Let the bubble burst--Silicon Valley, San Francisco, the housing market. Let it fucking burn to the goddamn ground. As one half of a couple of displaced Bay Areans, I'd love for things to even out a bit so we can afford to move back home.
That's some fucking real bullshit, that no one ever talks about. People who have spent their entire lives there, people whose families have been there since before the bridges were built, are being straight-up priced out. Fuck that. Not like I'm poor, either--far from it. But despite what some dumb fucks in the newspapers would like to tell me it is NOT an acceptable compromise to barely scrape by in a shitty hovel of a one bedroom apartment in a meh part of town, for three times the rent of a goddamned single family home elsewhere.
'Scuse me. I happen to be 17. Does that mean that MY opinion means nothing?
I think it's a fantastic thing that we're having more and more young Linux users. Been using it myself since I was... 13... wow...
Lifelong users will be able to eventually extoll the virtues of Linux more accurately and intellectually than the stupid brain-blasted level of pasty 21-year-old morons whose rallying cry seems to be"3y3 u3s 1uNix0r. j00 4r3 4 f49907!!!111oneone".
Think before you speak, you sod. Of course, my opinion means nothing.
I second that. My 12" PB is fantastic. I was about to reply to the parent telling him how great my keyboard is. Doesn't match the Logitech that I'm typing this from, but it comes damned close. The small size has relegated this machine to my portable (and for the week, my main machine on my desk) as opposed to my Dell Inspiron 8200, which is huge and heavy and doesn't get nearly the battery life.
As I understood it, Commodore's problems weren't with the machine--it was truly some amazing hardware for the time--but rather with their marketing and business practices. I think the far-and-away superority of the Amiga is what kept them alive as long as they were.
Pro-poor as in "supporting the poor", not "supporting the state of poverty"; in my comment, "pro-rich" indicated caring more for the upper class than any other. Of course, everybody in power in the U.S. should support the state of being rich, and becoming rich, and the ability for almost anyone to do so (after all, that's one of the "American dreams") but not favor the rich over anyone else. And being "pro-rich" in the context in which I used it meant favoring the rich over even the middle class, which Republicans have generally shown themselves to do.
It's about time someone does this. First off, open source developers deserve money for a good product (especially if it's comparable to a commercial product that there are paid programmers working on). Second, and perhaps more importantly, this can help attract higher quality programmers with more direction that will make higher quality products, and it can perhaps weed out some projects of promise that stagnate over time.
Why would anyone want to pay for an online comic? Sure, I understand how the authors are people too, who need to put food on the table, but...
There's no dearth of good online comics for every taste... silly ones, serious ones, adult, anime (all sorts there), etc.
Not to mention that I imagine many online comic readers are teens without a credit card, or people who have no inclination to go out and purchase comics.
If he really wants to make money, he should get his comic published in print. Nice idea, for-pay online comics, but it won't work. Sorry.
Maybe the Macs are expensive, but they are far more reliable than their PC counterparts (at least those running Windoze; I'm saying nothing about *nix). Windoze XP has made things better, but, still, Macs are tradtionally far more reliable. For a comparison, go into a high- or junior high school, that has both Macs and PCs, and compare the physical condition, much less the condition of the software environment.
Not to mention Macs seem to have a much lower TCO, as well as a longer useful life (still running an old Cube here...)
Choice is fine for the geeks, like you (I assume), but what about the masses? Everyone talks about "Linux on the Desktop", and that's the best venture, since ~90% of users out there are relative simpletons, at least when it comes to computers. There's too much choice already, and that's coming from a geek.
I hear what you're saying about backwards compatability, but what this could end up as being is being like the myraid of editors, window managers, distros, etc. out there: we'll end up having at least two windowing systems that, while they're "compatible" (in the same way that KDE is compatable with GNOME in that you can run GAim, etc, on KDE), they'll have a different feature set, etc... and they'll come packaged together in complete *nix distros... and who'll know which to install, because there'll be "best of breed" programs for each system or features of both that you can't live without.
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Let the bubble burst--Silicon Valley, San Francisco, the housing market. Let it fucking burn to the goddamn ground. As one half of a couple of displaced Bay Areans, I'd love for things to even out a bit so we can afford to move back home. That's some fucking real bullshit, that no one ever talks about. People who have spent their entire lives there, people whose families have been there since before the bridges were built, are being straight-up priced out. Fuck that. Not like I'm poor, either--far from it. But despite what some dumb fucks in the newspapers would like to tell me it is NOT an acceptable compromise to barely scrape by in a shitty hovel of a one bedroom apartment in a meh part of town, for three times the rent of a goddamned single family home elsewhere.
I think it's a fantastic thing that we're having more and more young Linux users. Been using it myself since I was... 13... wow...
Lifelong users will be able to eventually extoll the virtues of Linux more accurately and intellectually than the stupid brain-blasted level of pasty 21-year-old morons whose rallying cry seems to be"3y3 u3s 1uNix0r. j00 4r3 4 f49907!!!111oneone".
Think before you speak, you sod. Of course, my opinion means nothing.
I second that. My 12" PB is fantastic. I was about to reply to the parent telling him how great my keyboard is. Doesn't match the Logitech that I'm typing this from, but it comes damned close. The small size has relegated this machine to my portable (and for the week, my main machine on my desk) as opposed to my Dell Inspiron 8200, which is huge and heavy and doesn't get nearly the battery life.
As I understood it, Commodore's problems weren't with the machine--it was truly some amazing hardware for the time--but rather with their marketing and business practices. I think the far-and-away superority of the Amiga is what kept them alive as long as they were.
They're beta/prerelease drivers on a "Desktop Evaluation Board". It's not a released card yet. They still have a chance to perk them up.
Beta != final. Beta = bugs (visual quality), unimplemented features (AA and AF), etc.
If that's not influential, what is? God knows most machines out there today are x86, and aren't IBM-made.
Pro-poor as in "supporting the poor", not "supporting the state of poverty"; in my comment, "pro-rich" indicated caring more for the upper class than any other. Of course, everybody in power in the U.S. should support the state of being rich, and becoming rich, and the ability for almost anyone to do so (after all, that's one of the "American dreams") but not favor the rich over anyone else. And being "pro-rich" in the context in which I used it meant favoring the rich over even the middle class, which Republicans have generally shown themselves to do.
You know this is a bad thing. He's a right-wing Republican; the GOP is pro-rich, pro-big corporations, and pro-personal interest.
Expect even more tyranny from the RIAA.
I shudder at this prospect... not that the old person was good, though...
Go OSI.
There's no dearth of good online comics for every taste... silly ones, serious ones, adult, anime (all sorts there), etc.
Not to mention that I imagine many online comic readers are teens without a credit card, or people who have no inclination to go out and purchase comics.
If he really wants to make money, he should get his comic published in print. Nice idea, for-pay online comics, but it won't work. Sorry.
Maybe the Macs are expensive, but they are far more reliable than their PC counterparts (at least those running Windoze; I'm saying nothing about *nix). Windoze XP has made things better, but, still, Macs are tradtionally far more reliable. For a comparison, go into a high- or junior high school, that has both Macs and PCs, and compare the physical condition, much less the condition of the software environment.
Not to mention Macs seem to have a much lower TCO, as well as a longer useful life (still running an old Cube here...)
I hear what you're saying about backwards compatability, but what this could end up as being is being like the myraid of editors, window managers, distros, etc. out there: we'll end up having at least two windowing systems that, while they're "compatible" (in the same way that KDE is compatable with GNOME in that you can run GAim, etc, on KDE), they'll have a different feature set, etc... and they'll come packaged together in complete *nix distros... and who'll know which to install, because there'll be "best of breed" programs for each system or features of both that you can't live without.
Just my 0b00000010 cents.
It does. Slackware follows the standards... and it even puts KDE in it's proper /opt/kde place.