Of course, I doubt many people in the US would be willing to accept such a drop in quality of life, or accept such corporate abuse.
I don't think you've been watching the same country I have. Since I was little, I've watched a corporate chain systematically replace nearly every independent business, to the detriment of the local environment, to the standard of living of the local populace, and even to the continued success, education, and care of children.
We now live on Planet Starbucks, just as Thomas Jefferson predicted. It's the inevitable course when our economy is based on the Federal Reserve and debt slavery. You know Andrew Jackson took TWO bullets to the gut successfully stopping an earlier version of the FED? When asked on his death bed what his greatest achievement was, his dying words were, "I killed the bank!"
Corporate abuse is the fundamental nature of global living now. And it's horrifying to watch it slowly pervade every aspect of our lives, even to the point of destroying our collective knowledge.
I've switched probably 100 clients to Open Office. Almost none of them have had a single issue, and frequently many of them PREFER OO to MS Office, as the GUI is familiar, and the new MS Office is foreign and looks like recycled space candy.
$410,000 is what I've saved clients. None of them needed new training, had any downtime, or any other cost. AND when they switch to a new computer, they won't have to pay ANOTHER $400 (or more!) to re license office for a new machine. So long term I've probably saved clients over $1 million dollars.
You are no doubt right. But when Grandma asks the tech savvy grandson which phone to buy, my answer will be, "Anything but Apple or Motorola". And that while I may not be fighting in the trenches in Germany, we CAN do something for freedom RIGHT NOW with our money.
For all of you who are tech savvy at all, the message is clear "Buy Elsewhere". I for one fully plan on joining MOTO in their boycott of..... MOTO. Smart move guys!
A few DIFFERENT packages. All of them a better choice for almost everybody. Plus the Mintmenu and default layout are vastly superior to every version of Ubuntu I've tried.
Your assumptions about me were all wrong. I do IT for a living. Mom's basement is on another continent. LOL And most importantly, kids can use Mint. It looks pretty much like Windows, and I know tons of kids that can operate windows. Making them learn a foreign interface with no bearing on actual computer work is doing them a disservice.
OLPC should broaden it's target. Impoverished people of all ages the world over need a cheap reliable machine. Linux Mint and a good piece of hardware kit would nicely fill the bill.
You haven't tried Mint at all yet, have you? It's not the kernel that is superior, it's every other part of the OS. You'd know that if you had tried it out.
I regularly install linux mint on netbooks. It by default has a smaller foot print, less screen real estate, and runs excellent. In fact, that is the primary platform I install mint on.
I know precisely the difference. Clearly, you did not take my advice and try 3 or 4 installs before commenting. You should Mint is a much, much superior experience to Ubuntu. When you switch you won't go back. Not only that, the latest versions have a Debian base that is superseding Ubuntu altogether. For all the obvious reasons.
I don't want Windows. I don't want Sugar. I don't want Fedora. I don't want Ubuntu. I don't want Anroid with their crappy market.
I want Linux Mint. It's faster, more stable, and more feature filled than any of those OSes out of the box. Dead simple, my mom was even a convert, and it is rock solid. I put Mint on a machine, and never get a tech support call back, which is exactly what I want.
Mint and Forget. And in this case I mean forget the other operating systems. Linux year of the desktop should be 2011, and it should be Mint version 10 which is incredible.
Don't flame me or troll me until you've installed it on 3 or 4 machines. It will shock you. I literally haven't hunted for a driver since the new mint came out. Not one. On about 20 different machines.
The only post format chore I have to do in Mint is make video files default to VLC, change the shortcuts a bit in the start menu, and install audacious and delete rhythmbox. It already has Firefox, Open Office Write, Brasero, Pidgin, and almost every other program an end user needs. Oh, except for Skype. I have to install that often as well.
Mossad is behind almost all the terrorism in the world today. There is ample evidence that they perpetrated 9/11 for instance. Mossad being the bad guy in nearly any situation should come as no surprise to anybody.
Giant megacorporations do not care about the customer. That is the sole goal of why they wanted to become a giant megacorporation: So that they were beyond question. Not to make products the best and most reliable, stable, and fastest they could be for the consumer. FUCK THE CONSUMER. HE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE UPGRADE!
This is exactly why we need open source not only software, but hardware, and have it reach economy of scale quickly and cheaply.
Not that Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, or even Google are interested in doing that. Though if Google really wanted to "Do no Evil"....... They could subsidize the nexus s a little more, and include cyanogenmod by default.
Furthermore, why the hell is it so hard to ROOT a device I PAID FOR?!?!? What the hell is wrong with these assholes? I say anyone who releases that kind of stupid restriction is not worthy of the consumer's money. We seriously need to boycott all these corporations entirely for a free, cheap, open source platform that connects peer 2 peer real time efficiently enough to supplant current cable companies. In dense urban areas where lots of wifi routers can talk, we should already be doing this.
"They can shut me up! But who will take my place?" I think there is sufficient momentum to continue subverting the corrupt corporate governments of the world (US shamefully included) with or without any one person. It would be a shame though, and I can see people under 30 actually getting guns and fighting back if the government does something to Assange. He is very clearly the good guy in this fight to everyone I've spoken to under 40. Even most older folks are at the least divided.
Really, nobody should be using Chrome anyway. Firefox has a much, much better spec on nearly every level, is open source, has the adblock extension available....
I tell all of my clients to use Firefox exclusively. That way you KNOW the code is truly open, secure, and up to date. There is no way to know this with a closed source browser, and I can't for security purposes ever recommend using one.
Even if it's better than Internet Explorer.
Firefox for the win! Boycott closed source software!
1. UAC - Cruft, annoying, and a total CHARADE of security.
2. XP x64 while hard to find drivers for is a better performer than any other Windows derivative. FACT I use it.
3. I've already reformatted dozens of Win 7 machines, so if you are trying to say security is somehow better than XP: FALSE.
4. Does somebody use this? How does it help?
5. I have several 2tb drives running happily on xp machines. I have not seen/purchased a larger drive yet.
6. I haven't used this. Haven't seen it. Don't know what it's for. Every business I support has IDE or Sata drives, no SSD.
7. Bullshit. Just as many virii as XP and Vista. Maybe more. Absolutely abysmal compared to EVERY Linux distro.
8. Updates are slow, frequently crash, and include malware that would hurt most of my clients. Same as in XP.
9. Compared to VLC? FAIL
10. OK, so 1 sysadmin somewhere in the arctic might actually notice/use this. Compared to Linux? FAIL
11. You mean a giant ugly one that doesn't recognize portable apps at all? FAIL
12. This I'd like to see. Other than x64 support (and as I said, XP x64 is much faster), Win 7 has been slower than XP in every benchmark I've thrown at it.
13. Agreed. You should try Linux Mint. Because other than getting off Windows altogether, moving from XP is definitely a down grade in every situation, for every user.
XP IS better. As a sysadmin I've had nothing but problems migrating customers from XP. By default I now reinstall OEM XP over Vista/Seven as step one in the standard workstation build. Everything just works. The menus are easy to navigate, well documented, and not randomly changed for no usability improvements. Windows 7 is crap. It's better than Vista, but so is punching myself in the face.
Try Linux Mint 10. It's about 50,000 x better than Windows 7, and has all the features you CLAIMED Win 7 has, but done properly. For my clients that require Windows software, I'll not be moving them away from XP until Bill Gates comes to my house and shoots me in the face. Oh wait, he did that: It's called Vista/7.
And for the same reason Jobs lost the PC OS wars back in the late 80s early 90s:
Attempting to control the software market. Locking users out of their own machines. Worrying too much about piracy.
It's the exact same battle he had against MS Dos and then Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It's hilarious he's too greedy and stupid to learn from his past mistakes, despite being first to market with a superior product almost every time.
You do know that in the establishment of this country alone we murdered over 60 million local inhabitants? I mean, I'm not defending the final solution, but we're clearly in a competition and winning.
I'm not shitting on any graves. Nazi Germany showed the depths of humanity, and we are repeating it here. I'm just pointing at the writing on the wall. Don't shoot the messenger. Furthermore enforcing laws doesn't bother me. Forcing people to get stuck with needles against their will DOES bother me. In my opinion, there should be a law enforced AGAINST THAT. I'm not an anarchist. I'm a fan of civil liberties and basic human rights, both of which are being egregiously trampled on here. I'm also a fan of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, both of whom would be 100% against this kind of tyrannical over reach of national power over the individual. But then, if you went to school here in the US I couldn't expect you to ever have read about them, and their (at the time) radical notions about personal freedom and governmental tyranny.
Nazi Germany was a police state. The current US is a police state. The connection is clear. If you're unemotional about it, then I'd assume that YOU are the mad man. Of course, I never mentioned Hitler, either, although his policies are clearly being invoked currently by the department of homeland security. Even the name sounds a lot like the Nazi equivalent: Motherland Security Head Office. (Reichssicherheitshauptamt in it's original German form. The third reich or third empire was often referred to as the motherland, not far off from homeland).
Not at all. Nazi Germany was a police state. Modern US is a police state. The relevancy and connection are clear. The other part of the missing fascist link: the blatant corporatism of both nations!
and now this? I don't think Nazi Germany was going around giving people cancer, forcing blood tests on the street and installing guard towers in shopping center parking lots.
Sure, we aren't singling out Jews and Gays, but isn't that in a way EVEN WORSE?
We're ALL expendable in this country now. Unless you have a private jet, and even then you might still get hit with the cancer gun when you're in your limo. Is there a good country to move to and get away from this? I'm dead serious: I want out. My country has fallen into a full on police state, and I'm ready to start swimming.
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Of course, I doubt many people in the US would be willing to accept such a drop in quality of life, or accept such corporate abuse.
I don't think you've been watching the same country I have. Since I was little, I've watched a corporate chain systematically replace nearly every independent business, to the detriment of the local environment, to the standard of living of the local populace, and even to the continued success, education, and care of children.
We now live on Planet Starbucks, just as Thomas Jefferson predicted. It's the inevitable course when our economy is based on the Federal Reserve and debt slavery. You know Andrew Jackson took TWO bullets to the gut successfully stopping an earlier version of the FED? When asked on his death bed what his greatest achievement was, his dying words were, "I killed the bank!"
Corporate abuse is the fundamental nature of global living now. And it's horrifying to watch it slowly pervade every aspect of our lives, even to the point of destroying our collective knowledge.
I've switched probably 100 clients to Open Office. Almost none of them have had a single issue, and frequently many of them PREFER OO to MS Office, as the GUI is familiar, and the new MS Office is foreign and looks like recycled space candy.
At about $410 a pop:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116858&cm_re=microsoft_office-_-32-116-858-_-Product
Times 100:
$410,000 is what I've saved clients. None of them needed new training, had any downtime, or any other cost. AND when they switch to a new computer, they won't have to pay ANOTHER $400 (or more!) to re license office for a new machine. So long term I've probably saved clients over $1 million dollars.
And I do it for $50 an hour.
Fuck you Microsoft. LOL
You are no doubt right. But when Grandma asks the tech savvy grandson which phone to buy, my answer will be, "Anything but Apple or Motorola". And that while I may not be fighting in the trenches in Germany, we CAN do something for freedom RIGHT NOW with our money.
For all of you who are tech savvy at all, the message is clear "Buy Elsewhere". I for one fully plan on joining MOTO in their boycott of..... MOTO. Smart move guys!
A few DIFFERENT packages. All of them a better choice for almost everybody. Plus the Mintmenu and default layout are vastly superior to every version of Ubuntu I've tried.
Your assumptions about me were all wrong. I do IT for a living. Mom's basement is on another continent. LOL And most importantly, kids can use Mint. It looks pretty much like Windows, and I know tons of kids that can operate windows. Making them learn a foreign interface with no bearing on actual computer work is doing them a disservice.
OLPC should broaden it's target. Impoverished people of all ages the world over need a cheap reliable machine. Linux Mint and a good piece of hardware kit would nicely fill the bill.
You haven't tried Mint at all yet, have you? It's not the kernel that is superior, it's every other part of the OS. You'd know that if you had tried it out.
YOU are the troll. And here I'm feeding you.
I regularly install linux mint on netbooks. It by default has a smaller foot print, less screen real estate, and runs excellent. In fact, that is the primary platform I install mint on.
I know precisely the difference. Clearly, you did not take my advice and try 3 or 4 installs before commenting. You should Mint is a much, much superior experience to Ubuntu. When you switch you won't go back. Not only that, the latest versions have a Debian base that is superseding Ubuntu altogether. For all the obvious reasons.
I don't want Windows. I don't want Sugar. I don't want Fedora. I don't want Ubuntu. I don't want Anroid with their crappy market.
I want Linux Mint. It's faster, more stable, and more feature filled than any of those OSes out of the box. Dead simple, my mom was even a convert, and it is rock solid. I put Mint on a machine, and never get a tech support call back, which is exactly what I want.
Mint and Forget. And in this case I mean forget the other operating systems. Linux year of the desktop should be 2011, and it should be Mint version 10 which is incredible.
Don't flame me or troll me until you've installed it on 3 or 4 machines. It will shock you. I literally haven't hunted for a driver since the new mint came out. Not one. On about 20 different machines.
The only post format chore I have to do in Mint is make video files default to VLC, change the shortcuts a bit in the start menu, and install audacious and delete rhythmbox. It already has Firefox, Open Office Write, Brasero, Pidgin, and almost every other program an end user needs. Oh, except for Skype. I have to install that often as well.
Mossad is behind almost all the terrorism in the world today. There is ample evidence that they perpetrated 9/11 for instance. Mossad being the bad guy in nearly any situation should come as no surprise to anybody.
If my theory is right and there is an ingredient in Mammoth meat that makes our species sane!
Giant megacorporations do not care about the customer. That is the sole goal of why they wanted to become a giant megacorporation: So that they were beyond question. Not to make products the best and most reliable, stable, and fastest they could be for the consumer. FUCK THE CONSUMER. HE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE UPGRADE!
This is exactly why we need open source not only software, but hardware, and have it reach economy of scale quickly and cheaply.
Not that Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, or even Google are interested in doing that. Though if Google really wanted to "Do no Evil"....... They could subsidize the nexus s a little more, and include cyanogenmod by default.
Furthermore, why the hell is it so hard to ROOT a device I PAID FOR?!?!? What the hell is wrong with these assholes? I say anyone who releases that kind of stupid restriction is not worthy of the consumer's money. We seriously need to boycott all these corporations entirely for a free, cheap, open source platform that connects peer 2 peer real time efficiently enough to supplant current cable companies. In dense urban areas where lots of wifi routers can talk, we should already be doing this.
"They can shut me up! But who will take my place?" I think there is sufficient momentum to continue subverting the corrupt corporate governments of the world (US shamefully included) with or without any one person. It would be a shame though, and I can see people under 30 actually getting guns and fighting back if the government does something to Assange. He is very clearly the good guy in this fight to everyone I've spoken to under 40. Even most older folks are at the least divided.
Really, nobody should be using Chrome anyway. Firefox has a much, much better spec on nearly every level, is open source, has the adblock extension available....
I tell all of my clients to use Firefox exclusively. That way you KNOW the code is truly open, secure, and up to date. There is no way to know this with a closed source browser, and I can't for security purposes ever recommend using one.
Even if it's better than Internet Explorer.
Firefox for the win! Boycott closed source software!
This is no troll. I'm a sysadmin with 20+ years of experience, and XP is a MUCH better performer than 7 in every category.
1. UAC - Cruft, annoying, and a total CHARADE of security.
2. XP x64 while hard to find drivers for is a better performer than any other Windows derivative. FACT I use it.
3. I've already reformatted dozens of Win 7 machines, so if you are trying to say security is somehow better than XP: FALSE.
4. Does somebody use this? How does it help?
5. I have several 2tb drives running happily on xp machines. I have not seen/purchased a larger drive yet.
6. I haven't used this. Haven't seen it. Don't know what it's for. Every business I support has IDE or Sata drives, no SSD.
7. Bullshit. Just as many virii as XP and Vista. Maybe more. Absolutely abysmal compared to EVERY Linux distro.
8. Updates are slow, frequently crash, and include malware that would hurt most of my clients. Same as in XP.
9. Compared to VLC? FAIL
10. OK, so 1 sysadmin somewhere in the arctic might actually notice/use this. Compared to Linux? FAIL
11. You mean a giant ugly one that doesn't recognize portable apps at all? FAIL
12. This I'd like to see. Other than x64 support (and as I said, XP x64 is much faster), Win 7 has been slower than XP in every benchmark I've thrown at it.
13. Agreed. You should try Linux Mint. Because other than getting off Windows altogether, moving from XP is definitely a down grade in every situation, for every user.
XP IS better. As a sysadmin I've had nothing but problems migrating customers from XP. By default I now reinstall OEM XP over Vista/Seven as step one in the standard workstation build. Everything just works. The menus are easy to navigate, well documented, and not randomly changed for no usability improvements. Windows 7 is crap. It's better than Vista, but so is punching myself in the face.
Try Linux Mint 10. It's about 50,000 x better than Windows 7, and has all the features you CLAIMED Win 7 has, but done properly. For my clients that require Windows software, I'll not be moving them away from XP until Bill Gates comes to my house and shoots me in the face. Oh wait, he did that: It's called Vista/7.
And for the same reason Jobs lost the PC OS wars back in the late 80s early 90s:
Attempting to control the software market. Locking users out of their own machines. Worrying too much about piracy.
It's the exact same battle he had against MS Dos and then Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It's hilarious he's too greedy and stupid to learn from his past mistakes, despite being first to market with a superior product almost every time.
You do know that in the establishment of this country alone we murdered over 60 million local inhabitants? I mean, I'm not defending the final solution, but we're clearly in a competition and winning.
This is actually currently my plan! Great advice.
I'm not shitting on any graves. Nazi Germany showed the depths of humanity, and we are repeating it here. I'm just pointing at the writing on the wall. Don't shoot the messenger. Furthermore enforcing laws doesn't bother me. Forcing people to get stuck with needles against their will DOES bother me. In my opinion, there should be a law enforced AGAINST THAT. I'm not an anarchist. I'm a fan of civil liberties and basic human rights, both of which are being egregiously trampled on here. I'm also a fan of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, both of whom would be 100% against this kind of tyrannical over reach of national power over the individual. But then, if you went to school here in the US I couldn't expect you to ever have read about them, and their (at the time) radical notions about personal freedom and governmental tyranny.
Nazi Germany was a police state. The current US is a police state. The connection is clear. If you're unemotional about it, then I'd assume that YOU are the mad man. Of course, I never mentioned Hitler, either, although his policies are clearly being invoked currently by the department of homeland security. Even the name sounds a lot like the Nazi equivalent: Motherland Security Head Office. (Reichssicherheitshauptamt in it's original German form. The third reich or third empire was often referred to as the motherland, not far off from homeland).
Not at all. Nazi Germany was a police state. Modern US is a police state. The relevancy and connection are clear. The other part of the missing fascist link: the blatant corporatism of both nations!
Forcing people to be subjected to a needle is not far removed from murder. I'd say it's an egregious affront to civil liberty.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr38/1308847889/
http://fourthamendment.com/blog/index.php?blog=1&title=portable_backscatter_technology_zbv_and_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
and now this? I don't think Nazi Germany was going around giving people cancer, forcing blood tests on the street and installing guard towers in shopping center parking lots.
Sure, we aren't singling out Jews and Gays, but isn't that in a way EVEN WORSE?
We're ALL expendable in this country now. Unless you have a private jet, and even then you might still get hit with the cancer gun when you're in your limo. Is there a good country to move to and get away from this? I'm dead serious: I want out. My country has fallen into a full on police state, and I'm ready to start swimming.
You so stole that from The Office!!!