If i buy an apple, how do i get rid of the OSX/Apple tax?
That's a bit of a broken comparison, since Microsoft doesn't produce full computer hardware, as was noted by another poster.
If I buy a ford, how do i put a Mazda engine it it from the getgo and not pay the Ford tax?
See, this is the crap that is making it difficult for people to see their way around Microsoft. An engine is a piece of *hardware*, much as a CPU is a piece of hardware. An operating system is not a CPU; if you're going to use a car analogy (since this is slashdot, after all), try to use one that makes sense. If you equate the OS to the engine which a car comes with (which is more often than not made by the same manufacturer), you're implying that Microsoft is the only thing that the computer works with, and all else is hackery. It's probably more akin to injecting a more intelligent (as well as occasionally more belligerent) driver into a vehicle.
I'm glad that I can buy a car without a driver (or chauffeur, if you'd rather call them that), but can choose my driver without having to pay for something I don't want, don't need and won't use. How's that for a car analogy?
The 'fabled' northwest passage is a shipping route linking east to west, navigable by normal cargo carrying ships.
The northwest passage, which obviously existed since well before it was first crossed in 1906 by Amundsen, and still to this day, is a hazardous journey requiring an expedition and specialist ice breaker ships to cross.
Should enough ice melt that it actually becomes usable as a shipping route, then at least the 'fabled northwest passage' will be reality.
For anyone interested, there's an interesting musical history of the mapping of the Northwest Passage by a now deceased Canadian folk singer named Stan Rogers. The song is aptly called Northwest Passage. (youtube video montage available here)
My apology. Ubuntu couldn't handle the 7-zip file and I made that assumption (confusing it with RAR I think).
Try sudo apt-get install p7zip-full, that should install the full version of 7zip for Ubuntu, with all of the different compression formats it supports.
Good luck with that. Hate to break it to you, but Obama isn't going to win.
Well *duh*. The fix is in, I'm sure the dud is going to win, even with his painfully awful VP pick. The last two elections have already proven that the American people have a track record of picking the most painfully awful candidate.
Oh yeah, and another thing, Obama and McCain aren't all that different with respect to energy policy. The big difference is McCain doesn't want to impose a windfall tax on the oil companies in order to give "tax cuts" to the lowest earning third of US workers. I put "tax cuts" in quotes because of course, the lowest earning third of US workers are net recipients of Federal money and don't really have a net tax load.
Okay, I'll bite on that one. WaPo's analysis (available here seems to disagree with your assessment of the share of tax burden/tax cuts under their respective tax plans.
Any discussion on Creationism needs this David Brin quote:
I find it truly stunning how many people can shrug off stuff like this, preferring instead a tiny, cramped cosmos just 6,000 years old, scheduled to end any-time-now in a scripted stage show. An ancient and immense and ongoing cosmos is so vastly more dramatic and worthy of a majestic Creator. Our brains, capable of exploring His universe, picking up His tools and doing His work, seem destined for much more than cowering in a corner, praying that some of our neighbors will go to hell... - David Brin
Well she just asked "What exactly does a vice president do?", on CNBC. Um, ok that is scary. This is just a female Dan Quayle that instead of golfing hunts, fishes and wrestles bears. Unfortunately she does none of these things naked.
Hey, the stupid lobby isn't just giving to one side or the other. I'm just trying to point out that they are garnering more and more political clout every year and I for one am getting tired of it.
You know, I don't mind the "stupid lobby", as long as it works for us. McCain is a bit more "eat babies" than the other guy. I want a cohesive, real, "adult" energy policy, thank you, not "keep 'em drillin' 'till it's all gone." If every stupid person comes out for this election chanting an Obama catchphrase, they may be stupid, but the rest of us get to avoid the bullet of McCain for four or more years.
Well, when I needed a new phone, I also needed a new pda (my sony clie is a bit old), so I got both in one. I actually use more of the pda functionality (like the calendar) since I carry the phone most places, while my pda stayed in my bag, or at home.
I like it, and I can write apps for it.
Problem is, you have to buy into the whole thing. You can't develop for Windows Mobile without a Windows desktop and a Windows development environment.
Haven't had a Windows machine since 1999, and I'm not about to get one just so I can write apps for a phone. J2ME-based apps provide much greater market penetration, and hopefully if Android is adopted by enough companies, I can avoid the prospect of designing for either the iPhone or any WinCE hardware.
I have one of the Veriozon windows mobile phones, it has.net compact framework, and even compact sql server.
I got it mainly because I could write my own c# apps for the thing. Visual studio even has a nice emulator built in.
I can't quite get over Windows Mobile's horrific interface design. I mean, if I wanted a small desktop, I think I could just buy one. It's not really designed to be controlled with fingers (opting instead for a stylus), and is a pretty huge pain to use. Not that some of the other entries in the mobile phone OS market aren't horrible... Nokia managed to get around the finger problem recently with their menu system in Maemo, even though that's not really available for phones.
Here's to hoping Android works better in "real life". Running it under Windows Mobile is painful at best.
If you roll in the Java world, then check out the Blackberry. It's really easy to develop for, there's a bunch of tools out there, and installing and removing apps is a breeze through the USB cable. (or a server for that matter)
Has anyone done any development for the Blackberry on Linux? I use Eclipse for most of my development these days, and it looked like the only Blackberry Eclipse plugin/toolkit was an unfriendly Windows binary. Anyone have any better experiences with it?
I'm not about to put together another machine or waste money on a Windows license just to develop cell phone software, especially when it seems that there's no specific reason why there isn't a readily available Linux port of their toolkit.
Yeah, I'm just waiting for some person to post a link to one and make this post look stupid.
That happened with the abolition of slavery, and that happened again with the civil rights movement. Elements of the government did try to fight the civil rights movement, but ultimately Martin Luther King was not sent off to a labor camp for re-education. That meant he was able to keep speaking out to persuade our society and our government to try to do the right thing.
I'm not sure if that exactly supports your point. Many people were beaten or hanged during slavery for resisting, and it took a "war between the states" to eventually force the lower half of the country to give up their practice of slavery.
Same thing with the civil rights movement -- many people were beaten or jailed for demanding that (gasp!) people were equal despite skin color, which most civilized people have come to accept.
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And since you are going on about production, what exactly has Israel produced for the world except a continued source of strife in the middle east?
When you're taking a picture (or a video, etc), you're choosing the reality you're going to preserve. This just extends those possibilities beyond the realm of what is physically possible. Three different people have three different perceptions of reality, and will take pictures accordingly...
IBM used to have a monopoly on the PC platform (correct me if I'm wrong: defined as Intel instruction set & PCI bus) but Compaq fought for and won the right to clone their specification.
I don't think so. According to wikipedia, Columbia Data Products created the first 100% compatible clone, followed by Compaq and Eagle. Also, I don't see any mention of any lawsuits or conflicts, other than one filed by the beloved Apple against a company trying to produce clones. IBM clones required a reverse engineered BIOS as a result of the decision in that case.
openSUSE offers a 1-click installer. Sabayon includes them by default. Heck, Mint (a nicer fork of Ubuntu) includes them by default. I followed the instructions on Ubuntu's wiki, yet they never worked. I asked for help and was repeatedly attacked for attempting to use ATI. Mind you, on the exact same laptop (my wife's old laptop) I ran Gentoo with the ATI drivers (custom kernel, -viper release), Sabayon with the ATI drivers, and openSUSE 10.1 with the ATI drivers. The only distro I had problems with was Ubuntu.
When was this? I have a machine with ATI drivers, Ubuntu installed them by default and alerted me that it had done it.
Then you probably have a desktop with a post 9600 ATI. I have three laptops with ATIs in them. They work with Fiesty but will not work with Gutsy or Hardy due to ATI dropping support in the binary.
It is true however that Sabayon ships a nicer KDE and configures graphics cards properly that Ubuntu will not, I usually run a partition of both on each machine (my two favourite distros) and I have seen this many times.
If you need ATI binary support on Ubuntu and don't want to do any of that stuff manually, may I suggest EnvyNG? (Homepage is here.)
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If i buy an apple, how do i get rid of the OSX/Apple tax?
That's a bit of a broken comparison, since Microsoft doesn't produce full computer hardware, as was noted by another poster.
If I buy a ford, how do i put a Mazda engine it it from the getgo and not pay the Ford tax?
See, this is the crap that is making it difficult for people to see their way around Microsoft. An engine is a piece of *hardware*, much as a CPU is a piece of hardware. An operating system is not a CPU; if you're going to use a car analogy (since this is slashdot, after all), try to use one that makes sense. If you equate the OS to the engine which a car comes with (which is more often than not made by the same manufacturer), you're implying that Microsoft is the only thing that the computer works with, and all else is hackery. It's probably more akin to injecting a more intelligent (as well as occasionally more belligerent) driver into a vehicle.
I'm glad that I can buy a car without a driver (or chauffeur, if you'd rather call them that), but can choose my driver without having to pay for something I don't want, don't need and won't use. How's that for a car analogy?
YES! How long until it is 1906 again?
The 'fabled' northwest passage is a shipping route linking east to west, navigable by normal cargo carrying ships.
The northwest passage, which obviously existed since well before it was first crossed in 1906 by Amundsen, and still to this day, is a hazardous journey requiring an expedition and specialist ice breaker ships to cross.
Should enough ice melt that it actually becomes usable as a shipping route, then at least the 'fabled northwest passage' will be reality.
For anyone interested, there's an interesting musical history of the mapping of the Northwest Passage by a now deceased Canadian folk singer named Stan Rogers. The song is aptly called Northwest Passage. (youtube video montage available here)
My apology. Ubuntu couldn't handle the 7-zip file and I made that assumption (confusing it with RAR I think).
Try sudo apt-get install p7zip-full, that should install the full version of 7zip for Ubuntu, with all of the different compression formats it supports.
And without the proprietary zip container here.
Proprietary? I'm pretty sure the compress/decompress utility is opensource.
My rule would also improve the gene pool. If you're dumb enough to confess to a murder...)
Ah yes, eugenics, obviously noone could be against that.
No one who speaks German could be a bad person!
Also, I object to the term "urine soaked hellhole", when you could have said "pee pee soaked heckhole."
The distro no longer exists (try following the URL to the homepage listed).
FAIL.
Development-dead, but still lingering around on sourceforge, apparently.
Good luck with that. Hate to break it to you, but Obama isn't going to win.
Well *duh*. The fix is in, I'm sure the dud is going to win, even with his painfully awful VP pick. The last two elections have already proven that the American people have a track record of picking the most painfully awful candidate.
Oh yeah, and another thing, Obama and McCain aren't all that different with respect to energy policy. The big difference is McCain doesn't want to impose a windfall tax on the oil companies in order to give "tax cuts" to the lowest earning third of US workers. I put "tax cuts" in quotes because of course, the lowest earning third of US workers are net recipients of Federal money and don't really have a net tax load.
Okay, I'll bite on that one. WaPo's analysis (available here seems to disagree with your assessment of the share of tax burden/tax cuts under their respective tax plans.
Obama's energy plan, though supporting some limited offshore drilling, does not emphasize it. And McCain's proposed suspension of the Federal gas tax would do more to destroy our existing highway infrastructure than help consumers. And a side by side comparison sure looks like Obama's plan is much more ambitious. Also, I don't think that the point of taxing oil company products is to give "tax cuts" to the poorest 1/3rd, but rather to subsidize heating and energy costs for them.
Piss poor? Her state seems to love her. 90% approval ratings.
AND, no one has been able to link Palin directly to the firing in question. Not through phone logs, witnesses, or anything else.
It also appears that Hillary voters are moving to Palin in a big way, according to some of their blogs.
And already, this site has popped up: http://www.sarahpalinisnthillaryclinton.com/
Any discussion on Creationism needs this David Brin quote:
I find it truly stunning how many people can shrug off stuff like this, preferring instead a tiny, cramped cosmos just 6,000 years old, scheduled to end any-time-now in a scripted stage show. An ancient and immense and ongoing cosmos is so vastly more dramatic and worthy of a majestic Creator. Our brains, capable of exploring His universe, picking up His tools and doing His work, seem destined for much more than cowering in a corner, praying that some of our neighbors will go to hell... - David Brin
Well she just asked "What exactly does a vice president do?", on CNBC. Um, ok that is scary. This is just a female Dan Quayle that instead of golfing hunts, fishes and wrestles bears. Unfortunately she does none of these things naked.
I would be perfectly happy with that analogy, except that Quayle somehow got elected as VP.
It will be kinda like Bush, but with a vagina.
That's too damn funny... if it weren't also sad and true at the same time.
This is so sexist, vpilf.com doesn't have a single picture of Dick Cheney.
Could I mod this (-1, Nauseating)?
Hey, the stupid lobby isn't just giving to one side or the other. I'm just trying to point out that they are garnering more and more political clout every year and I for one am getting tired of it.
You know, I don't mind the "stupid lobby", as long as it works for us. McCain is a bit more "eat babies" than the other guy. I want a cohesive, real, "adult" energy policy, thank you, not "keep 'em drillin' 'till it's all gone." If every stupid person comes out for this election chanting an Obama catchphrase, they may be stupid, but the rest of us get to avoid the bullet of McCain for four or more years.
Yea, she is pretty hot for her age, definetly a MILF, I'd tap that too if I got the chance. :)
I suppose you mean a VPILF?
Yeah, I feel your pain.
I bought a Thinkpad T61 a year ago, to find out that it was chock full of crapware. Thankfully, I had a removal tool handy ...
In all seriousness, I didn't want it, but the manufacturer insisted on installing it, otherwise they wouldn't sell it to me.
Well, when I needed a new phone, I also needed a new pda (my sony clie is a bit old), so I got both in one. I actually use more of the pda functionality (like the calendar) since I carry the phone most places, while my pda stayed in my bag, or at home.
I like it, and I can write apps for it.
Problem is, you have to buy into the whole thing. You can't develop for Windows Mobile without a Windows desktop and a Windows development environment.
Haven't had a Windows machine since 1999, and I'm not about to get one just so I can write apps for a phone. J2ME-based apps provide much greater market penetration, and hopefully if Android is adopted by enough companies, I can avoid the prospect of designing for either the iPhone or any WinCE hardware.
I have one of the Veriozon windows mobile phones, it has .net compact framework, and even compact sql server.
I got it mainly because I could write my own c# apps for the thing. Visual studio even has a nice emulator built in.
I can't quite get over Windows Mobile's horrific interface design. I mean, if I wanted a small desktop, I think I could just buy one. It's not really designed to be controlled with fingers (opting instead for a stylus), and is a pretty huge pain to use. Not that some of the other entries in the mobile phone OS market aren't horrible ... Nokia managed to get around the finger problem recently with their menu system in Maemo, even though that's not really available for phones.
Here's to hoping Android works better in "real life". Running it under Windows Mobile is painful at best.
If you roll in the Java world, then check out the Blackberry. It's really easy to develop for, there's a bunch of tools out there, and installing and removing apps is a breeze through the USB cable. (or a server for that matter)
Has anyone done any development for the Blackberry on Linux? I use Eclipse for most of my development these days, and it looked like the only Blackberry Eclipse plugin/toolkit was an unfriendly Windows binary. Anyone have any better experiences with it?
I'm not about to put together another machine or waste money on a Windows license just to develop cell phone software, especially when it seems that there's no specific reason why there isn't a readily available Linux port of their toolkit.
Yeah, I'm just waiting for some person to post a link to one and make this post look stupid.
begin boycotting all things china. maybe they'll figure it out eventually ... and grow up.
We've been failing miserably at boycotting China-related stuff right now. Too important to strut America's National Wang to care about little things like human rights violations.
That happened with the abolition of slavery, and that happened again with the civil rights movement. Elements of the government did try to fight the civil rights movement, but ultimately Martin Luther King was not sent off to a labor camp for re-education. That meant he was able to keep speaking out to persuade our society and our government to try to do the right thing.
I'm not sure if that exactly supports your point. Many people were beaten or hanged during slavery for resisting, and it took a "war between the states" to eventually force the lower half of the country to give up their practice of slavery.
Same thing with the civil rights movement -- many people were beaten or jailed for demanding that (gasp!) people were equal despite skin color, which most civilized people have come to accept.
And since you are going on about production, what exactly has Israel produced for the world except a continued source of strife in the middle east?
You forgot irrigation expertise, which they export to many other countries. Not exactly bananas, though.
When you're taking a picture (or a video, etc), you're choosing the reality you're going to preserve. This just extends those possibilities beyond the realm of what is physically possible. Three different people have three different perceptions of reality, and will take pictures accordingly...
You should probably print a copy of The Photographer's Right and carry it with you. It should help out in situations like that.
IBM used to have a monopoly on the PC platform (correct me if I'm wrong: defined as Intel instruction set & PCI bus) but Compaq fought for and won the right to clone their specification.
I don't think so. According to wikipedia, Columbia Data Products created the first 100% compatible clone, followed by Compaq and Eagle. Also, I don't see any mention of any lawsuits or conflicts, other than one filed by the beloved Apple against a company trying to produce clones. IBM clones required a reverse engineered BIOS as a result of the decision in that case.
openSUSE offers a 1-click installer. Sabayon includes them by default. Heck, Mint (a nicer fork of Ubuntu) includes them by default. I followed the instructions on Ubuntu's wiki, yet they never worked. I asked for help and was repeatedly attacked for attempting to use ATI. Mind you, on the exact same laptop (my wife's old laptop) I ran Gentoo with the ATI drivers (custom kernel, -viper release), Sabayon with the ATI drivers, and openSUSE 10.1 with the ATI drivers. The only distro I had problems with was Ubuntu.
When was this? I have a machine with ATI drivers, Ubuntu installed them by default and alerted me that it had done it.
Then you probably have a desktop with a post 9600 ATI. I have three laptops with ATIs in them. They work with Fiesty but will not work with Gutsy or Hardy due to ATI dropping support in the binary. It is true however that Sabayon ships a nicer KDE and configures graphics cards properly that Ubuntu will not, I usually run a partition of both on each machine (my two favourite distros) and I have seen this many times.
If you need ATI binary support on Ubuntu and don't want to do any of that stuff manually, may I suggest EnvyNG? (Homepage is here.)