Yeah, about the same as some of the new movies comming out now from college kids. Take Napolean Dynamite for instance. There's this huge media attention behind it at the moment just because it has a decent script, and it's low-budget. All the trendy kids are seeing it.
Personally, I still think Clerks rocked, the rest of the Kevin Smith movies were over-budget but are still decent, and Napolean Dynamite is an utter waste of film.
Maybe linux will loose. Tomorow something drastic could happen that would immediatly stop linux in it's penguin-shaped tracks. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, something else will pop up and replace it.
You think Windows is safe from destruction just because they have odles of money? I hope someone does because I for one don't. I just think having money will allow windows to live on past it's should be death. Microsoft's money will act like an iron lung for their desktop in the event that it should be put to death. Unfortunatly, linux dosen't have that money, so it would probably die a quicker death.
If anything, maybe Windows will actually win out over Linux. I don't think this will happen, but it could. If microsoft takes a good look at their weaknesses and fixes them then maybe windows will win.
WHO CARES!!!
As long as I have a stable operating system, I don't care who makes it. For all I care an infinate number of communist monkies using an infinate number of pink laptops can write my OS.
Even then, eventually, that OS would die. On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everything drops to zero, so quit your whining and start typing monkey boy!
You joke, but I honestly think I could die from looking at all the spyware on my girlfriend's PC. My little old linux laptop runs five times faster than hers, and it's 4 years older.
But she just won't make the switch. Something about being able to play this really old game that probably works under WINE.
And then that best buy looser sues you and you go to jail. It's just a push, drop it. Now if it's a violent push, then he started the fight, and you were in danger. drop him like a hot plate.
No, but an idiot dosen't want a device which would take a scientist to figure out. They want something that is simple to use and "just works". That's the ipod's strength, sure it may not have great features that you really don't need, but it's got simply ways of doing the things that you do need it to do.
Features don't sell products, it's ease of use. If features sold products then we would arm our soldiers with swiss army knives instead of the ka-bar. It's got plenty of features, but it's easier to get the job done with a simpler knife.
Oh really? Then why is the whole linux-2.6 kernel tree vulnerable to a horribly pitiful bug that allows any user to chmod files in/proc?
Maybe so, but just as soon as a problem is found, it's patched and re-released.
I think linux's best feature is that shortly after the problem is announced, many different people "scratch their itch" and rush to patch it.
I would love to see a great desktop on linux. I think the modern ones are either too cluttered, or severly lacking. Windows has that beat, it's not too cluttered, and it's got a feature for just about everything. I just don't think any of them are all that great, save the graphics programs. Windows makes a program for everything they can think of, but they don't take the time to make those programs work well together. I have severl applications which I can not copy-paste out of.
I honestly don't see the OS wars even nearly over.
Linux has just about won the servers. They are, hands down, more secure than MS servers. Patches are qiuckly made for major bugs, and lesser bugs get fixed fairly rapidly. Linux servers also have uptimes that long outrun anything Microsoft makes.
Windows has the desktop market with a clean desktop where I know how to do what I want to do because that's how it has always been done. The problem is that I can't do anything I NEED to do. I can't easily get security updates when a problem is found. In fact, I know there are more than a few serious problems which have not been patched for long periods of time. Much longer than it should anyways.
That's where the new battle is going to be. Taking your victory, and fixing your problems. Becomming a truely mature operating system. They both need to work on having a stable, secure core system (Linux); and an easy to use desktop where I can do anything I want (Windows).
Linux has already started working on a good desktop, and is getting close to catching up with microsoft. Microsoft arguably hasn't even finished their's. So while linux is looking foward and moving on, Microsoft has already moved away from the desktop almost completely. With Microsoft venturing into almost every nook and cranny they can find to suck money from, windows movement has slowed to a drool, and dosen't look to be moving into any new direction.
I own and use both OS's simply because of gaming, photoshop, and mozilla. Yes, I know linux has firefox and thunderbird also, but when I'm playing I don't want to mess with a kvm just to check my email. Like I said, you use Linux for the things yohave to do, and windows for the things you want to do.
But her parent's who signed the contract for her are not, and neither is her lawier. Plus, I am pretty sure that she is signed to a record deal with a part of her label run in cannada, so she's not under US rules anyways.
Um, have you looked at what they want? They are asking for millions upon millions of documents. Asking for this is simply asking for two things:
Making them spend money that shouldn't be spent on this.
Making them produce any document that could produce any information of value to their cause. They don't know what they need to look at, so they are looking at EVERYTHING.
Actually, evolution has been poven. I do believe that Charles Darwin first provided us with that information.
He did not however, tell anyone that they came from an ape. He was a deeply religious man who was troubled enough by the idea of evolution to eventually have to leave the priesthood.
His idea was that if the birds that he used as basis for his ideas on evolution had evolved, we could have also.
Evolution is true. It happens. It's fact. I am not, nor have I ever been an ape though.
I defy anyone to live in New Orleans, in the middle of summer...
Try Jackson MS, we see 100+ temperatures fairly often in the summer. I still manage to live without air conditioning during the summer most of the time. I have plenty of fans to keep the air moving in my home, and it usualy stays pretty cool.
But I wouldn't think of getting in my truck without turning on the AC during the summer. Not ever. Not even at night. No way!
Wait just a second. Are you trying to state that air conditioning, heating, fridges, microwaves, and elevators are not luxuries? How exactly are they anything nore?
Do you HAVE to have a/c? Can you live without a microwave? Ever taken stairs?
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That's strange. The more I got to know the people on my hall, the more I wanted to install an alarm system.
What world are you living in? I know my server room is filled with beer.
They didn't put huge stars in the movies. They put Kevin Smith's friends who all got their start in his movies in them.
Yeah, about the same as some of the new movies comming out now from college kids. Take Napolean Dynamite for instance. There's this huge media attention behind it at the moment just because it has a decent script, and it's low-budget. All the trendy kids are seeing it.
Personally, I still think Clerks rocked, the rest of the Kevin Smith movies were over-budget but are still decent, and Napolean Dynamite is an utter waste of film.
Maybe I'm just behind on my new geek toys, but who the heck just has jet engines laying around their house?
Wearing a helmet on a jet powered wheelchair would be like giving someone a kite to jump out of a plane with.
So you mean GTA's gonna get rid of the made up ads and go to real ones? Now that's no fun. I want the perverted ads back...
Actually, they've been around at least since the late 60's when my father went through the Marines. I can remember him telling me about them.
I am sure Baen is happy to have a dead server now.
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Maybe linux will loose. Tomorow something drastic could happen that would immediatly stop linux in it's penguin-shaped tracks. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, something else will pop up and replace it. You think Windows is safe from destruction just because they have odles of money? I hope someone does because I for one don't. I just think having money will allow windows to live on past it's should be death. Microsoft's money will act like an iron lung for their desktop in the event that it should be put to death. Unfortunatly, linux dosen't have that money, so it would probably die a quicker death. If anything, maybe Windows will actually win out over Linux. I don't think this will happen, but it could. If microsoft takes a good look at their weaknesses and fixes them then maybe windows will win. WHO CARES!!! As long as I have a stable operating system, I don't care who makes it. For all I care an infinate number of communist monkies using an infinate number of pink laptops can write my OS. Even then, eventually, that OS would die. On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everything drops to zero, so quit your whining and start typing monkey boy!
Because that is her computer and she's happy with it. She can download an adware blocker if she wants. Plus: I don't touch that machine. EVER!
You joke, but I honestly think I could die from looking at all the spyware on my girlfriend's PC. My little old linux laptop runs five times faster than hers, and it's 4 years older. But she just won't make the switch. Something about being able to play this really old game that probably works under WINE.
And then that best buy looser sues you and you go to jail. It's just a push, drop it. Now if it's a violent push, then he started the fight, and you were in danger. drop him like a hot plate.
No, but an idiot dosen't want a device which would take a scientist to figure out. They want something that is simple to use and "just works". That's the ipod's strength, sure it may not have great features that you really don't need, but it's got simply ways of doing the things that you do need it to do. Features don't sell products, it's ease of use. If features sold products then we would arm our soldiers with swiss army knives instead of the ka-bar. It's got plenty of features, but it's easier to get the job done with a simpler knife.
Maybe so, but just as soon as a problem is found, it's patched and re-released.
I think linux's best feature is that shortly after the problem is announced, many different people "scratch their itch" and rush to patch it.
I would love to see a great desktop on linux. I think the modern ones are either too cluttered, or severly lacking. Windows has that beat, it's not too cluttered, and it's got a feature for just about everything. I just don't think any of them are all that great, save the graphics programs. Windows makes a program for everything they can think of, but they don't take the time to make those programs work well together. I have severl applications which I can not copy-paste out of.
I honestly don't see the OS wars even nearly over.
Linux has just about won the servers. They are, hands down, more secure than MS servers. Patches are qiuckly made for major bugs, and lesser bugs get fixed fairly rapidly. Linux servers also have uptimes that long outrun anything Microsoft makes.
Windows has the desktop market with a clean desktop where I know how to do what I want to do because that's how it has always been done. The problem is that I can't do anything I NEED to do. I can't easily get security updates when a problem is found. In fact, I know there are more than a few serious problems which have not been patched for long periods of time. Much longer than it should anyways.
That's where the new battle is going to be. Taking your victory, and fixing your problems. Becomming a truely mature operating system. They both need to work on having a stable, secure core system (Linux); and an easy to use desktop where I can do anything I want (Windows).
Linux has already started working on a good desktop, and is getting close to catching up with microsoft. Microsoft arguably hasn't even finished their's. So while linux is looking foward and moving on, Microsoft has already moved away from the desktop almost completely. With Microsoft venturing into almost every nook and cranny they can find to suck money from, windows movement has slowed to a drool, and dosen't look to be moving into any new direction.
I own and use both OS's simply because of gaming, photoshop, and mozilla. Yes, I know linux has firefox and thunderbird also, but when I'm playing I don't want to mess with a kvm just to check my email. Like I said, you use Linux for the things yohave to do, and windows for the things you want to do.
S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G One of those supjects you flunked.
But her parent's who signed the contract for her are not, and neither is her lawier. Plus, I am pretty sure that she is signed to a record deal with a part of her label run in cannada, so she's not under US rules anyways.
Um, have you looked at what they want? They are asking for millions upon millions of documents. Asking for this is simply asking for two things:
Making them spend money that shouldn't be spent on this.
Making them produce any document that could produce any information of value to their cause. They don't know what they need to look at, so they are looking at EVERYTHING.
Maybe if they asked for specific documents...
School's TI-80 and spare time in Math Class... Kist my game every day for the first month before it was on all of them.
Actually, evolution has been poven. I do believe that Charles Darwin first provided us with that information.
He did not however, tell anyone that they came from an ape. He was a deeply religious man who was troubled enough by the idea of evolution to eventually have to leave the priesthood.
His idea was that if the birds that he used as basis for his ideas on evolution had evolved, we could have also.
Evolution is true. It happens. It's fact. I am not, nor have I ever been an ape though.
I think.
I didn't even notice. Does that mean that I failed one of the other ones?
Actually, I have heard this. It's a really funny idea, but didn't work well at all.
beats Front Page at least.
Try Jackson MS, we see 100+ temperatures fairly often in the summer. I still manage to live without air conditioning during the summer most of the time. I have plenty of fans to keep the air moving in my home, and it usualy stays pretty cool.
But I wouldn't think of getting in my truck without turning on the AC during the summer. Not ever. Not even at night. No way!
Wait just a second. Are you trying to state that air conditioning, heating, fridges, microwaves, and elevators are not luxuries? How exactly are they anything nore?
Do you HAVE to have a/c? Can you live without a microwave? Ever taken stairs?