Ubuntu won out based on price more than anything. She was already using Firefox / OpenOffice / Gaim so for her the differences were pretty nominal. this should be the beginning and end of the argument - no need to resort to sensationalism re. deactivation of Vista, Vista being nagware, etc.
Since all this activation crap has come so far for M$, how many of you are now doing sys rebuilds for family/friends/colleagues and installing Ubuntu? It does what any casual user wants for nix (as in free):-)
Re:You no longer consume mass media? Yet you're on the Internet?
Riiight! Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. Mainstream is, generally, the common current of thought of the majority.
So, if AC just reads/. as opposed to, say, Digg he/she does not consume mass media. Objection overruled.
when you can do it across the 'Web, you are not limited in the same way. Since it is World Wide Web and not Worldwideweb, there is no need for the apostrophe.</PunctuationNazi>
also illegal in .au - Federal election 27/11
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I'd sell mine - but eBay is already pulling auctions. What happened to free-enterprise?
The penalty for the sale or purchase of a vote in Australia can be a $5000 fine and up to two years in jail.
Public infrastructure is falling down around our ears while Dumb and Dumber buy our votes with tax cuts. Which is the greater crime?
perhaps stop feeding your pancreas so much freaking glucose?
This is a serious health issue. When you consider that some forms of diabetes and obesity can be classed this way, it is clear to see that several billion people could die of malnutrition this century unless we begin some serious educational effort. Some scientific breakthroughs may save the climate, but your health is yours.
The problem is not in reliability, but in ignorance. Must Linuzzz administrators think they are "inmune"... here they all come, out of the woodwork. At first glance this MS spin doctor makes a half-point, but by "Must Linuzzz administrators" El Lobo means most "ubuntu users"*. Anyone using Linux (or hopefully anything with an outward facing IP address) to run public services knows they are not immune and takes appropriate care... stop drinking the kool-aid for chrisake
* this phrase is not meant to be inflammatory, I use it too:-)
The latest and greatest model of the Slashdot Cruiser! Yay!!! Is that a vodka-based party drink? What a cool prize! Can mine be watermelon flavored? Wow, my very own Cruiser. Free as in beer... hmmm, beer.
Why does our society care more about some washed up singer losing custody of her kids than thousands of peaceful anonymous demonstrators getting killed? You pose a question that has puzzled us for ages, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
If you don't like it, don't consume tabloid media. Rather than bitch and moan, try to smile and sound interesting when convincing friends and family to adopt the same personal policy. For bonus happy feelings, you may con yourself that you are part of a social revolution when you see that a vague acquaintance has adopted the same attitude:-)
Burma falls within China's sphere of influence. China talks about restraint but they NEED the current regime in Burma. Burma allows the landlocked Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan to reach trading ports. China poured bucketloads into repairing Burmese rail routes and sold $1.4b in arms to Burma during the 1980s and 90's (source).
Any consumer lobbyists out there may want to let the networks know that they won't buy stuff advertised as being associated with the 2008 Olympics.
Have the usual suspects, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Google, been turning over information about these people? I'm not aware of anything to suggest that this has happened. Burma wouldn't have the influence over corporate America that China does. Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald covered Burma's bloggers too.
"The junta blocks almost every website that carries information about the country and bars access to email websites."
The info will continue to get around these rudimentary efforts at censorship, but the pro-democracy movement is beginning to realise that the UN just ain't gonna show up, no matter how many are gunned down in cold blood.
I submitted a story in March on the role of the intertubes in exposing tin-pot despots.
Rather than OLPC, many in the third-world would benefit from the gift of a digital camera and a few dollars to outlay at the local internet cafe.
I went to the moon without leaving Earth, and it didn't require any permit. I think it did require some papers, though. There's a Young Ones quote there, but I'm too zonked to bother finding it...
Why is it that what is ok for Big Government and Big Business doesn't necessarily translate to hobbyists? For the same reason that government and big business can and will do things that would get you arrested and/or shot. When are you coming out of your egalitarian delusion? Rather than ponder why 'the man' sees fit to regulate every nano-aspect of everything that happens everywhere with Treaties, Legislation and Permits (however legit that discussion may be), I was wondering why hobbyists, generally speaking, are slipping into a subcategory alongside the ever growing bogeyman 'security threat/tear-ist'. Just look at some of the wacko lobbying opposing OSS for a start.
Is this the same treaty that bans the militarisation of space? The same treaty that White House spokesmen described as antiquated last year? Why is it that what is ok for Big Government and Big Business doesn't necessarily translate to hobbyists? just a thought
They should, while they are at, publicly admit the existence (and perhaps promote) Windows Fundamentals For Legacy PC (essentially XP only it uses considerably less ram and resources). They admit the existence openly, although it is only for their dwindling number of SA customers.
I ordered a Dell notebook recently with XP Home - cut a few $$ off the price since Dell ain't shipping with Ubuntu in my country (yet). XP is now confined to a 20GB partition for use on "foreign jobs".
One thing I noticed is that after removing all the crapware, XP bells & whistles and tweaked the services (including the ream of services and process that make up the Intel PRO wireless bloat) I had a lean and efficient OS.
If they chose to, I'm sure MS would sell more copies of Windows Fundamentals than some flavors of Vista. The egg on face may hurt their pride, however.
I wish my girlfriend had an option to wake up and poll my dick every 100 seconds:-) 100ms = 100 milliseconds. You know "milli"? It's the prefix for the unit of measure your girlfriend uses when describing your dick to her friends.
Good god almighty, setting up windows was painful...I had to boot into Ubuntu, save the network driver to a USB key and then boot back into Windows. here's another one -- I have a Dell Inspiron, ordered with WinXP Home to save a few $$ (Dell isn't shipping w/Ubuntu in my country yet).
First thing I did was complete the initial windows setup, saved (ghost) the windows partition and install ubuntu on an 80 GB partition. I couldn't prepare the free space for windows using DISKPART - so booted into Ubuntu, installed Gnome partition editor and sorted another windows hassle...
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Since all this activation crap has come so far for M$, how many of you are now doing sys rebuilds for family/friends/colleagues and installing Ubuntu? It does what any casual user wants for nix (as in free) :-)
the more pertinent question is why does this user have eight (8) redundant subscriptions?
Yet you're on the Internet?
Riiight! Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state.
Mainstream is, generally, the common current of thought of the majority.
So, if AC just reads /. as opposed to, say, Digg he/she does not consume mass media. Objection overruled.
The penalty for the sale or purchase of a vote in Australia can be a $5000 fine and up to two years in jail.
Public infrastructure is falling down around our ears while Dumb and Dumber buy our votes with tax cuts. Which is the greater crime?
This is a serious health issue. When you consider that some forms of diabetes and obesity can be classed this way, it is clear to see that several billion people could die of malnutrition this century unless we begin some serious educational effort. Some scientific breakthroughs may save the climate, but your health is yours.
* this phrase is not meant to be inflammatory, I use it too :-)
... vast majority of the threats we saw were rootkitted Linux boxes to control (windows) botnets of 1/n in size?** I haven't RTFA
Its been 10 years since OK Computer was released. Can you guys PLEASE produce another good album?
If you don't like it, don't consume tabloid media. Rather than bitch and moan, try to smile and sound interesting when convincing friends and family to adopt the same personal policy. For bonus happy feelings, you may con yourself that you are part of a social revolution when you see that a vague acquaintance has adopted the same attitude :-)
Any consumer lobbyists out there may want to let the networks know that they won't buy stuff advertised as being associated with the 2008 Olympics.
The info will continue to get around these rudimentary efforts at censorship, but the pro-democracy movement is beginning to realise that the UN just ain't gonna show up, no matter how many are gunned down in cold blood.
I submitted a story in March on the role of the intertubes in exposing tin-pot despots.
Rather than OLPC, many in the third-world would benefit from the gift of a digital camera and a few dollars to outlay at the local internet cafe.
Rather than ponder why 'the man' sees fit to regulate every nano-aspect of everything that happens everywhere with Treaties, Legislation and Permits (however legit that discussion may be), I was wondering why hobbyists, generally speaking, are slipping into a subcategory alongside the ever growing bogeyman 'security threat/tear-ist'. Just look at some of the wacko lobbying opposing OSS for a start.
Is this the same treaty that bans the militarisation of space? The same treaty that White House spokesmen described as antiquated last year? Why is it that what is ok for Big Government and Big Business doesn't necessarily translate to hobbyists? just a thought
I ordered a Dell notebook recently with XP Home - cut a few $$ off the price since Dell ain't shipping with Ubuntu in my country (yet). XP is now confined to a 20GB partition for use on "foreign jobs".
One thing I noticed is that after removing all the crapware, XP bells & whistles and tweaked the services (including the ream of services and process that make up the Intel PRO wireless bloat) I had a lean and efficient OS.
If they chose to, I'm sure MS would sell more copies of Windows Fundamentals than some flavors of Vista. The egg on face may hurt their pride, however.
First thing I did was complete the initial windows setup, saved (ghost) the windows partition and install ubuntu on an 80 GB partition. I couldn't prepare the free space for windows using DISKPART - so booted into Ubuntu, installed Gnome partition editor and sorted another windows hassle...
They're carrying themselves, since its their aircraft, see the def. of jaunt for the rest
is a green-light passage for their bomb-proof motorcade and they can join APEC ... cop THAT India!