One recent example of Fox news being untruthful leaps to mind. They labelled Foley a Democrat in their coverage of the scandal. Here's a link on Boing Boing, but you can find many other perspectives with a simple google search.
So, who goes around "making the case" for a site's educational value? And, who decides whether the "case has been made"? It seems to me that there is plenty of room for abuse there.
The phrase "verbal contract" has a specific meaning in English that you appear to ignore. Perhaps you should learn English and stop your baseless criticism of others.
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
Wine Is Not an Emulator! It's a compatibility layer. Applications run at or near native speeds. I personally use it to play a few older 3D strategy and FPS games. It works great.
True, but then how many of these current Linux distributions can really run ont a P2 400MHz/w 64 or 128Megs of RAM?
It's funny you should ask this. I had (before Katrina) a Dell P2 400 with 128 MB RAM that I used as my "throwaway" machine to test out new Linux distributions. The last OS it was running before I lost it was Simply Mepis. It wasn't a speed demon, but it did perform acceptably.
Before that, I had Suze 9 on it and before that, Debian unstable. They were all the then-current versions of the OS installed during the last couple of years. I did find that the biggest performance booster was adding RAM. Shortly before I lost it, I had bumped it up to 256 MB RAM(PC 100) and saw a significant improvement in performance.
I would say the main reason you don't see many machines running that vintage of Linux is that they could be upgraded to a newer version for free. I don't think there will ever be a large number of machines running an extremely obsolete version of a free operating system.
It's because of the ~$5 license fees that are required for the patents on decoding MPEG2 video.
The license fee isn't for the MPEG2 decoder, it's for CSS (content scrambling system) with which most commercial DVDs are encrypted. You could probably play an unencrypted DVD without it.
It is their job to find the truth of a crime. In practice, it seems that the office is often just a jumping off point for a political career. To meet that goal, the prosecutor needs a high conviction rate.
Don't get me wrong, I see great potential for Linux & I love the concept of OSS but lets call a spade a spade & start being honest about what needs fixing ok?
The problem is, my experience is completely different from yours. I DON'T have the problems you claim "the majority of users experience major hassles with." It sounds like hyperbole to me.
Which "most folks" are you referring to? And why would you want to give away the memory saving advantages of shared libraries? Multiple applications can use the same shared library copy that is loaded into RAM.
Why exactly are you harping on the "average person, average distribution" crap? There have been many posts that point out this is a custom hardware platform for which there will almost certainly be a custom version of Linux installed. Linux runs quite well on many platforms with lower specs than this laptop.
I've seen this posted many times and I wonder why it has become such a catchphrase. I use Linux because I LIKE Linux. I used Windows for years before and I just plain like Linux better. I think that the majority of Linux users would say the same. It's the users who don't like Linux that keep advancing that meme.
You present a false dichotomy: "Businesses do have a legitimate interest in getting their concerns before congress, and if a lobbyist is the only way to do it, then that's what they have to do."
You imply that lobbying is the only way for a business to address its concerns to congress. That is certainly NOT the case. Lobbying is a way for a business to press its concerns above those of the common people that can't afford to spend that money bribing their representative (or senator).
There is nothing preventing a business owner from just picking up the phone and calling the congresspeople who represent the business's district. Just like any other citizen.
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Sourcewatch page on the CEI: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competi tive_Enterprise_Institute
Try out the media matters site.
One recent example of Fox news being untruthful leaps to mind. They labelled Foley a Democrat in their coverage of the scandal. Here's a link on Boing Boing, but you can find many other perspectives with a simple google search.
Your users don't have to download autopackage. They just run the installer that you generate.
Who is he trying to convince?
sudo apt-get --build source bash
What do I win?
So, who goes around "making the case" for a site's educational value? And, who decides whether the "case has been made"? It seems to me that there is plenty of room for abuse there.
The phrase "verbal contract" has a specific meaning in English that you appear to ignore. Perhaps you should learn English and stop your baseless criticism of others.
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
Wine Is Not an Emulator! It's a compatibility layer. Applications run at or near native speeds. I personally use it to play a few older 3D strategy and FPS games. It works great.
I'm pretty sure that the parent to your post was sarcasm. At least, I hope it was.
However, there is reasonable support for the existence of the soul, and a trip from Plato through Plotinus would do you good.
Just exactly what is the "reasonable support" for the existence of a soul? You have an objective, independently verifiable answer?
True, but then how many of these current Linux distributions can really run ont a P2 400MHz /w 64 or 128Megs of RAM?
It's funny you should ask this. I had (before Katrina) a Dell P2 400 with 128 MB RAM that I used as my "throwaway" machine to test out new Linux distributions. The last OS it was running before I lost it was Simply Mepis. It wasn't a speed demon, but it did perform acceptably.
Before that, I had Suze 9 on it and before that, Debian unstable. They were all the then-current versions of the OS installed during the last couple of years. I did find that the biggest performance booster was adding RAM. Shortly before I lost it, I had bumped it up to 256 MB RAM(PC 100) and saw a significant improvement in performance.
I would say the main reason you don't see many machines running that vintage of Linux is that they could be upgraded to a newer version for free. I don't think there will ever be a large number of machines running an extremely obsolete version of a free operating system.
It's because of the ~$5 license fees that are required for the patents on decoding MPEG2 video.
The license fee isn't for the MPEG2 decoder, it's for CSS (content scrambling system) with which most commercial DVDs are encrypted. You could probably play an unencrypted DVD without it.
Most families have larger requirements (non-simple games, videos, making DVDs, etc) and no free support from a Linux techie.
I would dispute this. Most of my mom's friends and my aunts and uncles would be perfectly happy with the aforementioned level of functionality.
Which of those distributions has a legal DVD player and has plugin support for all the latest Real/QT/Windows Media formats?
Does Windows come with all that? The last time I checked, you had to install a DVD player and real/qt (and some windows media) formats.
It is their job to find the truth of a crime. In practice, it seems that the office is often just a jumping off point for a political career. To meet that goal, the prosecutor needs a high conviction rate.
Don't get me wrong, I see great potential for Linux & I love the concept of OSS but lets call a spade a spade & start being honest about what needs fixing ok?
The problem is, my experience is completely different from yours. I DON'T have the problems you claim "the majority of users experience major hassles with." It sounds like hyperbole to me.
Which "most folks" are you referring to? And why would you want to give away the memory saving advantages of shared libraries? Multiple applications can use the same shared library copy that is loaded into RAM.
Why exactly are you harping on the "average person, average distribution" crap? There have been many posts that point out this is a custom hardware platform for which there will almost certainly be a custom version of Linux installed. Linux runs quite well on many platforms with lower specs than this laptop.
Linux, the OS for people who hate Windows.
I've seen this posted many times and I wonder why it has become such a catchphrase. I use Linux because I LIKE Linux. I used Windows for years before and I just plain like Linux better. I think that the majority of Linux users would say the same. It's the users who don't like Linux that keep advancing that meme.
You present a false dichotomy: "Businesses do have a legitimate interest in getting their concerns before congress, and if a lobbyist is the only way to do it, then that's what they have to do."
You imply that lobbying is the only way for a business to address its concerns to congress. That is certainly NOT the case. Lobbying is a way for a business to press its concerns above those of the common people that can't afford to spend that money bribing their representative (or senator).
There is nothing preventing a business owner from just picking up the phone and calling the congresspeople who represent the business's district. Just like any other citizen.
Yes, because salespeople always outfit their own computers when it's windows, right? That's why there aren't any IT departments in the business world.