what kind of crack are you smoking? There are a lot of us (obviously me) who use Linux for day to day mission critical desktop work. We use it because it works, its reliable, safe, efficient and kicks Apple and MSs ass for desktop work. The only thing Apple and MS have is marketing, it is all they needed to become top dogs in sales and to stay there. We exist because we are finding that our choice, once made, was easy, clean and made us more efficient on a day to day basis than people using the other choices.
Now, what MdI wants to use is his business, but what exactly is it that he needs and can't get from Linux and the free software world? Emacs? Vi? He is a programmer right? what did he need that he was tired of building? I'm interested in hearing about that, cause the reposystem is so deep and so full that unless he wanted something that he isn't gonna find on MS or Mac anyway, there isn't much he could need.
The man lost all credibility years ago, having Gnome used as his baby is too bad for gnome, but that was a long time ago, before he turned to the dark side I guess
explain WHY your payroll tax increased please. The reason was that for the last 15 years or more, certainly back to the Reagan era, the Congress and Senate have been using the Social Security fund as a cash cow. Now that the chickens have retired (to destroy a metaphor), the money that was set aside for their Social Security payments has been used up to pay for everybody's favorite thing: low taxes. Oh shit, you may say, what do you mean??? To keep the tax rate low and still provide services, the government has been spending my SS that I paid in to for the last 40 years (yeah, I just turned 58) to allow the legislature to refuse to raise taxes to pay for government projects and for its fiduciary responsibilities. So now, I have to pay more to make up for the taxes that I should have been paying. That is fair and I don't mind. What is not fair and I do mind is that my kids will continue to pay extra for me and the failure of my generation to look more than 2 minutes into the future and take care of our kids and grandkids. And they still aren't doing anything other than covering the absolute least amount they can to cover the immediate cost at this moment. OK, to be fair,maybe there will be a nuclear war, or a horrible plague or some other catastrophe and they won't have to pay out anything to all us dead oldsters, but it really doesn't seem fair to my kids. What I love is the asshats going around talking about how we need to cut taxes, back to lower than we paid in the 1950s, when there was almost no one drawing SS benefits because... (wait for it)... most of the oldsters had died in WW1, 2 or the depression and the inflation that followed WW2 meant that their checks were chump change anyway. Rant over.
yeah, his crapware is sprintware, not android ware. But his point is that he can't take it off an android phone, while he can take it off his win8 phone. Interesting, if true (and I have no real reason to doubt it) and if valid then it makes for a real objection to android. I know my wife's phone has some crap from ATT that she doesn't use and gets POed about having. But when I offer to cyanagen it she shies away. So, its her phone ya know, if somebody wants to bitch and complain, let 'em.
yeah and where was the spelling problem? I went back and didn't see it, maybe someone cleaned it up already? Now if you want to fuss intelligently then you could talk about the writing style which is abhorrent, poor quality high school level writing. Not good, but not as horrible as the aged P wants me to think. No, this is just a rant, and not that well thought out either.
Riding the bus last week the driver had the AC down to about 60F. In the process of asking him to warm it up I asked why he had it so low: "It keeps the germs down when the temperature is low." he said. I mentioned that he would have to get it down below zero to make any difference like that and he was quite adamant that he was right, one of his buddies had told him so.
So you must be wrong about that temperature stuff cause the buddy of a bus driver in Florida said it was better to keep the temperature low, so that must be a fact.
After spending 15 years in the tropics I come back here to the US and find that people haven't a clue what a day's work really is. One guy in my office keeps staring at me and telling everyone he has never seen anyone work as much or as hard as I do. While he sits and drinks his coffee and tries to think of excuses for why he hasn't finished his latest project, or even the last one before that. Nah, I'm not going for it. I hate air conditioning and can do more in hot weather than most people who spend their life hiding from a drop of sweat. The problem is just that no one is willing to tell people to get off their fat diabetic asses and do some goddamn work. How about telling people to turn off the mobe the second work begins and leave it off until 5pm? How about asking why you need to have your personal email, facebook, twitter and whatever the hell else (what youtube, netflix, hulu tooooooo???) running on your computer while you complain how slow it is and how you need a faster computer to "do your work?"
I am a teacher, and do prefer to do my teaching in a classroom. But that is less than half of my workweek. Today we were supposed to have a meeting in another building so we could use (wait for it....) the computer lab. To do some work. Like I would want to leave my office in the middle of a tornado watch downpour to walk across campus and sit in a stinking computer lab to do something that I was going to do at my desk in the first place?
Now, I like my office well enough, six colleagues shoehorned into a space for 4, but we have windows! Lucky me. Really, most faculty are in a podfarm in a building known as "The Bunker" no windows, no light, bathrooms on another planet, I mean, what's not to love in that setup?
So, many of the faculty prefer to do their prep at home. Once I get an office set up in the new house here I will too. If they will let me. So, there is no advantage to us to be locked in to our office, open seating would work just as well if we didn't have to be there, or some could request permanent seats and take a home in the podfarm.
But I find it interesting that no one looks at the source of the waste. It is the contractors and the contract process that insists that the cheapest price is the best that creates a system that makes real budgeting impossible. If we were to have a system where the government had its own factories and paid people as government employees instead of private sector prima donas who are mostly over-paid loafers riding the gravy train because they are hidden from inspection by their status as "contractors"
Oh yes, I hear the screams, but your solutions are old, tired, tried and failed. Why are you afraid to trust people who, like the members of our armed forces, are entrusted to run our government to the best of their ability?
Also, interestingly, the drone pilots, even a continent or more away suffer from the safe psychological problems that fighter/bomber pilots do after a mission
yes, that is correct, and i'm glad you don't have a visa, as glad as you are. I've spent a large part of my life overseas and learned to avoid any and every place that was a tourist haven. It was painful to listen to the various kinds of banter considered normal by people from various English speaking countries. When you live in a place you learn to think and talk in similar ways to natives. You broaden your perspectives and you see that your petty, parochial view of the world linked to your greedy focus on how much something costs and how much money is in your pocket is just sad.
yeah, its a big world, that's why I like it.you stay in your part and leave us alone.
and sorry my iOS buddies, apple products in China are also compromised. Its just that the Apple machine in China wants everybody to think that they are safe. Why would the government want to let the people who have the money or the "need" for an iPhone or Pad think their device was completely secure? Gee, hmmm, I wonder??
No, I want my child to be taught the wide variety of religious and moral belief, this is a part of our heritage as humans. As we move into a future where we are able to encompass more and greater understanding of the universe and all its parts, we do not want to lose our history and an understanding of our superstitious roots, it helps us to understand and sympathize with those who are still troubled with superstitions. Look kids, if you want to help people change, mockery doesn't work. If you want to show how cool you are, mockery also fails: as in you just look like another douchebag. We are in transition and have been for a thousand years or more. As we move on through science and study and growing our understanding, there will always be people who are slowing the process down. This can either slow us down even more if you waste your time mocking them, or it can help to give us stability by keeping us from rushing foolishly after each new modern idea that needs time to mature: that is how science works. not rushing, but carefully, with repetition and testing.
So while I find this particular news item to be sad and humorous, deserving of mockery, I am also adult enough to know that taking that mockery into a public forum does none of us any good.
but that last line seems to be an attempt to derogate the value and the sacred name of the FSM. Blasphemy and sacrilege and the same old game of my god is better than your god.
Yeah, one thing that is the absolute, mostest horrible thing about that FOSS garbage is that they keep improving it and making it better, you like they try to give people what they want, and then people either decide they didn't want it after all or , as in this case, they continue to complain about shit from 5 years ago that no longer is the case.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, can't they just stay at being crappy and not get better, it just makes it really hard for me to talk to those neck-beard guysa when they keep saying that what I saw with my own eyes 6 years ago is not true any more. What are you callin me a liar?!?!?!
Also university instructor and I agree, any change is perceived as as more work. The thing is, the reality is, that while it is more work at the beginning the result makes class more fun for me. Frankly, lecturing puts me to sleep. I've been working to do what is called "flipping" the classroom, where I give the students things (lectures, presentations, podcasts, any content heavy source and they listen/read/watch on their own time. When they come to class they do stuff with me. Tons more fun than the old way, but a lot more work to set up.
The good news is that I am now getting to the point where I am getting the pay-off. Class time is easier, less work, students help each other like they were at the library, i hand out tablets to support their in-class work and wander the tables to give help, supply answers or ask more questions, just generally putz about and have fun.
Yes, but then a real person, a smart and honest person, stands up and says: "I was wrong, it turned out that what I was complaining about was a good thing after all." Where are Rand And Paul on this front, the place of the honest person, not the ideologue, can be lonely and make you feel a fool, but it is still honored by those who appreciate honesty.
Let me save the readers coming after me some time: The next gazillion posts have to do with the an argument that is a straw man, because the real question has to do with Apple vs the rest of the world. Now I don't like apple, don't use, don't drink the KA, but please stop wasting our time with arguments like this. "A tablet is not a PC." OK, your opinion. "A tablet is a computer" OK, ditto. Case closed.
This is not true of all the universities in the US: check out my alma mater, UVA. Still has a single sanction (expulsion) student run honor system. You cheat in any way at any time and you are out, period. It works.
I work in Education and classroom computers all across the US and Asia have XP and no plan in place to move the equioment or the OS to win7, much less 8.
all this MMA stuff fails on the street, as well as any tournament based training. MMA focuses on the rules of the ring, ring distances and all the rest of the artificial constraints created for the "rules" of the various rings. I might add that most teachers focus on how to use the rules of the particular ring they are going to fight in and how to win in that ring with those rules. MMA is no different from any other "martial art."
I studied in what could have been called an MMA before there was such a thing. Our teacher disdained tournament fighting and training, and forced us to use not just an unprotected (no gloves, no pads, no cups) body, but an unconstrained ring. Complaints about shoes, clothes, tricks, or force were scoffed at. "You only get hit if you don't block or get out of the way" was the rule. The other rule was that what we did was an art, and we were doing it as an art, not to fight, not hurt people or beat people or anything other than overcoming ourselves in a way that showed our internal strength and.... beauty.
When my teacher retired another teacher and I took over the school and added only one thing to his teaching: "You only lose a fight if you get in a fight." We had, and still have, nothing to prove to anyone. So if one of us gets in a fight, it is not a time for celebration, but rather for meditation on how we could, after all these years, have done something so stupid.
Back when my teacher was running the school, he would, occasionally, take the school to tournaments. We seldom lost in the fighting categories, often won (but not always, those shaolin guys had some awesome forms) in the forms categories. Even today there are people who, when they see my old brother in arms walk into a tournament and sign up to fight, will ask for their money back and walk away. He still loves the dance, the beauty of a fight. And he's not afraid to lose.
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well, Russia's life expectancy of much lower than ours, and they used to be a first world country didn't they?
Live hard, die young, make a pretty corpse
The cowboy way.
what kind of crack are you smoking? There are a lot of us (obviously me) who use Linux for day to day mission critical desktop work. We use it because it works, its reliable, safe, efficient and kicks Apple and MSs ass for desktop work. The only thing Apple and MS have is marketing, it is all they needed to become top dogs in sales and to stay there. We exist because we are finding that our choice, once made, was easy, clean and made us more efficient on a day to day basis than people using the other choices.
Now, what MdI wants to use is his business, but what exactly is it that he needs and can't get from Linux and the free software world? Emacs? Vi? He is a programmer right? what did he need that he was tired of building? I'm interested in hearing about that, cause the reposystem is so deep and so full that unless he wanted something that he isn't gonna find on MS or Mac anyway, there isn't much he could need.
The man lost all credibility years ago, having Gnome used as his baby is too bad for gnome, but that was a long time ago, before he turned to the dark side I guess
explain WHY your payroll tax increased please. ... (wait for it) ... most of the oldsters had died in WW1, 2 or the depression and the inflation that followed WW2 meant that their checks were chump change anyway.
The reason was that for the last 15 years or more, certainly back to the Reagan era, the Congress and Senate have been using the Social Security fund as a cash cow. Now that the chickens have retired (to destroy a metaphor), the money that was set aside for their Social Security payments has been used up to pay for everybody's favorite thing: low taxes. Oh shit, you may say, what do you mean???
To keep the tax rate low and still provide services, the government has been spending my SS that I paid in to for the last 40 years (yeah, I just turned 58) to allow the legislature to refuse to raise taxes to pay for government projects and for its fiduciary responsibilities. So now, I have to pay more to make up for the taxes that I should have been paying. That is fair and I don't mind. What is not fair and I do mind is that my kids will continue to pay extra for me and the failure of my generation to look more than 2 minutes into the future and take care of our kids and grandkids. And they still aren't doing anything other than covering the absolute least amount they can to cover the immediate cost at this moment.
OK, to be fair,maybe there will be a nuclear war, or a horrible plague or some other catastrophe and they won't have to pay out anything to all us dead oldsters, but it really doesn't seem fair to my kids.
What I love is the asshats going around talking about how we need to cut taxes, back to lower than we paid in the 1950s, when there was almost no one drawing SS benefits because
Rant over.
yeah, his crapware is sprintware, not android ware. But his point is that he can't take it off an android phone, while he can take it off his win8 phone. Interesting, if true (and I have no real reason to doubt it) and if valid then it makes for a real objection to android. I know my wife's phone has some crap from ATT that she doesn't use and gets POed about having. But when I offer to cyanagen it she shies away. So, its her phone ya know, if somebody wants to bitch and complain, let 'em.
yeah and where was the spelling problem? I went back and didn't see it, maybe someone cleaned it up already? Now if you want to fuss intelligently then you could talk about the writing style which is abhorrent, poor quality high school level writing. Not good, but not as horrible as the aged P wants me to think. No, this is just a rant, and not that well thought out either.
Riding the bus last week the driver had the AC down to about 60F. In the process of asking him to warm it up I asked why he had it so low: "It keeps the germs down when the temperature is low." he said. I mentioned that he would have to get it down below zero to make any difference like that and he was quite adamant that he was right, one of his buddies had told him so.
So you must be wrong about that temperature stuff cause the buddy of a bus driver in Florida said it was better to keep the temperature low, so that must be a fact.
After spending 15 years in the tropics I come back here to the US and find that people haven't a clue what a day's work really is. One guy in my office keeps staring at me and telling everyone he has never seen anyone work as much or as hard as I do. While he sits and drinks his coffee and tries to think of excuses for why he hasn't finished his latest project, or even the last one before that.
Nah, I'm not going for it. I hate air conditioning and can do more in hot weather than most people who spend their life hiding from a drop of sweat. The problem is just that no one is willing to tell people to get off their fat diabetic asses and do some goddamn work. How about telling people to turn off the mobe the second work begins and leave it off until 5pm? How about asking why you need to have your personal email, facebook, twitter and whatever the hell else (what youtube, netflix, hulu tooooooo???) running on your computer while you complain how slow it is and how you need a faster computer to "do your work?"
I am a teacher, and do prefer to do my teaching in a classroom. But that is less than half of my workweek. Today we were supposed to have a meeting in another building so we could use (wait for it....) the computer lab. To do some work. Like I would want to leave my office in the middle of a tornado watch downpour to walk across campus and sit in a stinking computer lab to do something that I was going to do at my desk in the first place?
Now, I like my office well enough, six colleagues shoehorned into a space for 4, but we have windows! Lucky me. Really, most faculty are in a podfarm in a building known as "The Bunker" no windows, no light, bathrooms on another planet, I mean, what's not to love in that setup?
So, many of the faculty prefer to do their prep at home. Once I get an office set up in the new house here I will too. If they will let me.
So, there is no advantage to us to be locked in to our office, open seating would work just as well if we didn't have to be there, or some could request permanent seats and take a home in the podfarm.
But I find it interesting that no one looks at the source of the waste. It is the contractors and the contract process that insists that the cheapest price is the best that creates a system that makes real budgeting impossible. If we were to have a system where the government had its own factories and paid people as government employees instead of private sector prima donas who are mostly over-paid loafers riding the gravy train because they are hidden from inspection by their status as "contractors"
Oh yes, I hear the screams, but your solutions are old, tired, tried and failed. Why are you afraid to trust people who, like the members of our armed forces, are entrusted to run our government to the best of their ability?
Also, interestingly, the drone pilots, even a continent or more away suffer from the safe psychological problems that fighter/bomber pilots do after a mission
yes, that is correct, and i'm glad you don't have a visa, as glad as you are. I've spent a large part of my life overseas and learned to avoid any and every place that was a tourist haven. It was painful to listen to the various kinds of banter considered normal by people from various English speaking countries. When you live in a place you learn to think and talk in similar ways to natives. You broaden your perspectives and you see that your petty, parochial view of the world linked to your greedy focus on how much something costs and how much money is in your pocket is just sad.
yeah, its a big world, that's why I like it.you stay in your part and leave us alone.
and sorry my iOS buddies, apple products in China are also compromised. Its just that the Apple machine in China wants everybody to think that they are safe. Why would the government want to let the people who have the money or the "need" for an iPhone or Pad think their device was completely secure? Gee, hmmm, I wonder??
No, I want my child to be taught the wide variety of religious and moral belief, this is a part of our heritage as humans. As we move into a future where we are able to encompass more and greater understanding of the universe and all its parts, we do not want to lose our history and an understanding of our superstitious roots, it helps us to understand and sympathize with those who are still troubled with superstitions.
Look kids, if you want to help people change, mockery doesn't work. If you want to show how cool you are, mockery also fails: as in you just look like another douchebag. We are in transition and have been for a thousand years or more. As we move on through science and study and growing our understanding, there will always be people who are slowing the process down. This can either slow us down even more if you waste your time mocking them, or it can help to give us stability by keeping us from rushing foolishly after each new modern idea that needs time to mature: that is how science works. not rushing, but carefully, with repetition and testing.
So while I find this particular news item to be sad and humorous, deserving of mockery, I am also adult enough to know that taking that mockery into a public forum does none of us any good.
well,no,they believe that god will cure them, not that the disease is a gift from god.
but that last line seems to be an attempt to derogate the value and the sacred name of the FSM. Blasphemy and sacrilege and the same old game of my god is better than your god.
Yeah, one thing that is the absolute, mostest horrible thing about that FOSS garbage is that they keep improving it and making it better, you like they try to give people what they want, and then people either decide they didn't want it after all or , as in this case, they continue to complain about shit from 5 years ago that no longer is the case.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, can't they just stay at being crappy and not get better, it just makes it really hard for me to talk to those neck-beard guysa when they keep saying that what I saw with my own eyes 6 years ago is not true any more. What are you callin me a liar?!?!?!
Also university instructor and I agree, any change is perceived as as more work. The thing is, the reality is, that while it is more work at the beginning the result makes class more fun for me. Frankly, lecturing puts me to sleep. I've been working to do what is called "flipping" the classroom, where I give the students things (lectures, presentations, podcasts, any content heavy source and they listen/read/watch on their own time. When they come to class they do stuff with me. Tons more fun than the old way, but a lot more work to set up.
The good news is that I am now getting to the point where I am getting the pay-off. Class time is easier, less work, students help each other like they were at the library, i hand out tablets to support their in-class work and wander the tables to give help, supply answers or ask more questions, just generally putz about and have fun.
Yes, but then a real person, a smart and honest person, stands up and says: "I was wrong, it turned out that what I was complaining about was a good thing after all." Where are Rand And Paul on this front, the place of the honest person, not the ideologue, can be lonely and make you feel a fool, but it is still honored by those who appreciate honesty.
Anyone else want to stand up for simple honesty?
Let me save the readers coming after me some time: The next gazillion posts have to do with the an argument that is a straw man, because the real question has to do with Apple vs the rest of the world. Now I don't like apple, don't use, don't drink the KA, but please stop wasting our time with arguments like this. "A tablet is not a PC." OK, your opinion. "A tablet is a computer" OK, ditto. Case closed.
Att and tmobile have SIM cards that I can change out when I go overseas. So I use prepaid here in the US, if I want data I use wifi. That's it.
This is not true of all the universities in the US: check out my alma mater, UVA. Still has a single sanction (expulsion) student run honor system. You cheat in any way at any time and you are out, period. It works.
What? you mean you bought it crippled with the hope that Oracle would help you out?
(shakes head in disgust)
I work in Education and classroom computers all across the US and Asia have XP and no plan in place to move the equioment or the OS to win7, much less 8.
all this MMA stuff fails on the street, as well as any tournament based training. MMA focuses on the rules of the ring, ring distances and all the rest of the artificial constraints created for the "rules" of the various rings. I might add that most teachers focus on how to use the rules of the particular ring they are going to fight in and how to win in that ring with those rules. MMA is no different from any other "martial art."
I studied in what could have been called an MMA before there was such a thing. Our teacher disdained tournament fighting and training, and forced us to use not just an unprotected (no gloves, no pads, no cups) body, but an unconstrained ring. Complaints about shoes, clothes, tricks, or force were scoffed at. "You only get hit if you don't block or get out of the way" was the rule. The other rule was that what we did was an art, and we were doing it as an art, not to fight, not hurt people or beat people or anything other than overcoming ourselves in a way that showed our internal strength and.... beauty.
When my teacher retired another teacher and I took over the school and added only one thing to his teaching: "You only lose a fight if you get in a fight." We had, and still have, nothing to prove to anyone. So if one of us gets in a fight, it is not a time for celebration, but rather for meditation on how we could, after all these years, have done something so stupid.
Back when my teacher was running the school, he would, occasionally, take the school to tournaments. We seldom lost in the fighting categories, often won (but not always, those shaolin guys had some awesome forms) in the forms categories. Even today there are people who, when they see my old brother in arms walk into a tournament and sign up to fight, will ask for their money back and walk away. He still loves the dance, the beauty of a fight. And he's not afraid to lose.