I actually believe that GW is -- in part -- man-made, but the hordes of people refusing to believe it doesn't surprise me. That disbelief results from many years of the ecology movement believing just what you believe, that you can say anything, even if untrue, just to scare the average guy in a direction you want him to go.
Lying to get the result you want is never right, but the ecology movement forgot that long ago, and they're paying for it in the classic "boy who cried wolf" manner.
I would propose that virtually every judge then qualifies as an "activist judge" and the phrase becomes meaningless because of that fact. There are quite a few portions of the constitution which aren't in vogue right now and which the legal system as a whole refuses to acknowledge. There are also quite a few laws on the local books which no one wants to enforce, and they don't. Activist judges, all of them.
Allowing XP to be sold longer makes MS tons of money which they wouldn't make otherwise, all on a product which was completely amortized long ago. Why would they EVER stop selling it if there continues to be high demand?
Regarding the donations from BillG, I'll just point to every other robber baron in history and shrug my shoulders, and even though I'm not religious, I think that the parable of the widow's mite has a great deal to say about this matter.
As far as I know, the "introduce new features into the paid version" plan is the method that MySQL has been using for a while, upsetting many paying customers when bugs bit clients.
Hehe. Yeah. I must have gone back to edit and fucked it up.
I don't care so much about getting a homonym wrong once in a while or misspelling something, especially when it's a typo. I'm talking about guys who confuse the hell out of me because every single one of them in a five-paragraph post is wrong. Sometimes you have to reread a sentence three times to figure out what the guy was trying to say.
About this psot, I wood of maid it better, butt theirs no weigh I cna with you're cosntant bitching going on.;)
This is probably going to come off as pissy, but I don't mean it to be (and god knows, I don't need any more Mac enemies).
Does this work for any monitor, for a specific list of monitors, or only for Apple monitors?
Again, this is an honest question because if it's for any monitor, that is one hell of an accomplishment, considering that MS hasn't accomplished that even with the cooperation of monitor manufacturers.
Knuckles already mentioned that the access to the partition is through Grub, and therefore through the MBR. I'll add that clicking Next ad infinitum in the Ubuntu installer won't destroy any partitions or keep you from accessing your Windows installation. By default, it resizes the Windows partition and installs Grub with a menu item for the Windows installation.
You can't lock yourself out of your system by upgrading your kernel (Lilo used to have this problem). The worst case scenario is that you get dropped to Grub shell, with a help function.
Sticking Grub on the MBR is the standard and most tested way to do it, meaning that it's likely to have the fewest number of issues.
That's why it's highly recommended.
The only thing you can do to terminally hose yourself is to delete the partition that Grub's Stage 1.5 is on, and even then you can boot to the live CD in recovery mode to fix the problem.
You bring up a good point. About five years ago, my/. sig was "How can IT people know the difference between grep, egrep, and fgrep, but not there, they're, and their?" The semantics of human language seem to be equivalent to those of programming languages. I've also wondered about piss-poor how spelling and good programming co-exist.
That point was directed specifically at CS, not some general knowledge. It works for that, too, but the conclusion would be different. I was assuming he was studying CS because he wanted to learn it.
Thirteen years ago, when I was in Military Intelligence, we were hounded and battered over even the appearance of domestic surveillance. A couple of years later, all that went out the window with the "Patriot" Act. Does anyone really believe that spying on your own people is Patriotic?
I knew what was going on back then. For years, various services had been crying for more power and to break down the walls between agencies so that more domestic monitoring could occur. 9/11 just gave them the excuse they needed. They already had what they wanted drawn up.
I'm not supporting a conspiracy theory here because, having been in MI, I don't believe the U.S. government to be that proficient. I'm calling this crass opportunism at the expense of citizens these agencies are supposed to be protecting.
It wasn't flamebait. I wasn't trying to start an argument. I watched them do it in Thailand four years ago. First, they created the Windows Starter edition to put on Thaksin's "People's"$250 computer, then they gave a blanket Win98 license to the government in exchange for exclusivity. That killed the government's two-year old OSS movement.
I think a Lib. Arts degree has great merit, but the submitter has a much better chance of getting a good education at a highly-rated technical school. You learn a lot just by being around other people who know more than you do.
In the L.A. school, you'll have to educate yourself. The tech school will let you bounce ideas off of other students as well as the more numerous professors.
The bottom line is that neither Canonical nor Apple are in positions to leverage their operating system market share into new markets. Apple might be looking at a lawsuit soon enough if they keep working the iTunes angle. We'll see. Canonical isn't in any danger of being sued for anything but LACK OF market share (calm down before you flame.... I even have an Ubuntu blog).
This is seriously old news. It was mentioned when MS extended the life of XP for UMPCs a week or two ago.
Asus wants to sell as much hardware as they can. They expect to sell about 3 million units this year with 40% having XP installed.
I get 100Mb/s to my door in a rural area with no complaints about my 100GB/month bandwidth. No last mile problem here. Yay! At least South Korea is good for something.
Thank you!!! This was my first thought when I read the summary. Linux is a kernel, for god's sake. Let them worry about drivers and filesystems and other low-level stuff. FD.o is where all the action is. Standard menu categories. Standard notification interfaces. Heck, a recent post on the FD.o mailing list even had a new proposal for an API to configuration information spanning Linux, BSD, Apple, and Windows.
At this point in time, I don't think that the technical hurdle is storing the information. We almost certainly have the disk capacity to store audio and stills from much of a person's life.
Organizing all that information into something that's useful or even really accessible is the hard part.
Killer apps to increase future price of computers? The average human has only so many needs that can be filled by an increasing number of instructions per second, especially when those instructions must be executed in parallel. Computers are fast enough for our senses (HD video, sound) and communications needs (bottleneck is in the networking). Most of the killer apps are already here. Any extra functionality enabled by some sort of high powered Intel machine is a small percentage of total functionality provided by the current crop of computers. And 640K should be enough...
Linux-like means that I am able to freely modify the parts of the system from the kernel up, not just that it looks like Unix or that I can install GNU tools. Somehow you glossed over the whole "OSX is closed source" part of it, but I knew someone would come along and do that.
Virtualization is not native... by definition. Parallels is not "native," here. Wine is not an emulator, and it's not "native," either.
I think the grammar is the only thing you got right there.
Just because you like Mac OSX, doesn't make it something it's not.
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I actually believe that GW is -- in part -- man-made, but the hordes of people refusing to believe it doesn't surprise me. That disbelief results from many years of the ecology movement believing just what you believe, that you can say anything, even if untrue, just to scare the average guy in a direction you want him to go.
Lying to get the result you want is never right, but the ecology movement forgot that long ago, and they're paying for it in the classic "boy who cried wolf" manner.
I would propose that virtually every judge then qualifies as an "activist judge" and the phrase becomes meaningless because of that fact. There are quite a few portions of the constitution which aren't in vogue right now and which the legal system as a whole refuses to acknowledge. There are also quite a few laws on the local books which no one wants to enforce, and they don't. Activist judges, all of them.
Allowing XP to be sold longer makes MS tons of money which they wouldn't make otherwise, all on a product which was completely amortized long ago. Why would they EVER stop selling it if there continues to be high demand?
Regarding the donations from BillG, I'll just point to every other robber baron in history and shrug my shoulders, and even though I'm not religious, I think that the parable of the widow's mite has a great deal to say about this matter.
That's nice, except the SDK is an MSI, installable only on Windows.
As far as I know, the "introduce new features into the paid version" plan is the method that MySQL has been using for a while, upsetting many paying customers when bugs bit clients.
Hehe. Yeah. I must have gone back to edit and fucked it up.
;)
I don't care so much about getting a homonym wrong once in a while or misspelling something, especially when it's a typo. I'm talking about guys who confuse the hell out of me because every single one of them in a five-paragraph post is wrong. Sometimes you have to reread a sentence three times to figure out what the guy was trying to say.
About this psot, I wood of maid it better, butt theirs no weigh I cna with you're cosntant bitching going on.
Have you heard about Elektra? The developer recently posted to the FD.o mailing list.
This is probably going to come off as pissy, but I don't mean it to be (and god knows, I don't need any more Mac enemies).
Does this work for any monitor, for a specific list of monitors, or only for Apple monitors?
Again, this is an honest question because if it's for any monitor, that is one hell of an accomplishment, considering that MS hasn't accomplished that even with the cooperation of monitor manufacturers.
Knuckles already mentioned that the access to the partition is through Grub, and therefore through the MBR. I'll add that clicking Next ad infinitum in the Ubuntu installer won't destroy any partitions or keep you from accessing your Windows installation. By default, it resizes the Windows partition and installs Grub with a menu item for the Windows installation.
Mod-bombed again! Sheesh. Someone hates me these days.
You bring up a good point. About five years ago, my /. sig was "How can IT people know the difference between grep, egrep, and fgrep, but not there, they're, and their?" The semantics of human language seem to be equivalent to those of programming languages. I've also wondered about piss-poor how spelling and good programming co-exist.
Thanks, but I'm quite glad that I'm not there any longer.
That point was directed specifically at CS, not some general knowledge. It works for that, too, but the conclusion would be different. I was assuming he was studying CS because he wanted to learn it.
Thirteen years ago, when I was in Military Intelligence, we were hounded and battered over even the appearance of domestic surveillance. A couple of years later, all that went out the window with the "Patriot" Act. Does anyone really believe that spying on your own people is Patriotic?
I knew what was going on back then. For years, various services had been crying for more power and to break down the walls between agencies so that more domestic monitoring could occur. 9/11 just gave them the excuse they needed. They already had what they wanted drawn up.
I'm not supporting a conspiracy theory here because, having been in MI, I don't believe the U.S. government to be that proficient. I'm calling this crass opportunism at the expense of citizens these agencies are supposed to be protecting.
Meh!
It wasn't flamebait. I wasn't trying to start an argument. I watched them do it in Thailand four years ago. First, they created the Windows Starter edition to put on Thaksin's "People's"$250 computer, then they gave a blanket Win98 license to the government in exchange for exclusivity. That killed the government's two-year old OSS movement.
I think a Lib. Arts degree has great merit, but the submitter has a much better chance of getting a good education at a highly-rated technical school. You learn a lot just by being around other people who know more than you do.
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In the L.A. school, you'll have to educate yourself. The tech school will let you bounce ideas off of other students as well as the more numerous professors.
This from a Liberal Arts major
Bring back Win98!! That'll work. Yeah ....
The bottom line is that neither Canonical nor Apple are in positions to leverage their operating system market share into new markets. Apple might be looking at a lawsuit soon enough if they keep working the iTunes angle. We'll see. Canonical isn't in any danger of being sued for anything but LACK OF market share (calm down before you flame .... I even have an Ubuntu blog).
This is seriously old news. It was mentioned when MS extended the life of XP for UMPCs a week or two ago. Asus wants to sell as much hardware as they can. They expect to sell about 3 million units this year with 40% having XP installed.
I get 100Mb/s to my door in a rural area with no complaints about my 100GB/month bandwidth. No last mile problem here. Yay! At least South Korea is good for something.
Thank you!!! This was my first thought when I read the summary. Linux is a kernel, for god's sake. Let them worry about drivers and filesystems and other low-level stuff. FD.o is where all the action is. Standard menu categories. Standard notification interfaces. Heck, a recent post on the FD.o mailing list even had a new proposal for an API to configuration information spanning Linux, BSD, Apple, and Windows.
At this point in time, I don't think that the technical hurdle is storing the information. We almost certainly have the disk capacity to store audio and stills from much of a person's life.
Organizing all that information into something that's useful or even really accessible is the hard part.
Linux-like means that I am able to freely modify the parts of the system from the kernel up, not just that it looks like Unix or that I can install GNU tools. Somehow you glossed over the whole "OSX is closed source" part of it, but I knew someone would come along and do that. ... by definition. Parallels is not "native," here. Wine is not an emulator, and it's not "native," either.
Virtualization is not native
I think the grammar is the only thing you got right there.
Just because you like Mac OSX, doesn't make it something it's not.