I for one will be moving over 20 users to something else - presumably something that does not have Unity in it, since I already have to install gnome-shell on these machines.
Capitalism teaches that a man who saves up an buys a spade will dig faster than a man using his bare hands. Therefore it is worth forgoing the immediate benefits that one needs to save.
The alternatives are all a form of "let the other guy save, and then steal from him!"
Assuming he means "with Bios and drive support for 7 years" the Lenovo is the only choice. I have a T61p and use it for PCB layout (as well as OpenOffice and Opera).
I also have a T43p from 2006, and just downloaded upgrades of all the stuff needed for a new Windows 7 professional install (for compatibility with the two family members who don't use Ubuntu). It was in daily use with XP till a week ago! I guess it will be another 7 years before it gets Win8, unless OpenBSD replaces Microsoft by then!
New Thinkpads have piss-poor resolution as your only option. I keep emailing Lenovo, and they keep spamming me about crap hardware;-)
councils are local government - national government is banning local government from accessing the vehicle database. Not sure why any local government should have access to the vehicle database anyway. All taxation, etc, is done by national government.
The data keeps getting sold to debt collectors, which may have something to do with it.
That is like world wide, as in from the front door to the road. Where is Snobol 4 in that scheme of things (or even Scheme?) What about Cobol? BCPL? Ruby?
Naval training colleges taught officers how to measure the diameter of the earth. It was used in computing "distance off" from another ship or tower on land from its height above the horizon.
A few tabloid journalists were encouraged to hype up the wrong size and flat earth arguments. Various "Venture Capitalists" were conned into funding the mission because they had not attended officer training school, and in all probability would not have believed anyone who had because "if your so clever, why aren't you rich" is not a new put-down.
most kids in 4th grade are going to take most of what they hear in science class on authority
I dont know how old 4th grade is in your country. I am in the UK, and I don't imagine very many secondary school kids believing anything "on authority". We did experiments in class, visited the plant breeding institute, asked farmers questions, watched evil things being done to fruit flies, etc.
Why should a parent that is home schooling their children be required to teach evolution?
Because anything else is just not "teaching".
Here in the UK, very few people do not believe in evolution, and they are mostly people who have no interest one way of the other. Most Christians (including myself), believe that God is the power behind all creation, and evolution is evidence of God's power.
I have never heard of anyone in the UK complainng about the teaching of evolution, and a school teaching only "creationism" here would probably be laughed at. However, I was born within a mile of Charles Darwin's house. Darwin was a Christian.
If you Google my real name (not here for obvious reasons) you will find tens of thousands of bug reports for FOSS software, including Postgresql, many *Office products and probably *BSDs less than 5% were not addressed (ie fixed, or became irrelevant due to design changes).
I am not aware of MS (or Oracle) ever fixing any problem I reported. IBM fixed 100% as far as I can recall. Ashton Tate made several worse!
Slashdot Mirror
H(igh) T(echnology) P(ile) of C(rap)
Or don't: it comes out at several tens of years in any realistic scenario.
Maybe we should just Taser everyone who doesn't speak English (with Double volts to Grammar Nazis).
If Windows is/are involved, it is probably more like pains!
I hate that too! - at first, I thought it was a bug, now I am sure its a mosquito!
For those who need to know: Debian is a Leprechaun, and definitely not an elf!
But look how well it is working for Windows8!
Oh, wait ...
I for one will be moving over 20 users to something else - presumably something that does not have Unity in it, since I already have to install gnome-shell on these machines.
The alternatives are all a form of "let the other guy save, and then steal from him!"
Oh, Wait ...
I also have a T43p from 2006, and just downloaded upgrades of all the stuff needed for a new Windows 7 professional install (for compatibility with the two family members who don't use Ubuntu). It was in daily use with XP till a week ago! I guess it will be another 7 years before it gets Win8, unless OpenBSD replaces Microsoft by then!
New Thinkpads have piss-poor resolution as your only option. I keep emailing Lenovo, and they keep spamming me about crap hardware ;-)
The data keeps getting sold to debt collectors, which may have something to do with it.
"Meaningful work" === "porn"
I am not so sure /.ers think that MS porn is a turn-on,
That is like world wide, as in from the front door to the road. Where is Snobol 4 in that scheme of things (or even Scheme?) What about Cobol? BCPL? Ruby?
Two of the most important features of larger enterprises are:
Scapegoats
Plausible deniability
A database that screws up is a wonderful excuse for the effects of badly written SQL and business logic that is not thread-safe.
Please drink up you Koolade, It seems you already need an extra helping.
My mum has a Mac, and I have to say that, on the few occasions I have attempted to use OSX, ido feel like I am fighting the OS.
Sure its better than DOS 3.1, but I prefer fvwm95. I think I will go on using KDE on OpenBSD, and keep my Geek card, thanx.
That American Fundaamentalist Christians will have problems with reality?
A few tabloid journalists were encouraged to hype up the wrong size and flat earth arguments. Various "Venture Capitalists" were conned into funding the mission because they had not attended officer training school, and in all probability would not have believed anyone who had because "if your so clever, why aren't you rich" is not a new put-down.
I dont know how old 4th grade is in your country. I am in the UK, and I don't imagine very many secondary school kids believing anything "on authority". We did experiments in class, visited the plant breeding institute, asked farmers questions, watched evil things being done to fruit flies, etc.
And I went to a Christian (church) school.
The UK is not as committed to Moronism as the US.
The UK government is not silencing creationists. Just refusing to pay them to teach their beliefs as "science".
Because anything else is just not "teaching".
Here in the UK, very few people do not believe in evolution, and they are mostly people who have no interest one way of the other. Most Christians (including myself), believe that God is the power behind all creation, and evolution is evidence of God's power.
I have never heard of anyone in the UK complainng about the teaching of evolution, and a school teaching only "creationism" here would probably be laughed at. However, I was born within a mile of Charles Darwin's house. Darwin was a Christian.
I am not aware of MS (or Oracle) ever fixing any problem I reported. IBM fixed 100% as far as I can recall. Ashton Tate made several worse!
FTFY
With Linux, there is no phone - so no phone bill!