Even with the news of Dell having Ubuntu systems (including laptops) I still went with System76 for reason exactly like this story. I have been happy with their service and support and I am glad I bought my laptop from them.
The keyboard on the laptop (Pangolin Value) is not as good as my IBM work laptop, but not bad. The display is great though, which is what I care about most.
Who cares if someone takes a snap of your cat in your window.
Privacy is obtained through the massive amount of data available on the web. Only way anyone is going to pay any attention to a silly cat in your window is if you raise a stink about it with the WSJ like this lady did.
If it was a matter of simply "fighting them over there" we were already doing that in Afghanistan so there was no reason to do that in Iraq.
The reason you heard phrases such as "fighting them over there" in the media is because it worked well in WWII to motivate the nation to be for the war and it was justified. The media and politicians are still pulling this line because it worked then but is completely and totally false now.
Think about it, how likely is it Iraqi's are going to come to the United States and fight us here? One, they had no motivation to do so and two they had no means to do so.
I was fine with the United States getting Saddam but the war stopped there. After that it was no longer a war it was an occupation. They should have handed the governance and rebuilding efforts at that point over to a conglomeration of willing Islamic coutries. Indonesia, Jordan and Egypt would have been good choices and then the United States along with other coalition partners should have helped fund the efforts of those countries.
Quite simply the strategy is to ensure we fight militant Islamics somewhere other than in our own country.
We were already in Afghanistan, where the actual problem was. There were a number of reasons for going in to Iraq, and they were complex. However, "fighting them over there" is not one of those reasons.
That reason for this war is even more invalid than when it was applied in the Vietnam war. The war where it was a valid reason was WWII.
If you are young and healthy then get out of this mess now and find an individual plan. Keep in mind that you can be as much as 50 and still get a decent price on an individual major medical plan if you are simply NOT A LARDASS. From someone who works in the industry myself, and so does my wife, you are absolutely full of it. There are no individual plans that are affordable.
However, I do agree that this being an option would be a big step in the right direction. Having people able to get plan's with the hospitals of their choice for certain coverages would start the reformation to a solution. Right now we are still just getting further from a workable situation every day.
Business hated it too. They don't want to have upgrades forced upon them any more than consumers do. They want the freedom to upgrade when they want. Also M$ moving from VS6 to.NET breaks development plans of a lot of legacy business systems. That pissed them off too. So the momentum is coming from both the consumer and business.
We do owe it to M$, for not playing nice. There are a lot of other players who are willing to play nice and take their place.
Well said, and people watching it for entertainment do see they are using math and science all over the place to plan out their tests. While it may be bad math or science at any point (and they would admit it) it still shows young people especially that learning this stuff has real world usage that can be pretty fun sometimes.
If you look at the bugs database for Feisty there wasn't much outstanding to get done. I ran Edgy and updated to Feisty. No issues, actually the update fixed a few setup issues I had but they were caused by stuff I did.
The issues I do see have nothing to do with the release. It is with code they have no control over. The one thing I still see is the media players crashing out every now and then and I had the same thing happen when I used to use Windows a few months back.
You inferring there was a borked release is incorrect, the only borked releases I know of recently were Vista (late, buggy, forced down peoples throats) and Leopard (late, delayed till October).
Have you tried to run Xubuntu? It runs xfce as the window manager and is suppose to have lighter hardware requirements. I would wait a bit on trying to get that distro or even access their site as the entire Ubuntu world is getting slammed right now.
asked him about 20 questions in all. Mix-n-match. From very basic, to very complex issues, and no theoretical, textbook stuff. I don't see how low level detailed questions help discern a good candidate in any way. High level scenarios give you a much better feel for the mind behind the person.
And if the person has proved that they can learn in school, they can likely learn and train to do well on the job. The key part of this is how do you judge if a person learnt in school, is a good learner, still is interested in learning more, is reasonably enough humble to learn from others, etc.?
I'll take someone on my team who is reasonable at communication and writing, then likes and is interested in what they are doing over someone who can do well at 20 questions any day. The job at hand of course is pertinent but in my view of IT over the last 10 years the ones who have yielded the best return to their respective employers have fallen into the first category.
It is not even close to being cash. They are giving the owners of YT ownership in Google. If it was cash they would be giving the owners only cash, and they would have no ownership in Google, unless of course they used the money to buy some. The Google stock is not the same as cash because right now Google's stock is over valued compared to other companies. If you think in the future there will be someone willing to pay even more for it then yes it could be worth more than the cash, but only if you sell it then and all of that is SPECULATION. Cash is not speculation.
So to one perspective it might be cheaper than 1.6 billion in cash and to another it might be more expensive than the 1.6 billion. However, one of them is based on speculation and one isn't.
Google's stock price is more volatile than the value of cash.
As much as I like Debian, I must admit you're right: Ubuntu seems to be what Debian should have become. It is best to keep Debian the way it is and then have Ubuntu the way it is. They will both evolve but I don't want to see Debian become Ubuntu. I only run Ubuntu now but having that stable Debian release for the servers that just need to be stable above all else is the rock in the foundation everything else great about both systems is built upon.
Kaku devoted a whole book to his explanation and the previous poster actually wanted to understand what Kaku was talking about.
If the reader actually wants to know, most people really don't, well I should say they just don't care, then given a moderate sized layman's explanation of it in a paper or book will usually suffice.
You stated:
optimization of some process involved in database storage Something like this is simple to explain to people unaware of the inner workings of databases. You just explain it referencing something similar like a book with an index at the back. And then how a index in the back organized in way A vs. way B is better or worse. There are always analogies to be found that people understand. Requires a good writer though and certainly not all of us are as good as Kaku.
HP always seems to be able to get big government computer contracts, Those big government contracts are why OpenVMS is still alive at HP. Once they aquired the system whilst aquiring Compaq they saw just how many contracts the government had for this.
HP has a greater potential to affect the Linux pendulum than even Dell. HP has the hardware and software guys to back it up. They have a lot of hard core systems guys with their different offerings that already help a lot with Linux compatibility and can do a lot more quite easily if the need is there.
Furthermore, tell me this slashdot: Why is it better to be locked-in to Googles proprietary software instead of Microsofts?
It isn't about the proprietary software in so much as it is about the proprietary formats of the MS Office documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Google backs the open formats.
That is absolutely the top reason why having a few more million people getting computers with Linux installed (even if they aren't experts) is a good thing. The hardware manufacturers are already doing a good job at Linux compatibility but if they know a lot of regular users need compatibility they will do the Linux work as part of their normal release process. As opposed to work done after the fact in a way that might not be as thorough.
why isn't the Live CD HIGHLY RECOMMENDED like Grub?
Because it isn't needed by the vast majority of users. Want it to be more clear then get it to work on your three hard drive, won't listen to advice setup and write a wiki entry explaining how to do it so the other two or three people on Earth like you can run Ubuntu.
It's community supported software. You need to be prepared to be a part of the community not simply served by them.
I know because I didn't have time to spend on a lot of the little details and everything I needed to just work (sans my digital voice recorder, which is my fault for buying the wrong one) was addressed in that guide. Everything worked really well with Ubuntu with little to no fuss. I actually formatted my Windows partition and run just Ubuntu, even my wife uses it sometimes with no instruction and hasn't complained yet.
I however don't play any of the new games, so I don't need Windows for that. So for people who don't play games I honestly think Ubuntu is THE best choice for them on nearly all fronts. Sync'ing with my Ipod was better on Windows using Itunes but Amarok (sp?) does a good enough job, a couple extra clicks are required but in the end I achieve the same result.
Having recently switched over my M$ box to pure Ubuntu, no dual boot. I was thinking there had to be serious money and talent behind everything now as opposed to about 7 years ago when I last messed with Linux much. Everything just works so good now and requires minimal configuration. Mucho thanks to all those individuals and companies who contribute in any way.
Engineer's and Chemist's used to get paid more than doctors. Now I would say they get 1/2 to a 1/10th what they do.
I love the intellectual challenge of programming and will hopefully continue to do it professionally. However, knowing what I know now, the right field is medicine. It is intellectually challenging, the pay is better, and you can move around jobs easier.
Anyone asking me which carrear path to follow I tell them if you don't really really love IT or programming then go medicine. I don't see the pendulum swinging back the other way any time soon.
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Even with the news of Dell having Ubuntu systems (including laptops) I still went with System76 for reason exactly like this story. I have been happy with their service and support and I am glad I bought my laptop from them.
The keyboard on the laptop (Pangolin Value) is not as good as my IBM work laptop, but not bad. The display is great though, which is what I care about most.
Guess what, your still freakin out.
Who cares if someone takes a snap of your cat in your window.
Privacy is obtained through the massive amount of data available on the web. Only way anyone is going to pay any attention to a silly cat in your window is if you raise a stink about it with the WSJ like this lady did.
If it was a matter of simply "fighting them over there" we were already doing that in Afghanistan so there was no reason to do that in Iraq.
The reason you heard phrases such as "fighting them over there" in the media is because it worked well in WWII to motivate the nation to be for the war and it was justified. The media and politicians are still pulling this line because it worked then but is completely and totally false now.
Think about it, how likely is it Iraqi's are going to come to the United States and fight us here? One, they had no motivation to do so and two they had no means to do so.
I was fine with the United States getting Saddam but the war stopped there. After that it was no longer a war it was an occupation. They should have handed the governance and rebuilding efforts at that point over to a conglomeration of willing Islamic coutries. Indonesia, Jordan and Egypt would have been good choices and then the United States along with other coalition partners should have helped fund the efforts of those countries.
Quite simply the strategy is to ensure we fight militant Islamics somewhere other than in our own country.
We were already in Afghanistan, where the actual problem was. There were a number of reasons for going in to Iraq, and they were complex. However, "fighting them over there" is not one of those reasons.
That reason for this war is even more invalid than when it was applied in the Vietnam war. The war where it was a valid reason was WWII.
However, I do agree that this being an option would be a big step in the right direction. Having people able to get plan's with the hospitals of their choice for certain coverages would start the reformation to a solution. Right now we are still just getting further from a workable situation every day.
I wouldn't call 49,000 cashing out. Seems like a fair price to me.
Business hated it too. They don't want to have upgrades forced upon them any more than consumers do. They want the freedom to upgrade when they want. Also M$ moving from VS6 to .NET breaks development plans of a lot of legacy business systems. That pissed them off too. So the momentum is coming from both the consumer and business.
We do owe it to M$, for not playing nice. There are a lot of other players who are willing to play nice and take their place.
If you hadn't done so already in a previous installation I would suggest first off to enable tab autocompletion on the Bash command line.
/etc/bash_completion ]; then /etc/bash_completion
/etc/bash.bashrc.
Which you do by uncommenting this:
# enable bash completion in interactive shells
if [ -f
.
fi
in
Then install basic build tools if you want to code:
apt-get install build-essential
Try the graphical tool this guy wrote:
i ghlight=xorg+edit
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156243&h
Some people seemed to have luck with this issue using this tool.
Well said, and people watching it for entertainment do see they are using math and science all over the place to plan out their tests. While it may be bad math or science at any point (and they would admit it) it still shows young people especially that learning this stuff has real world usage that can be pretty fun sometimes.
If you look at the bugs database for Feisty there wasn't much outstanding to get done. I ran Edgy and updated to Feisty. No issues, actually the update fixed a few setup issues I had but they were caused by stuff I did.
The issues I do see have nothing to do with the release. It is with code they have no control over. The one thing I still see is the media players crashing out every now and then and I had the same thing happen when I used to use Windows a few months back.
You inferring there was a borked release is incorrect, the only borked releases I know of recently were Vista (late, buggy, forced down peoples throats) and Leopard (late, delayed till October).
Have you tried to run Xubuntu? It runs xfce as the window manager and is suppose to have lighter hardware requirements. I would wait a bit on trying to get that distro or even access their site as the entire Ubuntu world is getting slammed right now.
BINGO !
You have a lot of new users who have figured a few things out and are now helping other new users with the same issues.
It is not all dinosaurs sitting in IRC typing RTFM. A number of these new people will start to RTFM, but not all of them and well... that is ok.
Did you check out the machines at:
http://www.system76.com/
I want a pure Ubuntu laptop, and will purchase one in the next three months. I am thinking about purchasing from these guys.
I'll take someone on my team who is reasonable at communication and writing, then likes and is interested in what they are doing over someone who can do well at 20 questions any day. The job at hand of course is pertinent but in my view of IT over the last 10 years the ones who have yielded the best return to their respective employers have fallen into the first category.
It is not even close to being cash. They are giving the owners of YT ownership in Google. If it was cash they would be giving the owners only cash, and they would have no ownership in Google, unless of course they used the money to buy some. The Google stock is not the same as cash because right now Google's stock is over valued compared to other companies. If you think in the future there will be someone willing to pay even more for it then yes it could be worth more than the cash, but only if you sell it then and all of that is SPECULATION. Cash is not speculation.
So to one perspective it might be cheaper than 1.6 billion in cash and to another it might be more expensive than the 1.6 billion. However, one of them is based on speculation and one isn't.
Google's stock price is more volatile than the value of cash.
If the reader actually wants to know, most people really don't, well I should say they just don't care, then given a moderate sized layman's explanation of it in a paper or book will usually suffice.
You stated: optimization of some process involved in database storage Something like this is simple to explain to people unaware of the inner workings of databases. You just explain it referencing something similar like a book with an index at the back. And then how a index in the back organized in way A vs. way B is better or worse. There are always analogies to be found that people understand. Requires a good writer though and certainly not all of us are as good as Kaku.
HP has a greater potential to affect the Linux pendulum than even Dell. HP has the hardware and software guys to back it up. They have a lot of hard core systems guys with their different offerings that already help a lot with Linux compatibility and can do a lot more quite easily if the need is there.
It isn't about the proprietary software in so much as it is about the proprietary formats of the MS Office documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Google backs the open formats.
BINGO !
That is absolutely the top reason why having a few more million people getting computers with Linux installed (even if they aren't experts) is a good thing. The hardware manufacturers are already doing a good job at Linux compatibility but if they know a lot of regular users need compatibility they will do the Linux work as part of their normal release process. As opposed to work done after the fact in a way that might not be as thorough.
Because it isn't needed by the vast majority of users. Want it to be more clear then get it to work on your three hard drive, won't listen to advice setup and write a wiki entry explaining how to do it so the other two or three people on Earth like you can run Ubuntu.
It's community supported software. You need to be prepared to be a part of the community not simply served by them.
You can do most of that if you read this:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy
I know because I didn't have time to spend on a lot of the little details and everything I needed to just work (sans my digital voice recorder, which is my fault for buying the wrong one) was addressed in that guide. Everything worked really well with Ubuntu with little to no fuss. I actually formatted my Windows partition and run just Ubuntu, even my wife uses it sometimes with no instruction and hasn't complained yet.
I however don't play any of the new games, so I don't need Windows for that. So for people who don't play games I honestly think Ubuntu is THE best choice for them on nearly all fronts. Sync'ing with my Ipod was better on Windows using Itunes but Amarok (sp?) does a good enough job, a couple extra clicks are required but in the end I achieve the same result.
Having recently switched over my M$ box to pure Ubuntu, no dual boot. I was thinking there had to be serious money and talent behind everything now as opposed to about 7 years ago when I last messed with Linux much. Everything just works so good now and requires minimal configuration. Mucho thanks to all those individuals and companies who contribute in any way.
Engineer's and Chemist's used to get paid more than doctors. Now I would say they get 1/2 to a 1/10th what they do.
I love the intellectual challenge of programming and will hopefully continue to do it professionally. However, knowing what I know now, the right field is medicine. It is intellectually challenging, the pay is better, and you can move around jobs easier.
Anyone asking me which carrear path to follow I tell them if you don't really really love IT or programming then go medicine. I don't see the pendulum swinging back the other way any time soon.