I think it's easy to see why Ubuntu stole Mandriva's thunder.
Are you referring to the pictures of naked women or the large pile of cash?
I started on Red Hat 5.1 in college, used newsgroups and a few other college students to share ideas. When I came home for one summer I brought Red Hat, Debian and Mandrake to show my dad and a few of his friends different Linux distros.
To my surprise, one guy really loved Mandrake, the rest just couldn't care less, all old school Bell Atlantic UNIX guys. But this one guy, Bill Reed, he really took to updating his skills, he took to it like a fish to water, in a short time, I switched to Mandrake merely out of the joy of having other Linux enthusiast to talk with. I loved Mandrake for that. I was twenty something years old, hanging out with a fifty-something year old guy who I could label as one of my best friends up until his passing.
Once we got more knowledgeable, we started moving to new distros. While I went to Fedora and RHEL, he went to SuSE. Phone company laid him off and he just started his own Linux consulting company. Both he and I tried Mandrake and then Mandrivia from time to time, but it wasn't the same, he would show me cool SuSE things and I would show him cool Fedora things, I want to laugh at taking days to setup SAMBA domain back then, but I am really grateful for the friendship which grew out of a Mandrake install feast.
Are you retarded? The FCC just "determines" Internet Access is a telecom service so it can regulate it. Seriously?
Under your logic perhaps the FDA should declare the Internet a drug so it can regulate it.
Heck it is the Information Superhighway, perhaps we should get someone from our local law enforcement community to regulate it.
Perhaps we should contact NASA and have them draft an exploratory counsel given it is often referred to as cyberSPACE.
I hate many things about ISPs, but I hate the idea of government bureaucrats deciding what is best for me even more.
Perhaps I should remind you that we live in a Democratic Republic where only elected representatives are to make the laws, not government agencies. And for your information that is a very good thing.
Actually to be fair, it says nothing about slaves or people as property, you need to reread our country's founding document it is beautiful in it's brilliance. It refers to free people and non-free people, as Madison himself wrote it showed how slave owners at the time were ashamed of the word and struggled with it from the beginning.
Just so you know, people who were against slavery did not want slaves counted, while people that were for slavery did want them counted.
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That seems backwards to most people these days, it doesn't appear to make sense, but, if the Constitution had counted slaves as a full person, it would have extended the period of slavery in this country beyond 1865. You should ask, why were those for slavery for counting them as a full person and those against slavery for not counting them at all?
The answer is that both sides understood that in a Republic, your representation in the house is based on respective number of people counted in the census. If slaves were counted as 1 person and used to set congressional districts, that would give Southern slave owners greater representation in the House of Representatives. There were time bombs put in the Constitution to eventually free the slaves and by counting them as 3/5 a person instead of 1 person, it effectively shortened the fuse and thus time until slaves would eventually be freed. It really bothers me that people use the 3/5 of a non free person in the Constitution to devalue it. It is rumored (and certainly fits his style) that it was Benjamin Franklin (PA Representative), that worked to put in the 3/5 rule in order to get southerners to sign, but reduce their influence in Congress and thus effectively reduced the period of slavery in this Country.
There is nothing Steve can do to prevent you from using the iPad to Android wifi tether. Well accept for the fact that the iPad is retarded and most people who multitask will find it lacking. Oh and you cannot upgrade storage or swap batteries, or use flash or java.
Steve Jobs is an fascist authoritarian and you love him despite it. You people bow at the alter of Apple and agree to all of these insane contractual obligations and BS. While you would balk at similar (sometimes lesser) offenses from Microsoft. Things Apple has done and continues to do in many cases are worse then MS offenses (not excuse MS), yet, Steve Jobs is revered and excused. Personally, I use an Android phone so that I can run background apps, use it as a wireless tether for my laptop(s), and use carriers that have better networks then AT&T. Apple survives because people are lemmings and all Jobs has lead the way and point them to the iCliff.
Steve Jobs is a dick and the people who hang onto him are nuts.
This patent BS is a joke. Did HTC hack, steal or corrupt Apple's trade secrets? Not at all and nobody believes that. It is one thing if a company steals your stuff, it is completely different if they come up with a similar idea/process independent of you.
The part that makes this so laughable is that Apple is using the iPad name when two other companies already have claims to it. It is amazing to me that a company that bullies and takes from others with one hand has the balls to wave a finger at other companies (Especially ones that behavior better).
I love the iPad propaganda that says "you just do".
Really?
How do you "do" two apps at the same time? Who doesn't multi-task these days?
How do I "do" Java and Flash? I mean if it is the best way to browse the web, then I assume it supports key web
technologies.
How "do" I drag and drop music and documents onto my iPhone/iPad from Linux and Windows? Am I free to not use iTunes?
How "do" I tether my laptop to my iPhone or ipad for internet access? Android has a wifi-tether app, is there an app for that on the iPhone?
How "do" people who don't have an Intel based Mac write apps? I can write Android and Blackberry apps without needed specific hardware.
How "do" I release iPhone apps, without giving away my intellectual property and source code? Does Apple allow me to protect my trade secrets like it does?
How "do" I not pay so much and have my choice of carrier? AT&T's network is cheap while the plans are expensive.
No. They have not yet invented the magic zero emission fossil fuel engine yet, and if they did the first installation probably wouldn't go on a Zamboni.
Agreed, it will be a DeLorean.
Or should I say "is" a DeLorean?
Or should I say "was, is and will be" a DeLorean?
Wow, this whole time travel/relativity stuff is grammatically challenging.
How can Obama continue to claim that he is going to run a "transparent" government?
... when his own white house staff wants to restrict photos that by law cannot be copyrighted?
... how TARP money that has been paid back by big banks is now going to be lent out to smaller banks. It basically means if the US taxpayer is paid back that money will be lent to somebody else, until the entity getting money fails to pay money back, i.e. we ensure we waste 700 billion dollars.
... how recovery.gov has tons of mistakes and hasn't been updated in months.
... how he pretends he is open by recording White House visitors, but he conveniently leaves out lobbyists he meets with outside of White House.
... how he promised not to hirer lobbyists, still insists he hasn't hired lobbyists, yet has 40 lobbyist on staff (they aren't counted as he gave them a special "waiver").
Honestly I hate how much the President lies and how he gets a pass, merely because Bush sucked. I agree Bush had a ton of problems, but it makes no sense to give Obama a pass on his problems. Obama sucks also, just in different ways.
Unless the iPad fails. I am unsure it will be as big a market player. Perhaps if Apple came out with a Windows, OS X, and iPhone software readers, then the iBookstore could have a bigger client base, but just selling books to iPad users seems like a very limited market.
I personally prefer Fedora, which gives much more back to the Linux community.
Up next, I really wish Mandrivia was the big boy instead of Ubuntu, it had some really cool and innovative features that made the user experience sweet before Ubuntu even had naked pictures.
It will be interesting to note whether Mint will go with the Ubuntu changes or spin off and avoid them.
Looks like a growing part of Ubuntu's revenue source is "paid" changes/defaults.
Crazy, Apple stole ideas from Xerox. Then Lee Jay Lorenzen leaves Xerox goes to Digital Research, builds GEM using same concepts only to be sued by Apple for stealing their idea. Priceless.
Funny, I just read a post from the fellas on your network segment, who wanted Comcast to refund their money on days when Comcast failed to throttle your connection and as it was impacted their connection speeds.
Isn't it interesting when people think they are getting screwed by big business, when it is really them screwing each other from a far?
If Comcast is really honestly raping you, then change to something else. If there is nothing better than Comcast, which is why have been willing to spread your legs and through some cash at them, I have to wonder... What is it that makes you feel you are the one being taken advantage of?
I love this BS where a bunch of academics theorize how things should be, if only they were in change and the world was a very organized and authoritarian structure. Then what really happens is some dude with no more than a HS diploma comes up with a workable solution in his garage. It isn't sexy, it just works and the academics either 1). hate him for it and put his solution down or 2). Claim he was simply doing what they suggested in the first place.
Not to mention schools and universities that have so many public IPs, they are giving them out to wifi quests and computer lab PCs. If we recoup those wasted IPs (with NATed addresses, I know, it's a bad word on/.), but it would easily give us many many more years.
[Bruce Schneier's] logic seems pretty good, I'd actually agree with him that [not encrypting feeds] is no big deal at all.
You're either retarded or easily fooled. On second thought, I don't think you are retarded, which is why I want you to have the first chance to buy this bridge I am selling.
Get over it folks we are constantly modifying our environment and our food stuffs
I would even take it a step further, if one doesn't believe their is a creator and they believe only in things like nature and evolution. They must accept that our manipulation of the environment is a natural event/action.
As one possible path of evolution, such a mindlink would prove extremely beneficial
I don't know of a single creationist who asks the question "how could something as complex as an eye possibly have evolved?" that doesn't believe the eye is extremely beneficial.
It's like your missing the point and trying to argue a different point, everyone agrees on.
That said, your commentary on the floating/flying mountains is the best I have heard so far.
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I think it's easy to see why Ubuntu stole Mandriva's thunder.
Are you referring to the pictures of naked women or the large pile of cash?
I started on Red Hat 5.1 in college, used newsgroups and a few other college students to share ideas. When I came home for one summer I brought Red Hat, Debian and Mandrake to show my dad and a few of his friends different Linux distros.
To my surprise, one guy really loved Mandrake, the rest just couldn't care less, all old school Bell Atlantic UNIX guys. But this one guy, Bill Reed, he really took to updating his skills, he took to it like a fish to water, in a short time, I switched to Mandrake merely out of the joy of having other Linux enthusiast to talk with. I loved Mandrake for that. I was twenty something years old, hanging out with a fifty-something year old guy who I could label as one of my best friends up until his passing.
Once we got more knowledgeable, we started moving to new distros. While I went to Fedora and RHEL, he went to SuSE. Phone company laid him off and he just started his own Linux consulting company. Both he and I tried Mandrake and then Mandrivia from time to time, but it wasn't the same, he would show me cool SuSE things and I would show him cool Fedora things, I want to laugh at taking days to setup SAMBA domain back then, but I am really grateful for the friendship which grew out of a Mandrake install feast.
Are you retarded? The FCC just "determines" Internet Access is a telecom service so it can regulate it. Seriously?
Under your logic perhaps the FDA should declare the Internet a drug so it can regulate it.
Heck it is the Information Superhighway, perhaps we should get someone from our local law enforcement community to regulate it.
Perhaps we should contact NASA and have them draft an exploratory counsel given it is often referred to as cyberSPACE.
I hate many things about ISPs, but I hate the idea of government bureaucrats deciding what is best for me even more.
Perhaps I should remind you that we live in a Democratic Republic where only elected representatives are to make the laws, not government agencies. And for your information that is a very good thing.
Actually to be fair, it says nothing about slaves or people as property, you need to reread our country's founding document it is beautiful in it's brilliance. It refers to free people and non-free people, as Madison himself wrote it showed how slave owners at the time were ashamed of the word and struggled with it from the beginning.
Just so you know, people who were against slavery did not want slaves counted, while people that were for slavery did want them counted.
BR> That seems backwards to most people these days, it doesn't appear to make sense, but, if the Constitution had counted slaves as a full person, it would have extended the period of slavery in this country beyond 1865. You should ask, why were those for slavery for counting them as a full person and those against slavery for not counting them at all?
The answer is that both sides understood that in a Republic, your representation in the house is based on respective number of people counted in the census. If slaves were counted as 1 person and used to set congressional districts, that would give Southern slave owners greater representation in the House of Representatives. There were time bombs put in the Constitution to eventually free the slaves and by counting them as 3/5 a person instead of 1 person, it effectively shortened the fuse and thus time until slaves would eventually be freed. It really bothers me that people use the 3/5 of a non free person in the Constitution to devalue it. It is rumored (and certainly fits his style) that it was Benjamin Franklin (PA Representative), that worked to put in the 3/5 rule in order to get southerners to sign, but reduce their influence in Congress and thus effectively reduced the period of slavery in this Country.
There is nothing Steve can do to prevent you from using the iPad to Android wifi tether. Well accept for the fact that the iPad is retarded and most people who multitask will find it lacking. Oh and you cannot upgrade storage or swap batteries, or use flash or java.
Steve Jobs is an fascist authoritarian and you love him despite it. You people bow at the alter of Apple and agree to all of these insane contractual obligations and BS. While you would balk at similar (sometimes lesser) offenses from Microsoft. Things Apple has done and continues to do in many cases are worse then MS offenses (not excuse MS), yet, Steve Jobs is revered and excused. Personally, I use an Android phone so that I can run background apps, use it as a wireless tether for my laptop(s), and use carriers that have better networks then AT&T. Apple survives because people are lemmings and all Jobs has lead the way and point them to the iCliff.
I will never forget being in London at a bar that had two Genius taps, one traditional and one labeled "Extra Cold".
By your logic, Apple should be paying Samsung huge amounts of cash for the huge innovations in the iPhone that mirror Samsung's earlier products.
Steve Jobs is a dick and the people who hang onto him are nuts.
This patent BS is a joke. Did HTC hack, steal or corrupt Apple's trade secrets? Not at all and nobody believes that. It is one thing if a company steals your stuff, it is completely different if they come up with a similar idea/process independent of you.
The part that makes this so laughable is that Apple is using the iPad name when two other companies already have claims to it. It is amazing to me that a company that bullies and takes from others with one hand has the balls to wave a finger at other companies (Especially ones that behavior better).
I love the iPad propaganda that says "you just do".
Really?
How do you "do" two apps at the same time? Who doesn't multi-task these days?
How do I "do" Java and Flash? I mean if it is the best way to browse the web, then I assume it supports key web technologies.
How "do" I drag and drop music and documents onto my iPhone/iPad from Linux and Windows? Am I free to not use iTunes?
How "do" I tether my laptop to my iPhone or ipad for internet access? Android has a wifi-tether app, is there an app for that on the iPhone?
How "do" people who don't have an Intel based Mac write apps? I can write Android and Blackberry apps without needed specific hardware.
How "do" I release iPhone apps, without giving away my intellectual property and source code? Does Apple allow me to protect my trade secrets like it does?
How "do" I not pay so much and have my choice of carrier? AT&T's network is cheap while the plans are expensive.
Proprietary software is only cheaper if you are incompetent
And it isn't cheaper if you're using Apple's software. It is neither free as in beer nor free as in speech.
No. They have not yet invented the magic zero emission fossil fuel engine yet, and if they did the first installation probably wouldn't go on a Zamboni.
Agreed, it will be a DeLorean.
Or should I say "is" a DeLorean?
Or should I say "was, is and will be" a DeLorean?
Wow, this whole time travel/relativity stuff is grammatically challenging.
How can Obama continue to claim that he is going to run a "transparent" government?
... when his own white house staff wants to restrict photos that by law cannot be copyrighted?
... how TARP money that has been paid back by big banks is now going to be lent out to smaller banks. It basically means if the US taxpayer is paid back that money will be lent to somebody else, until the entity getting money fails to pay money back, i.e. we ensure we waste 700 billion dollars.
... how recovery.gov has tons of mistakes and hasn't been updated in months.
... how he pretends he is open by recording White House visitors, but he conveniently leaves out lobbyists he meets with outside of White House.
... how he promised not to hirer lobbyists, still insists he hasn't hired lobbyists, yet has 40 lobbyist on staff (they aren't counted as he gave them a special "waiver").
Honestly I hate how much the President lies and how he gets a pass, merely because Bush sucked. I agree Bush had a ton of problems, but it makes no sense to give Obama a pass on his problems. Obama sucks also, just in different ways.
Just send every single tax filing both ways. The right one gets filed, and wrong one gets rejected. Twice the work for the government.
Great idea, you should patent it.
Unless the iPad fails. I am unsure it will be as big a market player. Perhaps if Apple came out with a Windows, OS X, and iPhone software readers, then the iBookstore could have a bigger client base, but just selling books to iPad users seems like a very limited market.
PS - The Sony ereader is by far the best so far.
I personally prefer Fedora, which gives much more back to the Linux community.
Up next, I really wish Mandrivia was the big boy instead of Ubuntu, it had some really cool and innovative features that made the user experience sweet before Ubuntu even had naked pictures.
It will be interesting to note whether Mint will go with the Ubuntu changes or spin off and avoid them.
Looks like a growing part of Ubuntu's revenue source is "paid" changes/defaults.
Crazy, Apple stole ideas from Xerox. Then Lee Jay Lorenzen leaves Xerox goes to Digital Research, builds GEM using same concepts only to be sued by Apple for stealing their idea. Priceless.
If you want to take a dip in the gay pool
ummmm, I'll pass, but thanks for asking.
4). They advertise a lot.
Funny, I just read a post from the fellas on your network segment, who wanted Comcast to refund their money on days when Comcast failed to throttle your connection and as it was impacted their connection speeds.
... What is it that makes you feel you are the one being taken advantage of?
Isn't it interesting when people think they are getting screwed by big business, when it is really them screwing each other from a far?
If Comcast is really honestly raping you, then change to something else. If there is nothing better than Comcast, which is why have been willing to spread your legs and through some cash at them, I have to wonder
I love this BS where a bunch of academics theorize how things should be, if only they were in change and the world was a very organized and authoritarian structure. Then what really happens is some dude with no more than a HS diploma comes up with a workable solution in his garage. It isn't sexy, it just works and the academics either 1). hate him for it and put his solution down or 2). Claim he was simply doing what they suggested in the first place.
Not to mention schools and universities that have so many public IPs, they are giving them out to wifi quests and computer lab PCs. If we recoup those wasted IPs (with NATed addresses, I know, it's a bad word on /.), but it would easily give us many many more years.
I'm just saying "It makes for one heck of a target".
[Bruce Schneier's] logic seems pretty good, I'd actually agree with him that [not encrypting feeds] is no big deal at all.
You're either retarded or easily fooled. On second thought, I don't think you are retarded, which is why I want you to have the first chance to buy this bridge I am selling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwxXSfJxSzQ&feature=related
Shouldn't it be how many users/computers per administrator?
Get over it folks we are constantly modifying our environment and our food stuffs
I would even take it a step further, if one doesn't believe their is a creator and they believe only in things like nature and evolution. They must accept that our manipulation of the environment is a natural event/action.
As one possible path of evolution, such a mindlink would prove extremely beneficial
I don't know of a single creationist who asks the question "how could something as complex as an eye possibly have evolved?" that doesn't believe the eye is extremely beneficial.
It's like your missing the point and trying to argue a different point, everyone agrees on.
That said, your commentary on the floating/flying mountains is the best I have heard so far.