Not at all, since a genuine Linux geek wouldn't couple Debian and Ubuntu as a nick. Debian folks wouldn't advertise for Ubuntu, and Ubuntu users usually know little about Debian.
It sounds like barely thought-out bullshit from a shill.
Works beautifully, as does removing your fuel pump or other vital fuse, chopping off one blade using a pair of sidecutters, and reinstalling the fuse. Thieves aren't going to probe your fuse box with a test light.
My bud uses the fuse trick on his tow truck. It has had several steering columns ruined by thieves over the years, but he gets those free (nice thing about doing auto salvage) and the hood rats who infest Bluff Road, Columbia, SC (don't live there!) have never managed to steal the truck.
You can do both and learn CNC machining, then CNC programming and eventually how to troubleshoot and repair CNC equipment.
That gear MUST run or the owner loses big money. Trying to do what "everybody else" does is silly. Find jobs where there are very few competitiors and which cannot be outsourced away from the working system.
"The distros seem to think they need to push something new and different and "bold"
That's because all computers will be tablets and no one should want anything not a tablet and tabletacious interfaces which disregard ergonomics are the FUTURE!! Bow before the Tablet! SUCK on the tablet! Change is Progress!
All the time and effort mere shiteating "users" invest in learning a UI means nothing, because they NEED New and Shiny rather than a useful tool to get work (or play) done.
"Look at the backlash with the Windows 8 Metro UI; people don't want to relearn how to use even a new version of Windows."
Fuck no they don't. They invested time in learning STANDARD ways of GETTING WORK DONE.
Linux UI designers keep changing things purely for the sake of fucking over users who spent time learning (previous UI). They don't give a shit about users, just about copying Apple badly.
I can cope easily enough, but I don't introduce new users to Linux because it has nothing to offer them at entry level.
We don't trade very many casualties for the benefits of highway travel, so I won't get my Speedos in a twist over higher speed limits.
Everybody dies. Life is full of little tradeoffs.
If you are afraid to live, stay in the basement (but check for radon, mold, asbestos, construction material outgassing, and ensure your Cheetos aren't past their expiration date).
"All "free trade" has done is left us an indebted nation,"
We are the third largest manufacturing nation in the world. Expecting to dominate "forever" is literally not sane. Debt was a bad choice, but most of that isn't due to the trade balance.
"with business district filled with abandoned factories,"
Those factories are obsolete and many of their jobs no longer exist. It's cheaper to abandon expendable buildings and build new. Land is abundant in the US. (Too bad we aren't quicker to demolish old structures, but modern construction is easier to demo than some of the ancient edifices.) Many US factories were located BASED ON LOGISTICS CONDITIONS WHICH NO LONGER MATTER.
Transportation has improved since the Golden Age. So has climate control. Air conditioning has made the Southern US habitable by advanced humans, so industries like Continental, Boeing, Caterpillar, etc can escape the hideous winters of the Midwest.
"huge numbers of unemployed"
Ten percent isn't "huge". Expecting full employment through changing times isn't rational. Compare to "rest of world" before saying that the sky is falling.
"and future generation across the planet that will HATE the USA because the cancers and toxins they live with will be from our greedy megacorps."
The US doesn't rule the world, and the megacorps are GLOBAL and often part of government. The US isn't shitting all over China, for example. CHINESE ruling classes are doing the SAME THING they've always done to their peasantry. When they finally went too far, the Maoists gave them what they deserved (disempowerment and death), then gradually assumed their mantle. Now, the new Mandarins look different but aren't doing anything fundamentally different.
Finally, pollution, harsh working conditions, and long hours are literally the "price of competition". I'd rather work in Foxconn than suck asbestos in a 1930s US shipyard or get black lung in an old time US coal mine or inhale fibers in an old US cotton mill. What many people don't want to understand is that the way to get your OWN industrial base is on the backs of the workers. If you don't undercut the competition you lose and your "workers" don't have jobs.
Superstitionists MAKE it an issue. Superstitions, ALL of them and ALL Superstitionists themselves (because they enable the fanatics) are enemies of progress. There is no good Superstition or good Superstitionists.
Those who disagree, prove your Sky Fairie is real, NOW, HERE, irrefutably or fuck off. I'll recant and kiss his/her/its Noodly Appendage. Until then, you are enemies of truth and of freedom, because your Superstition demands you master all men and enslave them to your theocracies.
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Try a "Piss Christ" troll and let the world know YOU did it:
Duplicate the famous Serrano "Crucifix in a glass of urine" troll.
Find suitable vessels and repeat with a Torah and a Bible, then post visibly on intarwebz.
Which Superstition is going to Fatwa yo' ass?
Hint for the historically impaired:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
Terrorism thrives under Islam because most Muslims tacitly support it and their Superstition doesn't condemn it.
"seemingly Linux-friendly nick"
Not at all, since a genuine Linux geek wouldn't couple Debian and Ubuntu as a nick. Debian folks wouldn't advertise for Ubuntu, and Ubuntu users usually know little about Debian.
It sounds like barely thought-out bullshit from a shill.
"ubuntu is fine one you rip out unity."
We would be having fewer discussions of Unity Suckage if we spread the word how easy it is to be rid of it.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed
"Is there anyone that actually likes Unity?"
Not me, but apparently not enough Slashdotters know how easy it is to get rid of it:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed
So shitcan Unity. I gave it the couple of hours it might have deserved, then found this handy info:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed
Or just shitcan Unity. It's easy:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed
Works beautifully, as does removing your fuel pump or other vital fuse, chopping off one blade using a pair of sidecutters, and reinstalling the fuse. Thieves aren't going to probe your fuse box with a test light.
My bud uses the fuse trick on his tow truck. It has had several steering columns ruined by thieves over the years, but he gets those free (nice thing about doing auto salvage) and the hood rats who infest Bluff Road, Columbia, SC (don't live there!) have never managed to steal the truck.
" I don't know how Unity will go over"
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO RUN UNITY:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed
WTF such a "researcher" would even WANT with such an account is a mystery.
I nominate Nancy Grace.
systems running?
That's less than what you can get for pulling an armed robbery at a liquor store.
Great financial crimes are economic treason. Their perpetrators should be publicly executed by hanging.
You can do both and learn CNC machining, then CNC programming and eventually how to troubleshoot and repair CNC equipment.
That gear MUST run or the owner loses big money. Trying to do what "everybody else" does is silly. Find jobs where there are very few competitiors and which cannot be outsourced away from the working system.
Listening to broadcast wifi is no different than monitoring a CB.
The essence of capitalism is corruuption and cronyism.
Capitalism works, but these things go with the territory.
Are any existing firewall apps suitable to the task?
I don't have a Kindle so I can't personally experiment.
"The distros seem to think they need to push something new and different and "bold"
That's because all computers will be tablets and no one should want anything not a tablet and tabletacious interfaces which disregard ergonomics are the FUTURE!! Bow before the Tablet! SUCK on the tablet! Change is Progress!
All the time and effort mere shiteating "users" invest in learning a UI means nothing, because they NEED New and Shiny rather than a useful tool to get work (or play) done.
"User Interface"? More like User Insult.
"Look at the backlash with the Windows 8 Metro UI; people don't want to relearn how to use even a new version of Windows."
Fuck no they don't. They invested time in learning STANDARD ways of GETTING WORK DONE.
Linux UI designers keep changing things purely for the sake of fucking over users who spent time learning (previous UI). They don't give a shit about users, just about copying Apple badly.
I can cope easily enough, but I don't introduce new users to Linux because it has nothing to offer them at entry level.
It's about time we had a standard "form factor" for such a core card.
Standard form factors have been great for desktop consumers as they facilitate upgrade, repair, and re-use.
The choice isn't the problem, the shitty choices are the problem.
Competition should improve the breed, but the "competitors" aren't competing with anyone. They do what they do for their own reasons.
"I don't think it's the learning curve. I think it's that there's TOO MUCH choice."
Not "too much choice", but lack of a consistent SINGLE "default" distro!
Change for changes sake is fun for those inflicting it, but puts off people who have alternatives.
We don't trade very many casualties for the benefits of highway travel, so I won't get my Speedos in a twist over higher speed limits.
Everybody dies. Life is full of little tradeoffs.
If you are afraid to live, stay in the basement (but check for radon, mold, asbestos, construction material outgassing, and ensure your Cheetos aren't past their expiration date).
"All "free trade" has done is left us an indebted nation,"
We are the third largest manufacturing nation in the world. Expecting to dominate "forever" is literally not sane. Debt was a bad choice, but most of that isn't due to the trade balance.
"with business district filled with abandoned factories,"
Those factories are obsolete and many of their jobs no longer exist. It's cheaper to abandon expendable buildings and build new. Land is abundant in the US. (Too bad we aren't quicker to demolish old structures, but modern construction is easier to demo than some of the ancient edifices.) Many US factories were located BASED ON LOGISTICS CONDITIONS WHICH NO LONGER MATTER.
Transportation has improved since the Golden Age. So has climate control. Air conditioning has made the Southern US habitable by advanced humans, so industries like Continental, Boeing, Caterpillar, etc can escape the hideous winters of the Midwest.
"huge numbers of unemployed"
Ten percent isn't "huge". Expecting full employment through changing times isn't rational. Compare to "rest of world" before saying that the sky is falling.
"and future generation across the planet that will HATE the USA because the cancers and toxins they live with will be from our greedy megacorps."
The US doesn't rule the world, and the megacorps are GLOBAL and often part of government. The US isn't shitting all over China, for example. CHINESE ruling classes are doing the SAME THING they've always done to their peasantry. When they finally went too far, the Maoists gave them what they deserved (disempowerment and death), then gradually assumed their mantle. Now, the new Mandarins look different but aren't doing anything fundamentally different.
Finally, pollution, harsh working conditions, and long hours are literally the "price of competition". I'd rather work in Foxconn than suck asbestos in a 1930s US shipyard or get black lung in an old time US coal mine or inhale fibers in an old US cotton mill. What many people don't want to understand is that the way to get your OWN industrial base is on the backs of the workers. If you don't undercut the competition you lose and your "workers" don't have jobs.
"This is an non-issue."
Superstitionists MAKE it an issue. Superstitions, ALL of them and ALL Superstitionists themselves (because they enable the fanatics) are enemies of progress. There is no good Superstition or good Superstitionists.
Those who disagree, prove your Sky Fairie is real, NOW, HERE, irrefutably or fuck off. I'll recant and kiss his/her/its Noodly Appendage. Until then, you are enemies of truth and of freedom, because your Superstition demands you master all men and enslave them to your theocracies.