I ran Kubuntu for years. It's still pretty good, and they seem to have pulled out of their post-4.0 funk when they couldn't push a working release out the door for like two years without fucking something up (yeah, that's when I left). Last time I looked at it (11.04) it looked pretty good.
I'm still staying with Arch. Once I found out how much easier it was to manage a rolling release system, I can't ever see myself going back to the "guaranteed to break catastrophically every six months without fail" release cycle. Honestly, that is reason #1 why I will not be going back to *buntu.
That's not what I said. I said he wasn't asking anyone for anything. Your original comment referred to a "sense of entitlement." It did not sound to me like the OP thought he was "entitled" to anything. Did you read it differently?
If federally subsidized student loans went away, prices would absolutely have to come down, one way or another. Or big universities would have to find a way to get by with 1/2 as many students.
Your last paragraph illustrates beautifully why the federal government should not be involved in handing out money to colleges. The government shouldn't get to make those judgments.
Social mobility is low. Full stop. Everywhere, at all times throughout history, those who break through to a higher economic class are the exception, not the rule. Social and economic mobility is higher now than at any other time in our recorded history. I have looked it up, thanks.
And if you somehow think that investing your capital in the work of others isn't a service...well, I don't know what to tell you. You're wrong.
As you obviously disagree you either belong to that %1 or are not poor enough to make up your mind.
I don't know what your definition of "poor enough" is. I am firmly in the bottom 50%, but above the federal poverty line. But I think there's a third option there that you're missing.
Ah yes. The "everyone with money inherited it through no merit of their own" troll, backed up with the "investing your capital in the work of others isn't a service" tripe. You're full of shit, you know that?
The two most important items in my office are my Model M keyboard and my big fat Logitech trackball. I've got big hands, and typing on those shitty little throwaway keyboards (you know, the identical black HP keyboard that came with everyone's tower) scrunches me up in a weird way. I have more typos, and by day's end my wrists fucking hurt. A physically larger keyboard with bigger, more spaced-out keys is such a Godsend.
The trackball is really nice too. Hard to get used to if you've never used one before, but it also really saves my wrist. Working at other workstations (I do a lot of contract stuff, in all kinds of places) really gets to me, and I find that as I get older (even though I'm only 30) I have less tolerance for it. Within an hour or two, I can feel it in my tendons. But I can work at my own desk all day long and be totally fine.
I just wrapped up a contract gig for a government agency who shall remain nameless. I had a sit/stand workstation there. God, it was nice. I'm gonna start saving up for one at home. I agree that keyboard trays are teh dumb.
I don't really like the split keyboard setup, but one thing I've noticed doing a lot of work at home (on my Model M) and at various contracts (who all have the same identical el cheapo HP keyboard) is that a physically larger keyboard helps me immensely. Whenever I'm using one of those tiny little jobs, I feel like I have to scrunch my hands into a weird contortion, and by day's end, my wrists invariably ache.
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Yes, Google obviously appropriated a lot of Diaspora's concepts. Diaspora launched far in advance of G+.
I ran Kubuntu for years. It's still pretty good, and they seem to have pulled out of their post-4.0 funk when they couldn't push a working release out the door for like two years without fucking something up (yeah, that's when I left). Last time I looked at it (11.04) it looked pretty good.
I'm still staying with Arch. Once I found out how much easier it was to manage a rolling release system, I can't ever see myself going back to the "guaranteed to break catastrophically every six months without fail" release cycle. Honestly, that is reason #1 why I will not be going back to *buntu.
He thinks he's entitled to get the GUI of his choice bundled with Ubuntu.
I don't see that in the comment in question. I see no requests whatsoever, only a statement about what he does not want.
That's not what I said. I said he wasn't asking anyone for anything. Your original comment referred to a "sense of entitlement." It did not sound to me like the OP thought he was "entitled" to anything. Did you read it differently?
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Doesn't sound to me like the OP was asking anyone for anything. You have issues.
If federally subsidized student loans went away, prices would absolutely have to come down, one way or another. Or big universities would have to find a way to get by with 1/2 as many students.
Your last paragraph illustrates beautifully why the federal government should not be involved in handing out money to colleges. The government shouldn't get to make those judgments.
Social mobility is low. Full stop. Everywhere, at all times throughout history, those who break through to a higher economic class are the exception, not the rule. Social and economic mobility is higher now than at any other time in our recorded history. I have looked it up, thanks.
And if you somehow think that investing your capital in the work of others isn't a service...well, I don't know what to tell you. You're wrong.
As you obviously disagree you either belong to that %1 or are not poor enough to make up your mind.
I don't know what your definition of "poor enough" is. I am firmly in the bottom 50%, but above the federal poverty line. But I think there's a third option there that you're missing.
If Amazon didn't have Penguin to undercut, they'd be charging the same damn thing and you know it.
Ah yes. The "everyone with money inherited it through no merit of their own" troll, backed up with the "investing your capital in the work of others isn't a service" tripe. You're full of shit, you know that?
You stated a desire to "strip the top 1% of their assets." By strip, I cannot help but surmise that you mean steal.
What do you think it means?
You would expect a system that benefits all people equally would maintain a relatively close distribution of wealth over time.
Why would you expect that?
That's idiotic. It goes to other places so other people can do stuff with it. That's what investment means.
Your apparent desire to steal from people is disgusting.
The two most important items in my office are my Model M keyboard and my big fat Logitech trackball. I've got big hands, and typing on those shitty little throwaway keyboards (you know, the identical black HP keyboard that came with everyone's tower) scrunches me up in a weird way. I have more typos, and by day's end my wrists fucking hurt. A physically larger keyboard with bigger, more spaced-out keys is such a Godsend.
The trackball is really nice too. Hard to get used to if you've never used one before, but it also really saves my wrist. Working at other workstations (I do a lot of contract stuff, in all kinds of places) really gets to me, and I find that as I get older (even though I'm only 30) I have less tolerance for it. Within an hour or two, I can feel it in my tendons. But I can work at my own desk all day long and be totally fine.
I just wrapped up a contract gig for a government agency who shall remain nameless. I had a sit/stand workstation there. God, it was nice. I'm gonna start saving up for one at home. I agree that keyboard trays are teh dumb.
I don't really like the split keyboard setup, but one thing I've noticed doing a lot of work at home (on my Model M) and at various contracts (who all have the same identical el cheapo HP keyboard) is that a physically larger keyboard helps me immensely. Whenever I'm using one of those tiny little jobs, I feel like I have to scrunch my hands into a weird contortion, and by day's end, my wrists invariably ache.
So why don't you install Debian and be done with it?
Okay, don't get me wrong... it's far from certain anything will get fixed, but most of the time you get good lip service.
Well that's just ducky.
Only they have the source code, only they can fix it
Huh. Can't imagine why that doesn't work.
In open source you have the power to trump all that make a patch, regardless if it's important for anyone but you
Cool, huh?
But that is more the exception than the rule, most of the time I can live with the bugs
Then by God, do so.
So in summary, what you are saying in this post is that all the things you said in your previous post were false?
if one will get you "Thanks we're always interested in the bugs our (paying) customer are experiencing"
I can't imagine which one you are talking about, but it's not one that I've ever seen.
That's not a very good argument. "They" (whoever they are) also won't make you buy health insurance if you're never going to...live.
How do you vote with your feet if there is barely any choice in the so-called "marketplace"?
What market are you referring to? There's broad choice in the PC market.
And if you vote with your wallet, will that count against the votes of others whose wallets are rather thicker than yours?
Yes, if there's enough of you.