It has the evil Wal-Mart Empire behind it, and as long as Lindows is for sale preinstalled at Wal-Mart, they remain one of the most significant distributions going
But I think Wal-Mart's commitment to Linux is fragile. The chain has been losing middle class buyers to more upscale retailers like Target. It says something when Wal-Mart pushes Linux to the back burner in favor of Windows MCE at $1000-#1500 and considers Linux marketable only with Windows emulation and proprietary add-ons.
I suspect that this barebones configuration meets the need of most Americans, who are not tech savy
Here is a Geek meme harder to kill than a cockroach: the web appliance, the network PC, as a mass market success. Bet real money on this and you will be living out of grandma's basement.
Dell, on the other hand, makes people jump through hoops when they call in with a problem (like a dead hard drive).
I never seem to have problems with technical support and I suspect my own attitude has a lot to do with it. I don't go in pretending to be a Geek, or spoiling for a fight. I don't mind admitting to some stupid mistake. USB plug in an Ethernet socket. That sort of thing.
If all you did was download it (and didn't pay for it, of course), you're not a party to child abuse
I rob a bank and give you a third of the take, money which you know was stolen, a guard was shot and you know this too. You have accepted the fruits of a crime, you are concealing evidence of a crime, and you are now a party to the crime.
I rape a child and give you a copy of the video, explicitly for your private sexual entertainment. It is brutal and violent past all description. There is no way on god's green earth it can be mistaken for conseual sex among adults.
Tell me then, what is different? Why should anyone consider you an innocent?
(i) convicted by this state of:
(A) a felony or class A misdemeanor violation of Section 76-4-401, enticing a minor over the Internet;
(B) Section 76-5-301.1, kidnapping of a child;
(C) a felony violation of Section 76-5-401, unlawful sexual activity with a minor;
(D) Section 76-5-401.1, sexual abuse of a minor;
(E) Section 76-5-401.2, unlawful sexual conduct with a 16 or 17 year old;
(F) Section 76-5-402, rape;
(G) Section 76-5-402.1, rape of a child;
(H) Section 76-5-402.2, object rape;
(I) Section 76-5-402.3, object rape of a child;
(J) a felony violation of Section 76-5-403, forcible sodomy;
(K) Section 76-5-403.1, sodomy on a child;
(L) Section 76-5-404, forcible sexual abuse;
(M) Section 76-5-404.1, sexual abuse of a child or aggravated sexual abuse of a child;
(N) Section 76-5-405, aggravated sexual assault;
(O) Section 76-5a-3, sexual exploitation of a minor;
(P) Section 76-7-102, incest;
(Q) Section 76-9-702.5, lewdness involving a child;
(R) Section 76-10-1306, aggravated exploitation of prostitution; or
(S) attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit any felony offense listed in Subsection (1)(e)(i)...
a) has sexual intercourse with the minor;
(b) engages in any sexual act with the minor involving the genitals of one person and the mouth or anus of another person, regardless of the sex of either participant; or
(c) causes the penetration, however slight, of the genital or anal opening of the minor by any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, including a part of the human body, with the intent to cause substantial emotional or bodily pain to any person or with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, regardless of the sex of any participant.
(3) A violation of Subsection (2) is a third degree felony.
I said that there are people on the list who haven't attacked or molested anybody
your argument would be more convincing if you offered some examples. particularly of those who were convicted of nothing more than "urinating in public."
...that will cause victim homeowners to start shooting public officials who take their homes to be handed over to private interests
or, more likely, simply counting the zeroes to the left of the decimal point, depositing the check and getting on with their lives. ours is a commercial society and transient. few of us live in the same house we did five years ago. attachment to a tract home on a quarter acre lot is not what it used to be...
and talk of shooting is for the Anonymous Coward who has never been shot at.
Today, five supreme court justices, who are sworn to uphold that constitution, changed it to read:
nor shall private property be taken for PUBLIC OR PRIVATE use, without just compensation
The same arguments were made over the constitutionality of zoning laws. The definition of what is a public use or purpose changes over time. I suggest posting your own definition to see how well it stands up under cross-examination.
The ruling in the state courts (which the SCOTUS deferred to) was based on what the city represented as its intentions with the plan. That's not sound at all - it's the legal way of saying "OK, we'll take you at your word on that". Bogus all the way
As an appellate court, the Supreme Court does not retry questions of fact or opinion. It needs a compelling legal reason to override what is essentially a policy decision. It does not have the time to pass judgement on the worth of every bridge, hotel, casino and industrial park under construction from Maine to Hawaii.
where is the DRM how dare they create a device that lets us play music that doesn't have any DRM - how absurd
If you are in the market for high-end audio, smart home systems, and the like, DRM is essentially irrelevant. Your free time is worth more per billable hour than any thirty DVDs or a ten year subscription to Rhapsody. You do not waste it trolling P2P for an amateur's mp3 rips. You will never be a problem for the RIAA.
Your choice of IM is strongly influenced by age, culture, geography, personal interests and affiliations, O/S, corporate branding, and so on. AOL begins with a reputation for trying to make things safe for kids. Yahoo sees an opportunity to build communites around Launchcast and Y! Unlimited nusic. Each of the established IMs have millions or tens of millions of subscribers who won't be touched by an offer of another free web mail account.
people simply refuse to even look at something different than IE because this is what they have learned to use (with some great pains along the way apparently) and they are affraid of change...
Firefox can become a toy, with all its configuration options, add-ons, and embellishments. But most IE users are simply readers, moving from page to page, occasionally stopping along the way to shop on line, fill out a form, play a media file, or a game.
you would think that people are going to realize that the vast, vast majority of users can do without MS Office and its $400 price tag.
Let us know when you find someone who has paid retail list for a legit copy of Office. Student-Teacher Edition can be found at $150 and under and installs on three PCs.
even with the prospect of saving a few hundred bucks
The truth is that by the time you calculate delivery charges and sales tax you might as well swallow your pride and phone in an order for that "as seen on tv" Windows special from Dell.
Sure, if someone creates porn from actual people, unwilling to or unable to consent, that's something the creator has done.
If you accept the fruits of a crime, you become a party to the crime. Child pornography begins and ends in the rape of a child for the entertainment of an adult. You are no more an innocent than if you stood by the photographer and held the girl down.
As far as I know, no easily-readable book will explain the intricacies of editing your Xwindows configuration file with a standard text editor. I haven't seen any simple-to-understand chapters on recompiling one's kernel
I think this pretty well sums up what the typical user does not want from Linux.
In the future, I doubt you're going to see any name-brand quality PCs with proprietary OSs at Walmart. These very low cost products fit the dirt-cheap niche.
I'd say quite the opposite. The poor continue to shop Walmart for staples like toilet paper and bath towels at $1.50. But Walmart is losing the middle class to higher-margin retailers like Target and Linspire off a pallete won't bring them back. Target thrives; Wal-Mart wobbles
Microtel may be talking up Linux, but its latest offering for Walmart.com is a $1500 home theater styled Windows MCE.
Most people who don't feel like going to the video store to rent or buy their videos probably just... err... "obtain" their movies online for free anyway.
My idea of "free" doesn't include broadband at $45/mo + a PC with DVD recorder + software + media + surcharges for gigabyte downloads over IRC or Usenet.
MS should be worried shitless that, one day, Apple will release OSX for all x86 desktops and put a big dent in MS's marketshare
Apple has sold the Mac as an art object, an upscale life-style, as advanced, alternative, technology. That gives you five to ten percent of the market and the numbers haven't changed significantly in twenty years.
Mac users upgrade within the Mac family, Windows users within the Windows family. Both have been around far too long for non-technical users to be serious candidates for migration.
But for some reason having pictures of naked kids means that you are going to commit child rape. Granted, I think kiddy porn is disgusting myself, but 20 years in prison seems a bit excessive. People who rape actual kids get less than that.
To begin, these aren't "pictures of naked kids." They are photographs of young children forced into explicit and brutal sexual entertainment for adults.
Child porn seems to become an obsession. Downloading thousands, tens of thosands of images, with utter disregard for the consequences. We've had local school teachers route child porn through their district accounts.
Possession of child pornography does not mean you will assault a child. But it can point you in that direction.
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If you are talking hard-core PC gaming, Linspire at $400 and Windows at $600 are irrelevant.
Wal-Mart stocks a single $600 Linspire laptop, online sales only: Balance 14.1" Notebook, 1.2 GHz VIA C3 Processor, w/ Linspire. There is a Xandros desktop at $600 which bundles Skype and a Codeweavers demo, Microtel Desktop, 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4, DVD-RW Drive
But I think Wal-Mart's commitment to Linux is fragile. The chain has been losing middle class buyers to more upscale retailers like Target. It says something when Wal-Mart pushes Linux to the back burner in favor of Windows MCE at $1000-#1500 and considers Linux marketable only with Windows emulation and proprietary add-ons.
Here is a Geek meme harder to kill than a cockroach: the web appliance, the network PC, as a mass market success. Bet real money on this and you will be living out of grandma's basement.
I never seem to have problems with technical support and I suspect my own attitude has a lot to do with it.
I don't go in pretending to be a Geek, or spoiling for a fight. I don't mind admitting to some stupid mistake. USB plug in an Ethernet socket. That sort of thing.
I rob a bank and give you a third of the take, money which you know was stolen, a guard was shot and you know this too. You have accepted the fruits of a crime, you are concealing evidence of a crime, and you are now a party to the crime.
I rape a child and give you a copy of the video, explicitly for your private sexual entertainment. It is brutal and violent past all description. There is no way on god's green earth it can be mistaken for conseual sex among adults.
Tell me then, what is different? Why should anyone consider you an innocent?
Leave the fox guarding the hen house? I don't think so.
"Sex offender" means any person:
(i) convicted by this state of:
(A) a felony or class A misdemeanor violation of Section 76-4-401, enticing a minor over the Internet;
(B) Section 76-5-301.1, kidnapping of a child;
(C) a felony violation of Section 76-5-401, unlawful sexual activity with a minor;
(D) Section 76-5-401.1, sexual abuse of a minor;
(E) Section 76-5-401.2, unlawful sexual conduct with a 16 or 17 year old;
(F) Section 76-5-402, rape;
(G) Section 76-5-402.1, rape of a child;
(H) Section 76-5-402.2, object rape;
(I) Section 76-5-402.3, object rape of a child;
(J) a felony violation of Section 76-5-403, forcible sodomy;
(K) Section 76-5-403.1, sodomy on a child;
(L) Section 76-5-404, forcible sexual abuse;
(M) Section 76-5-404.1, sexual abuse of a child or aggravated sexual abuse of a child;
(N) Section 76-5-405, aggravated sexual assault;
(O) Section 76-5a-3, sexual exploitation of a minor;
(P) Section 76-7-102, incest;
(Q) Section 76-9-702.5, lewdness involving a child;
(R) Section 76-10-1306, aggravated exploitation of prostitution; or
(S) attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit any felony offense listed in Subsection (1)(e)(i)...
(E) applies only if the convicted is ten years older than the minor at the time of the offense 76-5-401.2. Unlawful sexual conduct with a 16 or 17 year old:
a) has sexual intercourse with the minor;
(b) engages in any sexual act with the minor involving the genitals of one person and the mouth or anus of another person, regardless of the sex of either participant; or
(c) causes the penetration, however slight, of the genital or anal opening of the minor by any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, including a part of the human body, with the intent to cause substantial emotional or bodily pain to any person or with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, regardless of the sex of any participant.
(3) A violation of Subsection (2) is a third degree felony.
your argument would be more convincing if you offered some examples. particularly of those who were convicted of nothing more than "urinating in public."
or, more likely, simply counting the zeroes to the left of the decimal point, depositing the check and getting on with their lives. ours is a commercial society and transient. few of us live in the same house we did five years ago. attachment to a tract home on a quarter acre lot is not what it used to be...
and talk of shooting is for the Anonymous Coward who has never been shot at.
The same arguments were made over the constitutionality of zoning laws. The definition of what is a public use or purpose changes over time. I suggest posting your own definition to see how well it stands up under cross-examination.
As an appellate court, the Supreme Court does not retry questions of fact or opinion. It needs a compelling legal reason to override what is essentially a policy decision. It does not have the time to pass judgement on the worth of every bridge, hotel, casino and industrial park under construction from Maine to Hawaii.
If you are in the market for high-end audio, smart home systems, and the like, DRM is essentially irrelevant.
Your free time is worth more per billable hour than any thirty DVDs or a ten year subscription to Rhapsody. You do not waste it trolling P2P for an amateur's mp3 rips. You will never be a problem for the RIAA.
Your choice of IM is strongly influenced by age, culture, geography, personal interests and affiliations, O/S, corporate branding, and so on. AOL begins with a reputation for trying to make things safe for kids.
Yahoo sees an opportunity to build communites around Launchcast and Y! Unlimited nusic. Each of the established IMs have millions or tens of millions of subscribers who won't be touched by an offer of another free web mail account.
people simply refuse to even look at something different than IE because this is what they have learned to use (with some great pains along the way apparently) and they are affraid of change...
Firefox can become a toy, with all its configuration options, add-ons, and embellishments.
But most IE users are simply readers, moving from page to page, occasionally stopping along the way to shop on line, fill out a form, play a media file, or a game.
Let us know when you find someone who has paid retail list for a legit copy of Office. Student-Teacher Edition can be found at $150 and under and installs on three PCs.
Not really. For most users it is fire-and-forget, same as activation.
What I see are kids growing up in a world of Dell PCs in wolf-gray and black, all running Windows.
The truth is that by the time you calculate delivery charges and sales tax you might as well swallow your pride and phone in an order for that "as seen on tv" Windows special from Dell.
Nice tag line. Now how about showing us some proof?
If you accept the fruits of a crime, you become a party to the crime. Child pornography begins and ends in the rape of a child for the entertainment of an adult.
You are no more an innocent than if you stood by the photographer and held the girl down.
I think this pretty well sums up what the typical user does not want from Linux.
I'd say quite the opposite. The poor continue to shop Walmart for staples like toilet paper and bath towels at $1.50. But Walmart is losing the middle class to higher-margin retailers like Target and Linspire off a pallete won't bring them back. Target thrives; Wal-Mart wobbles Microtel may be talking up Linux, but its latest offering for Walmart.com is a $1500 home theater styled Windows MCE.
My idea of "free" doesn't include broadband at $45/mo + a PC with DVD recorder + software + media + surcharges for gigabyte downloads over IRC or Usenet.
Apple has sold the Mac as an art object, an upscale life-style, as advanced, alternative, technology. That gives you five to ten percent of the market and the numbers haven't changed significantly in twenty years.
Mac users upgrade within the Mac family, Windows users within the Windows family. Both have been around far too long for non-technical users to be serious candidates for migration.
To begin, these aren't "pictures of naked kids."
They are photographs of young children forced into explicit and brutal sexual entertainment for adults.
Child porn seems to become an obsession. Downloading thousands, tens of thosands of images, with utter disregard for the consequences. We've had local school teachers route child porn through their district accounts.
Possession of child pornography does not mean you will assault a child. But it can point you in that direction.