Such a bald-ass simple statement really requires back up. I've not had ANY stability problems, much less severe. And I've been running this distro since Feisty Fawn. The worst thing about Ubuntu that I've ever experienced is its ridiculous desktop color schemes, and they never seem to get any better, but that's easily changed.
Well, I think fewer are surprised than you think. An Oracle-Sun package is an obvious play. As for Java, well, I guess anything that can compete with.NET (although trust me, I know its a fool's errand) is a good deal for 'ol Larry. The next 4 in this particular space should be interesting.
".. there's a community of programmers out there."
Too bad he's right. The only thing truly noteworthy coming out of that distro was zfs. Some of the code in there was so crufty it was sprouting potato roots.It was obvious that only hard-core nut bags cared anything for it. All the newer, cutting edge stuff was and is happening with the Linux kernel based distros, Sys V based stuff needs to be placed gently in a museum labeled "The quaint olden days of Unix".
"Microsoft developed a technology that is quickly becoming recognized as being superior to much of what Linux has to offer."
Woah, slow down there. When Microsoft trots out a C# kernel and/or makes drivers or real-time code written in C# somehow viable, get back to me. Until then, C# is still relegated to the trenches of user-dom. It may be superior to some Linux technology, but I shudder at the thought of a petroleum cracking plant running real-time systems on C#/.NET.
Google "Soviet police brutality gay" or "PRK police brutality gay" or "British police brutality gay" or "Iranian police brutality gay" and you'll see more than that. But of course you'll blame all those policies on the US, insane as that would be,
Its tough to be gay, apparently? Only you can tell me that.
Same-sex partners are being truncheoned for speaking out? Interesting. Last I head they were winning in court. Surely the gay judge in California who found in favor of gay marriage isn't using a truncheon to make his pro-gay marriage point...?
Stop being melodramatic. Yes, you do have freedom of speech. When a judge issues blanket gag orders for entire classes of people without due process and are then enforced by cops with truncheons, get back to me.
I've wondered my self at these ridiculous user deletion policies. For one thing, I fail to find how the information is useful if it isn't accurate. I don't believe I've ever used my actual name or contact info for any social networking sites, ever. I don't even use my actual information on my gmail account. How can that be of use to anyone? Also, the last time I used anything like facebook was livejournal (yes, I'm pretty behind the times) and I didn't use my true contact information then. When I decided I'd had enough of lj I tried to actually delete the account. Ha, what a fun 1/2 day that was. I don't think I ever found out how to do it. So I assume to this day, 10 years later, lj has the purchasing habits and websites visited by mickey mouse1927489. Whatever.
And the Taliban has made clear that they will be hunting down said informants.
The Taliban has made it clear that they are murderous xenophobic aliens from another planet. If they will be proud of the fact that they killed people who were clearly there to help Afghans who were in need of glasses and other simple medical care free of charge then they are obviously capable of anything. Hell with them, they are murdering viruses, and not worthy of consideration as human beings. I don't think they need to explain anything, because they are obviously capable of anything. If you were to return to a cold, empty, sterile Earth after 50 years of space exploration and were wondering what happened, I think you would be correct in assuming the fault lay at their feet.
"How does a little egg on the Governments face = endangering troops?"
I disagree with your analysis; the leaked information is a bit more than some embarrassing tidbit, some of it certainly could endanger troops, from what I've read of it. However, sensitive information is leaked all the time, every time, from every government that's ever existed, in all history. This will never change. Yeah, punish the American soldier who did the leaking. But to go after Julian Assange, a journaist and who isn't even an American citizen, is pretty arrogant. The people to speak to are the Australians, and in this case, If I were Quentin Bryce, I'd tell Obama to go fuck himself.
THAT is the most idiotic article I ever read. An in-depth psychoanalysis of driving/not driving in the US made you leave? Did the door hit you on the ass on your way out?
Probably because we (or most of us, anyway) value life without regard to political affiliation and those who reserve their tears (or good wishes, at least) for those who parallel their own political leaning are sub-human scum? Or shall we do a belated dance to the death of Teddy Kennedy too?
"The idea that Clinton somehow brought on the mortgage crisis by forcing banks to lend to poor people is simply ludicrous."
You are correct, strictly speaking. However, it was done with the blessing of top leaders of the Democratic party. Here is a transcript of Barney Frank's speech before an assembly to amend the regulation of the Fannie and Freddie funds, this measure was rammed through Congress with the objections of the Bush Administration The measure went through the Democratically-controlled house regardless: Frank Speech.
How many yachts can you surf behind, indeed. Problem is, the REAL mission of any public company is to make profits for its share holders and if such a concern doesn't show healthy and consistent growth every quarter the stock is considered "not great", or at least not as good as it could be, so companies are always looking to grow. Being a money maker, but a stagnant one, is almost as bad as being a cash burner.
"If the cost of "free" is the OS spying on me, then no thanks. I'd rather just pay for one or go to one of the many other OSS systems that DON'T phone home."
OR you can turn the process off and still pay nothing. Rather pay than spend 30 seconds disabling something? That's one of the stupider comments I've seen here.
Yes, Canonical could have done a better disclosure job. Never the less, once you know one of the several ways of turning it off, I don't believe its a problem. Editing the crontab is probably one of the easiest things to do on a unix-like system.
They also drop anvils on their friends from great heights who survive but with great indentations in their noggins and can stop on a dime after running over 100 miles an hour; and when they stop they quiver like door stops. Hmm... what other classic cartoon paradigms can we crowbar into this piece?
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"Ubuntu's got severe stability problems."
Such a bald-ass simple statement really requires back up. I've not had ANY stability problems, much less severe. And I've been running this distro since Feisty Fawn. The worst thing about Ubuntu that I've ever experienced is its ridiculous desktop color schemes, and they never seem to get any better, but that's easily changed.
...to the video until I realized I really didn't give a shit and moved on to another story.
"I don't know what the hell MFC smart pointers do..."
Wait... what?? Example, please...
Well, I think fewer are surprised than you think. An Oracle-Sun package is an obvious play. As for Java, well, I guess anything that can compete with .NET (although trust me, I know its a fool's errand) is a good deal for 'ol Larry. The next 4 in this particular space should be interesting.
".. there's a community of programmers out there."
Too bad he's right. The only thing truly noteworthy coming out of that distro was zfs. Some of the code in there was so crufty it was sprouting potato roots.It was obvious that only hard-core nut bags cared anything for it. All the newer, cutting edge stuff was and is happening with the Linux kernel based distros, Sys V based stuff needs to be placed gently in a museum labeled "The quaint olden days of Unix".
"Microsoft developed a technology that is quickly becoming recognized as being superior to much of what Linux has to offer."
Woah, slow down there. When Microsoft trots out a C# kernel and/or makes drivers or real-time code written in C# somehow viable, get back to me. Until then, C# is still relegated to the trenches of user-dom. It may be superior to some Linux technology, but I shudder at the thought of a petroleum cracking plant running real-time systems on C#/.NET.
"In most of the world we study Mathematics. I didn't realise that there was only one Mathematic studied in the US."
Yeah. But apparently there is more than one English stidied abroad as well. I didn't (sic) "realise" there was better spelling for "realize".
Google "Soviet police brutality gay" or "PRK police brutality gay" or "British police brutality gay" or "Iranian police brutality gay" and you'll see more than that. But of course you'll blame all those policies on the US, insane as that would be, Its tough to be gay, apparently? Only you can tell me that.
Same-sex partners are being truncheoned for speaking out? Interesting. Last I head they were winning in court. Surely the gay judge in California who found in favor of gay marriage isn't using a truncheon to make his pro-gay marriage point...?
You no longer have freedom of speech.
Stop being melodramatic. Yes, you do have freedom of speech. When a judge issues blanket gag orders for entire classes of people without due process and are then enforced by cops with truncheons, get back to me.
I've wondered my self at these ridiculous user deletion policies. For one thing, I fail to find how the information is useful if it isn't accurate. I don't believe I've ever used my actual name or contact info for any social networking sites, ever. I don't even use my actual information on my gmail account. How can that be of use to anyone? Also, the last time I used anything like facebook was livejournal (yes, I'm pretty behind the times) and I didn't use my true contact information then. When I decided I'd had enough of lj I tried to actually delete the account. Ha, what a fun 1/2 day that was. I don't think I ever found out how to do it. So I assume to this day, 10 years later, lj has the purchasing habits and websites visited by mickey mouse1927489. Whatever.
And the Taliban has made clear that they will be hunting down said informants.
The Taliban has made it clear that they are murderous xenophobic aliens from another planet. If they will be proud of the fact that they killed people who were clearly there to help Afghans who were in need of glasses and other simple medical care free of charge then they are obviously capable of anything. Hell with them, they are murdering viruses, and not worthy of consideration as human beings. I don't think they need to explain anything, because they are obviously capable of anything. If you were to return to a cold, empty, sterile Earth after 50 years of space exploration and were wondering what happened, I think you would be correct in assuming the fault lay at their feet.
No one cares. No one. Except you. Trust me.
"How does a little egg on the Governments face = endangering troops?"
I disagree with your analysis; the leaked information is a bit more than some embarrassing tidbit, some of it certainly could endanger troops, from what I've read of it. However, sensitive information is leaked all the time, every time, from every government that's ever existed, in all history. This will never change. Yeah, punish the American soldier who did the leaking. But to go after Julian Assange, a journaist and who isn't even an American citizen, is pretty arrogant. The people to speak to are the Australians, and in this case, If I were Quentin Bryce, I'd tell Obama to go fuck himself.
...funny stuff, but all I can think is "My tax dollars at work."
The reason I left the US [slate.com]
THAT is the most idiotic article I ever read. An in-depth psychoanalysis of driving/not driving in the US made you leave? Did the door hit you on the ass on your way out?
Yep!! My secret identity case goes to the back of the line. My file sharing nuisance: TOP PRIORITY!
Probably because we (or most of us, anyway) value life without regard to political affiliation and those who reserve their tears (or good wishes, at least) for those who parallel their own political leaning are sub-human scum? Or shall we do a belated dance to the death of Teddy Kennedy too?
"The idea that Clinton somehow brought on the mortgage crisis by forcing banks to lend to poor people is simply ludicrous."
You are correct, strictly speaking. However, it was done with the blessing of top leaders of the Democratic party. Here is a transcript of Barney Frank's speech before an assembly to amend the regulation of the Fannie and Freddie funds, this measure was rammed through Congress with the objections of the Bush Administration The measure went through the Democratically-controlled house regardless: Frank Speech.
@Ephemeriis:
"was shocked and appalled at how much the Bush administration got away with."
Now your equally "shocked and appalled" with how much the Obama admin. is getting away with, right?
How many yachts can you surf behind, indeed. Problem is, the REAL mission of any public company is to make profits for its share holders and if such a concern doesn't show healthy and consistent growth every quarter the stock is considered "not great", or at least not as good as it could be, so companies are always looking to grow. Being a money maker, but a stagnant one, is almost as bad as being a cash burner.
"If the cost of "free" is the OS spying on me, then no thanks. I'd rather just pay for one or go to one of the many other OSS systems that DON'T phone home."
OR you can turn the process off and still pay nothing. Rather pay than spend 30 seconds disabling something? That's one of the stupider comments I've seen here.
Yes, Canonical could have done a better disclosure job. Never the less, once you know one of the several ways of turning it off, I don't believe its a problem. Editing the crontab is probably one of the easiest things to do on a unix-like system.
They also drop anvils on their friends from great heights who survive but with great indentations in their noggins and can stop on a dime after running over 100 miles an hour; and when they stop they quiver like door stops. Hmm... what other classic cartoon paradigms can we crowbar into this piece?
No no no, Brin started the computation 35 years ago on his TRS-80, then upgraded hardware as his career started taking off.