I wouldn't worry about it too much. As an englishman living in england, I can tell you these newspapers are rubbish. Page 3 probably has "Elvis is alive and working as a roadsweeper".
There are about 50 million people in the uk, so it only takes a *tiny* fraction of the population to have enough idiots to write this rubbish and the remainder to buy newspapers printing it..
What is it about CentOS that makes it so important? I don't really understand what is so important about a repackaged redhat distribution. Maybe someone could educate me.
>Try telling your neighbor about Jesus and showing them the gospel and show them the greatness in your life that you have gained by following The Truth.
and they will move out within a a week.
Bloody good idea. No one wants to live next door to bible bashers.
I guess I agree with you there, but have you tried clicking on the 'help' and 'troubleshoot' buttons in any Microsoft OS dialogs? Try it now, and see if you learn anything:o)
>You really will have to learn a whole new system and all the complications that entails.
That might be valid for us techies, but the complete and utter ignorance and confusion I see from normal people using Windows suggests that moving to Linux would not be any worse.
>When people make the "great programmers started with machine code" argument, my opinion is that they are often lamenting the wastefulness and lack of "machine sympathy" that higher-level languages and syntactic/semantic sugar facilitate.
And it's a lack of empathy with that exact argument that gives GHz PCs that crawl along.
I absolutely love allway sync. Very cheap ( I normally never buy software, so low price helped ) but completely simplifies syncing between two home and one work PC.
>There are many things we don't allow companies to do. They can't enslave people,
Oh get over yourself.
I'm with Space cowboy on this one. Apple marketed a phone that they want to control the software that runs on it. That is not the same as enslaving people.
You, on the other hand, have been enslaved by your lack of education. Poor you.
>In the real world it's my damn phone, I paid for it (and not just a license to use it), and I ought to be able to run anything on it that I wish
No, you idiot. Did the company supply you the software, schematics and the PCB layout? No. Did they say they would? No. And you knew that. Don't say you didn't. Feel free to hack away on it; no one will stop you. If you want to achieve what you are asking for, buy an openmoko.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't been repeating the same mantra in other parts of this thread.
People talking about "forcing Apple to do this and that" sounds like the approach socialists take to business. As you say, Apple do not have a monolpoly on mobile phones, not even on nice looking ones. Did I miss something? Did America become a socialist state overnight?
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>How about broadcasting democratic information via FM/AM radio to restricted countries?
What, you mean like to the USA?
>m... Population: 60,943,912 (July 2008 est.)
Geez, this isn't a test you know.
>roll on independence and the referendum in 2010 is all i can say
Absolutely. It's about time those of us in england stopped paying taxes to support you whiners up in scotland.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. As an englishman living in england, I can tell you these newspapers are rubbish. Page 3 probably has "Elvis is alive and working as a roadsweeper".
There are about 50 million people in the uk, so it only takes a *tiny* fraction of the population to have enough idiots to write this rubbish and the remainder to buy newspapers printing it..
Ah ok, that and the previous response make sense. Thanks.
FTA : "half used to create steam that spins a turbine for power generation"
Why do we still pursue solutions that end up relying on 19th century technology?
It's like a space ship's hyperdrive being powered by coal. Even Douglas Adams wouldn't have put that in a story.
What is it about CentOS that makes it so important? I don't really understand what is so important about a repackaged redhat distribution. Maybe someone could educate me.
>After getting my head ripped off for mentioning that I liked operator overloading the other day
Is this the 5 minute argument or the full half hour?
>You just made a pacemakers sound cool. Too bad I have a good heart. Maybe I could get a pacemaker put in in Mexico so I could be a Cyborg?
If you work in IT, don't worry, just be patient. You'll be needing one in 10 - 20 years time.
>Yes, i have tv in the bathroom. Nudge Nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean!
Nope, sorry, that went completely over my head :o)
>A lot of people don't have HDTVs in every room
This may come as a shock, but some of us don't have any type of TV in every room.
>however I think Linus really does have the interests of the kernel and the greater linux community at heart
Somewhere in the world a fat, hairy old man is muttering "it's GNU/Linux! GNU/Linux I tell you!"
like I fondly remember Dysentery
How could you possibly put Wozniak in the same sentence as Ballmer! Shame on you!
Gone already :o)
>Try telling your neighbor about Jesus and showing them the gospel and show them the greatness in your life that you have gained by following The Truth.
and they will move out within a a week.
Bloody good idea. No one wants to live next door to bible bashers.
>That's the executive summary I was looking for
executive? did you stumble here by accident?
I'm guessing it's sarcasm, but the guy can barely write so who knows.
I guess I agree with you there, but have you tried clicking on the 'help' and 'troubleshoot' buttons in any Microsoft OS dialogs? Try it now, and see if you learn anything :o)
>You really will have to learn a whole new system and all the complications that entails.
That might be valid for us techies, but the complete and utter ignorance and confusion I see from normal people using Windows suggests that moving to Linux would not be any worse.
I really do pity the average home user.
>When people make the "great programmers started with machine code" argument, my opinion is that they are often lamenting the wastefulness and lack of "machine sympathy" that higher-level languages and syntactic/semantic sugar facilitate.
And it's a lack of empathy with that exact argument that gives GHz PCs that crawl along.
I absolutely love allway sync. Very cheap ( I normally never buy software, so low price helped ) but completely simplifies syncing between two home and one work PC.
It's never screwed me up once (fingers crossed!)
>Skapare adds, "Sounds like Norway's government treats privacy seriously.
Funny, I first read that as "Sounds like Norway's government treats PIRACY seriously". and thought, that's a contradiction.
Privacy first, piracy second. Suits me.
>There are many things we don't allow companies to do. They can't enslave people,
Oh get over yourself.
I'm with Space cowboy on this one. Apple marketed a phone that they want to control the software that runs on it. That is not the same as enslaving people.
You, on the other hand, have been enslaved by your lack of education. Poor you.
>In the real world it's my damn phone, I paid for it (and not just a license to use it), and I ought to be able to run anything on it that I wish
No, you idiot. Did the company supply you the software, schematics and the PCB layout? No. Did they say they would? No. And you knew that. Don't say you didn't. Feel free to hack away on it; no one will stop you. If you want to achieve what you are asking for, buy an openmoko.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't been repeating the same mantra in other parts of this thread.
People talking about "forcing Apple to do this and that" sounds like the approach socialists take to business. As you say, Apple do not have a monolpoly on mobile phones, not even on nice looking ones. Did I miss something? Did America become a socialist state overnight?