That would depend on your definition of "people" wouldn't it? The supreme court continuously reinterprets the constitution to mean whatever the current court wants it to mean.
If I was verizon I'd hire Molly and make her an executive in charge of finding ways to gouge my customers. There is a very minute fraction of the people that have any initiative like that and you want them on your side helping you harvest the rest.
The idiots where I live don't think they pay nearly enough taxes. Every single fucking time there is a tax initiative on the local ballot they run to the poll to vote for it. I don't get it. The last one passed by over 80 percent and yet everyone I talk to bitches about taxes but they still vote for more. "Oh, we need that!" they say and I say well quit bitching about taxes moron since you're the reason for them. But they just look confused. I hate living in an idiocracy.
And again, I am not anti-science. If I oppose some theory based on loose conjecture from facts that may or may not be related that does not make me anti-science. I am no danger to you other than that my opposition to your views may cause you a stroke or something.:) My belief system tells me that I must live in the world but not to be of it. I must "render to Ceasar that which is Ceasar's" and such. If you don't like what I believe it's nothing to me. Your views are your views and in this case you are wrong. You can't shame me as you have no such moral high ground. I tolerate the crassness and obscenity and profanity of the world about me. I don't approve of it and I don't mind telling people who try to impose it on me. I don't mind telling you either. I don't care when you bear children or even if you don't. I do have a problem with the wholesale slaughter of unborn children, I find it hard to believe any civilized person wouldn't. Even so I don't feel I can force, or should force, a woman determined to destroy her own flesh. I leave such matters to God to deal with. As for stem cell research it continues ongoing and in many, many cases scientists have found other means even better than harvesting embryo's for material. If you're okay with harvesting human embryos I pity you for your soul truly is bankrupt. Regardless I'm not a failure, when life is over I will be triumphant and I think you'll be shocked at how wrong you are.
I know you don't really want to hear it but here goes. I believe in the Bible. I can't help but believe it because I know the difference it has made in my life. I'm not perfect, far from it, but I know without my faith I'd be without hope and a real mess. I don't disregard or ignore science, and in fact there are many scientists who are men of faith. I see no conflict. I have read and studied much history and science and there are theories that conflict with figures from the bible. If I reject those theories that is not a rejection of science but of those theories. Scientific achievement is a good thing making a modern lifestyle of great progress possible. The biggest area of contention is of course the theory of evolution. Even to those who don't believe in a God the theory of evolution is problematic as following a trail from one species to another is simply circumstantial. Just because one type of mammal died out and another one took it's place does not necessarily mean one came from the other. I think if I was an atheist I'd still be leery of evolution as there is too much guess work, if I were a skeptic I'd surely wonder about such a weak theory. Still and all I don't resent those who worship at the altar of evolution. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs.
Poor is a relative term. Most working poor today live better than Kings from the 16th century. I'm not poor, I have a car and 4X4 truck, live in a nice house with central air and have cable and 20mbps cable internet. What I'm not is cash happy. I'm not jealous of people with money to burn, I live pretty good and I'm easily content but I can't see throwing 500 dollars at a device that I'm only going to use occasionally. If I get a nook and it serves my purpose I'm $250 to the good. Archos 10.1 tablet is about 300 and has a capacitive screen. I don't know how it compares with the iPad, so far the only 10" tablet I've seen that looked like it was equivalent was the Galaxy Tab from Samsung and it costs about the same as the iPad. I'll have to read up on the Archos as well now.
Ignore it. It's a knee jerk reaction to anything that smacks of something possibly, slightly, remotely, or even unintentionally right wing. Instant Fox News stab.
It's true, if I have 500 dollars to throw away on a tablet I'd rather have an iPad. If, however, someone made something just as good for maybe 2 or 3 hundred dollars I'd opt for that instead. Unfortunately, all the tablets I see for 2 or 3 hundred are sadly lacking. The next best thing I've seen is the smaller Nook tablet from B&N and I may actually get one of those. The screen is very good and for the money it's hard to beat. If I had to have a 10" tablet though I don't see anything in the same league with the iPad without spending nearly the same money. If I'm to pay about the same anyway then why not get the best? It's only common sense. Not having 500 dollars to waste though I'll have to pass.
Not saying I think Castro was a saint or anything but reading that doesn't make him sound evil. He's basically saying that if the US invaded the Russians better hit first. This makes a kind of sense as at that time a first strike gave you your best chance of having some remnant of your nation survive the war. Not all that great but better than a retaliatory strike after your country is laid waste.
China could fix this problem at any time since they are the ones that created it. If China drops support the whole country will starve and wither away. They keep these idiots propped up so they can irritate the hell out of the US. If the North Korean generals get too big for their britches China will squash them like a bug.
Netbooks need to come in at sub 200 dollar mark. Anything over that and they compare piss poorly with a regular laptop. The screen should be 7-10 inches and it should be light as possible. Instead they're calling something almost the size of my old 12" iBook a netbook and it's not. If it's almost the size of a laptop, nowhere near the performance and it costs almost as much then it's not going to sell. Simple enough really, you'd think even the fools that pass for marketers in these companies would get it.
That's exactly why. I bought a used acer aspire one ZG5 model, one of the first netbooks recently for $100. I wiped XP off the little 8gb Solid State Drive and installed Peppermint2 OS on it and I friggin' love it. It weighs nothing, it's fast, it has a bright screen and even though its old now the battery lasts over 3 hours of web surfing. I've been hanging out in hospital waiting rooms a lot lately and it makes sitting there waiting all day a lot easier. I've got heavier machines for productivity, I just needed a netbook. Nobody really sells one anymore but there are lots of used ones around for cheap. Many people bought netbooks with the wrong expectations and they're in mostly good shape since they haven't been used much. The one I bought looks brand new.
It's being replace by OpenJDK. It was planned to happen like this for years. This was planned obsolescence with a gradual move to OpenJDK. Their is no surprise here except for those who didn't know it was coming. The summary is inflammatory but if you read the article you see that this is nothing really.
And you'd be correct because that's exactly what you are doing. If you want control of the updates use synaptic and you can pick and choose which updates to install. Now that I think about it you may well be able to refuse individual actions with update manager as well. Generally I just look it over and see if anything is objectionable but have never actually denied any action before.
Another advantage for Apple. There's only one iOS vendor. Makes life easy at Apple. Android developers are learning about the Microsoft Windows world. Many different pieces of hardware and they all have to run android and some will obviously do better than others. This gives us two different guys going "My droid "never crashes/crashes every 5 minutes."
I don't think Apple cares so much about being the biggest seller as long as they can make the most money. They have the coolness factor going for them as it's considered by most (feel free to disagree) to be an upscale product. I believe they like where they are at. A big advantage for Apple as well is they don't have to pay off MS for every phone they sell like so many Android platform makers do.
You mean the fix for that beta software that was Win7 was free? It should be, especially after they made a mint off of the Alpha version (Vista). Then sold a Beta (Win7) even MS couldn't get away with charging for a service pack to fix their fucked up code. I'll give you that lion isn't much of an upgrade, in fact I'll probably keep running SL until new stuff requires Lion or until the next version of OS X, but it's not a fix for beta software.
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That would depend on your definition of "people" wouldn't it? The supreme court continuously reinterprets the constitution to mean whatever the current court wants it to mean.
If I was verizon I'd hire Molly and make her an executive in charge of finding ways to gouge my customers. There is a very minute fraction of the people that have any initiative like that and you want them on your side helping you harvest the rest.
The idiots where I live don't think they pay nearly enough taxes. Every single fucking time there is a tax initiative on the local ballot they run to the poll to vote for it. I don't get it. The last one passed by over 80 percent and yet everyone I talk to bitches about taxes but they still vote for more. "Oh, we need that!" they say and I say well quit bitching about taxes moron since you're the reason for them. But they just look confused. I hate living in an idiocracy.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings.
And again, I am not anti-science. If I oppose some theory based on loose conjecture from facts that may or may not be related that does not make me anti-science. I am no danger to you other than that my opposition to your views may cause you a stroke or something. :) My belief system tells me that I must live in the world but not to be of it. I must "render to Ceasar that which is Ceasar's" and such. If you don't like what I believe it's nothing to me. Your views are your views and in this case you are wrong. You can't shame me as you have no such moral high ground. I tolerate the crassness and obscenity and profanity of the world about me. I don't approve of it and I don't mind telling people who try to impose it on me. I don't mind telling you either. I don't care when you bear children or even if you don't. I do have a problem with the wholesale slaughter of unborn children, I find it hard to believe any civilized person wouldn't. Even so I don't feel I can force, or should force, a woman determined to destroy her own flesh. I leave such matters to God to deal with. As for stem cell research it continues ongoing and in many, many cases scientists have found other means even better than harvesting embryo's for material. If you're okay with harvesting human embryos I pity you for your soul truly is bankrupt. Regardless I'm not a failure, when life is over I will be triumphant and I think you'll be shocked at how wrong you are.
I know you don't really want to hear it but here goes. I believe in the Bible. I can't help but believe it because I know the difference it has made in my life. I'm not perfect, far from it, but I know without my faith I'd be without hope and a real mess. I don't disregard or ignore science, and in fact there are many scientists who are men of faith. I see no conflict. I have read and studied much history and science and there are theories that conflict with figures from the bible. If I reject those theories that is not a rejection of science but of those theories. Scientific achievement is a good thing making a modern lifestyle of great progress possible. The biggest area of contention is of course the theory of evolution. Even to those who don't believe in a God the theory of evolution is problematic as following a trail from one species to another is simply circumstantial. Just because one type of mammal died out and another one took it's place does not necessarily mean one came from the other. I think if I was an atheist I'd still be leery of evolution as there is too much guess work, if I were a skeptic I'd surely wonder about such a weak theory. Still and all I don't resent those who worship at the altar of evolution. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs.
Poor is a relative term. Most working poor today live better than Kings from the 16th century. I'm not poor, I have a car and 4X4 truck, live in a nice house with central air and have cable and 20mbps cable internet. What I'm not is cash happy. I'm not jealous of people with money to burn, I live pretty good and I'm easily content but I can't see throwing 500 dollars at a device that I'm only going to use occasionally. If I get a nook and it serves my purpose I'm $250 to the good. Archos 10.1 tablet is about 300 and has a capacitive screen. I don't know how it compares with the iPad, so far the only 10" tablet I've seen that looked like it was equivalent was the Galaxy Tab from Samsung and it costs about the same as the iPad. I'll have to read up on the Archos as well now.
It's a damn bag. For crying out loud it's a damned ugly bag too.
You act as if the law applies to the Movie Studios. How naive.
Ignore it. It's a knee jerk reaction to anything that smacks of something possibly, slightly, remotely, or even unintentionally right wing. Instant Fox News stab.
It's true, if I have 500 dollars to throw away on a tablet I'd rather have an iPad. If, however, someone made something just as good for maybe 2 or 3 hundred dollars I'd opt for that instead. Unfortunately, all the tablets I see for 2 or 3 hundred are sadly lacking. The next best thing I've seen is the smaller Nook tablet from B&N and I may actually get one of those. The screen is very good and for the money it's hard to beat. If I had to have a 10" tablet though I don't see anything in the same league with the iPad without spending nearly the same money. If I'm to pay about the same anyway then why not get the best? It's only common sense. Not having 500 dollars to waste though I'll have to pass.
Not saying I think Castro was a saint or anything but reading that doesn't make him sound evil. He's basically saying that if the US invaded the Russians better hit first. This makes a kind of sense as at that time a first strike gave you your best chance of having some remnant of your nation survive the war. Not all that great but better than a retaliatory strike after your country is laid waste.
China could fix this problem at any time since they are the ones that created it. If China drops support the whole country will starve and wither away. They keep these idiots propped up so they can irritate the hell out of the US. If the North Korean generals get too big for their britches China will squash them like a bug.
Netbooks need to come in at sub 200 dollar mark. Anything over that and they compare piss poorly with a regular laptop. The screen should be 7-10 inches and it should be light as possible. Instead they're calling something almost the size of my old 12" iBook a netbook and it's not. If it's almost the size of a laptop, nowhere near the performance and it costs almost as much then it's not going to sell. Simple enough really, you'd think even the fools that pass for marketers in these companies would get it.
That's exactly why. I bought a used acer aspire one ZG5 model, one of the first netbooks recently for $100. I wiped XP off the little 8gb Solid State Drive and installed Peppermint2 OS on it and I friggin' love it. It weighs nothing, it's fast, it has a bright screen and even though its old now the battery lasts over 3 hours of web surfing. I've been hanging out in hospital waiting rooms a lot lately and it makes sitting there waiting all day a lot easier. I've got heavier machines for productivity, I just needed a netbook. Nobody really sells one anymore but there are lots of used ones around for cheap. Many people bought netbooks with the wrong expectations and they're in mostly good shape since they haven't been used much. The one I bought looks brand new.
If they're really out to get you it's not paranoia.
It's being replace by OpenJDK. It was planned to happen like this for years. This was planned obsolescence with a gradual move to OpenJDK. Their is no surprise here except for those who didn't know it was coming. The summary is inflammatory but if you read the article you see that this is nothing really.
Well there is always Linux from Scratch.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Have fun!
And you'd be correct because that's exactly what you are doing. If you want control of the updates use synaptic and you can pick and choose which updates to install. Now that I think about it you may well be able to refuse individual actions with update manager as well. Generally I just look it over and see if anything is objectionable but have never actually denied any action before.
They're certainly not perfect.
Another advantage for Apple. There's only one iOS vendor. Makes life easy at Apple. Android developers are learning about the Microsoft Windows world. Many different pieces of hardware and they all have to run android and some will obviously do better than others. This gives us two different guys going "My droid "never crashes/crashes every 5 minutes."
I don't think Apple cares so much about being the biggest seller as long as they can make the most money. They have the coolness factor going for them as it's considered by most (feel free to disagree) to be an upscale product. I believe they like where they are at. A big advantage for Apple as well is they don't have to pay off MS for every phone they sell like so many Android platform makers do.
That's too much phone for the masses. The N900 was never going to be a mass market device. It's for the elite.
Oh man. That was painful. I laughed so hard I think I have a hernia now.
You mean the fix for that beta software that was Win7 was free? It should be, especially after they made a mint off of the Alpha version (Vista). Then sold a Beta (Win7) even MS couldn't get away with charging for a service pack to fix their fucked up code. I'll give you that lion isn't much of an upgrade, in fact I'll probably keep running SL until new stuff requires Lion or until the next version of OS X, but it's not a fix for beta software.