but then again, it's not meant to be a gaming OS, just a server OS.
Really? I thought MS were really pushing the fact that the Windows family of OS was a fully unified and, and that the fact that all modern software works on all the variants was a strong selling point for MS over Linux.
What are you talking about? The last systems I installed Debian on, which I think were reasonably recent, run without a hitch.
My experience is the same as the OPs. Bought a new machine. Tried to install Debian Testing, and it didn't recognise my video card or my sound card (or for that matter, my external serial modem). With Fedora Core, they all Just Worked (tm).
Just one person's anecdotal experience, but it proves that what he says can certainly happen.
Or out it another way, it is fiction about science (and by extention technology) rather than fiction that just happens to have sciencs and technology in it.
That definition excludes "The War Of The Worlds". IMHO, any definition of Science Fiction that excludes "The War Of The Worlds" is pretty idiotic.
Remind me: who gets to decide what's "real SF" and what isn't (surreal SF, unreal SF).
And what definition of "REAL Science Fiction" is this tireless arbiter working from?
PS : None of it is real. That's what "fiction" means. PPS : Yes, yes, I know. "The good ended happily and the bad unhappily; that is what fiction means"
(PS: I'm a Mac fanboi. Some of us have a sense of humor.)
Any chance I might get some of those non-humor-impaired Maccies in MetaMod. Damn it, those (+1 Funny)s followed by (-1 Flamebait)s are murder on the Karma.
how the hell are england supposed to win the european cup with brazil in the UEFA group?
Seriously though, how the hell are England supposed to win the European Cup[0] with France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain and... erm... Greece, in the UEFA group?
[0] By which I assume you mean the European Championship, since the European Cup was a club competition, now swallowed by the Champions[1] League(tm) [1] Not necessarily champions. Void where prohibited.
I really fucking hate this. This is the typical newspeak propaganda used by companies terrified of losing their stranglehold on consumers by loudly bleating "Communist" into the air in order to get support from the more paranoid fringes of society, such as politicians who get kick backs from such companies.
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
-- Dom Helder Camara
5. Increased prices on iTunes 4. Pastel colors to become more washed out 3. Continuing victory of Form Over Function 2. Slavering devotion from fanboys
i) What if the Apostles had had technological means to prevent the reproduction of the New Testament?
ii) Would our culture be diminished if the people who rediscovered Beowulf had been unable to decrypt the manuscript?
iii) Is the continual repitition and reworking of myth and fable through the Oral Tradition disrespectful of the content creators who first recorded these stories?
Back in the day, any ship entering port at Alexandria had to declare any books, maps, written works, etc they were carrying as part the customs process
yeah, but that was before they got a Cease and Desist scroll from the "Maps & Papyrus Association of Assyria".
It's common knowledge amoungst audiophiles that you need the best cable to get the best sound.
It's common knowledge amongst priests that God created the Heavens and the Earth in seven days, and that the first Woman was made from the rib of Adam.
You don't hear about it like you do about IE problems because IE is used by thousands and thousands of people every day and it is on the front lines, where the rubber meets the road as it were.
Assorted libc versions have equally exposed in such things as FTP servers, telnet daemons and any number of other network-aware services since the late 1970s. And this exposure has revealed occasional remote holes. But not too often.
Don't tell me that they haven't been exposed to the bad guys as much as IE, because its just not true.
IE may not be part of the kernel, but due to its use (and trust) by many core applications in Windows, it presents many more security challenges when compared to a standalone app like Firefox.
But the same is true of a core Unix library, like libc. It's exposed to data from wild sources, like DNS records in gethostbyname(), and yet it doesn't seem to have the same history. Similarly, the KDE GUI libs and libkhtml (for example -- or the equivalent Gnome ones) perform the many of same functions as IE's DLLs, without anything like as many security holes.
Fact is, IE is a security disaster because it's badly written, not because exposing common rendering components to HTML code in the wild is necessarily a bad idea.
I didn't say anything about Wales's merits. Nothing at all. I was just pointing out that 39 years as quite a long time to keep banging on about a sporting success.
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Just one person's anecdotal experience, but it proves that what he says can certainly happen.
IMHO, any definition of Science Fiction that excludes "The War Of The Worlds" is pretty idiotic.
And what definition of "REAL Science Fiction" is this tireless arbiter working from?
PS : None of it is real. That's what "fiction" means.
PPS : Yes, yes, I know. "The good ended happily and the bad unhappily; that is what fiction means"
That was a far more reasonable and intelligent response than my cheap joke deserved.
You are hereby banninated.
[0] By which I assume you mean the European Championship, since the European Cup was a club competition, now swallowed by the Champions[1] League(tm)
[1] Not necessarily champions. Void where prohibited.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
-- Dom Helder Camara
Fool. Everyone knows you can't compare Orange and Apple.
Clearly "slavering fanboy devotion" should have been #1.
And mind your language, or you'll look like a juvenile little fanboy in the midst of throwing all his toys out of the pram.
5. Increased prices on iTunes
4. Pastel colors to become more washed out
3. Continuing victory of Form Over Function
2. Slavering devotion from fanboys
And number one on "What's next at Apple"
1. Smugness, release 2.0
Ooops my bad. What's the collective noun for the dudes that wrote the Gospels?
Here an interesting talks they might give:
i) What if the Apostles had had technological means to prevent the reproduction of the New Testament?
ii) Would our culture be diminished if the people who rediscovered Beowulf had been unable to decrypt the manuscript?
iii) Is the continual repitition and reworking of myth and fable through the Oral Tradition disrespectful of the content creators who first recorded these stories?
I mean, duh.
Retinas.
Emphasis on the plural.
Retinas come in pairs and that makes a really really big difference.
Don't tell me that they haven't been exposed to the bad guys as much as IE, because its just not true.
Fact is, IE is a security disaster because it's badly written, not because exposing common rendering components to HTML code in the wild is necessarily a bad idea.
I didn't say anything about Wales's merits. Nothing at all. I was just pointing out that 39 years as quite a long time to keep banging on about a sporting success.