You're thinking of the wrong distro. Those users all wear red fedoras when no one is watching. Heck, some of 'em even wear the things when people are watching.
I didn't see it coming. I thought they just might make it to a black bottom line this year. Since you're obviously much wiser, enlighten us, and explain what makes it such a bad distro.
I'm still trying to understand why I should donate money to a for-profit business. Why don't I just give my money to Microsoft? Or the government? Oh that's right, because I don't "give" money to a business, I "invest" money. And I expect a return on my investment, or I'll take my money elsewhere...
If you don't use Mandrake, then you don't need to worry about it. The people who use it (I do) should "invest" a few dollars or join the Mandrakeclub (I did) in return for the use of the software. In this case, it happens to be voluntary rather than forced, a la Microsoft.
The return on my investment is that I continue to get a very solid, easy-to-use product for a few dollars rather than pay a lot of money for Microsoft's bloatware.
Whoa, dude - with your nick, I'd hate to
disagree with you about medical problems or medications, but I had a brother diagnosed with ADD because he wasn't interested in school work, and the school wanted him to have to ADD. They got more money. He got drugged. The teacher's life was easier. Good all around, right?
ADD is crap - a catch basin for problems the schools (and some parents) don't want to deal with. When said brother decided he wanted to do well in school some years later, the ADD was mysteriously gone (without the drugs).
Hate to break this to you, but there have been ADD cases diagnosed outside of the US, for several years they have been diagnosing them here in Canada
Well, thank heavens the contagion has been been restricted to North America. You don't think the problem might be "metooism" do you? I think it's odd that students in parochial schools don't get ADD. Seems that a nun with a yardstick cures the disease. Perhaps they could make up a serum containing the necessary components to prevent ADD.;)
Let's not dump too much on the parents. Don't forget that for every case of ADD diagnosed, the school district gets increased federal funds. The schools have a real incentive to find cases of ADD.
I don't know if it's still the case, but about five years ago, I was talking with a psychology professor who noted that there had never been a case of ADD diagnosed outside of the US.
More like banning guns, yet demanding a percentage on all steel sales, as it can only be used to make guns you know . ..
Exactly. Where I work, we produce thousands of recorded CD-Rs every year (no audio, mp3s, etc., just digital data). Yet we're taxed on every blank we buy to support the RIAA because we could be doing something illegal. It's like the movie Popeye, where the tax collector wants Robin Williams to pay an "up to no good" tax. If it wasn't so insane, it would be funny.
Okay, that's a somewhat interesting Q&A with the CEO. I didn't see any declarations of company policy regarding past problems or protections for investors from something similar happening again. Did I miss something?
I voted with my dollars when I joined the MandrakeClub. I really like the easy-to-use Mandrake distro, and I'm seriously considering upgrading my membership as long as it's a one-time (one year) deal.
But, I still have some concerns. Is it a good thing to help a company recover from management mistakes? Of course, this is not Enron, and they got snookered by a fast-talking group of used-car salesmen, but what's to prevent it from happening again? I am not trying to undermine Mandrake, I use it. I'd like to see some policy statements.
I see celebrating Christmas as an atheist kind of like celebrating Hitler's birthday as a Jew.
Well, you're certainly not a pragmatist, otherwise you'd hedge your bet by not making such comparisons because you might be wrong.
And I've found that self-proclaimed atheists don't really have much conviction. The old saw about atheists and foxholes is generally true. When you go speeding around that curve to find ice on the road and a sheer drop on the side, just as your asshole clamps and tears a chunk out of the upholstery, your second-to-last sentence will be, "God, help me!" We all know what the last sentence is.:)
There was a story in the local newspaper last week about how Home Depot (they are building another store in town) had originally planned to use Linux for the self-serve system but had switched to Windows because they didn't want to "limit their options" or "lock themselves into something" as hilarious as that is. I won't be buying stock in Home Depot. If the Windows checkouts work as well as the voting machines, I'm sure they'll be popular in Florida. I'll be going to Ace.
Green Mountain Power in SoCal? When was this? I left in '91, when the handwriting was on the wall. I think I was current with the issues (especially concerning the SCAQMD), but I don't recall that name.
If I understand your comment, you proved my point. California regulated a lot of companies out of business in the name of environmental goodness (green). California is loudly pro-environment but expects all the other states to provide it with power and water.
I think this sums up CA's problem; progress is definitely dampened by such reluctance to move into the unknown, and the level of assurance desired is simply too expensive. That, and the fact that you shouldn't build cities in the desert or even an arid land.
California's real problem is that it is so self-righteously "green". They've regulated themselves out of alternatives, which they displayed so well during the power outages (all the while claiming the problem was "deregulation").
Now, the only course left is for California to use its huge congressional contingent to pass legislation that keeps upstream states from taking water from the Colorado river. I'm an ex-Angelino, and I think the solution to California's problems is to nuke LA. It couldn't be any more unlivable than it is now.
D'oh. You're right, of course. I was having a dumb-ass attack. The last time I did anything in Windows, I was using a language (that I won't admit to knowing) that doesn't think '\' is anything special.
Really, what would you want the code to Windows for? There are already bootleg binaries for those so inclined. The source code for all that bloat has to be reams and reams of bad hackery, worse patches, and blatant bandaids.
I suppose there would be the humor factor of being able to point out the lines that say,
// Leave commented out until appeals are over. // remove( "C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape.exe" );
Please tell me you're joking about the Suburban / hummer thing.
Joking? Would I, vsprintf, someone who reached excellent karma solely on +FUNNY posts (okay, there was one lapse when I got a +5 informative) joke about such a topic? I think not! I should trade in my old, faithful, economical Toyota for something that can protect me and my slower responses from all those weird ricer boys. Of course, I probably won't do it - still living on the edge.:)
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Even though I'm a Mandrake user, I don't think you should have been modded troll for that. I would have given it a +1 funny.
You're thinking of the wrong distro. Those users all wear red fedoras when no one is watching. Heck, some of 'em even wear the things when people are watching.
I didn't see it coming. I thought they just might make it to a black bottom line this year. Since you're obviously much wiser, enlighten us, and explain what makes it such a bad distro.
I'm still trying to understand why I should donate money to a for-profit business. Why don't I just give my money to Microsoft? Or the government? Oh that's right, because I don't "give" money to a business, I "invest" money. And I expect a return on my investment, or I'll take my money elsewhere...
If you don't use Mandrake, then you don't need to worry about it. The people who use it (I do) should "invest" a few dollars or join the Mandrakeclub (I did) in return for the use of the software. In this case, it happens to be voluntary rather than forced, a la Microsoft.
The return on my investment is that I continue to get a very solid, easy-to-use product for a few dollars rather than pay a lot of money for Microsoft's bloatware.
I'd be afraid of someone hacking into my refridgerator magnet and deleting the number for the pizza parlor. It's just not worth the risk.
Whoa, dude - with your nick, I'd hate to disagree with you about medical problems or medications, but I had a brother diagnosed with ADD because he wasn't interested in school work, and the school wanted him to have to ADD. They got more money. He got drugged. The teacher's life was easier. Good all around, right?
ADD is crap - a catch basin for problems the schools (and some parents) don't want to deal with. When said brother decided he wanted to do well in school some years later, the ADD was mysteriously gone (without the drugs).
Hate to break this to you, but there have been ADD cases diagnosed outside of the US, for several years they have been diagnosing them here in Canada
Well, thank heavens the contagion has been been restricted to North America. You don't think the problem might be "metooism" do you? I think it's odd that students in parochial schools don't get ADD. Seems that a nun with a yardstick cures the disease. Perhaps they could make up a serum containing the necessary components to prevent ADD. ;)
Let's not dump too much on the parents. Don't forget that for every case of ADD diagnosed, the school district gets increased federal funds. The schools have a real incentive to find cases of ADD.
I don't know if it's still the case, but about five years ago, I was talking with a psychology professor who noted that there had never been a case of ADD diagnosed outside of the US.
More like banning guns, yet demanding a percentage on all steel sales, as it can only be used to make guns you know . . .
Exactly. Where I work, we produce thousands of recorded CD-Rs every year (no audio, mp3s, etc., just digital data). Yet we're taxed on every blank we buy to support the RIAA because we could be doing something illegal. It's like the movie Popeye, where the tax collector wants Robin Williams to pay an "up to no good" tax. If it wasn't so insane, it would be funny.
Well, obviously a few patients got out of the looney bin to do this mod.
Okay, that's a somewhat interesting Q&A with the CEO. I didn't see any declarations of company policy regarding past problems or protections for investors from something similar happening again. Did I miss something?
I voted with my dollars when I joined the MandrakeClub. I really like the easy-to-use Mandrake distro, and I'm seriously considering upgrading my membership as long as it's a one-time (one year) deal.
But, I still have some concerns. Is it a good thing to help a company recover from management mistakes? Of course, this is not Enron, and they got snookered by a fast-talking group of used-car salesmen, but what's to prevent it from happening again? I am not trying to undermine Mandrake, I use it. I'd like to see some policy statements.
I see celebrating Christmas as an atheist kind of like celebrating Hitler's birthday as a Jew.
Well, you're certainly not a pragmatist, otherwise you'd hedge your bet by not making such comparisons because you might be wrong.
And I've found that self-proclaimed atheists don't really have much conviction. The old saw about atheists and foxholes is generally true. When you go speeding around that curve to find ice on the road and a sheer drop on the side, just as your asshole clamps and tears a chunk out of the upholstery, your second-to-last sentence will be, "God, help me!" We all know what the last sentence is. :)
There was a story in the local newspaper last week about how Home Depot (they are building another store in town) had originally planned to use Linux for the self-serve system but had switched to Windows because they didn't want to "limit their options" or "lock themselves into something" as hilarious as that is. I won't be buying stock in Home Depot. If the Windows checkouts work as well as the voting machines, I'm sure they'll be popular in Florida. I'll be going to Ace.
Green Mountain Power in SoCal? When was this? I left in '91, when the handwriting was on the wall. I think I was current with the issues (especially concerning the SCAQMD), but I don't recall that name.
Oh, wait. That was a joke, wasn't it?
If I understand your comment, you proved my point. California regulated a lot of companies out of business in the name of environmental goodness (green). California is loudly pro-environment but expects all the other states to provide it with power and water.
But there's still no mention of magazines. What the hell is the holdup with Publisher's Clearing House?
I think this sums up CA's problem; progress is definitely dampened by such reluctance to move into the unknown, and the level of assurance desired is simply too expensive. That, and the fact that you shouldn't build cities in the desert or even an arid land.
California's real problem is that it is so self-righteously "green". They've regulated themselves out of alternatives, which they displayed so well during the power outages (all the while claiming the problem was "deregulation").
Now, the only course left is for California to use its huge congressional contingent to pass legislation that keeps upstream states from taking water from the Colorado river. I'm an ex-Angelino, and I think the solution to California's problems is to nuke LA. It couldn't be any more unlivable than it is now.
That's true, but couldn't we get updated news - like how many truckloads of mail have been delivered?
D'oh. You're right, of course. I was having a dumb-ass attack. The last time I did anything in Windows, I was using a language (that I won't admit to knowing) that doesn't think '\' is anything special.
Oops! Looks like someone forgot their escape codes. Never done that myself... ;-)
Does Windows really require the escape codes? It's been so long . . . and somehow, I really don't care any more. :)
Ricky, you went off the medication again, didn't you?
Really, what would you want the code to Windows for? There are already bootleg binaries for those so inclined. The source code for all that bloat has to be reams and reams of bad hackery, worse patches, and blatant bandaids.
I suppose there would be the humor factor of being able to point out the lines that say,
// Leave commented out until appeals are over.
// remove( "C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape.exe" );
Please tell me you're joking about the Suburban / hummer thing.
Joking? Would I, vsprintf, someone who reached excellent karma solely on +FUNNY posts (okay, there was one lapse when I got a +5 informative) joke about such a topic? I think not! I should trade in my old, faithful, economical Toyota for something that can protect me and my slower responses from all those weird ricer boys. Of course, I probably won't do it - still living on the edge. :)