Seriously, Amen again. I think we need a few more amens to this comment. I even liked his string variable notation.
Unless a FOSS app is faster and lighter on the memory than #Market_Leader (I made mine a hash, how you like me now?), then it has no business even pretending to be a competitor. Further, the interface should have LESS options, LESS clutter, and look MORE like a native app. Firefox is perfect example of one FOSS product that gets it right.
I'd mention Pidgin too, but I think Voice and Video are now #Basic_Feature, and it has never been remotely good at those features.
VLC is a good example though, simpler and superior to both WMP and every other vid player on the market. Even includes most important codecs out of the box!!!
And THIS is why I will not use iTunes on any machine: Because I will not destroy the entire OS by installing Quicktime. Consequently, I have never bought or regularly used an ipod. mp3 cd players are $20, and do most of what an ipod will do provided I'm not jogging or something gay and yuppie like I never do anyway.
I voted for Nader. Again. Look, Ralph Nader is the reason we have clean water, seatbelts in cars, and a variety of other things that keep American consumers healthy and happy. Obama is just another stuffed shirt, partisan hack.
I want to hope, I want to believe. I want to chant, "Yes we can!" and cry with Oprah.
But there is no way the 5 major media corporations that run every magazine, TV station, radio station, news paper, and movie publishing house (AOL/Time, Viacom, News Corp, Bertelsmann, Disney) will allow a real representative of the people ANY time on their media outlets. This is why Ron Paul is not a "realistic" candidate. This is why Kucinich had no chance, and this is why nobody even knew Nader was running..... AGAIN!
I'm glad McCain lost. He represented a worse deal for American citizens over all. I'm also glad a black guy won. Good for morale and all that. But I think by June of next year, Americans, even the black ones, will realize, that we've "elected" another corporate whore, an empty suit who does whatever the party and the corporations who control it tell him to do. There will still be rampant poverty, horrendous usury, debt slavery, unjust wars and occupations, a media blackout on 9/11, JFK, and UFOs, corporate monopolism that makes it impossible for American citizens to compete with Starbucks, Wal Mart, Best Buy, and Exxon, and an economy based on printed paper, rather than the gold standard and the constitution.
Stop taking prescription meds and watching TV people! These corporations are programmed by design to destroy all living things for the most money possible while subsequently impoverishing culture, education, and families. Obama is not going to do shit to fix it, he's a corporate democrat!
Ralph Nader or Ron Paul would have maybe, but they weren't "realistic" because the giant media corporations that both parties are beholden to said so, and they are the only source of "information" Americans and the world gets, false, evil, and wrong as it generally is.
I'm going to use my psychic power to predict winners and losers in the election today.
The first and most important big loser is going to be the American People. By once again having large media corporations dictate our choices, we are going to have another sold out corporate hooker in the white house. I'm guessing by the media hype that it will be Obama. Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited as the next guy that our new president will speak coherent English and sell flowery dreams to the public, but his nomination of Biden for VP proves unequivocally that Obama is a partisan hack working for Dow and Boeing, and not the American citizen.
Expect four more years of corporate welfare, immoral and illegal wars, torture, erosion of the constitution, limitation of personal freedoms, and economic failure based on the entrenched Reaganomics of the last 20 years. Expect further loss of freedom of speech, further loss of the right to bear arms, and an even more distant and remote chance for real American heroes like Ron Paul, Denis Kucinich, or Ralph Nader to be heard or influence democracy. The only democrat with a worse record for the American public would have been Nancy Pelosi. Obama not picking her for VP just proves that even the black guy doesn't think a woman will help his election chances.
Let me also predict a couple of winners in today's election:
Churches, corporations, the ignorant, pollution, and human misery are going to make big gains. EITHER candidate has vowed to continue the "War on Terror" indefinitely, with no time table for withdrawal in any of the countries we've invaded since the murder of JFK. EITHER candidate has not vowed to ratify the Kyoto accord, or restore the clean air and clean water acts. Either candidate has not mentioned breaking up the Starbucks, Exxon, McDonald's, Applebee's, Ford, Microsoft, AT&T, and Old Navy monopolies. American people will still be unable to compete fairly in a truly open market with Wal Mart. More and more Chipotles will be built while independent small business owners fold, foreclose, and evaporate. We still will not learn who killed JFK, the truth behind 9/11, or Project Silverbug.
The media will hype Obama's win as the change of the century, ushering in the power and wisdom of Democracy and freedom for a whole new generation. But the American people will continue to die without health care, continue to be overtaxed by corporations defrauding the public and enforcing extortion such as mandatory auto insurance, corrupt electronic voting machines, and a complete media blackout with regards to truth, justice, or logic and reason. Our species will continue to overpopulate and pollute and destroy entire ecosystems and cultures while more illegal aliens undercut American citizens for the last few jobs that haven't been outsourced. More and more cameras will be put up on street corners, heralding the true death of civil liberty, and ensuring there is no chance for the American populace to rise up and restore the constitution through physical force. Our troops will continue to be abused for monetary gain, and our schools will continue to decline by enforcing misinformation, lies, and ignorance through religion and slavery.
I'm going to go vote. Then I'm going to come home and watch corporate TV show me how their selection of "realistic" candidates is an inevitable juggernaut that no decent American heroes ever have a chance to compete with. I'm going to watch a sold out hooker that reminds me of Bill Clinton (though he's black) come to power and ensure further globalization, further human misery, and further environmental catastrophe and corporate monopolization. FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
This has been the case for a lot of my clients. Alternatively, I've switched some of them to Open Office on Windows first, then over to Linux with Open Office, now that they are used to it.
Almost everyone has been on Firefox for about 4 years now.
It matters what games you are playing. If like me, the bulk of the games you play are super nintendo, nintendo 64, and Urban Terror (all of which work well in Ubuntu), then switching from Windows is fine. Hardly worth the effort though. The icons and desktop can look exactly the same and performance is pretty much identical from zsnes to zsnes.
I still have to run a VM to play Civ 2, but that's no big deal, it runs great in a VM and I greatly prefer Ubuntu and Compiz in particular to a Windows desktop.
is all I found. Fuck that. I don't have all day just to get YouTube working natively, since I have it running well in Virtualbox already. Seriously Adobe, wtf?!? Why not just release an x64 version? What year is this? 1993?
Yeah..... Obviously they don't realize that Linux nerds like myself would never knowingly run an x86 OS when an x64 version is available. How much harder is it to compile an extra version for like, everyone who knows a damn thing about computers?!?!
The public knowledge of feasible technology today is laughably behind. We've had radically advanced aircraft since the late 50s that are still not publicly disclosed, other than a few blueprints due to the FOIA.
That is just the aircraft our government has not disclosed to the public. With advances in computers, satellites, and optics, is there any question that some part of our government can see almost anything on the planet, at any time? This combined with the universal wire tapping that has gone through and still in place....
We live in a society where the government can see everything you do, hear everything you do, does not count the votes at all, and even if they did count the votes, the media makes sure you are not informed about any valid candidates that are not completely beholden to the corporations that now run and control everything.
The Bill of Rights has been almost completely removed, the Constitution is almost completely void, and there is almost no military chance to revolt.
This is why I'm not breeding. I don't want to breed slaves.
I can't be the only one thinking that Ubuntu is a better, FREE, available NOW technology that would do everything they want. I really can't understand how government offices haven't completely fallen in step with Open Office..... Whatever it is they don't like about it they could just code themselves, and for MUCH cheaper than 11,000 windows licenses....
Please, stop throwing tax payer money away on outdated, obsolete, proprietary virus infested crap, and switch to a real OS.
Porn actors often lick each other's butt holes, perform fellatio direct from ass to mouth, and frequently spit on each other and suck it off. I don't think a little low G is going to make them nauseous.....
Gold could still be used to back currency. It's a ratio after all! The problem is that our current money is just play paper money, backed by nothing, and nobody has any faith in it, and as a result we have rampant inflation and poverty.
I'm not suggesting we go back to the SAME gold standard as before with current money, CLEARLY that is impossible.
There's nothing funny about that. People want an economy without inflation and to restore the Bill of Rights and Constitution. I know I'm feeding the troll here, but seriously. It's not funny.
It's pretty clear that corporate monopolies run everything now, and to the detriment of humanity and all other living things. Which candidate is going to do something so that small business can replace the corporate behemoths that have already destroyed the economy, democracy, ruined freedom of the press, are actively destroying the environment, ruining public health, and also destroying education?
Is either candidate going to fight against AOL/Time Warner, Viacom, Disney, Bertelsmann, and News Corp to get REAL information, news, and education to the public?
Are you finally going to eliminate the Federal Reserve and go back to the gold standard so we can eliminate inflation and have a vibrant healthy economy, or are you going to allow the large corporate banks to continue to fleece and enslave the populace?
Are you going to finally allow individuals to broadcast and share information, or is the death grip the FCC has on the airwaves solely for corporate monopolist benefit going to continue?
Are our elections going to continue to be rigged by Diebold, both major parties, and the corroboration of corporate media, or will American's votes be counted again?
Why did both candidates pick unqualified pathological liars as running mates instead of Ron Paul, or Dennis Kucinich, or another candidate who might actually represent the will of the people?
Who killed JFK? It's been 45 years, don't you think the American public have a right to know?/me waits patiently to be modded into oblivion by the corporate drones.
MP3 killed the CD. I think you all know what is killing blu ray AND the DVD.
Once there is an "itunes" for movies that offers non-drm hi-def movies (and there WILL be one, it's just a matter of time), then the transition will be complete.
Personally, if I have to leave my desk to get a movie, I don't bother.
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Seriously, Amen again. I think we need a few more amens to this comment. I even liked his string variable notation.
Unless a FOSS app is faster and lighter on the memory than #Market_Leader (I made mine a hash, how you like me now?), then it has no business even pretending to be a competitor. Further, the interface should have LESS options, LESS clutter, and look MORE like a native app. Firefox is perfect example of one FOSS product that gets it right.
I'd mention Pidgin too, but I think Voice and Video are now #Basic_Feature, and it has never been remotely good at those features.
VLC is a good example though, simpler and superior to both WMP and every other vid player on the market. Even includes most important codecs out of the box!!!
And THIS is why I will not use iTunes on any machine: Because I will not destroy the entire OS by installing Quicktime. Consequently, I have never bought or regularly used an ipod. mp3 cd players are $20, and do most of what an ipod will do provided I'm not jogging or something gay and yuppie like I never do anyway.
I voted for Nader. Again. Look, Ralph Nader is the reason we have clean water, seatbelts in cars, and a variety of other things that keep American consumers healthy and happy. Obama is just another stuffed shirt, partisan hack.
I want to hope, I want to believe. I want to chant, "Yes we can!" and cry with Oprah.
But there is no way the 5 major media corporations that run every magazine, TV station, radio station, news paper, and movie publishing house (AOL/Time, Viacom, News Corp, Bertelsmann, Disney) will allow a real representative of the people ANY time on their media outlets. This is why Ron Paul is not a "realistic" candidate. This is why Kucinich had no chance, and this is why nobody even knew Nader was running..... AGAIN!
I'm glad McCain lost. He represented a worse deal for American citizens over all. I'm also glad a black guy won. Good for morale and all that. But I think by June of next year, Americans, even the black ones, will realize, that we've "elected" another corporate whore, an empty suit who does whatever the party and the corporations who control it tell him to do. There will still be rampant poverty, horrendous usury, debt slavery, unjust wars and occupations, a media blackout on 9/11, JFK, and UFOs, corporate monopolism that makes it impossible for American citizens to compete with Starbucks, Wal Mart, Best Buy, and Exxon, and an economy based on printed paper, rather than the gold standard and the constitution.
Stop taking prescription meds and watching TV people! These corporations are programmed by design to destroy all living things for the most money possible while subsequently impoverishing culture, education, and families. Obama is not going to do shit to fix it, he's a corporate democrat!
Ralph Nader or Ron Paul would have maybe, but they weren't "realistic" because the giant media corporations that both parties are beholden to said so, and they are the only source of "information" Americans and the world gets, false, evil, and wrong as it generally is.
I'm going to use my psychic power to predict winners and losers in the election today.
The first and most important big loser is going to be the American People. By once again having large media corporations dictate our choices, we are going to have another sold out corporate hooker in the white house. I'm guessing by the media hype that it will be Obama. Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited as the next guy that our new president will speak coherent English and sell flowery dreams to the public, but his nomination of Biden for VP proves unequivocally that Obama is a partisan hack working for Dow and Boeing, and not the American citizen.
Expect four more years of corporate welfare, immoral and illegal wars, torture, erosion of the constitution, limitation of personal freedoms, and economic failure based on the entrenched Reaganomics of the last 20 years. Expect further loss of freedom of speech, further loss of the right to bear arms, and an even more distant and remote chance for real American heroes like Ron Paul, Denis Kucinich, or Ralph Nader to be heard or influence democracy. The only democrat with a worse record for the American public would have been Nancy Pelosi. Obama not picking her for VP just proves that even the black guy doesn't think a woman will help his election chances.
Let me also predict a couple of winners in today's election:
Churches, corporations, the ignorant, pollution, and human misery are going to make big gains. EITHER candidate has vowed to continue the "War on Terror" indefinitely, with no time table for withdrawal in any of the countries we've invaded since the murder of JFK. EITHER candidate has not vowed to ratify the Kyoto accord, or restore the clean air and clean water acts. Either candidate has not mentioned breaking up the Starbucks, Exxon, McDonald's, Applebee's, Ford, Microsoft, AT&T, and Old Navy monopolies. American people will still be unable to compete fairly in a truly open market with Wal Mart. More and more Chipotles will be built while independent small business owners fold, foreclose, and evaporate. We still will not learn who killed JFK, the truth behind 9/11, or Project Silverbug.
The media will hype Obama's win as the change of the century, ushering in the power and wisdom of Democracy and freedom for a whole new generation. But the American people will continue to die without health care, continue to be overtaxed by corporations defrauding the public and enforcing extortion such as mandatory auto insurance, corrupt electronic voting machines, and a complete media blackout with regards to truth, justice, or logic and reason. Our species will continue to overpopulate and pollute and destroy entire ecosystems and cultures while more illegal aliens undercut American citizens for the last few jobs that haven't been outsourced. More and more cameras will be put up on street corners, heralding the true death of civil liberty, and ensuring there is no chance for the American populace to rise up and restore the constitution through physical force. Our troops will continue to be abused for monetary gain, and our schools will continue to decline by enforcing misinformation, lies, and ignorance through religion and slavery.
I'm going to go vote. Then I'm going to come home and watch corporate TV show me how their selection of "realistic" candidates is an inevitable juggernaut that no decent American heroes ever have a chance to compete with. I'm going to watch a sold out hooker that reminds me of Bill Clinton (though he's black) come to power and ensure further globalization, further human misery, and further environmental catastrophe and corporate monopolization. FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
Yep, I worked on the team. I'm the guy who put all the words spelled A-N-D in. I authored most of the name list consequently!
This has been the case for a lot of my clients. Alternatively, I've switched some of them to Open Office on Windows first, then over to Linux with Open Office, now that they are used to it.
Almost everyone has been on Firefox for about 4 years now.
On what hardware? Let me tell you I know from experience Windows 3.1 didn't boot that fast on my old 386sx..... I used Geoworks instead. Much faster.
It matters what games you are playing. If like me, the bulk of the games you play are super nintendo, nintendo 64, and Urban Terror (all of which work well in Ubuntu), then switching from Windows is fine. Hardly worth the effort though. The icons and desktop can look exactly the same and performance is pretty much identical from zsnes to zsnes.
I still have to run a VM to play Civ 2, but that's no big deal, it runs great in a VM and I greatly prefer Ubuntu and Compiz in particular to a Windows desktop.
Will your father-in-law play Crysis? What's the FPS?
Now how about your license some real guitars and teach kids music rather than how to jack off with four colors.
Sincerely, someone with half a brain.
Anybody got the specs on ray traced quake? I imagine it would be fully playable!
If they don't know that Firefox is the best browser existent, than they are uneducated. You have two choices, then:
1. Educate them.
2. Give up and use IE or whatever crap.
This is also true of other FOSS programs, but Firefox is certainly step one, in my opinion.
Alcohol. Alcohol sells BETTER in a depression. Any escape sells better!
OK. I'm going to feverishly hunt for the link now, though it should have been easier to find on the site initially:
http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/2008/05/install-adobe-flash-player-10-on-ubuntu-using-nspluginwrapper.html
is all I found. Fuck that. I don't have all day just to get YouTube working natively, since I have it running well in Virtualbox already. Seriously Adobe, wtf?!? Why not just release an x64 version? What year is this? 1993?
Yeah..... Obviously they don't realize that Linux nerds like myself would never knowingly run an x86 OS when an x64 version is available. How much harder is it to compile an extra version for like, everyone who knows a damn thing about computers?!?!
be first to market with an open source, open infrastructure one that is free for the whole public, and operates p2p?
While we're at it, can it be fully encrypted, completely private, and onion routed so that freedom of speech is complete and absolute?
Why do we have to wait for one of these crap companies to come out with a half ass one first and become a hegemony?
I couldn't agree more, actually.
The public knowledge of feasible technology today is laughably behind. We've had radically advanced aircraft since the late 50s that are still not publicly disclosed, other than a few blueprints due to the FOIA.
http://www.cufon.org/cufon/Silverbug.pdf
That is just the aircraft our government has not disclosed to the public. With advances in computers, satellites, and optics, is there any question that some part of our government can see almost anything on the planet, at any time? This combined with the universal wire tapping that has gone through and still in place....
We live in a society where the government can see everything you do, hear everything you do, does not count the votes at all, and even if they did count the votes, the media makes sure you are not informed about any valid candidates that are not completely beholden to the corporations that now run and control everything.
The Bill of Rights has been almost completely removed, the Constitution is almost completely void, and there is almost no military chance to revolt.
This is why I'm not breeding. I don't want to breed slaves.
I can't be the only one thinking that Ubuntu is a better, FREE, available NOW technology that would do everything they want. I really can't understand how government offices haven't completely fallen in step with Open Office..... Whatever it is they don't like about it they could just code themselves, and for MUCH cheaper than 11,000 windows licenses....
Please, stop throwing tax payer money away on outdated, obsolete, proprietary virus infested crap, and switch to a real OS.
k thnx.
Porn actors often lick each other's butt holes, perform fellatio direct from ass to mouth, and frequently spit on each other and suck it off. I don't think a little low G is going to make them nauseous.....
Gold could still be used to back currency. It's a ratio after all! The problem is that our current money is just play paper money, backed by nothing, and nobody has any faith in it, and as a result we have rampant inflation and poverty.
I'm not suggesting we go back to the SAME gold standard as before with current money, CLEARLY that is impossible.
There's nothing funny about that. People want an economy without inflation and to restore the Bill of Rights and Constitution. I know I'm feeding the troll here, but seriously. It's not funny.
It's pretty clear that corporate monopolies run everything now, and to the detriment of humanity and all other living things. Which candidate is going to do something so that small business can replace the corporate behemoths that have already destroyed the economy, democracy, ruined freedom of the press, are actively destroying the environment, ruining public health, and also destroying education?
Is either candidate going to fight against AOL/Time Warner, Viacom, Disney, Bertelsmann, and News Corp to get REAL information, news, and education to the public?
Are you finally going to eliminate the Federal Reserve and go back to the gold standard so we can eliminate inflation and have a vibrant healthy economy, or are you going to allow the large corporate banks to continue to fleece and enslave the populace?
Are you going to finally allow individuals to broadcast and share information, or is the death grip the FCC has on the airwaves solely for corporate monopolist benefit going to continue?
Are our elections going to continue to be rigged by Diebold, both major parties, and the corroboration of corporate media, or will American's votes be counted again?
Why did both candidates pick unqualified pathological liars as running mates instead of Ron Paul, or Dennis Kucinich, or another candidate who might actually represent the will of the people?
Who killed JFK? It's been 45 years, don't you think the American public have a right to know? /me waits patiently to be modded into oblivion by the corporate drones.
MP3 killed the CD. I think you all know what is killing blu ray AND the DVD.
Once there is an "itunes" for movies that offers non-drm hi-def movies (and there WILL be one, it's just a matter of time), then the transition will be complete.
Personally, if I have to leave my desk to get a movie, I don't bother.
If one end is connected to the ground, you could store some of that resultant charge. This could be a good thing. It's really a matter of engineering.