If you were really following your logic, you'd call the operating system Debian or GNU. Just as Mac OS X isn't called "Mach" or MS Windows isn't "NT kernel".
exactly the point he was making. buy smaller quantities more often and you get to enjoy something known in the rest of the world as fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh bread. also, what's wrong with drinking tap water? (hence the title - America-centric much?)
I, for one, wonder when rats became our new overlords. How come they can get new kidneys, be cured of baldness and diabetes, cloned, have intelligence and memory increased, etc.. When can I do to get this preferential treatment?
durability AND battery life. not OR. these 2 features are the only 2 i would happily pay extra for. i don't need the phone to glow blue when orcs are near, pluck my nose hair or keep my crotch cool in summer. I want it to be soft&bendy (TM) so I can sit on it (with keys/coins in the same pocket) and i don't want to have to carry a 5 year old nokia in my bag in case i actually need a phone for emergency, because there's 80% chance my main phone will be out of juice when i need it most.
one needs to wait for the second or third generation to have those fancy bits in. how are they meant to make money off the same people again if the 1st device is good enough?
I'm afraid there would be no retina rupturing. I've seen a documentary about this with Dr Samantha Carter. It's also quite easy to escape the gravity. You just need a big enough explosion between the ship and the centre of the black hole.
unfortunately, i have to agree here for 2 simple reasons:
1. thanks to half-baked crap like Linpus Linux that was only put on Acer REVOs so that people can install their own pirated version of Windows afterwards, I personally know at least 3 people who got burned by it and would never even consider buying anything with Tux on it. (The version that was on Acer Aspire One netbook was kind of all-rightish though.)
2. thanks to Acer and Asus (and later also Dell/Lenovo), only the shittiest of shitty hardware was ever sold with GNU/Linux on it and that is how people remember GNU/Linux computers. The squeaky plasticky computers that lasted 42.5 minutes on a single charge, had unresponsive touchpad the size of a coin and took 50 seconds to open a Word document.
Thank you Acer/Asus. If you two were people, I'd run you over with a car.
i read about 'glass' about 13 years ago in a short story in a scifi magazine. but it was way more advanced. it also created persistent overlays of the real world and communicated with other 'glasses'. e.g. if i told my 'glass' to put a watch on my wrist, others with 'glass' could see it on my wrist too. same for a virtual picture on a bedroom wall, etc. the story unfortunately isn't in english http://www.scifi.sk/poviedky/80/Juraj_Andrassy-Ruzove_okuliare.html
I find the kind of drm Packtpub do with their ebooks more acceptable. i.e.: make sure the application displays the buyer's name and address somewhere at all times. That way, the users themselves will protect the application from getting into the wrong hands. And if it gets onto the internets, you know who leaked it.
I do understand this means more work for you (recompile a part of your app for every single customer) but it is also a lot less trouble for the user (not having to mess around with registrations, serials, etc).
How exactly would you yourself go about overthrowing such regime if you were a N. Korean? * no internet * there is no independent radio to broadcast your message * there's no press free of communist party oversight * no corner print shop that would print or copy your handmade flyers * no phones for 99% of inhabitants * almost no roads, little available fuel, almost no cars to use, impossible to physically reach significant number of people * the only big gatherings that ever happen are organised by the party, for party's purposes * even the three catholic churches they have in pyongyang have party appointed ministers instead of priests * 30-50% of people around you would rat you out for a loaf of bread, the others for 2 loaves (even if they agree with you) I really do NOT envy those people. They let it go too far, too quickly, too long ago. Kind of like what's happening in the US now.
You're generally wrong. A few years back, having failed countless times to get my mom off IE, I swapped the IE and Firefox icons on her desktop. As far as she can tell, she's still using the "blue e" to "go on the internet". I've had to use the very same trick on my mother-in-law and aunt (no sexism intended). The same applies to renaming "Libre/OpenOffice Writer" to Word, etc... To them, internet == blue e; bookmark manager == postit notes; lightweight text editor == MS Word And there's NOTHING anyone can do about it! Ever!
english IS his first language. nobody who learned english as their second language would write "would of". this is similar to "they're, their, there" type of mistake. only native speakers have a problem with this. first time i came across "would of", i had to look it up on google.
this is ridiculous. we need to give the guy some credit. he has invested millions of his own money into this distribution and so far it's been like a sink in his wallet. he's not going to keep pouring cash in until he's broke. ubuntu has to start making money at some point. If people don't like the online searches by default, they should file a bug. If a lot of people join, it'll have to be addressed. This is a stage in ubuntu's development, not a reason to abandon ship.
You cannot call everything not explained by modern science a fairytale/magic/fantasy. Modern science is too young for that (less than a century). If we assume there can be only 1 truth, then all true scientific explanations of facts of our universe MUST also be accepted by believers as true explanations of stories mentioned in bible. Personally, I wish science would hurry up so I don't have to guess what the true nature of a story, told to uneducated simpletons 3000 years ago, was. I, for one, DO understand that 3000 years ago, every story that didn't revolve around markets, goats and haggling must have been seen as a magical tale meant to be exaggerated. (i.e. I really doubt there was an aramaic word for bacteria.)
I still remember when, as a child, I was told God created man and woman. When I asked how, my dad took out encyclopaedia and we read the fascinating story of evolution. I never thought there was any conflict between my faith and science. That seems to be pretty standard among 'believers' in Europe. I really don't get how this can be such a deal in the US. You can only stare at provable facts (and tools like carbon dating) and ignore them for so long before you feel like a fool.
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If you were really following your logic, you'd call the operating system Debian or GNU. Just as Mac OS X isn't called "Mach" or MS Windows isn't "NT kernel".
That's a very clever observation. You must be a very smart person.
Fortunately, thanks to 22nd amendment, he was only able to serve two terms.
exactly the point he was making. buy smaller quantities more often and you get to enjoy something known in the rest of the world as fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh bread. also, what's wrong with drinking tap water? (hence the title - America-centric much?)
s/When/What (stupid autocompletion)
I, for one, wonder when rats became our new overlords. How come they can get new kidneys, be cured of baldness and diabetes, cloned, have intelligence and memory increased, etc.. When can I do to get this preferential treatment?
also, anything that can be displayed on my screen can be recorded and saved into a file. it doesn't matter if it's in silverlight, flash or html
durability AND battery life. not OR. these 2 features are the only 2 i would happily pay extra for. i don't need the phone to glow blue when orcs are near, pluck my nose hair or keep my crotch cool in summer. I want it to be soft&bendy (TM) so I can sit on it (with keys/coins in the same pocket) and i don't want to have to carry a 5 year old nokia in my bag in case i actually need a phone for emergency, because there's 80% chance my main phone will be out of juice when i need it most.
one needs to wait for the second or third generation to have those fancy bits in. how are they meant to make money off the same people again if the 1st device is good enough?
it seems you've yet to discover the beauty of
as to why anybody would use ubuntu server, the answer is simple - predictable release cycle
I'm afraid there would be no retina rupturing. I've seen a documentary about this with Dr Samantha Carter. It's also quite easy to escape the gravity. You just need a big enough explosion between the ship and the centre of the black hole.
unfortunately, i have to agree here for 2 simple reasons:
1. thanks to half-baked crap like Linpus Linux that was only put on Acer REVOs so that people can install their own pirated version of Windows afterwards, I personally know at least 3 people who got burned by it and would never even consider buying anything with Tux on it. (The version that was on Acer Aspire One netbook was kind of all-rightish though.)
2. thanks to Acer and Asus (and later also Dell/Lenovo), only the shittiest of shitty hardware was ever sold with GNU/Linux on it and that is how people remember GNU/Linux computers. The squeaky plasticky computers that lasted 42.5 minutes on a single charge, had unresponsive touchpad the size of a coin and took 50 seconds to open a Word document.
Thank you Acer/Asus. If you two were people, I'd run you over with a car.
scarier. way scarier... Oxymoron Incarnate kind of scary
i read about 'glass' about 13 years ago in a short story in a scifi magazine. but it was way more advanced. it also created persistent overlays of the real world and communicated with other 'glasses'. e.g. if i told my 'glass' to put a watch on my wrist, others with 'glass' could see it on my wrist too. same for a virtual picture on a bedroom wall, etc.
the story unfortunately isn't in english http://www.scifi.sk/poviedky/80/Juraj_Andrassy-Ruzove_okuliare.html
I find the kind of drm Packtpub do with their ebooks more acceptable. i.e.: make sure the application displays the buyer's name and address somewhere at all times. That way, the users themselves will protect the application from getting into the wrong hands. And if it gets onto the internets, you know who leaked it.
I do understand this means more work for you (recompile a part of your app for every single customer) but it is also a lot less trouble for the user (not having to mess around with registrations, serials, etc).
How exactly would you yourself go about overthrowing such regime if you were a N. Korean?
* no internet
* there is no independent radio to broadcast your message
* there's no press free of communist party oversight
* no corner print shop that would print or copy your handmade flyers
* no phones for 99% of inhabitants
* almost no roads, little available fuel, almost no cars to use, impossible to physically reach significant number of people
* the only big gatherings that ever happen are organised by the party, for party's purposes
* even the three catholic churches they have in pyongyang have party appointed ministers instead of priests
* 30-50% of people around you would rat you out for a loaf of bread, the others for 2 loaves (even if they agree with you)
I really do NOT envy those people. They let it go too far, too quickly, too long ago. Kind of like what's happening in the US now.
You're generally wrong. A few years back, having failed countless times to get my mom off IE, I swapped the IE and Firefox icons on her desktop. As far as she can tell, she's still using the "blue e" to "go on the internet". I've had to use the very same trick on my mother-in-law and aunt (no sexism intended). The same applies to renaming "Libre/OpenOffice Writer" to Word, etc... To them, internet == blue e; bookmark manager == postit notes; lightweight text editor == MS Word
And there's NOTHING anyone can do about it! Ever!
english IS his first language. nobody who learned english as their second language would write "would of". this is similar to "they're, their, there" type of mistake. only native speakers have a problem with this.
first time i came across "would of", i had to look it up on google.
this is ridiculous. we need to give the guy some credit. he has invested millions of his own money into this distribution and so far it's been like a sink in his wallet. he's not going to keep pouring cash in until he's broke. ubuntu has to start making money at some point.
If people don't like the online searches by default, they should file a bug. If a lot of people join, it'll have to be addressed. This is a stage in ubuntu's development, not a reason to abandon ship.
Christians would sue for copyright infringement.
You cannot call everything not explained by modern science a fairytale/magic/fantasy. Modern science is too young for that (less than a century).
If we assume there can be only 1 truth, then all true scientific explanations of facts of our universe MUST also be accepted by believers as true explanations of stories mentioned in bible.
Personally, I wish science would hurry up so I don't have to guess what the true nature of a story, told to uneducated simpletons 3000 years ago, was. I, for one, DO understand that 3000 years ago, every story that didn't revolve around markets, goats and haggling must have been seen as a magical tale meant to be exaggerated. (i.e. I really doubt there was an aramaic word for bacteria.)
I still remember when, as a child, I was told God created man and woman. When I asked how, my dad took out encyclopaedia and we read the fascinating story of evolution. I never thought there was any conflict between my faith and science. That seems to be pretty standard among 'believers' in Europe. I really don't get how this can be such a deal in the US. You can only stare at provable facts (and tools like carbon dating) and ignore them for so long before you feel like a fool.
i can't wait for apple to invent the watch and sue those swiss copycats into oblivion.
there's an easy way to fix that. they're within drone range, so why not introduce some DEMOCRACY to them?