It's getting pretty comical, watching Linux zealots cling onto the idea that Ubuntu is anywhere near production quality (for the desktop), let alone better than XP/Vista
I take it, then, that you've never tried Linux, or at least, not recently. I've been using Fedora Linux as my only OS, now, for over a year. I'm quite happy with it, rarely need to use a CLI (although I do, sometimes, because it's quicker and/or easier) and find it does everything I want, the way I want. That includes being able to leave it running 24/7, without worrying about needing to reboot it because one program hung and messed up the OS so badly that rebooting's the only option. Right now, my system hasn't rebooted in just over 15 days. it also includes not needing to have/update/run anti-virus software, or other third-party programs to block or remove unwanted programs that various websites try to install without informing me. My sister, who's far less technically inclined than I am, has been running Ubuntu for almost the same length of time, with the same ease.
For my family, at least, the time for Linux on the Desktop is right now. YMMV, and obviously does, and that's fine. If you're happy with whatever version of Windows you're currently running, and don't mind working with all the third-party programs needed to keep it safe, there's no need for you to change. I wasn't, I changed and I'd never go back.
Two suggestions: first, find out if those Windows-only programs will run under Wine. If so, there's your answer. If not, shrink the partition for Windows iCandy, install Linux in the rest and run Windows under VMWare to run the Gatesware. In either case, your basic OS is now Linux, and you won't have to worry about malware and trojans and spyware, Oh my!
The next twenty years of research might total change the sad process of aging in human.
And just in time, too, from my POV. I'm 59 right now, so there's a good chance (if you're right) for those new treatments to come in right on time for me to take advantage of them.
How can I possibly debate this issue with you or anyone else when the climate change camp gets to count both warmer and colder temperatures at the poles as favorable for their position?
At this point, the AGW camp is claiming that anything that happens is proof that AGW is true, making it impossible to falsify and, in the sense of Popper, meaningless.
So the polar regions are cold because they get more cold air dropped on them from high in the atmosphere.
An interesting assertion, but false. As anybody who bothered to pay attention during Science Class in elementary school knows, the poles are cold because the sun is always low on the horizon and they don't get much heating from it even at high summer when the sun's above the horizon non-stop for six weeks. And, of course, the corresponding six weeks when there's no sunshine at all makes it even colder.
Most often this is due to youth and inexperience, though it can also be preserved indefinitely by wilful ignorance.
I have a friend in his late '60s who's not only worked all is life, he's owned his own business. He's also one of the most extreme-left Liberals I've ever met. Part of his makeup is the complete inability to accept the fact that any POV other than his own could possibly be valid under any circumstances, which is, I guess, a form of willful ignorance. I'm sure we've all met people with narrow minds, but my friend's reminds me of an Euclidean straight line.
As Wikipedia states, multiplication is defined in terms of repeated addition, making it a form of addition, although it's far more convenient to think of it as a separate operation.
If you have experimental proof for yours, then I am willing to change my views.
The Zuni Indians were a very peaceful, cooperative tribe that lived scratched out a living in arid badlands that nobody else wanted. They didn't live there because they wanted to, but simply because nobody else wanted it badly enough to boot them out of it as they'd been booted out of everyplace nicer they'd tried to settle. People too peaceful to fight for their homes end up living in very bad neighborhoods if they don't get wiped out completely.
Perhaps wishful thinking is just an artifact of the brain that we call "wishful thinking" when things go wrong, and "creativity" or "innovation" when that crazy idea that everybody knows won't work actually does work?
I think you may just have hit the nail right on the head. "Wishful thinking" is, in the long run, an unconventional idea that didn't work out. Calling an idea "wishful thinking" before it's tried is just making a prediction that it won't work. (Of course, sometimes the idea calls for a violation of the laws of physics, making that prediction easy, but that's just a simplification of the prediction.)
I dunno what happened to the DUI offender due to the illegal traffic stop.
They could make a good case for it standing up, as the campus police appear to have made a citizen's arrest, then called the regular police to take the suspect into custody. For that matter, the stop may not have been illegal (IANAL). If it were, a reprimand from management would have been the least of their problems.
If Hamas vanished, would Isreali settlers stop building homes on Palestinian land?
Probably not. Of course, they're not supposed to be doing it now, but you know how fanatics are. OTOH, if they did stop building settlements there, would Hamas stop?
When both of them get their heads around the idea that the Middle East doesn't belong solely to them by decree of God
Actually, if you believe in what's said in the Old Testament, God did promise that part of the Middle East to the Hebrews. About all the Arabs can claim is credit for turning a land of milk and honey into an arid wasteland.
Disclosure: I'm reform Jewish and think the Orthodox types are nut-jobs.
I'm Conservative, myself. I respect the Orthodox, but not the hyper-orthodox or those keeping Glatt Kosher. IMO, they're just playing the "holier than thou" card. The big trouble is that (again, IMO) they have too much political power in Israel because their splinter parties can crash any coalition government if they don't get their way. I'd guess that most of the people in Gaza want peace and would have it if their "government" gave a damn about them instead of considering them as nothing more than cattle to use as human shields when their intransigence causes the IDF to mount Yet Another Punitive Expedition.
That was my thought, too. Of course, to some people, everybody who doesn't think exactly like they do is evil, and it's fair game to accuse them of anything you can think of regardless of the facts.
It's a tad off-topic, but maybe the OP should consider that if Hamas vanished, the violence would end; if the IDF vanished, so would Israel.
Try having to sit across from a guy who can't stop bashing Sarah Palin 6 months after she lost an election.
How about sitting next to a guy who can't stop bashing President Bush three months after he left office? Give it a rest, already and move on with your life, guy!
Thank you; I sit corrected. I moved to Linux several years ago, so I was posting from my memories of how the preload programs worked. Back when I did tech support, I used to (among many other things) have to talk people through cleaning up their startup programs. I'd explain what the preloads did, then tell them that if they used the program a lot it was worth keeping it but if they hardly ever needed the main program, there was no need for the preload and let them decide for themselves. Personally, I never saw the need for them but it wasn't exactly my place to tell the callers what they'd find useful on their computers.
Prefetch isn't exactly new. It's just a new name for the old "Quick Launch" that loaded part of the code into RAM at boot so the program would start quicker. In the long run, it's a trade-off: your computer takes a little longer to boot, but launches certain programs quicker. Of course, it you're the average home-user, you rarely need to use things like MSOffice, so the end result (in that case) is a longer boot and with no return on the time invested.
If you asked me what killer feature would make me switch... I couldn't think of it.
How about a security model that really works, makes it as hard to write malware for Windows as it is for either Linux or OS/X and isn't tacked on as an afterthought. Of course, this is Microsoft we're talking about, so that's just not going to happen.
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I take it, then, that you've never tried Linux, or at least, not recently. I've been using Fedora Linux as my only OS, now, for over a year. I'm quite happy with it, rarely need to use a CLI (although I do, sometimes, because it's quicker and/or easier) and find it does everything I want, the way I want. That includes being able to leave it running 24/7, without worrying about needing to reboot it because one program hung and messed up the OS so badly that rebooting's the only option. Right now, my system hasn't rebooted in just over 15 days. it also includes not needing to have/update/run anti-virus software, or other third-party programs to block or remove unwanted programs that various websites try to install without informing me. My sister, who's far less technically inclined than I am, has been running Ubuntu for almost the same length of time, with the same ease.
For my family, at least, the time for Linux on the Desktop is right now. YMMV, and obviously does, and that's fine. If you're happy with whatever version of Windows you're currently running, and don't mind working with all the third-party programs needed to keep it safe, there's no need for you to change. I wasn't, I changed and I'd never go back.
Two suggestions: first, find out if those Windows-only programs will run under Wine. If so, there's your answer. If not, shrink the partition for Windows iCandy, install Linux in the rest and run Windows under VMWare to run the Gatesware. In either case, your basic OS is now Linux, and you won't have to worry about malware and trojans and spyware, Oh my!
And just in time, too, from my POV. I'm 59 right now, so there's a good chance (if you're right) for those new treatments to come in right on time for me to take advantage of them.
At this point, the AGW camp is claiming that anything that happens is proof that AGW is true, making it impossible to falsify and, in the sense of Popper, meaningless.
An interesting assertion, but false. As anybody who bothered to pay attention during Science Class in elementary school knows, the poles are cold because the sun is always low on the horizon and they don't get much heating from it even at high summer when the sun's above the horizon non-stop for six weeks. And, of course, the corresponding six weeks when there's no sunshine at all makes it even colder.
I have a friend in his late '60s who's not only worked all is life, he's owned his own business. He's also one of the most extreme-left Liberals I've ever met. Part of his makeup is the complete inability to accept the fact that any POV other than his own could possibly be valid under any circumstances, which is, I guess, a form of willful ignorance. I'm sure we've all met people with narrow minds, but my friend's reminds me of an Euclidean straight line.
As Wikipedia states, multiplication is defined in terms of repeated addition, making it a form of addition, although it's far more convenient to think of it as a separate operation.
You do realize, don't you, that multiplication is just repeated addition?
The Zuni Indians were a very peaceful, cooperative tribe that lived scratched out a living in arid badlands that nobody else wanted. They didn't live there because they wanted to, but simply because nobody else wanted it badly enough to boot them out of it as they'd been booted out of everyplace nicer they'd tried to settle. People too peaceful to fight for their homes end up living in very bad neighborhoods if they don't get wiped out completely.
I think you may just have hit the nail right on the head. "Wishful thinking" is, in the long run, an unconventional idea that didn't work out. Calling an idea "wishful thinking" before it's tried is just making a prediction that it won't work. (Of course, sometimes the idea calls for a violation of the laws of physics, making that prediction easy, but that's just a simplification of the prediction.)
I think he'd be more likely to announce that commercial closed source software was overpriced in 2008.
Well, who knows, it might even be true. Just because you read it on some junk mail doesn't prove it false. Now, if you'd found it in a spam...
Yes, and he's given you change. He never said it would be change for the better.
So? That just means that he knows how tax evaders work. After all, who better to catch a thief than another thief?
Yes. Instead of being controlled by the oil industry he's controlled by Hollywood. Change you can believe in.
John Q. Public, be not so bold!
BO, thy master, is bought and sold!
They could make a good case for it standing up, as the campus police appear to have made a citizen's arrest, then called the regular police to take the suspect into custody. For that matter, the stop may not have been illegal (IANAL). If it were, a reprimand from management would have been the least of their problems.
Probably not. Of course, they're not supposed to be doing it now, but you know how fanatics are. OTOH, if they did stop building settlements there, would Hamas stop?
Actually, if you believe in what's said in the Old Testament, God did promise that part of the Middle East to the Hebrews. About all the Arabs can claim is credit for turning a land of milk and honey into an arid wasteland.
I'm Conservative, myself. I respect the Orthodox, but not the hyper-orthodox or those keeping Glatt Kosher. IMO, they're just playing the "holier than thou" card. The big trouble is that (again, IMO) they have too much political power in Israel because their splinter parties can crash any coalition government if they don't get their way. I'd guess that most of the people in Gaza want peace and would have it if their "government" gave a damn about them instead of considering them as nothing more than cattle to use as human shields when their intransigence causes the IDF to mount Yet Another Punitive Expedition.
That was my thought, too. Of course, to some people, everybody who doesn't think exactly like they do is evil, and it's fair game to accuse them of anything you can think of regardless of the facts.
It's a tad off-topic, but maybe the OP should consider that if Hamas vanished, the violence would end; if the IDF vanished, so would Israel.
How about sitting next to a guy who can't stop bashing President Bush three months after he left office? Give it a rest, already and move on with your life, guy!
Thank you; I sit corrected. I moved to Linux several years ago, so I was posting from my memories of how the preload programs worked. Back when I did tech support, I used to (among many other things) have to talk people through cleaning up their startup programs. I'd explain what the preloads did, then tell them that if they used the program a lot it was worth keeping it but if they hardly ever needed the main program, there was no need for the preload and let them decide for themselves. Personally, I never saw the need for them but it wasn't exactly my place to tell the callers what they'd find useful on their computers.
Prefetch isn't exactly new. It's just a new name for the old "Quick Launch" that loaded part of the code into RAM at boot so the program would start quicker. In the long run, it's a trade-off: your computer takes a little longer to boot, but launches certain programs quicker. Of course, it you're the average home-user, you rarely need to use things like MSOffice, so the end result (in that case) is a longer boot and with no return on the time invested.
How about a security model that really works, makes it as hard to write malware for Windows as it is for either Linux or OS/X and isn't tacked on as an afterthought. Of course, this is Microsoft we're talking about, so that's just not going to happen.
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