Then they should spend time trying to stop people from driving while drunk or driving under the influence of drugs (if you're talking about marijuana, however, that's debatable... they've done studies showing that people actually drive fairly safely while high). Passing laws trying to stop people from ingesting drugs in the privacy of their own home is as silly as passing laws trying to stop people from rippings mp3s in the privacy of their own home.
Why exactly would this bring Linux closer to the desktop? Would people say, "Gee, I'd like to try a new internet browser, and the name Netscape sounds familiar... maybe I'll install a whole new operating system so that I can try out the new Netscape!"
Please... if you seriously think 2000 or XP are no improvement over Windows 98 or ME then I have a wall in China to sell you.
And if you can't get a modern windows system to stay up for more than 3 days then I have serious doubts about the competency of your "excellent" in house support staff.
Actually, no. It is the linux install that is more often than not fresh (it is a dual-boot setup). I've had the same XP installed for over a year and a half, and because I only sporadically use it, it is full of clutter and applications that I haven't bothered to clean up (although I'm pretty good about adaware, spybot, virus scan, etc).
I'm really not trying to be a troll, but whenever I use linux exclusively for an extended period of time (for a few months), and then switch back to 2000/XP, I immediately notice how much more responsive Windows seems to be.
This is a AthlonXP 2500, with 512 mb ram. Currently I'm using Ubuntu, but have also recently been using Debian, Fedora Core 2, Suse 9.0 and 9.1, and Mandrake 10. Also, I have experimented with Gnome, Kde, and Xfce.
Perhaps it is more a matter of application start-up time than overall responsiveness, I'm not sure. I just know, that whenever I switch over to Windows, I am (rather unfortunately) impressed by its speed.
pornography at its most basic level is pictures, videos, stories, of people having sex.
Humans enjoy sex. That, I would think, even to these christian, right-wing, 19th century-living politicians, is a given.
Why then is it a surprise that humans like to watch other humans have sex? Sure there's a lot of "deranged" porn out there, but thats because there's a lot of "deranged" sex out there. Always has been. Porn or no porn, sex has always been on people's minds.
They were all included in the primary debates because they were all running under a democratic ticket. That was the democratic primary. These are the presidential debates. Usually, in order to keep out a viable 3rd party candidate, or your crazy Aunt Elma, they invent all sorts of funky requirements to make it next to impossible for anyone but the Democrat and Republican to be included.
"Open-source geeks are devout in their belief that software should be free to all..."
"...and what the open-source community sees as a Microsoft front company bent on destroying their free paradise."
Once again, the linux community is portrayed as a bunch of geeks pinching pennies, not worried so much about free software but rather free (as in healthy beer) software.
88.6% of Americans arrested for marijuana offenses in 2001 were charged with possession only. That's around 641,000 people! Don't fool yourself into thinking that the police/government turn a blind-eye to marijuana use and possession, and instead focus only on the large-scale dealers. This is why the war on marijuana is so insidious.
(Statistics taken from http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5444)
Anyone else notice lately how it seems every crime in America receives an absurdly harsh penalty? Even for crimes that are victimless and non-violent? It's no wonder we have such a massive prison population. I blame it partly on Joe Sixpack's bloodlust, and partly on the faulty belief that such long sentences actually deter people from committing the crimes in the first place. And let's not get into how Mr. and Mrs. Citizen USA will condemn a crime, but then condone and even joke about prison rape. It's all very sad.
It happened to me... If you are trusting and toss Grub into the MBR, there seems to be no way to solve the situation (please, someone correct me); from what I have read, you also can't reinstall XP on that drive until you overwrite the MBR with 0's. I hope this situation has been remedied with the final release.
I also have 9.0, and I recently upgraded to Kde 3.2 and the 2.6.4 kernel (via Suse's rpms); it was a painless upgrade and now my system is running beautifully.
but he didn't have to be snide about it. Next time Mr. Clarke should take a few deep breaths before he responds; otherwise he really comes off sounding obnoxious.
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Then they should spend time trying to stop people from driving while drunk or driving under the influence of drugs (if you're talking about marijuana, however, that's debatable... they've done studies showing that people actually drive fairly safely while high). Passing laws trying to stop people from ingesting drugs in the privacy of their own home is as silly as passing laws trying to stop people from rippings mp3s in the privacy of their own home.
Why exactly would this bring Linux closer to the desktop? Would people say, "Gee, I'd like to try a new internet browser, and the name Netscape sounds familiar... maybe I'll install a whole new operating system so that I can try out the new Netscape!"
Please... if you seriously think 2000 or XP are no improvement over Windows 98 or ME then I have a wall in China to sell you. And if you can't get a modern windows system to stay up for more than 3 days then I have serious doubts about the competency of your "excellent" in house support staff.
Let us not forget Edward Scissorhands...
Actually, no. It is the linux install that is more often than not fresh (it is a dual-boot setup). I've had the same XP installed for over a year and a half, and because I only sporadically use it, it is full of clutter and applications that I haven't bothered to clean up (although I'm pretty good about adaware, spybot, virus scan, etc).
I'm really not trying to be a troll, but whenever I use linux exclusively for an extended period of time (for a few months), and then switch back to 2000/XP, I immediately notice how much more responsive Windows seems to be. This is a AthlonXP 2500, with 512 mb ram. Currently I'm using Ubuntu, but have also recently been using Debian, Fedora Core 2, Suse 9.0 and 9.1, and Mandrake 10. Also, I have experimented with Gnome, Kde, and Xfce. Perhaps it is more a matter of application start-up time than overall responsiveness, I'm not sure. I just know, that whenever I switch over to Windows, I am (rather unfortunately) impressed by its speed.
pornography at its most basic level is pictures, videos, stories, of people having sex.
Humans enjoy sex. That, I would think, even to these christian, right-wing, 19th century-living politicians, is a given.
Why then is it a surprise that humans like to watch other humans have sex? Sure there's a lot of "deranged" porn out there, but thats because there's a lot of "deranged" sex out there. Always has been. Porn or no porn, sex has always been on people's minds.
That's nature, baby.
...and it's impressive
...computers just haven't caught on.
paid the borg... you PAID the borg... sheesh
They were all included in the primary debates because they were all running under a democratic ticket. That was the democratic primary. These are the presidential debates. Usually, in order to keep out a viable 3rd party candidate, or your crazy Aunt Elma, they invent all sorts of funky requirements to make it next to impossible for anyone but the Democrat and Republican to be included.
"Open-source geeks are devout in their belief that software should be free to all..."
"...and what the open-source community sees as a Microsoft front company bent on destroying their free paradise."
Once again, the linux community is portrayed as a bunch of geeks pinching pennies, not worried so much about free software but rather free (as in healthy beer) software.
88.6% of Americans arrested for marijuana offenses in 2001 were charged with possession only. That's around 641,000 people! Don't fool yourself into thinking that the police/government turn a blind-eye to marijuana use and possession, and instead focus only on the large-scale dealers. This is why the war on marijuana is so insidious. (Statistics taken from http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5444)
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that when it comes to the U.S. government, it's better to overreact than to be complacent.
Great... now only if I could get firewire to work easily and reliably on linux.
you spelled embareassed wrong. oh wait...
Anyone else notice lately how it seems every crime in America receives an absurdly harsh penalty? Even for crimes that are victimless and non-violent? It's no wonder we have such a massive prison population. I blame it partly on Joe Sixpack's bloodlust, and partly on the faulty belief that such long sentences actually deter people from committing the crimes in the first place. And let's not get into how Mr. and Mrs. Citizen USA will condemn a crime, but then condone and even joke about prison rape. It's all very sad.
It happened to me... If you are trusting and toss Grub into the MBR, there seems to be no way to solve the situation (please, someone correct me); from what I have read, you also can't reinstall XP on that drive until you overwrite the MBR with 0's. I hope this situation has been remedied with the final release.
Just want to give some props to Suse:
I also have 9.0, and I recently upgraded to Kde 3.2 and the 2.6.4 kernel (via Suse's rpms); it was a painless upgrade and now my system is running beautifully.
but he didn't have to be snide about it. Next time Mr. Clarke should take a few deep breaths before he responds; otherwise he really comes off sounding obnoxious.
they have driven all of the CD-R manufacturers out of business (not to mention the sale of 120 gig HDs...)