An incomplete product is only valuable as a collection of good ideas.
An incomplete project also serves as prior art. Many of those incomplete projects have value, if only to show that some patent troll has been anticipated.
Unfortunately, it is mostly men who hold the keys to "mens liberation." For example in the case of women sexually abusing adolescent males, his peers will not accept that this is something that he didn't want to do, or that he didn't consent to. "Yeah, yeah, you wanted it, you lucky dog!" There were guys in high school who were banging the girl's gym teacher who were bragging about it a decade later. Try to talk them into realizing that it was sexual abuse - they don't want to hear it. So when a male comes along who says "this was wrong", his peers reject it, based on their own experience.
The problem with custody is serious, but it also has its' roots in the patriarchal structure - men went to work and the only purpose of women was to cook the meals, raise the kids, and keep house. That being the case, when the couple splits, what do you do? It's getting better nowadays with women working, so that often custody is shared, and it should be the default. Just because a couple can't behave like adults with each other is no reason not to behave like adults with respect to the children.
As for the false rape claims, yes, there are unscrupulous lawyers, and one of the things we have to do is make no-fault divorce the ONLY grounds for divorce. This way, the judge doesn't want to hear about who slept with who, he just wants to hear that there's been a fair division of assets, and that the best interests of the children are reflected in any agreement. No-fault is the way to get rid of a lot of the man-baiting that goes on in court. Push for it. It works. It's been the only grounds for divorce here for decades. Critics say "it makes divorce too easy" - we have no-fault marriage, maybe we should make marriage harder (marriage IS the # 1 cause of divorce:-)
I would like to point out that for every woman who falsely cries rape, there's another who never says a thing. You'll only hear about it when there's a crisis involving the perp being charged with another rape, or something else, and even then they don't want to talk about it. And this applies equally to both sexes - it's not just women, even though women outnumber men as victims, and men are the offenders in many more cases, towards both sexes.
Yes, blacks are over-represented in jails as well. The justice system needs major reforms, including ending the war on the US Citizen. Decriminalizing behaviour that should be treated as a social, not criminal, concern would empty a lot of jails, save billions, not burden people with criminal records, remove a major source of funding for organized crime as well as a source of official corruption, and allow us to try to educate people (because prison is not about rehabilitation).
but a women who was raped is treated with respect, is taken seriously and gets help, while a man who is raped... well have you ever heard a man admit that he was raped? I know someone, he was raped by other men and people joke about it
Yes, women are taken seriously... when they come forward. But most of the time, any victim of a violent crime (of either sex) usually just wants it to go away. And of course if the perp is in the family, it gets really ugly, with all sorts of nasty accusations directed at the victim. As a thought experiment - being gay or lesbian is now socially acceptable - do you have the guts to pretend you are, and "come out" for just one day? How much more someone who is the victim of a violent crime. Most want it to go away, but they're also full of anger - at the perp, at themselves for not being able to avoid it or stop it, and at not having the courage to come forward. It can really eat you up inside.
On another topic - Yes, men and women can both be promiscuous - but the stats show that it's relatively fewer women. Experiments with prairie voles have proven that this behaviour is governed in mammals by one hormone. It's also been shown that men, when in long-term close contact with the same woman, have a change in t
That isn't a failure to understand tech, that's a failure to understand Journalism 101.
I for one welcome our faith-based journalists.
After all, they have used barely warmed-over corporate and government press releases as the basis for news stories for decades - why should high tech be different?
There's legal obligation, and then there's "doing the right thing." Yes, doing the right thing can backfire, but at least you get to sleep knowing you did the right thing, and if anyone asks, you can always say "I didn't have to help them, but I did, and it's not my fault it went pear-shaped."
! most of them leave it logged in when they go home
And why are you not helping them by updating their status with all sorts of "interesting" posts and links, and sending out a bazillion "friend" requests on their behalf?
Maybe you should switch. Opensuse has a nice gui for doing all that, including configuring which monitor is left/right in a multi-screen setup. Also, my laptop is set up to default to multi-screen, with the main screen being a 26" lcd - but if I boot it and the lcd isn't present, it works fine, and puts the laptop screen as the primary.
Main Menu -> Configure Desktop -> Display works on both the desktop and the laptop.
Bonus for being able to plug the screen in later on and use it without having to reboot - just log out and log in again, or hit Ctl-Alt-Bksp twice.
Sun is dead because Sparc couldn't compete, and they wasted too much time on a side project to make an operating system for set-top boxes (Oak), then tried to extend it to be a web application environment, or a thin client environment, or whatever other idea came down the pike.
It probably did more to kill Sun than anything else, because the revenue streams it brought in weren't big enough in relation to dev costs. It also diverted attention from the core business, and let other people make more money off what they developed than they did. It ultimately resulted in the company who makes the most money off that tech buying them out.
And yet, there's always the "there's one application" crowd who you simply cannot convince - they're not the market right now, and we shouldn't apologize for it, but rather embrace that as a fact.
It's like for me - I can't see myself switching to Windows because I have a lot of those "one applications" that work far better under a *nix environment. And even if Windows were to eventually offer "equal functionality", why should I change. If someone says you should switch restaurants because some other one is "just as good", that's not a reason, and you'd tell them as much - and it cuts both ways.
Slowly, the areas where Windows is better are being whittled away, and the superiority of linux in other areas will make a difference, but for many people it has to be a significant advantage, or they won't do it because (1) they have better things to do with their time, and (2) the perceived benefits are less than the perceived risks. Inertia is more than a law of physics.
Your gf wouldn't have switched on her own - you had to do it. That sort of proves my point, no?
How are you supposed to disappear and live on cash only and not touch any of these while being legal at the same time?
If you're faking your death, "being legal" is the least of your worries.
FTFA:
Ahearn says that the reasons men and women want to disappear are usually very different. For men, it is often finances such as if he lost everything but has some seed money to start over, or if he has come into money and wants to disappear before family and friends attempt to suck him dry. Dangerous situations are usually the reason women want to disappear, such as when she is being stalked or in an abusive relationship.
If you've ever been stalked, disappearing is very tempting.
Keep marketing linux as a "replacement" for windows and you guarantee to always fail. Market it for what it is - better for many types of situations, but definitely not a rsimple eplacement for windows any more than osx is.
Otherwise you're fighting the battle on the other side's home turf - and they're bigger and more entrenched.
And when people try ubuntu and realize that it is not necessarily a matter of it being a replacement os, they tar all linux distros with the same fail.
If they tell him that no such proof is possible, then I see no reason for him to help them recover the rogue domain.
It's called doing the right thing. Even if they don't see it as such, you will. So will others, including anyone who is looking to hire him. That he takes the high road counts down the line, because past performance gives an insight into future behaviour.
In this case, the question is "How will this person react to a misunderstanding? Will they try to identify and rectify the underlying problem, or is it 'all about me?'".
So what your post is saying is that Ubuntu is not ready for just anyone to set up - which validates my proposition. I can give an opensuse dvd to someone and not have the same worries - installing the codecs, etc., is one click on a web page, then typing in the root password.
Follow the link, then read the story (link in the first paragraph) that used the same methodology to try to claim that ubuntu sas the most popular distro. What's sauce for the goose is barbeque sauce for roasting the gander:-)
Ubuntu has a market problem. They know it. This is why they've tried to branch out into cloud, netbook, whatever... The problem is, they're poisoning the well, because people who are p*ssed off enough to search for any of the terms listed are unhappy users, and will return to the windows fold and say "iinux - I tried that crap."
Instead of marketing it as a desktop replacement for windows (in many cases, it's not), it should be marketed as a superior product for people who don't want the os to get in their way. It's not like Apple, for example, tries to sell their computers as a replacement for a Windows PC - they make it clear that it's not a Windows-compatible - it's better.
Even if as many people used ubuntu as used suse, fedora, debian and mandriva combined (in your dreams, fanboi), ubuntu has way more complaints than all 4 put together, and this has been the case right from ubuntu's beginning.
More people might "try" ubuntu, but then they dump it and go back to Windows. Or they complain to someone like me who then wipes the crapware from their machine and installs a real distro.
All that means is that ubuntu is mis-marketed - a serious mistake, because then all linux distros get tarred with the same brush
Funny how distros like opensuse, in comparison, have almost no complaints. Shuttleworth talks about "bringing linux to the masses" - the stats show that the number of people ubuntu turns off from all linux distros is a serious problem. The most telling is that, if current trends continue, ubuntu will have more complaints than Windows in 2 years.
And yet the original article that I link to tried to imply that Ubuntu was more popular based on the same stupid methodology. The ubuntu fanbois need to realize that our concerns:
the mis-presenting of linux as "as good as windows" instead of "better but different"
the lack of upstream code contributions
the flood of "linux sux" from people who used ubuntu and went back to windows (as a consequence of #1 above)
... they all seriously need to be addressed. Ubuntu is not linux, just a distro, and nowhere near the best for every use (and certainly not up to the quality of opensuse).
This doesn't change the fact that WAY more people complain about ubuntu f$cking their machine than everyone else combined. For a distro that was supposed to get people "from here to there", it's not doing the job.
This is a combination of poor targeting to your market, and poor communications of what the end user is to expect "as good as windows" (which is a lie. linux is better than windows, but it is not a drop-in replacement, and anyone who says otherwise is a troll).
Apple doesn't market OSX as "as good as Windows". They're not stupid. The real advantages of linux are not price or as a windows replacement, and until the people who pimp ubuntu get a clue and realize that this is NOT the way to push linux, you're going to see 100x more complaints about ubuntu than about other distros.
No- there are more searches for "ubuntu is crap", "ubuntu is shit", "ubuntu messed up" and "ubuntu fucked" than all the others combined - and considering that it's not even 1% of windows market share, it's even way over-represented there.
This reflects user dissatisfaction with ubuntu being much higher than the others.
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An incomplete project also serves as prior art. Many of those incomplete projects have value, if only to show that some patent troll has been anticipated.
The problem with custody is serious, but it also has its' roots in the patriarchal structure - men went to work and the only purpose of women was to cook the meals, raise the kids, and keep house. That being the case, when the couple splits, what do you do? It's getting better nowadays with women working, so that often custody is shared, and it should be the default. Just because a couple can't behave like adults with each other is no reason not to behave like adults with respect to the children.
As for the false rape claims, yes, there are unscrupulous lawyers, and one of the things we have to do is make no-fault divorce the ONLY grounds for divorce. This way, the judge doesn't want to hear about who slept with who, he just wants to hear that there's been a fair division of assets, and that the best interests of the children are reflected in any agreement. No-fault is the way to get rid of a lot of the man-baiting that goes on in court. Push for it. It works. It's been the only grounds for divorce here for decades. Critics say "it makes divorce too easy" - we have no-fault marriage, maybe we should make marriage harder (marriage IS the # 1 cause of divorce :-)
I would like to point out that for every woman who falsely cries rape, there's another who never says a thing. You'll only hear about it when there's a crisis involving the perp being charged with another rape, or something else, and even then they don't want to talk about it. And this applies equally to both sexes - it's not just women, even though women outnumber men as victims, and men are the offenders in many more cases, towards both sexes.
Yes, blacks are over-represented in jails as well. The justice system needs major reforms, including ending the war on the US Citizen. Decriminalizing behaviour that should be treated as a social, not criminal, concern would empty a lot of jails, save billions, not burden people with criminal records, remove a major source of funding for organized crime as well as a source of official corruption, and allow us to try to educate people (because prison is not about rehabilitation).
Yes, women are taken seriously ... when they come forward. But most of the time, any victim of a violent crime (of either sex) usually just wants it to go away. And of course if the perp is in the family, it gets really ugly, with all sorts of nasty accusations directed at the victim. As a thought experiment - being gay or lesbian is now socially acceptable - do you have the guts to pretend you are, and "come out" for just one day? How much more someone who is the victim of a violent crime. Most want it to go away, but they're also full of anger - at the perp, at themselves for not being able to avoid it or stop it, and at not having the courage to come forward. It can really eat you up inside.
On another topic - Yes, men and women can both be promiscuous - but the stats show that it's relatively fewer women. Experiments with prairie voles have proven that this behaviour is governed in mammals by one hormone. It's also been shown that men, when in long-term close contact with the same woman, have a change in t
I for one welcome our faith-based journalists.
After all, they have used barely warmed-over corporate and government press releases as the basis for news stories for decades - why should high tech be different?
The way that linux consoles can be stretched to 200 characters wide, unlike Windows.
PuTTY Sux. Ditto TortoiseSVN.
Windows runs hotter, causing my laptop fan to go on and reducing my battery life,
Streamripper
These are just off the top of my head
There's legal obligation, and then there's "doing the right thing." Yes, doing the right thing can backfire, but at least you get to sleep knowing you did the right thing, and if anyone asks, you can always say "I didn't have to help them, but I did, and it's not my fault it went pear-shaped."
And why are you not helping them by updating their status with all sorts of "interesting" posts and links, and sending out a bazillion "friend" requests on their behalf?
It's the only way they'll learn.
Publishing a fake death notice, for example, in the local newspaper. The publication of the death notice is part of the public record.
Simple, really. Resources devoted to A mean resources taken from B. Java killed Sun.
Main Menu -> Configure Desktop -> Display works on both the desktop and the laptop.
Bonus for being able to plug the screen in later on and use it without having to reboot - just log out and log in again, or hit Ctl-Alt-Bksp twice.
It probably did more to kill Sun than anything else, because the revenue streams it brought in weren't big enough in relation to dev costs. It also diverted attention from the core business, and let other people make more money off what they developed than they did. It ultimately resulted in the company who makes the most money off that tech buying them out.
It's like for me - I can't see myself switching to Windows because I have a lot of those "one applications" that work far better under a *nix environment. And even if Windows were to eventually offer "equal functionality", why should I change. If someone says you should switch restaurants because some other one is "just as good", that's not a reason, and you'd tell them as much - and it cuts both ways.
Slowly, the areas where Windows is better are being whittled away, and the superiority of linux in other areas will make a difference, but for many people it has to be a significant advantage, or they won't do it because (1) they have better things to do with their time, and (2) the perceived benefits are less than the perceived risks. Inertia is more than a law of physics.
Your gf wouldn't have switched on her own - you had to do it. That sort of proves my point, no?
You'd have to pay me a lot to switch from openSuse to Crapuntu.
Here's 50 ways. HTH.
If you're faking your death, "being legal" is the least of your worries.
FTFA:
If you've ever been stalked, disappearing is very tempting.
Keep marketing linux as a "replacement" for windows and you guarantee to always fail. Market it for what it is - better for many types of situations, but definitely not a rsimple eplacement for windows any more than osx is.
Otherwise you're fighting the battle on the other side's home turf - and they're bigger and more entrenched.
And when people try ubuntu and realize that it is not necessarily a matter of it being a replacement os, they tar all linux distros with the same fail.
It's called doing the right thing. Even if they don't see it as such, you will. So will others, including anyone who is looking to hire him. That he takes the high road counts down the line, because past performance gives an insight into future behaviour.
In this case, the question is "How will this person react to a misunderstanding? Will they try to identify and rectify the underlying problem, or is it 'all about me?'".
So what your post is saying is that Ubuntu is not ready for just anyone to set up - which validates my proposition. I can give an opensuse dvd to someone and not have the same worries - installing the codecs, etc., is one click on a web page, then typing in the root password.
Ubuntu has a market problem. They know it. This is why they've tried to branch out into cloud, netbook, whatever ... The problem is, they're poisoning the well, because people who are p*ssed off enough to search for any of the terms listed are unhappy users, and will return to the windows fold and say "iinux - I tried that crap."
Instead of marketing it as a desktop replacement for windows (in many cases, it's not), it should be marketed as a superior product for people who don't want the os to get in their way. It's not like Apple, for example, tries to sell their computers as a replacement for a Windows PC - they make it clear that it's not a Windows-compatible - it's better.
Even if as many people used ubuntu as used suse, fedora, debian and mandriva combined (in your dreams, fanboi), ubuntu has way more complaints than all 4 put together, and this has been the case right from ubuntu's beginning.
More people might "try" ubuntu, but then they dump it and go back to Windows. Or they complain to someone like me who then wipes the crapware from their machine and installs a real distro.
According to your technique, Windows and Apple are awesome, and Ubuntu ... isn't.
Funny how distros like opensuse, in comparison, have almost no complaints. Shuttleworth talks about "bringing linux to the masses" - the stats show that the number of people ubuntu turns off from all linux distros is a serious problem. The most telling is that, if current trends continue, ubuntu will have more complaints than Windows in 2 years.
This is a combination of poor targeting to your market, and poor communications of what the end user is to expect "as good as windows" (which is a lie. linux is better than windows, but it is not a drop-in replacement, and anyone who says otherwise is a troll).
Apple doesn't market OSX as "as good as Windows". They're not stupid. The real advantages of linux are not price or as a windows replacement, and until the people who pimp ubuntu get a clue and realize that this is NOT the way to push linux, you're going to see 100x more complaints about ubuntu than about other distros.
This reflects user dissatisfaction with ubuntu being much higher than the others.