what kind of battery mileage do you get? My girlfriend has been bugging me about her computer, she just hates "wires". Me, I love wirez... I am thinking of confiscating my machine I gave her back and getting her something like what you have. She's more the telephone talker and occassional web browser type, so maybe that would work, and it has to be cheaper than a new laptop, etc. I like the unlimited data part as well,also, is it possible to use it as a modem connected to your pc? What kind of data ports does it have?
it does suck, doesn't it? And eventually people who want the stuff get it as well by hoop jumping. It's this vague ambiguity about playing media. I wish the content people would just get a clue about a basic marketing thing, if people find your stuff easy to use and of good quality, eventually you'll make some loot off of it. It might not be as much as you'd like, but some is better than zee-ro.
I'm aware of those issues of patents, etc. just wondering what this huge cost is to be able to play MP3's out of the box. What exactly does it co$t a (rather large) company like Novell to get legal permission to include that ability? Or is the decision solely based on licensing, ie, nothing but GPL software included?
Mostly I just wanted to get a sub discussion going on those topics, as I think it is important when talking about a desktop distro for the masses guy. MP3 like it or not is here to stay it appears. If a big company like Novell can't do it, well...
That's why I think any linux OS distro should eventually be better, and however it is able to, to be able to play all the media types right out of the box. How they can pull that off I have no idea at this point, it appears that some companies want to invent ways to play media, then not allow people to play media without charging them so much that few want to put up with the hassle, catch 22 then. Shooting themselves in the foot or something.
Out of the box? If this is for "the masses" guy, joe bob is going to want to mash ANY media link and a player popup and play it, and Little Suzy on her Suse box will want to IM her friends immediately.
With no extra downloading/tweaking/hoop-jumping.
The goal (near as I can see it anyway, YMMV) isn't to match windows or mac, it's to be *better* with a default install.
...not from me, just what I sort of remember, it's an autocad like thing, exchange, personal tax/finance stuff, something better than the gimp that will do as much as or more as photoshop, sync software, and hardware compatability out-of-the-box. And apps that are cross-distro easy to install and keep patched and up to date by about anyone.
And games for at home use. And a lot of bosses play games at work, so I wouldn't underestimate how important games are for over all consideration in the "enterprise". They may not admit it, but it's there.
I know there are examples that sort of do that stuff, but if you go back and check why people are still on windows, those get mentioned a lot.
Me, last personal complaint (I am not a business so above softwares don't apply) I have is hardware, that is still dismal, even if you check in advance. Stuff that is marked as "works in linux" might still require quite a bit of googling and downloading and tweaking to make work half way. A lot does, a lot still don't.
It's an automated download you can time shift and listen to later. Sort of like tivo for internet radio. Before you had to manually do all the steps yourself, now it's easy for even non technical people to get the content they want and play it on the gadget they want, when they want.
The telcos have had generations to make a profit. Entire generations now. They got mandated exclusivity-a monopoly- in exchange for building the infrastructure. If they have failed to make a profit up to this point and can't invest in new infrastructure, maybe it's time to just disband them and sell off their assets. they built something adequate for 40 years ago. Well, that's cool, thanks, but this isn't 40 years ago now.
I live rural, when I moved in I needed phone service to get some sort of internet. They ran new CRAPPY wire. They couldn't be bothered to take the opportunity and run something that broadband could be provided on, nope, they ran the same stuff they ran 40 years ago, as a result, no broadband available here. And this isn't WAY out in the boonies, it's just marginally rural.
That's the sort of short sighted bogusness that people complain about. It's abuse on the telcos part. I know from talking to the installers that they have fiber at the nearest box, but they couldn't be bothered to run anything even marginally better from the box. So, no one on our street can get broadband unless you want to pay for satellite broadband.
How many decades of exclusivity do they need? Where's the cutoff point?
This is a step back near as I can see. I understand their point to a small degree, but I don't see where THEY have thrown any beef on the bun even when they had ample opportunity in the past to do it. At WORST, the way it was before, any competition was forced to pay exact cost, so even there they were getting paid. there was no loss on their part, only cash coming in, even if it came from another middleman provider. Now, they have no incentive to do anything else, just milk what they have built already for as long as possible and merely *talk* about infrastructure upgrades.
...that bush photo op where he was in a warehouse extolling the virtues of local small business in the US and they used a backdrop with phony crates marked "made in USA", because all the real crates came from China?
...unions have done it forever. "IT" people in general hold the keys to the modern way of life. IT makes the whirrled whirl. IF there was a general interest and IF you could get enough IT people to particpate, they hold more power than all the industrial labor unions combined, and then some. I have used an analogy before because it fits. Imagine a worst case y2k crash scenario. It is *possible* to approach that level merely by shutting things off, not going to work, walking away from the screen, the terminal, the control panel.. you get the picture. A "strike", a plain vanilla old fashioned work stoppage, just on a large scale, and against critical infrastructure, both utilities and business. Think about all that power. The "man" would be near powerless to do anything except bluster. What would happen if wall street ceased to function one day? The telcos? The electric grid? Public utilities, shipping, etc, etc? It's GEEKS who actually run all that stuff, NOT the bosses, NOT the politicians, NOT the CEOs, NOT the stock traders, NOT the banksters. GEEKS.
Stay apart and squabble=no power, politically impotent. This is how it is now. bitch, moan, complain,then back to the videogame.
That's why nothing ever gets fixed.
Organize to the point that you could pull off a major strike over a few key issues,(P2P, software patents, DRM, ridiculous copyright extensions, etc) then you would get noticed. They would have to deal with you because they don't have any backups.
24 hrs with civilization mostly shutdown would get you some power and respect.
That is about all that would work I think. I have thought about it a lot. it's not perfect, but everything else is a worse idea. Everything else, as has been pointed out, has failed. You STRIKE. When things get to the point that it appears you have no other options, STRIKE. Refuse to particpate in "business as usual". They can't call your bluff because THEY can't do the things necessary to even do that, let alone run everything else.
On a small scale, sure, some people here and there can be replaced, even in a no notice emergency situation. But on a nation wide (or continent wide) scale, NOPE, da *man* couldn't replace you, and they can't do the work and they depend on the work being done to stay in power.
"What emerges as the "winner" is, by definition, what people want."
How do you explain MS then? Where's the alternative that people can see *on the store shelves*? I just recently went shopping for a printer, went into a variety of local stores that sell them. All I saw was XP READY! All the computers I saw for sale said "XP!" Howe do people know what they want if all they see is ONE THING?
Phooie, capitalism is just as flawed as excessove government regulation. Unrestrained capitalism leads to monopolies. The bigger corps buy up and destroy the smaller. They intimidate suppliers. They strong arm and destroy the competition. If you try to regulate it, it isn't pure capitalism anymore, you are back to loads of government, which gradually goes corrupt as well (see above).
it sucks
Want another example? this year we put in a market crop, the local supermarket agreed to take our surplus. Swell. Lot of work on our part. We even just got a commercial sized greenhouse so we would have produce in the winter. Last week we took in a load and they 'changed their mind", they went yuppie, all the suits came in one day and threw out, literally THREW AWAY all their existing produce stock. Everything they sell comes from out of state now in nice neat packages, where before they sold bulk, bag your own, weigh your own. Did they ASK any of their customers what they want? NO! They didn't even tell their own store managers, they just sprung it on them on day at 7am when the yuppie district managers showed up. Now we have no place to easily sell our produce, because all the rest of the local supermarkets had already gone to yuppie packages, this particular store was the last one, and ya know what, people liked it! People were always smiling and talking in there, you got on first name basis with the employees there, and they you, you go to the other local "super" markets and people have grim expressions, the prices are outrageous high, it's freekin sterile, shiny crap, but it has AMBIENCE now.
#$$&%^*&*((
We been starbucked! Walmartized! It sucks, but it's CAPITALISM. There ya go!
Now if you want to negotiate at the district level to try and sell mass quantities, swell, they will charge you 10 to 50 GRAND, as in thousands of dollars, for a "slot" for a section of shelving to put your stuff-*maybe*. there's not even a guarantee then, you pay up front for them to consider if they might want your stuff.
screw it. "Capitalism" is a rip as well.
We need a new ism, capialism sure doesn't work,(rich get richer, and screw everyone else) socialism doesn't (bureaucrats r00l, waste becomes a growth industry), fascism is where we are headed (should be self explanatory) and that don't work either. I don't have an answer, but I sure don't accept "capitalism" as an answer either. Nice tame academic theory, in the real world it will gradually and eventually create two classes, 1% uber rich, and everyone else working for them as some sort of indentured serf.
what do you mean exactly by business services? A fractional T-1, or what? I am in the opposite end of the country from you, but have checked with them many times, can't get any dsl here with them or anyone else, BUT, I pay so much for a landline and two isps that perhaps a "business service" might be doable. The satellite guys (last I checked) were windows only, so ta heck with them, but I'd sure like something else besides popping for a phone I don't use and slow dialup. I'd *love* to be able to use speakeasy somehow.
...single person I know in meatspace has gotten royally hosed running windows, usually several times. And I don't mean total losers, people who HAD running firewalls and AV. People who had made an attempt to "check the oil and tire pressure before leaving on a trip". I know several people who just gave up and bought new computers because their old ones were "broken". they weren't physically broken, just windows hosed. Did any of them ever get any satisfaction from the corporation that sold them that buggy insecure stuff, the expensive crap with NO WARRANTY? NO. They had to pay and repay to try and keep it fixed, and they never got any satisfaction for the sheer annoyance of getting hosed. Oh ya, it's REAL FUN to tear down your setup and drag it to the fixit shop, or hire someone to come over and fix it, or bug a friend or relative. And what do they see at 99% of the computer stores on the shelf if they want to "shop around"?? More WINDOWS, there hasn't been any real market competition in Joe sixpack retail user space because no one stocks it with the exception of the token Mac here and there for most of the last decade.
MS has COST the computing public a decade of lost productivity and billions of dollars. MS should have had it's incorporation charter yanked years ago. They are a truly a bogus disgusting company. but..oddly enough, their hardware is OK. Keyboards, etc. Maybe they should just switch from being a software company.
It appears I was just asking a question. I was really interested if in any biological research they had found any new life forms. It's really that simple. You have apparently extrapolated all that other stuff from your imagination, or perhaps you meant to reply to someone else. I personally don't see much wrong with the standard view of evolution, just wondering if perhaps any new life forms have been found since folks might have been looking. It's the "spontanously forming" part that interests me, as in how did it happen, what set of chemicals getting hit by lightning or whatever 'sparks life". It's a legit question, and I would expect that there might be some examples out there, but I don't recall reading about any. I can see how stuff gradually changes,how it evolves, but how does it *start* is still an unanswered question near as I can see. That is the basis of my question, if it started once, seems like it would have kept starting, and maybe produced new life forms, perhaps numerous times.. If you can exactly answer it, where and how "life" starts, I'd be interested to read it or look at a reference. It has to follow normal scientific proof, repeatable by similarly skilled practioners if possible, or at least verifiable in the wild, either will do. Not starting with a living thing and changing it to something else, I mean starting with your basic raw chemicals and then having something alive then, along those lines. How do you do that, and where is an example or two?
If you really want to dis someone, why not just log in? It's just an internet handle after all and this is just conversation.
Forward Light Escort Armored-cancelled right at the last second due to politics, not engineering
I think after korea, nam and gulf disaster 1, grunts should realise it's a different military service now. Hummvees are big go karts, never designed to be armored, and as such, will never be an adequate vehicle.
Ever since we stopped actually declaring righteous war,after WW2, it's gone downill fast. Anyone going in now should realise that they are encountering the same corporate boss mindset that drives civilian workplaces,ie, it sucks, there is no loyalty or thought for the "workers", the push is to make maximum profits for the few big corporations who are really running the show, and that's it. the rest is political razzle dazzle smoke and mirrors huckstering. Snake oil politics.
Just something I wonder about whenever I see this topic. Seems like there should be random new (and simp0le) life forms (outside of a genetics lab of course) all the time if it's possible spontaneously.
is the most well known "hardware' review place. They *purchase* all their hardware for starters, no donations or "loansies", so that helps somewhat with the honesty part.
So a distro review? That has to be the most open of sources,the most common of create, ANYONE can write a review, so I say anyone can just go for it. It gets down to "fix your own complaint" if you don't like the other guy's review. Ultimate "put up or shutup" scenario. Easier than kernel hacking, too.
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I'd be perfectly willing to pay a reasonable yearly fee for a good quality open source browser (like moz suite or firefox, etc) if it was developed solely for use on open source operating systems, and if they had a forum where you as a paid-for member might post a question and you actually get a reply from a corporation employee who can either adequaltly answer the question or at least have the oompah to say that they don't know or can't do it, etc.. And any bugtracking has to be a lot easier than the submission way bugtraq works now.
As it stands now, no, won't pay for mozilla,won't even donate, because it's a windows company *primarily*. They collectively spend a huge amount of time and resources working on closed source OSes which hurt the computing public and the computing business world tremendously. I disagree with that. They can do it, other people can do it, but I don't have to like it or support it though. I have absolutely no desire to pay to make windows "better". or to pay/donate to give people a crutch to stay on windows. The longer windows stays the dominant OS, the longer we have to put up with hardware that is designed "for windows-XP ready!". That just is dismally sucky. That's microsoft's (and apple's) job, they certainly have the billions to throw at it to develop windows or apple applications like browsers.
...all your old computers all the time? Daily? Thrown any away? How about cars, still running your first car? How about all the cash dropped on rent when it could have been home ownership? How about entertainments? Watch a movie at the theater it's gone, can't get that money back. How much beer have you "rented" by the bottle or can or glass?
There's waste then there's *waste* of money.
In short, ya, this is a very easy question, if you have money "into" windows software in the past, but you can switch now, then don't keep throwing good money after bad, switch, chalk it up to time marches on.. If you simply cannot switch, then stick with what you have of course.
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what kind of battery mileage do you get? My girlfriend has been bugging me about her computer, she just hates "wires". Me, I love wirez... I am thinking of confiscating my machine I gave her back and getting her something like what you have. She's more the telephone talker and occassional web browser type, so maybe that would work, and it has to be cheaper than a new laptop, etc. I like the unlimited data part as well,also, is it possible to use it as a modem connected to your pc? What kind of data ports does it have?
it does suck, doesn't it? And eventually people who want the stuff get it as well by hoop jumping. It's this vague ambiguity about playing media. I wish the content people would just get a clue about a basic marketing thing, if people find your stuff easy to use and of good quality, eventually you'll make some loot off of it. It might not be as much as you'd like, but some is better than zee-ro.
I'm aware of those issues of patents, etc. just wondering what this huge cost is to be able to play MP3's out of the box. What exactly does it co$t a (rather large) company like Novell to get legal permission to include that ability? Or is the decision solely based on licensing, ie, nothing but GPL software included?
Mostly I just wanted to get a sub discussion going on those topics, as I think it is important when talking about a desktop distro for the masses guy. MP3 like it or not is here to stay it appears. If a big company like Novell can't do it, well...
That's why I think any linux OS distro should eventually be better, and however it is able to, to be able to play all the media types right out of the box. How they can pull that off I have no idea at this point, it appears that some companies want to invent ways to play media, then not allow people to play media without charging them so much that few want to put up with the hassle, catch 22 then. Shooting themselves in the foot or something.
Out of the box? If this is for "the masses" guy, joe bob is going to want to mash ANY media link and a player popup and play it, and Little Suzy on her Suse box will want to IM her friends immediately.
With no extra downloading/tweaking/hoop-jumping.
The goal (near as I can see it anyway, YMMV) isn't to match windows or mac, it's to be *better* with a default install.
...."Nano". Latest investor buzz word. Doesn't matter what the product is, use X and nano..leverage your way to eXtreme profit!
I thought it was just commercial windows software in general?? As in "what keeps people on windows" the most.
typed www into the search box and hit enter. No idea why we are getting different results.
first results off of google are yahoo, altavista, MS, cnn, amazon, lycos...yada yada, google itself not on first page
...not from me, just what I sort of remember, it's an autocad like thing, exchange, personal tax/finance stuff, something better than the gimp that will do as much as or more as photoshop, sync software, and hardware compatability out-of-the-box. And apps that are cross-distro easy to install and keep patched and up to date by about anyone.
And games for at home use. And a lot of bosses play games at work, so I wouldn't underestimate how important games are for over all consideration in the "enterprise". They may not admit it, but it's there.
I know there are examples that sort of do that stuff, but if you go back and check why people are still on windows, those get mentioned a lot.
Me, last personal complaint (I am not a business so above softwares don't apply) I have is hardware, that is still dismal, even if you check in advance. Stuff that is marked as "works in linux" might still require quite a bit of googling and downloading and tweaking to make work half way. A lot does, a lot still don't.
It's an automated download you can time shift and listen to later. Sort of like tivo for internet radio. Before you had to manually do all the steps yourself, now it's easy for even non technical people to get the content they want and play it on the gadget they want, when they want.
The telcos have had generations to make a profit. Entire generations now. They got mandated exclusivity-a monopoly- in exchange for building the infrastructure. If they have failed to make a profit up to this point and can't invest in new infrastructure, maybe it's time to just disband them and sell off their assets. they built something adequate for 40 years ago. Well, that's cool, thanks, but this isn't 40 years ago now.
I live rural, when I moved in I needed phone service to get some sort of internet. They ran new CRAPPY wire. They couldn't be bothered to take the opportunity and run something that broadband could be provided on, nope, they ran the same stuff they ran 40 years ago, as a result, no broadband available here. And this isn't WAY out in the boonies, it's just marginally rural.
That's the sort of short sighted bogusness that people complain about. It's abuse on the telcos part. I know from talking to the installers that they have fiber at the nearest box, but they couldn't be bothered to run anything even marginally better from the box. So, no one on our street can get broadband unless you want to pay for satellite broadband.
How many decades of exclusivity do they need? Where's the cutoff point?
This is a step back near as I can see. I understand their point to a small degree, but I don't see where THEY have thrown any beef on the bun even when they had ample opportunity in the past to do it. At WORST, the way it was before, any competition was forced to pay exact cost, so even there they were getting paid. there was no loss on their part, only cash coming in, even if it came from another middleman provider. Now, they have no incentive to do anything else, just milk what they have built already for as long as possible and merely *talk* about infrastructure upgrades.
...that bush photo op where he was in a warehouse extolling the virtues of local small business in the US and they used a backdrop with phony crates marked "made in USA", because all the real crates came from China?
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/22/bush.bo
...unions have done it forever. "IT" people in general hold the keys to the modern way of life. IT makes the whirrled whirl. IF there was a general interest and IF you could get enough IT people to particpate, they hold more power than all the industrial labor unions combined, and then some. I have used an analogy before because it fits. Imagine a worst case y2k crash scenario. It is *possible* to approach that level merely by shutting things off, not going to work, walking away from the screen, the terminal, the control panel.. you get the picture. A "strike", a plain vanilla old fashioned work stoppage, just on a large scale, and against critical infrastructure, both utilities and business. Think about all that power. The "man" would be near powerless to do anything except bluster. What would happen if wall street ceased to function one day? The telcos? The electric grid? Public utilities, shipping, etc, etc? It's GEEKS who actually run all that stuff, NOT the bosses, NOT the politicians, NOT the CEOs, NOT the stock traders, NOT the banksters. GEEKS.
Stay apart and squabble=no power, politically impotent. This is how it is now. bitch, moan, complain,then back to the videogame.
That's why nothing ever gets fixed.
Organize to the point that you could pull off a major strike over a few key issues,(P2P, software patents, DRM, ridiculous copyright extensions, etc) then you would get noticed. They would have to deal with you because they don't have any backups.
24 hrs with civilization mostly shutdown would get you some power and respect.
That is about all that would work I think. I have thought about it a lot. it's not perfect, but everything else is a worse idea. Everything else, as has been pointed out, has failed. You STRIKE. When things get to the point that it appears you have no other options, STRIKE. Refuse to particpate in "business as usual". They can't call your bluff because THEY can't do the things necessary to even do that, let alone run everything else.
On a small scale, sure, some people here and there can be replaced, even in a no notice emergency situation. But on a nation wide (or continent wide) scale, NOPE, da *man* couldn't replace you, and they can't do the work and they depend on the work being done to stay in power.
Nice! prosely prophetic
"What emerges as the "winner" is, by definition, what people want."
How do you explain MS then? Where's the alternative that people can see *on the store shelves*? I just recently went shopping for a printer, went into a variety of local stores that sell them. All I saw was XP READY! All the computers I saw for sale said "XP!" Howe do people know what they want if all they see is ONE THING?
Phooie, capitalism is just as flawed as excessove government regulation. Unrestrained capitalism leads to monopolies. The bigger corps buy up and destroy the smaller. They intimidate suppliers. They strong arm and destroy the competition. If you try to regulate it, it isn't pure capitalism anymore, you are back to loads of government, which gradually goes corrupt as well (see above).
it sucks
Want another example? this year we put in a market crop, the local supermarket agreed to take our surplus. Swell. Lot of work on our part. We even just got a commercial sized greenhouse so we would have produce in the winter. Last week we took in a load and they 'changed their mind", they went yuppie, all the suits came in one day and threw out, literally THREW AWAY all their existing produce stock. Everything they sell comes from out of state now in nice neat packages, where before they sold bulk, bag your own, weigh your own. Did they ASK any of their customers what they want? NO! They didn't even tell their own store managers, they just sprung it on them on day at 7am when the yuppie district managers showed up. Now we have no place to easily sell our produce, because all the rest of the local supermarkets had already gone to yuppie packages, this particular store was the last one, and ya know what, people liked it! People were always smiling and talking in there, you got on first name basis with the employees there, and they you, you go to the other local "super" markets and people have grim expressions, the prices are outrageous high, it's freekin sterile, shiny crap, but it has AMBIENCE now.
#$$&%^*&*((
We been starbucked! Walmartized! It sucks, but it's CAPITALISM. There ya go!
Now if you want to negotiate at the district level to try and sell mass quantities, swell, they will charge you 10 to 50 GRAND, as in thousands of dollars, for a "slot" for a section of shelving to put your stuff-*maybe*. there's not even a guarantee then, you pay up front for them to consider if they might want your stuff.
screw it. "Capitalism" is a rip as well.
We need a new ism, capialism sure doesn't work,(rich get richer, and screw everyone else) socialism doesn't (bureaucrats r00l, waste becomes a growth industry), fascism is where we are headed (should be self explanatory) and that don't work either. I don't have an answer, but I sure don't accept "capitalism" as an answer either. Nice tame academic theory, in the real world it will gradually and eventually create two classes, 1% uber rich, and everyone else working for them as some sort of indentured serf.
what do you mean exactly by business services? A fractional T-1, or what? I am in the opposite end of the country from you, but have checked with them many times, can't get any dsl here with them or anyone else, BUT, I pay so much for a landline and two isps that perhaps a "business service" might be doable. The satellite guys (last I checked) were windows only, so ta heck with them, but I'd sure like something else besides popping for a phone I don't use and slow dialup. I'd *love* to be able to use speakeasy somehow.
...single person I know in meatspace has gotten royally hosed running windows, usually several times. And I don't mean total losers, people who HAD running firewalls and AV. People who had made an attempt to "check the oil and tire pressure before leaving on a trip". I know several people who just gave up and bought new computers because their old ones were "broken". they weren't physically broken, just windows hosed. Did any of them ever get any satisfaction from the corporation that sold them that buggy insecure stuff, the expensive crap with NO WARRANTY? NO. They had to pay and repay to try and keep it fixed, and they never got any satisfaction for the sheer annoyance of getting hosed. Oh ya, it's REAL FUN to tear down your setup and drag it to the fixit shop, or hire someone to come over and fix it, or bug a friend or relative. And what do they see at 99% of the computer stores on the shelf if they want to "shop around"?? More WINDOWS, there hasn't been any real market competition in Joe sixpack retail user space because no one stocks it with the exception of the token Mac here and there for most of the last decade.
MS has COST the computing public a decade of lost productivity and billions of dollars. MS should have had it's incorporation charter yanked years ago. They are a truly a bogus disgusting company. but..oddly enough, their hardware is OK. Keyboards, etc. Maybe they should just switch from being a software company.
It appears I was just asking a question. I was really interested if in any biological research they had found any new life forms. It's really that simple. You have apparently extrapolated all that other stuff from your imagination, or perhaps you meant to reply to someone else. I personally don't see much wrong with the standard view of evolution, just wondering if perhaps any new life forms have been found since folks might have been looking. It's the "spontanously forming" part that interests me, as in how did it happen, what set of chemicals getting hit by lightning or whatever 'sparks life". It's a legit question, and I would expect that there might be some examples out there, but I don't recall reading about any. I can see how stuff gradually changes,how it evolves, but how does it *start* is still an unanswered question near as I can see. That is the basis of my question, if it started once, seems like it would have kept starting, and maybe produced new life forms, perhaps numerous times.. If you can exactly answer it, where and how "life" starts, I'd be interested to read it or look at a reference. It has to follow normal scientific proof, repeatable by similarly skilled practioners if possible, or at least verifiable in the wild, either will do. Not starting with a living thing and changing it to something else, I mean starting with your basic raw chemicals and then having something alive then, along those lines. How do you do that, and where is an example or two?
If you really want to dis someone, why not just log in? It's just an internet handle after all and this is just conversation.
Forward Light Escort Armored-cancelled right at the last second due to politics, not engineering
I think after korea, nam and gulf disaster 1, grunts should realise it's a different military service now. Hummvees are big go karts, never designed to be armored, and as such, will never be an adequate vehicle.
Ever since we stopped actually declaring righteous war,after WW2, it's gone downill fast. Anyone going in now should realise that they are encountering the same corporate boss mindset that drives civilian workplaces,ie, it sucks, there is no loyalty or thought for the "workers", the push is to make maximum profits for the few big corporations who are really running the show, and that's it. the rest is political razzle dazzle smoke and mirrors huckstering. Snake oil politics.
yes, I meant totally new and somewhat more complex than viruses, etc.
Just something I wonder about whenever I see this topic. Seems like there should be random new (and simp0le) life forms (outside of a genetics lab of course) all the time if it's possible spontaneously.
So a distro review? That has to be the most open of sources,the most common of create, ANYONE can write a review, so I say anyone can just go for it. It gets down to "fix your own complaint" if you don't like the other guy's review. Ultimate "put up or shutup" scenario. Easier than kernel hacking, too.
With that said, "Hey ya'all, watch this!!1! "
In todays review we take a look at FREDZNIX version .004.2 PRE-ALPHA
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I'd be perfectly willing to pay a reasonable yearly fee for a good quality open source browser (like moz suite or firefox, etc) if it was developed solely for use on open source operating systems, and if they had a forum where you as a paid-for member might post a question and you actually get a reply from a corporation employee who can either adequaltly answer the question or at least have the oompah to say that they don't know or can't do it, etc.. And any bugtracking has to be a lot easier than the submission way bugtraq works now.
As it stands now, no, won't pay for mozilla,won't even donate, because it's a windows company *primarily*. They collectively spend a huge amount of time and resources working on closed source OSes which hurt the computing public and the computing business world tremendously. I disagree with that. They can do it, other people can do it, but I don't have to like it or support it though. I have absolutely no desire to pay to make windows "better". or to pay/donate to give people a crutch to stay on windows. The longer windows stays the dominant OS, the longer we have to put up with hardware that is designed "for windows-XP ready!". That just is dismally sucky. That's microsoft's (and apple's) job, they certainly have the billions to throw at it to develop windows or apple applications like browsers.
...all your old computers all the time? Daily? Thrown any away? How about cars, still running your first car? How about all the cash dropped on rent when it could have been home ownership? How about entertainments? Watch a movie at the theater it's gone, can't get that money back. How much beer have you "rented" by the bottle or can or glass?
There's waste then there's *waste* of money.
In short, ya, this is a very easy question, if you have money "into" windows software in the past, but you can switch now, then don't keep throwing good money after bad, switch, chalk it up to time marches on.. If you simply cannot switch, then stick with what you have of course.