In the past, I've made it a point to buy nvidia cards, because of it's Linux support, even though that support wasn't Free as in Freedom. They are a for profit company, who supported a binary driver for my favourite GNU/Linux OS. (I am in favour of the whole for profit idea, but believe there is a place for open source software in it, like Red Hat.) However, since ATI was bought by AMD, and are putting out a truly free driver for their cards, I will buy exclusively ATI cards in the future.
Open matters when I vote with my wallet. This will cost them my business at the very least.
I ordered a motherboard/cpu/ram combo from them. Open box idem. It came unassembled, which is fine, but unusual. Most companies put them together and fire them up once to make sure they work. Fine. Didn't work. Took me forever to figure out the problem. One ram slot was fried, the other one worked about half the time. Went through a lot of ram figuring it out. One IDE channel was fried. The mother board was just a complete loss. The new cpu they sent was the only thing that ever worked right, though never in that motherboard.
I won't buy from them anymore, no matter how good the deal is. They offer stuff they know is bad under their "open box" policies, so you can't return them.
The proof is in the pudding. Who gets hacked more ? Who suffers from worms and viruses constantly ? Who has to run anti-virus and anti-malware software ?
GNU vs Windows/Random Proprietary stuff is exactly the same as the difference between the free market and the old Soviet Command Economy. With GNU, individuals take the risk to create something they THINK other people will want. The market place kills off the ideas that don't work out as those distro creators thought they would. Vs large corporate CTO/CIO head geek type deciding what "cool" "hip" new features his army of business suit coders should work on. It's exactly why there are a million cool compiz effects for dozens of different Linux distros. Microsoft can never even begin to match what that small army of pizza/mountain dew fueled Mom's basement dwelling "code because I love it" geeks can do. (Yes, I'm aware the stereotype isn't accurate but it is damn funny.)
Anyway, it took forever for the old Soviets and their awful command economy to die, even though they slowly when broke over 70 years. It might take Microsoft and their type another 70 years, but go broke they will. They can't compete with the better idea's coded for free for GNU.
How are we going to pay the debt ? As a last resort, we print the money. If the other countries push us too hard, we COULD print enough to pay them off, and the next month, introduce the new and improved AMERICAN PESO !!. We won't though, because we don't need to. Slow steady inflation will take care of most of that debt.
Now, do we deliver ourselves into our enemies hands ? Not really. There is an old saying, borrow a little, and you have a debtor. Borrow a lot, and you have a partner.
They won't be able to screw us over without hurting themselves too badly. Also, if they really really try to screw us, we DO print the money. Hell, we could just jack up inflation for a decade and really screw them over, we wouldn't even need to abandon the dollar.
This is exactly like a woman jaywalking on the way to the police station to report her own rape. When she gets there, the police not only refuse to arrest or even investigate her rapist, because the rapist is the chief of police, but they do make strenuous efforts to investigate her jaywalking while running to the station to report the rape.
Those at the Justice Department (no irony in the name huh ?) who are abusing their authority to harass a genuine Patriot should be sacked, disbarred, and charged themselves.
Perhaps our new Chief Executive can do something about this, I don't think he will though. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Like his vote on telcom immunity.
Tigers and Rhinos are going extinct because the Chinese believe that drinking tea made from a tigers penis or a rhinos horn will give them a bigger dick. I'm not too worried about the African penis shrinking witch doctors either, though maybe the Chinese should be.
Call me back when they stop thinking a tigers penis will solve their national dick size problem.
But darn it; when will someone finally offer a reasonably-priced, open-platform STB that serves as an A/V gateway to multiple Internet-based services -- one consumer-friendly, environmentally-designed, low-power gadget 'to rule them all,' if you will."
It's called a laptop logged into the www.piratebay.org....of course the pirates are the only ones with media that doesn't suck and isn't crippled. Quite up to date too, with a large back catalogue.
David
In a related move, Toyoda has also served a DMCA take down notice to slashdot, demanding that all car related analogies be removed from comments by slashdot members.
This is the USA. We don't have journalism here. We just have corporations that pretend to be journalistic while serving up entertainment, to drive an advertising revenue stream. So there is no advantage in NOT going to yahoo.
Those Jamestown settlers also spent most of their time digging for gold and murdering natives, rather than planting crops or learning how to survive from the people they suspected of hoarding gold.
Hope the modern day Mars settlers don't have the same issues.
(We're providing a series of Web services, assets, and Web applications to users of our mobil
This guy has the PHB manual talking points inserted rectally so hard it's still coming out of his mouth. I can't even take people seriously when they talk like this.
Probably why I live in my Mom's basement instead of having a corporate job and a girlfriend.
Flying Spaghetti Monster.... sorry, I've been touched by his noodley appendage this morning, and it's left me dazed, and with less money than I had before. (Does that mean it's officially a religion now ?)
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In the past, I've made it a point to buy nvidia cards, because of it's Linux support, even though that support wasn't Free as in Freedom. They are a for profit company, who supported a binary driver for my favourite GNU/Linux OS. (I am in favour of the whole for profit idea, but believe there is a place for open source software in it, like Red Hat.) However, since ATI was bought by AMD, and are putting out a truly free driver for their cards, I will buy exclusively ATI cards in the future.
Open matters when I vote with my wallet. This will cost them my business at the very least.
You can't fix stupid. Truer words were never said. Explains quite a bit about our fine Government too.
I ordered a motherboard/cpu/ram combo from them. Open box idem. It came unassembled, which is fine, but unusual. Most companies put them together and fire them up once to make sure they work. Fine. Didn't work. Took me forever to figure out the problem. One ram slot was fried, the other one worked about half the time. Went through a lot of ram figuring it out. One IDE channel was fried. The mother board was just a complete loss. The new cpu they sent was the only thing that ever worked right, though never in that motherboard.
I won't buy from them anymore, no matter how good the deal is. They offer stuff they know is bad under their "open box" policies, so you can't return them.
Are there Linux drivers ?
There are other options these days.
I thought "Snow Crash" was fiction ?
You are not a Harry Potter fan. He is kidding.
The proof is in the pudding. Who gets hacked more ? Who suffers from worms and viruses constantly ? Who has to run anti-virus and anti-malware software ?
The point has never been to "educate" the public. The point has been to THREATEN the public.
Yeah, China has done very well. For instance, just contrast China with Taiwan and Hong Kong. Oh wait.....
GNU vs Windows/Random Proprietary stuff is exactly the same as the difference between the free market and the old Soviet Command Economy. With GNU, individuals take the risk to create something they THINK other people will want. The market place kills off the ideas that don't work out as those distro creators thought they would. Vs large corporate CTO/CIO head geek type deciding what "cool" "hip" new features his army of business suit coders should work on. It's exactly why there are a million cool compiz effects for dozens of different Linux distros. Microsoft can never even begin to match what that small army of pizza/mountain dew fueled Mom's basement dwelling "code because I love it" geeks can do. (Yes, I'm aware the stereotype isn't accurate but it is damn funny.)
Anyway, it took forever for the old Soviets and their awful command economy to die, even though they slowly when broke over 70 years. It might take Microsoft and their type another 70 years, but go broke they will. They can't compete with the better idea's coded for free for GNU.
It'll just take a while.
How are we going to pay the debt ? As a last resort, we print the money. If the other countries push us too hard, we COULD print enough to pay them off, and the next month, introduce the new and improved AMERICAN PESO !!. We won't though, because we don't need to. Slow steady inflation will take care of most of that debt.
Now, do we deliver ourselves into our enemies hands ? Not really. There is an old saying, borrow a little, and you have a debtor. Borrow a lot, and you have a partner.
They won't be able to screw us over without hurting themselves too badly. Also, if they really really try to screw us, we DO print the money. Hell, we could just jack up inflation for a decade and really screw them over, we wouldn't even need to abandon the dollar.
A slashdot story that cries out for a car analogy.
This is exactly like a woman jaywalking on the way to the police station to report her own rape. When she gets there, the police not only refuse to arrest or even investigate her rapist, because the rapist is the chief of police, but they do make strenuous efforts to investigate her jaywalking while running to the station to report the rape. Those at the Justice Department (no irony in the name huh ?) who are abusing their authority to harass a genuine Patriot should be sacked, disbarred, and charged themselves. Perhaps our new Chief Executive can do something about this, I don't think he will though. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Like his vote on telcom immunity.
Tigers and Rhinos are going extinct because the Chinese believe that drinking tea made from a tigers penis or a rhinos horn will give them a bigger dick. I'm not too worried about the African penis shrinking witch doctors either, though maybe the Chinese should be. Call me back when they stop thinking a tigers penis will solve their national dick size problem.
But darn it; when will someone finally offer a reasonably-priced, open-platform STB that serves as an A/V gateway to multiple Internet-based services -- one consumer-friendly, environmentally-designed, low-power gadget 'to rule them all,' if you will." It's called a laptop logged into the www.piratebay.org ....of course the pirates are the only ones with media that doesn't suck and isn't crippled. Quite up to date too, with a large back catalogue.
David
do you like porn ? Why ask this crowd a question you already know the answer to ?
I apologise for the misspelling Toyota. Spell check didn't catch it, and all I can say in my defence is that I'm a star wars fan. Sorry.
In a related move, Toyoda has also served a DMCA take down notice to slashdot, demanding that all car related analogies be removed from comments by slashdot members.
This is the USA. We don't have journalism here. We just have corporations that pretend to be journalistic while serving up entertainment, to drive an advertising revenue stream. So there is no advantage in NOT going to yahoo.
Those Jamestown settlers also spent most of their time digging for gold and murdering natives, rather than planting crops or learning how to survive from the people they suspected of hoarding gold.
Hope the modern day Mars settlers don't have the same issues.
(We're providing a series of Web services, assets, and Web applications to users of our mobil
This guy has the PHB manual talking points inserted rectally so hard it's still coming out of his mouth. I can't even take people seriously when they talk like this. Probably why I live in my Mom's basement instead of having a corporate job and a girlfriend.
Linux runs 85% of the top 500 computers in the world troll. Maybe it's your skills that are lacking.
Flying Spaghetti Monster.... sorry, I've been touched by his noodley appendage this morning, and it's left me dazed, and with less money than I had before. (Does that mean it's officially a religion now ?)
"Last Tuesday the invisible Pink Unicorn created the universe with the apparent age of 13.6 billion years".
Change that to the Giant Spaghetti Monster, and you've got me.