First off for a minor update it seems totally nuts to jump to a completely different paradigm for file management. Its just wrong throwing this out to users who are used to the other way of handling files for years. This should have been done at 3.0, not at 2.6. Second, the old behavior should STILL be default. The spatial setting should be secondary but let the user know he/she can try it. You don't just switch the way things have been in such a major way with no transition period. That's the thing about Gnome they seem to just make major changes to the way you interact with your PC between releases without any notice.
Another example that comes to mind is the way they up and switched the "Yes" "No" "Cancel" dialog out of the blue. Right now the way Gnome does it is just bass ackwards to the way 95% of the world is used to. Sure I'm used to it now, but any Windows or KDE user who tries out Gnome will find themselves clicking on the wrong button because Gnome has it backwards. That's what happened to me after getting used to the old Gnome way.
The people in charge at Gnome just don't seem to want to ever settle down and let people get comfortable with the way they interact with the OS. Next release the File Selector will probably be further modified and you'll have to relearn they yet again. It just seems that there is all of this talk about Gnome and their superior HIG methods yet the things that shouldn't be changing get changed with every release. Pick a file selector, pick a file manager setup, pick a file confirmation dialog and stick with it, Forever. Stop changing the basic ways in which we interact with the OS with every release.
Yea great solution. Killing someone to protect to a $300 piece of silicon is a great idea. Really worth it. Why don't we add rocket launchers to our cars so we can blow up anyone who cuts us off while we are at it.
are you talking about? You challenge the claim that Fedora is built exclusively from Open Source software and then ramble on about nothing that makes sense and this gets modded up?
Seriously WTF are you talking about? I've re-read this like 5 times and it Still doesn't make any sense.
"But at least I now know that Fedora Core 1 is not a complete, general purpose operating system built exclusively from open source software."
Ack. At least now we know it was the mountains who brought the aliens to Jesus for the dog project of sidewalk Pepsi rainbow.
Bad example. Both the Discovery and History Channel would still be around. Same goes for TLC. Shit Discovery is probably watched more than VH1 or ESPN. If you think different you have way underestimated their popularity. This isn't 1990 and these channels are well established. These channels are as popular if not more than VH1 and ESPN with the people who actually pay the cable bills, ie the parents. Monster Garage, Trading Spaces etc couldn't be more popular these days. The whole "what will the smart people watch" argument is bunk.
Nice list. Too bad most people are so blinded by their political allegiance they'll never believe a single word of it.
"Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony."
That might be my favorite. I know person after person who will argue with me till the death that regardless of the facts Saddam "had to be taken down for humanitarian reasons." I'll then point out China and then somehow that's "different". Right.
Nobody said they couldn't publish any marketing material. We driveling fools just think its funny that a company as big as Microsoft who has like 95% of the Office market is running scared of OpenOffice.
They are actually doing us a favor. No way the OpenOffice.org team could have bought this much publicity. Now like 50,000 VAR's were just put on notice that Microsoft is taking OpenOffice.org seriously and that its a worthy product that they shouldn't be surprised to see at client sites.
First Microsoft admits that OpenOffice.org is as good as MS Office 97, now this. Sweet. MS Office has only one place to go, and its not up. Bring it on Microsoft. More press releases and studies about OpenOffice.org please!
I know this story is so old already that no one will even read this but if you want an alternative to mythTV, MyHTPC works great as well. It's a PVR that is easy to customize and has a ton of features. You get JIT, can schedule recordings, add on any gaming system imaginable ie MAME N64 2600 emulators etc, play any music or media format you can think of, check the weather, browse the web, look at pictures, burn music, etc etc. That's one long run-on sentence but you get the point.
I've always hated the fickle part of the Linux community. The kind that always rooted for Red Hat to Fall even though they've given away the code to everything they've ever produced. Even back in the mid 90's you had these jackass's calling Red Hat the "Microsoft" of Linux soley because they were the most popular.
Now along comes Novell/Suse. Suse of course has specialized in proprietary restrictive distros. Only just recently has Yast been gpl'd. Novell of course has specialized in proprietary software for like 20 years. These are the company's that you want to lead Linux and OSS for the next 10 years? Let me tell you. Novell may finally allow ISO's of some low end form of Suse to be released but their main goal is combining their proprietary technologies with Suse. So now you'll see a Suse with a GPL Yast but proprietary NDS,Groupwise, Zenworks, Ximian connector etc. Novell btw also doesn't have the best track record for acquisitions and business management for the last 10 years. In fact they have a downright shitty track record. This is the mega-company that you want to "lead" linux for the next 10 years?
It's a Sun problem, but I do agree that Sun should do what it wants with Java. Personally though I'm just not interested in the whole Java vs C# etc thing.
"Maybe the linux distributors should be a little more open regarding what programs they would like to include"
Here is where your wrong though. The last thing truly free OSS distros need to do is start included software that isn't FOSS. That would be a huge mistake.
" think it would be the sanest thing for HP to put forward a rational suggestion to Apple for them to license the Mac platform to HP."
You fail to take into account the only thing that matters. Apple is not now nor will they ever be interested in sharing their core business with anyone. If you think Apple would find anything rational about sharing their crown jewels with the lumbering behemoth that is HP you've got another thing coming.
So basically you have no insight here or have even used Gimp 2.0. You just felt like being a troll?
I swear Adobe users are some of the biggest Trolls I've met on the Net. Everywhere I go where someone dares to mention an alternative, the Adobe trolls freak out and show up in massive numbers to diss anything non-Adobe. If it wasn't cmyk it would just be some other thing.
Why can't you Photoshop snobs just accept the fact that Gimp is a decent image editor that differs from Photoshop and leave it at that. Why are you so freaking insulted that non-Adobe products are available? You have stock in Adobe or something?
Gimp is certainly the best Free image editor available and for home users it will do anything you could possibly want, especially when it comes to digital photography.
But then again I guess I'm just wasting my breath.
"Red Hat Tried this with their eminently forgettable "Blue Curve" standard look and feel"
You say "tried" but most people I know including the IT Press liked the way Blue Curve looked. They liked that everything finally looked the same in both Gnome and KDE. Blue Curve wasn't the failure your implying.
Novell also isn't trying to merge the two and until I see what they come out with its hard for me to comment on it. Most distros let you launch either QT or GTK apps from either environment. Perhaps they'll stick with KDE but use the gtk wrapper thing so that it all looks seamless? Throw in some admin tools that can call on either qt or gtk apps but have them looks the same and there you have it. Gnome and KDE unified. Sort of.
"And when your wifey comes to update her software, or something breaks?"
When something breaks on either my parents desktop or any of the computers at my father's law firm its Stop and do not pass Go. Face it, most people are totally clueless about computers and that's not going to change until all the people who grew up without computers get old and die.
When it comes to updating software or something breaking most people are screwed no matter what OS they run. Its silly say that this is a Linux issue when most Windows users go through the same exact thing. Reboot, hope it fixes your problem, then call in IT or your grandson etc.
I'm not advocating a switch to Linux. Without the support of Adobe, Microsoft, Intuit, Macromedia, and all of those other ISV's Linux is still very lacking when it comes to the software that most people want to use. But the whole "what to do if something breaks" theory is a non-issue for Linux just like it is on Windows. Get all of those ISV's to support Linux and linux users will finally be able to "enjoy" the same great tech support that companies have always given to Windows users.
I just think its odd that/. has Zero problem with posters constantly copying and pasting entire articles here but would refuse to cache because of "IP". If they really were worried about IP they would delete every post where people just copy and paste without proper attribution to the author,date,source etc. Saying that they don't control what people post is a cop out. Every day with every article editors are selectively editing posts. They are very much aware of and encourge posters to copy and paste other site's IP. If they just let everyone post what they wanted and didn't do any editing you might have a point. I just think its shitty what/. does to some websites.
So you won't mind if I break into your house "just to prove its unsecure"? I won't steal anything, I promise. Can I then sell you my home securing service?
Linux is Free. Fact. No debating. From a monetary standpoint you have no arguement. Everything that comes after that may or may not cost money. But to say its not Free when it cleary is makes zero sense. That statement is just FUD.
"And it applies to OSS in general as well"
More FUD whether your "mature enough" to admit it, or not.
For the same reason the New York Giants are called "New York" while they clearly play every single game in New Jersey. Name recognition. Everyone in America has heard of Philly who except for people from the local area have ever heard of King of Prussia?
"but I was disappointed by the first movie's failure to capture the feeling of the book"
That's where I would disagree. Think about how many books have turned out to be absolutely horrible movies? Now look at the first two HP movies. They have done an excellant job creating the wizard world and the characters couldn't have been portrayed any better. Considering how much of the book they included in the first movie I'd consider you complaints nitpicking at best. But hey, you can't please everyone.
But Suse isn't Open Source. At least not in the way that matters. The very core and most important part of Suse YAST is closed source and comes with restrictions. If you "need" to push Open Source push Fedora, Mandrake, Knoppix, Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo.
If Red Hat can give away the source for its most expensive products why can't Suse Open Source Yast?
In the end Suse is free to do what they want with their code and I don't think they are "evil" but they are not an open source distro any more than somthing like Lindows. Once Novell starts integrating their proprietary technologies into Suse it will become even more closed source. And Yes that is their plan. It may end up being a really good distro but it will always be far from Open Source.
For those who don't know Progeny's installer, its really Red Hat's excellent anaconda and Kudzu. Mandrake also uses kudzu for hardware detection. Lastly next time you hear someone raving about Knoppix or some other livecd and how it picked up all of their hardware you can tell them to thank Kudzu and Red Hat as well.
So raise the price of the PC's by.10. I doubt anyone will complain. This is just another example of reckless cost cutting that will only make consumer's lives more difficult.
"Least qualified? Not by comparison to some other recent president"
Yea because a college degree proves everything. Bush's inability speak English on an 8th grade level proves more than anything you said. Do we need to talk about how many schools Bush was rejected from? And yes people who flee from the military are not qualified to send others to die.
"Much of the Enron shenanigans were ongoing before he even took office. Clinton had some ties also. Would that have made you impeach Clinton too, or only Bush?"
Umm let's see. Who was Bush's #1 supporter and closest ally during his run from the govenor's office to the Presidency? Who held special meetings with the Vice President to decide our nation's energy policy while other companies were locked out? Who let Enron dictate Energy Commision nominess? Who refuses to discuss those meetings? You cannot in any way compare the access that Enron had to Bush to any other President.
"Check out the latest dirt on the UN's "Oil for Pala^H^H^H^H Food" program."
No actually I'd rather check out Bush and Cheney's ties to the Oil industry. I'd rather talk about Halliburton. Go ahead ignore that and bring up some other subject. It's your able to do.
"If those "rules" include reining in WMD proliferators and demolishing terrorist states, screw the opposition; "
Your so fully of shit its not even funny. Where exactly are those WMD's in Iraq?
"If finding and killing terrorists before they can strike is wrong"
Rah Rah. Kill the terrorists! Yep just keep scaring the Americans and saying terrorism so that the people are afraid to elect someone other than a Right-Wing hardliner war hawk. Great arguement. "If finding the bad guys is wrong I don't want to be right!" Bravo. That will play well with uneducated people everwhere. The End justifies the means always. Right?
"If they're terrorists, they have almost no rights."
If they are American citizens they have rights. I specifically said American citizens, who Bush FULLY supports holding without rights. Way to set up a straw man arguement though and say I'm arguing for rights for foreign terrorists.
"It's OK that you hate Bush... really."
I know it is. Thanks for avoiding debating the real facts though. It makes it so much easier.
" However, let's also be realistic about the bigger picture, and the lack of palatable alternatives. Kerry's no prize."
Sorry but that just doesn't hold water. Bush is the least qualified President we have ever had and it shows. His plan for reigning in our massive deficit was to cut taxes for the richest of rich and then wage war while spend $87 billion on a foreign country that was never a threat to us in the first place. His ties to Enron alone are enough to want him out. For the love of God I have NO idea how a scandal of the scope of Enron didn't sink the Presidency while a extramarital affair did. Meanwhile Bush squandered the greatest chance for peace in our time by calling all of the world "Evil" after 9/11. After that horrible day in September almost every country in the world that was hostile towards us was willing to help us stomp out terrorism and work with the US. Instead Bush being the cowboy that he is say a big fuck you to the world and the good will that was there vanished overnight. Now the Mid-East, The Far East, and Europe all rightfully think of America as a "play by its own rules" bully. A role that we could have finally gotten away from.
Let's also not forget that on 9/11 while the bombs were falling Bush sat in a classroom for several minutes doing NOTHING. Then while the rest of us were shitting our pants because we didn't know what was happening Bush hid out in some mountain refusing to come on the air to let us know that "everything is alright and I'm in control". Now that coward who didn't even serve his full term in the military is going to use 9/11 and the fallen as a prop to get him reelected? You HAVE to be fucking kidding me.
So yes, let's be realistic. Bush IS a failure and he needs to go. His economic policies have done nothing and his desire to unify Church and State while raping our Constitution are an embarassment. Not to mention the fact that he wants to hold Americans without trial or due process indefinitely. This is a man who has NO respect for the citizens who put him in office. Err I mean the office that him and his brother stole. Will Kerry be better? I don't know. I do know that he or anyone else won't be worse.
Subtantially less? Exactly how fast do you think ATA drives transfer at? 66MB? 133MB? Tell you what. You find me an ata/66 drive that can do 50MB per sec sustained across the entire platter and I'll eat my laptop. Only in the last year have ATA drives consitantly been able to break 50MB/sec and that's only at the outer edge. As is gets towards the center its not uncommon to have it drop into the 30's.
Your right that gigabit switches are unheard for home use but if they weren't, the average user's hard drive would be the bottleneck not the network.
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First off for a minor update it seems totally nuts to jump to a completely different paradigm for file management. Its just wrong throwing this out to users who are used to the other way of handling files for years. This should have been done at 3.0, not at 2.6. Second, the old behavior should STILL be default. The spatial setting should be secondary but let the user know he/she can try it. You don't just switch the way things have been in such a major way with no transition period. That's the thing about Gnome they seem to just make major changes to the way you interact with your PC between releases without any notice.
Another example that comes to mind is the way they up and switched the "Yes" "No" "Cancel" dialog out of the blue. Right now the way Gnome does it is just bass ackwards to the way 95% of the world is used to. Sure I'm used to it now, but any Windows or KDE user who tries out Gnome will find themselves clicking on the wrong button because Gnome has it backwards. That's what happened to me after getting used to the old Gnome way.
The people in charge at Gnome just don't seem to want to ever settle down and let people get comfortable with the way they interact with the OS. Next release the File Selector will probably be further modified and you'll have to relearn they yet again. It just seems that there is all of this talk about Gnome and their superior HIG methods yet the things that shouldn't be changing get changed with every release. Pick a file selector, pick a file manager setup, pick a file confirmation dialog and stick with it, Forever. Stop changing the basic ways in which we interact with the OS with every release.
Yea great solution. Killing someone to protect to a $300 piece of silicon is a great idea. Really worth it. Why don't we add rocket launchers to our cars so we can blow up anyone who cuts us off while we are at it.
are you talking about? You challenge the claim that Fedora is built exclusively from Open Source software and then ramble on about nothing that makes sense and this gets modded up?
Seriously WTF are you talking about? I've re-read this like 5 times and it Still doesn't make any sense.
"But at least I now know that Fedora Core 1 is not a complete, general purpose operating system built exclusively from open source software."
Ack. At least now we know it was the mountains who brought the aliens to Jesus for the dog project of sidewalk Pepsi rainbow.
Bad example. Both the Discovery and History Channel would still be around. Same goes for TLC. Shit Discovery is probably watched more than VH1 or ESPN. If you think different you have way underestimated their popularity. This isn't 1990 and these channels are well established. These channels are as popular if not more than VH1 and ESPN with the people who actually pay the cable bills, ie the parents. Monster Garage, Trading Spaces etc couldn't be more popular these days.
The whole "what will the smart people watch" argument is bunk.
Nice list. Too bad most people are so blinded by their political allegiance they'll never believe a single word of it.
"Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony."
That might be my favorite. I know person after person who will argue with me till the death that regardless of the facts Saddam "had to be taken down for humanitarian reasons." I'll then point out China and then somehow that's "different". Right.
Nobody said they couldn't publish any marketing material. We driveling fools just think its funny that a company as big as Microsoft who has like 95% of the Office market is running scared of OpenOffice.
They are actually doing us a favor. No way the OpenOffice.org team could have bought this much publicity. Now like 50,000 VAR's were just put on notice that Microsoft is taking OpenOffice.org seriously and that its a worthy product that they shouldn't be surprised to see at client sites.
First Microsoft admits that OpenOffice.org is as good as MS Office 97, now this. Sweet. MS Office has only one place to go, and its not up. Bring it on Microsoft. More press releases and studies about OpenOffice.org please!
I know this story is so old already that no one will even read this but if you want an alternative to mythTV, MyHTPC works great as well. It's a PVR that is easy to customize and has a ton of features. You get JIT, can schedule recordings, add on any gaming system imaginable ie MAME N64 2600 emulators etc, play any music or media format you can think of, check the weather, browse the web, look at pictures, burn music, etc etc. That's one long run-on sentence but you get the point.
I've always hated the fickle part of the Linux community. The kind that always rooted for Red Hat to Fall even though they've given away the code to everything they've ever produced. Even back in the mid 90's you had these jackass's calling Red Hat the "Microsoft" of Linux soley because they were the most popular.
Now along comes Novell/Suse. Suse of course has specialized in proprietary restrictive distros. Only just recently has Yast been gpl'd. Novell of course has specialized in proprietary software for like 20 years. These are the company's that you want to lead Linux and OSS for the next 10 years? Let me tell you. Novell may finally allow ISO's of some low end form of Suse to be released but their main goal is combining their proprietary technologies with Suse. So now you'll see a Suse with a GPL Yast but proprietary NDS,Groupwise, Zenworks, Ximian connector etc. Novell btw also doesn't have the best track record for acquisitions and business management for the last 10 years. In fact they have a downright shitty track record. This is the mega-company that you want to "lead" linux for the next 10 years?
Good luck. Oh and Redhate sucks.
It's a Sun problem, but I do agree that Sun should do what it wants with Java. Personally though I'm just not interested in the whole Java vs C# etc thing.
"Maybe the linux distributors should be a little more open regarding what programs they would like to include"
Here is where your wrong though. The last thing truly free OSS distros need to do is start included software that isn't FOSS. That would be a huge mistake.
" think it would be the sanest thing for HP to put forward a rational suggestion to Apple for them to license the Mac platform to HP."
You fail to take into account the only thing that matters. Apple is not now nor will they ever be interested in sharing their core business with anyone. If you think Apple would find anything rational about sharing their crown jewels with the lumbering behemoth that is HP you've got another thing coming.
So basically you have no insight here or have even used Gimp 2.0. You just felt like being a troll?
I swear Adobe users are some of the biggest Trolls I've met on the Net. Everywhere I go where someone dares to mention an alternative, the Adobe trolls freak out and show up in massive numbers to diss anything non-Adobe. If it wasn't cmyk it would just be some other thing.
Why can't you Photoshop snobs just accept the fact that Gimp is a decent image editor that differs from Photoshop and leave it at that. Why are you so freaking insulted that non-Adobe products are available? You have stock in Adobe or something?
Gimp is certainly the best Free image editor available and for home users it will do anything you could possibly want, especially when it comes to digital photography.
But then again I guess I'm just wasting my breath.
"Red Hat Tried this with their eminently forgettable "Blue Curve" standard look and feel"
You say "tried" but most people I know including the IT Press liked the way Blue Curve looked. They liked that everything finally looked the same in both Gnome and KDE. Blue Curve wasn't the failure your implying.
Novell also isn't trying to merge the two and until I see what they come out with its hard for me to comment on it. Most distros let you launch either QT or GTK apps from either environment. Perhaps they'll stick with KDE but use the gtk wrapper thing so that it all looks seamless?
Throw in some admin tools that can call on either qt or gtk apps but have them looks the same and there you have it. Gnome and KDE unified. Sort of.
"And when your wifey comes to update her software, or something breaks?"
When something breaks on either my parents desktop or any of the computers at my father's law firm its Stop and do not pass Go. Face it, most people are totally clueless about computers and that's not going to change until all the people who grew up without computers get old and die.
When it comes to updating software or something breaking most people are screwed no matter what OS they run. Its silly say that this is a Linux issue when most Windows users go through the same exact thing. Reboot, hope it fixes your problem, then call in IT or your grandson etc.
I'm not advocating a switch to Linux. Without the support of Adobe, Microsoft, Intuit, Macromedia, and all of those other ISV's Linux is still very lacking when it comes to the software that most people want to use. But the whole "what to do if something breaks" theory is a non-issue for Linux just like it is on Windows. Get all of those ISV's to support Linux and linux users will finally be able to "enjoy" the same great tech support that companies have always given to Windows users.
I just think its odd that /. has Zero problem with posters constantly copying and pasting entire articles here but would refuse to cache because of "IP". If they really were worried about IP they would delete every post where people just copy and paste without proper attribution to the author,date,source etc. Saying that they don't control what people post is a cop out. Every day with every article editors are selectively editing posts. They are very much aware of and encourge posters to copy and paste other site's IP. If they just let everyone post what they wanted and didn't do any editing you might have a point. I just think its shitty what /. does to some websites.
Did I say anything about locking anyone up? Btw I love your blame the victim defense.
"For you jackasses" "YOU dumbasses" "you mindnumbingly dimwitted moron"
I'd love to see you say that to my face. Too bad we'll never meet in real life. You fuck yourself asshole.
So you won't mind if I break into your house "just to prove its unsecure"? I won't steal anything, I promise. Can I then sell you my home securing service?
Linux is Free. Fact. No debating. From a monetary standpoint you have no arguement. Everything that comes after that may or may not cost money. But to say its not Free when it cleary is makes zero sense. That statement is just FUD.
"And it applies to OSS in general as well"
More FUD whether your "mature enough" to admit it, or not.
For the same reason the New York Giants are called "New York" while they clearly play every single game in New Jersey. Name recognition. Everyone in America has heard of Philly who except for people from the local area have ever heard of King of Prussia?
"but I was disappointed by the first movie's failure to capture the feeling of the book"
That's where I would disagree. Think about how many books have turned out to be absolutely horrible movies? Now look at the first two HP movies. They have done an excellant job creating the wizard world and the characters couldn't have been portrayed any better. Considering how much of the book they included in the first movie I'd consider you complaints nitpicking at best. But hey, you can't please everyone.
But Suse isn't Open Source. At least not in the way that matters. The very core and most important part of Suse YAST is closed source and comes with restrictions. If you "need" to push Open Source push Fedora, Mandrake, Knoppix, Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo.
If Red Hat can give away the source for its most expensive products why can't Suse Open Source Yast?
In the end Suse is free to do what they want with their code and I don't think they are "evil" but they are not an open source distro any more than somthing like Lindows. Once Novell starts integrating their proprietary technologies into Suse it will become even more closed source. And Yes that is their plan. It may end up being a really good distro but it will always be far from Open Source.
For those who don't know Progeny's installer, its really Red Hat's excellent anaconda and Kudzu. Mandrake also uses kudzu for hardware detection. Lastly next time you hear someone raving about Knoppix or some other livecd and how it picked up all of their hardware you can tell them to thank Kudzu and Red Hat as well.
So raise the price of the PC's by .10. I doubt anyone will complain. This is just another example of reckless cost cutting that will only make consumer's lives more difficult.
"Least qualified? Not by comparison to some other recent president"
Yea because a college degree proves everything. Bush's inability speak English on an 8th grade level proves more than anything you said. Do we need to talk about how many schools Bush was rejected from? And yes people who flee from the military are not qualified to send others to die.
"Much of the Enron shenanigans were ongoing before he even took office. Clinton had some ties also. Would that have made you impeach Clinton too, or only Bush?"
Umm let's see. Who was Bush's #1 supporter and closest ally during his run from the govenor's office to the Presidency? Who held special meetings with the Vice President to decide our nation's energy policy while other companies were locked out? Who let Enron dictate Energy Commision nominess? Who refuses to discuss those meetings? You cannot in any way compare the access that Enron had to Bush to any other President.
"Check out the latest dirt on the UN's "Oil for Pala^H^H^H^H Food" program."
No actually I'd rather check out Bush and Cheney's ties to the Oil industry. I'd rather talk about Halliburton. Go ahead ignore that and bring up some other subject. It's your able to do.
"If those "rules" include reining in WMD proliferators and demolishing terrorist states, screw the opposition; "
Your so fully of shit its not even funny. Where exactly are those WMD's in Iraq?
"If finding and killing terrorists before they can strike is wrong"
Rah Rah. Kill the terrorists! Yep just keep scaring the Americans and saying terrorism so that the people are afraid to elect someone other than a Right-Wing hardliner war hawk. Great arguement. "If finding the bad guys is wrong I don't want to be right!" Bravo. That will play well with uneducated people everwhere. The End justifies the means always. Right?
"If they're terrorists, they have almost no rights."
If they are American citizens they have rights. I specifically said American citizens, who Bush FULLY supports holding without rights. Way to set up a straw man arguement though and say I'm arguing for rights for foreign terrorists.
"It's OK that you hate Bush... really."
I know it is. Thanks for avoiding debating the real facts though. It makes it so much easier.
" However, let's also be realistic about the bigger picture, and the lack of palatable alternatives. Kerry's no prize."
Sorry but that just doesn't hold water. Bush is the least qualified President we have ever had and it shows. His plan for reigning in our massive deficit was to cut taxes for the richest of rich and then wage war while spend $87 billion on a foreign country that was never a threat to us in the first place. His ties to Enron alone are enough to want him out. For the love of God I have NO idea how a scandal of the scope of Enron didn't sink the Presidency while a extramarital affair did. Meanwhile Bush squandered the greatest chance for peace in our time by calling all of the world "Evil" after 9/11. After that horrible day in September almost every country in the world that was hostile towards us was willing to help us stomp out terrorism and work with the US. Instead Bush being the cowboy that he is say a big fuck you to the world and the good will that was there vanished overnight. Now the Mid-East, The Far East, and Europe all rightfully think of America as a "play by its own rules" bully. A role that we could have finally gotten away from.
Let's also not forget that on 9/11 while the bombs were falling Bush sat in a classroom for several minutes doing NOTHING. Then while the rest of us were shitting our pants because we didn't know what was happening Bush hid out in some mountain refusing to come on the air to let us know that "everything is alright and I'm in control". Now that coward who didn't even serve his full term in the military is going to use 9/11 and the fallen as a prop to get him reelected? You HAVE to be fucking kidding me.
So yes, let's be realistic. Bush IS a failure and he needs to go. His economic policies have done nothing and his desire to unify Church and State while raping our Constitution are an embarassment. Not to mention the fact that he wants to hold Americans without trial or due process indefinitely. This is a man who has NO respect for the citizens who put him in office. Err I mean the office that him and his brother stole. Will Kerry be better? I don't know. I do know that he or anyone else won't be worse.
Subtantially less? Exactly how fast do you think ATA drives transfer at? 66MB? 133MB? Tell you what. You find me an ata/66 drive that can do 50MB per sec sustained across the entire platter and I'll eat my laptop. Only in the last year have ATA drives consitantly been able to break 50MB/sec and that's only at the outer edge. As is gets towards the center its not uncommon to have it drop into the 30's.
Your right that gigabit switches are unheard for home use but if they weren't, the average user's hard drive would be the bottleneck not the network.