I was a staunch KDE fan. When I first switched from twm to the KDE 1.x binaries in RedHat 5.x, it made a huge difference. It was my desktop for life. Then KDE 4.x happened. I upgraded to the next major release of Ubuntu (9.4) to standard Ubuntu and haven't looked back. I will try KDE again when their apps are stable and work as well as they did in 3.5, but I have no idea when that will be.
Change you can believe in, but not really expect. Thanks for limiting our freedoms and working for big business, Democrats! You're just as bad as Bush.
Whereas Microsoft is a corporation with focus, clarity, and direction. Linux seeped into the netbook niche because it was the best alternative at the time. Any new computing device that needs an O/S and hasn't yet gotten a proven business model for making money is a perfect platform for Linux. It plays to Linux's strengths. The netbook craze caught MS completely unawares, and Linux was very successful for a year or so. Then MS focused on that segment, clarified their offerings, and went directly at the manufacturers to make sure that XP was a viable option on that platform. In other words, the market morphed to a situation that played to Microsoft's strengths. No conspiracies or dead horses here, just the standard business cycle. I hope to pick up a netbook, and I know to get one that has Linux, but most people just don't care, and are familiar with XP. They see the familiar "Start" button and gravitate towards that. To each their own.
With any luck, this will minimize the damage that Texas can do to the science curriculum of schools nation wide. You want stupid shit in your science book? Click the stupid shit radio button. You want real science? Click the real science radio button. We will be reporting your choice to national accreditation agencies. Have a nice school year.
Seriously, it's a good business decision to support the largest OS provider in the world. It may actually be unnecessary because they are so dominant, but who cares. Many companies have dabbled with pre-installed Linux, but the niche players seem to be doing the best. I bought a Lenovo with SUSE on it just to make sure that I wouldn't have to deal with driver issues. I understand that Lenovo no longer offers Linux preinstalled. Good for them, my next PC purchase won't be from them. I don't take it as a personal insult, however, as I realize that I am an outlier in a commodity market.
awesome. To the best of my knowledge, GPS's will show rivers, but if you are paddling on one, it won't give you a great ETA. Google Rivers, on the other hand, could record average current speed and all the bends in the river to a genuine geocoded object instead of a dumb jpeg. That would be pretty sweet.
I've had the same experience, which is why I eventually dumped my bluetooth mouse for a Logitech Nano. It takes up a USB port, but the dongle is darned near invisible. I love it.
They control the Federal Budget. If Obama wants to spend 3% of the budget on science, great. But stop pretending that all of the Gross Domestic Output is his to allocate. That is bullshit. One final thing: STOP BORROWING. Screw change we can believe in. Fiscal responsibility is change we need.
The market shifts to meet demand so that the producers can maximize their profits. When casual gaming burns itself out, demand for hard corps games will be pent up. Someone will release "Uncharted: BioCrysis 8" and it will sell a bizillion copies. Then game companies will be tripping over themselves to sell the most intense, violent, graphic and realistic games again. Until then you will see a decline in those types of games, but not their elimination. The market is too big for hard corps games to die.
Good for Stanford, run barefoot all you want. A good pair of shoes allows me to run with less pain in my Achilles tendon. Since no one else needs, them, I feel kind of special: A multi-billion dollar industry is targeted directly at me.
Dear Canadian Government Officials: Your Corporate Overlords in the United States DEMAND you pass this legislation immediately! We order our continental second-class citizens to bow to our dictates. If you do not, it will jeopardize your status as our vassal and psychological 51st state. Disobey your American Corporate Overlords at your own peril. Obey!
You've gotta be kidding. The US industry has been raiding British TV for years: Trading Places Coupling Life on Mars What Not To Wear The Office
Life on Mars did OK. Coupling bombed, though the original series was excellent. The rest are very successful hits, except for The Office. It is a runaway smash hit.
I just unplug the phone line into my DSL modem and blow into it. Then, for good measure, I pour in some powdered sugar. Then I blow into it again. The sugar and air hit the pneumatic pumps. The air acts like an embolism, forcing the pumps to work like mad. The sugar gets stuck in the compression rings, shredding them and dropping the bit pressure to the rest of the internet. *Poof*, there goes the network.
between Guinness and the planet. Figure out another solution. Without Guinness, what good is a planet anyway? Mars: No Guinness, no people. Co-incidence? I think not.
For the first time ever, I'm glad that they didn't build it. It was supposed to be built in Texas, and those clowns don't deserve it. Maybe if it had been built they would be more kindly predisposed to science there, but I somehow doubt it.
Here is the part I don't get: If there is no Free Will, doesn't that negate creativity? Where do ideas and inspirations come from if we're just running a pre-recorded script?
and that every moment is a gift. Even the bad moments. You are supposed to respect life and fight to maintain it as long as you can. This study doesn't surprise me at all, as it shows people acting in a manner consistent with their beliefs.
I'm in my early 40's and the world has been going to hell because of "those damned kids" ever since I was one of them. The recession will wipe out any sense of entitlement. Beyond that, those who are good workers and competent at what they do will excel. Those that aren't will find another line of work, or be made to.
The current generation of twentysomethings seems to have quite a bit of entrepreneurial spirit, which makes me feel good about the future.
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I was a staunch KDE fan. When I first switched from twm to the KDE 1.x binaries in RedHat 5.x, it made a huge difference. It was my desktop for life. Then KDE 4.x happened. I upgraded to the next major release of Ubuntu (9.4) to standard Ubuntu and haven't looked back. I will try KDE again when their apps are stable and work as well as they did in 3.5, but I have no idea when that will be.
Change you can believe in, but not really expect. Thanks for limiting our freedoms and working for big business, Democrats! You're just as bad as Bush.
Whereas Microsoft is a corporation with focus, clarity, and direction. Linux seeped into the netbook niche because it was the best alternative at the time. Any new computing device that needs an O/S and hasn't yet gotten a proven business model for making money is a perfect platform for Linux. It plays to Linux's strengths. The netbook craze caught MS completely unawares, and Linux was very successful for a year or so. Then MS focused on that segment, clarified their offerings, and went directly at the manufacturers to make sure that XP was a viable option on that platform. In other words, the market morphed to a situation that played to Microsoft's strengths. No conspiracies or dead horses here, just the standard business cycle. I hope to pick up a netbook, and I know to get one that has Linux, but most people just don't care, and are familiar with XP. They see the familiar "Start" button and gravitate towards that. To each their own.
With any luck, this will minimize the damage that Texas can do to the science curriculum of schools nation wide. You want stupid shit in your science book? Click the stupid shit radio button. You want real science? Click the real science radio button. We will be reporting your choice to national accreditation agencies. Have a nice school year.
Seriously, it's a good business decision to support the largest OS provider in the world. It may actually be unnecessary because they are so dominant, but who cares. Many companies have dabbled with pre-installed Linux, but the niche players seem to be doing the best. I bought a Lenovo with SUSE on it just to make sure that I wouldn't have to deal with driver issues. I understand that Lenovo no longer offers Linux preinstalled. Good for them, my next PC purchase won't be from them. I don't take it as a personal insult, however, as I realize that I am an outlier in a commodity market.
awesome. To the best of my knowledge, GPS's will show rivers, but if you are paddling on one, it won't give you a great ETA. Google Rivers, on the other hand, could record average current speed and all the bends in the river to a genuine geocoded object instead of a dumb jpeg. That would be pretty sweet.
I've had the same experience, which is why I eventually dumped my bluetooth mouse for a Logitech Nano. It takes up a USB port, but the dongle is darned near invisible. I love it.
They control the Federal Budget. If Obama wants to spend 3% of the budget on science, great. But stop pretending that all of the Gross Domestic Output is his to allocate. That is bullshit. One final thing: STOP BORROWING.
Screw change we can believe in. Fiscal responsibility is change we need.
The market shifts to meet demand so that the producers can maximize their profits. When casual gaming burns itself out, demand for hard corps games will be pent up. Someone will release "Uncharted: BioCrysis 8" and it will sell a bizillion copies. Then game companies will be tripping over themselves to sell the most intense, violent, graphic and realistic games again. Until then you will see a decline in those types of games, but not their elimination. The market is too big for hard corps games to die.
Good for Stanford, run barefoot all you want. A good pair of shoes allows me to run with less pain in my Achilles tendon. Since no one else needs, them, I feel kind of special: A multi-billion dollar industry is targeted directly at me.
Dear Canadian Government Officials:
Your Corporate Overlords in the United States DEMAND you pass this legislation immediately! We order our continental second-class citizens to bow to our dictates. If you do not, it will jeopardize your status as our vassal and psychological 51st state. Disobey your American Corporate Overlords at your own peril. Obey!
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
That should do the trick.
You've gotta be kidding. The US industry has been raiding British TV for years:
Trading Places
Coupling
Life on Mars
What Not To Wear
The Office
Life on Mars did OK. Coupling bombed, though the original series was excellent. The rest are very successful hits, except for The Office. It is a runaway smash hit.
9.04 with better support for my Intel 965 graphics chip is much bigger news to me.
No one values anything that is free. Of course, the flip side is that they are competing with free, which is hard to beat on price.
I just unplug the phone line into my DSL modem and blow into it. Then, for good measure, I pour in some powdered sugar. Then I blow into it again. The sugar and air hit the pneumatic pumps. The air acts like an embolism, forcing the pumps to work like mad. The sugar gets stuck in the compression rings, shredding them and dropping the bit pressure to the rest of the internet. *Poof*, there goes the network.
between Guinness and the planet. Figure out another solution. Without Guinness, what good is a planet anyway?
Mars: No Guinness, no people. Co-incidence? I think not.
Just kidding.
It's a bank, it's a software company, what the hell else? Buy a chain of beauty colleges? What a lousy fit. Dumb.
For the first time ever, I'm glad that they didn't build it. It was supposed to be built in Texas, and those clowns don't deserve it. Maybe if it had been built they would be more kindly predisposed to science there, but I somehow doubt it.
Here is the part I don't get: If there is no Free Will, doesn't that negate creativity? Where do ideas and inspirations come from if we're just running a pre-recorded script?
and that every moment is a gift. Even the bad moments. You are supposed to respect life and fight to maintain it as long as you can. This study doesn't surprise me at all, as it shows people acting in a manner consistent with their beliefs.
They spent their whole life as a pious believer because they don't really believe? That makes no sense.
Do your research online first, then you can pretty much tell who is full of bullshit.
Some company just let go of a top-notch salesman? Holy crap, they sound pretty stupid to me.
I'm in my early 40's and the world has been going to hell because of "those damned kids" ever since I was one of them. The recession will wipe out any sense of entitlement. Beyond that, those who are good workers and competent at what they do will excel. Those that aren't will find another line of work, or be made to.
The current generation of twentysomethings seems to have quite a bit of entrepreneurial spirit, which makes me feel good about the future.