For playing media, try the latest version of Linux Mint (currently version 6). ALL media I tried ran out of the box (though I have had some occasional glitches with Flash). I didn't have to install anything to play music, dvd's, even Mplayer was already included. I had been an Ubuntu user, but didn't like the hassle of getting all my multimedia stuff set up after an install, so I tried Linux Mint and it's great.
As for your networking problem, you my friend did something horribly wrong when you connected to your network in Linux. Don't ask me what because I'm far from a Linux expert, but I've never had that happen to me and I've been pretty much an exclusive Linux user for about a year and a half now (on multiple systems with multiple different installs per system). The only issues I've ever had was not being able to connect to TKIP / WPA networks, but that turned out to be Gnome Network Manager's issue and installing WICD in it's place fixed that.
But Linux has to be that much better. It won't do that it's an equal to Windows, because that leaves no incentive to switch and try something new.
Wrong. Even if Linux was only the equal of Windows in usability / functionality, Linux still has an overwhelming advantage -- it's FREE (as in beer). When I come across a problem with watching a Flash video on Linux, it doesn't irk me anywhere near as much as it would in Windows. Why? Because I paid good money for Windows. If I pay money for something, I expect it to work correctly -- at least the vast majority of the time. If I get something for free, I'm not very bothered if it has the occasional hiccup.
The next time one of your Windows only friends makes a complaint about Linux, remind them that you paid nothing for Linux, while they paid good money to get that BSOD or lost their files due to a virus.
Direct X 10 coming to Linux and Mac falsely implies that MS would be making it possible for Direct X 10 to be run natively on Linux or Mac. A much more accurate title (though one that many would read and say "who cares" without clicking on the link) would be "Crossover Games to support Direct X 10.
The movie was very faithful to the book, much more so than LOTR. Since Watchmen is ONE book and not a franchise, who cares if brain dead critics who never read the book (or read it and didn't understand it) complain about it. Those of us who enjoy the book now have a film version that's one of the most accurate transitions from book to film ever made. The movie was not "too long", it actually could've been a little bit longer and fit in more of Ozymandias' back story (his was the lightest of all characters in the movie) and included the last conversation between Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias from the book.
"With the original ending, there is a little fear, but there's also a lot of hope!"
I don't think you read the same book I did. Jon even tells Veidt flat out in the end of the book that he didn't stop anything, all he did was postpone it. The point was that, despite the world being "united against aliens", after 20, 50, maybe 100 years of not having another alien contact, people would forget about it (it's human nature) and go back to how things were before.
Yes, but you're still saying that you dislike superheroes and then go on to complain about Watchmen for being superheroes.....that just seems kind of a "Well, if you don't like rap, then why would you go listen to the new Jay-Z cd?" situation. If you didn't like the book, you won't like the movie since it's the most accurate book to film transition I know of (I saw it last night).
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're saying that you hate Watchmen (the book and the movie) because you hate superheroes? Why would you even bother to read it / see it then? That's like going to see The Dark Knight and then saying "Dude, that movie sucks cuz superheroes are unrealistic" -- you knew it was superheroes in the first place.
It doesn't "miss the whole point" -- it's the same general idea, a powerful dangerous enemy that the world most likely can't begin to fight, and while I wish it had been kept the same, it worked well, especially since the extra amount of film to explain everything would've added a good 20 minutes to the film.
Memory leaks were horrible in Firefox 2, but they fixed those with Firefox 3 and I don't know of anyone who's had an issue since updating to the new version. Are you sure you're using Firefox 3?
If you bothered to RTFA and watch the demo, there are five different font sizes to choose from when running the Kindle software on the iPhone. When he first demoed it with the smallest font size (before saying there were options for font size) I thought "I don't know if I could stand to read that", but once I saw the other font sizes it looks like it would be perfectly fine to read on.
Manufacturing in the US is dead due to American's thinking that low-skill manufacturing should pay as well as a job requiring an advanced degree. However, corporate headquarters would be more likely to be based out of the US for the tax advantages if we had no corporate taxes.
Protectionism is NOT the answer, that's just a way to make things worse. However, what WOULD help dramatically would be eliminating all corporate taxes. The US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. If you eliminate corporate taxes (or at least drastically reduce them), you encourage growth and encourage companies to come from other countries into the US ("reverse" outsourcing).
What's happened? Our culture decided sometime in the 50's-60's that doing well in school was for losers. We've also developed a sense of entitlement and think everything should be low cost or free, regardless of how much it costs to manufacture or develop (a co-worker who complained about the "high gas prices" when gas was $1.50 a few weeks back comes to mind.......I think if gas was free she'd complain that we weren't being paid to take the gas!). The main reason behind people thinking we're the most technologically advanced country is the idiotic "God Bless America" / "We're #1" crap that tells people being born in the US somehow makes you special and you don't have to work as hard.
Well-behaved people have nothing to fear from being seen sitting and drinking.
Until the government (regardless of what level) decides that your pal Tony did something that maybe they don't like and decide to haul you and everyone else spotted with him in for a good cavity search. They can even look at the tv and say "That guy beat me at *name of event* back in high school!" and get a bogus warrant so that they can ruin your life as well. There are a LOT of police out there who only became police officers for the power and to feed their ego knowing that they are allowed to carry a gun, beat people up, and toss a little baggie on you and your life is screwed up for years. Giving those very people unlimited power over your life is one of the dumbest things you can do.
That is YOUR responsibility as a parent to fix, NOT the schools. If your child spends all her time texting, then YOU simply take the phone away from her and let her know that she'll only have it back once she learns to use it responsibly. People like you are one of the main reasons why we have an ever more powerful government that takes more and more rights away from citizens.
Windows 7 beta doesn't have as good of driver support as Vista yet? That's interesting considering that they use the same drivers (though I'll admit initially I did have a glitch with Physix not being in my Nvidia menu at first, but that's been fixed for weeks now).
...and that's when someone else, say Nvidia, steps in after Intel goes bust and buys them out. And the beauty of it is? Unlike your way, the taxpayers don't foot the bill.
I still have all my books. I can provide you a list of them, then you can track them down and read through them all to find out which one it was. Jerks like you are exactly why it's not worth the time to read through thousands of pages to find it.
I don't see stimulating the economy listed as a federal government responsibility in the Constitution
"Promote the general welfare"
Unemployment is currently...7.6%? Are you trying to claim that those 7.6% (and just for the record, even during the best economy there is still typically an unemployment rate of about 4%) are so important we should spend a trillion dollars we don't have to make them happy? That's hardly promoting the general welfare.
First off, there are many examples in the past century of Keynesian economics NOT working (just look at Japan during the 90's). Next, the school construction was for one district in one state (I forget where) that already has new schools! Why would you waste that much money on building a school to replace one that was recently built?! Obama's "Stimulus" (and I use sarcastic quotation marks) bill only has about 10% (in it's original form) going towards anything remotely related to stimulating the economy or upgrading infrastructure. The vast majority of this bill is about throwing away money on pet projects of congressmen / senators so that the uneducated will say "Look, money is being spent by the government, things must be getting better!"
This "stimulus" package will do little to nothing to help the economy and will primarily serve to increase the national debt, increase inflation, and increase government control of our lives. Obama keeps using fear tactics ("If we don't pass this pork bill NOW we'll lose 5-6 million more jobs by 2012!!") to get people to support this crap, when things WILL adjust just fine on their own, it will just take some time. I'm sure someone will scream at me "but what if I lose my job?!", well you know what, I'm currently looking for a job, but I don't have the arrogance to suggest that we should take on a trillion dollars more debt and jump inflation just so that I MIGHT keep my job. The worst thing to do during a down economy is make decisions based on fear. Making smart decisions (living within your means and saving at least some money ever month) will keep you pretty safe (yes, you could lose your job, but if you save then even if you didn't get unemployment you'd still have money to make the house payments and such for awhile).
Another thing to keep in mind, EVERY time in the history of the US that the government has tried a stimulus bill to get out of a recession, by the time the bill was passed the economy was already working it's way up just fine without government intervention. I'm sure SOMEONE will bitch with "sources please", I have a degree in Economics and one of my textbooks in school had the source in it. I'm sure the smart people here can google it (I won't waste my time because the Obamanites will just ignore anything I say anyways).
There's a flaw there. Every car has a gas pedal and a brake pedal. Every manual also has a clutch pedal. There's consistency even in the variation. THAT is what people are really calling for with Linux. Instead of having rpm, deb, mint, and whatever other packages, just have a.lin or whatever you want to call it. Every program should run on any graphics interface and every program should run on every distro. Having that would make it much easier for a company currently only making software for Windows to have a Linux version as well. It would also mean much MORE customization for users since no matter what distro and GUI you're using, you'd be able to use your favorite programs.
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For playing media, try the latest version of Linux Mint (currently version 6). ALL media I tried ran out of the box (though I have had some occasional glitches with Flash). I didn't have to install anything to play music, dvd's, even Mplayer was already included. I had been an Ubuntu user, but didn't like the hassle of getting all my multimedia stuff set up after an install, so I tried Linux Mint and it's great.
As for your networking problem, you my friend did something horribly wrong when you connected to your network in Linux. Don't ask me what because I'm far from a Linux expert, but I've never had that happen to me and I've been pretty much an exclusive Linux user for about a year and a half now (on multiple systems with multiple different installs per system). The only issues I've ever had was not being able to connect to TKIP / WPA networks, but that turned out to be Gnome Network Manager's issue and installing WICD in it's place fixed that.
Nice. Made me laugh pretty hard.
But Linux has to be that much better. It won't do that it's an equal to Windows, because that leaves no incentive to switch and try something new.
Wrong. Even if Linux was only the equal of Windows in usability / functionality, Linux still has an overwhelming advantage -- it's FREE (as in beer). When I come across a problem with watching a Flash video on Linux, it doesn't irk me anywhere near as much as it would in Windows. Why? Because I paid good money for Windows. If I pay money for something, I expect it to work correctly -- at least the vast majority of the time. If I get something for free, I'm not very bothered if it has the occasional hiccup.
The next time one of your Windows only friends makes a complaint about Linux, remind them that you paid nothing for Linux, while they paid good money to get that BSOD or lost their files due to a virus.
Direct X 10 coming to Linux and Mac falsely implies that MS would be making it possible for Direct X 10 to be run natively on Linux or Mac. A much more accurate title (though one that many would read and say "who cares" without clicking on the link) would be "Crossover Games to support Direct X 10.
The movie was very faithful to the book, much more so than LOTR. Since Watchmen is ONE book and not a franchise, who cares if brain dead critics who never read the book (or read it and didn't understand it) complain about it. Those of us who enjoy the book now have a film version that's one of the most accurate transitions from book to film ever made. The movie was not "too long", it actually could've been a little bit longer and fit in more of Ozymandias' back story (his was the lightest of all characters in the movie) and included the last conversation between Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias from the book.
"With the original ending, there is a little fear, but there's also a lot of hope!"
I don't think you read the same book I did. Jon even tells Veidt flat out in the end of the book that he didn't stop anything, all he did was postpone it. The point was that, despite the world being "united against aliens", after 20, 50, maybe 100 years of not having another alien contact, people would forget about it (it's human nature) and go back to how things were before.
Yes, but you're still saying that you dislike superheroes and then go on to complain about Watchmen for being superheroes.....that just seems kind of a "Well, if you don't like rap, then why would you go listen to the new Jay-Z cd?" situation. If you didn't like the book, you won't like the movie since it's the most accurate book to film transition I know of (I saw it last night).
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're saying that you hate Watchmen (the book and the movie) because you hate superheroes? Why would you even bother to read it / see it then? That's like going to see The Dark Knight and then saying "Dude, that movie sucks cuz superheroes are unrealistic" -- you knew it was superheroes in the first place.
It doesn't "miss the whole point" -- it's the same general idea, a powerful dangerous enemy that the world most likely can't begin to fight, and while I wish it had been kept the same, it worked well, especially since the extra amount of film to explain everything would've added a good 20 minutes to the film.
Memory leaks were horrible in Firefox 2, but they fixed those with Firefox 3 and I don't know of anyone who's had an issue since updating to the new version. Are you sure you're using Firefox 3?
If you bothered to RTFA and watch the demo, there are five different font sizes to choose from when running the Kindle software on the iPhone. When he first demoed it with the smallest font size (before saying there were options for font size) I thought "I don't know if I could stand to read that", but once I saw the other font sizes it looks like it would be perfectly fine to read on.
Manufacturing in the US is dead due to American's thinking that low-skill manufacturing should pay as well as a job requiring an advanced degree. However, corporate headquarters would be more likely to be based out of the US for the tax advantages if we had no corporate taxes.
Do a quick google on corporate taxes by country or US corporate taxes. You'll find dozens of sources.
Protectionism is NOT the answer, that's just a way to make things worse. However, what WOULD help dramatically would be eliminating all corporate taxes. The US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. If you eliminate corporate taxes (or at least drastically reduce them), you encourage growth and encourage companies to come from other countries into the US ("reverse" outsourcing).
What's happened? Our culture decided sometime in the 50's-60's that doing well in school was for losers. We've also developed a sense of entitlement and think everything should be low cost or free, regardless of how much it costs to manufacture or develop (a co-worker who complained about the "high gas prices" when gas was $1.50 a few weeks back comes to mind.......I think if gas was free she'd complain that we weren't being paid to take the gas!). The main reason behind people thinking we're the most technologically advanced country is the idiotic "God Bless America" / "We're #1" crap that tells people being born in the US somehow makes you special and you don't have to work as hard.
Well-behaved people have nothing to fear from being seen sitting and drinking.
Until the government (regardless of what level) decides that your pal Tony did something that maybe they don't like and decide to haul you and everyone else spotted with him in for a good cavity search. They can even look at the tv and say "That guy beat me at *name of event* back in high school!" and get a bogus warrant so that they can ruin your life as well. There are a LOT of police out there who only became police officers for the power and to feed their ego knowing that they are allowed to carry a gun, beat people up, and toss a little baggie on you and your life is screwed up for years. Giving those very people unlimited power over your life is one of the dumbest things you can do.
I have a daughter that has a cell phone addiction
That is YOUR responsibility as a parent to fix, NOT the schools. If your child spends all her time texting, then YOU simply take the phone away from her and let her know that she'll only have it back once she learns to use it responsibly. People like you are one of the main reasons why we have an ever more powerful government that takes more and more rights away from citizens.
Windows 7 beta doesn't have as good of driver support as Vista yet? That's interesting considering that they use the same drivers (though I'll admit initially I did have a glitch with Physix not being in my Nvidia menu at first, but that's been fixed for weeks now).
...and that's when someone else, say Nvidia, steps in after Intel goes bust and buys them out. And the beauty of it is? Unlike your way, the taxpayers don't foot the bill.
I still have all my books. I can provide you a list of them, then you can track them down and read through them all to find out which one it was. Jerks like you are exactly why it's not worth the time to read through thousands of pages to find it.
I don't see stimulating the economy listed as a federal government responsibility in the Constitution
"Promote the general welfare"
Unemployment is currently...7.6%? Are you trying to claim that those 7.6% (and just for the record, even during the best economy there is still typically an unemployment rate of about 4%) are so important we should spend a trillion dollars we don't have to make them happy? That's hardly promoting the general welfare.
First off, there are many examples in the past century of Keynesian economics NOT working (just look at Japan during the 90's). Next, the school construction was for one district in one state (I forget where) that already has new schools! Why would you waste that much money on building a school to replace one that was recently built?! Obama's "Stimulus" (and I use sarcastic quotation marks) bill only has about 10% (in it's original form) going towards anything remotely related to stimulating the economy or upgrading infrastructure. The vast majority of this bill is about throwing away money on pet projects of congressmen / senators so that the uneducated will say "Look, money is being spent by the government, things must be getting better!"
This "stimulus" package will do little to nothing to help the economy and will primarily serve to increase the national debt, increase inflation, and increase government control of our lives. Obama keeps using fear tactics ("If we don't pass this pork bill NOW we'll lose 5-6 million more jobs by 2012!!") to get people to support this crap, when things WILL adjust just fine on their own, it will just take some time. I'm sure someone will scream at me "but what if I lose my job?!", well you know what, I'm currently looking for a job, but I don't have the arrogance to suggest that we should take on a trillion dollars more debt and jump inflation just so that I MIGHT keep my job. The worst thing to do during a down economy is make decisions based on fear. Making smart decisions (living within your means and saving at least some money ever month) will keep you pretty safe (yes, you could lose your job, but if you save then even if you didn't get unemployment you'd still have money to make the house payments and such for awhile).
Another thing to keep in mind, EVERY time in the history of the US that the government has tried a stimulus bill to get out of a recession, by the time the bill was passed the economy was already working it's way up just fine without government intervention. I'm sure SOMEONE will bitch with "sources please", I have a degree in Economics and one of my textbooks in school had the source in it. I'm sure the smart people here can google it (I won't waste my time because the Obamanites will just ignore anything I say anyways).
"A mac is expensive (i know, not always)"
Yea, sometimes they're SUPER expensive!
There's a flaw there. Every car has a gas pedal and a brake pedal. Every manual also has a clutch pedal. There's consistency even in the variation. THAT is what people are really calling for with Linux. Instead of having rpm, deb, mint, and whatever other packages, just have a .lin or whatever you want to call it. Every program should run on any graphics interface and every program should run on every distro. Having that would make it much easier for a company currently only making software for Windows to have a Linux version as well. It would also mean much MORE customization for users since no matter what distro and GUI you're using, you'd be able to use your favorite programs.
Sorry, but I haven't heard of that happening with any Linux distro in years.