Hmm....where have I heard that name before? OH! They're that company that seemed to have a pretty stellar Linux distro based around the Gnome desktop, but for whatever reason the founder of the company decided it was HIS distro and so he didn't have to listen to the people using HIS distro and only HE could design THE ONE TRUE DESKTOP (TM)...
Lost a lot of users after that. Funny thing, never saw a company quite that intent on pissing off all their users until they leave...
This is old news, but still not everyone knows about it. Clement Lefebvre has officially requested that anyone who supports Israel's right to exist not use his distro and made it clear that he supports the terrorists in Gaza. See here for the details: http://abriefhistory.org/?p=774
Why don't people just learn how to, you know, use the PRIVACY SETTINGS ALREADY IN PLACE instead of complaining to the government about a percieved privacy "issue"?
Facebook's privacy settings are rendered useless at a regular basis when they decide to add new "features" requiring you to comb through and opt out of everything again. When I first created my account I went through and locked everything down in settings and since then have had to regularly hunt down leaks in my information because added something which enabled stuff all over again.
I'm this close to beginning a campaign to poison my information and start closing down my account...no really, I mean it! When I have to do more fiddling with Facebook's settings than I actually do reading or posting it stops being fun and becomes work. And who needs that?
Why would a lawyer be leery of it? If what you said is true she is the perfect defendant for a restraining order.
Simple she has a vagina and he has a penis. It is simply amazing what possession of a vagina excuses in this society. Even more amazing what a liability having a penis can be when some old guy in a black robe decides to appease the tear-stricken female in spite of evidence, witnesses, and good sense clearly indicating a dangerous borderline female personality.
Who says chivalry is dead? If only it truly were....
I used to do this, until the RIAA started touting declining sales as evidence of piracy. If I'm going to be accused of the "crime" any way I figure I might as well get the enjoyment that comes from the media as well. it all seems to be heads they win, and tails I lose....
I'm hard of hearing. I can barely understand people on the phone as it is with my hearing aid set to telecoil and it's volume up as high as it goes. Then you add those annoying "your call is important to us" announcements (what at 3:00 am?) machine noise, distorted on hold music due to crappy VOIP software (on their end of things, not mine) and after I wait nearly an hour and navigate your useless phone tree I'm supposed to shout at someone who doesn't understand my voice and whose accent is unintelligible by me?
This is not a situation that is going to end well, no matter how patient and well intentioned either party on the line is.
Sadly, what happens nearly half the time is I get someone who is convinced I am mocking them, and roughly a quarter of the time I get someone convinced that I am retarded as well as hard of hearing. That last quarter of the time I get someone who is able to help me and I and they manage to solve my problem quickly and the call ends with both of us happy. That's a seventy-five percent negative experience over and over again.
So, yeah--it isn't anything personal but when you don't understand me and I don't understand you--I'd rather not deal with you if I can help it.
This isn't racism, it isn't political, it is simple demographics. The people of this country are getting older and losing their hearing. Is it any wonder they get annoyed at not being able to communicate at a time they're already feeling frustrated over a technical problem?
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When hundreds of tablets and "eReaders" are being released with Android, Busybox, and of course the Linux kernel itself in violation of the GPL by companies who disclaim responsibility for the devices they sell, why should we be surprised to see application developers doing the same? Go ahead and try to get the source that you are legally entitled to when you buy one of these things! You'll be astounded how quickly whatever it is goes from being an extraordinary achievement of that corporation's innovation in the market and becomes an orphaned rebadge from China whose lineage cannot be traced.
And good luck trying to get a hold of the OEM in China! They'll simply ignore any emails or letters you send them, if indeed that company is even around any more with the legal shell corporation games that get played to avoid any possibility of a real warranty. Application developers have been watching these things.
They've seen just how serious we've been about enforcing the GPL and taken steps accordingly.
Subject line says it all. Where can I get my hands on one of these for 70% off? I know there are currently issues, but I also know that there has been work to port over a version of Ubuntu compiled for the ARM processor to this device, so I find myself quite interested. Especially at 70% off!
Wouldn't know since I stopped bothering with that series pretty quickly once it became apparent the writers weren't even trying to plot the series as a whole or make sense of the continuity they'd established, even within itself. Later revelations on just how much of the storyline was more or less made up on the spot without any planning at all more or less confirmed for me the rightness of that decision.
And wasn't V somehow renewed?
Yeah...about V, It seems to be suffering from many of the same issues I had with BSG. Worse yet its writers seem intent on insulting our intelligence and having a storyline that doesn't seem to go anywhere at all. I mean really? In a foothold situation where the various governments of the world are hunting down terrorists who might do their benevolent alien overlords harm, an FBI agent repeatedly casually talks about criminal terrorist activities on her cellphone? Really?? And neither the aliens who have been carefully working their way into positions of power or the government know how to tap those signals? the worse part is all it would take to fix the situation is a throw away comment here and there about switching the encryption on...
I still plan to give the new season a shot and see how well things go this season, but my worst fear besides a plot that goes no where is the idea that the show will get canceled and leave us all hanging on what happens next. Just like SGU probably will considering the actors didn't even know the show was canceled. I'm tired of investing in the show only to get screwed out of any resolution.
I watch more anime on SyFy than I do scifi these days
Unfortunately I seem to be the only one in my family who can stomach anime, I even tried Cowboy Bebop, sure that it would be good enough to convert a few people. No dice, all they said was why not make a live action version--because the story was great but not the kind of thing that a cartoon should be about...
/facepalm
Still, since the whole point is to have something to watch as a family, anime doesn't work.
I do read. Television is something I do with family once or twice a week which can be shared and dissected later in conversation. Books? Not so much... Also so much of what gets published in magazines is hit or miss that I actually prefer to by pass it with original online fiction and fanfics.
Maybe if I could get a good price I might try a magazine or two... Hmmm.. Actually I'll give the magazine idea some more consideration...
and a device that will have 100% access to your data with 100% oversight by the chinese.
You know...as a home user I find myself incredibly okay with that possibility. I can at least trust that the Chinese government will be consistent with their ideological goals. Corporations and the US government? Not so much...
The problem with Miro is that much of what they produce is "Reality TV" and that simply doesn't seem to go very far. I used to be a fan of a cooking show produced and distributed via Miro back when it was still known as Democracy Player, the guy produced five episodes of near network quality cooking and HOWTO and then disappeared. Everything else seems to be a variety show, a news show, or talking heads like diggnation. Worse lately Miro seems to have more and more offerings from the corporates, which require streaming only like the Simpsons, Family Guy, etc. I'm looking for something I can download and watch offline, so I don't have to deal with bandwidth issues--real or manufactured.
Thanks for posting the suggestion though. I'll give it another look, it's been awhile since I checked in with Miro.
The two episodes of Phase II I saw had such shitty acting that I never felt compelled to watch another.
Truthfully I was pointing to the near professional production values and special effects. My point was to underline the fact that amazing things are possible now, even on a budget if the project is a labor of love. And if it is a labor of love it is less likely to be unilaterally "canceled" or have its story lines veer off because someone in management wrote a note.
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Hmm....where have I heard that name before? OH! They're that company that seemed to have a pretty stellar Linux distro based around the Gnome desktop, but for whatever reason the founder of the company decided it was HIS distro and so he didn't have to listen to the people using HIS distro and only HE could design THE ONE TRUE DESKTOP (TM)...
Lost a lot of users after that. Funny thing, never saw a company quite that intent on pissing off all their users until they leave...
This is old news, but still not everyone knows about it. Clement Lefebvre has officially requested that anyone who supports Israel's right to exist not use his distro and made it clear that he supports the terrorists in Gaza. See here for the details: http://abriefhistory.org/?p=774
Facebook's privacy settings are rendered useless at a regular basis when they decide to add new "features" requiring you to comb through and opt out of everything again. When I first created my account I went through and locked everything down in settings and since then have had to regularly hunt down leaks in my information because added something which enabled stuff all over again.
I'm this close to beginning a campaign to poison my information and start closing down my account...no really, I mean it! When I have to do more fiddling with Facebook's settings than I actually do reading or posting it stops being fun and becomes work. And who needs that?
Can I have that old iPad of yours? I'd be happy to pay shipping if necessary, and hey better than it just sitting there gathering dust, right?
Facebook lied to us too about how they would handle our accounts, privacy, etc. You are not alone. :)
Simple she has a vagina and he has a penis. It is simply amazing what possession of a vagina excuses in this society. Even more amazing what a liability having a penis can be when some old guy in a black robe decides to appease the tear-stricken female in spite of evidence, witnesses, and good sense clearly indicating a dangerous borderline female personality.
Who says chivalry is dead? If only it truly were....
I used to do this, until the RIAA started touting declining sales as evidence of piracy. If I'm going to be accused of the "crime" any way I figure I might as well get the enjoyment that comes from the media as well. it all seems to be heads they win, and tails I lose....
I'm hard of hearing. I can barely understand people on the phone as it is with my hearing aid set to telecoil and it's volume up as high as it goes. Then you add those annoying "your call is important to us" announcements (what at 3:00 am?) machine noise, distorted on hold music due to crappy VOIP software (on their end of things, not mine) and after I wait nearly an hour and navigate your useless phone tree I'm supposed to shout at someone who doesn't understand my voice and whose accent is unintelligible by me?
This is not a situation that is going to end well, no matter how patient and well intentioned either party on the line is.
Sadly, what happens nearly half the time is I get someone who is convinced I am mocking them, and roughly a quarter of the time I get someone convinced that I am retarded as well as hard of hearing. That last quarter of the time I get someone who is able to help me and I and they manage to solve my problem quickly and the call ends with both of us happy. That's a seventy-five percent negative experience over and over again.
So, yeah--it isn't anything personal but when you don't understand me and I don't understand you--I'd rather not deal with you if I can help it.
This isn't racism, it isn't political, it is simple demographics. The people of this country are getting older and losing their hearing. Is it any wonder they get annoyed at not being able to communicate at a time they're already feeling frustrated over a technical problem?
--bornagainpenguin
Amazingly they were still able to manufacture a Derorean anyhow. Too bad it can't seem to hit above 60 mph without starting to lose bits and pieces...
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When hundreds of tablets and "eReaders" are being released with Android, Busybox, and of course the Linux kernel itself in violation of the GPL by companies who disclaim responsibility for the devices they sell, why should we be surprised to see application developers doing the same? Go ahead and try to get the source that you are legally entitled to when you buy one of these things! You'll be astounded how quickly whatever it is goes from being an extraordinary achievement of that corporation's innovation in the market and becomes an orphaned rebadge from China whose lineage cannot be traced.
And good luck trying to get a hold of the OEM in China! They'll simply ignore any emails or letters you send them, if indeed that company is even around any more with the legal shell corporation games that get played to avoid any possibility of a real warranty. Application developers have been watching these things.
They've seen just how serious we've been about enforcing the GPL and taken steps accordingly.
Really why should we be surprised?
Subject line says it all. Where can I get my hands on one of these for 70% off? I know there are currently issues, but I also know that there has been work to port over a version of Ubuntu compiled for the ARM processor to this device, so I find myself quite interested. Especially at 70% off!
That's okay, there's an update that will fix that for you...
Of course not! After marriage the man becomes her property, don't you know anything?
Wouldn't know since I stopped bothering with that series pretty quickly once it became apparent the writers weren't even trying to plot the series as a whole or make sense of the continuity they'd established, even within itself. Later revelations on just how much of the storyline was more or less made up on the spot without any planning at all more or less confirmed for me the rightness of that decision.
Yeah...about V, It seems to be suffering from many of the same issues I had with BSG. Worse yet its writers seem intent on insulting our intelligence and having a storyline that doesn't seem to go anywhere at all. I mean really? In a foothold situation where the various governments of the world are hunting down terrorists who might do their benevolent alien overlords harm, an FBI agent repeatedly casually talks about criminal terrorist activities on her cellphone ? Really?? And neither the aliens who have been carefully working their way into positions of power or the government know how to tap those signals? the worse part is all it would take to fix the situation is a throw away comment here and there about switching the encryption on...
I still plan to give the new season a shot and see how well things go this season, but my worst fear besides a plot that goes no where is the idea that the show will get canceled and leave us all hanging on what happens next. Just like SGU probably will considering the actors didn't even know the show was canceled. I'm tired of investing in the show only to get screwed out of any resolution.
Unfortunately I seem to be the only one in my family who can stomach anime, I even tried Cowboy Bebop, sure that it would be good enough to convert a few people. No dice, all they said was why not make a live action version--because the story was great but not the kind of thing that a cartoon should be about...
/facepalm
Still, since the whole point is to have something to watch as a family, anime doesn't work.
I do read. Television is something I do with family once or twice a week which can be shared and dissected later in conversation. Books? Not so much... Also so much of what gets published in magazines is hit or miss that I actually prefer to by pass it with original online fiction and fanfics.
Maybe if I could get a good price I might try a magazine or two... Hmmm.. Actually I'll give the magazine idea some more consideration...
What wars have we won since that happened? Just sayin' ;)
You know...as a home user I find myself incredibly okay with that possibility. I can at least trust that the Chinese government will be consistent with their ideological goals. Corporations and the US government? Not so much...
I'm actually a big fan of both Leverage (and The Hustle which I believe is its inspiration). Thanks for mentioning it.
Looks interesting! I've bookmarked the page for further reading. Thanks for posting the link!
Will look into those also Al, thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks Eugenia! I'll look into those.
Thanks for posting the suggestion though. I'll give it another look, it's been awhile since I checked in with Miro.
Thanks! I'm downloading Patient J now and I will be checking out your review site.
Truthfully I was pointing to the near professional production values and special effects. My point was to underline the fact that amazing things are possible now, even on a budget if the project is a labor of love. And if it is a labor of love it is less likely to be unilaterally "canceled" or have its story lines veer off because someone in management wrote a note.