If you really want a great distro, give Chakra a try. It's Arch Linux based, and you just can't beat the conceptual simplicity behind Arch. It is basically Arch Linux simplified. It gives you KDE, and everything else you might need. And installing new packages is incredibly easy. Give it a try.
This entire project will fall by the wayside in America because it's not wrapped up in pretty little buzzwords and it's not backed by grinning suits. I swear that the entire country is suffering Stockholm Syndrome as far as internet access is concerned.
The only thing my school did was require Windows users to install a special client onto their machines to verify that their antivirus is adequate. Other than that, they have been good to people across the board, making no effort to discriminate against any operating system.
Perhaps. But without Ubuntu I don't think that College Humor would have ever given Linux a nod in any of their videos (Look up The Matrix on Windows)./irrelevance
I remember reading about that experiment in my High School AP Psych class (also read The Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo, very good book). I think reading about that experiment is why I'm the cynical bastard I am today.
Reminds me of my manager. I work as a Software Engineer / UI designer for a defense contractor -- very small, only about 35-36 employees -- and for the most part our manager is pretty hands off. He's mostly off doing sales stuff anyway, so he almost never has time to bug us. The Senior Software Engineer who also works as part of our four person team is the same way. She stops by every now and again and we get to show off our progress, but then lets us be.
A good Manager realizes that we as Engineers want two things -- ideally three things:
1) A deadline.
2) To be left the fuck alone until then.
3) And ideally a limitless budget.
What these techs need to realize is that with this new power comes the ability to (more politely that I will put it) tell the sales guys "Alright, you're a fucking idiot." Bring them back down to earth rather than go by the buzzwords.
Simple.
It's America, where the people don't give a fuck because they don't know better and corporations do everything they can to line their pockets.
Where scientists and researchers get discredited by the elite because the findings of the scientist don't serve the ends of the politician.
Where complete fuck-heads work in sales 75% of the time. (Thankfully the company I work for falls in that 25% where the sales guys leave the programmers the fuck alone.)
No, I'm not bitter. Why would you think that?
Enough said. I live in an area that has seen a population burst over the past few years, and yet the powers that be have seen it unfit to get FiOS out here. Houses just down the road can't even get DSL.
ISP's are cheap bastards.
If you have ever watched those shows, the "scientists" never make any lick of sense even to those of us who know better. They paint science (especially computer sciences) as something so mystic and obscure that not even we know what the fuck we're talking about.
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First you get twenty thousand eggs. Next, you make a big fucking omlette and then... oh wait...
If you really want a great distro, give Chakra a try. It's Arch Linux based, and you just can't beat the conceptual simplicity behind Arch. It is basically Arch Linux simplified. It gives you KDE, and everything else you might need. And installing new packages is incredibly easy. Give it a try.
wat?
This entire project will fall by the wayside in America because it's not wrapped up in pretty little buzzwords and it's not backed by grinning suits. I swear that the entire country is suffering Stockholm Syndrome as far as internet access is concerned.
You Japs are real fuckers, you know that?
In the wall of logos at the back of the book, even though the EFF was in attendance, they were left out.
The only thing my school did was require Windows users to install a special client onto their machines to verify that their antivirus is adequate. Other than that, they have been good to people across the board, making no effort to discriminate against any operating system.
Keep it that way guys!
Perhaps. But without Ubuntu I don't think that College Humor would have ever given Linux a nod in any of their videos (Look up The Matrix on Windows). /irrelevance
Sounds like Canonical has that covered.
By encouraging the business being sued to make their own damn products and do their own damn tech support.
I'm all for suing wally-world into the ground, but what about other, more reputable companies?
Wat?
I really, really hope you aren't as ignorant as your statement makes you out to be.
It's only a matter of time before police get fed up and violence starts. Either that or the protestors themselves get violent.
I remember reading about that experiment in my High School AP Psych class (also read The Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo, very good book). I think reading about that experiment is why I'm the cynical bastard I am today.
You mean our "when it's done" attitude that is hard-coded into us by default?
Reminds me of my manager. I work as a Software Engineer / UI designer for a defense contractor -- very small, only about 35-36 employees -- and for the most part our manager is pretty hands off. He's mostly off doing sales stuff anyway, so he almost never has time to bug us. The Senior Software Engineer who also works as part of our four person team is the same way. She stops by every now and again and we get to show off our progress, but then lets us be. A good Manager realizes that we as Engineers want two things -- ideally three things: 1) A deadline. 2) To be left the fuck alone until then. 3) And ideally a limitless budget.
Why does Nolan Bushnell come to mind when I read this comment?
What these techs need to realize is that with this new power comes the ability to (more politely that I will put it) tell the sales guys "Alright, you're a fucking idiot." Bring them back down to earth rather than go by the buzzwords.
Simple. It's America, where the people don't give a fuck because they don't know better and corporations do everything they can to line their pockets. Where scientists and researchers get discredited by the elite because the findings of the scientist don't serve the ends of the politician. Where complete fuck-heads work in sales 75% of the time. (Thankfully the company I work for falls in that 25% where the sales guys leave the programmers the fuck alone.) No, I'm not bitter. Why would you think that?
Uh... Obama? Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo? Wake up bro!
Point taken. I may well want to do some research, as there is enough development going on arround here that there is bound to be one DoB in the lot.
Enough said. I live in an area that has seen a population burst over the past few years, and yet the powers that be have seen it unfit to get FiOS out here. Houses just down the road can't even get DSL. ISP's are cheap bastards.
Why have you not been modded up? I about died.
If you have ever watched those shows, the "scientists" never make any lick of sense even to those of us who know better. They paint science (especially computer sciences) as something so mystic and obscure that not even we know what the fuck we're talking about.