No one is going to "switch to linux" because their motherboard has a linux based diagnostic included. Well, they sure make it sound like it's more than just a diagnostic utility.
From their website:
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With Splashtop your computer is ready to use seconds after you turn it on. Instead of waiting for a full boot, you have Web access in mere seconds. Chat, surf, play a game - all one click away.
Secure
Splashtop is a secure Web-surfing environment. You can surf the Web while staying immune to many of the attacks that plague Windows.
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Splashtop boots so quickly there's no reason to leave your PC on all the time. Now you can use your time more effectively, and consume much less energy. That said, I agree with you that this isn't suddenly going to "bring linux to the masses" -- but it could introduce a few more people to a non-Windows-centric world.
You're thinking of the Senate, which was indeed 98-1, with the one being Russ Feingold. In the House it was 357-66. The 66 Nays included three Republicans and one Independent.
Okay, so it's been 15 years since I've read them, but isn't The Hobbit a prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy? So how is there an "upcoming Hobbit film and it's *sequel*"?
You're apparently having a hard time not thinking in computing lingo. The primary meaning of "stable", according to Merriam-Webster, is "firmly established".
The thing about statements that can't be falsified is that they have 0 predictive power. True or false, it doesn't matter: no reason to care.
I think there's plenty of reason to care about things that can't be falsified. (And obviously they have no predictive power, or else they'd be falsifiable.)
For example, it could be the case that I'm living in a VR-like world maintained by Descartes' "Evil Genius" (a very powerful, unfriendly being), with no "real world" out there at all. No other people, no universe, just me and an Evil Genius and the sensations he feeds me. The idea that there are other people out there in some real sense is completely unfalsifiable -- but it matters to me dearly that it is true. Without clear evidence to the contrary, I'm going to continue to believe that other people exist.
I agree that science is just a method, and that no faith in it is required to practice it.
However, it seems to me there are a lot of people who put their faith in scientific theories and feel that they know as absolute FACT that which is only theorized. It also seems to me that the average person doesn't understand the reasoning behind many of the scientific "facts" they believe in -- so from a philosophical standpoint, I would call that faith.
I was taking on faith that the world is roughly spherical and that all matter is made of up atoms, and so forth, long before I understood the scientific reasons for believing so.
They do say right up front that they're working on a linux version.
I bought a couple of single tracks already (I'm a linux user, too), and it worked great. I look forward to being able to buy full albums. They actually have lots of major label tracks, unlike my experience with eMusic.
PHP5 will be great for building creating more traditional websites that are driven by HTML forms, and is probably the best thing to use for such purposes. Actually, handling forms is one of the things frameworks like Rails (and I assume CakePHP) make really easy, so Rails definitely beats plain PHP here. If the data from the forms is going to be stored in a database, the benefit of Rails is increased significantly.
Ruby on Rails seems to be meant for if you are planning to build AJAX apps. Rails is a framework that makes many things easier for the developer, and AJAX is just one of those many things. It is by no means a main focus of Rails. If you wanted to pick one main thing that Rails was "meant for", I'd say it's database usage. ActiveRecord (a part of the Rails framework) makes working with databases way easier than is possible in plain PHP.
DON't put that in your make.conf! If you do you'll upgrade you whole system to unstable packages. If you ever want packages that are still in testing, specify it on the command line like this:
I feel like he must be extremely stupid, or have a learning disablity, or something. But he's the f*ing president! And a lot of people believe his lies. It seems like he must be retarded, but so many people don't see it.
Making fun of him for being a dunce is not to put him down, it's a coping mechanism. And I'm sure he's feelings aren't hurt by it.
But he couldn't get the public to agree to that. He *could* lie about WMD in Iraq, and then get them to pay twice that "to make us safer."
And I wasn't saying oil was the *only* reason. I just picked that one because it seems like the most obvious. If, as you say, it wouldn't make sense to go to war *just* for the oil, then fine. But that doesn't mean it wasn't ONE of the reasons, in combination with others.
You can make fun of someone for their learning disabilities if you are shocked, frustrated, and disappointed that they took over you country, took away many of your civil liberties, started a war that has cost many many innocent lives, clearly and obviously for the natural resources of that country, contiues to lie, lie, lie and somehow still has a loyal base of supporters.
I know that this isn't exactly "on topic", but it's important stuff.
You forgot to mention Dennis Kucinich. Issue for issue, he's right on. I would think most/.ers would be huge supporters. From electronic voting machines to the Iraq war, from education to health care, from the WTO to our civil liberties. He's the only presidential candidate who voted against the "Patriot Act." He would kick George W.'s ass in a debate. He is such a clear alternative to the current president. No Bush-Lite or New Democrat (Republican-Lite) here.
Like no way to change the screen resolution without editing xf86config in KDE
KDE 3.2 (coming out within the next month or 2) will be able to take advantage of the X feature to easily immediately change resolution.
My dad took me over to his friend's house yesterday, because his friend was unsatisfied with his website. I got hired to redo it from scratch. After discussing how he wanted it, I somehow segued into open source software. My dad was complaining about his old computer and need for more storage space. I mentioned he could get a new computer off walmart.com for only $199. They were both shocked. I looked it up at wamart.com for them, and then the german (my dad's friend) pulled out his credit card and insisted I order one with his card to solve my dad's computer problems. He also wanted me to help him install linux on one of his computers, since he was frustrated he couldn't install windows XP on both (the install CD wouldn't let him). If he likes it he might install it on the other one, too.
He kept saying "You can be free from Microsoft Windows??!!"
Sometimes I say GNU/Linux. I'm sure you've heard the reasons before, so there's probably no point in mentioning them again. But those reasons mean something to me. Linux is a nice kernel. GNU is an operating system. I'm not anal about saying GNU/Linux. I usually just say linux, and people know what I mean. But sometimes I make a point of saying GNU/Linux as kind of props to the FSF.
It doesn't really matter to me what percentage of the system is GNU, Linux, KDE, or whatever. What matters to me is what GNU/Linux and the FSF stand for.
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With Splashtop your computer is ready to use seconds after you turn it on. Instead of waiting for a full boot, you have Web access in mere seconds. Chat, surf, play a game - all one click away.
Secure
Splashtop is a secure Web-surfing environment. You can surf the Web while staying immune to many of the attacks that plague Windows.
Eco-Friendly
Splashtop boots so quickly there's no reason to leave your PC on all the time. Now you can use your time more effectively, and consume much less energy. That said, I agree with you that this isn't suddenly going to "bring linux to the masses" -- but it could introduce a few more people to a non-Windows-centric world.
You're thinking of the Senate, which was indeed 98-1, with the one being Russ Feingold. In the House it was 357-66. The 66 Nays included three Republicans and one Independent.
Okay, so it's been 15 years since I've read them, but isn't The Hobbit a prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy? So how is there an "upcoming Hobbit film and it's *sequel*"?
You're apparently having a hard time not thinking in computing lingo. The primary meaning of "stable", according to Merriam-Webster, is "firmly established".
If you go to the article, you see a picture of Bill Gates with two actual Borg drones in the foreground.
I think you mean Linus, not Linux.
The thing about statements that can't be falsified is that they have 0 predictive power. True or false, it doesn't matter: no reason to care.
I think there's plenty of reason to care about things that can't be falsified. (And obviously they have no predictive power, or else they'd be falsifiable.)
For example, it could be the case that I'm living in a VR-like world maintained by Descartes' "Evil Genius" (a very powerful, unfriendly being), with no "real world" out there at all. No other people, no universe, just me and an Evil Genius and the sensations he feeds me. The idea that there are other people out there in some real sense is completely unfalsifiable -- but it matters to me dearly that it is true. Without clear evidence to the contrary, I'm going to continue to believe that other people exist.
I agree that science is just a method, and that no faith in it is required to practice it.
However, it seems to me there are a lot of people who put their faith in scientific theories and feel that they know as absolute FACT that which is only theorized. It also seems to me that the average person doesn't understand the reasoning behind many of the scientific "facts" they believe in -- so from a philosophical standpoint, I would call that faith.
I was taking on faith that the world is roughly spherical and that all matter is made of up atoms, and so forth, long before I understood the scientific reasons for believing so.
Since when can't you bring an iPod on a plane?
They do say right up front that they're working on a linux version.
I bought a couple of single tracks already (I'm a linux user, too), and it worked great. I look forward to being able to buy full albums. They actually have lots of major label tracks, unlike my experience with eMusic.
0110001101100010010000000110001101110010 0110000101111010011011100110000101110010 0010111001100011011011110110
I think you mean:
0110001101100010010000000110001101110010 0110000101111010011011100110000101110010 00101110011000110110111101101101
The 1101 is pretty important...
I googled for: "hacking modelines" "os x"
and got exactly one result: your post. Care to elaborate or provide some actual links?
Andreesssen: Why Open Source Will Boom - in 103 Words
There's only two S's in Andreessen. You put three in the title to this story.
DON't put that in your make.conf! If you do you'll upgrade you whole system to unstable packages. If you ever want packages that are still in testing, specify it on the command line like this:
$ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" sudo emerge kde
I guess the real point is:
I feel like he must be extremely stupid, or have a learning disablity, or something. But he's the f*ing president! And a lot of people believe his lies. It seems like he must be retarded, but so many people don't see it.
Making fun of him for being a dunce is not to put him down, it's a coping mechanism. And I'm sure he's feelings aren't hurt by it.
But he couldn't get the public to agree to that. He *could* lie about WMD in Iraq, and then get them to pay twice that "to make us safer."
And I wasn't saying oil was the *only* reason. I just picked that one because it seems like the most obvious. If, as you say, it wouldn't make sense to go to war *just* for the oil, then fine. But that doesn't mean it wasn't ONE of the reasons, in combination with others.
You can make fun of someone for their learning disabilities if you are shocked, frustrated, and disappointed that they took over you country, took away many of your civil liberties, started a war that has cost many many innocent lives, clearly and obviously for the natural resources of that country, contiues to lie, lie, lie and somehow still has a loyal base of supporters.
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http://www.kucinich.us
I know that this isn't exactly "on topic", but it's important stuff.
/.ers would be huge supporters. From electronic voting machines to the Iraq war, from education to health care, from the WTO to our civil liberties. He's the only presidential candidate who voted against the "Patriot Act." He would kick George W.'s ass in a debate. He is such a clear alternative to the current president. No Bush-Lite or New Democrat (Republican-Lite) here.
You forgot to mention Dennis Kucinich. Issue for issue, he's right on. I would think most
I agree about Edwards being Kucinich's VP.
Like no way to change the screen resolution without editing xf86config in KDE KDE 3.2 (coming out within the next month or 2) will be able to take advantage of the X feature to easily immediately change resolution.
Our cat thinks our inkjet is her boyfriend! She always comes running and sits on it and purs when I turn it on.
My dad took me over to his friend's house yesterday, because his friend was unsatisfied with his website. I got hired to redo it from scratch. After discussing how he wanted it, I somehow segued into open source software. My dad was complaining about his old computer and need for more storage space. I mentioned he could get a new computer off walmart.com for only $199. They were both shocked. I looked it up at wamart.com for them, and then the german (my dad's friend) pulled out his credit card and insisted I order one with his card to solve my dad's computer problems. He also wanted me to help him install linux on one of his computers, since he was frustrated he couldn't install windows XP on both (the install CD wouldn't let him). If he likes it he might install it on the other one, too. He kept saying "You can be free from Microsoft Windows??!!"
Sometimes I say GNU/Linux. I'm sure you've heard the reasons before, so there's probably no point in mentioning them again. But those reasons mean something to me. Linux is a nice kernel. GNU is an operating system. I'm not anal about saying GNU/Linux. I usually just say linux, and people know what I mean. But sometimes I make a point of saying GNU/Linux as kind of props to the FSF. It doesn't really matter to me what percentage of the system is GNU, Linux, KDE, or whatever. What matters to me is what GNU/Linux and the FSF stand for.