yeah, after they hired an ex-microsoftie VP, who made nokia an all windows shop, putting all of nokia's smart phone eggs the windows 8 basket, which has been the most glorious flop in history.
Nokia would have had better luck sticking with meego/maemo, and the small, but stable, and rabidly loyal fanbois that were willing to shell out over $600 for a new unbranded phone, just for meego/maemo.
windows 8 does not garner that level of excitement, or consumer enthusiasim.
to repeat more cold war rhetoric, there is no moral equivilant between google and apple.
"There is a diffrence between pushing an old lady out of the way of a bush, and pushing one in front of a bus, to catagorize both as pushing around old ladies is wrong".
While in the military, any classes you take in the military at any college, are paid for by the military.(still have to do your duties as a solider in the mean time). University of Phoenix specializes in doing this for soliders.
Two, GI Bill, 3 years of active duty or more, and you get the New GI Bill, which gives you 36 months of education in an accredited school, payed for %100, by the army. in addition the government gives a stipend for living expenses.
you'd think, but apparently it doesn't work like that.
GSR is apparently different than bombs resisude wise. I did a shooting course once so intense I was sneezing GSR from my boogers for weeks. (shot 10,000 rounds in a week, various guns), immediately after I went home via airplane, and the dogs walked right past me.
people who work in demolition, do get stopped regularlly.
"the options to access the VPS are initially quite limited, and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server." http://www.openssh.org/ - this goes on your server
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html - this goes on your windows 7 desktop
This is how linux works https://code.google.com/edu/tools101/linux/basics.html
most configs are text files you edit
http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html
thats vi.
or nano learn to use this too http://www.nano-editor.org/
updates are done with apt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool
http://packages.ubuntu.com/ - packages you can find by looking through ubuntu's web catalouge. Yes there is a search function.
Thats the polite way of saying RTFM. In a previous life, I'd call you an idiot.
In this life, it sounds like your in need of a full time sys admin, and I'm your man.
"The armor is definitely insufficient to handle modern tanks, but it would have been enough for 20's and '30s tanks (or perhaps WW2-era Italian or Japanese tanks), so you could probably squeeze it in." outclassed by M1151 armored Humvees you mean.
this would barely hold up with armored cars of the 1930s, and certainly not tanks of any era.
"The Heemeyer Bulldozer was arguably a much more potent vehicle than this little steel-plated car."
that man understood "composite armor", a ghetto but effecient/effective versions. steel-concrete-steel. It also used a more potent starting vehicle better suited for the task, and fresh, unweathered steel(arguablly thicker).
he also had the resources of a first world nation, and all the time in the world to built it, with no pressure from lets say, a government attacking him instead of vice versa.
reality is, probably save the weight from the armor, just use a lighter vehicle and rely on speed for a troop transport, to transport light infantry, before speeding away.
If this thing comes under concentrated fire, from even small arms, it, and its drivers are fucked. This is a death trap, and whoever designed it has delusions of graunder.
6/10-7/10" of rusted mild steel armor is nothing and won't do shit, except made stop shrapnel/debris.
or better yet, it might look cool, or dangerous, but what about the scrap grade steel is made out of, how ballasticly sound is it?
This "hillbilly armor" is the same welded on cheap steal armor that the humvees started using when they first when to armor. It wasn't that great and it really didn't stop bullets all too well.
This is not a "tank", but a ghetto version of an armored humvee, without the protection that modern ones have (will stop all rounds short of.50 BMG).
Its not much of a "tank" by todays standards, more like an armored car. Tank implies 360 degree turret, think armor and decent sized cannon for main armament.
MBTs, or main battle tanks, the only real tanks left (there are no more light, medium and heavy tanks in the modern age), are heavily armored, tracked vehciles, with large main gun cannons, designed as anti-vehicle weapons, and quick moving mobile guns.
Yes, I know my shit on tanks. Yes its first hand. This is not one.
the GPL is what made GNU/Linux a community, instead of a forgotten footnote.
the GPL and GPL like licenses are what make the Open Source business model viable, as any potential competition has to share their improvements on your code with you. If it where BSD, you'd have something like OS X, where one company would make a locked down version, and no one else would be able to make their own version, and contributing your code in a community would not be viable, because you'd only help your competition, who'd be under no obligation to help you back.
The GPL actually protects profits of companies.
As for GNU. Its everywhere. Despite being ignored by most consumer goods, its present everywhere on the business side.
RHEL and SLES running GNU, as does zLinux, and the other high end commericial distros.
IBM uses GNU with its AIX workstations http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/index.html
HP ports GNU to HP/UX http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/
Apple OS X runs BASH as its default shell, as its available for a number of platforms.
The concept of being more useful to the consumer is fine. After all, we ALL buy things online. Most of us use the computer for ecommerce of some sort. a feature that makes it easier would be useful.
However, its not the what, but the how which make this pretty dangerous to your freedoms:
1. The user doesn't have a choice of the backend. They don't have the right to select the online purchase service of choice. This is going to make the Ubuntu experiance as one giant advertisement to get you to buy partner related shit-you-don't-need.
2. Targeted ads, at the operating system level. While targeted ads are good, as they reduced the obnoxious system destroying ads of 10 years ago, they do so by spying on the users habit, and compiling dossiers on users. These profiles are then bought and sold on the open market. They are the biggest gross violation of privacy that perhaps exists today.
At least a few specialize in identifying complainers, and critics(silencing them?), to companies.
Having this at the OS level, would make Ubuntu 13.04 potentially worse than MS Windows on the default install for privacy. This is certainly an entire OPERATING SYSTEM on par with the shovelware(removable) that comes with windows.
Instead of selling you an operating system, or selling you service and support on an opperating system. Ubuntu is now selling YOU to the advertising/PR Companies, and through them, anyone else who has the money to pay.
On the bright side, there are more GNU/Linux distro choices, and it should be easy to remove the spyware via apt.
"he developer of DOSBot says on his Google Play entry that he will not release the source code of his application because it's not GPL, even though it's derived from source released under GPL v2" gross violation of the GPL, report it to the EFF and the FSF immediately, they can and just might sue.
"The developer of DOSBox Turbo is refusing to release the source for his application unless you pay the $3.99 to "buy" a license of it."
which is allowed under the GPL, specificly. Stallman himself said he has no problem with people charging money for software so long as the source code is included, and the consumer is given the right to look at, modify, recompile and redistribute software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/. He's also made it very clear, Free software is "Free as in speech, not free as in beer".
So if you have the opinion that no one should ever charge for software, fine, but your views do not represent either the FSF, nor its illustrious founder, nor the bulk of the Free software community, and certainly not the Open Source community(which has found a solid business model to profit off Free software).
You could obviously pay the 3.99 and re-upload the app, or copy from someone else who has it.
There are a whole host of nice Xorg based GUI text editos, many like gnome's gedit even does syntax highlighting for quite a few langauges, and even lightweight ones more comparable to MS notepad still number lines.
On the command line, on modern UNIX boxen, there is GNU nano http://www.nano-editor.org/
its a simple to use WYSIWYG editor with syntax highliting, regexpression, as well as simple string searching, and a lot of other great advanced features, most people will never know, care, or use.
Then of course comes with the fact on modern linux desktops, most configuration is done in the GUI in KDE, GNOME, and even XFCE now. All have fantastic control panels.
Then of courses comes the occational manual edit. In windows this is done by modifying values in the "registry". Even experts get confused in lost in the registry. editing text files in/etc/, especially now, since there is no more/usr/etc and/usr/local/etc on modern linux systems (real UNIX still has them I think.) is very painless. Combine modern text editors, loads of comments explaining options. All you really need to configure files in/etc/ is patience to read the comments, and basic ability to send commands to nano with the control key
"The problem is treating corporations as if they are people with rights. They are not people. And the purpose of government is not to save companies from having to buy insurance."
agree so far. corporations should not be treated as people.
but why are you giving these companies back to the owners? They implemented the system in the first place.
same person who was complaining about making $10/hour. Guess what, enjoy making $10/hour. Because as long as the system of ownership that is now is in place, that won't change.
my idea is simple, companies are owned by people who work for them, and get to pick the CEOs and leadership via democracy, as enshrined as a right.
because its not. $50/hour is about what you need to have a house, raise a family of 4, and live paycheck to paycheck.
Even if your single, and life relatively comfortable on $50/hour, your still generally not someone in charge of anything, You might be able to save a little, or afford to buy a new car every 5 years, and a decent standard of living, as well as rent in a house/apartment not in a crime ridden neighborhood. You might even be able to afford decent medical coverage, or at least be covered by the same income source.
Its certainly not "out on the streets", but it certainly doesn't make you part of the %1. You certainly aren't making enough that saving money for a few years makes "working optional" for the rest of your life.
"I guess I could sleep on a bed made entirely of $100 bills or something." your not doing that with $50/hour, far less $30.
stop pretending that people who make slightly more than you are somehow spoiled, and/or run things.
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yeah, after they hired an ex-microsoftie VP, who made nokia an all windows shop, putting all of nokia's smart phone eggs the windows 8 basket, which has been the most glorious flop in history.
Nokia would have had better luck sticking with meego/maemo, and the small, but stable, and rabidly loyal fanbois that were willing to shell out over $600 for a new unbranded phone, just for meego/maemo.
windows 8 does not garner that level of excitement, or consumer enthusiasim.
if he loved his company, he would hate microsoft.
revenge for microsoft tanking their company....
which is ghetto composite armor, like found on real tanks. He most likely used higher grade steel in better condition.
I know what killdozer was, and this is far below killdozer. There is no composite armor.
Its also not using anything like a torqy bulldozer, as a base.
to repeat more cold war rhetoric, there is no moral equivilant between google and apple.
"There is a diffrence between pushing an old lady out of the way of a bush, and pushing one in front of a bus, to catagorize both as pushing around old ladies is wrong".
there is only one idea theif in corporate America, everyone else is trying to get their shit back.
Two ways to get a free/cheap post-HS education
1. Smart enough to get a schollarship
2. Join the military.
While in the military, any classes you take in the military at any college, are paid for by the military.(still have to do your duties as a solider in the mean time). University of Phoenix specializes in doing this for soliders.
Two, GI Bill, 3 years of active duty or more, and you get the New GI Bill, which gives you 36 months of education in an accredited school, payed for %100, by the army. in addition the government gives a stipend for living expenses.
you'd think, but apparently it doesn't work like that.
GSR is apparently different than bombs resisude wise. I did a shooting course once so intense I was sneezing GSR from my boogers for weeks. (shot 10,000 rounds in a week, various guns), immediately after I went home via airplane, and the dogs walked right past me.
people who work in demolition, do get stopped regularlly.
"the options to access the VPS are initially quite limited, and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server."
http://www.openssh.org/ - this goes on your server
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html - this goes on your windows 7 desktop
This is how linux works
https://code.google.com/edu/tools101/linux/basics.html
most configs are text files you edit
http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html
thats vi.
or nano learn to use this too
http://www.nano-editor.org/
updates are done with apt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool
http://packages.ubuntu.com/ - packages you can find by looking through ubuntu's web catalouge. Yes there is a search function.
Thats the polite way of saying RTFM. In a previous life, I'd call you an idiot.
In this life, it sounds like your in need of a full time sys admin, and I'm your man.
"The armor is definitely insufficient to handle modern tanks, but it would have been enough for 20's and '30s tanks (or perhaps WW2-era Italian or Japanese tanks), so you could probably squeeze it in."
outclassed by M1151 armored Humvees you mean.
this would barely hold up with armored cars of the 1930s, and certainly not tanks of any era.
"but it *might* stand up to an RPG-7 or so."
it might stand up to 9mm pistol rounds.
barely qualifies as an armored truck
"The Heemeyer Bulldozer was arguably a much more potent vehicle than this little steel-plated car."
that man understood "composite armor", a ghetto but effecient/effective versions. steel-concrete-steel. It also used a more potent starting vehicle better suited for the task, and fresh, unweathered steel(arguablly thicker).
he also had the resources of a first world nation, and all the time in the world to built it, with no pressure from lets say, a government attacking him instead of vice versa.
bullshit.
a medium machine gun, should rip this thing apart.
overkill. .50 BMG ball rounds will do the trick, far less an API round.
I don't think this thing will stand up to bursts from a 7.62x51 nato machine gun. Like the FN FAL
bullets at a far range might be deflected.
reality is, probably save the weight from the armor, just use a lighter vehicle and rely on speed for a troop transport, to transport light infantry, before speeding away.
If this thing comes under concentrated fire, from even small arms, it, and its drivers are fucked. This is a death trap, and whoever designed it has delusions of graunder.
6/10-7/10" of rusted mild steel armor is nothing and won't do shit, except made stop shrapnel/debris.
or better yet, it might look cool, or dangerous, but what about the scrap grade steel is made out of, how ballasticly sound is it?
.50 BMG).
This "hillbilly armor" is the same welded on cheap steal armor that the humvees started using when they first when to armor. It wasn't that great and it really didn't stop bullets all too well.
This is not a "tank", but a ghetto version of an armored humvee, without the protection that modern ones have (will stop all rounds short of
Its not much of a "tank" by todays standards, more like an armored car. Tank implies 360 degree turret, think armor and decent sized cannon for main armament.
MBTs, or main battle tanks, the only real tanks left (there are no more light, medium and heavy tanks in the modern age), are heavily armored, tracked vehciles, with large main gun cannons, designed as anti-vehicle weapons, and quick moving mobile guns.
Yes, I know my shit on tanks. Yes its first hand. This is not one.
they developed a whole new desktop called "Cinamon", and help maintain "MATE", in response to both gnome-shell and unity.
If Ubuntu didn't spend the last 2 years making piss poor decisions, and Mint cleaning up the mess, you'd have a point.
If Ubuntu didn't fuck up, no one, self included, would give a damn about mint.
the GPL is what made GNU/Linux a community, instead of a forgotten footnote.
the GPL and GPL like licenses are what make the Open Source business model viable, as any potential competition has to share their improvements on your code with you. If it where BSD, you'd have something like OS X, where one company would make a locked down version, and no one else would be able to make their own version, and contributing your code in a community would not be viable, because you'd only help your competition, who'd be under no obligation to help you back.
The GPL actually protects profits of companies.
As for GNU. Its everywhere. Despite being ignored by most consumer goods, its present everywhere on the business side.
RHEL and SLES running GNU, as does zLinux, and the other high end commericial distros.
IBM uses GNU with its AIX workstations
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/index.html
HP ports GNU to HP/UX
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/
Apple OS X runs BASH as its default shell, as its available for a number of platforms.
No, RMS has a valid complaint.
The concept of being more useful to the consumer is fine. After all, we ALL buy things online. Most of us use the computer for ecommerce of some sort. a feature that makes it easier would be useful.
However, its not the what, but the how which make this pretty dangerous to your freedoms:
1. The user doesn't have a choice of the backend. They don't have the right to select the online purchase service of choice. This is going to make the Ubuntu experiance as one giant advertisement to get you to buy partner related shit-you-don't-need.
2. Targeted ads, at the operating system level. While targeted ads are good, as they reduced the obnoxious system destroying ads of 10 years ago, they do so by spying on the users habit, and compiling dossiers on users. These profiles are then bought and sold on the open market. They are the biggest gross violation of privacy that perhaps exists today.
At least a few specialize in identifying complainers, and critics(silencing them?), to companies.
Having this at the OS level, would make Ubuntu 13.04 potentially worse than MS Windows on the default install for privacy. This is certainly an entire OPERATING SYSTEM on par with the shovelware(removable) that comes with windows.
Instead of selling you an operating system, or selling you service and support on an opperating system. Ubuntu is now selling YOU to the advertising/PR Companies, and through them, anyone else who has the money to pay.
On the bright side, there are more GNU/Linux distro choices, and it should be easy to remove the spyware via apt.
http://linuxmint.com
I'll say this before and I'll say it again, if you haven't ditched Ubuntu for Mint, now is the time
http://linuxmint.com/
Its also funny to note that install base of Ubuntu has taken a nose dive in the last year(two?). with mint taking up the slack.
I wonder why.
"he developer of DOSBot says on his Google Play entry that he will not release the source code of his application because it's not GPL, even though it's derived from source released under GPL v2"
gross violation of the GPL, report it to the EFF and the FSF immediately, they can and just might sue.
"The developer of DOSBox Turbo is refusing to release the source for his application unless you pay the $3.99 to "buy" a license of it."
which is allowed under the GPL, specificly. Stallman himself said he has no problem with people charging money for software so long as the source code is included, and the consumer is given the right to look at, modify, recompile and redistribute software.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/. He's also made it very clear, Free software is "Free as in speech, not free as in beer".
So if you have the opinion that no one should ever charge for software, fine, but your views do not represent either the FSF, nor its illustrious founder, nor the bulk of the Free software community, and certainly not the Open Source community(which has found a solid business model to profit off Free software).
You could obviously pay the 3.99 and re-upload the app, or copy from someone else who has it.
vi and emacs? what is this 1985????
/etc/, especially now, since there is no more /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc on modern linux systems (real UNIX still has them I think.) is very painless. Combine modern text editors, loads of comments explaining options. All you really need to configure files in /etc/ is patience to read the comments, and basic ability to send commands to nano with the control key
There are a whole host of nice Xorg based GUI text editos, many like gnome's gedit even does syntax highlighting for quite a few langauges, and even lightweight ones more comparable to MS notepad still number lines.
On the command line, on modern UNIX boxen, there is GNU nano
http://www.nano-editor.org/
its a simple to use WYSIWYG editor with syntax highliting, regexpression, as well as simple string searching, and a lot of other great advanced features, most people will never know, care, or use.
Then of course comes with the fact on modern linux desktops, most configuration is done in the GUI in KDE, GNOME, and even XFCE now. All have fantastic control panels.
Then of courses comes the occational manual edit. In windows this is done by modifying values in the "registry". Even experts get confused in lost in the registry. editing text files in
"The problem is treating corporations as if they are people with rights. They are not people. And the purpose of government is not to save companies from having to buy insurance."
agree so far. corporations should not be treated as people.
but why are you giving these companies back to the owners? They implemented the system in the first place.
same person who was complaining about making $10/hour. Guess what, enjoy making $10/hour. Because as long as the system of ownership that is now is in place, that won't change.
my idea is simple, companies are owned by people who work for them, and get to pick the CEOs and leadership via democracy, as enshrined as a right.
Tell me which one sounds better?
"It seems like an obscene amount to me"
because its not. $50/hour is about what you need to have a house, raise a family of 4, and live paycheck to paycheck.
Even if your single, and life relatively comfortable on $50/hour, your still generally not someone in charge of anything, You might be able to save a little, or afford to buy a new car every 5 years, and a decent standard of living, as well as rent in a house/apartment not in a crime ridden neighborhood. You might even be able to afford decent medical coverage, or at least be covered by the same income source.
Its certainly not "out on the streets", but it certainly doesn't make you part of the %1. You certainly aren't making enough that saving money for a few years makes "working optional" for the rest of your life.
"I guess I could sleep on a bed made entirely of $100 bills or something."
your not doing that with $50/hour, far less $30.
stop pretending that people who make slightly more than you are somehow spoiled, and/or run things.
he does actually.
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html