Everytime a hate-filled loser like you try to spit your venom, we gain 100s more of volunteers.
Did you know that many Republicans feel the same way about Democrats? Both sides are so entrenched in groupthink it's incredible that the government can get anything done at all.
Eh, if the government didn't classify movies and such, we'd have a hodgepodge of private organizations doing it; with wildly varying results. One family's NC-17 rating is another family's PG. Also, the rating system has grown more lax over time. Imagine this occurring in the aforementioned hodgepodge at varying rates of decay.
So I'm fine with a single classification system, but I want them to be guidelines for consumer convenience, not rules set in stone.
CThey are performing acts of sabotage which undermines the security of the nation & peoples trust in the government.
True, but unless the main purpose of their activity is to cause terror, they technically aren't 'terrorists'. I'm pretty sure sabotage is illegal already (at least it should be), and I know theft is. We don't need to change any laws to prosecute them.
Our Lady of Lourdes is the name used to refer to the Marian apparition that is reported to have appeared before various individuals on separate occasions around Lourdes, France.
Contrast that with:
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.....Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"
But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."
A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
John 20:19-20,24-27
We are IT. We must support our users. Those users are using Windows. OK, so they are largely using XP, but resistance to Vista in the business is waning as current boxen grow old and get replaced by machines that don't have XP drivers. Knowing things like the fact that a service pack beta might be coming allows us time to set up a box today for testing tomorrow.
OK, so they have added a new filesystem for external flash drives...
What about filesystems for the C: drive? It's not like using other filesystems will allow so much interoperability that it encourages switching away from Windows.
So what's wrong? The NIH-syndrome?
...the cliche that we can tell the difference between reality and dreams is a crock...
I agree. My dreams are a little... surreal, but it never occurs to me that I am dreaming.
The closest I get to recognizing my dreams for what they are is a vague confusion and feeling that something is not quite right. Honestly, it's more like I insert myself as a main character in a story than actually participate.
Next thing you know those awful secularists will be claiming that anecdotal stories of "I saw Jesus three days after He died" represent something fundamentally normal about the human experience.
Groups of people don't hallucinate the same thing at the same time, and certain individuals weren't grieving very much at his passing (Saul of Tarsus, Thomas, James)
Like QuantumG pointed out, it will never be completely bug-free (although the number of show-stopper bugs will drop exponentially (does 'exponentially' apply to a declining graph?).
Also, it is probably safe to assume they don't want to stay on Firefox 2/OpenOffice 2/Ubuntu 8.04 for the rest of eternity.
How can we expect commercial software developers to want to target a moving object?
So let them pick one distro and stick with it. Red Hat, Suse, or Debian (maybe Ubuntu's LTS).
Also, no decent-sized FOSS software projects seem to have problems providing their software for multiple distros. Surely a well-funded company can do better?
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Everytime a hate-filled loser like you try to spit your venom, we gain 100s more of volunteers.
Did you know that many Republicans feel the same way about Democrats? Both sides are so entrenched in groupthink it's incredible that the government can get anything done at all.
Eh, if the government didn't classify movies and such, we'd have a hodgepodge of private organizations doing it; with wildly varying results. One family's NC-17 rating is another family's PG. Also, the rating system has grown more lax over time. Imagine this occurring in the aforementioned hodgepodge at varying rates of decay.
So I'm fine with a single classification system, but I want them to be guidelines for consumer convenience, not rules set in stone.
then loading the blacklist of unwanted sites.
Obviously someone wants these sites, else there would be no need to blacklist them.
I hear a station wagon full of tapes gets pretty good bandwidth, too.
To ask those internet cafes to run Linux is to ask them to get rid of their source of profits.
Or it is to ask game publishers to provide a Linux version (or fund WINE) if they want any revenue from China (assuming low piracy rates for games).
Not when it isn't a voluntary adoption.
All of those filesystems are designed to work on raw flash
Exactly. Theoretically, manufacturers could do away with the Flash-to-IDE interfaces.
...but it has backfired on them hugely with this move to allow Internet Cafés to use Red Flag Linux.
Unfortunately, this isn't permission (they already had that). This is now a mandatory thing.
CThey are performing acts of sabotage which undermines the security of the nation & peoples trust in the government.
True, but unless the main purpose of their activity is to cause terror, they technically aren't 'terrorists'. I'm pretty sure sabotage is illegal already (at least it should be), and I know theft is. We don't need to change any laws to prosecute them.
I am a mere Intern at my workplace, so I don't get to decide policy (everybody is a local admin)
Our Lady of Lourdes is the name used to refer to the Marian apparition that is reported to have appeared before various individuals on separate occasions around Lourdes, France.
Contrast that with:
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.....Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
John 20:19-20,24-27
We are IT. We must support our users. Those users are using Windows. OK, so they are largely using XP, but resistance to Vista in the business is waning as current boxen grow old and get replaced by machines that don't have XP drivers. Knowing things like the fact that a service pack beta might be coming allows us time to set up a box today for testing tomorrow.
Can XP/2K read it? If not, it would be kinda useless for most people.
Shhh! That's supposed to be a secret. Why do you think they put that in the summary but not the title?
Umm... Beta Testers?
And admins that want to find out how strongly they want to discourage installation by the users on release day.
Don't worry; they still have time to remove it before the RC.
OK, so they have added a new filesystem for external flash drives...
What about filesystems for the C: drive? It's not like using other filesystems will allow so much interoperability that it encourages switching away from Windows.
So what's wrong? The NIH-syndrome?
Perhaps a new filesystem can be designed from the ground up optimized for SSD.
JFFS2
UBIFS
YAFFS
Obviously bought on ebay.
...the cliche that we can tell the difference between reality and dreams is a crock...
I agree. My dreams are a little... surreal, but it never occurs to me that I am dreaming.
The closest I get to recognizing my dreams for what they are is a vague confusion and feeling that something is not quite right.
Honestly, it's more like I insert myself as a main character in a story than actually participate.
Next thing you know those awful secularists will be claiming that anecdotal stories of "I saw Jesus three days after He died" represent something fundamentally normal about the human experience.
Groups of people don't hallucinate the same thing at the same time, and certain individuals weren't grieving very much at his passing (Saul of Tarsus, Thomas, James)
It's like a cemetary...
I'm with you so far...
...next door to a sewage treatment plant.
Hmm. I wonder what could be the sewage plant?
I think the solution is to push for a plugin system in the upstream. I makes downstream customization easier for everybody.
Like QuantumG pointed out, it will never be completely bug-free (although the number of show-stopper bugs will drop exponentially (does 'exponentially' apply to a declining graph?).
Also, it is probably safe to assume they don't want to stay on Firefox 2/OpenOffice 2/Ubuntu 8.04 for the rest of eternity.
How can we expect commercial software developers to want to target a moving object?
So let them pick one distro and stick with it. Red Hat, Suse, or Debian (maybe Ubuntu's LTS). Also, no decent-sized FOSS software projects seem to have problems providing their software for multiple distros. Surely a well-funded company can do better?