There's no politics on his plan page. The political discussion above came into being due to an observation of the differences between US and Denmark tax policies. You are being way too sensitive.
As a libertarian, I long ago realized that most people disagree with me on politics. Even were I a conservative or liberal, there would still be one out of every two people who would disagree with me. Life is about people disagreeing with you. Get over it.
I think there really is a huge market for combining things that people want into small packages.
No, that's just Hong Kong. Every once in a while you discover a place that is so immersed in consumer materialism that it makes even Madison Avenue blush. Hong Kong is one of those places.
It's standard industry practice. My company is currently looking for.NET developers with ten years experience. Two years the company tried to get us to take a C# class taught by a professor with five years of C# experience.
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Hmmm, I used to do similar stunts on AOL (just because we hated AOL so much). We would get on the Star Trek chat rooms and start spamming.
Me: "Captain, the engines are going to blow! They're full of SPAM!" Bob: "Oh god they're back!" Mary: "I'm outa here." Joe: "Groan..." Me: "Where no SPAM has gone before!"
Except that they can't just "try out something besides Windows" without buying the hardware. This distro is not sold separately. It's not designed for people just to try out.
This is the primary reason why not too many people have switched to the Mac. You can't just try it out.
I think he included Windows users in that "everyone" as well.
Dell and all the other mass market PC manufacturers still ship with proprietary hardware. That means without the OEM's software on CD, you're screwed trying to install even Windows. It's more problematic on laptops, but I've run into issues on Dell desktops as well.
That's why I still prefer building my own systems. Of course, installing Windows on that homebuild still involves "several install CDs". One for Windows, one for the motherboard, one for the video card, and one for the sound card.
You can't expect an average user to use the command line.
1) I can expect them do, because pre-1995, all average users DID use the command line, at least all of them but the Mac users. While not having to use the command line anymore may or may nti be a good thing, insisting that users can't handle it is erroneous.
2) If this ION distro is anything at all like the other Debian based newbie distros, then it will have a GUI frontend to apt-get that will make installation so effortless that the Mac way will seem like drudgery.
And it's also dead easy to boot from them on today's machines.
I guess my nine month old computer is just too damned old. I need to get with the program and buy new hardware much more often that that.
I really wish it would though. It's a great replacement for floppy once you get the manufacturers agreed on a mass storage standard (some still don't). But how soon until USB 2.0 is obsolete? On my "old" system I still have to specifically enable "legacy" USB, otherwise known as 1.1. That's just silly.
Floppies may have been small, slow and easily damaged, but they were at least ubiquitous and standard for two decades. Even though we have newer technologies, we shouldn't be a wasteful society that throws out everything old. I've got an old laptop that makes a perfectly servicable portable terminal. It will not boot from CDROM, doesn't have USB, but does have a floppy. Some people would have me throw into into a landfill.
So what right do they have to advertise to you, or sell information from your PC, beyond the end user being stupid enough to agree to some liscence?
Actually, that's it right there. The users HAVE AGREED to some stupid license. That's why they have this spyware to begin with. We're not talking about viruses, but about voluntarily installed software. In order to install this, the user had to agree to the advert provisions in the EULA, or choose not to the read the EULA and click-through anyway.
This Utah law is another example of a "save us from our own stupidity" law.
I agree. I'm sick and tired of people whining that we need more laws. People need to start taking responsibility for their own lives.
Yes it sucks that there's spam and spyware and adware out there. But there are other ways to solve this problem without giving government yet another quantum of totalitarian authority. The purpose of government isn't to solve your pet peeves.
there's no sourceforge.sortaopen.net for BSD-licensed projects, for instance.
That's because the BSD license is 100% Free Software, with the imprimatur of Richard M. Stallman himself, and 100% Open Source Software, certified by the Notorius Public at OSI.
In Texas, as long as one party knows the conversation is being recorded, it's legal.
As well as in most other states. If I can't record my own voice having a conversation, something is seriously warped. It may be rude to not tell the other party about it, but it's still my right to do so.
Merely by engaging in a conversation (or online chat) I have given up my right to privacy. I might have a reasonable expectations that no one else is currently listening in, but it's absurd to think that the person I'm talking to isn't listening to what I'm saying.
Sure, it has to be tested -- but it's not like Java code doesn't need to be tested on all platforms it's being used on.
People test Java code on platforms other than the one the developer uses? This is so counter to my experiences that I find I'm having serious problems believing it.
Java has been out for how long now? Nine and a half years. A whole freaking decade! Yet every damn time someone mentions the poor performance of Java, the same standard excuses are trotted out, with an exhortation to use the new and improved Java:
1) That's because you're using Java 1.x. Use Java 1.y instead, it's got all these new performance features...
2) That's because it's using the old GUI toolkit. Use the new one instead...
3) That was with the old JVM. Use the new one...
4) That was with the old JIT. Use the new one...
5) That's because you're using a slow XX Hz CPU. Don't be a tight wad and upgrade to a YY Hz CPU intead...
Why should I believe you this time? You might actually be right, but I really don't care anymore. You had your chances, nine and a half years of them, so I'm not giving you any more.
Standards compliance? What a bunch of rubbish! Besides the hubris of introducing a new system in the middle of a review on someone else's game, this he has the chutzpah to call this unwritten (let alone published) system a "standard".
If that's a standard, I've got several dozen more over here I could sell you really cheap...
The reason I don't use d20 is the legal trickery and moral hypocrisy behind it.
It was and is perfectly legal to create adventures for the ADnD rules without having to ask permission. These are not derivative works unless you quote extensively from the rules. But TSR and WotC decided to legally bludgeon their fans instead. If you published an ADnD adventure on the web you got a threatening demand from TSR/WotC that convinced you to take it down.
But a few fans told them to stick their intimidation where the sun don't shine. Their plan to dominate gaming was starting to crumble. So WotC came up with a brilliant strategy keep screwing their fans while looking like a liberating hero. They came up with a quasi-copyleft game license attached to a trademark. Everyone was still getting screwed but they were too busy saying "thank you" to notice.
People think WotC is the FSF of gaming, when in fact no license WAS EVER needed to write adventures. The only thing the license is necessary for is using their trademark. You cannot copyright generic game mechanics!
The Al Gore "quote" was from one of the actual ARPAnet implementers
The actual truth isn't demeaning to Gore. He was misquoted out of context. So I can't understand why some people keep insisting on creating excuses for him. This is the third fabricated story I've heard on the subject, which makes me wish all you Gore apologists would hold a convention so you could get your stories straight.
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Just a matter of time before they outlaw Linux in the U.S.
Sheesh, some of you people just don't live in the same universe as everyone else.
There's no politics on his plan page. The political discussion above came into being due to an observation of the differences between US and Denmark tax policies. You are being way too sensitive.
As a libertarian, I long ago realized that most people disagree with me on politics. Even were I a conservative or liberal, there would still be one out of every two people who would disagree with me. Life is about people disagreeing with you. Get over it.
What makes saying 'fucktard' to your mother cool?
Actually, "balls" is a registered trademark of American Express. The aster*x prevents an automatic lawsuit.
Notice the reach way back a couple of millenia to find gay marriage popularity.
I think there really is a huge market for combining things that people want into small packages.
No, that's just Hong Kong. Every once in a while you discover a place that is so immersed in consumer materialism that it makes even Madison Avenue blush. Hong Kong is one of those places.
this was before gay marriage was popular
Dude, anything before this current year was "before gay marriage was popular".
It's standard industry practice. My company is currently looking for .NET developers with ten years experience. Two years the company tried to get us to take a C# class taught by a professor with five years of C# experience.
Hmmm, I used to do similar stunts on AOL (just because we hated AOL so much). We would get on the Star Trek chat rooms and start spamming.
Me: "Captain, the engines are going to blow! They're full of SPAM!"
Bob: "Oh god they're back!"
Mary: "I'm outa here."
Joe: "Groan..."
Me: "Where no SPAM has gone before!"
Except that they can't just "try out something besides Windows" without buying the hardware. This distro is not sold separately. It's not designed for people just to try out.
This is the primary reason why not too many people have switched to the Mac. You can't just try it out.
I think he included Windows users in that "everyone" as well.
Dell and all the other mass market PC manufacturers still ship with proprietary hardware. That means without the OEM's software on CD, you're screwed trying to install even Windows. It's more problematic on laptops, but I've run into issues on Dell desktops as well.
That's why I still prefer building my own systems. Of course, installing Windows on that homebuild still involves "several install CDs". One for Windows, one for the motherboard, one for the video card, and one for the sound card.
You can't expect an average user to use the command line.
1) I can expect them do, because pre-1995, all average users DID use the command line, at least all of them but the Mac users. While not having to use the command line anymore may or may nti be a good thing, insisting that users can't handle it is erroneous.
2) If this ION distro is anything at all like the other Debian based newbie distros, then it will have a GUI frontend to apt-get that will make installation so effortless that the Mac way will seem like drudgery.
And it's also dead easy to boot from them on today's machines.
I guess my nine month old computer is just too damned old. I need to get with the program and buy new hardware much more often that that.
I really wish it would though. It's a great replacement for floppy once you get the manufacturers agreed on a mass storage standard (some still don't). But how soon until USB 2.0 is obsolete? On my "old" system I still have to specifically enable "legacy" USB, otherwise known as 1.1. That's just silly.
Floppies may have been small, slow and easily damaged, but they were at least ubiquitous and standard for two decades. Even though we have newer technologies, we shouldn't be a wasteful society that throws out everything old. I've got an old laptop that makes a perfectly servicable portable terminal. It will not boot from CDROM, doesn't have USB, but does have a floppy. Some people would have me throw into into a landfill.
And ironic sig considering a programer is spouting off his views of government.
Don't worry, the actors aren't paying any attention to me.
Java is fast, on the GUI too, in any platform, with "new" video cards.
Yet another excuse for Java's poor performance: buy a newer video card you cheapass bastard!
So what right do they have to advertise to you, or sell information from your PC, beyond the end user being stupid enough to agree to some liscence?
Actually, that's it right there. The users HAVE AGREED to some stupid license. That's why they have this spyware to begin with. We're not talking about viruses, but about voluntarily installed software. In order to install this, the user had to agree to the advert provisions in the EULA, or choose not to the read the EULA and click-through anyway.
This Utah law is another example of a "save us from our own stupidity" law.
I agree. I'm sick and tired of people whining that we need more laws. People need to start taking responsibility for their own lives.
Yes it sucks that there's spam and spyware and adware out there. But there are other ways to solve this problem without giving government yet another quantum of totalitarian authority. The purpose of government isn't to solve your pet peeves.
there's no sourceforge.sortaopen.net for BSD-licensed projects, for instance.
That's because the BSD license is 100% Free Software, with the imprimatur of Richard M. Stallman himself, and 100% Open Source Software, certified by the Notorius Public at OSI.
It is not "sortaopen", it is open!
In Texas, as long as one party knows the conversation is being recorded, it's legal.
As well as in most other states. If I can't record my own voice having a conversation, something is seriously warped. It may be rude to not tell the other party about it, but it's still my right to do so.
Merely by engaging in a conversation (or online chat) I have given up my right to privacy. I might have a reasonable expectations that no one else is currently listening in, but it's absurd to think that the person I'm talking to isn't listening to what I'm saying.
Excuses, excuses, excuses. Java has been out nine years, and I'm getting tired of all the damned excuses.
Sure, it has to be tested -- but it's not like Java code doesn't need to be tested on all platforms it's being used on.
People test Java code on platforms other than the one the developer uses? This is so counter to my experiences that I find I'm having serious problems believing it.
Java has been out for how long now? Nine and a half years. A whole freaking decade! Yet every damn time someone mentions the poor performance of Java, the same standard excuses are trotted out, with an exhortation to use the new and improved Java:
1) That's because you're using Java 1.x. Use Java 1.y instead, it's got all these new performance features...
2) That's because it's using the old GUI toolkit. Use the new one instead...
3) That was with the old JVM. Use the new one...
4) That was with the old JIT. Use the new one...
5) That's because you're using a slow XX Hz CPU. Don't be a tight wad and upgrade to a YY Hz CPU intead...
Why should I believe you this time? You might actually be right, but I really don't care anymore. You had your chances, nine and a half years of them, so I'm not giving you any more.
Standards compliance? What a bunch of rubbish! Besides the hubris of introducing a new system in the middle of a review on someone else's game, this he has the chutzpah to call this unwritten (let alone published) system a "standard".
If that's a standard, I've got several dozen more over here I could sell you really cheap...
The reason I don't use d20 is the legal trickery and moral hypocrisy behind it.
It was and is perfectly legal to create adventures for the ADnD rules without having to ask permission. These are not derivative works unless you quote extensively from the rules. But TSR and WotC decided to legally bludgeon their fans instead. If you published an ADnD adventure on the web you got a threatening demand from TSR/WotC that convinced you to take it down.
But a few fans told them to stick their intimidation where the sun don't shine. Their plan to dominate gaming was starting to crumble. So WotC came up with a brilliant strategy keep screwing their fans while looking like a liberating hero. They came up with a quasi-copyleft game license attached to a trademark. Everyone was still getting screwed but they were too busy saying "thank you" to notice.
People think WotC is the FSF of gaming, when in fact no license WAS EVER needed to write adventures. The only thing the license is necessary for is using their trademark. You cannot copyright generic game mechanics!
The Al Gore "quote" was from one of the actual ARPAnet implementers
The actual truth isn't demeaning to Gore. He was misquoted out of context. So I can't understand why some people keep insisting on creating excuses for him. This is the third fabricated story I've heard on the subject, which makes me wish all you Gore apologists would hold a convention so you could get your stories straight.