Ahhh religion, where changing flesh into bread and blood into wine isnt considered "witchcraft". Yet all other "magics" was at one time punishable.
Hypocrisy, it loves religion.
And Slashdot, where every story about biology turns into an attack on Christianity or some other faith. Things were different in the Pit & the Pendulum days, but lately it seems like you attack them way more than they attack you.
Second that. Studies in biology and evolution might explain how we got here as a species, but it certainly doesn't explain where all this matter came from in the first place.
"Any sufficiently large set of information is going to give you some matches on just about anything you search for."
Yes, but not a sufficiently large rate of matches. If the researchers are competent, they can calculate what percent of the data would be expected to match their search even if the data is just random, and decide if the match rate exceeds that by a significant margin. The 'researchers' of the Bible Code were clearly not competent in exactly this way.
As opposed to the paperback book market, Nature does not tend to print whatever comes across it's desk.
Judging by your stance, I assume you have not yet realised that they published a Palin book.
Unless of course it's the 8% that makes you bald as you get older, or makes you susceptible to heart disease or diabetes, or any number of inherited undesirables. Remember, things like sickle cell anemia originated as a defense against malaria. In fact, in TFA it actually suggests an hypothesis:
"These data yield a testable hypothesis for the alleged, but still controversial, causative association of BDV infection with schizophrenia and mood disorders," Feschotte said.
where BDV here is the virus whose DNA they were searching for in the human genome. There you go, if you're depressed, manic or schizophrenic, it could be one of your ancestors got a brain virus.
Evolution does not happen in response. It's purely random and coincidental, and survival is in response to the freak mutation. So no, sickle cell didn't originate or evolve or what have you because of malaria. That idea is asinine. Death in the masses just tends to weed out certain traits over others, and rather chaotically at that.
Side note: Our ability to survive or at least extend our lives with medicine when we're crippled with one of these diseases makes us true freaks of nature.
Quick followup to my own post (I apologize). I am not justifying not paying taxes, that isn't the answer. I was merely making the point that the amount we are taxed is certainly far from being justified as being "for the benefit of society". Overall point in context is that all this DRM crap is one of those overreaching costs that benefits nobody.
The problem is all your examples are very short-sighted:
It's easier to not pay taxes (less forms to fill in)
If you don't pay taxes, that's less money towards schools, infrastructure maintenance, police/firefighter salaries, etc -- all of society loses, including you.
Furthermore, if you don't pay taxes, you'll probably get audited, fined, and maybe even jailed.
Throwing money at schools has never helped. Where I'm from, the police and firefighter unions are causing the city to go bankrupt (demanding too much), and when is the last time you reported a crime to the cops? Did they do anything more than fill out a simple report? Did they show any concern/care? That happened to me. I was robbed, and I knew what stores he hit up next (since he got my debit card in the process), called and confirmed they had security footage of him... yet, they couldn't even be arsed to go and retrieve said security footage. The store wouldn't give it to me personally. So, once the damn cops actually do their jobs, let me know, and I'll say their fat and easily achieved pension plans are justified. Not every city has cops that face down danger ever second of every day. Hell, half of them can't even accomplish staying fit enough to run even a quarter of a damn mile. PATHETIC.
It's easier not to care about others (less worries)
If you don't care about others, they are less likely to care about you. If you act like an ass to others, they're more likely to act like an ass towards you -- both parties lose (unless you like being treated like crap).
If everyone in society didn't care about anyone else, then all of society would lose.
You have a point. I'll counter though with the fact that I shouldn't care about the lazy assholes who refuse to care about themselves enough to provide for themselves, even minimally, when they are perfectly capable. They aren't contributing towards society either, and it punishes the ones who work hard to be forced to take care of the lazy assholes all the time. The lazy ones are an incredible drain on society. Therefore, I should not care about them.
I don't get seasonal flus. I don't get colds. I get a headache two or three times a year. I get a runny nose a few times a year (usually at the same time people are getting really sick with whatever is going around at the moment). I get sore throats and congestion, but I'm never sure if that is the cigarette smoking or something else.
I was the same way until 6 month ago when I quit smoking. I thought that with my superior immune system, and new healthier lifestyle I was pretty much a lock to never get sick again.
Boy was I wrong! Since then I have had H1N1 that lasted 10 days, and something my doctor couldn't identify. (I called it the my sleeping sickness.) For 5 days I could not stay awake. I was sleeping 20+ hours a day.
My theory is that my immune system had gotten used to dealing with virus/bacteria that were swimming in nicotine, and many other toxic chemicals, and now it has to go up against these bugs at full strength.
I hope my below average immune system adjusts soon.
LOL - may have just been really, really bad timing. I came down with the worst flu of my life, not H1N1, that lasted a couple weeks total as well. Most people I know came down with the same thing. Also got your "sleeping sickness", but mine only lasted a few days. Seriously, it was like a coma.
No change in life habits or anything like that though for me.
Hear, hear! It's far too often left unsaid when people talk about the "epidemic" of allergies that the numbers might very well have changed a great deal because the category has become more inclusive. I wonder that about some other "spectrum" disorders as well...autism springs to mind. Are there more sufferers? Or by coming up with broader criteria for the category have we simply made the numbers get larger? I haven't seen (although I haven't exhaustively looked) a good analysis which addresses that factor.
And who knows... you may have been allergic to more stuff if you hadn't. It won't completely eliminate those already genetically predisposed, but it certainly helps.
It could be that the process of cleansing is itself stressful to the skin when carried to excess.
Or it could be that the skin germs do a good job of "crowding out" the bad germs by hogging all the skin.
This reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons where Mr. Burns had every disease known to man... but they were crowding each other out, so none of them actually had an effect.
But no, that couldn't be farther from the truth. If your body doesn't know what's bad in the first place, it won't know later on, or even worse it might turn on itself because it's all confused.
Can't believe you got modded Troll instead of insightful.
It's because I had something bad to say about The Anointed One.
See? Got modded down again.
Perhaps because talking about John Ashcroft is a wee bit off topic?
Also, the last post was a troll, pure and simple. No one, that I know of at least, thinks Obama is "anointed" or any such crap, and most everyone I know is pretty far left.
You didn't see the day he was sworn in where I work. I could have sworn it was the second coming, or the lizard people landed, or they found Osama.
Well, it isn't like Bush personally performed warrantless searches on drug dealers under the Patriot Act. However, he can still be held accountable for the actions of his administration. The president sets the tone for the administration, and if he really wanted to send a message that stuff like this was not acceptable he could do so.
The president can't be in all places in all times. However, he governs the largest budget on the entire planet, which means he can hire people to be in places for him. This subordinate was one of those people, and the people he chooses reflect on him...
Actually, I don't really pirate because there's not a whole lot worth pirating. You quoted 2012 and Avatar. Yawn. If I truly get bored, I hit up the local Red Box. If there's a film I really want to see, I'll wait until I can rent it. I REFUSE to pay $10/ticket to see it in the theater, and it's not even the theater that's coming away from the majority of that ticket price. I remember 4-5 short years ago when I was paying $5. Now it's $10. That's 100% inflation in 5 years. You tell ME why they're "losing" business?
3 conditions for me giving them my money:
1) Quality films, and it's helpful not to spit out crappy sequels or remakes
2) Tickets for 2 people should be less than it costs to buy the damn thing
3) Reduce licensing costs so that the theaters actually showing the films make a little cash. It's unreal the turnover rate for theaters these days.
I take it you aren't used to using Poser or Blender, or any other related 3-d software and thus don't know the joy of: "You STUPID PROGRAM! I just want her to walk down the stairs! Why are her arms doing that! NO! NO! NOO!!!! Stop floating down the stairs and walk! Why is your hair clipping through the wall, why is your hair even moving that way! STOP IT!"
Hollywood's death knell might be sounding. But it's got a few more good decades in it left before we need to morn for it.
Hilarious you bring that up. Did you ever look at the model of Big Buck Bunny? It's like his face is sucked in down his throat, just so that when it renders, it looks like they way they want it to. It's horribly fucked up for anything more complex than snowmen or giant walking stick men.
Anything GUI-related has NOTHING to do with hardware support.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
What's driving my monitor right now is a video card, e.g. hardware, and whats driving it is Xorg, not the kernel.
Wait, are you thinking of the proprietary kernel modules from ATI/NV? They are only part of the process, but in any event, I use the open ATI driver currently in development: the only thing happening in the kernel is the initial graphics-mode setting, once the resolution is set and I/O buffers to the card are initialized, Xorg does *everything* else.
Hardware support is not all in the kernel.
GUI = graphical user interface. How in the hell is that related to hardware support?
Xorg only USES the hardware support offered by the underlying OS. Xorg is only one windowing system that uses your ATI drivers. The ATI drivers do NOT depend on Xorg. Xorg does not support your video card at the hardware level.
You are not separating hardware drivers from software implementation.
OK, so it's not "official" as the links aren't available yet, BUT the files are on their servers. Just look at current links, copy, replace 9.04 with 9.10, and voila! At least with the torrent files anyway...
I would agree it doesn't work for all cases, but Linux hardware support is based on the kernel, not necessarily the distro.
Umm, not at all.
For example, graphics issues, other than modesetting, are on Xorg's shoulders, not the kernel.
And the recent flameage about PulseAudio was, of course, about a user-space daemon, not the kernel.
Then there's always the fun for distros to make sure, once they know the kernel is doing its job, that their primary Desktop Environment is itself properly recognizing existing hardware and supporting it within the user's GUI (auto-detecting presence of DVDs or Zip drives just plugged in, for example).
Keeping Kernel/UDEV/HAL/Xorg/DE all in sync with new hardware coming out all the time isn't easy, for any distro.
Uh, I believe you're mixing "hardware support" with implemented software. For example, Xorg is worthless without the kernel supporting your video card, whether it's compiled in or modular. Anything GUI-related has NOTHING to do with hardware support. That's just merely software features.
However, the trick to counter this little menace is to block the anti_adblock js-file.
Webmasters could embed it into their page and wrap javascript tags around the website content in such a way that if javascript was disabled, you wouldn't be able to see the content. Rather simple to do, really.
Hand in your geek card and wget that shit.
I suppose viewing source would work too, or truly geeking out and writing a FF extension to show the hidden relevant crap anyway.
I think they can blame both the decline of newspapers and ad revenue on the "too big to fail" mentality, where these corps that have been around as long as dirt suddenly decide they don't have to actually give customers anything of value, but instead " maximize profit potential", treat the customers like crap, spam them with ads or badly rehashed crap they picked up off the wire services, and then act just shocked! shocked I tell you! when people run away in droves. Main street papers turn into a pile o' suck and go down the toilet, news at 11. Oh wait, we ain't watching that either, thanks to 20 ads for every 5 minutes of content.
Listen... you have to get your news from somewhere. We all know newspapers are dying, but even those ahead of the curve aren't doing that well. This is because nobody wants to pay for news anymore, obviously, because it's all available for free from someone, somewhere anyway. The whole problem is that they don't have a choice BUT to blast you with ads left and right. And guess what. The flashier the ad, the bigger the bucks charged to display that ad. It doesn't matter if it's real investigative reporting, video, high rez multimedia galleries, interesting content, etc... people will REFUSE to pay even a dime for that. How do we know? It's been tried, and it has failed miserably.
It's unfortunate, because let's be honest, actual investigative reporting is neither credible or available from any blogger, joe shmo, etc. Lots of news sources may be somewhat biased either left or right, but it's far less than, again, any blogger, joe shmo, etc. Not to mention only they seem to have the power and weight to uncover a lot of the corporate or political scheming that happens every day in every city.
Also, believe it or not, a lot of newspapers include AP stories on their sites because people ask for it and advertisers ask for it. That way they can just go to their local paper's site and get everything in one place.
I don't believe I see too many sites actually "re-spinning" AP stories though. At least around here, they're presented as they come in.
Then again, this is what I observe from a city where the big local paper has a shit load of reporters. It's probably a completely different story for smaller towns that have nothing really interesting locally to write about. I would consider ours to be one of those that are ahead of the curve. We definitely still have our old dinosaurs in management that retain some of the old newspaperish ways of thinking, but more and more are coming around and we have quite a bit of innovation going on. Even so, it's STILL a hurting business solely because advertising online just doesn't pay the same as in print.
Fantastic, I made a lot of money fixing Y2k bugs. Where on Craigs list do I find Gigs for fixing Mayan Calendar Bugs?
That's funny, but I don't think you fully realize yet just how many scam artists will be collecting big time around that date.
Maybe it's time to get in on the action?
The problem is that, like Windows, Linux distros that try to serve the mass market have the almost impossible task of supporting everything. It simply doesn't work in all cases.
I would agree it doesn't work for all cases, but Linux hardware support is based on the kernel, not necessarily the distro. Yes, distros often times have their own sets of patches to the kernel to increase SOME hardware support, but it really has nothing to do with specific distros that try to serve the mass market, and often times those patches will make it into a kernel release soon after.
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Ahhh religion, where changing flesh into bread and blood into wine isnt considered "witchcraft". Yet all other "magics" was at one time punishable. Hypocrisy, it loves religion.
And Slashdot, where every story about biology turns into an attack on Christianity or some other faith. Things were different in the Pit & the Pendulum days, but lately it seems like you attack them way more than they attack you.
Second that. Studies in biology and evolution might explain how we got here as a species, but it certainly doesn't explain where all this matter came from in the first place.
"Any sufficiently large set of information is going to give you some matches on just about anything you search for." Yes, but not a sufficiently large rate of matches. If the researchers are competent, they can calculate what percent of the data would be expected to match their search even if the data is just random, and decide if the match rate exceeds that by a significant margin. The 'researchers' of the Bible Code were clearly not competent in exactly this way. As opposed to the paperback book market, Nature does not tend to print whatever comes across it's desk.
Judging by your stance, I assume you have not yet realised that they published a Palin book.
Unless of course it's the 8% that makes you bald as you get older, or makes you susceptible to heart disease or diabetes, or any number of inherited undesirables. Remember, things like sickle cell anemia originated as a defense against malaria. In fact, in TFA it actually suggests an hypothesis:
where BDV here is the virus whose DNA they were searching for in the human genome. There you go, if you're depressed, manic or schizophrenic, it could be one of your ancestors got a brain virus.
Evolution does not happen in response. It's purely random and coincidental, and survival is in response to the freak mutation. So no, sickle cell didn't originate or evolve or what have you because of malaria. That idea is asinine. Death in the masses just tends to weed out certain traits over others, and rather chaotically at that.
Side note: Our ability to survive or at least extend our lives with medicine when we're crippled with one of these diseases makes us true freaks of nature.
Quick followup to my own post (I apologize). I am not justifying not paying taxes, that isn't the answer. I was merely making the point that the amount we are taxed is certainly far from being justified as being "for the benefit of society". Overall point in context is that all this DRM crap is one of those overreaching costs that benefits nobody.
The problem is all your examples are very short-sighted:
It's easier to not pay taxes (less forms to fill in)
If you don't pay taxes, that's less money towards schools, infrastructure maintenance, police/firefighter salaries, etc -- all of society loses, including you. Furthermore, if you don't pay taxes, you'll probably get audited, fined, and maybe even jailed.
Throwing money at schools has never helped. Where I'm from, the police and firefighter unions are causing the city to go bankrupt (demanding too much), and when is the last time you reported a crime to the cops? Did they do anything more than fill out a simple report? Did they show any concern/care? That happened to me. I was robbed, and I knew what stores he hit up next (since he got my debit card in the process), called and confirmed they had security footage of him... yet, they couldn't even be arsed to go and retrieve said security footage. The store wouldn't give it to me personally. So, once the damn cops actually do their jobs, let me know, and I'll say their fat and easily achieved pension plans are justified. Not every city has cops that face down danger ever second of every day. Hell, half of them can't even accomplish staying fit enough to run even a quarter of a damn mile. PATHETIC.
It's easier not to care about others (less worries)
If you don't care about others, they are less likely to care about you. If you act like an ass to others, they're more likely to act like an ass towards you -- both parties lose (unless you like being treated like crap). If everyone in society didn't care about anyone else, then all of society would lose.
You have a point. I'll counter though with the fact that I shouldn't care about the lazy assholes who refuse to care about themselves enough to provide for themselves, even minimally, when they are perfectly capable. They aren't contributing towards society either, and it punishes the ones who work hard to be forced to take care of the lazy assholes all the time. The lazy ones are an incredible drain on society. Therefore, I should not care about them.
what incentive do consumers have to buy this new hardware?
"Hancock 2" will only be available in this new platform.
I'm still waiting to hear the incentive.
I was the same way until 6 month ago when I quit smoking. I thought that with my superior immune system, and new healthier lifestyle I was pretty much a lock to never get sick again. Boy was I wrong! Since then I have had H1N1 that lasted 10 days, and something my doctor couldn't identify. (I called it the my sleeping sickness.) For 5 days I could not stay awake. I was sleeping 20+ hours a day. My theory is that my immune system had gotten used to dealing with virus/bacteria that were swimming in nicotine, and many other toxic chemicals, and now it has to go up against these bugs at full strength. I hope my below average immune system adjusts soon.
LOL - may have just been really, really bad timing. I came down with the worst flu of my life, not H1N1, that lasted a couple weeks total as well. Most people I know came down with the same thing. Also got your "sleeping sickness", but mine only lasted a few days. Seriously, it was like a coma.
No change in life habits or anything like that though for me.
Hear, hear! It's far too often left unsaid when people talk about the "epidemic" of allergies that the numbers might very well have changed a great deal because the category has become more inclusive. I wonder that about some other "spectrum" disorders as well...autism springs to mind. Are there more sufferers? Or by coming up with broader criteria for the category have we simply made the numbers get larger? I haven't seen (although I haven't exhaustively looked) a good analysis which addresses that factor.
And who knows... you may have been allergic to more stuff if you hadn't. It won't completely eliminate those already genetically predisposed, but it certainly helps.
It could be that the process of cleansing is itself stressful to the skin when carried to excess.
Or it could be that the skin germs do a good job of "crowding out" the bad germs by hogging all the skin.
This reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons where Mr. Burns had every disease known to man... but they were crowding each other out, so none of them actually had an effect.
But no, that couldn't be farther from the truth. If your body doesn't know what's bad in the first place, it won't know later on, or even worse it might turn on itself because it's all confused.
Can't believe you got modded Troll instead of insightful.
It's because I had something bad to say about The Anointed One.
See? Got modded down again.
Perhaps because talking about John Ashcroft is a wee bit off topic?
Also, the last post was a troll, pure and simple. No one, that I know of at least, thinks Obama is "anointed" or any such crap, and most everyone I know is pretty far left.
You didn't see the day he was sworn in where I work. I could have sworn it was the second coming, or the lizard people landed, or they found Osama.
Well, it isn't like Bush personally performed warrantless searches on drug dealers under the Patriot Act. However, he can still be held accountable for the actions of his administration. The president sets the tone for the administration, and if he really wanted to send a message that stuff like this was not acceptable he could do so.
The president can't be in all places in all times. However, he governs the largest budget on the entire planet, which means he can hire people to be in places for him. This subordinate was one of those people, and the people he chooses reflect on him...
Exactly. The sword cuts the same on both sides.
"I connected, but I didn't download."
Bless your soul for seeding so generously!
Actually, I don't really pirate because there's not a whole lot worth pirating. You quoted 2012 and Avatar. Yawn. If I truly get bored, I hit up the local Red Box. If there's a film I really want to see, I'll wait until I can rent it. I REFUSE to pay $10/ticket to see it in the theater, and it's not even the theater that's coming away from the majority of that ticket price. I remember 4-5 short years ago when I was paying $5. Now it's $10. That's 100% inflation in 5 years. You tell ME why they're "losing" business?
3 conditions for me giving them my money:
1) Quality films, and it's helpful not to spit out crappy sequels or remakes
2) Tickets for 2 people should be less than it costs to buy the damn thing
3) Reduce licensing costs so that the theaters actually showing the films make a little cash. It's unreal the turnover rate for theaters these days.
Sorry, a non-english speaker here- On a normal day I wash and disinfect my hands about sixty times.
Gadzooks! Honestly, how the heck do you keep your hands from drying to a complete crisp?
I dated a girl in high school that had excessive godliness
Considering you are posting on Slashdot...was her surname .png?
Pillow Pants :)
I take it you aren't used to using Poser or Blender, or any other related 3-d software and thus don't know the joy of: "You STUPID PROGRAM! I just want her to walk down the stairs! Why are her arms doing that! NO! NO! NOO!!!! Stop floating down the stairs and walk! Why is your hair clipping through the wall, why is your hair even moving that way! STOP IT!"
Hollywood's death knell might be sounding. But it's got a few more good decades in it left before we need to morn for it.
Hilarious you bring that up. Did you ever look at the model of Big Buck Bunny? It's like his face is sucked in down his throat, just so that when it renders, it looks like they way they want it to. It's horribly fucked up for anything more complex than snowmen or giant walking stick men.
Hulu
Anything GUI-related has NOTHING to do with hardware support.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
What's driving my monitor right now is a video card, e.g. hardware, and whats driving it is Xorg, not the kernel.
Wait, are you thinking of the proprietary kernel modules from ATI/NV? They are only part of the process, but in any event, I use the open ATI driver currently in development: the only thing happening in the kernel is the initial graphics-mode setting, once the resolution is set and I/O buffers to the card are initialized, Xorg does *everything* else.
Hardware support is not all in the kernel.
GUI = graphical user interface. How in the hell is that related to hardware support?
Xorg only USES the hardware support offered by the underlying OS. Xorg is only one windowing system that uses your ATI drivers. The ATI drivers do NOT depend on Xorg. Xorg does not support your video card at the hardware level.
You are not separating hardware drivers from software implementation.
OK, so it's not "official" as the links aren't available yet, BUT the files are on their servers. Just look at current links, copy, replace 9.04 with 9.10, and voila! At least with the torrent files anyway...
I would agree it doesn't work for all cases, but Linux hardware support is based on the kernel, not necessarily the distro.
Umm, not at all.
For example, graphics issues, other than modesetting, are on Xorg's shoulders, not the kernel.
And the recent flameage about PulseAudio was, of course, about a user-space daemon, not the kernel.
Then there's always the fun for distros to make sure, once they know the kernel is doing its job, that their primary Desktop Environment is itself properly recognizing existing hardware and supporting it within the user's GUI (auto-detecting presence of DVDs or Zip drives just plugged in, for example).
Keeping Kernel/UDEV/HAL/Xorg/DE all in sync with new hardware coming out all the time isn't easy, for any distro.
Uh, I believe you're mixing "hardware support" with implemented software. For example, Xorg is worthless without the kernel supporting your video card, whether it's compiled in or modular. Anything GUI-related has NOTHING to do with hardware support. That's just merely software features.
Webmasters could embed it into their page and wrap javascript tags around the website content in such a way that if javascript was disabled, you wouldn't be able to see the content. Rather simple to do, really.
Hand in your geek card and wget that shit. I suppose viewing source would work too, or truly geeking out and writing a FF extension to show the hidden relevant crap anyway.
I think they can blame both the decline of newspapers and ad revenue on the "too big to fail" mentality, where these corps that have been around as long as dirt suddenly decide they don't have to actually give customers anything of value, but instead " maximize profit potential", treat the customers like crap, spam them with ads or badly rehashed crap they picked up off the wire services, and then act just shocked! shocked I tell you! when people run away in droves. Main street papers turn into a pile o' suck and go down the toilet, news at 11. Oh wait, we ain't watching that either, thanks to 20 ads for every 5 minutes of content.
Listen... you have to get your news from somewhere. We all know newspapers are dying, but even those ahead of the curve aren't doing that well. This is because nobody wants to pay for news anymore, obviously, because it's all available for free from someone, somewhere anyway. The whole problem is that they don't have a choice BUT to blast you with ads left and right. And guess what. The flashier the ad, the bigger the bucks charged to display that ad. It doesn't matter if it's real investigative reporting, video, high rez multimedia galleries, interesting content, etc... people will REFUSE to pay even a dime for that. How do we know? It's been tried, and it has failed miserably.
It's unfortunate, because let's be honest, actual investigative reporting is neither credible or available from any blogger, joe shmo, etc. Lots of news sources may be somewhat biased either left or right, but it's far less than, again, any blogger, joe shmo, etc. Not to mention only they seem to have the power and weight to uncover a lot of the corporate or political scheming that happens every day in every city.
Also, believe it or not, a lot of newspapers include AP stories on their sites because people ask for it and advertisers ask for it. That way they can just go to their local paper's site and get everything in one place.
I don't believe I see too many sites actually "re-spinning" AP stories though. At least around here, they're presented as they come in.
Then again, this is what I observe from a city where the big local paper has a shit load of reporters. It's probably a completely different story for smaller towns that have nothing really interesting locally to write about. I would consider ours to be one of those that are ahead of the curve. We definitely still have our old dinosaurs in management that retain some of the old newspaperish ways of thinking, but more and more are coming around and we have quite a bit of innovation going on. Even so, it's STILL a hurting business solely because advertising online just doesn't pay the same as in print.
Fantastic, I made a lot of money fixing Y2k bugs. Where on Craigs list do I find Gigs for fixing Mayan Calendar Bugs?
That's funny, but I don't think you fully realize yet just how many scam artists will be collecting big time around that date.
Maybe it's time to get in on the action?
...but I'm not looking forward to the day when a few light pulses can alter human behavior. Just think about that.
The problem is that, like Windows, Linux distros that try to serve the mass market have the almost impossible task of supporting everything. It simply doesn't work in all cases.
I would agree it doesn't work for all cases, but Linux hardware support is based on the kernel, not necessarily the distro. Yes, distros often times have their own sets of patches to the kernel to increase SOME hardware support, but it really has nothing to do with specific distros that try to serve the mass market, and often times those patches will make it into a kernel release soon after.