Then riddle me this, from the New Deal until Reagan and the tax cutters at all costs, we were the envy of most of the world. I know you are going to hit back with the stagflation of the '70's, but that was more a product of the oil shock and paying for Vietnam. Until Reagan screwed up CA's higher ed, college was free and most of the country was headed down the same road. I live in CA, what we are experiencing now is a direct result of prop 13. If it were repealed tomorrow, a year from now we would be ok, not great but ok. The other half of the equation is the insane trade policies we(the upper class) have forced upon most of the world that is eating we (the middle and lower classes) alive. A protectionist trade policy was put into place by Hamilton and it worked for over 200 years. A progressive tax system forces a more egalitarian society to arise. It also tends to encourage reinvestment in the company, rather than exorbitant CEO salaries. Why pay someone $50 million when 49 of it is going to be taxed at %90, better to put it back into the company. Everything the Right wing GOP has done to this country has been nothing but deleterious to it. I arrive at this conclusion by simply looking at history. I remember when this country was full of hope and a chance to have a better life than your forebears. Now I fear for my grandchildren, at best they will be wage slaves to some faceless corporation.
Dude, it has been limited, the effects have just been hidden until now by borrowing. This is Reagan's reward to all of the Right thinking knuckleheads heads. Welcome to a the third world. Taxes are the price of civilization.
Thanks,I went to the developer section of adobe's site and downloaded the tar file, which is platform agnostic, the rpm is for 32bit only. Now embed flash clips are no longer grey boxes. I have mod points and wish I could post and mod you at the same time, but I wanted to thank you.
By god I will buy more than one, but not the freak'n latitudes. Just give me a bare inspiron class laptop with hardware that is open enough for linux drivers to be available for. I am sick to death of having to fight the hardware to run a perfectly acceptable OS. I am certain I am not alone. If the hardware is open and people have a choice not to pay for an OS they don't need dell might be suprised. I have no use for the dinky n series, and will continue to jump through the hoops to make things work on higher end hardware if I must. But if Dell wants a loyal customer, then make my life easy and sell a laptop that works with linux out of the box. Why is this such a hard concept to grasp for the pro MS folks. No one is telling them they have to run linux, but there is a thread on Dell's idea site were they are upset because of the slashdot effect. Well dammit, maybe people actually want this and would buy Dell gear if it were so.
Actually I have had my best luck on Gentoo with Kylix. On Redhat, anything above 7.2 had problems with fonts in certain dialogs. On Suse it runs w/o a hitch but slow. On Gentoo it rocks and behaves like Delphi. The only catch was having to create a symlink to fake out the db access for postgres, kylix expects an older version number.
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Then riddle me this, from the New Deal until Reagan and the tax cutters at all costs, we were the envy of most of the world. I know you are going to hit back with the stagflation of the '70's, but that was more a product of the oil shock and paying for Vietnam. Until Reagan screwed up CA's higher ed, college was free and most of the country was headed down the same road. I live in CA, what we are experiencing now is a direct result of prop 13. If it were repealed tomorrow, a year from now we would be ok, not great but ok. The other half of the equation is the insane trade policies we(the upper class) have forced upon most of the world that is eating we (the middle and lower classes) alive. A protectionist trade policy was put into place by Hamilton and it worked for over 200 years. A progressive tax system forces a more egalitarian society to arise. It also tends to encourage reinvestment in the company, rather than exorbitant CEO salaries. Why pay someone $50 million when 49 of it is going to be taxed at %90, better to put it back into the company. Everything the Right wing GOP has done to this country has been nothing but deleterious to it. I arrive at this conclusion by simply looking at history. I remember when this country was full of hope and a chance to have a better life than your forebears. Now I fear for my grandchildren, at best they will be wage slaves to some faceless corporation.
Dude, it has been limited, the effects have just been hidden until now by borrowing. This is Reagan's reward to all of the Right thinking knuckleheads heads. Welcome to a the third world. Taxes are the price of civilization.
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz , install it or convert to rpm or deb, etc. Runs like a champ.
Thanks,I went to the developer section of adobe's site and downloaded the tar file, which is platform agnostic, the rpm is for 32bit only. Now embed flash clips are no longer grey boxes. I have mod points and wish I could post and mod you at the same time, but I wanted to thank you.
By god I will buy more than one, but not the freak'n latitudes. Just give me a bare inspiron class laptop with hardware that is open enough for linux drivers to be available for. I am sick to death of having to fight the hardware to run a perfectly acceptable OS. I am certain I am not alone. If the hardware is open and people have a choice not to pay for an OS they don't need dell might be suprised. I have no use for the dinky n series, and will continue to jump through the hoops to make things work on higher end hardware if I must. But if Dell wants a loyal customer, then make my life easy and sell a laptop that works with linux out of the box. Why is this such a hard concept to grasp for the pro MS folks. No one is telling them they have to run linux, but there is a thread on Dell's idea site were they are upset because of the slashdot effect. Well dammit, maybe people actually want this and would buy Dell gear if it were so.
Actually I have had my best luck on Gentoo with Kylix. On Redhat, anything above 7.2 had problems with fonts in certain dialogs. On Suse it runs w/o a hitch but slow. On Gentoo it rocks and behaves like Delphi. The only catch was having to create a symlink to fake out the db access for postgres, kylix expects an older version number.