XP is best with 512 or higher, and "okay" with less. I imagine longhorn will run best with a gig or more. Memory is still pretty cheap so it won't be a big deal.
I'll put it this way: I have a lot more faith in Apple than I do in the rumor sites. Apple does their homework before they release something; they haven't really had a flop since the G4 Cube (which was a cool idea regardless, it kind of predated the SFF PCs with the same concept.) I guess their strategy now is to stay one step ahead of everyone who tries to copy them. It seems to be working, at least for now.
The point is, would he have gotten the job if his dad wasn't Colin Powell? I think not. The same could be said of our current president, but that's another issue for another day.
iirc part of the (legal) definition of a "trade secret" is that it is secret. You can sue someone for revealing a trade secret, but that precludes that it's not a secret anymore, so it'd have to come out in court. Anything that's as widely available as the Linux source is not a secret.
Right, he found magical golden tablets written in a language he did not know yet the Lord graciously helped him to translate as "Linux is the devil. Make some shit up about those open-source hippies." So it's all the same.
As much as they keep trying to reinvent themselves, it's obvious this is a company that is just trying to keep its head above water. It's not even really Napster anymore, and I think people realize that. Whoever owns Napster 2.0 mistakenly thought that Napster was a cultural icon, when in fact, it was simply the first in a string of "free music" programs. People who want to pay for the music use iTMS; it works better, has more name recognition and is "cool," unlike Napster. All Napster really had was its brand name, and now that brand name is associated with "selling out," which pretty much dooms any product based on an image of "cool" to a short lifespan.
"Dark fiber" is kind of a misnomer. It implies that there's a resource that's being ignored. There is not; all this dark fiber is on runs stretched across the country, but if there's no fiber in the cities themselves, there's nothing to light it up with. Nobody's squandering anything; save the companies who laid so much way, way overly redundant fiber in the first place (but they're mostly out of business anyway.) The US will invariably be slower than most other countries to roll out new, expensive technologies-- this is guaranteed by our large land mass, not to mention the fact that most of that land is livable. Comparing the US to a country like South Korea is unfair; South Korea has about 2% of the land mass that the US does.
The same thing happens with cell phones. We were stuck on CDMA/TDMA forever because it was so expensive to upgrade the networks, and we're only now getting nationwide GSM as the rest of the world is phasing it out in favor of 3G. Building infrastructure is very, very expensive, and a company will only do it if they know they can make money off it. That's not apparent with municipal fiber, because the vast majority of consumers will not pay more than about $30-40/mo for internet access, and they can offer DSL or cable at that price and consumers will pay it. They don't even know what a kilobyte is, they just know their porn sites load up real fast. High bandwidth killer apps will drive the need for faster connections.
What are you talking about? They already made their money. I'm surprised the SEC hasn't been sicced on their asses, because a bunch of SCO board members unloaded their stock a few days after they announced they were suing IBM. The stock skyrocketed, because they were in the news, and so everyone sold their shares and made a tasty profit. That might have been the only motive behind this "We own Linux!" lawyer death match, in which case, the Linux community is really getting outraged over nothing.
Actualy no, Microsoft gets something else right too. Their mice, keyboards and joysticks aren't that bad. They're actually quite nice, and I have an MS keyboard/mouse. Does look kind of funny on a Linux box tho.
You mean like this? Granted, Houston is a city where traffic is HORRIBLE (the average commute is something like 2 hours a day) so there's public outcry for funding for projects like this, but I doubt it's the only city with a system like this.
Or it will tell people "If you want to use OSS, you have to play by the rules." That way we don't get asshats like Darl McBride trying to make their own up like a 5 year old who loses a game of hide and seek.
Actually, heroin kind of works. If you take enough of it, you can get shot without feeling it... though if you that much, you'll probably be to catatonic to fight. And also probably not a very good shot. Come to think of it, cocaine is probably a much better battle drug, as it decreases reaction time while increasing motor skills and sensory perception. Though, obviously, both have their downsides;) Doesn't stop the Air Force from giving their pilots meth though.
There was little media support for the war in Iraq - at least in television and print media. Ever notice how MSNBC and CNN all report on how many casualties occurred that day in Iraq? When have you heard them discuss how power and water levels in Iraq have been restored to pre-war levels. What about the great morale of the Afghanistan troops and how they are geared up to capture Osama now that Saddam has been jailed?
Oh, god, you're one of those people who thinks Fox News is a legitimate news source, huh? It exists because Rupert Murdoch is a crazy, nutball conservative (who is, ironically, not even from America) who happens to own a major media company. They routinely make shit up on air and then pretend they never said it. The Bush administration apparently learned this trick from them.
I do care about the economy. See that GDP number recently? I don't know about you, but my 401k added a huge chunk of change over the last year. The market is up 30%. The job market is soon to follow I believe. By the way, the recessionary trend started while Clinton was still in office.
Yep. See that huge trade deficit? We're basically just shipping our money overseas. And since when did the stock market determnine the health of the economy? The stock market is always doing really well before it crashes hard. And for the record, 9/11 (which had nothing to do with Bush or Clinton) was the real reason for the severity of the recession (recessions are unavoidable, but tax cuts are not the solution when you're racking up $7 trillion in deficit) as it dramatically reduced consumer confidence and thus, spending.
I'd rather it get spent on defense than some program to provide free condoms and needles to reduce HIV infections or welfare programs.
Why? Who's going to attack us? Terrorists, yes, but more Americans die from HIV and poverty every year than in terrorist attacks. A whole lot more, in fact. Or do we need a strong military to project our will on the rest of the world? Why can't we spend $700 billion helping solve the cause of these problems? Or simply by not using it to kill people? And would you feel the same way if your kid (hypothetical child, I don't know if you have one or not) had sex with an IV drug user and got AIDS? Wouldn't you have wished the government had done more? I'm not saying these programs are always well managed, but then, military projects aren't always either.
Is adultery legal? Immoral I know. I guess his version of the Ten Commandments is pick five.
Yup, adultery is legal. It may be immoral, but that depends on each person and what their morals are. In some cultures in Africa, it's not immoral for a wife to cheat on her husband if he can't satisfy her. Hate to break it to you, but most of the world does not believe in Christ. Or even in your idea of God. Just because it doesn't adhere to your idea of right and wrong doesn't mean it IS right or wrong (though this is an ENTIRELY different philosophical debate which I'd rather not get into;)
The "liberal bias" is one of the great conservative myths. It doesn't exist. If anything, media in this country has a conservative bias. The reason for this is because most of the media in the country is owned by large, large corporations, who have more to gain from a conservative slant than a liberal one. Also, we have Dubya's fascist media policies (and what he's doing is the dictionary definition of fascism) on revoking press passes for media outlets that say bad things about him or his policies.
If the liberal bias is so strong, where did all the media support for the war in Iraq come from? Yeah, I know, they wanted a good story to get ratings, but the point is that's the way the media operates now. They think like businesses, opposing government intervention pretty much everywhere they can. Yes, this refers to newspapers and news networks (remember that nice little FCC debacle last year where congress had to intervene because the public got so pissed off?)
And please explain to me why John Kerry fucking his intern, even if it were 100% true, is important news? Some guy getting his rocks off in a consentual, entirely legal sexual encounter isn't really something we should be concerned about. It's gossip, and it belongs in the National Enquirer. We should care about other things, like the economy, the skyrocketing national deficit (which we all get to pay off! whoopee!) and national security. I think our priorities are misplaced when John Kerry's rumored cocksucking gets press ahead of Americans being killed in Iraq (they don't even bother to use names anymore.)
Anyway, the point here is that the liberal bias hasn't existed since the early 80s. As usual, the conservatives are behind the times.
No, my point was more about how the rest of the world was so willing to forgive and forget everything the US did once we started handing out contracts. Hypocracy to the nth degree.
And really, who would you rather have as president? The guy who started a baseless war, killing over 10,000 people, or the guy fucked a secretary. At least the guy who fucked his secretary has something in common with the American people.;)
The UN is pretty much irrelevant now anyway. We ensured that by attacking Iraq when the UN really, really didn't want us to. So now the UN has been proven a farce, but the rest of the world won't admit it because they're afraid of what the US might do if they did. The UN was basically started as a deterrant against future wars. The fact that we so easily sidestepped them with absolutely no consequences (and the fact that the rest of the countries in the world started sucking our dick after we began handing out "rebuilding contracts") proves that the UN is completely meaningless.
Rrrrriiiiiight. You know, there was that little issue where we gave Bin Laden lots of guns to fight Russians. Then when the Russians were gone, he started fighting us. Oh and that little time when we gave chemical and biological weapons to Iraq? I guess that worked out in our favor, we could claim we knew they had them without a shadow of a doubt because we had a copy of the invoice. Then there was the time we tried to oust an authoritarian dictator in Iran. That kind of backfired, and now they hate us. But we sold them guns anyway. Oh, and Vietnam. The whole thing was a debacle from day 1. So even when our intentions are misguided, policy can fuck up royally too.
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XP is best with 512 or higher, and "okay" with less. I imagine longhorn will run best with a gig or more. Memory is still pretty cheap so it won't be a big deal.
It would be scary if it had laser beams for eyes. What's a guy got to do to get frickin' laser beams?
I'll put it this way: I have a lot more faith in Apple than I do in the rumor sites. Apple does their homework before they release something; they haven't really had a flop since the G4 Cube (which was a cool idea regardless, it kind of predated the SFF PCs with the same concept.) I guess their strategy now is to stay one step ahead of everyone who tries to copy them. It seems to be working, at least for now.
Heh, and sadly, Darde wasn't even the first to think of this ;) This is all terribly reminiscent of Nietzsche...
The point is, would he have gotten the job if his dad wasn't Colin Powell? I think not. The same could be said of our current president, but that's another issue for another day.
iirc part of the (legal) definition of a "trade secret" is that it is secret. You can sue someone for revealing a trade secret, but that precludes that it's not a secret anymore, so it'd have to come out in court. Anything that's as widely available as the Linux source is not a secret.
Right, he found magical golden tablets written in a language he did not know yet the Lord graciously helped him to translate as "Linux is the devil. Make some shit up about those open-source hippies." So it's all the same.
As much as they keep trying to reinvent themselves, it's obvious this is a company that is just trying to keep its head above water. It's not even really Napster anymore, and I think people realize that. Whoever owns Napster 2.0 mistakenly thought that Napster was a cultural icon, when in fact, it was simply the first in a string of "free music" programs. People who want to pay for the music use iTMS; it works better, has more name recognition and is "cool," unlike Napster. All Napster really had was its brand name, and now that brand name is associated with "selling out," which pretty much dooms any product based on an image of "cool" to a short lifespan.
Nah, Google would just route all queries for SCO to scat porn. Which makes sense cause the lawsuit would be a load of shit.
"Dark fiber" is kind of a misnomer. It implies that there's a resource that's being ignored. There is not; all this dark fiber is on runs stretched across the country, but if there's no fiber in the cities themselves, there's nothing to light it up with. Nobody's squandering anything; save the companies who laid so much way, way overly redundant fiber in the first place (but they're mostly out of business anyway.) The US will invariably be slower than most other countries to roll out new, expensive technologies-- this is guaranteed by our large land mass, not to mention the fact that most of that land is livable. Comparing the US to a country like South Korea is unfair; South Korea has about 2% of the land mass that the US does.
The same thing happens with cell phones. We were stuck on CDMA/TDMA forever because it was so expensive to upgrade the networks, and we're only now getting nationwide GSM as the rest of the world is phasing it out in favor of 3G. Building infrastructure is very, very expensive, and a company will only do it if they know they can make money off it. That's not apparent with municipal fiber, because the vast majority of consumers will not pay more than about $30-40/mo for internet access, and they can offer DSL or cable at that price and consumers will pay it. They don't even know what a kilobyte is, they just know their porn sites load up real fast. High bandwidth killer apps will drive the need for faster connections.
What are you talking about? They already made their money. I'm surprised the SEC hasn't been sicced on their asses, because a bunch of SCO board members unloaded their stock a few days after they announced they were suing IBM. The stock skyrocketed, because they were in the news, and so everyone sold their shares and made a tasty profit. That might have been the only motive behind this "We own Linux!" lawyer death match, in which case, the Linux community is really getting outraged over nothing.
Actualy no, Microsoft gets something else right too. Their mice, keyboards and joysticks aren't that bad. They're actually quite nice, and I have an MS keyboard/mouse. Does look kind of funny on a Linux box tho.
You mean like this? Granted, Houston is a city where traffic is HORRIBLE (the average commute is something like 2 hours a day) so there's public outcry for funding for projects like this, but I doubt it's the only city with a system like this.
Or it will tell people "If you want to use OSS, you have to play by the rules." That way we don't get asshats like Darl McBride trying to make their own up like a 5 year old who loses a game of hide and seek.
Yes, because your girlfriend is more than likely one of these.
Nope, he's moved on to bigger and better things.
John Ashcroft. He's on a mission from God, so you know he speaks the truth.
Actually, heroin kind of works. If you take enough of it, you can get shot without feeling it... though if you that much, you'll probably be to catatonic to fight. And also probably not a very good shot. Come to think of it, cocaine is probably a much better battle drug, as it decreases reaction time while increasing motor skills and sensory perception. Though, obviously, both have their downsides ;) Doesn't stop the Air Force from giving their pilots meth though.
There was little media support for the war in Iraq - at least in television and print media. Ever notice how MSNBC and CNN all report on how many casualties occurred that day in Iraq? When have you heard them discuss how power and water levels in Iraq have been restored to pre-war levels. What about the great morale of the Afghanistan troops and how they are geared up to capture Osama now that Saddam has been jailed?
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Oh, god, you're one of those people who thinks Fox News is a legitimate news source, huh? It exists because Rupert Murdoch is a crazy, nutball conservative (who is, ironically, not even from America) who happens to own a major media company. They routinely make shit up on air and then pretend they never said it. The Bush administration apparently learned this trick from them.
I do care about the economy. See that GDP number recently? I don't know about you, but my 401k added a huge chunk of change over the last year. The market is up 30%. The job market is soon to follow I believe. By the way, the recessionary trend started while Clinton was still in office.
Yep. See that huge trade deficit? We're basically just shipping our money overseas. And since when did the stock market determnine the health of the economy? The stock market is always doing really well before it crashes hard. And for the record, 9/11 (which had nothing to do with Bush or Clinton) was the real reason for the severity of the recession (recessions are unavoidable, but tax cuts are not the solution when you're racking up $7 trillion in deficit) as it dramatically reduced consumer confidence and thus, spending.
I'd rather it get spent on defense than some program to provide free condoms and needles to reduce HIV infections or welfare programs.
Why? Who's going to attack us? Terrorists, yes, but more Americans die from HIV and poverty every year than in terrorist attacks. A whole lot more, in fact. Or do we need a strong military to project our will on the rest of the world? Why can't we spend $700 billion helping solve the cause of these problems? Or simply by not using it to kill people? And would you feel the same way if your kid (hypothetical child, I don't know if you have one or not) had sex with an IV drug user and got AIDS? Wouldn't you have wished the government had done more? I'm not saying these programs are always well managed, but then, military projects aren't always either.
Is adultery legal? Immoral I know. I guess his version of the Ten Commandments is pick five.
Yup, adultery is legal. It may be immoral, but that depends on each person and what their morals are. In some cultures in Africa, it's not immoral for a wife to cheat on her husband if he can't satisfy her. Hate to break it to you, but most of the world does not believe in Christ. Or even in your idea of God. Just because it doesn't adhere to your idea of right and wrong doesn't mean it IS right or wrong (though this is an ENTIRELY different philosophical debate which I'd rather not get into
As usual, the conservatives tell the truth
Well I guess the truth is subjective then
The "liberal bias" is one of the great conservative myths. It doesn't exist. If anything, media in this country has a conservative bias. The reason for this is because most of the media in the country is owned by large, large corporations, who have more to gain from a conservative slant than a liberal one. Also, we have Dubya's fascist media policies (and what he's doing is the dictionary definition of fascism) on revoking press passes for media outlets that say bad things about him or his policies.
If the liberal bias is so strong, where did all the media support for the war in Iraq come from? Yeah, I know, they wanted a good story to get ratings, but the point is that's the way the media operates now. They think like businesses, opposing government intervention pretty much everywhere they can. Yes, this refers to newspapers and news networks (remember that nice little FCC debacle last year where congress had to intervene because the public got so pissed off?)
And please explain to me why John Kerry fucking his intern, even if it were 100% true, is important news? Some guy getting his rocks off in a consentual, entirely legal sexual encounter isn't really something we should be concerned about. It's gossip, and it belongs in the National Enquirer. We should care about other things, like the economy, the skyrocketing national deficit (which we all get to pay off! whoopee!) and national security. I think our priorities are misplaced when John Kerry's rumored cocksucking gets press ahead of Americans being killed in Iraq (they don't even bother to use names anymore.)
Anyway, the point here is that the liberal bias hasn't existed since the early 80s. As usual, the conservatives are behind the times.
No, my point was more about how the rest of the world was so willing to forgive and forget everything the US did once we started handing out contracts. Hypocracy to the nth degree.
And really, who would you rather have as president? The guy who started a baseless war, killing over 10,000 people, or the guy fucked a secretary. At least the guy who fucked his secretary has something in common with the American people. ;)
... on becoming irrelevant in the Linux community in 7 days. They did a hell of a job at it. :)
The UN is pretty much irrelevant now anyway. We ensured that by attacking Iraq when the UN really, really didn't want us to. So now the UN has been proven a farce, but the rest of the world won't admit it because they're afraid of what the US might do if they did. The UN was basically started as a deterrant against future wars. The fact that we so easily sidestepped them with absolutely no consequences (and the fact that the rest of the countries in the world started sucking our dick after we began handing out "rebuilding contracts") proves that the UN is completely meaningless.
Rrrrriiiiiight. You know, there was that little issue where we gave Bin Laden lots of guns to fight Russians. Then when the Russians were gone, he started fighting us. Oh and that little time when we gave chemical and biological weapons to Iraq? I guess that worked out in our favor, we could claim we knew they had them without a shadow of a doubt because we had a copy of the invoice. Then there was the time we tried to oust an authoritarian dictator in Iran. That kind of backfired, and now they hate us. But we sold them guns anyway. Oh, and Vietnam. The whole thing was a debacle from day 1. So even when our intentions are misguided, policy can fuck up royally too.