Whether he is right or not is immaterial. Now is the time to assert your dominance. Sucker punch him and urinate on him while he's down to put him back in check.
All of these school massacres seem to happen at schools. Perhaps it's time we banned school. We tried controlling the school, it was a gun free zone after all, but somehow this still happened.
Ban people, ban the environment, ban the social structure, ban technology, ban the weaponry, ban ban ban. Substitute 'ban' with 'control' as you see fit. Guess what? There's basically nothing that will stop scenarios like this from playing out. The best we can hope for and encourage is getting as many people with mental health issues the help they need. I don't pretend this is easy.
Joking aside, how sad is it that it is now newsworthy that someone was able to successfully install an operating system of their choice onto a device that they own?
What do Detroit, or Stuttgart, or Tokyo have waiting in the wings that will get to the Obama administration's target of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2025?"
Lots and lots of lobbyists who will get this number reduced before it goes into effect.
Why? Assume that everyone in the world bought nothing but Apple computers and they all ran Linux on them. Why would Apple be unhappy with that?
Apple does not sell OSes, the OS is a way to sell their hardware. They see themselves as being in the same business as Dell more than Microsoft.
Certainly that situation would still be quite profitable for Apple but the desire would be overwhelming to charge for the entire stack: hardware, OS, Applications, media, online storage, the list goes on. The App Store model is very profitable. In fact, Apple is already very well established in this arena for iOS devices. They aren't exactly going out of their way to open up the boot loaders on iPhones and iPads to allow for alternative OS's just to sell more hardware, otherwise they might as well sell them with Android preinstalled. With the App Store showing up in recent Mac OS X versions, one could argue that they are already going down this path for the desktop.
Should Mac OS X ever top the desktop OS market (unlikely as it may be), it is pretty much a given that they would do it. See Microsoft. Historically, I think that Apple has been even more harsh than Microsoft when it has been given the opportunity. To be fair, every corporation loves the chance to pull the ladder up behind them and begin charging rent at every possible turn.
Obviously, they may opt to do it well before then and possibly charging for unlocking to allow for booting into anther OS. As GP noted, for your protection, of course.
Meh is right. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. You could say my company uses it. Of the roughly 2200 people that work here, I believe 5 have Yammer accounts.
For all of the terrible dystopian possibilities that Canada could have chose for their future- 1984, A Brave New World, Soylent Green, etc., it's interesting that they have opted for the horrors of Footloose. Kevin Bacon must be spinning in his grave.
Oh, I most certainly agree. If it were up to me, this would have been version 4.6 (5.0 being 4.1 and so forth) and the plugin situation would have been changed to the current status in 4.0, even if it meant a release delay. Mozilla has been trying to get to the point where the version number is irrelevant (ala Chrome) but shot themselves in the foot in basically the only place that it actually matters. Of course, everyone loves version inflation.
We care because there are substantial performance gains in recent Firefox versions and Firefox 10 finally addresses the plugin situation in a reasonable manner. Sure 3.6 will continue to work but you're missing out... but feel free to keep your head in the sand.
I never thought I'd say it but it looks like the new release schedule is finally starting to pay dividends. Now if we could just get Mozilla to play better with the enterprise.
You'd think when they charge you 10c per text message, that'd be something people reject. Especially when any random stranger can send you spam which you have to pay for.
I believe the ridiculous rates for texting are proof that there is collusion in this market. Something with such little overhead (essentially none) should not be able to sustain such a high cost if there is adequate competition. I think people would reject it, if they had a choice.
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Whether he is right or not is immaterial. Now is the time to assert your dominance. Sucker punch him and urinate on him while he's down to put him back in check.
If you are particularly enterprising, you can take that $25 and buy (at least) 10 copies of Duke Nukem Forever... rinse, repeat.
Apparently these people have never heard of the Cobra effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
All of these school massacres seem to happen at schools. Perhaps it's time we banned school. We tried controlling the school, it was a gun free zone after all, but somehow this still happened.
Ban people, ban the environment, ban the social structure, ban technology, ban the weaponry, ban ban ban. Substitute 'ban' with 'control' as you see fit. Guess what? There's basically nothing that will stop scenarios like this from playing out. The best we can hope for and encourage is getting as many people with mental health issues the help they need. I don't pretend this is easy.
Joking aside, how sad is it that it is now newsworthy that someone was able to successfully install an operating system of their choice onto a device that they own?
I weep for the future.
What do Detroit, or Stuttgart, or Tokyo have waiting in the wings that will get to the Obama administration's target of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2025?"
Lots and lots of lobbyists who will get this number reduced before it goes into effect.
Why? Assume that everyone in the world bought nothing but Apple computers and they all ran Linux on them. Why would Apple be unhappy with that?
Apple does not sell OSes, the OS is a way to sell their hardware. They see themselves as being in the same business as Dell more than Microsoft.
Certainly that situation would still be quite profitable for Apple but the desire would be overwhelming to charge for the entire stack: hardware, OS, Applications, media, online storage, the list goes on. The App Store model is very profitable. In fact, Apple is already very well established in this arena for iOS devices. They aren't exactly going out of their way to open up the boot loaders on iPhones and iPads to allow for alternative OS's just to sell more hardware, otherwise they might as well sell them with Android preinstalled. With the App Store showing up in recent Mac OS X versions, one could argue that they are already going down this path for the desktop.
Should Mac OS X ever top the desktop OS market (unlikely as it may be), it is pretty much a given that they would do it. See Microsoft. Historically, I think that Apple has been even more harsh than Microsoft when it has been given the opportunity. To be fair, every corporation loves the chance to pull the ladder up behind them and begin charging rent at every possible turn.
Obviously, they may opt to do it well before then and possibly charging for unlocking to allow for booting into anther OS. As GP noted, for your protection, of course.
Article: Posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday July 23, @03:56PM
Comment: by crazyjj (2598719) on Monday July 23, @03:56PM
How's that astroturfing working out for you?
Yep-
Not a tax: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/obama-mandate-is-not-a-tax/
Tax: http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/28/pf/taxes/health_reform_new_taxes/
Meh is right. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. You could say my company uses it. Of the roughly 2200 people that work here, I believe 5 have Yammer accounts.
For all of the terrible dystopian possibilities that Canada could have chose for their future- 1984, A Brave New World, Soylent Green, etc., it's interesting that they have opted for the horrors of Footloose. Kevin Bacon must be spinning in his grave.
Yes, indeed. Ubuntu 12.04 Paralyzed Platypus.
Morons who, in turn, send form letter emails firing all of the other morons. Where's the problem?
Oh, I most certainly agree. If it were up to me, this would have been version 4.6 (5.0 being 4.1 and so forth) and the plugin situation would have been changed to the current status in 4.0, even if it meant a release delay. Mozilla has been trying to get to the point where the version number is irrelevant (ala Chrome) but shot themselves in the foot in basically the only place that it actually matters. Of course, everyone loves version inflation.
I have high hopes for their LTS releases.
?
Plods along on 3.6 still...
We care because there are substantial performance gains in recent Firefox versions and Firefox 10 finally addresses the plugin situation in a reasonable manner. Sure 3.6 will continue to work but you're missing out... but feel free to keep your head in the sand.
I never thought I'd say it but it looks like the new release schedule is finally starting to pay dividends. Now if we could just get Mozilla to play better with the enterprise.
Just what flavor is the kool-aid?
Java
My grandfather was dead before this machine was built you insensitive clod!
Yeah, well, my grandfather died because of this machine you insensitive clod!
100x earnings... yeah, no bubble here.
You'd think when they charge you 10c per text message, that'd be something people reject. Especially when any random stranger can send you spam which you have to pay for.
I believe the ridiculous rates for texting are proof that there is collusion in this market. Something with such little overhead (essentially none) should not be able to sustain such a high cost if there is adequate competition. I think people would reject it, if they had a choice.
There probably was a God around 14 billion years ago, he just happened to explode after losing Pascal's Wager.
Embrace your non-conformity:
pi=3
Dirty Hippy: You can't, like, own software, man.
Professor: I can own software because I'm not a penniless hippy!
While Weird Al is waxing his modem to make it go faster, I've found that cheetah blood rubbed on a network card will significantly reduce latency.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
- Homer Simpson