Um, this has nothing to do with android phones.... Android is not an Intel based OS
Although you are correct about Android not being an Intel based OS you are incorrect about it being about Android Phones. Samsung is a manufacturer of both Android phones and tablets.
What BS are you referring to? I don't drink to get any kind of high. Instead I drink alcohol because I actually like the taste of it.
What BS are you referring to?
None as I am simply informing you that there are those who do like the taste of alcoholic beverages and do not consume it for simply "getting high."
I don't sniff powder to get any kind of high. Instead I sniff cocaine because I actually like the smell of it.
There is, however, the issue of getting really fucked in the head, so I only do one line or so, just enough to help me hammer out a report.
So alcohol equals cocaine? There is a huge difference between the two. People do not always consume alcohol just to get the intoxicating effects from it. Heck, alcohol is actually used in cooking as well as drinking. Cocaine, on the other hand, is used just to get a quick high.
Again, like many other people I consume alcohol because I do like the taste. So far I have not even had a slight buzz let alone the full intoxicating effects of alcohol.
There are positive effects to one's health when he or she does consume beer or wine in moderation. As for nostalgia for me there is none as I have liked the taste of both beer and wine since I first tried it.
What BS are you referring to? I don't drink to get any kind of high. Instead I drink alcohol because I actually like the taste of it. Yes, I do like the taste of beer, wine, and even a few mixed drinks. When it comes to nutrition, beer and wine is actually healthier than a milkshake in terms of carbohydrates and fat. There is, however, the issue of getting intoxicated; but that is why I limit myself to consuming one or two alcoholic beverages.
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Better be careful there, otherwise twitter may punish you in the worst possible way; by placing you on his troll zoo and calling you a shill for Microsoft or an "M$ astroturfer".;)
That's funny; there are many university students as well as community college and high school students that use Facebook. As for Community Colleges they're not conservative brain washing colleges as there are instructors who are modern liberals just as there are those who are conservative.
Excellent point. The problem imo is not HFCS as much as it is the amount of sugars we do consume. We Americans are way too addicted to sweet and fatty foods. The result of that addiction is the obesity epidemic here in America. As for soda it doesn't matter whether it uses HFCS, cane sugar, or even beet sugar as soda carries no additional nutrients beyond simple carbohydrates. That is why soda is never good for anyone. Recently I made a drastic cut to my sugar intake and lost at least 30 pounds over a period of 2 1/2 months as a result.
Fucktards like you tend to get Communism mixed up with statist capitalism.
Statist capitalism,like jumbo shrimp, is an oxymoron due to the fact statism is the total control of everything, economics included. If the economic system is under total control of the state then it is, by definition, no longer capitalistic in nature.
Chuck : Pretendo is planning on their next home console to only support 640x480 so why will this be any different? It is a fact that Microsoft and Sony give you 1080 while pretendo will always give you piss as in piss on you. Pretendo has never given a fuck about their developers. Of course you shitdot sheeple will continue to lock to Pretendo even if they repackage their crappy NES. Gene tell us what this fucktard will receive?
Gene : A razor, so he not have to search for a razor when he slits his fucking wrists. All of his fucktarded fudgepacking shitdot sheeple butt buddies will receive one as well. Back to you chuck.
Chuck : Only one other thing needs to be said to these fucktards Gene.
Gene : I know what it is.
Chuck and Gene : GO AHEAD! FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR WASTE YOUR GODDAMNED MOD POINTS FUCKTARED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!
Making people "responsible for the costs of their actions" is not always the best way to fix a problem. Sometimes society has to protect itself by outlawing otherwise profitable behaviors such as fraud or armed robbery.
Perhaps it would be better to simply ban or regulate things like high fructose corn syrup, phosphoric acid and other garbage that soda makers find cheaper than real food. It can be argued that these ingredients are responsible for the obesity epidemic.
Do you have any credible evidence that HFCS or phosphoric acid have any more negative effects to health than sugar or citric acid? If not then what reason should there be to ban those substances?
Fat people get cancer more frequently than "normal" people and we now see even children with acquired diabetes. Real foods like sugar are not that much more expensive but without laws to protect food makers, economics forces them to all use crap. If you think food bans violate your liberty, remember that lead oxides were once as a cheap sweetener before people really understood heavy metal poisoning.
There is a huge difference between HFCS and lead acetate. One contains lead while the other contains carbon and hydrogen, much like sugar. If you feel it is damaging to ones health you can vote with your wallet and go for the natural foods.
Finally, "sin taxes" make the state a partner in crime. Tobacco taxes, for example, have not come close to eliminating smoking or paying for the medical costs. I doubt it is possible to strip the hundreds of thousands of dollars cancer treatment alone costs from the average slob who smoke even if you assume the smoker survives forty years of their addiction. Prevention programs, the tobacco companies know, often backfire by normalizing smoking in a way that direct advertising has a hard time conveying. It would be a lot easier and cheaper to just ban the sale of tobacco.
Banning substances someone doesn't like has already been tried; it was called prohibition. During prohibition people found ways to get their alcohol and it was worse when it was made legally. Just as people found ways around the ban on alcohol people will find a way around the ban on tobacco. On top of that, not all people who smoke are addicts. There are some that enjoy a cigar or pipe once in a while and the jury is still out on its negative effect on health.
Taxing sodas is much the same. In the 20 year war between Iran and Iraq a causeway was literally built out of the bodies of dead soldiers. Do we want to pave our streets with the blood of smokers and soda drinkers, or do we want to outlaw profit from the sale of addictive, factory made poisons?
Ah, more FUD. You do realize HFCS is not much different than sugar, don't you? If you have to call for a ban on HFCS then you must call for a ban on all sugars. The same with everything that someone deems to be an "adictive, factory made poison". Who gets to decide what falls under that category? If it is a single person then how do we know if he or she is right or wrong? If it is a group of people then how do we know they will be right or wrong?
That's funny, when I click on last year's file created in Word, it just works. You know, seeing as both Microsoft Office seamlessly installs in Linux with Wine and works just as good (if not better with faster loading times due to superior and quicker file systems) as it does on Windows. Of course, who needs to pay for Office when OpenOffice is free and also opens up those Word documents for me.
That doesn't change the fact that installing Ubuntu will FORMAT THE FUCKING DRIVE. You gigantic douchebag.
It could format the drive if someone installs it from within Ubuntu rather using Wubi. The only time that will happen is if someone makes a couple wrong choices with partitioning.
One word of advice, though; People would take posts more seriously when users refrain from personal attacks. I know it's hard to do when someone is trolling Slashdot but it can be done.
I swear if you and your troll partner keep making this so easy, people are going to get suspicious. Try to come up with something a little less easy to repudiate next time.
If you would have read Blakey Rat's post it deals with formatting a drive, not with file formats. There is a chance Ubuntu(and even windows) could format the drive if the user is not too careful.
I am no one's partner, rather I look at all issues with an open mind. Intellectually bankrupt trolls don't bother put their brain into gear before posting their personal attack filled temper tantrums.
Yes, I read his troll. And I dismantled it. Now, I'll dismantle yours. The reason I didn't respond to the absurdly transparent scare-tactic of what essentially boiled down to "ZOMG ALL UR DATAS GO POOF!!1" is because, I naturally assumed that even a blatant troll wouldn't sink so low as to be that deliberately misleading. Alas, I was wrong. First of all, the typical user, as I said below, will take an Ubuntu CD and put into the drive while Windows is running like they do with all of their other CD's. Wubi will start up and if they choose to install Ubuntu, it will just make a special file on their already there NTFS partition that will actually be an image to house their Ubuntu install. The bootloader will be modified to point to this file so that they can reboot and use Ubuntu at their leisure. How can you possibly format and lose data this way? If they install Ubuntu the real way, it defaults to partitioning the drive and simply making room for itself. It is not going to magically eat your Windows partition. You have to very explicitly tell it to wipe off Windows. Of course, you would have to very explicitly stab yourself in the eye with a fork too. If anybody is that stupid, there is very little help for them anyway.
Not misleading as I stated there is a chance something could happen if a user was not careful. In other words if the user chooses to install it improperly. You know, there are multiple ways one can install Ubuntu, one of which is by inserting the CD after the computer boots up. BTW, the original post did not even state for the person to inset the CD, it stated "Insert Ubuntu CD, boot, click on Install, answer a few questions and that's it." It did miss at least one step, such as performing a full backup of all personal data if one already hasn't been done already. If the ViralMeme intended on the user installing Ubuntu from Windows he or she would have stated "Insert the Ubuntu CD While in Windows"
Or how about trying to use Ubuntu with the Sound Blaster X-Fi?
Ubuntu 9.10 will drop next month. A little icon will flash on the taskbar that upon being clicked will let you know it's time to upgrade. The 2.6.31 kernel which is included in that update has the x-fi drivers you are looking for. I mean, surely it isn't unprecedented that an OS should be shipped before drivers for all hardware in existence are ready, right?
One other tactic intellectually bankrupt trolls use is quoting out of context. As I had stated "There are some pieces of hardware that do not have a driver for Linux and many people will not know this ahead of time." That is not placing blame on Ubuntu, but on the hardware manufacturer and maybe even the OEM. The same thing applies with Creative Labs with the X-Fi. That is why I got rid of my X-Fi, no linux support and they had no plans with supporting the X-Fi at that time. This same proprietary mess is why I have chosen a Sansa Fuze over an Apple iPod.
Distributing a hardware compatibility list will solve this dilemma since it will allow to figure out whether or not their hardware is compatible before installing Ubuntu.
Hey, bitch. It's 2009, time to update your bullshit rhetoric.
Ok, now I just need to open my wedding invitation Word file from last year and-- ALL MY DOCUMENTS ARE GONE!!!!
That's funny, when I click on last year's file created in Word, it just works. You know, seeing as both Microsoft Office seamlessly installs in Linux with Wine and works just as good (if not better with faster loading times due to superior and quicker file systems) as it does on Windows. Of course, who needs to pay for Office when OpenOffice is free and also opens up those Word documents for me.
If you would have read Blakey Rat's post it deals with formatting a drive, not with file formats. There is a chance Ubuntu(and even windows) could format the drive if the user is not too careful.
What the fuck is a "3 mobile broadband USB dongle?" I certainly don't have one of those. Will Ubuntu work with my laptop's built-in Wifi? Possibly. My desktop's USB wifi? Doubtful. My desktop's built-in network card? Probably. But all of those answers have built-in vagueness.
Hey, I don't know what a 3 dongle is either, but I can damn sure tell you this: My Novatel USB720 I got from Verizon works like a dream. I just plug it in to a fresh install of Linux and click connect. Within 5 seconds, I'm online. No bullshit drivers or crapware to install. Contrast this with Windows where I have to install said drivers and crapware, start up the craplication to connect with, wait the requisite 30 seconds to a minute for it to connect and then be consistently dropped every hour or so necessitating going through the whole 30 second process again. And since we are trading anecdotes here, I'll indulge you further. My zd1211 USB wifi network adapter just worked. Windows, ha ha, install the driver, use the shitty software and again, get a connection drop every hour or so. Yes, I tried it, yes that is what happened. Ethernet adapter, in Linux, of course it worked. Windows, of course install more crapware.
Or how about trying to use Ubuntu with the Sound Blaster X-Fi? There are some pieces of hardware that do not have a driver for Linux and many people will not know this ahead of time. Distributing a hardware compatibility list will solve this dilemma since it will allow to figure out whether or not their hardware is compatible before installing Ubuntu. Knowing this ahead of time will allow for someone to either purchase the proper hardware and either install it themselves or allow for someone who is more experienced to install it for them.
This will allow for Ubuntu to work flawlessly
You proprietards are pathetic with your bullshit.
Ahh, attacking the messenger and not the message. Not saying you are twitter, but he or she uses similar tactics such as calling people paytards. Calling people childish names is one way ensure the post will be viewed as childish.
Because the local cable monopoly has proprietary data on the wire requiring the use of a proprietary set-top box. This makes it impossible to use Myth, since you cannot plug the cable line into a capture card. You can plug the output of the STB into Myth and record it, but the remote protocol is proprietary as well so Myth cannot change channels, in addition to analog degradation of the digital signal.
Tivo suffers from the same issues. The moral of the story is that you use Comcast's DVR or none.
That may be for TiVo series 2 DVRs, but not for TiVo Series 3 and HD DVRs. However, most channels do require the use of a cable card. These channels are flagged so any programs recorded on these channels can not transfer. The problem with MythTV is it unable to utilize a cable-card capable TV tuner card due to digital restrictions management. http://www.opencable.com/downloads/DCAS_New.pdf
So if someone simply disagrees with you they are somehow amongst the "lowest common denominator"?
Some like Sony, while others like Nintendo or Microsoft. Not to mention Sony also has, in my opinion, manufactures excellent digital cameras and monitors. Those who pick a brand and belittles someone else for picking another choice are the ones who are the participants for this "race towards the bottom."
Simple, those who feel some of Sony's products are superior. For example, the Sony Alpha-350 is an excellent Digital SLR. Some people also feel the PS3 is either superior to the other two platforms, or has the exclusives they like.
As for the story, I think the competition will heat up once Sony and Microsoft release their Wiimote-like controllers.
Didn't you know? All one has to do is add at least one typo, thinko, and/or misspelled word to the summary to guarantee the story will be accepted by an editor.;-)
Although I disagree with twitter, his post this time was far from being a troll. For once he used his opinion without sounding like a scratched record repeating M$ or using FUD.
Gasoline might look cheap, but it's not. Global warming now threatens the majority of Earth's species with drastic implications for food production. Fisheries are being destroyed and most North American crop production will be reduced. Losses of ice cover are already so large that a total stop to fossil fuel burning may not be enough to stop this unfolding disaster. The US and world can not rely on market forces to avert this large scale tragedy of the commons because everyone's short term economic interest is in doing the same stupid things.
Cellulose based fermentation might provide fuels for the few applications that really need it. The rest of our energy needs should come solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal and so on.
IMO gasoline/petrol is currently the best solution as there are many automobiles on the road that are unable to use e-85. While some are upgradable to use flexfuel others are simply too old.
Diesel is another issue. Almost all diesel engines will work with biodiesel with a few diesel engines that are so finicky they are unable to handle biodiesel very well.
Purchasing a new car or truck may not an option as it can be too expensive to purchase. As for global warming I am not entirely convinced we are causing it. I do, however, feel we are contributing to it. Either way it would be an excellent idea to switch from coal based power plants for at least one reason, coal plants do not generate much electrical energy. Once fusion becomes a viable solution there will be no need for coal-powered plants.
If XP is not bad enough out of the box, it will be after six months of net use.
That's funny, I haven't had any issues with Windows XP. It was true Windows was so bad one had to reinstall at least once a year, but that was during the time of Windows 98 and Windows ME(which is the real failure). Heck, Windows XP has been just as stable and secure as Ubuntu has been on my laptop.
As for the size of Windows XP, one only needs around 2 GB of disk space(if that is what you had meant when you had stated 4 GB of SD) for Windows XP, drivers, any office suite, and any other applications such Quicken.
What is funny is you are accusing others of lying when in fact you have been caught in lies yourself.
Supposed to be Graphics, but totally messed up by a typical fucktarded who should go out and slit his fucking wrists. Oh, that describes all fucktarded shitdot sheeple as they can't fucking spell, have shrinking dicks, and a love of communism.
GO AHEAD FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR WASTE YOUR GODDAMNED MOD POINTS FUCKTARDED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!!!!
A few things come to mind.
1. The story was submitted by an anonymous coward, not a subscribed user. Just look at "An anonymous reader writes"
2. The word is not a misspelling as much as it is a thinko.
3. You seem to be very critical of what someone wrote, yet you have terrible grammar. First you wrote about a copulating retarded. A copulating retarded what? Second, those who show the constant need for profanity coupled with need to tell someone to slit their wrists shows immaturity, ignorance, and shallowness.
4. Not all on Slashdot are communists. Some are Communists while others are Capitalists. Political styles vary on Slashdot. There are leftists, conservatives, statists, libertarians, and centrists. One notable example of a libertarian on Slashdot was Bob Robertson.
That will allow for 92 Kilobytes per second if used 24x7. Going by Comcrap's high transfer rate of 700 Kilobytes per second, it would only take 4 days to reach that cap. Download at full speed for 4 hours per day, Comcrap will consider the user to be a "Heavy user". With powerboost, divide the time in half. Comcrap can keep their so-called "high speed" and I will stick with an uncapped 3Mbps DSL connection.
True but sometimes they throw chairs. They walk and talk almost normally but tools more complicated than a stone axe or Windows 95 still frustrates them.
Twitter, what the heck does Microsoft have to do this story? If you want positive karma, then you need to stop with the constant attacks on Microsoft or Windows. We already get it, you don't like Microsoft. Just keep it to relevant stories using facts rather than FUD or creative spelling such as M$ or Windoze.
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Um, this has nothing to do with android phones.... Android is not an Intel based OS
Although you are correct about Android not being an Intel based OS you are incorrect about it being about Android Phones. Samsung is a manufacturer of both Android phones and tablets.
What BS are you referring to? I don't drink to get any kind of high. Instead I drink alcohol because I actually like the taste of it.
What BS are you referring to?
None as I am simply informing you that there are those who do like the taste of alcoholic beverages and do not consume it for simply "getting high."
I don't sniff powder to get any kind of high. Instead I sniff cocaine because I actually like the smell of it.
There is, however, the issue of getting really fucked in the head, so I only do one line or so, just enough to help me hammer out a report.
So alcohol equals cocaine? There is a huge difference between the two. People do not always consume alcohol just to get the intoxicating effects from it. Heck, alcohol is actually used in cooking as well as drinking. Cocaine, on the other hand, is used just to get a quick high.
Again, like many other people I consume alcohol because I do like the taste. So far I have not even had a slight buzz let alone the full intoxicating effects of alcohol.
There are positive effects to one's health when he or she does consume beer or wine in moderation. As for nostalgia for me there is none as I have liked the taste of both beer and wine since I first tried it.
What BS are you referring to? I don't drink to get any kind of high. Instead I drink alcohol because I actually like the taste of it. Yes, I do like the taste of beer, wine, and even a few mixed drinks. When it comes to nutrition, beer and wine is actually healthier than a milkshake in terms of carbohydrates and fat. There is, however, the issue of getting intoxicated; but that is why I limit myself to consuming one or two alcoholic beverages.
Better be careful there, otherwise twitter may punish you in the worst possible way; by placing you on his troll zoo and calling you a shill for Microsoft or an "M$ astroturfer". ;)
That's funny; there are many university students as well as community college and high school students that use Facebook. As for Community Colleges they're not conservative brain washing colleges as there are instructors who are modern liberals just as there are those who are conservative.
Excellent point. The problem imo is not HFCS as much as it is the amount of sugars we do consume. We Americans are way too addicted to sweet and fatty foods. The result of that addiction is the obesity epidemic here in America. As for soda it doesn't matter whether it uses HFCS, cane sugar, or even beet sugar as soda carries no additional nutrients beyond simple carbohydrates. That is why soda is never good for anyone. Recently I made a drastic cut to my sugar intake and lost at least 30 pounds over a period of 2 1/2 months as a result.
Fucktards like you tend to get Communism mixed up with statist capitalism.
Statist capitalism,like jumbo shrimp, is an oxymoron due to the fact statism is the total control of everything, economics included. If the economic system is under total control of the state then it is, by definition, no longer capitalistic in nature.
Buzzz.. WRONG!
Chuck : Pretendo is planning on their next home console to only support 640x480 so why will this be any different? It is a fact that Microsoft and Sony give you 1080 while pretendo will always give you piss as in piss on you. Pretendo has never given a fuck about their developers. Of course you shitdot sheeple will continue to lock to Pretendo even if they repackage their crappy NES. Gene tell us what this fucktard will receive?
Gene : A razor, so he not have to search for a razor when he slits his fucking wrists. All of his fucktarded fudgepacking shitdot sheeple butt buddies will receive one as well. Back to you chuck.
Chuck : Only one other thing needs to be said to these fucktards Gene.
Gene : I know what it is.
Chuck and Gene : GO AHEAD! FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR WASTE YOUR GODDAMNED MOD POINTS FUCKTARED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!
Actually, the Nintendo system that is slate for a 2011 release will support 1080p as well as 480p.
http://gizmodo.com/5364077/next-generation-wii-coming-with-hd-graphics-and-new-controller-in-2011
Making people "responsible for the costs of their actions" is not always the best way to fix a problem. Sometimes society has to protect itself by outlawing otherwise profitable behaviors such as fraud or armed robbery.
Perhaps it would be better to simply ban or regulate things like high fructose corn syrup, phosphoric acid and other garbage that soda makers find cheaper than real food. It can be argued that these ingredients are responsible for the obesity epidemic.
Do you have any credible evidence that HFCS or phosphoric acid have any more negative effects to health than sugar or citric acid? If not then what reason should there be to ban those substances?
Fat people get cancer more frequently than "normal" people and we now see even children with acquired diabetes. Real foods like sugar are not that much more expensive but without laws to protect food makers, economics forces them to all use crap. If you think food bans violate your liberty, remember that lead oxides were once as a cheap sweetener before people really understood heavy metal poisoning.
There is a huge difference between HFCS and lead acetate. One contains lead while the other contains carbon and hydrogen, much like sugar. If you feel it is damaging to ones health you can vote with your wallet and go for the natural foods.
Finally, "sin taxes" make the state a partner in crime. Tobacco taxes, for example, have not come close to eliminating smoking or paying for the medical costs. I doubt it is possible to strip the hundreds of thousands of dollars cancer treatment alone costs from the average slob who smoke even if you assume the smoker survives forty years of their addiction. Prevention programs, the tobacco companies know, often backfire by normalizing smoking in a way that direct advertising has a hard time conveying. It would be a lot easier and cheaper to just ban the sale of tobacco.
Banning substances someone doesn't like has already been tried; it was called prohibition. During prohibition people found ways to get their alcohol and it was worse when it was made legally. Just as people found ways around the ban on alcohol people will find a way around the ban on tobacco. On top of that, not all people who smoke are addicts. There are some that enjoy a cigar or pipe once in a while and the jury is still out on its negative effect on health.
Taxing sodas is much the same. In the 20 year war between Iran and Iraq a causeway was literally built out of the bodies of dead soldiers. Do we want to pave our streets with the blood of smokers and soda drinkers, or do we want to outlaw profit from the sale of addictive, factory made poisons?
Ah, more FUD. You do realize HFCS is not much different than sugar, don't you? If you have to call for a ban on HFCS then you must call for a ban on all sugars. The same with everything that someone deems to be an "adictive, factory made poison". Who gets to decide what falls under that category? If it is a single person then how do we know if he or she is right or wrong? If it is a group of people then how do we know they will be right or wrong?
That's funny, when I click on last year's file created in Word, it just works. You know, seeing as both Microsoft Office seamlessly installs in Linux with Wine and works just as good (if not better with faster loading times due to superior and quicker file systems) as it does on Windows. Of course, who needs to pay for Office when OpenOffice is free and also opens up those Word documents for me.
That doesn't change the fact that installing Ubuntu will FORMAT THE FUCKING DRIVE. You gigantic douchebag.
It could format the drive if someone installs it from within Ubuntu rather using Wubi. The only time that will happen is if someone makes a couple wrong choices with partitioning.
One word of advice, though; People would take posts more seriously when users refrain from personal attacks. I know it's hard to do when someone is trolling Slashdot but it can be done.
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I swear if you and your troll partner keep making this so easy, people are going to get suspicious. Try to come up with something a little less easy to repudiate next time.
If you would have read Blakey Rat's post it deals with formatting a drive, not with file formats. There is a chance Ubuntu(and even windows) could format the drive if the user is not too careful.
I am no one's partner, rather I look at all issues with an open mind. Intellectually bankrupt trolls don't bother put their brain into gear before posting their personal attack filled temper tantrums.
Yes, I read his troll. And I dismantled it. Now, I'll dismantle yours. The reason I didn't respond to the absurdly transparent scare-tactic of what essentially boiled down to "ZOMG ALL UR DATAS GO POOF!!1" is because, I naturally assumed that even a blatant troll wouldn't sink so low as to be that deliberately misleading. Alas, I was wrong. First of all, the typical user, as I said below, will take an Ubuntu CD and put into the drive while Windows is running like they do with all of their other CD's. Wubi will start up and if they choose to install Ubuntu, it will just make a special file on their already there NTFS partition that will actually be an image to house their Ubuntu install. The bootloader will be modified to point to this file so that they can reboot and use Ubuntu at their leisure. How can you possibly format and lose data this way? If they install Ubuntu the real way, it defaults to partitioning the drive and simply making room for itself. It is not going to magically eat your Windows partition. You have to very explicitly tell it to wipe off Windows. Of course, you would have to very explicitly stab yourself in the eye with a fork too. If anybody is that stupid, there is very little help for them anyway.
Not misleading as I stated there is a chance something could happen if a user was not careful. In other words if the user chooses to install it improperly. You know, there are multiple ways one can install Ubuntu, one of which is by inserting the CD after the computer boots up. BTW, the original post did not even state for the person to inset the CD, it stated "Insert Ubuntu CD, boot, click on Install, answer a few questions and that's it." It did miss at least one step, such as performing a full backup of all personal data if one already hasn't been done already. If the ViralMeme intended on the user installing Ubuntu from Windows he or she would have stated "Insert the Ubuntu CD While in Windows"
Or how about trying to use Ubuntu with the Sound Blaster X-Fi?
Ubuntu 9.10 will drop next month. A little icon will flash on the taskbar that upon being clicked will let you know it's time to upgrade. The 2.6.31 kernel which is included in that update has the x-fi drivers you are looking for. I mean, surely it isn't unprecedented that an OS should be shipped before drivers for all hardware in existence are ready, right?
One other tactic intellectually bankrupt trolls use is quoting out of context. As I had stated "There are some pieces of hardware that do not have a driver for Linux and many people will not know this ahead of time." That is not placing blame on Ubuntu, but on the hardware manufacturer and maybe even the OEM. The same thing applies with Creative Labs with the X-Fi. That is why I got rid of my X-Fi, no linux support and they had no plans with supporting the X-Fi at that time. This same proprietary mess is why I have chosen a Sansa Fuze over an Apple iPod.
Distributing a hardware compatibility list will solve this dilemma since it will allow to figure out whether or not their hardware is compatible before installing Ubuntu.
Only a proprietard troll mind could come up wi
Hey, bitch. It's 2009, time to update your bullshit rhetoric.
Ok, now I just need to open my wedding invitation Word file from last year and-- ALL MY DOCUMENTS ARE GONE!!!!
That's funny, when I click on last year's file created in Word, it just works. You know, seeing as both Microsoft Office seamlessly installs in Linux with Wine and works just as good (if not better with faster loading times due to superior and quicker file systems) as it does on Windows. Of course, who needs to pay for Office when OpenOffice is free and also opens up those Word documents for me.
If you would have read Blakey Rat's post it deals with formatting a drive, not with file formats. There is a chance Ubuntu(and even windows) could format the drive if the user is not too careful.
What the fuck is a "3 mobile broadband USB dongle?" I certainly don't have one of those. Will Ubuntu work with my laptop's built-in Wifi? Possibly. My desktop's USB wifi? Doubtful. My desktop's built-in network card? Probably. But all of those answers have built-in vagueness.
Hey, I don't know what a 3 dongle is either, but I can damn sure tell you this: My Novatel USB720 I got from Verizon works like a dream. I just plug it in to a fresh install of Linux and click connect. Within 5 seconds, I'm online. No bullshit drivers or crapware to install. Contrast this with Windows where I have to install said drivers and crapware, start up the craplication to connect with, wait the requisite 30 seconds to a minute for it to connect and then be consistently dropped every hour or so necessitating going through the whole 30 second process again. And since we are trading anecdotes here, I'll indulge you further. My zd1211 USB wifi network adapter just worked. Windows, ha ha, install the driver, use the shitty software and again, get a connection drop every hour or so. Yes, I tried it, yes that is what happened. Ethernet adapter, in Linux, of course it worked. Windows, of course install more crapware.
Or how about trying to use Ubuntu with the Sound Blaster X-Fi? There are some pieces of hardware that do not have a driver for Linux and many people will not know this ahead of time. Distributing a hardware compatibility list will solve this dilemma since it will allow to figure out whether or not their hardware is compatible before installing Ubuntu. Knowing this ahead of time will allow for someone to either purchase the proper hardware and either install it themselves or allow for someone who is more experienced to install it for them.
This will allow for Ubuntu to work flawlessly
You proprietards are pathetic with your bullshit.
Ahh, attacking the messenger and not the message. Not saying you are twitter, but he or she uses similar tactics such as calling people paytards. Calling people childish names is one way ensure the post will be viewed as childish.
Because the local cable monopoly has proprietary data on the wire requiring the use of a proprietary set-top box. This makes it impossible to use Myth, since you cannot plug the cable line into a capture card. You can plug the output of the STB into Myth and record it, but the remote protocol is proprietary as well so Myth cannot change channels, in addition to analog degradation of the digital signal.
Tivo suffers from the same issues. The moral of the story is that you use Comcast's DVR or none.
That may be for TiVo series 2 DVRs, but not for TiVo Series 3 and HD DVRs. However, most channels do require the use of a cable card. These channels are flagged so any programs recorded on these channels can not transfer. The problem with MythTV is it unable to utilize a cable-card capable TV tuner card due to digital restrictions management.
http://www.opencable.com/downloads/DCAS_New.pdf
So if someone simply disagrees with you they are somehow amongst the "lowest common denominator"?
Some like Sony, while others like Nintendo or Microsoft. Not to mention Sony also has, in my opinion, manufactures excellent digital cameras and monitors. Those who pick a brand and belittles someone else for picking another choice are the ones who are the participants for this "race towards the bottom."
Simple, those who feel some of Sony's products are superior. For example, the Sony Alpha-350 is an excellent Digital SLR. Some people also feel the PS3 is either superior to the other two platforms, or has the exclusives they like. As for the story, I think the competition will heat up once Sony and Microsoft release their Wiimote-like controllers.
Didn't you know? All one has to do is add at least one typo, thinko, and/or misspelled word to the summary to guarantee the story will be accepted by an editor. ;-)
Although I disagree with twitter, his post this time was far from being a troll. For once he used his opinion without sounding like a scratched record repeating M$ or using FUD.
Remember, troll=/=disagree.
Gasoline might look cheap, but it's not. Global warming now threatens the majority of Earth's species with drastic implications for food production. Fisheries are being destroyed and most North American crop production will be reduced. Losses of ice cover are already so large that a total stop to fossil fuel burning may not be enough to stop this unfolding disaster. The US and world can not rely on market forces to avert this large scale tragedy of the commons because everyone's short term economic interest is in doing the same stupid things.
Cellulose based fermentation might provide fuels for the few applications that really need it. The rest of our energy needs should come solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal and so on.
IMO gasoline/petrol is currently the best solution as there are many automobiles on the road that are unable to use e-85. While some are upgradable to use flexfuel others are simply too old.
Diesel is another issue. Almost all diesel engines will work with biodiesel with a few diesel engines that are so finicky they are unable to handle biodiesel very well.
Purchasing a new car or truck may not an option as it can be too expensive to purchase. As for global warming I am not entirely convinced we are causing it. I do, however, feel we are contributing to it. Either way it would be an excellent idea to switch from coal based power plants for at least one reason, coal plants do not generate much electrical energy. Once fusion becomes a viable solution there will be no need for coal-powered plants.
Twitter wrote in his profile:
Liberated in 1999.
Which could explain why twitter wrote this:
If XP is not bad enough out of the box, it will be after six months of net use.
That's funny, I haven't had any issues with Windows XP. It was true Windows was so bad one had to reinstall at least once a year, but that was during the time of Windows 98 and Windows ME(which is the real failure). Heck, Windows XP has been just as stable and secure as Ubuntu has been on my laptop.
As for the size of Windows XP, one only needs around 2 GB of disk space(if that is what you had meant when you had stated 4 GB of SD) for Windows XP, drivers, any office suite, and any other applications such Quicken.
What is funny is you are accusing others of lying when in fact you have been caught in lies yourself.
And that's why libertarians are very supportive of the first amendment.
Oh, wait....
http://www.lp.org/issues/freedom-of-speech
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/04/libertarianism-the-stuggle-ahead/
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/libertarianism.html
Supposed to be Graphics, but totally messed up by a typical fucktarded who should go out and slit his fucking wrists. Oh, that describes all fucktarded shitdot sheeple as they can't fucking spell, have shrinking dicks, and a love of communism.
GO AHEAD FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR
WASTE YOUR GODDAMNED MOD POINTS
FUCKTARDED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!!!!
A few things come to mind.
1. The story was submitted by an anonymous coward, not a subscribed user. Just look at "An anonymous reader writes"
2. The word is not a misspelling as much as it is a thinko.
3. You seem to be very critical of what someone wrote, yet you have terrible grammar. First you wrote about a copulating retarded. A copulating retarded what? Second, those who show the constant need for profanity coupled with need to tell someone to slit their wrists shows immaturity, ignorance, and shallowness.
4. Not all on Slashdot are communists. Some are Communists while others are Capitalists. Political styles vary on Slashdot. There are leftists, conservatives, statists, libertarians, and centrists. One notable example of a libertarian on Slashdot was Bob Robertson.
My Favorite is an unrecoverable error from GEOS:
"System Error Near $37BF*"
*Or insert any 16bit Memory address here
Here is the formula I used.
250,000,000,000*12/365.2422/24/60/60/1024
That will allow for 92 Kilobytes per second if used 24x7. Going by Comcrap's high transfer rate of 700 Kilobytes per second, it would only take 4 days to reach that cap. Download at full speed for 4 hours per day, Comcrap will consider the user to be a "Heavy user". With powerboost, divide the time in half. Comcrap can keep their so-called "high speed" and I will stick with an uncapped 3Mbps DSL connection.
True but sometimes they throw chairs. They walk and talk almost normally but tools more complicated than a stone axe or Windows 95 still frustrates them.
Twitter, what the heck does Microsoft have to do this story? If you want positive karma, then you need to stop with the constant attacks on Microsoft or Windows. We already get it, you don't like Microsoft. Just keep it to relevant stories using facts rather than FUD or creative spelling such as M$ or Windoze.