Except we got an HP. Obviously I can't do that. My cousin doesn't have a big budget being a student so he's going to buy what fits in his budget. He wanted to try out Ubuntu.
Again,wireless is the single biggest issue for distributions to solve. It's fairly difficult problem to solve since there is little momentum towards getting hardware vendors to support Linux.
My cousin got an HP laptop, relatively new with an Nvidia mobility card (9000? can't remember) But it came up with a bad resolution. I couldn't coax the open source driver to give a better resolution and for some reason the proprietary drivers weren't enabled. Once those drivers got enabled it booted with the right screen resolution.
I'm still struggling with the network wireless drivers. Since Ubuntu cannot package them with the distro it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem if that was your only machine. But he has another machine that is connected to the internet.. although the wireless issue is still pending.
Who cares? HP/Compaq/Dell all have qualified their laptop/desktop to run on windows xp or vista. You're comparing some desktop you built by yourself with these guys. Sorry, I think you're argument is flawed.
My cousin tried to get Ubuntu Hardy installed and it came up with 640x480 andno wireless on his laptop. Now if that was his only computer who is going to contact to get things working? You still need access to a linux geek. If it was windows, he could call customer service for not only the OS problems with their hardware, but if it was a new piece of hardware you bought, you can call the manufucturer because all of them support Windows.
Who you going to call for a ubuntu problem? No internet,no access to google or hte ubuntu forums, nothing. Who you going to call? Ghostbusters!:-)
So what if we head the whole speech (it's on youtube, in it's entirety,) don't think Obama's a racist, but do think it's shameful and disgusting that Obama would attend, with his family, a church that espoused and outwardly expressed ridiculous notions like whites inventing AIDS to kill blacks and 9/11 conspiracy theories? What if we remember Obama saying "I don't think my church is controversial" then later in his "race speech" saying he remembers Wright making controversial remarks, but not the ones in question? To me, if Obama didn't have the guts to stand up and walk out, or at least tell Wright face-to-face that he disagrees, then he doesn't have the guts to be my president. (I was actually in favor of Obama until all this came out.) I agree that some of his conspiracy theories are indefensible. I just don't think it really makes any difference on policy decisions that Obama will make. You're making an emotional decision based on some loony sound bites. Ask yourself from the evidence given in his policy decisions in Illinois and in his various speeches whether his pastor has any bearing or influence in the decisions he makes. I have not seen any, and I will continue to support Obama. He's run a good campaign with very little crap compared to both the Republican and the Democratic side. He answers question put to him honestly without hedging and that is a good sign of character. He condemned what the man's words but not the man. That's generally what is thought in christian circles right? What more do you want? He's not going to give up his church where he met his wife, baptized his kids based on a couple of videos in a 20 year period. That's ridiculous.
I made the same order of judgement on Ron Paul despite whatever people endorsed him including white supremecists and what not. I looked at his record and what he talked about in the debates. He sounded sane, I don't agree with all his points but that's alright. It's the same thing.
I'm willing to give Hillary a chance too, but I'm not very happy with her antics. I'm not very pro-hillary at the moment.
And to the GP: I guess you don't realize that the president doesn't create policy or laws. Congress does that. The president just executes them, hence "executive" branch. Whatever policy a candidate says he or she will support means nothing more than they'll try to convince congress to enact laws to support it, or try to appoint judges/justices who they think might interpret existing law that way. A candidate's "policies" aren't nearly as important as their character and trustworthiness. I object to the notion that since we shouldn't fully trust any politician, then we should utterly ignore actual examples of a politician lying when considering voting for them. That's a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, isn't it? The president has the bully pulpit. Good oratal skills can help convince people to pressure congress to do the right thing. Obama can be good at that because he'll actually talk like you're somewhat intelligent and lay thing sout. That's a very strong strength in a president.
Sorry you're so pessimistic and distressed, but I'm glad Obama's and Hillary's lies have been revealed now rather than later. I'm pessimistic that people seem to not do their homework and make emotional judgements and are lead astray by demogagues especially from a culture who pride themselves in independent thinking. I would have thought Obama to be a natural fit for this crowd giving the fact that he's stated his speeches about how parents should parent better and it shouldn't be governements job or the fact that the copyright office is screwed up and needs to be fixed. He's focused on helping yourselves rather than government handouts. Those are both conservative and liberal views.
When challenged he gave a good speech on race and wasn't afraid to tell you what he thought. He gave you what he thought, not what you wanted to hear. That should count for something.
I'm really sadden to see tech geeks fall victim to sound bites and being manipulated by the media. If you have a problem with Wright's sermon, listen to the whole thing then make your decisions based on that. But I for one would do my own research especially if it's being pushed on by partisan media like Fox News.
Calling Obama a racist based on his pastor is silly. I'm sure there are plenty of people you associate with that may say or do things that shouldn't be a reflection on you. It's the worst kind of lazy thinking.
Parent is right, we are screwed. It's no wonder we get the kind of candidates we have. Critical thinking has gone out the window. I'm sad for our country.
Netflix is forced to use Windows because the MPAA only allows windows DRM to be used. So they aren't mandating the codec, the MPAA is. They would love to use everything if they could, but the restriction is coming from the movie industry. So complain to the MPAA who seems to be propogating a (former) monopoly.
Agreed. I try to avoid the sweeping generalization but there are plenty of modern countries in Africa that are thriving. For instance, South Africa is doign well, Kenya is doing well. They are all doing pretty damn good. But these smaller countries who have plenty of resources just show a lack of wisdom on how to properly take advantage of them. Really, we need to educate them so that nobody can take advantage of them. Which is what is going on right now.
Dvorak is an idiot. Africa's problems stems from it's cultural problems. For instance, the AIDS virus propogates because for some dumb reason people who have AIDS continue to have sex (forcibily at times) with women making the problem more. Nobody seems to have a civic attitude because everybody used to be tribal. I suppose we all started out this way. (btw, I realize this might be a sweeping generalization and obviously not everyone believes that, but the nature of the problem would not be this large if not a healthy portion (no pun intended) was not engaging in this kind of crap. The african libido is truly phenomenal!
OLPC comes in because children will be exposed to new ideas (or old ideas) that when they grow up will be able to use and implement on their own. They'll learn the value of education, educate their people and then finally we can start offshoring our IT to Africa instead of the more expensive Asia!:-) Something for everyone. But seriously, Africa's time is going to come but we need to have programs like this that allow ideas to proliferate through the young due to the fact that the adults don't seem to have gained sufficient wisdom to end the cycle in the various countries.
Both stores sell cables for more than $20 that cost less than $2 wholesale.
I suggest you go to PCH Cables (http://store.pchcables.com/) for your cable needs. They are located in Hillsboro and generally can get any kind of cable you like. (If you work for a tech company I suggest dumpster diving.:-)
Yeah, maybe if we got a better economy where tax cuts didn't go to the rich and we could actually have more cash in our pockets to do afford that. Our salaries are not matching what we can afford. That's why there is rampant personal debt, we want to spend but we can't afford it. GenX generation is going to melt down when we retire. Nobody is putting any money away from retirement.
This seems like utter crap. First you tax blank media for artist compensation. Now you're going to tax legit web stores as well to protect artist compensation. This smacks of corporate welfare. Why should the people of Canada compensate companies for not being smart enough to make money and adjust to the market? There is always going to be music and entertainment in our lives whether there is a record company or media company behind it or not. It's part of our tribal heritage. The business plan they had in the 80s no longer work. Innvoate! Find a new way. Lately, we've been doing that a lot just about everywhere. This tax does absolutely nothing to benefit the people.
Worse, what happens after downloading goes down because it is no longer affordable? Or maybe piracy comes down? They'll still be paying that tax and the companies are going to get essentially free money. THis reminds me of the record "breakage" fee that record companies charge or the "convenience' fee that ticketmaster charge. Just pure profit. If these people want some windfall of the tax, then they should allow the government to look at how they structure themselves.
The only way is to completely boycott the whole thing and that should send a very strong signal to both government and record companies.
You can name just as many atrocities that Muslim Arabs have committed against Israel. Over the years the suicide bombings, the
But we're talking about Persians here not Arabs. A completely different set of people and with a completely different history. If Iran is a hostile country one should consider that it became that way because of constant interference by the U.S. government and it's oil influenced foreign policy. Shooting down a democratic representative of the people and replacing it with a tyrant is probably a pretty good reason to be pissed off.
In addition to mathemtics, persian cooking is the precursor to the monglai cooking that most people commonly refer to as Indian food.
So one of the things we got Bush and Gonzales on is that they've been wire tapping illegally and lying about it. Won't the update of the FISA bill allow them to argue that since it's no longer illegal means they are no longer culpable? After all, if congress believes they are updating for the sake national security then no law is broken? I don't know if the changes are retroactive or not.
But if they have then I suspect that Democrats have also cut their our collective throats in making a case to impeach either Gonzales and/or President Bush and Vice President Cheney. If that's true, this is a colossal fuck up. This was the only real legal ground Congress has for "high crimes". We can't really prove that Bush lied regarding intelligence in Iraq and the war.
What a bunch of crap. Goddam Democrats. I lay this at the feet of Emannuelle Rahim. That asshat has gotten everything wrong and should be kicked out. Even new Democrats like Jim Webb has voted for this. I can only shake my head in resignation.
Good luck with that. The republicans are all social conservatives and all they want is a Nanny state with a messianic ruler. So, all you'll get is blind tax cuts and government making rules for what you do morally based on the Christian religion. I think you've picked the wrong time to become Republican. I suggest you go libertarian who pick some third party because the Republicans are cooked. Bush has destroyed the Goldwater conservatism and by merging with the right wing religionists have ruined it. Now all you got is the Base.
I wonder if it'll come with the sound from the 6 million dollar man? Although, I'd be upset if everytime I lift my hand the "puuuuuuuuuuuuuur" keeps showing up. Plus masturbating would be somewhat more symphonic than I would like.
It can't cost more than what we're paying for the Iraq War. So using the whole money argument is ridiculous. We aren't getting anything out of our investment in Iraq. Oh wait, maybe the biggest U.S. embassy on the planet and over 3K of lives lost. I think if we can afford this law we can certainly fucking support global warming.
And goddam it they've ruined the nice little Internet we had. With preteen/teenage girls comes all the dirty old men preying on them, and the porn, and trash. Guys thinking I'm a girl, wanting to join my buddy list. FUck you, pervs! It's just too much!
Teens. They will be the death of our society! Mark my words! Create something cool.. but don't invite the teens!
Can we go back to downloading blueprints to the enterprise?:-)
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Except we got an HP. Obviously I can't do that. My cousin doesn't have a big budget being a student so he's going to buy what fits in his budget. He wanted to try out Ubuntu.
Again,wireless is the single biggest issue for distributions to solve. It's fairly difficult problem to solve since there is little momentum towards getting hardware vendors to support Linux.
sri
My cousin got an HP laptop, relatively new with an Nvidia mobility card (9000? can't remember) But it came up with a bad resolution. I couldn't coax the open source driver to give a better resolution and for some reason the proprietary drivers weren't enabled. Once those drivers got enabled it booted with the right screen resolution.
I'm still struggling with the network wireless drivers. Since Ubuntu cannot package them with the distro it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem if that was your only machine. But he has another machine that is connected to the internet.. although the wireless issue is still pending.
Who cares? HP/Compaq/Dell all have qualified their laptop/desktop to run on windows xp or vista. You're comparing some desktop you built by yourself with these guys. Sorry, I think you're argument is flawed.
:-)
My cousin tried to get Ubuntu Hardy installed and it came up with 640x480 andno wireless on his laptop. Now if that was his only computer who is going to contact to get things working? You still need access to a linux geek. If it was windows, he could call customer service for not only the OS problems with their hardware, but if it was a new piece of hardware you bought, you can call the manufucturer because all of them support Windows.
Who you going to call for a ubuntu problem? No internet,no access to google or hte ubuntu forums, nothing. Who you going to call? Ghostbusters!
sri
Thanks :-)
sri
I made the same order of judgement on Ron Paul despite whatever people endorsed him including white supremecists and what not. I looked at his record and what he talked about in the debates. He sounded sane, I don't agree with all his points but that's alright. It's the same thing.
I'm willing to give Hillary a chance too, but I'm not very happy with her antics. I'm not very pro-hillary at the moment. And to the GP: I guess you don't realize that the president doesn't create policy or laws. Congress does that. The president just executes them, hence "executive" branch. Whatever policy a candidate says he or she will support means nothing more than they'll try to convince congress to enact laws to support it, or try to appoint judges/justices who they think might interpret existing law that way. A candidate's "policies" aren't nearly as important as their character and trustworthiness. I object to the notion that since we shouldn't fully trust any politician, then we should utterly ignore actual examples of a politician lying when considering voting for them. That's a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, isn't it? The president has the bully pulpit. Good oratal skills can help convince people to pressure congress to do the right thing. Obama can be good at that because he'll actually talk like you're somewhat intelligent and lay thing sout. That's a very strong strength in a president. Sorry you're so pessimistic and distressed, but I'm glad Obama's and Hillary's lies have been revealed now rather than later. I'm pessimistic that people seem to not do their homework and make emotional judgements and are lead astray by demogagues especially from a culture who pride themselves in independent thinking. I would have thought Obama to be a natural fit for this crowd giving the fact that he's stated his speeches about how parents should parent better and it shouldn't be governements job or the fact that the copyright office is screwed up and needs to be fixed. He's focused on helping yourselves rather than government handouts. Those are both conservative and liberal views.
When challenged he gave a good speech on race and wasn't afraid to tell you what he thought. He gave you what he thought, not what you wanted to hear. That should count for something.
sri
I have no mod points, someone MOD UP parent post!
I'm really sadden to see tech geeks fall victim to sound bites and being manipulated by the media. If you have a problem with Wright's sermon, listen to the whole thing then make your decisions based on that. But I for one would do my own research especially if it's being pushed on by partisan media like Fox News.
Calling Obama a racist based on his pastor is silly. I'm sure there are plenty of people you associate with that may say or do things that shouldn't be a reflection on you. It's the worst kind of lazy thinking.
Parent is right, we are screwed. It's no wonder we get the kind of candidates we have. Critical thinking has gone out the window. I'm sad for our country.
sri
'If it's not big, it's not 'professional'.
They should trying some of those penis enlargement products that you read about on the internets.
sri
ZOMG! He's bi-curious! (/south park)
sri
Dude,
Netflix is forced to use Windows because the MPAA only allows windows DRM to be used. So they aren't mandating the codec, the MPAA is. They would love to use everything if they could, but the restriction is coming from the movie industry. So complain to the MPAA who seems to be propogating a (former) monopoly.
sri
Agreed. I try to avoid the sweeping generalization but there are plenty of modern countries in Africa that are thriving. For instance, South Africa is doign well, Kenya is doing well. They are all doing pretty damn good. But these smaller countries who have plenty of resources just show a lack of wisdom on how to properly take advantage of them. Really, we need to educate them so that nobody can take advantage of them. Which is what is going on right now.
sri
Dvorak is an idiot. Africa's problems stems from it's cultural problems. For instance, the AIDS virus propogates because for some dumb reason people who have AIDS continue to have sex (forcibily at times) with women making the problem more. Nobody seems to have a civic attitude because everybody used to be tribal. I suppose we all started out this way. (btw, I realize this might be a sweeping generalization and obviously not everyone believes that, but the nature of the problem would not be this large if not a healthy portion (no pun intended) was not engaging in this kind of crap. The african libido is truly phenomenal!
:-) Something for everyone. But seriously, Africa's time is going to come but we need to have programs like this that allow ideas to proliferate through the young due to the fact that the adults don't seem to have gained sufficient wisdom to end the cycle in the various countries.
OLPC comes in because children will be exposed to new ideas (or old ideas) that when they grow up will be able to use and implement on their own. They'll learn the value of education, educate their people and then finally we can start offshoring our IT to Africa instead of the more expensive Asia!
sri
I suggest you go to PCH Cables (http://store.pchcables.com/) for your cable needs. They are located in Hillsboro and generally can get any kind of cable you like. (If you work for a tech company I suggest dumpster diving.
sri
Yeah, maybe if we got a better economy where tax cuts didn't go to the rich and we could actually have more cash in our pockets to do afford that. Our salaries are not matching what we can afford. That's why there is rampant personal debt, we want to spend but we can't afford it. GenX generation is going to melt down when we retire. Nobody is putting any money away from retirement.
sri
This seems like utter crap. First you tax blank media for artist compensation. Now you're going to tax legit web stores as well to protect artist compensation. This smacks of corporate welfare. Why should the people of Canada compensate companies for not being smart enough to make money and adjust to the market? There is always going to be music and entertainment in our lives whether there is a record company or media company behind it or not. It's part of our tribal heritage. The business plan they had in the 80s no longer work. Innvoate! Find a new way. Lately, we've been doing that a lot just about everywhere. This tax does absolutely nothing to benefit the people.
Worse, what happens after downloading goes down because it is no longer affordable? Or maybe piracy comes down? They'll still be paying that tax and the companies are going to get essentially free money. THis reminds me of the record "breakage" fee that record companies charge or the "convenience' fee that ticketmaster charge. Just pure profit. If these people want some windfall of the tax, then they should allow the government to look at how they structure themselves.
The only way is to completely boycott the whole thing and that should send a very strong signal to both government and record companies.
sri
But we're talking about Persians here not Arabs. A completely different set of people and with a completely different history. If Iran is a hostile country one should consider that it became that way because of constant interference by the U.S. government and it's oil influenced foreign policy. Shooting down a democratic representative of the people and replacing it with a tyrant is probably a pretty good reason to be pissed off.
In addition to mathemtics, persian cooking is the precursor to the monglai cooking that most people commonly refer to as Indian food.
Mod parent up!
So one of the things we got Bush and Gonzales on is that they've been wire tapping illegally and lying about it. Won't the update of the FISA bill allow them to argue that since it's no longer illegal means they are no longer culpable? After all, if congress believes they are updating for the sake national security then no law is broken? I don't know if the changes are retroactive or not.
But if they have then I suspect that Democrats have also cut their our collective throats in making a case to impeach either Gonzales and/or President Bush and Vice President Cheney. If that's true, this is a colossal fuck up. This was the only real legal ground Congress has for "high crimes". We can't really prove that Bush lied regarding intelligence in Iraq and the war.
What a bunch of crap. Goddam Democrats. I lay this at the feet of Emannuelle Rahim. That asshat has gotten everything wrong and should be kicked out. Even new Democrats like Jim Webb has voted for this. I can only shake my head in resignation.
sri
Good luck with that. The republicans are all social conservatives and all they want is a Nanny state with a messianic ruler. So, all you'll get is blind tax cuts and government making rules for what you do morally based on the Christian religion. I think you've picked the wrong time to become Republican. I suggest you go libertarian who pick some third party because the Republicans are cooked. Bush has destroyed the Goldwater conservatism and by merging with the right wing religionists have ruined it. Now all you got is the Base.
sri
I wonder if it'll come with the sound from the 6 million dollar man? Although, I'd be upset if everytime I lift my hand the "puuuuuuuuuuuuuur" keeps showing up. Plus masturbating would be somewhat more symphonic than I would like.
sri
It can't cost more than what we're paying for the Iraq War. So using the whole money argument is ridiculous. We aren't getting anything out of our investment in Iraq. Oh wait, maybe the biggest U.S. embassy on the planet and over 3K of lives lost. I think if we can afford this law we can certainly fucking support global warming.
sri
Between 22-32? Try 22-40. At last, a cultural icon that spans nearly 20 years. :-)
sri
You have to give Dean one thing. He doesn't bullshit around he says what he believes. He's certainly no Hillary and I respect that.
sri
And goddam it they've ruined the nice little Internet we had. With preteen/teenage girls comes all the dirty old men preying on them, and the porn, and trash. Guys thinking I'm a girl, wanting to join my buddy list. FUck you, pervs! It's just too much!
:-)
:-)
Teens. They will be the death of our society! Mark my words! Create something cool.. but don't invite the teens!
Can we go back to downloading blueprints to the enterprise?
sri
No worries. Hope you find some good music. :-)
sri
Same here! The range of music now is really really broad now. It's great!
sri