Alright. I've said it OVER and OVER and OVER. And I still mean it. If you want to help Linux double it's presence in the small business sector, get a rock solid, customized, easy to use WINE installer for Quickbooks and make it compatible with new versions within 90 days.
Businesses, once they see it in action, will scoop up $250 boxes and switch because: they don't have to pay for the VM and the Windows license, they don't have to pay for yearly anti-virus subscriptions, and they don't have to deal with windows update constantly breaking and changing things.
But, I do look forward to the next version of whatever eye candy you guys are working on. Rotating xterms on a cube is really, really impressing the suits.
Since when did the leader of a country threatening to wipe an ally of China off the map not constitute a real threat? I'm not saying we should go to war against The United States but the World at large really needs to grow some balls when it comes to dealing with The United States. They constantly threaten to attack a country which did nothing to them. They are at the same time working to achieve missile defense technology and say that nobody can stop them.
The deaths of possibly hundreds of thousands of civilians and thousands of our own troops maimed and killed is not technically Cheney's fault, in purely legal terms. Nor the fault of the administration who supported and executed the war. I just have one question for these technical excuses for the immoral conduct of our entire government: where exactly does the buck stop? Who has the integrity to accept responsibility for their actions?
They LIED about EVERY threat that Iraq and Saddam Hussein posed, and not only once and in government reports, but MULTIPLE times while addressing the public. The fact that they weren't under oath is actually more evidence that they knew they weren't just being vague or coy, but completely dishonest. Anyone who claims otherwise is as full of shit as they were/are.
If you want to win the desktop war, you can, in a few years, by asking yourself a single question:
Could my grandmother (who is already "sort of" computer savvy) use this without calling me every five minutes?
It's been a minute since I've used Linux as my desktop, but if users are still being forced to edit text files to change common program preferences, you'd better get used to your third seat behind Windows and OS X. I'm not telling you to have some crazy xml schema with a billion pieces fronted by a hefty GUI - I'm just asking you for the option of using a lightweight GUI to parse and store my preferences to the same text file.
Keep your CLI, and -color-code-for-Klingon-language-support options, but don't even try to force that on every day users. Leave stuff exposed so you can work your admin magic, but build some sane GUIs for everyone else unless you enjoy end-user support.
I hardly watch any television. The days of sitting around and waiting for your favorite show to come on are simply over, and I don't want to spend $40 a month plus $15 a month for Tivo just for the pleasure. It's simply not worth it.
Instead of litigating viewers and websites, it appears CBS may "get it." I hope they follow through with their plan without a team of lawyers getting a hold of it and ruining it entirely. CBS should be congratulated, and we should all vote with our eyes and reward them for recognizing that the Internet has changed entirely the meaning and value of media distribution.
And I must say, it's about time American companies stopped trying to sue their way to success and innovate instead. Real business leadership needs to return to our economy before there's nothing left but corporations suing each other over worthless patents and dead ideas.
So, listen, we've really been working on a solution to customer complaints about the high cost of Vista licensing. So, here it is: we'll help you to afford licenses by keeping them at the same price, but offering technology that will allow you to share a computer and the screen so you can afford the licenses.
Not having a computer for every employee should make Vista financially feasible for your organization. Plus, you get to participate in the Microsoft Buddy System, Or Binary User Licensing and Limited Software/Hardware Integration Team (BULLSHIT), and you get a MS Dubloon (redeemable for t-shirts and pens) for every time you report your very close neighbor for piracy. We would recommend waiting until he or she goes on break before reporting illegal activity. They're pretty much looking at your screen the whole time otherwise.
Hey! Where are you all going? You get your own keyboard and mouse!
This is a serious question: since virtually all energy comes from the sun, and we have an extensive infrastructure for transporting electricity as well as extensive technology for storing electricity, why are we wasting time on road-side turbines and hydrogen fuel? Obviously, you make adjustments for average cloud cover, available real estate, etc. But it seems silly to me to research hydrogen or whatever scheme Shell and BP (who are completely unbiased research firms) propose rather than leverage existing technology until they provide a real solution.
Wouldn't it make sense to say that all parking lots should be covered at least partially by solar panels? This would not only add juice to the grid but help reduce the local heating problem with asphalt, reduce temperatures inside cars (thus reducing energy used to cool them), and provide a convenient place to plug them in.
Would it cause to much pollution to make that many panels? Are electric cars truly that much more expensive? Or are lobbyists once again trying to ruin our chances of survival so we are nearly forced to keep spending money at their gas/hydrogen/soybean oil stations?
"HP insists that its departure is not a statement about the viability of the Media Center platform." Oh, yeah. I was making tons of money selling this product, but I've decided to stop. Not because it says anything about the profitability of the product I was selling, but, you know... just because. I'm not licking Microsoft boots either - let's face it, that's kind of an oxymoron.
(phone rings... whispers... "$150 per copy of Vista?!")
Ahem... on second thought, I respectfully withdraw that last statement.
Thinking in context. Most young people agree that the government is a failure, so most likely the hawks are going to be like you - unjustifiably condescending, poor with logic, and perhaps unlike you, at least aware of these two well-documented scandals which are hard for pro-government types to deny.
My other favorite thing is experiencing a laughable attempt at character assassination during the course of an argument. Oh Noam, you old guy! Let me call you a name without referencing any fact or ideology to which I can provide an intriguing counter-example! My reputation as a slashdot reader will certainly provide some credit to my unbeatable intellect!
Of course, I know your petty little mean streak is the only thing you can hold on to with any clarity. Please continue, and leave the thinking to the rest of us. (And if you are trolling, good job - and please, continue trolling slashdot and leave the thinking to the rest of us).
Whenever anyone tries to tell you that the government should be making any decision without the consent AND knowledge of the populace, tell them you distrust the US government because they assassinate citizens and sell weapons to sworn enemies. For reference, see COINTELPRO and the Iran Contra Affair.
"The truth is subversive and anti-American." -Noam Chomsky
Do you ever want mainstream driver support? Stop whining like a child whenever someone offers a service that includes Linux that isn't perfect for your needs. You need to a mature a little bit, and that involves coming to the conclusion that what's best for you may not be what's best for someone else. One thing I'm sure of is that it wouldn't hurt the Linux community to have highly visible desktop Dell support. I suspect you'd rather feel superior about your operating system than help the community that develops it.
Yes, I forgot to say that my opinion on the situation was limited to the known universe. Thanks for catching that for me, though. In that parallel universe, your post might have had a point.
That's right kids - we're one step away from failing to have the ability to sort by color and shape. How did it come to pass that Lite Brites shut down the city of Boston?
The government has been very successful in scaring the public into thinking that the terrorism threat is real. The fact is, more people have died from lightning strikes in the past fifty years than from terrorist acts on American soil. This is fueled by the new status of new media as entertainment rather than information, which creates a sea of idiotic speculation before any facts are actually discovered. Witness the media trial of the man accused of Jon Benet's murder, or any of the number of bomb scares that have turned out to be simple security breaches.
There's no simple solution, but I think we as a society need to admit first that we have a problem.
For one, you can't assign tasks. I'm sure there are a host of other differences as well.
I think the point of the article is that there is no serious effort within the Linux community to provide a real replacement for enterprise-level communication software. It's a chicken-and-egg problem - no one is going to beta test something like that instead of spending some money and going to work with Windows Server 2003 (or the Leopard server, if it delivers). And the people who are left to beta test are not going to know what the real customers need.
So far, Linux has succeeded as a server platform and for running custom software for companies with in-house talent. It's going to take a company with serious clout and funding to establish either Gnome or KDE as the desktop, and then build a true competitor to Microsoft Office that "just works" 99% of the time.
Find office with 10 or 15 stations with shiny new copies of Vista. Verify through other means that mics and voice commands are on. Run in, and yell as loud as you can the commands that will shut down the machines. Don't run out yet!
Watch people panic at their keyboards. Listen to their gasps as the hard disk spins down and their monitors cut off, at which point they all stare at you. Wave. And then run.
You try to make a reasoned argument. Let's say the threat of terrorism is far, far less than that of heart disease, cigarettes, drunk driving, and just plain accidents. More people in this country have been killed by ladders than by terrorists. (I'm talking about American soil. When we show up in other countries with guns, I assume most people agree that we'll be shot at.)
So, you talk to your neighbors, but they eye you warily. You may be a fan of "books," a bit biased towards reasonable and rational diplomatic response to external threats, or, dare I say it, morally opposed to killing other human beings for resources. They tell you, "The White House has it all figured out. Let's take the fight over there, wherever that is! Let's get these Islamo-fascist sunsabitches where they sleep!" You agree to disagree, bury yourself in work foreign films, and hope for better vote.
Then you watch Iraq circle the toilet while Katrina wrecks entire states. Washington is rocked by scandals, and we continue to watch the deficit soar into the stratosphere. Soldiers are dying in the midst a civil war that we created because of piss-poor military strategy. In one fell swoop, we've eliminated two of Iran's sworn enemies, created the best training camp for terrorists in Iraq, and alienated nearly all of our allies. We're creating more terrorists by the thousands through "unfortunate" military action, and at home Fox News is valiantly fighting for their president - they even give up an anchor so he can serve as Press Secretary.
If that irony doesn't kill you, a vote the clearly shows America is against the war is met with a smile and a nod by our dear leader, who is apparently convinced Armageddon will never happen unless we complete "Operation Rest of the Brown Ones." The rhetoric against Iran is turning up, eerily reminiscent of that before the war in Iraq, but the sheep buried neck deep in fried fat switch to the news and only find stories concerning the reasons Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnel are fighting over the legitimacy of a Miss America contestant.
You wonder how it's possible to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a foreign war and not domestic security; how we'll make it through peak oil and solve our very real energy crisis when the government seems unable to find solutions outside of their favorite oil companies. You watch documentaries, join some newsletters, and suffer sleepless nights when confronted with all of these issues. Your neighbors laugh, breed, and switch back to American Idol.
And then you wake up one morning, with all of this going on, and Boston has been shut down by LITE BRITES.
America, enjoy these twilight years. We are Rome. Two hundred years from now people will ask themselves how we didn't see it coming. Turn your television back on, turn up that Modest Mouse and think about saving for the iPhone. I'll pray for you, once I get away from you.
Yes, I thought it all the way through. If I say, "jo7hs2's ignorant statement is the most ignorant of 2006!" then I can not come back after you make another retarded statement in 2007 and say, "jo7hs2's new ignorant statement supersedes his other ignorant statement, and becomes the most ignorant statement of 2006!"
Why? BECAUSE IT'S A STATEMENT MADE IN 2007. Please go back to MySpace and continue sucking Rupert Murdoch's cock. One day his demon seed will eat through the lining of your stomach, and finally fulfill the purpose of evolution.
(With apologies to Bill Hicks. These dumb fucks are still ruining the world, Bill.)
1. Simple, easy to use software for managing program installations. Synaptic is pretty good. 2. Simple, easy to use software for using Windows applications. Crossover office sucks. I haven't tried the Parallels solution for Linux yet. 3. Simple, easy to use software for system management. Linux has no Control Panel/System Preferences. All of that sort of configuration needs to be in one place. 4. Simple, easy to use network wide administration interfaces. I can plug in SBS 2003, babysit the installation for five hours, and have an e-mail server, web server, automatically installed groupware with a web interface, and a unified interface to administer the whole thing. Where is the Linux equivalent?
Command line programs are not simple or easy to use. While they become quicker over time as you learn all of the quirks, simple GUI interfaces for configuration don't require remembering arbitrary --configure-with-pears options. GUI interfaces to the command line interfaces make the most sense -- easy one-time setup, with fully exposed options for scripting.
And no, I will not pick up an editor and get to work. I only had to pay Apple $2000 for a laptop that was preprogrammed with the options I want.
MOM: (reading from "Exploring Creationism with Physical Science") One popular thing to do in American Politics is to note that the summers in the United States over the past few years have been very warm. As a result, global warming must be real. What's wrong with this reasoning? KID: It's only gone up 0.6 degrees. MOM: Yeah, it's not really a big problem, is it? KID: No. I don't think that... it's going to hurt us. MOM: It's a huge political issue, global warming is, and that's why it's really important for you to understand... KID: Is evolution too? MOM: Um, not really. On a much... KID: Creationism? MOM: Um, it's becoming one now. What if you had to go to school where the teacher said, "Creationism is stupid, and you're stupid if you believe in it?" KID: I think they should... MOM: Well, or what if you had to go to a school where the teacher said "Evolution is stupid, and you're stupid if you believe it?" KID: I wouldn't mind that. MOM: You wouldn't mind it. If you look at Creationism, it's the only possible answer to all the questions. It's the only possible answer. KID: That's exactly what dad said! MOM: Mmm hmmm, it's the only possible answer to all the questions. KID: Oh, yeah... MOM: Oh, yeah. MOM: Did you get to the part on here where it says that science doesn't prove anything? And it's really interesting when you look at it that way. KID: It is? MOM: It is. KID: (reading further) I think, personally, that Galileo made the right choice by giving up science for Christ. (later) MOM: We know when things started changing, you know, prayer got taken out of school, and um... the schools started falling apart. And now the rest of us are going, wait a minute, where is my country? Our firm belief is, there are two types of people: those who love Jesus and those who don't.
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Alright. I've said it OVER and OVER and OVER. And I still mean it. If you want to help Linux double it's presence in the small business sector, get a rock solid, customized, easy to use WINE installer for Quickbooks and make it compatible with new versions within 90 days.
Businesses, once they see it in action, will scoop up $250 boxes and switch because: they don't have to pay for the VM and the Windows license, they don't have to pay for yearly anti-virus subscriptions, and they don't have to deal with windows update constantly breaking and changing things.
But, I do look forward to the next version of whatever eye candy you guys are working on. Rotating xterms on a cube is really, really impressing the suits.
Wouldn't it be simpler to flag accounts that go over maximum theoretical limits for how much gold is farmed per hour, how fast they move, etc?
Yes, you did. You should think tactically instead of not thinking at all.
Since when did the leader of a country threatening to wipe an ally of China off the map not constitute a real threat? I'm not saying we should go to war against The United States but the World at large really needs to grow some balls when it comes to dealing with The United States. They constantly threaten to attack a country which did nothing to them. They are at the same time working to achieve missile defense technology and say that nobody can stop them.
The deaths of possibly hundreds of thousands of civilians and thousands of our own troops maimed and killed is not technically Cheney's fault, in purely legal terms. Nor the fault of the administration who supported and executed the war. I just have one question for these technical excuses for the immoral conduct of our entire government: where exactly does the buck stop? Who has the integrity to accept responsibility for their actions?
They LIED about EVERY threat that Iraq and Saddam Hussein posed, and not only once and in government reports, but MULTIPLE times while addressing the public. The fact that they weren't under oath is actually more evidence that they knew they weren't just being vague or coy, but completely dishonest. Anyone who claims otherwise is as full of shit as they were/are.
See?
Summer 2007 - Linux developers discover that users prefer and rely upon GUI environments.
When can we expect a unified program installation method? Sometime after peak oil?
If you want to win the desktop war, you can, in a few years, by asking yourself a single question:
Could my grandmother (who is already "sort of" computer savvy) use this without calling me every five minutes?
It's been a minute since I've used Linux as my desktop, but if users are still being forced to edit text files to change common program preferences, you'd better get used to your third seat behind Windows and OS X. I'm not telling you to have some crazy xml schema with a billion pieces fronted by a hefty GUI - I'm just asking you for the option of using a lightweight GUI to parse and store my preferences to the same text file.
Keep your CLI, and -color-code-for-Klingon-language-support options, but don't even try to force that on every day users. Leave stuff exposed so you can work your admin magic, but build some sane GUIs for everyone else unless you enjoy end-user support.
I hardly watch any television. The days of sitting around and waiting for your favorite show to come on are simply over, and I don't want to spend $40 a month plus $15 a month for Tivo just for the pleasure. It's simply not worth it.
Instead of litigating viewers and websites, it appears CBS may "get it." I hope they follow through with their plan without a team of lawyers getting a hold of it and ruining it entirely. CBS should be congratulated, and we should all vote with our eyes and reward them for recognizing that the Internet has changed entirely the meaning and value of media distribution.
And I must say, it's about time American companies stopped trying to sue their way to success and innovate instead. Real business leadership needs to return to our economy before there's nothing left but corporations suing each other over worthless patents and dead ideas.
So, listen, we've really been working on a solution to customer complaints about the high cost of Vista licensing. So, here it is: we'll help you to afford licenses by keeping them at the same price, but offering technology that will allow you to share a computer and the screen so you can afford the licenses.
Not having a computer for every employee should make Vista financially feasible for your organization. Plus, you get to participate in the Microsoft Buddy System, Or Binary User Licensing and Limited Software/Hardware Integration Team (BULLSHIT), and you get a MS Dubloon (redeemable for t-shirts and pens) for every time you report your very close neighbor for piracy. We would recommend waiting until he or she goes on break before reporting illegal activity. They're pretty much looking at your screen the whole time otherwise.
Hey! Where are you all going? You get your own keyboard and mouse!
This is a serious question: since virtually all energy comes from the sun, and we have an extensive infrastructure for transporting electricity as well as extensive technology for storing electricity, why are we wasting time on road-side turbines and hydrogen fuel? Obviously, you make adjustments for average cloud cover, available real estate, etc. But it seems silly to me to research hydrogen or whatever scheme Shell and BP (who are completely unbiased research firms) propose rather than leverage existing technology until they provide a real solution.
Wouldn't it make sense to say that all parking lots should be covered at least partially by solar panels? This would not only add juice to the grid but help reduce the local heating problem with asphalt, reduce temperatures inside cars (thus reducing energy used to cool them), and provide a convenient place to plug them in.
Would it cause to much pollution to make that many panels? Are electric cars truly that much more expensive? Or are lobbyists once again trying to ruin our chances of survival so we are nearly forced to keep spending money at their gas/hydrogen/soybean oil stations?
(phone rings... whispers... "$150 per copy of Vista?!")
Ahem... on second thought, I respectfully withdraw that last statement.
Thinking in context. Most young people agree that the government is a failure, so most likely the hawks are going to be like you - unjustifiably condescending, poor with logic, and perhaps unlike you, at least aware of these two well-documented scandals which are hard for pro-government types to deny.
My other favorite thing is experiencing a laughable attempt at character assassination during the course of an argument. Oh Noam, you old guy! Let me call you a name without referencing any fact or ideology to which I can provide an intriguing counter-example! My reputation as a slashdot reader will certainly provide some credit to my unbeatable intellect!
Of course, I know your petty little mean streak is the only thing you can hold on to with any clarity. Please continue, and leave the thinking to the rest of us. (And if you are trolling, good job - and please, continue trolling slashdot and leave the thinking to the rest of us).
Whenever anyone tries to tell you that the government should be making any decision without the consent AND knowledge of the populace, tell them you distrust the US government because they assassinate citizens and sell weapons to sworn enemies. For reference, see COINTELPRO and the Iran Contra Affair.
"The truth is subversive and anti-American." -Noam Chomsky
Do you ever want mainstream driver support? Stop whining like a child whenever someone offers a service that includes Linux that isn't perfect for your needs. You need to a mature a little bit, and that involves coming to the conclusion that what's best for you may not be what's best for someone else. One thing I'm sure of is that it wouldn't hurt the Linux community to have highly visible desktop Dell support. I suspect you'd rather feel superior about your operating system than help the community that develops it.
Yes, I forgot to say that my opinion on the situation was limited to the known universe. Thanks for catching that for me, though. In that parallel universe, your post might have had a point.
That's right kids - we're one step away from failing to have the ability to sort by color and shape. How did it come to pass that Lite Brites shut down the city of Boston?
The government has been very successful in scaring the public into thinking that the terrorism threat is real. The fact is, more people have died from lightning strikes in the past fifty years than from terrorist acts on American soil. This is fueled by the new status of new media as entertainment rather than information, which creates a sea of idiotic speculation before any facts are actually discovered. Witness the media trial of the man accused of Jon Benet's murder, or any of the number of bomb scares that have turned out to be simple security breaches.
There's no simple solution, but I think we as a society need to admit first that we have a problem.
For one, you can't assign tasks. I'm sure there are a host of other differences as well.
I think the point of the article is that there is no serious effort within the Linux community to provide a real replacement for enterprise-level communication software. It's a chicken-and-egg problem - no one is going to beta test something like that instead of spending some money and going to work with Windows Server 2003 (or the Leopard server, if it delivers). And the people who are left to beta test are not going to know what the real customers need.
So far, Linux has succeeded as a server platform and for running custom software for companies with in-house talent. It's going to take a company with serious clout and funding to establish either Gnome or KDE as the desktop, and then build a true competitor to Microsoft Office that "just works" 99% of the time.
Find office with 10 or 15 stations with shiny new copies of Vista. Verify through other means that mics and voice commands are on. Run in, and yell as loud as you can the commands that will shut down the machines. Don't run out yet!
Watch people panic at their keyboards. Listen to their gasps as the hard disk spins down and their monitors cut off, at which point they all stare at you. Wave. And then run.
You try to make a reasoned argument. Let's say the threat of terrorism is far, far less than that of heart disease, cigarettes, drunk driving, and just plain accidents. More people in this country have been killed by ladders than by terrorists. (I'm talking about American soil. When we show up in other countries with guns, I assume most people agree that we'll be shot at.)
So, you talk to your neighbors, but they eye you warily. You may be a fan of "books," a bit biased towards reasonable and rational diplomatic response to external threats, or, dare I say it, morally opposed to killing other human beings for resources. They tell you, "The White House has it all figured out. Let's take the fight over there, wherever that is! Let's get these Islamo-fascist sunsabitches where they sleep!" You agree to disagree, bury yourself in work foreign films, and hope for better vote.
Then you watch Iraq circle the toilet while Katrina wrecks entire states. Washington is rocked by scandals, and we continue to watch the deficit soar into the stratosphere. Soldiers are dying in the midst a civil war that we created because of piss-poor military strategy. In one fell swoop, we've eliminated two of Iran's sworn enemies, created the best training camp for terrorists in Iraq, and alienated nearly all of our allies. We're creating more terrorists by the thousands through "unfortunate" military action, and at home Fox News is valiantly fighting for their president - they even give up an anchor so he can serve as Press Secretary.
If that irony doesn't kill you, a vote the clearly shows America is against the war is met with a smile and a nod by our dear leader, who is apparently convinced Armageddon will never happen unless we complete "Operation Rest of the Brown Ones." The rhetoric against Iran is turning up, eerily reminiscent of that before the war in Iraq, but the sheep buried neck deep in fried fat switch to the news and only find stories concerning the reasons Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnel are fighting over the legitimacy of a Miss America contestant.
You wonder how it's possible to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a foreign war and not domestic security; how we'll make it through peak oil and solve our very real energy crisis when the government seems unable to find solutions outside of their favorite oil companies. You watch documentaries, join some newsletters, and suffer sleepless nights when confronted with all of these issues. Your neighbors laugh, breed, and switch back to American Idol.
And then you wake up one morning, with all of this going on, and Boston has been shut down by LITE BRITES.
America, enjoy these twilight years. We are Rome. Two hundred years from now people will ask themselves how we didn't see it coming. Turn your television back on, turn up that Modest Mouse and think about saving for the iPhone. I'll pray for you, once I get away from you.
(Apologies to David Cross.)
Yes, I thought it all the way through. If I say, "jo7hs2's ignorant statement is the most ignorant of 2006!" then I can not come back after you make another retarded statement in 2007 and say, "jo7hs2's new ignorant statement supersedes his other ignorant statement, and becomes the most ignorant statement of 2006!"
Why? BECAUSE IT'S A STATEMENT MADE IN 2007. Please go back to MySpace and continue sucking Rupert Murdoch's cock. One day his demon seed will eat through the lining of your stomach, and finally fulfill the purpose of evolution.
(With apologies to Bill Hicks. These dumb fucks are still ruining the world, Bill.)
"...while I've played a lot of games this year, Oblivion is always going to be my 2006 game of the year."
Oh, really? Are you sure something you play in '07 won't knock it out of first place? Jackass.
1. Simple, easy to use software for managing program installations. Synaptic is pretty good.
2. Simple, easy to use software for using Windows applications. Crossover office sucks. I haven't tried the Parallels solution for Linux yet.
3. Simple, easy to use software for system management. Linux has no Control Panel/System Preferences. All of that sort of configuration needs to be in one place.
4. Simple, easy to use network wide administration interfaces. I can plug in SBS 2003, babysit the installation for five hours, and have an e-mail server, web server, automatically installed groupware with a web interface, and a unified interface to administer the whole thing. Where is the Linux equivalent?
Command line programs are not simple or easy to use. While they become quicker over time as you learn all of the quirks, simple GUI interfaces for configuration don't require remembering arbitrary --configure-with-pears options. GUI interfaces to the command line interfaces make the most sense -- easy one-time setup, with fully exposed options for scripting.
And no, I will not pick up an editor and get to work. I only had to pay Apple $2000 for a laptop that was preprogrammed with the options I want.
That's the real bleeding edge of pork barrel spending.
(from Jesus Camp)
MOM: (reading from "Exploring Creationism with Physical Science") One popular thing to do in American Politics is to note that the summers in the United States over the past few years have been very warm. As a result, global warming must be real. What's wrong with this reasoning?
KID: It's only gone up 0.6 degrees.
MOM: Yeah, it's not really a big problem, is it?
KID: No. I don't think that... it's going to hurt us.
MOM: It's a huge political issue, global warming is, and that's why it's really important for you to understand...
KID: Is evolution too?
MOM: Um, not really. On a much...
KID: Creationism?
MOM: Um, it's becoming one now. What if you had to go to school where the teacher said, "Creationism is stupid, and you're stupid if you believe in it?"
KID: I think they should...
MOM: Well, or what if you had to go to a school where the teacher said "Evolution is stupid, and you're stupid if you believe it?"
KID: I wouldn't mind that.
MOM: You wouldn't mind it. If you look at Creationism, it's the only possible answer to all the questions. It's the only possible answer.
KID: That's exactly what dad said!
MOM: Mmm hmmm, it's the only possible answer to all the questions.
KID: Oh, yeah...
MOM: Oh, yeah.
MOM: Did you get to the part on here where it says that science doesn't prove anything? And it's really interesting when you look at it that way.
KID: It is?
MOM: It is.
KID: (reading further) I think, personally, that Galileo made the right choice by giving up science for Christ.
(later)
MOM: We know when things started changing, you know, prayer got taken out of school, and um... the schools started falling apart. And now the rest of us are going, wait a minute, where is my country? Our firm belief is, there are two types of people: those who love Jesus and those who don't.