It is poised to become THE mainstream desktop distro, while at the same time having excellent server support. It has the best hardware autodetection out there, even better than Mandrake. Yast makes it very easy to use. It is pretty solid and security patches are posted promptly and are easy to install
Redhat is focusing on servers and Fedora is an afterthought. Mandrake's quality dropped lately. Linspire and Xandros are too "proprietary" and go too far in making it easier for users (as far as doing everything as root, which is a huge security concern). Debian, Slackware and Gentoo are for geeks. Yoper is not there yet. That pretty much leaves Suse in the sweet spot.
As for the German focus, I didn't really noticed that... maybe one or two awkward translations, but other than that, I couldn't tell it was a german distro....
Oh, and the fact that they own Suse might have something to do with it too...:)
As a matter of fact, since my insurance is up for renewall, I got quotes from these two along with a few others. NJM makes it a pain to obtain a quote, you have to call, leave a message with your address and they will send you the application (maybe). You fill it in and after a (good) while you might get a response. For me, their quote wasn't very interesting. NJ Cure was better, you fill a form online and they contact you in 2-3 days with a quote (which is quite good).
Then Geico started doing business in NJ. I filled a form online, got a computer generated quote automatically, I followed up with a call that was answered immediatelly and in about 30 minutes I had a new policy that was $500/year lower than NJ Cure and approx $1000 lower than my previous insurance. So I guess I really did "save a bunch of money by switching to Geico":)
I guess the rest of the country is already used to this, but for us, insurance handicapped NJersians, this kind of service is like the Second Coming...
The DMCA throws another challenge into the point because I am sure XM Radio encrypts their data so the technical method for doing the timeshifting could be important to some judges.
I'm pretty sure I've seen the word analog somewhere in the article... If the guy records the analog output of the radio, I don't see how DMCA applies. Long live the analog hole:)
i have heard rumors of people getting speeding tickets while driving through those things. i'm not really sure though if those tickets were for going too fast through the ezpass thing or actually driving too fast on the highway.
The tickets were for going too fast through the EZpass lanes. The speed limit for going through ezpass toll lanes is 15 mph in NJ. You can safely go 30 mph, I even heard ezpass officials claiming they won't go after people that do up to 30 mph. However, if you go 50, then you might be in trouble (not to mention that you would be a jackass, the lanes aren't designed for that kind of speed).
all the really serious game developers have seen the light, and activly develop for Linux.
How about Blizzard? I'm a big Warcraft/Starcraft fan... I think Warcraft3 is one of the 6 or so games that run on Macs though. How about Civ3? Don't tell me about FreeCiv, I tried it, it is crap.
Maybe if more of the people like you would go down to court and fight the tickets, the whole system won't be that profitable. I've read somewhere that a huge percentage of people (more than 90% for sure) mail the payment in, but curiously, whenever I go to court, it's choke full with traffic cases. Imagine what would happen if everybody would ask for their day in court... I think the system would collapse.
As a side note, in New Jersey, if you go to court, you're pretty much guaranteed a reduction in the number of points you get at the cost of a higher fine. This was tested by myself and virtually all my friends in at least 15 different municipal courts all over the state. They don't want you to fight the ticket, they just want to get your money, as much of it as possible and as easily as possible.
It just happens that an hour ago I've finished the homework for my Legal Environment for Business class. Apparently, the employer is liable for the actions of his agents (employees). This goes all the way back to the British Common Law (for example: Joel v Morison, Court of Exchequer, England, 1834). Of course there are plenty of more recent cases on this side of the Atlantic as well
If the guy was doing it in the course of his employment (and by the way Google endorses Orkut it can be assumed he was), then Google is in a difficult situation. Especially with the upcoming IPO. Of course, these are still allegations, nobody proved yet that the code is actually the same.
Please note, IANAL, and I'm not even trying to become one:)
In theory what you're saying is correct, however, in real life the situation can be a bit different. If your engine is getting old, carbon buildups could cause knocking with lower grade gasoline. Now modern cars (i.e. last 10 years or so) have knock sensors that allows the ignition controller to modify the ignition timing to eliminate knocking at the expense of performance and fuel economy. So if you use a higher grade gas in such a car, the chip doesn't have to compensate and the performance is increased.
If you want to accurately measure the mileage, the best way is to reset the trip odometer when you fill up, then rely on the pump's measurement to calculate it. Your fuel gauge is not very accurate, but the pump's gauge IS.
In New Jersey you can get 87, 89 and 93. You can also get 94 at some stations but it's marketed as a high performance gasoline and thus is more expensive. Pretty much any car in the US can run on 91 (which is the maximum you can buy in some other states). Most of the cars however are designed to run on the lowest grade.
While your comments are probably true, please note that they pertain to Bowling for Columbine. Do you have any such remarks related to the subject of our discussion, which is Fahrenheit 9/11? If so, I guess we'd all be glad to hear them.
Anyway, it's obvious that F9/11 is not a balanced documentary, in fact it doesn't even claim to be. It is a film with a very specific agenda, that is to make Bush loose the elections. In that regard it is more of an op-ed piece than a documentary. However, Moore claims that all the facts presented in the movie were double checked and he's ready to stand by them even in court if necessary.
It's not that bad as you think. I posted an dedicated email address to slashdot two times already, just to see what volume of spam I get. Surprisingly, it's only 2-3 messages every other day or so.
Well, I guess I need a booster shot, so here it is: slashdot@hates.ms. Spam away...
The right to free speech, if applied only to benign conversation is useless. Try to exercise it by telling everybody that the feds requested private information under the Patriot Act's provision. Your ass will land in jail, lightning fast. Also try to publish a way to decrypt some lame ass DVD and prepare to pay fines out of your wazoo (you're breaking the DMCA). Just two examples, there are countless others. Slashdot drivel is not important for the powers that be, I could sau "Fuck Bush" or "Rumsfeld is an idiot" on every forum on the internet, and they wouldn't care, because it's NOT IMPORTANT, since the mindless masses won't see it, notice it or even care. Try to say something that IS important, something that has the potential to affect their interests, or the interests of their corporate friends and see how far you get
Free speech aside, why are American Citizens arrested in the US and jailed without access to a lawyer and due process? Just because somebody labeled them terrorists? Are you sure that in 10 years from now you won't be labeled terrorist if you don't vote Republican?
I'm not a US born citizen. I came here from an Eastern European country that, until 89, was a communist dictatorship (one of the worst). I'm old enough to remember those days. What I see happening here is a slow erosion of civil liberties that brings back painfull memories.
Have you ever seen penguins jump in the water? Those little fuckers are so good at sliding in, they hardly displace any water at all.
Dude, sliders they might be, but have you seen the size of even the smallest penguins? I'd hate to have one of them residing in my lower intestine, however smooth their entrance might be.
I do admit that the eServer idea has merit though:)
I don't know anything about stocks, but "down 11.28%" in a day sounds quite bad ?
Yes, although it's not unheard of for a small company like SCO. Anyway, it's down 13.46 now... which fills my heart with song and laughter
Just wanted to add a minor correction to your argument: if you have ABS and brake hard, you will leave skid marks, but they'll be interrupted instead of continuous. When the wheels lock, it taks a fraction of a second for the ABS system to respond. If you're driving at significant speed (say more than 20-30 mph) this translates into a few inches of rubber on the asphalt. When the ABS kicks in, it releases the brake, which means no mark for another few inches. The process then repeats and that's how you get your interrupted skid mark pattern.
Both of my cars (2001 and 2003) have some of the fuses in a compartment under the hood. Besides, changing a battery it's not a biggy, even with modern cars. And finally, how would you jumpstart the car if you didn't have access to the battery?
American drivers have it easy... when I took the test back in the day (in Eastern Europe), the test consisted of a front, a back and a parallel parking, a tight slalom and a start from a 30 degrees ramp. With a manual car, usually with a crappy low torque engine. I couldn't belive how easy it was to take the test in NJ. Guess it accounts for the large number of idiots on the roads here....
The problem with this is that your phone is constantly emmitting. It needs to periodically communicate with nearby cell towers so that incoming calls know where to find you.
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Redhat is focusing on servers and Fedora is an afterthought. Mandrake's quality dropped lately. Linspire and Xandros are too "proprietary" and go too far in making it easier for users (as far as doing everything as root, which is a huge security concern). Debian, Slackware and Gentoo are for geeks. Yoper is not there yet. That pretty much leaves Suse in the sweet spot.
As for the German focus, I didn't really noticed that... maybe one or two awkward translations, but other than that, I couldn't tell it was a german distro....
Oh, and the fact that they own Suse might have something to do with it too...
For bonus points, elect a black, female, athiest president.
Make her a lesbian too, and the odds of that happening will come close to the odds of winning the lottery jackpot
Then Geico started doing business in NJ. I filled a form online, got a computer generated quote automatically, I followed up with a call that was answered immediatelly and in about 30 minutes I had a new policy that was $500/year lower than NJ Cure and approx $1000 lower than my previous insurance. So I guess I really did "save a bunch of money by switching to Geico"
I guess the rest of the country is already used to this, but for us, insurance handicapped NJersians, this kind of service is like the Second Coming...
I'm pretty sure I've seen the word analog somewhere in the article... If the guy records the analog output of the radio, I don't see how DMCA applies. Long live the analog hole
The tickets were for going too fast through the EZpass lanes. The speed limit for going through ezpass toll lanes is 15 mph in NJ. You can safely go 30 mph, I even heard ezpass officials claiming they won't go after people that do up to 30 mph. However, if you go 50, then you might be in trouble (not to mention that you would be a jackass, the lanes aren't designed for that kind of speed).
I don't know about New York, but I can tell you for sure you can use it to pay for parking at Newark and JFK airports...
Do that and watch how fast our friends in Redmond will publicly associate Open Source with illegal behavior...
all the really serious game developers have seen the light, and activly develop for Linux.
How about Blizzard? I'm a big Warcraft/Starcraft fan... I think Warcraft3 is one of the 6 or so games that run on Macs though. How about Civ3? Don't tell me about FreeCiv, I tried it, it is crap.
As a side note, in New Jersey, if you go to court, you're pretty much guaranteed a reduction in the number of points you get at the cost of a higher fine. This was tested by myself and virtually all my friends in at least 15 different municipal courts all over the state. They don't want you to fight the ticket, they just want to get your money, as much of it as possible and as easily as possible.
If the guy was doing it in the course of his employment (and by the way Google endorses Orkut it can be assumed he was), then Google is in a difficult situation. Especially with the upcoming IPO. Of course, these are still allegations, nobody proved yet that the code is actually the same.
Please note, IANAL, and I'm not even trying to become one
If you want to accurately measure the mileage, the best way is to reset the trip odometer when you fill up, then rely on the pump's measurement to calculate it. Your fuel gauge is not very accurate, but the pump's gauge IS.
In New Jersey you can get 87, 89 and 93. You can also get 94 at some stations but it's marketed as a high performance gasoline and thus is more expensive. Pretty much any car in the US can run on 91 (which is the maximum you can buy in some other states). Most of the cars however are designed to run on the lowest grade.
While your comments are probably true, please note that they pertain to Bowling for Columbine. Do you have any such remarks related to the subject of our discussion, which is Fahrenheit 9/11? If so, I guess we'd all be glad to hear them.
Anyway, it's obvious that F9/11 is not a balanced documentary, in fact it doesn't even claim to be. It is a film with a very specific agenda, that is to make Bush loose the elections. In that regard it is more of an op-ed piece than a documentary. However, Moore claims that all the facts presented in the movie were double checked and he's ready to stand by them even in court if necessary.
It's not that bad as you think. I posted an dedicated email address to slashdot two times already, just to see what volume of spam I get. Surprisingly, it's only 2-3 messages every other day or so.
Well, I guess I need a booster shot, so here it is: slashdot@hates.ms. Spam away...
The right to free speech, if applied only to benign conversation is useless. Try to exercise it by telling everybody that the feds requested private information under the Patriot Act's provision. Your ass will land in jail, lightning fast. Also try to publish a way to decrypt some lame ass DVD and prepare to pay fines out of your wazoo (you're breaking the DMCA). Just two examples, there are countless others. Slashdot drivel is not important for the powers that be, I could sau "Fuck Bush" or "Rumsfeld is an idiot" on every forum on the internet, and they wouldn't care, because it's NOT IMPORTANT, since the mindless masses won't see it, notice it or even care. Try to say something that IS important, something that has the potential to affect their interests, or the interests of their corporate friends and see how far you get
Free speech aside, why are American Citizens arrested in the US and jailed without access to a lawyer and due process? Just because somebody labeled them terrorists? Are you sure that in 10 years from now you won't be labeled terrorist if you don't vote Republican?
I'm not a US born citizen. I came here from an Eastern European country that, until 89, was a communist dictatorship (one of the worst). I'm old enough to remember those days. What I see happening here is a slow erosion of civil liberties that brings back painfull memories.
Have you ever seen penguins jump in the water? Those little fuckers are so good at sliding in, they hardly displace any water at all. :)
Dude, sliders they might be, but have you seen the size of even the smallest penguins? I'd hate to have one of them residing in my lower intestine, however smooth their entrance might be.
I do admit that the eServer idea has merit though
I don't know anything about stocks, but "down 11.28%" in a day sounds quite bad ?
Yes, although it's not unheard of for a small company like SCO. Anyway, it's down 13.46 now... which fills my heart with song and laughter
Just wanted to add a minor correction to your argument: if you have ABS and brake hard, you will leave skid marks, but they'll be interrupted instead of continuous. When the wheels lock, it taks a fraction of a second for the ABS system to respond. If you're driving at significant speed (say more than 20-30 mph) this translates into a few inches of rubber on the asphalt. When the ABS kicks in, it releases the brake, which means no mark for another few inches. The process then repeats and that's how you get your interrupted skid mark pattern.
:)
(I'm not an expert, it just happened to me
Both of my cars (2001 and 2003) have some of the fuses in a compartment under the hood. Besides, changing a battery it's not a biggy, even with modern cars. And finally, how would you jumpstart the car if you didn't have access to the battery?
Expensive sports cars usually don't have back seats...
A friend of mine has the Comcast DVR and they let him timeshift everything...
American drivers have it easy... when I took the test back in the day (in Eastern Europe), the test consisted of a front, a back and a parallel parking, a tight slalom and a start from a 30 degrees ramp. With a manual car, usually with a crappy low torque engine. I couldn't belive how easy it was to take the test in NJ. Guess it accounts for the large number of idiots on the roads here....
Well, that's really funny, cuz I am in the US and my digital cable box, USES a smartcard...
The ASAT can be used against low orbit satellites. GPS (and probably Galileo) satellites are/will be in mid to high orbit...
The problem with this is that your phone is constantly emmitting. It needs to periodically communicate with nearby cell towers so that incoming calls know where to find you.