I am not even sure where to being. First, I doubt that you even have a wife, nor that you use iTunes for anything other than being able to say you have it installed. You have an iTunes account setup, you have your payment information already setup. Then I find the album and buy it. At most, I have to type my password again. Done. Oh, about running SoundConversion? All of iTunes music is now DRM free. All I have to do is tell it to export to MP3 with a right click on the album, from iTunes. And the artists (and distributers) get paid.
TPB, find the album, hope it isn't a honeypot for anti piracy, a joke with the wrong music, or an old link no one is uploading anymore. Then download it. And no one gets paid.
Sorry, TPB is not all that much easier, and in fact, I would say with the unreliability of some of the non-popular music/movies, it is worse.
Tell that to the family of the people that crashed. Sorry, I will take a little inconvenience of the flight crew, versus allowing a single person in the cockpit able to do what happened here.
Then why have income tax? Then there should ONLY be a sales tax. However, what this opens up is exactly what is going on... Move money over seas where there is little to no regulation/tax and now you can operate virtually tax free. Foreign countries and the corporations win. Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Who pays for the technology that replaces all those old jobs? Who pays for the maintenance and up keep? Though the technology does replace certain niche jobs, it does not replace all jobs. Until we can create what ever we want, food, clean water, gadgets, etc... just like replicators in Star Trek, you will always have a labor force. And just like any organization, you need leaders to provide direction, you need people to do the work and you need people to do the support work that has nothing directly to do with the job at hand.
Please enumerate in detail exactly how Windows 8 has handed Linux an opportunity on a silver platter. I am not a windows appologist, but at the same time, I do have a Windows 8 machine. It works. I do not have any issues with it. I use it for my gaming rig, home development for Java and Python, and random office use and browsing thrown in for good measure.
I have no issues using it, and it works well. Did I make tweeks to the UI to have it do exactly what I want? Sure, but who doesn't tweek those settings? I go right to the desktop. I can use all my old programs from XP and 7 without issue. My old hardware devices work.
So I am interested in exactly what you see as broken in Windows 8 that is handing Linux this platter?
It is a wonder Linux has such an image problem with anyone, but the converted. Granted this article may not be the best, but let's do a quick google search for the actual article that the poster is refering to:
David Bolton talks about what he did. Good or bad, he documents it and shares it with his readers.
What do I read here, explatives, degrading remarks, and just plain snobbery. Here and there are some useful remarks. What I was hoping is to read a helpful discussion on what he recommends/did and what could be done better and how. There is so much vitriol to sort through, I don't even bother.
No, I just believe that eventually those that stop growing, adapting and changing will eventually be left behind. It is in a way of never-ending, unlimited growth. Those that replace the stagnate company continue to grow until they themselves are left behind.
Apple is a classic example of a company that turned that around, dramatically. They were almost left behind, being given money by Microsoft just so Microsoft could claim that they are not a monopoly.
Now it is RIM's turn to show that either they need to move on or turn it around and convince us why they should stay.
That is where I am at. I dropped my Wii a number of months ago, and I went to the kids and asked them if they wanted me to go out and buy the old on or wait to buy the new one. Since it is backwards compatible they decided to wait for the new one.
incorrect, read the article. It is a contractual agreement with the payment processor that gives them exclusivity until February. Nothing to do with unions.
I ran Vista at home. Agreed, the OS needed some tweeking to make it a bit more palatable. However, I had no issues with stability, nor driver issues. Don't get me wrong, Windows 7 is a much better release, in my mind it is a point release over vista.
I do not know you, but let me ask you one thing? Are you involved in the Scouts in any form now? What is your basis for saying these things?
I disagree with your assertion that Scouts are a pale imitation of their past selves.
I know our Troop just recently went on a camping trip (really, tents and all) to Alaska. So with your sample size so small, please do not paint the entire efforts of parent volunteers with such a broad brush.
Sure is there a greater emphasis on raising money? Yes, but it is more expensive to do these things with the kids now as compared to 30 years ago. Law suites, insurance, and inflation have made the cost of doing just basic meetings more expensive. Our sponsor provides us with no direct funds, we have free use of the facilities and a permanently assigned room. And we are very grateful for this. There is a nominal fee each year, but that covers the basics. If you want to do more, you either raise funds, or the parents pay themselves.
I use the free mobile app from my phone and tablet almost exclusively. I almost never use my computer to connect to facebook any more. They do not display any ads on the mobile apps. How many of their users are almost exclusively mobile and that is at least a percentage of your users that never get to see your ads.
They are called anti-bacterial soaps, not antibiotic soap. Anti-bacterial soaps use a set of different chemicals to kill the bacteria, and since the chemicals target a specific type of bacteria, it is limited subset of bacteria. These types of soaps would not have any affect on antibiotic resistance.
You know I never thought anyone else was annoyed by the glug glug sound of liquid pouring. We should create a support group so that all of us that are thus afflicted can come out and let the world know that we hate that sound.
The problem with not voting for the lesser evil is that none of the parties actually represent my view point. You have your two major parties, but most of the other parties have to distinguish themselves from the major parties. In doing this, in my opinion, I find they make themselves to fringe and extreme in view point, to the point that they no longer represent what I am looking for.
Take the Libertarian Party for instance... Here is their platform: "As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others". This is how I read it, if i want to be nice and help other people, you will let me, but the government will have no place in helping people, because we collect taxes, that would thus be forcing you to help other people. Sorry, but for myself, this is a non-starter, and I thus avoid any of their candidates. Which is too bad, because I think there are some merits to some of the beliefs that they do hold.
So, as much as I don't like either of the two parties, I like the other parties even less.
No, nothing so extreme in the other direction either. How about, oh say putting up a non-troll image that represents Windows. Say the four color window icon.
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I am not even sure where to being. First, I doubt that you even have a wife, nor that you use iTunes for anything other than being able to say you have it installed. You have an iTunes account setup, you have your payment information already setup. Then I find the album and buy it. At most, I have to type my password again. Done. Oh, about running SoundConversion? All of iTunes music is now DRM free. All I have to do is tell it to export to MP3 with a right click on the album, from iTunes. And the artists (and distributers) get paid.
TPB, find the album, hope it isn't a honeypot for anti piracy, a joke with the wrong music, or an old link no one is uploading anymore. Then download it. And no one gets paid.
Sorry, TPB is not all that much easier, and in fact, I would say with the unreliability of some of the non-popular music/movies, it is worse.
No you miss the point, converting to MP3 is easy now that all music on iTunes is DRM Free.
Tell that to the family of the people that crashed. Sorry, I will take a little inconvenience of the flight crew, versus allowing a single person in the cockpit able to do what happened here.
That's what the aliens want you to believe. They are just waiting till everyone is onto the next big thing before they invade.
Then why have income tax? Then there should ONLY be a sales tax. However, what this opens up is exactly what is going on... Move money over seas where there is little to no regulation/tax and now you can operate virtually tax free. Foreign countries and the corporations win. Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Who pays for the technology that replaces all those old jobs? Who pays for the maintenance and up keep? Though the technology does replace certain niche jobs, it does not replace all jobs. Until we can create what ever we want, food, clean water, gadgets, etc... just like replicators in Star Trek, you will always have a labor force. And just like any organization, you need leaders to provide direction, you need people to do the work and you need people to do the support work that has nothing directly to do with the job at hand.
But... But, is that not the very definition of.... SOCIALISM. Supporting the less fortunate until they are capable of supporting themselves?
Please enumerate in detail exactly how Windows 8 has handed Linux an opportunity on a silver platter. I am not a windows appologist, but at the same time, I do have a Windows 8 machine. It works. I do not have any issues with it. I use it for my gaming rig, home development for Java and Python, and random office use and browsing thrown in for good measure.
I have no issues using it, and it works well. Did I make tweeks to the UI to have it do exactly what I want? Sure, but who doesn't tweek those settings? I go right to the desktop. I can use all my old programs from XP and 7 without issue. My old hardware devices work.
So I am interested in exactly what you see as broken in Windows 8 that is handing Linux this platter?
It is a wonder Linux has such an image problem with anyone, but the converted. Granted this article may not be the best, but let's do a quick google search for the actual article that the poster is refering to:
http://news.dice.com/2012/12/10/linux-virtual-private-server/
David Bolton talks about what he did. Good or bad, he documents it and shares it with his readers.
What do I read here, explatives, degrading remarks, and just plain snobbery. Here and there are some useful remarks. What I was hoping is to read a helpful discussion on what he recommends/did and what could be done better and how. There is so much vitriol to sort through, I don't even bother.
Pathetic.
No, I just believe that eventually those that stop growing, adapting and changing will eventually be left behind. It is in a way of never-ending, unlimited growth. Those that replace the stagnate company continue to grow until they themselves are left behind.
Apple is a classic example of a company that turned that around, dramatically. They were almost left behind, being given money by Microsoft just so Microsoft could claim that they are not a monopoly.
Now it is RIM's turn to show that either they need to move on or turn it around and convince us why they should stay.
That is where I am at. I dropped my Wii a number of months ago, and I went to the kids and asked them if they wanted me to go out and buy the old on or wait to buy the new one. Since it is backwards compatible they decided to wait for the new one.
incorrect, read the article. It is a contractual agreement with the payment processor that gives them exclusivity until February. Nothing to do with unions.
Steam sale on July 15, $29.79 USD
I ran Vista at home. Agreed, the OS needed some tweeking to make it a bit more palatable. However, I had no issues with stability, nor driver issues. Don't get me wrong, Windows 7 is a much better release, in my mind it is a point release over vista.
I do not know you, but let me ask you one thing? Are you involved in the Scouts in any form now? What is your basis for saying these things?
I disagree with your assertion that Scouts are a pale imitation of their past selves.
I know our Troop just recently went on a camping trip (really, tents and all) to Alaska. So with your sample size so small, please do not paint the entire efforts of parent volunteers with such a broad brush.
Sure is there a greater emphasis on raising money? Yes, but it is more expensive to do these things with the kids now as compared to 30 years ago. Law suites, insurance, and inflation have made the cost of doing just basic meetings more expensive. Our sponsor provides us with no direct funds, we have free use of the facilities and a permanently assigned room. And we are very grateful for this. There is a nominal fee each year, but that covers the basics. If you want to do more, you either raise funds, or the parents pay themselves.
You mean vocal minorities like corporations that hire lobbyists?
at the bottom of the article, in bold black letters, they give you credit now.
I use the free mobile app from my phone and tablet almost exclusively. I almost never use my computer to connect to facebook any more. They do not display any ads on the mobile apps. How many of their users are almost exclusively mobile and that is at least a percentage of your users that never get to see your ads.
It's called strip search, the anti-magnet detector
At the bottom of this article was a link to someone dying at 115. Oh Well, guess the limit was already broken.
http://singularityhub.com/2009/09/15/gertrude-baines-dies-at-age-115/
They are called anti-bacterial soaps, not antibiotic soap. Anti-bacterial soaps use a set of different chemicals to kill the bacteria, and since the chemicals target a specific type of bacteria, it is limited subset of bacteria. These types of soaps would not have any affect on antibiotic resistance.
You know I never thought anyone else was annoyed by the glug glug sound of liquid pouring. We should create a support group so that all of us that are thus afflicted can come out and let the world know that we hate that sound.
The problem with not voting for the lesser evil is that none of the parties actually represent my view point. You have your two major parties, but most of the other parties have to distinguish themselves from the major parties. In doing this, in my opinion, I find they make themselves to fringe and extreme in view point, to the point that they no longer represent what I am looking for.
Take the Libertarian Party for instance... Here is their platform: "As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others". This is how I read it, if i want to be nice and help other people, you will let me, but the government will have no place in helping people, because we collect taxes, that would thus be forcing you to help other people. Sorry, but for myself, this is a non-starter, and I thus avoid any of their candidates. Which is too bad, because I think there are some merits to some of the beliefs that they do hold.
So, as much as I don't like either of the two parties, I like the other parties even less.
No, nothing so extreme in the other direction either. How about, oh say putting up a non-troll image that represents Windows. Say the four color window icon.
I know, you would think I would know better. It has irked me for sometime. Oh well, let me tilt at my windmills.