These days there are a number of OSs derived from Debian and Ubuntu that should be considered. Mint is superior. Also Mepis, I believe is now based upon Debian.
I suspect that many Ubuntu users who try these lesser known derived distros would prefer them.
This girl needs to go sue herself. She admits that it was her lack of knowledge that caused her to make the purchase so she is the one who should pay!
Maybe while she is suing herself she could find something more exciting to do with herself and share it on line with her Linux system!
There are very good reasons that we got rid of Nixon. He was a crook.
As for anti terror squads, I do have some problems with the concept of law enforcement being used in advance of a crime. Normally a crime takes place and various law enforcement agencies act to punish those that broke our laws. So crime prevention by law enforcement is seemingly out of order. However we must adjust our thinking to the age in which we now live. Imagine a terror loony who has powdered a couple of ounces of plutonium and wrapped them around a single stick of dynamite and then lighting the fuse and tossing it off of a tall building. Imagine a contaminated, major city that must remain uninhabited for the next 100,000 years.
Keeping in mind that these terror nuts intend to die anyway the idea of arresting them for the crimes they commit are mute. We are forced to ferret them out and shut them down well before they reach out and kill large numbers of people.
Frankly i hope that we have numerous assassins at work both inside and outside our own borders killing off those that preach death to America, death to Christians, death to Israel etc.. If they spew that rhetoric that is enough to justify being strangled in the night.
This kind of law would be an enforcement nightmare. The state would have to be willing to support a huge number of convicts.
Needless to say there would be infinite trials over what is obscene speech. And then there would be the cries of unfair when the governor's daughter gets drunk as a skunk and calls her arresting officer a name containing the F word.
There really are people who have very shallow grips on reality and can do crime and harm even though they are not legally insane. I have a step son who frequently goes to prison. He suffers from manic depression. The way it works with him is that his imagination goes over the edge. He may feel as though he is of overwhelming importance and therefore all of the really big movers and shakers value him so highly that it is understood that if he needs money to get drugs that no real penalty will be applied as soon as it is known how important that he is.
Of the last 20 years he has been on the streets for only 3 or so. The rest of the time he has been in prison, drug rehabs or mental hospitals. Yet the law says he is not insane and my state has no provisions for diminished capacity in sentencing nor do they have any real psychiatric help in the prison system.
The salesman's excuse for collecting payment information has some validity. In other words the company is willing to provide something for free as long as there is some chance of selling you more in the future. Since over the phone purchases are normally made with a charge card there is no hope of eventually making a sale if you don't even own a charge card and therefore the expense of giving you a free sample can not be justified.
Perhaps the law needs to define the word free and punish companies that misuse the word. Every day the TV and newspapers have ads that shout out buy one and get one free. Obviously the one given free is not actually free because it requires money to be spent. In America fraud is the norm.
If these scammers are half way smart at their black art they won't have any visible assets to pay off that 50 million dollar judgment. Those announcements of large judgments may placate the public's cry for justice but the realities of collection issues are not apparent and the news media won't have any coverage on the sums actually collected.
I have worked 10 hrs. and four day systems and that isn't the best way to work at all. In many trades that last two hours drains a worker too much.Every work day seems like life is suspended as it is filled with nothing but work.
People need contracts that make it expensive for the employer if they are asked to work more than eight hours per day or five days a week. Any individual who allows an employer to exploit them hurts not only themselves but all other workers as well. It even crosses trades. A computer professional can actually have impact on a brick layer or iron worker in regards to the fact that employers will claim that what they do is dandy because the computer industry does the same thing.
Comcast is a problem that needs fixing. They are over selling their lines and causing users problems. And when they talk about high speed net connections i almost go into riot mode. There are no high speed connections in America! As in several other areas we are dragging our butts and leaving skid marks all across the land. Now if we could just lay cable over all those skid marks maybe we could catch up with such bastions of electronic delight as Latvia or Estonia. We are a slow, slow, nation.
I deeply hope that AMD won't falter. They still offer some really great equipment at low prices. For example some Sempron CPUs sell at $23.and can be had with a decent MB and fan for about $100. And that includes enough power for HD home video etc.. I'm aware that almost all at Slashdot run a bit more power than that but I mention it as an indicator of value of products sold by AMD. If one has a hard drive laying about one can still set up a strong Athlon unit for about $200. We need AMD.
One joy of implants is that they can usually be removed if things are not going so well.
That being said there will always be a few people who have very severe and unusual reactions to anything at all. A strawberry, a speck of fish oil, or a touch of tomato or peanut is enough to kill certain people. Very high tech. products are not different in that respect. Even the very best items will always be lethal to someone, somewhere. That does not imply that those products should not be freely used. Imagine a world in which no fish products or tomatos could ever be produced or sold. Even guns are like that. A few guns will always be misused just as cars are misused and kill people from time to time.
The savings are mostly to the patient. The money shark in the white coat is more concerned with his own wallet than his patients.
The fact that digital records could be transmitted very quickly, at any hour, for accident victims and save numerous lives has not stirred doctors into action.
I am assuming that a new law would cover records generated from a certain date forward as some patients have really fat files dating back for many decades. Now that really could cause huge numbers of people to be employed as they sat, scanning in tens of thousands of pages for a single patient.
Soon we can hire out of work republican officials to sit in bicycle type power generators and spin those pedals as fast as they can. They have already created enough hot air to last us for several centuries.
I really enjoyed watching a film clip of Bush swearing that he would work shoulder to shoulder with people in New Orleans and never cease being with them until the damage from Katrina was repaired. Not that was hot air!
Perhaps I am some sort of dim bulb but I see the Gaza situation as being quite simple. People who live in Israel understand that the existence of Israel is not popular with many Arabs. That will never change but it does nothing to confront the reality that Israel will persist in its existence for some time to come.
The second thought that I think would occur to most people is that any nation that is under fire from rockets has the right to invade and crush the offending nation. There is no inherent right to expect the offended nation to take it easy in its response. In other words the people of Gaza should feel grateful if their entire nation is not plowed into the sea. Obviously these conflicts will continue until Israel takes such a dreaded revenge that the message is that terror attacks must stop or else.
This will end when the Arab nations acquire high quality nuclear weapons and delivery systems. At that point Israel is just too small a geographic area to survive a nuclear attack.
Frankly in twenty or thirty years I seriously doubt that Israel can survive.
One can only hope that those sued by the RIAA can recover large sums due to the nonsense nature of the suits. Breaking even is unfair to the victims of these creeps.
I question the accuracy of the report. In the US transplant organs are harvested from people who die in hospital whereas people who die at home or in traffic accidents who have signed donor cards have their bodies and organs put to entirely different practices such as testing fire suits and other tests that we usually don't think about.
Perhaps we need laws that require all people arrested for crimes such as drunk driving to surrender all rights to the eventual use of their corpses. Perhaps even dropping out of high school could be such a triggering device.
I've done a lot of sales in my life. But I can't even begin to understand how difficult it must be to convince some idiot to blow himself up with the notion of virgins in paradise etc..
On the other hand I can't think of a better thing to do with a radical Moslem than strapping bombs to them and blowing them up.
Those who wish to be totally secure need to die. The dead are the only group I know of that never have any complaints about personal security,data security or any other form of security. Or, put another way life=risk.
I tend to believe that sometime in the past you ordered something from Best Buy and perhaps gave them more information at that time. Perhaps you even had a home delivery of a bulky item.
If they are doing data mining at the level you think that they are I tend to say congratulations to them for "going modern".
The joy of data collection is that the general public should have the same power to collect data as companies do. Putting information in the hands of the public is sort of like putting Al Franklin in the senate. One knows that a shoe is about to drop.
The problem is that you have the power to lay yourself off and could milk the system that way. Perhaps you could trust a relative to be the chief officer of your company,
I don't have to wait for a site to become too busy to have connection frustrations. I've got Comcast. Every morning when I try to hook up to the net with my cable modem I have time to boil water and make coffee before I can hook into Comcast. It seems that with HD TV and phone service over cable they simply have everyone in my area waiting, waiting, waiting for their machines to hook up upon request. Class Action Law SUITs are beginning to appeal to me.
I suppose the most pressing question might be in how advanced he is in computer programming. Usually world shaking ideas come from people who either on their own or in a class setting have developed unusually high skill levels.
Original ideas are almost unheard of. Taking something that is already well known is another matter entirely. You might be shocked at how eager both industry and retailers seek new products. If you have something at the point of being for sale now you might be shocked at how easy it is to get involved in industry.
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These days there are a number of OSs derived from Debian and Ubuntu that should be considered. Mint is superior. Also Mepis, I believe is now based upon Debian.
I suspect that many Ubuntu users who try these lesser known derived distros would prefer them.
The problem is compounded when some schools insist on Windows only for on line participation. That is rarely justified.
This girl needs to go sue herself. She admits that it was her lack of knowledge that caused her to make the purchase so she is the one who should pay!
Maybe while she is suing herself she could find something more exciting to do with herself and share it on line with her Linux system!
There are very good reasons that we got rid of Nixon. He was a crook.
As for anti terror squads, I do have some problems with the concept of law enforcement being used in advance of a crime. Normally a crime takes place and various law enforcement agencies act to punish those that broke our laws. So crime prevention by law enforcement is seemingly out of order. However we must adjust our thinking to the age in which we now live. Imagine a terror loony who has powdered a couple of ounces of plutonium and wrapped them around a single stick of dynamite and then lighting the fuse and tossing it off of a tall building. Imagine a contaminated, major city that must remain uninhabited for the next 100,000 years.
Keeping in mind that these terror nuts intend to die anyway the idea of arresting them for the crimes they commit are mute. We are forced to ferret them out and shut them down well before they reach out and kill large numbers of people.
Frankly i hope that we have numerous assassins at work both inside and outside our own borders killing off those that preach death to America, death to Christians, death to Israel etc.. If they spew that rhetoric that is enough to justify being strangled in the night.
This kind of law would be an enforcement nightmare. The state would have to be willing to support a huge number of convicts.
Needless to say there would be infinite trials over what is obscene speech. And then there would be the cries of unfair when the governor's daughter gets drunk as a skunk and calls her arresting officer a name containing the F word.
There really are people who have very shallow grips on reality and can do crime and harm even though they are not legally insane. I have a step son who frequently goes to prison. He suffers from manic depression. The way it works with him is that his imagination goes over the edge. He may feel as though he is of overwhelming importance and therefore all of the really big movers and shakers value him so highly that it is understood that if he needs money to get drugs that no real penalty will be applied as soon as it is known how important that he is.
Of the last 20 years he has been on the streets for only 3 or so. The rest of the time he has been in prison, drug rehabs or mental hospitals. Yet the law says he is not insane and my state has no provisions for diminished capacity in sentencing nor do they have any real psychiatric help in the prison system.
The salesman's excuse for collecting payment information has some validity. In other words the company is willing to provide something for free as long as there is some chance of selling you more in the future. Since over the phone purchases are normally made with a charge card there is no hope of eventually making a sale if you don't even own a charge card and therefore the expense of giving you a free sample can not be justified.
Perhaps the law needs to define the word free and punish companies that misuse the word. Every day the TV and newspapers have ads that shout out buy one and get one free. Obviously the one given free is not actually free because it requires money to be spent. In America fraud is the norm.
If these scammers are half way smart at their black art they won't have any visible assets to pay off that 50 million dollar judgment. Those announcements of large judgments may placate the public's cry for justice but the realities of collection issues are not apparent and the news media won't have any coverage on the sums actually collected.
I have worked 10 hrs. and four day systems and that isn't the best way to work at all. In many trades that last two hours drains a worker too much.Every work day seems like life is suspended as it is filled with nothing but work.
People need contracts that make it expensive for the employer if they are asked to work more than eight hours per day or five days a week. Any individual who allows an employer to exploit them hurts not only themselves but all other workers as well. It even crosses trades. A computer professional can actually have impact on a brick layer or iron worker in regards to the fact that employers will claim that what they do is dandy because the computer industry does the same thing.
Comcast is a problem that needs fixing. They are over selling their lines and causing users problems. And when they talk about high speed net connections i almost go into riot mode. There are no high speed connections in America! As in several other areas we are dragging our butts and leaving skid marks all across the land. Now if we could just lay cable over all those skid marks maybe we could catch up with such bastions of electronic delight as Latvia or Estonia. We are a slow, slow, nation.
I deeply hope that AMD won't falter. They still offer some really great equipment at low prices. For example some Sempron CPUs sell at $23.and can be had with a decent MB and fan for about $100. And that includes enough power for HD home video etc.. I'm aware that almost all at Slashdot run a bit more power than that but I mention it as an indicator of value of products sold by AMD. If one has a hard drive laying about one can still set up a strong Athlon unit for about $200. We need AMD.
One joy of implants is that they can usually be removed if things are not going so well.
That being said there will always be a few people who have very severe and unusual reactions to anything at all. A strawberry, a speck of fish oil, or a touch of tomato or peanut is enough to kill certain people. Very high tech. products are not different in that respect. Even the very best items will always be lethal to someone, somewhere. That does not imply that those products should not be freely used. Imagine a world in which no fish products or tomatos could ever be produced or sold. Even guns are like that. A few guns will always be misused just as cars are misused and kill people from time to time.
The savings are mostly to the patient. The money shark in the white coat is more concerned with his own wallet than his patients.
The fact that digital records could be transmitted very quickly, at any hour, for accident victims and save numerous lives has not stirred doctors into action.
I am assuming that a new law would cover records generated from a certain date forward as some patients have really fat files dating back for many decades. Now that really could cause huge numbers of people to be employed as they sat, scanning in tens of thousands of pages for a single patient.
Soon we can hire out of work republican officials to sit in bicycle type power generators and spin those pedals as fast as they can. They have already created enough hot air to last us for several centuries.
I really enjoyed watching a film clip of Bush swearing that he would work shoulder to shoulder with people in New Orleans and never cease being with them until the damage from Katrina was repaired. Not that was hot air!
Perhaps I am some sort of dim bulb but I see the Gaza situation as being quite simple. People who live in Israel understand that the existence of Israel is not popular with many Arabs. That will never change but it does nothing to confront the reality that Israel will persist in its existence for some time to come.
The second thought that I think would occur to most people is that any nation that is under fire from rockets has the right to invade and crush the offending nation. There is no inherent right to expect the offended nation to take it easy in its response. In other words the people of Gaza should feel grateful if their entire nation is not plowed into the sea. Obviously these conflicts will continue until Israel takes such a dreaded revenge that the message is that terror attacks must stop or else.
This will end when the Arab nations acquire high quality nuclear weapons and delivery systems. At that point Israel is just too small a geographic area to survive a nuclear attack.
Frankly in twenty or thirty years I seriously doubt that Israel can survive.
One can only hope that those sued by the RIAA can recover large sums due to the nonsense nature of the suits. Breaking even is unfair to the victims of these creeps.
I question the accuracy of the report. In the US transplant organs are harvested from people who die in hospital whereas people who die at home or in traffic accidents who have signed donor cards have their bodies and organs put to entirely different practices such as testing fire suits and other tests that we usually don't think about.
Perhaps we need laws that require all people arrested for crimes such as drunk driving to surrender all rights to the eventual use of their corpses. Perhaps even dropping out of high school could be such a triggering device.
I've done a lot of sales in my life. But I can't even begin to understand how difficult it must be to convince some idiot to blow himself up with the notion of virgins in paradise etc..
On the other hand I can't think of a better thing to do with a radical Moslem than strapping bombs to them and blowing them up.
Those who wish to be totally secure need to die. The dead are the only group I know of that never have any complaints about personal security,data security or any other form of security. Or, put another way life=risk.
I tend to believe that sometime in the past you ordered something from Best Buy and perhaps gave them more information at that time. Perhaps you even had a home delivery of a bulky item.
If they are doing data mining at the level you think that they are I tend to say congratulations to them for "going modern".
The joy of data collection is that the general public should have the same power to collect data as companies do. Putting information in the hands of the public is sort of like putting Al Franklin in the senate. One knows that a shoe is about to drop.
The problem is that you have the power to lay yourself off and could milk the system that way. Perhaps you could trust a relative to be the chief officer of your company,
I don't have to wait for a site to become too busy to have connection frustrations. I've got Comcast. Every morning when I try to hook up to the net with my cable modem I have time to boil water and make coffee before I can hook into Comcast. It seems that with HD TV and phone service over cable they simply have everyone in my area waiting, waiting, waiting for their machines to hook up upon request. Class Action Law SUITs are beginning to appeal to me.
Quantum journal -- never believe someone in Schrodenger's box.
I suppose the most pressing question might be in how advanced he is in computer programming. Usually world shaking ideas come from people who either on their own or in a class setting have developed unusually high skill levels.
Original ideas are almost unheard of. Taking something that is already well known is another matter entirely. You might be shocked at how eager both industry and retailers seek new products. If you have something at the point of being for sale now you might be shocked at how easy it is to get involved in industry.