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I think his comment was directed specifically at people who do not have enough understanding to implement a security solution on linux but think they do. Would the same comment coming from an official MS authority on security make you not want to use Vista?
Anyway, I do understand the perspective behind your reaction, but it doesn't fit in this specific case.
Calling someone a "nerd" because he knows *nix. Calling someone a "gearhead" because he knows how replace a clutch. Calling someone a "health nut" because he goes jogging and takes a multivitamin.
All of these labels have something in common, they describe a single aspect of someones life (something you "do") and a judgment is made of that person as a whole. It's stupid and tiresome. Let's start making labels for people based on what they *DON'T* do.
For example, when someone puts zero effort into staying healthy and strong he's an "idiot". Someone who depends on an automobile to live but cannot change his own brakes is an "idiot". Someone who spends years of his life in front of computers, depends on them, and yet cannot make some time to learn what's happening behind the wizards, is an "idiot".
Anyway, not to respond to the parent specifically since I don't really know his perspective, but in general, I'm tired of people being too lazy to learn anything and deriding actual human beings that strive to understand their own environment and the tools needed to interact with that environment.
Once when I was a young deckhand on a tug boat the skipper told me to go down in the galley and cook a meal. I said, "I don't know how to cook though," and he said "Bullshit, how can you be a man and not fucking know how to cook food?". He was right about that, and I'm right when I say "How the fuck can you spend all day sending and receiving emails and yet not know how to configure an imap client?"
I don't have MS Office, but to do what I think you want in OO you select row 5, cut, select row 1, insert column, select the inserted column and paste. OO does not have this "Insert Cut Cells" you mention.
So what you're saying is, in this specific task OO requires two steps and MS Office requires one. I suppose if I cared I could find a few tasks that OO can do in one step that MS Office needs two to accomplish.
They're different products, you must know there will be some differences in the interface(s).
Clone the desktop to the tv in the living room. There's plenty holes in that strategy I know, but maybe access can be physically disabled when he's alone at home? Like take the modem to work or something.
Anyway a friend did this with his daughter, drove her crazy cause she could only use the internet when he was able to flip the remote to video and see what she was looking at whenever he wanted. Once in a while he would get a black screen (screen saver) and he'd be straight to the stairs to see why.
She did once change clone to second desktop, that fooled him for about a week, but then she got grounded.
All the nerds I know tend toward the left. I don't actually know any libertarians except through posts on slashdot.
I don't really care I just wish they would pick one. I look at what I pay in taxes and compare it to what I get back and it just isn't enough. Either give me a decent retirement and healthcare or don't tax me.
Look at the whole thread. From the beginning the openmoko is qualified as "on the way". From the first post the iphone (available now) is described as less desirable then the Neo (on the way). The parent to my post countered with the implication that the Neo might not see the light of day (vaporware), my post addressed that specifically.
To be really really clear: The present availability of the iphone does not compensate for the long long list of defects (defective by design) that come it comes with. Waiting for the Neo, or purchasing the kit now, is such a better option that it is INCOMPARABLE to the iphone.
How the FUCK can you be unable to google openmoko and within a few minutes realize that:
1)You can buy it now if you want. 2)There's every indication that the retail version(s) will be released on time. 3)There is a FAQ which answers all of the questions in your original post.
I know a lot of people who use gentoo (me included) and performance is such a poor reason for using gentoo. Unfortunately whenever there's a thread mentioning gentoo on/. someone jumps right in with a fat target on his rice bowl.
The best reason for using gentoo, and the reason I've been using it since 1.4 is maintenance. I've had the box I'm writing this on for over three years and it still has the same root file system on the same drive. When the drive dies I'll probably copy right over to the new one.
So, yeah, I see the reviews on how gentoo isn't really so much faster than a binary distro, or how it takes so long to install. I wouldn't know anymore because it's been years since I had to install Linux. If I were using suse I'd have to wipe everything and start over every 18 months, and yeah you really have to because pretty soon it becomes impossible to find anything built against your tool chain. When I first abandoned suse I thought they were doing it on purpose to make me buy a new box set, now I know better but still, why should I have to reinstall my desktop over cause [distro]-10.3 RELEASED!
Anyway please ignore any gentoo users that start bragging about "performance and optimization".
Speaking not as a developer/producer/streamer but just as someone who sometimes needs to visit a website using Flash:
I resent the lack of control over how individual objects on the page (or "under" the page for that matter) are rendered or not rendered. I grit my teeth every time I right click on a page and get that utterly useless Flash menu.
I don't really care about whether I should have the right to alter the way a page is presented or if the producer should have the right preserve his or her intentions. Bottom line is I don't want my Internet connection to continue devolving into cable tv. I just hate having a single option, "take it they way we want to give it to you". I really do wish that Flash would just die, without Flash SVG would already be mature and well supported everywhere.
So, yeah, every improvement in Flash that promises more Flash websites is "Bad News".
I don't know about the whole Puget Sound area, but the City of Tacoma has Click! which is their own last mile cable network. They don't provide ISP services though, you have to go through AdvancedStream, HarborNet etc.
Outside of Tacoma, Speakeasy DSL and Covad t1 are all I know of, although I've seen ads for Earthlink Broadband. No clue what tech is behind Earthlink.
Personally I think Click! is the way to go for the whole country. The city builds out the infrastructure but other companies contract for the ISP part of the deal. One network, a menu of ISP's to choose from.
You understand nothing. This isn't about abuse, this is about Comcast deciding what *kind* of packet you're allowed to you're cousin in Florida. Not how many packets, which would be acceptable.
We may change our prices, fees, the Services and/or the terms and conditions of this Agreement in the future. Unless this Agreement or applicable law specifies otherwise, we will give you thirty (30) days prior Notice of any significant change to this Agreement. If you find the change unacceptable, you have the right to cancel your Service(s). However, if you continue to receive Service(s) after the end of the notice period (the "Effective Date") of the change, we will consider that you have accepted the changes. You may not modify this Agreement by making any typed, handwritten, or any other changes to it for any purpose.
I'm calling Monday and canceling on the grounds that this constitutes a Service Change, and too bad about their stupid term agreement. I live in Tacoma WA so I get to choose between multiple cable ISP's, DSL, etc. I give a damn about any fine print in a TOS agreement, I pay for an internet connection and I want what I pay for. They cannot be allowed to dictate what class of packet I can or cannot upload through the connection I pay for. Bandwidth yes, but that's not what they're doing here.
It's run by some guy named Danny Carlton who seems to have long list of thrown together websites that he's hoping to make money from. You can see the list at dannycarlton.net. Looks like somebody bought a book on how to get rich blogging from home.
I clicked on a few of them, they're apparently on the same box (all slashdotted at the moment), but when they load you can see how crappy and devoid of content they are.
Anyway, no "useful and popular free-to-use Web resource" here.
A poster above described an experience where it appeared grub had installed correctly, but when he rebooted, there was no bootloader. He tried many times with the same result. When I had the same experience once, I downloaded and burned supergrub which worked the first time. I carry it with me now.
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I think his comment was directed specifically at people who do not have enough understanding to implement a security solution on linux but think they do. Would the same comment coming from an official MS authority on security make you not want to use Vista?
Anyway, I do understand the perspective behind your reaction, but it doesn't fit in this specific case.
Theory>Implementation
...and labels in general.
Calling someone a "nerd" because he knows *nix.
Calling someone a "gearhead" because he knows how replace a clutch.
Calling someone a "health nut" because he goes jogging and takes a multivitamin.
All of these labels have something in common, they describe a single aspect of someones life (something you "do") and a judgment is made of that person as a whole. It's stupid and tiresome. Let's start making labels for people based on what they *DON'T* do.
For example, when someone puts zero effort into staying healthy and strong he's an "idiot".
Someone who depends on an automobile to live but cannot change his own brakes is an "idiot".
Someone who spends years of his life in front of computers, depends on them, and yet cannot make some time to learn what's happening behind the wizards, is an "idiot".
Anyway, not to respond to the parent specifically since I don't really know his perspective, but in general, I'm tired of people being too lazy to learn anything and deriding actual human beings that strive to understand their own environment and the tools needed to interact with that environment.
Once when I was a young deckhand on a tug boat the skipper told me to go down in the galley and cook a meal. I said, "I don't know how to cook though," and he said "Bullshit, how can you be a man and not fucking know how to cook food?". He was right about that, and I'm right when I say "How the fuck can you spend all day sending and receiving emails and yet not know how to configure an imap client?"
Etc.
I don't recall Epic creating several binaries for UT. In the end, Linux is Linux and if the developer doesn't want the distro to matter then it won't.
I don't have MS Office, but to do what I think you want in OO you select row 5, cut, select row 1, insert column, select the inserted column and paste. OO does not have this "Insert Cut Cells" you mention.
So what you're saying is, in this specific task OO requires two steps and MS Office requires one. I suppose if I cared I could find a few tasks that OO can do in one step that MS Office needs two to accomplish.
They're different products, you must know there will be some differences in the interface(s).
"Legally speaking" is never all that matters.
Clone the desktop to the tv in the living room. There's plenty holes in that strategy I know, but maybe access can be physically disabled when he's alone at home? Like take the modem to work or something.
Anyway a friend did this with his daughter, drove her crazy cause she could only use the internet when he was able to flip the remote to video and see what she was looking at whenever he wanted. Once in a while he would get a black screen (screen saver) and he'd be straight to the stairs to see why.
She did once change clone to second desktop, that fooled him for about a week, but then she got grounded.
If you have a room full of computers sitting there doing nothing, you'll certainly use less power in that case.
That is what most servers spend most of their time doing - nothing. There's peaks and valleys sure but there are *a lot* of idle cycles.The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
This is not the same as charging more for a bigger pipe, this is charging based on *what* you down/upload.All the nerds I know tend toward the left. I don't actually know any libertarians except through posts on slashdot.
I don't really care I just wish they would pick one. I look at what I pay in taxes and compare it to what I get back and it just isn't enough. Either give me a decent retirement and healthcare or don't tax me.
NO.
Look at the whole thread. From the beginning the openmoko is qualified as "on the way". From the first post the iphone (available now) is described as less desirable then the Neo (on the way). The parent to my post countered with the implication that the Neo might not see the light of day (vaporware), my post addressed that specifically.
To be really really clear: The present availability of the iphone does not compensate for the long long list of defects (defective by design) that come it comes with. Waiting for the Neo, or purchasing the kit now, is such a better option that it is INCOMPARABLE to the iphone.
OK.
How the FUCK can you be unable to google openmoko and within a few minutes realize that:
1)You can buy it now if you want.
2)There's every indication that the retail version(s) will be released on time.
3)There is a FAQ which answers all of the questions in your original post.
I know a lot of people who use gentoo (me included) and performance is such a poor reason for using gentoo. Unfortunately whenever there's a thread mentioning gentoo on /. someone jumps right in with a fat target on his rice bowl.
The best reason for using gentoo, and the reason I've been using it since 1.4 is maintenance. I've had the box I'm writing this on for over three years and it still has the same root file system on the same drive. When the drive dies I'll probably copy right over to the new one.
So, yeah, I see the reviews on how gentoo isn't really so much faster than a binary distro, or how it takes so long to install. I wouldn't know anymore because it's been years since I had to install Linux. If I were using suse I'd have to wipe everything and start over every 18 months, and yeah you really have to because pretty soon it becomes impossible to find anything built against your tool chain. When I first abandoned suse I thought they were doing it on purpose to make me buy a new box set, now I know better but still, why should I have to reinstall my desktop over cause [distro]-10.3 RELEASED!
Anyway please ignore any gentoo users that start bragging about "performance and optimization".
Defending Flash is like defending annoying advertisements.
Speaking not as a developer/producer/streamer but just as someone who sometimes needs to visit a website using Flash:
I resent the lack of control over how individual objects on the page (or "under" the page for that matter) are rendered or not rendered. I grit my teeth every time I right click on a page and get that utterly useless Flash menu.
I don't really care about whether I should have the right to alter the way a page is presented or if the producer should have the right preserve his or her intentions. Bottom line is I don't want my Internet connection to continue devolving into cable tv. I just hate having a single option, "take it they way we want to give it to you". I really do wish that Flash would just die, without Flash SVG would already be mature and well supported everywhere.
So, yeah, every improvement in Flash that promises more Flash websites is "Bad News".
I don't know about the whole Puget Sound area, but the City of Tacoma has Click! which is their own last mile cable network. They don't provide ISP services though, you have to go through AdvancedStream, HarborNet etc.
Outside of Tacoma, Speakeasy DSL and Covad t1 are all I know of, although I've seen ads for Earthlink Broadband. No clue what tech is behind Earthlink.
Personally I think Click! is the way to go for the whole country. The city builds out the infrastructure but other companies contract for the ISP part of the deal. One network, a menu of ISP's to choose from.
You understand nothing. This isn't about abuse, this is about Comcast deciding what *kind* of packet you're allowed to you're cousin in Florida. Not how many packets, which would be acceptable.
We may change our prices, fees, the Services and/or the terms and conditions of this Agreement in the future. Unless this Agreement or applicable law specifies otherwise, we will give you thirty (30) days prior Notice of any significant change to this Agreement. If you find the change unacceptable, you have the right to cancel your Service(s). However, if you continue to receive Service(s) after the end of the notice period (the "Effective Date") of the change, we will consider that you have accepted the changes. You may not modify this Agreement by making any typed, handwritten, or any other changes to it for any purpose.
I'm calling Monday and canceling on the grounds that this constitutes a Service Change, and too bad about their stupid term agreement. I live in Tacoma WA so I get to choose between multiple cable ISP's, DSL, etc. I give a damn about any fine print in a TOS agreement, I pay for an internet connection and I want what I pay for. They cannot be allowed to dictate what class of packet I can or cannot upload through the connection I pay for. Bandwidth yes, but that's not what they're doing here.It's run by some guy named Danny Carlton who seems to have long list of thrown together websites that he's hoping to make money from. You can see the list at dannycarlton.net. Looks like somebody bought a book on how to get rich blogging from home.
I clicked on a few of them, they're apparently on the same box (all slashdotted at the moment), but when they load you can see how crappy and devoid of content they are.
Anyway, no "useful and popular free-to-use Web resource" here.
Like people did with DeCSS?
I vote for Inciteful
"I think 99% of the people who support Linux would disagree with you."
I bet I know a lot more Linux users than you, and not a single one could give a damn if you use Linux or not.
A poster above described an experience where it appeared grub had installed correctly, but when he rebooted, there was no bootloader. He tried many times with the same result. When I had the same experience once, I downloaded and burned supergrub which worked the first time. I carry it with me now.
Someone is either locked-in to a specific vendor, or they are not. Sounds like zero sum to me.
what?
By including a non-open format they are locked in to MS products. Not being locked in was the point of the entire endeavor.