The bottom line of course is that habeus corpus is a fundamental component of Western law. Therefore it should and does apply to everyone arrested in the US, whether citizens or not.
And more importantly, even if it didn't, it should.
That is the point that all the anti-Ay-rab fascists here don't comprehend - and never will.
I quote Wikipedia:
"The right of habeas corpus--or rather, the right to petition for the writ--has long been celebrated as the most efficient safeguard of the liberty of the subject. Albert Venn Dicey wrote that the Habeas Corpus Acts "declare no principle and define no rights, but they are for practical purposes worth a hundred constitutional articles guaranteeing individual liberty."
Further:
"The writ of Habeas Corpus was originally understood to apply only to those held in custody by officials of the Executive Branch of the federal government and not to those held by state governments, which independently afford habeas corpus pursuant to their respective constitutions and laws. The United States Congress granted all federal courts jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 2241 to issue writs of habeas corpus to release prisoners held by any government entity within the country from custody in the following circumstances:
* Is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or
* Is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of an Act of Congress, or an order, process, judgment or decree of a court or judge of the United States; or
* Is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States; or
* Being a citizen of a foreign state and domiciled therein is in custody for an act done or omitted under any alleged right, title, authority, privilege, protection, or exemption claimed under the commission, order or sanction of any foreign state, or under color thereof, the validity and effect of which depend upon the law of nations; or
* It is necessary to bring said persons into court to testify or for trial."
Further, as to previous suspensions in the US:
"Suspension during the Civil War and Reconstruction
On April 27, 1861, habeas corpus was suspended by President Lincoln in Maryland and parts of midwestern states, including southern Indiana during the American Civil War. Lincoln did so in response to riots, local militia actions, and the threat that the border slave state of Maryland would secede from the Union, leaving the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., surrounded by hostile territory. Lincoln was also motivated by requests by generals to set up military courts to rein in "Copperheads" or Peace Democrats, and those in the Union who supported the Confederate cause. His action was challenged in court and overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court in Maryland (led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney) in Ex Parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D. Md. 1861). Lincoln ignored Taney's order. In the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis also suspended habeas corpus and imposed martial law. This was in part to maintain order and spur industrial growth in the South to compensate for the economic loss inflicted by its secession.
In 1864, Lambdin P. Milligan and four others were accused of planning to steal Union weapons and invade Union prisoner-of-war camps and were sentenced to hang by a military court. However, their execution was not set until May 1865, so they were able to argue the case after the Civil War. In Ex Parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866), the Supreme Court of the United States decided that it was unconstitutional for the President to try to convict citizens before military tribunals when civil courts were functioning. The trial of civili
OSS products are frequently unmitigated shit - but not always.
As I've always said here and elsewhere:
Windows is CRAP.
Linux is ALSO CRAP.
But Linux is FREE CRAP.
That "free" part makes all the difference.
I'd prefer to have an IT industry that can produce decent products that work. Unfortunately what we have is exactly as Woody Allen said, "Nothing works and nobody cares."
"if you do you probably have to run legal risks downloading it"
Right - like anybody cares. Of all the RIAA suits, what percentage of downloaders are affected?.00000000001 percent?
The point is you only need ONE GENIUS with the right equipment (which, being a genius, he already owns) to rip or strip DRM out of ANYTHING.
Once that one copy is made and put up on the Net ANYWHERE, if it is at all interesting to any significant number of people it will be EVERYWHERE in a matter of days or weeks. It may indeed be hard to find, but that depends on how bad you want it. I've spent quite some time looking for ebooks I wanted on the Net. If I don't find them now, I'll find them later when they've spread a little farther through the Net.
None of this "well, they can make it harder" crap matters. The cost/benefit is simply not there for the consumer. It might be there for the media producer, if he can prove that the problems the DRM cause the consumers do not cause him to lose sales or handle complaints greater than the cost of the DRM. But the consumer is still harmed.
It's fundamentally an anti-customer practice to treat all customers like they are criminals. Most companies in most industries assume a certain degree of fraudulent behavior in their customers and adjust their prices to deal with it without reflecting on the other consumers (despite the fact that the other consumers are paying more because of it.) This is the correct approach. Attempting to restrict the customer's behavior a priori up front is just stupid. It causes problems for the legit customers and does little to restrict the truly fraudulent customers.
"Trusted TCPA" systems WILL be either hacked or bypassed. Anybody with the right tools and physical access to the device - our GENIUS has both - will succeed sooner or later. And there will be a market for PCs without all that crap, manufactured by underground shops in Pakistan, if no where else. And that will be what our GENIUS will use if he has to.
Also, keep in mind that many of these crackers aren't in it for the money, they're in it to see if they can do it and for the egoboo of doing it. Which means it doesn't matter to them if they can crack it in a day, a month or a year. What matters is that they will keep trying until they do. Which means "cost/benefit" isn't even in the equation.
Which of course is why the music labels are seriously considering dumping DRM because their sales are dropping like a rock partly because people are sick to death of DRM'd media not performing well, screwing up their systems or preventing them from playing it as they wish.
The reality is that DRM will be accepted only to the degree that it is completely transparent - which, almost by definition, is not possible.
And suggesting that only buying "non-DRM" product - while certainly physically possible - is the answer is just stupid. People want to buy what they want to buy for reasons other than how easy it is to use. Ease of use is a secondary issue - but it IS an issue. Therefore, suggesting people only buy non-DRM media is useless. In the long run, such a policy would indeed force DRM off the market - but in that case, why bother with it in the first place?
The goal that the consumer wants is to either buy a DRM product which is transparent, or have no DRM at all. There is no middle ground that consumers in general will accept.
What it IS is an example of piss-poor Vista testing.
Which we already knew was true from the Microsoft employee blog posts last year from the QA people who said that Vista repeatedly was allowed to "pass" tests that it actually failed.
Anybody releasing a new OS who didn't detect a massive network speed reduction is a complete idiot - or simply doesn't give a shit - which is definitely Bill's attitude.
"Computers will work well enough with almost no support(I have seen no MS shop staff support at adequate numbers to keep the machines running), and the support personal are usually semi-skilled so if they complain about over work, they are easily replaced."
Got that right. Which is why there are thousands of freelance PC tech support people barely eking out a living as well.
Nobody - or very few, anyway - wants to pay for "transparency", as a new client of mine refers to it, i.e., stuff that works well enough that they don't have to think about it. Which is almost impossible to achieve with Windows.
"This is non news except that it's IBMs name and not some single dev schmuck in the middle of the Ukraine, modding OO."
Uhm, that happens to be what makes it news. As an article mentions, Lotus Notes is used by millions of people who might be further interested in this - which means OO (and ODF) might - I say, might - get a big boost.
More importantly, since this appears to be based on a 1.x OO fork, how does it compare with OO 2.x? That's what I'd like to know (without going to the trouble of downloading, installing and testing it myself since I don't have the time right now and besides which, I'm lazy.)
If it's not as good as OO 2.x, why bother (other than the Lotus Notes integration, which is mostly a boon for IBM and Notes users)? In the latter case, it's like Thunderbird and the Eudora client - it's mostly just useful for former Eudora users. An OO useful for Lotus Notes users is fine, but it's not going to really change the track for OO 2.x if it's not compatible enough except for document opening.
Guy gets tasered by cops for "going over the alloted QA period" - and the first thing everybody here does is blame the guy.
Maybe he deserved it, maybe not. But the FIRST reaction of most people here is "the guy deserved it."
Talk about gutless, butt-puckered punks. This generation deserves to be drafted, sent to Iraq and Iran and get their butts blown off by IEDs because they don't have the balls to oppose the war criminals in power.
Anybody who will bend over for a geek like Bill Gates will bend over for George Bush - or maybe even Martha Stewart.
Punks. The lot of you.
Here's my take. The only good cop is a dead cop. The only good FLORIDA cop is a dead and mutilated Florida cop. Florida cops are KNOWN nation-wide for being excessively violent, fascist, total scumbags. They're on a par with New York or Texas or Los Angeles cops - or some nitwit State Trooper from Lousiana. Put a bullet in the head of all of them.
It has to do with wannabe chimpanzee alpha males trying to bring down the alpha male leading the troop. Standard primate behavior.
Happened to Bill Gates - who deserves it - big time.
Now it's happening to Linus, who couldn't care less because as he's said many times, all he cares about is the technology, not the politics.
Fortunately, who cares? It's not happening unless Alan Cox or some other kernel maintainer decides he's bigger than Linus and can convince the majority of kernel maintainers that he is...
The Iraqis don't need any "superior" equipment to beat the US.
It may well be true that Iran at least, if not Syria, is supplying certain more advanced rockets to the Iraqi Shia (but not likely to the Iraqi Sunni insurgency). Doubtful Syria is doing the same to the Sunni insurgency, but not impossible.
However, the EFP crap is just that. The Iraqis are more than capable of producing their own EFPs.
They also have enough weapons and ammo to fight the US for a decade without running out. Practically every Iraqi owns an AK-47 and a million tons of explosives were left for them by the brilliant US military who didn't secure the Iraqi army arsenals after the invasion.
If you buy a machine with Windows on it, sure, you don't need to know it. If you want to run one OS on a machine, sure, you don't need to know it.
You want to do anything else, you need to know it.
In fact, you SHOULD know it - because running a box with the OS taking up one single partition is STUPID. There should always be at least TWO partitions - one for the OS and programs and one for user data (and in most cases, one for swap, at least under Linux). Almost all Linux people know to set this up because they tend to like to reinstall Linux to test new or different distros. So they don't have to reinstall all their data whenever they reinstall the OS.
Almost every company sells Windows to naive end users with one partition. This is simply wrong and will bite those end users eventually when Windows fails.
I recommend two partitions to all my Windows clients. I have a client now that I intend to repartition all their drives solely for this reason, so we can image backup their systems and make restoration of downed machines easier, eliminating the need to reinstall Windows with the 80-odd security patches and applications every time.
Actually, the drive holding my Windows XP at the moment is partitioned as one single partition - only because it's a temporary install until I can replace the drive with a much larger one - which will probably have a half dozen or more partitions set up on it for various things. Over both drives, I have maybe a dozen or more partitions.
In any event, whether Ubuntu's partitioning manager is easy is a different matter as well. Other distros such as Mandriva may do it more or less easily. If not, there are a ton of third party partition managers around. I think there's a live CD of GParted, which is basically the Linux equivalent of Partition Manager which runs on Windows. Burn that CD, boot it, repartition.
You can also download BootItNG, burn a CD or floppy with it, and then, without installing it, use it to repartition your drives as you like. You're supposed to buy it if you use at all - and I'd recommend doing so because it's an excellent product allowing you to create, delete, resize, copy and move partitions at will.
You can't blame Linux for your lack of knowledge about the necessity to repartition to dual boot.
And of course, your other option is simply to put in another disk and install Linux to that. Problem solved.
Given expected technology development, 120 is the least I'll live to - IF I don't die before, say, 80.
Anybody under 40 will have an indefinite life span. Anybody between 40 and 60 has to play the odds - the older you are the less likely you'll make it without a cryonic contract or excellent health care. Anybody over 60 today needs a cryonic contract because it's very unlikely they'll make it unless they are already in excellent health and can afford excellent health care.
Of course, once Transhumans come in, you're all fucked.
ANYTHING coming out of the mouth of ANY Microsoft employee authorized to talk to the public - and most of them that aren't authorized to talk to the public - is a LIE.
Microsoft sells lies, not software.
They are like Zionists or neocons or religious authorities or politicians or lawyers - constitutionally incapable of telling the truth even when it would serve them better to do so.
Since everybody beat up on Novell for doing an interoperability deal with Microsoft, I'm waiting for the Solaris fans to beat up Sun for becoming a Windows OEM just because there's money in it.
"The decision was made despite the fact that Compiz still has some significant issues relating to drivers and Xorg."
Not to mention that many people who might want to run the latest Ubuntu simply don't have video cards or PCs with the horsepower to run this.
It's just typical stupid geek thinking. For a distro which is supposed to be for new users of Linux, load it up with crap that is guaranteed to blow the install or first boot for a new user.
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their Windows Defender product is no longer in the top spyware detectors, and their AV stuff is near the bottom in detection?
Is this why "Patch Tuesday" remains?
Another bunch of fucking LIES from Microsoft.
Why bother to read anything that comes out of Redmond?
He's wrong, he was obnoxious about it at the time, and he's obnoxious about it now.
Major asshole.
The bottom line of course is that habeus corpus is a fundamental component of Western law. Therefore it should and does apply to everyone arrested in the US, whether citizens or not.
And more importantly, even if it didn't, it should.
That is the point that all the anti-Ay-rab fascists here don't comprehend - and never will.
I quote Wikipedia:
"The right of habeas corpus--or rather, the right to petition for the writ--has long been celebrated as the most efficient safeguard of the liberty of the subject. Albert Venn Dicey wrote that the Habeas Corpus Acts "declare no principle and define no rights, but they are for practical purposes worth a hundred constitutional articles guaranteeing individual liberty."
Further:
"The writ of Habeas Corpus was originally understood to apply only to those held in custody by officials of the Executive Branch of the federal government and not to those held by state governments, which independently afford habeas corpus pursuant to their respective constitutions and laws. The United States Congress granted all federal courts jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 2241 to issue writs of habeas corpus to release prisoners held by any government entity within the country from custody in the following circumstances:
* Is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or
* Is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of an Act of Congress, or an order, process, judgment or decree of a court or judge of the United States; or
* Is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States; or
* Being a citizen of a foreign state and domiciled therein is in custody for an act done or omitted under any alleged right, title, authority, privilege, protection, or exemption claimed under the commission, order or sanction of any foreign state, or under color thereof, the validity and effect of which depend upon the law of nations; or
* It is necessary to bring said persons into court to testify or for trial."
Further, as to previous suspensions in the US:
"Suspension during the Civil War and Reconstruction
On April 27, 1861, habeas corpus was suspended by President Lincoln in Maryland and parts of midwestern states, including southern Indiana during the American Civil War. Lincoln did so in response to riots, local militia actions, and the threat that the border slave state of Maryland would secede from the Union, leaving the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., surrounded by hostile territory. Lincoln was also motivated by requests by generals to set up military courts to rein in "Copperheads" or Peace Democrats, and those in the Union who supported the Confederate cause. His action was challenged in court and overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court in Maryland (led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney) in Ex Parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D. Md. 1861). Lincoln ignored Taney's order. In the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis also suspended habeas corpus and imposed martial law. This was in part to maintain order and spur industrial growth in the South to compensate for the economic loss inflicted by its secession.
In 1864, Lambdin P. Milligan and four others were accused of planning to steal Union weapons and invade Union prisoner-of-war camps and were sentenced to hang by a military court. However, their execution was not set until May 1865, so they were able to argue the case after the Civil War. In Ex Parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866), the Supreme Court of the United States decided that it was unconstitutional for the President to try to convict citizens before military tribunals when civil courts were functioning. The trial of civili
You're welcome.
If one is going to be considered a nut, it's better to be a dangerous nut than a harmless nut.
MS products are unmitigated shit.
OSS products are frequently unmitigated shit - but not always.
As I've always said here and elsewhere:
Windows is CRAP.
Linux is ALSO CRAP.
But Linux is FREE CRAP.
That "free" part makes all the difference.
I'd prefer to have an IT industry that can produce decent products that work. Unfortunately what we have is exactly as Woody Allen said, "Nothing works and nobody cares."
And Microsoft products are a prime example.
"if you do you probably have to run legal risks downloading it"
.00000000001 percent?
Right - like anybody cares. Of all the RIAA suits, what percentage of downloaders are affected?
The point is you only need ONE GENIUS with the right equipment (which, being a genius, he already owns) to rip or strip DRM out of ANYTHING.
Once that one copy is made and put up on the Net ANYWHERE, if it is at all interesting to any significant number of people it will be EVERYWHERE in a matter of days or weeks. It may indeed be hard to find, but that depends on how bad you want it. I've spent quite some time looking for ebooks I wanted on the Net. If I don't find them now, I'll find them later when they've spread a little farther through the Net.
None of this "well, they can make it harder" crap matters. The cost/benefit is simply not there for the consumer. It might be there for the media producer, if he can prove that the problems the DRM cause the consumers do not cause him to lose sales or handle complaints greater than the cost of the DRM. But the consumer is still harmed.
It's fundamentally an anti-customer practice to treat all customers like they are criminals. Most companies in most industries assume a certain degree of fraudulent behavior in their customers and adjust their prices to deal with it without reflecting on the other consumers (despite the fact that the other consumers are paying more because of it.) This is the correct approach. Attempting to restrict the customer's behavior a priori up front is just stupid. It causes problems for the legit customers and does little to restrict the truly fraudulent customers.
"Trusted TCPA" systems WILL be either hacked or bypassed. Anybody with the right tools and physical access to the device - our GENIUS has both - will succeed sooner or later. And there will be a market for PCs without all that crap, manufactured by underground shops in Pakistan, if no where else. And that will be what our GENIUS will use if he has to.
Also, keep in mind that many of these crackers aren't in it for the money, they're in it to see if they can do it and for the egoboo of doing it. Which means it doesn't matter to them if they can crack it in a day, a month or a year. What matters is that they will keep trying until they do. Which means "cost/benefit" isn't even in the equation.
And once they have, it's over.
Give it up. It's a hopeless endeavor.
Which of course is why the music labels are seriously considering dumping DRM because their sales are dropping like a rock partly because people are sick to death of DRM'd media not performing well, screwing up their systems or preventing them from playing it as they wish.
The reality is that DRM will be accepted only to the degree that it is completely transparent - which, almost by definition, is not possible.
And suggesting that only buying "non-DRM" product - while certainly physically possible - is the answer is just stupid. People want to buy what they want to buy for reasons other than how easy it is to use. Ease of use is a secondary issue - but it IS an issue. Therefore, suggesting people only buy non-DRM media is useless. In the long run, such a policy would indeed force DRM off the market - but in that case, why bother with it in the first place?
The goal that the consumer wants is to either buy a DRM product which is transparent, or have no DRM at all. There is no middle ground that consumers in general will accept.
What it IS is an example of piss-poor Vista testing.
Which we already knew was true from the Microsoft employee blog posts last year from the QA people who said that Vista repeatedly was allowed to "pass" tests that it actually failed.
Anybody releasing a new OS who didn't detect a massive network speed reduction is a complete idiot - or simply doesn't give a shit - which is definitely Bill's attitude.
"Microsoft could be speaking the truth"
No, he means that when Microsoft speaks, there's no "could" about it - they ARE lying.
Microsoft sells lies, not software.
"Computers will work well enough with almost no support(I have seen no MS shop staff support at adequate numbers to keep the machines running), and the support personal are usually semi-skilled so if they complain about over work, they are easily replaced."
Got that right. Which is why there are thousands of freelance PC tech support people barely eking out a living as well.
Nobody - or very few, anyway - wants to pay for "transparency", as a new client of mine refers to it, i.e., stuff that works well enough that they don't have to think about it. Which is almost impossible to achieve with Windows.
"This is non news except that it's IBMs name and not some single dev schmuck in the middle of the Ukraine, modding OO."
Uhm, that happens to be what makes it news. As an article mentions, Lotus Notes is used by millions of people who might be further interested in this - which means OO (and ODF) might - I say, might - get a big boost.
More importantly, since this appears to be based on a 1.x OO fork, how does it compare with OO 2.x? That's what I'd like to know (without going to the trouble of downloading, installing and testing it myself since I don't have the time right now and besides which, I'm lazy.)
If it's not as good as OO 2.x, why bother (other than the Lotus Notes integration, which is mostly a boon for IBM and Notes users)? In the latter case, it's like Thunderbird and the Eudora client - it's mostly just useful for former Eudora users. An OO useful for Lotus Notes users is fine, but it's not going to really change the track for OO 2.x if it's not compatible enough except for document opening.
Guy gets tasered by cops for "going over the alloted QA period" - and the first thing everybody here does is blame the guy.
Maybe he deserved it, maybe not. But the FIRST reaction of most people here is "the guy deserved it."
Talk about gutless, butt-puckered punks. This generation deserves to be drafted, sent to Iraq and Iran and get their butts blown off by IEDs because they don't have the balls to oppose the war criminals in power.
Anybody who will bend over for a geek like Bill Gates will bend over for George Bush - or maybe even Martha Stewart.
Punks. The lot of you.
Here's my take. The only good cop is a dead cop. The only good FLORIDA cop is a dead and mutilated Florida cop. Florida cops are KNOWN nation-wide for being excessively violent, fascist, total scumbags. They're on a par with New York or Texas or Los Angeles cops - or some nitwit State Trooper from Lousiana. Put a bullet in the head of all of them.
It has to do with wannabe chimpanzee alpha males trying to bring down the alpha male leading the troop. Standard primate behavior.
Happened to Bill Gates - who deserves it - big time.
Now it's happening to Linus, who couldn't care less because as he's said many times, all he cares about is the technology, not the politics.
Fortunately, who cares? It's not happening unless Alan Cox or some other kernel maintainer decides he's bigger than Linus and can convince the majority of kernel maintainers that he is...
Email me when this happens.
The Iraqis don't need any "superior" equipment to beat the US.
It may well be true that Iran at least, if not Syria, is supplying certain more advanced rockets to the Iraqi Shia (but not likely to the Iraqi Sunni insurgency). Doubtful Syria is doing the same to the Sunni insurgency, but not impossible.
However, the EFP crap is just that. The Iraqis are more than capable of producing their own EFPs.
They also have enough weapons and ammo to fight the US for a decade without running out. Practically every Iraqi owns an AK-47 and a million tons of explosives were left for them by the brilliant US military who didn't secure the Iraqi army arsenals after the invasion.
Ground attack aircraft are no good if the pilot's been shot while HE was on the ground...
Or his plane blown to crap while it was on the ground...
And you're an ignorant moron.
Personally, I'd rather be a nut.
Repartitioning is hardly rocket science.
If you buy a machine with Windows on it, sure, you don't need to know it. If you want to run one OS on a machine, sure, you don't need to know it.
You want to do anything else, you need to know it.
In fact, you SHOULD know it - because running a box with the OS taking up one single partition is STUPID. There should always be at least TWO partitions - one for the OS and programs and one for user data (and in most cases, one for swap, at least under Linux). Almost all Linux people know to set this up because they tend to like to reinstall Linux to test new or different distros. So they don't have to reinstall all their data whenever they reinstall the OS.
Almost every company sells Windows to naive end users with one partition. This is simply wrong and will bite those end users eventually when Windows fails.
I recommend two partitions to all my Windows clients. I have a client now that I intend to repartition all their drives solely for this reason, so we can image backup their systems and make restoration of downed machines easier, eliminating the need to reinstall Windows with the 80-odd security patches and applications every time.
Actually, the drive holding my Windows XP at the moment is partitioned as one single partition - only because it's a temporary install until I can replace the drive with a much larger one - which will probably have a half dozen or more partitions set up on it for various things. Over both drives, I have maybe a dozen or more partitions.
In any event, whether Ubuntu's partitioning manager is easy is a different matter as well. Other distros such as Mandriva may do it more or less easily. If not, there are a ton of third party partition managers around. I think there's a live CD of GParted, which is basically the Linux equivalent of Partition Manager which runs on Windows. Burn that CD, boot it, repartition.
You can also download BootItNG, burn a CD or floppy with it, and then, without installing it, use it to repartition your drives as you like. You're supposed to buy it if you use at all - and I'd recommend doing so because it's an excellent product allowing you to create, delete, resize, copy and move partitions at will.
You can't blame Linux for your lack of knowledge about the necessity to repartition to dual boot.
And of course, your other option is simply to put in another disk and install Linux to that. Problem solved.
Ahem.
Given expected technology development, 120 is the least I'll live to - IF I don't die before, say, 80.
Anybody under 40 will have an indefinite life span. Anybody between 40 and 60 has to play the odds - the older you are the less likely you'll make it without a cryonic contract or excellent health care. Anybody over 60 today needs a cryonic contract because it's very unlikely they'll make it unless they are already in excellent health and can afford excellent health care.
Of course, once Transhumans come in, you're all fucked.
Vote for a Republican OR a Democrat in 2008 and if you're under 50, your ass will be in Iran and Iraq getting blown up by IEDs.
And believe me, MILITARY health care sucks worse than civilian health care. Ask any vet.
ANYTHING coming out of the mouth of ANY Microsoft employee authorized to talk to the public - and most of them that aren't authorized to talk to the public - is a LIE.
Microsoft sells lies, not software.
They are like Zionists or neocons or religious authorities or politicians or lawyers - constitutionally incapable of telling the truth even when it would serve them better to do so.
You're right about that - I did forget about the graphical install failsafe.
MAYBE - IF it works properly - that will mitigate the issue enough to make it a non-issue.
I'll wait and see what people say when it comes out - I personally am not switching from openSUSE without a good reason at this point.
Since everybody beat up on Novell for doing an interoperability deal with Microsoft, I'm waiting for the Solaris fans to beat up Sun for becoming a Windows OEM just because there's money in it.
Where's Stallman?
Do you have to download 750MB of crap software that loads a dozen drivers into your body to "manage" your needles in order to use this?
Thanks, but I'll wait for the Epson "needles"...
"The decision was made despite the fact that Compiz still has some significant issues relating to drivers and Xorg."
Not to mention that many people who might want to run the latest Ubuntu simply don't have video cards or PCs with the horsepower to run this.
It's just typical stupid geek thinking. For a distro which is supposed to be for new users of Linux, load it up with crap that is guaranteed to blow the install or first boot for a new user.
Utterly moronic.
He's obsolete. Ignore him.
Nothing to see here. Move along.