, many of which might not even agree with his or her specific ideology.
Don't be so sure of that. Business certainly are holding out, but end-users will buy whatever is sold to them. I haven't been to Best Buy recently, but I'm sure that they only offer either Macs or Vista, not XP.
Also, even if Vista excreted gold bricks, most business with XP would wait until either software stops being made for XP or XP's support runs out. Buying new licenses and re-imaging all of the computers in a business just because a new operating system comes out is not efficient. I would conjecture that this is the main reason Ubuntu offers LTS versions, and that Debian is popular on servers (as well as the obvious stability offered).
No. It will remain that way until it either becomes cool to use free software (how many Apple machines did you see before they changed their image?) or the software looks exactly like Windows, even though it is not (the Eee PC's default UI, for example).
What's your video card? Experience tells me that the video card more often than not is the likely culprit in power saving problems. I have found that a system with Intel graphics is far more likely to suspend and wake successfully than one with an ATI card. I have not tested the new ATI cards with official free drivers or any nVidia cards, but I can see nVidia cards causing the same problems.
While the average American is stupid by nature, I seriously doubt that they think that eating at McDonalds or chain smoking regularly is a healthy activity. You seem to be implying that people think nothing of these actions when doing them, and in some cases you are right, but you also seem to be suggesting that the majority are completely unaware of the damage they are inflicting upon themselves. Given the deluge of PSAs and school campaigns that I have been exposed to (and no doubt others have been exposed to as well) I can only see two kinds of people who engage in risky behavior: those that did not pay attention (in which case it is their own fault for not heeding a warning) or those who know the risks but choose to do the action anyway (which likewise puts the blame on them if something goes wrong).
True, but over the last century we have already given the President far more power than was given to him in the Constitution. Health care is just one thing that the people somehow feel is the President's responsibility rather than Congress or the states.
The DMCA is an umbrella act of at least five different acts (well, four and a few miscellaneous stuff). The article's praise is for the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, whereas most of the criticism over the past decade is actually aimed at the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act.
I never said anything about how Microsoft Office 2007 was doing. I was only speculating that a significant amount of new OpenOffice.org users switched to OpenOffice.org because of Microsoft's UI overhaul.
Not sure why the article sees the need to mention this:
OpenOffice.org 3.0 eases some adoption concerns. It is able to open all Office-formatted files, including the latest Office Open XML (OOXML) documents (.docx,.xlsx,.pptx, etc.), but it cannot save OOXML files natively.
Why would you need to save in this format? The existing binary support should be all you need if you need to collaborate with Microsoft Office users. It's their saving in Microsoft Office 2007 format that causes the roadblocks, not OpenOffice.org's lack of exporting to it.
You have a point. I would conjecture that the dissimilarities of OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office 2007 are one of the driving factors in OpenOffice.org's adoption.
Why not just have a separate/home partition and store your personal stuff there? Use partimage on a LiveCD to backup the root partition, install the new OS, and keep the compressed image around if the new OS doesn't work well. Unless you have a small amount of data, I can't see how two megapartitions where both software and data are stored could possibly be convenient.
This still isn't something that everybody can use. Judging by nLite's guide, this looks like it's about as much work as doing everything later, only that it's done before the install instead of after. I can see the advantage if you reinstall Windows often, or if this was a volume-licensed copy and you were going to use the same disc on a bunch of workstations, but nLite clearly targets the sysadmin market.
Furthermore, if Ubuntu came without any drivers whatsoever, I could add them myself (assuming the license is compatible), create an ISO, and share it with the world so that no one else would have to hunt down drivers. Try doing that with Windows and see what happens.
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"I don't like the idea that I must submit to Allah. Does this make me hateful? A bigot?"
Which is why the Constitution prohibits a state religion. And at any rate, the President does not legitimately have the power to declare law, only enforce it.
"The President has the ability to veto and make decisions, and these in turn affect me, you and the world. What is his or her ideology? Are they pro women's rights? A Muslim, holding to Sharia law, sees women as less-than-human."
Is this much different from the fundamentalist Christain view that women belong in the home (a view that itself is far more moderate compared to what the Bible says about women's rights)? Just like everyone doesn't agree with the Christain fundamentalists yet still claims to believe in the religion, not everyone who labels themselves as Muslim necessarily has the same strict interpretation. Not to mention that if this kind of thing does happen, the President risks losing his or her re-election because of the small amount of Muslims in the country, many of which might not even agree with his or her specific ideology.
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Don't be so sure of that. Business certainly are holding out, but end-users will buy whatever is sold to them. I haven't been to Best Buy recently, but I'm sure that they only offer either Macs or Vista, not XP.
Also, even if Vista excreted gold bricks, most business with XP would wait until either software stops being made for XP or XP's support runs out. Buying new licenses and re-imaging all of the computers in a business just because a new operating system comes out is not efficient. I would conjecture that this is the main reason Ubuntu offers LTS versions, and that Debian is popular on servers (as well as the obvious stability offered).
No. It will remain that way until it either becomes cool to use free software (how many Apple machines did you see before they changed their image?) or the software looks exactly like Windows, even though it is not (the Eee PC's default UI, for example).
People hate change.
What's your video card? Experience tells me that the video card more often than not is the likely culprit in power saving problems. I have found that a system with Intel graphics is far more likely to suspend and wake successfully than one with an ATI card. I have not tested the new ATI cards with official free drivers or any nVidia cards, but I can see nVidia cards causing the same problems.
While the average American is stupid by nature, I seriously doubt that they think that eating at McDonalds or chain smoking regularly is a healthy activity. You seem to be implying that people think nothing of these actions when doing them, and in some cases you are right, but you also seem to be suggesting that the majority are completely unaware of the damage they are inflicting upon themselves. Given the deluge of PSAs and school campaigns that I have been exposed to (and no doubt others have been exposed to as well) I can only see two kinds of people who engage in risky behavior: those that did not pay attention (in which case it is their own fault for not heeding a warning) or those who know the risks but choose to do the action anyway (which likewise puts the blame on them if something goes wrong).
True, but over the last century we have already given the President far more power than was given to him in the Constitution. Health care is just one thing that the people somehow feel is the President's responsibility rather than Congress or the states.
The DMCA is an umbrella act of at least five different acts (well, four and a few miscellaneous stuff). The article's praise is for the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, whereas most of the criticism over the past decade is actually aimed at the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act.
I never said anything about how Microsoft Office 2007 was doing. I was only speculating that a significant amount of new OpenOffice.org users switched to OpenOffice.org because of Microsoft's UI overhaul.
Not sure why the article sees the need to mention this:
OpenOffice.org 3.0 eases some adoption concerns. It is able to open all Office-formatted files, including the latest Office Open XML (OOXML) documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.), but it cannot save OOXML files natively.
Why would you need to save in this format? The existing binary support should be all you need if you need to collaborate with Microsoft Office users. It's their saving in Microsoft Office 2007 format that causes the roadblocks, not OpenOffice.org's lack of exporting to it.
Click his link, Mr. AC, and realize that it is not the tracker. Perhaps it is you who needs to read more.
Unless you are a veteran user of the 97-2003 line who used the suite for basic stuff. Then OpenOffice.org looks far more attractive.
You'll be waiting a while. Ubuntu won't have OO.o 3 until next April.
Long story short: upstream delays made it miss the Intrepid feature freeze.
You have a point. I would conjecture that the dissimilarities of OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office 2007 are one of the driving factors in OpenOffice.org's adoption.
I've seen plenty of P2P scams in my day, but none that blatantly use the name "Pirate Bay."
Why not just have a separate /home partition and store your personal stuff there? Use partimage on a LiveCD to backup the root partition, install the new OS, and keep the compressed image around if the new OS doesn't work well. Unless you have a small amount of data, I can't see how two megapartitions where both software and data are stored could possibly be convenient.
Let me know when you've managed to talk Sony into releasing BD+ for Ubuntu.
This still isn't something that everybody can use. Judging by nLite's guide, this looks like it's about as much work as doing everything later, only that it's done before the install instead of after. I can see the advantage if you reinstall Windows often, or if this was a volume-licensed copy and you were going to use the same disc on a bunch of workstations, but nLite clearly targets the sysadmin market.
Furthermore, if Ubuntu came without any drivers whatsoever, I could add them myself (assuming the license is compatible), create an ISO, and share it with the world so that no one else would have to hunt down drivers. Try doing that with Windows and see what happens.
You can hand out copies of the software yourself, or mirror them on your Web or FTP site if that proves too costly.
The OpenDisc is a good example of a free software CD you could hand out.
Try it yourself and find out.
So vampires don't have rights either?
I read it, and I do weep.*
*Metaphorically, of course.
Controversy erupts as it is found that Amazon's memoir "A Million Little Kindles" contains false material.
Or a brainwashing machine that gets you free child labor.
I didn't say anything about whether or not infringement resulted in lost sales. That's a different argument.