The free market has chosen which distros to support. Distros which serve the masses are supported by donations, developers, a community willing to support others, and in some cases sales of boxed versions or other services. With such a low barrier to entry, it is very understandable that there would be hundreds or thousands of distros spouting out of nowhere. These fringe distro fail to gather a community around them, and are really nothing more than row in distrowatche's database, doing very little harm to the more established linux distributions. But the important thing here is that the community has decided which distros to support, instead of an authority consisting of a few people.
Don't tell the presidential candidates though, they have to win in Iowa! Why not tell this guy:
He calls himself the "taxpayers' best friend," and this has led him to controversial stands, such as voting against federal farming subsidies despite the wide swaths of agricultural land in his district.
According to the supreme court, there is a difference between political speech and stuff that is inapropriate. Which one do you think this falls under?
What he said up on the web for all to see. He wasn't fired for talking about pulling troops from Iraq. He was talking about holding a gun up to someones face and firing the gun. Seems very silly to fire somebody over that. However, I don't write his paycheck and don't decide how someone should get fired.
He wasn't fired because he had said something that offended is employers, he was fired because he said something that made one of his co-workers uncomfortable. I think this makes the issue of first amendment protections moot. But IANAL.
I still say he should seek counsel for this. I think he might have a case however week it might be. The supreme court has ruled on contract obligations before that were unfair or extraneously ridiculous. Getting fired because someone heard half a conversation or because you were over heard talking about using your constitutionally protected rights might fall into one of those categories.
The constitution doesn't protect you from getting fired by a private employer. I think he would have an extremely weak case if he tried to sue. But IANAL.
I've long wondered why the proprietary vendors try to cut out modding if they're pricing their product to make money through sales
Good point. Modding adds a lot of value to a product. Think of Half-Life. How many copies do you think Valve would have sold without the mods? Counter-Strike seemed to be more popular than Half-Life ever was, yet Valve still made money on copies of Half-Life.
Microsoft always has a bag of dirty tricks. Expect to see a lot of fud, lawsuits, and/or who knows what else if ReactOS gets to close to being a real competitor to Microsoft.
Tungsten WB on the 400D isn't good enough. The RAW format on the other hand bypasses all in camera processing irrelevant. Huge CF cards are cheap, so why not use it.
Well, a consumer camera like a camera phone will try to create a picture that can be used out of the box. Hence the enhancements to the color and contrast. A dSLR owner is more likely to post process their image. So the image will have less processing, allowing the user to add contrast and saturation in post processing. Comparing cameras in this way is pointless because the effect can be created photoshop.
Your right. This tech person probably won't recommend what they use, but something they feel the user would like. They don't want to leave a sour taste in the persons mouth. If you leave a bad taste in someones mouth, not only will they avoid linux in the future, but they will recommend against it to other people.
That attitude is precisely why Linux is having so much trouble gaining against Windows. For every weenie who likes to build the kernel five times a day, there are thousands of customers who just want the damn thing to work without having to mess with it.
Ubuntu provides an easy to use linux experience. Why does gentoo have to provide the same thing when somebody else already provide such a distro? Gentoo has always been the distro for people like me who like to have fine grained control over their system.
I can see this turning into a cat and mouse game with hackers finding keys and then having the keys disabled. And of course the victim in all of this will be the person who wants to play their legitimately bought dicss when they have to constantly update the keys on their HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player. Plus, how many keys do they have before they exhaust them all?
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As in those who can bring creative ideas to a mass market and put it in my hands, not those who can demonstrate a creative idea in their basement.
The transformers that are used to change the voltage of AC current don't work on DC current, so transmitting high voltage DC current wouldn't work.
The free market has chosen which distros to support. Distros which serve the masses are supported by donations, developers, a community willing to support others, and in some cases sales of boxed versions or other services. With such a low barrier to entry, it is very understandable that there would be hundreds or thousands of distros spouting out of nowhere. These fringe distro fail to gather a community around them, and are really nothing more than row in distrowatche's database, doing very little harm to the more established linux distributions. But the important thing here is that the community has decided which distros to support, instead of an authority consisting of a few people.
At the very least have the balls to post this sort of comment under a semi-anonymous pseudonym.
Why do you think we hate the DMCA?
Strike notepad from the list. Ever try to open a file with unix format newlines with notepad?
I use rsync to sync my iRiver H120 to my computer's music collection.
Bite my shiny metal ass!
Hopefully, people will realize just how childish this mudslinging is when it becauses so common to find a something bad in someones past.
Um no. He was talking about ownership of a gun. He wasn't discussing gun control or gun laws.
According to the supreme court, there is a difference between political speech and stuff that is inapropriate. Which one do you think this falls under?
What he said up on the web for all to see. He wasn't fired for talking about pulling troops from Iraq. He was talking about holding a gun up to someones face and firing the gun. Seems very silly to fire somebody over that. However, I don't write his paycheck and don't decide how someone should get fired.
He wasn't fired because he had said something that offended is employers, he was fired because he said something that made one of his co-workers uncomfortable. I think this makes the issue of first amendment protections moot. But IANAL.
Microsoft always has a bag of dirty tricks. Expect to see a lot of fud, lawsuits, and/or who knows what else if ReactOS gets to close to being a real competitor to Microsoft.
Easy. Take a WB reading off of a grey card. Or just use RAW.
Well, a consumer camera like a camera phone will try to create a picture that can be used out of the box. Hence the enhancements to the color and contrast. A dSLR owner is more likely to post process their image. So the image will have less processing, allowing the user to add contrast and saturation in post processing. Comparing cameras in this way is pointless because the effect can be created photoshop.
LTTE does control parts of nothern Sri Lanka. I'm sure they could set up a dish there.
Your right. This tech person probably won't recommend what they use, but something they feel the user would like. They don't want to leave a sour taste in the persons mouth. If you leave a bad taste in someones mouth, not only will they avoid linux in the future, but they will recommend against it to other people.
I can see this turning into a cat and mouse game with hackers finding keys and then having the keys disabled. And of course the victim in all of this will be the person who wants to play their legitimately bought dicss when they have to constantly update the keys on their HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player. Plus, how many keys do they have before they exhaust them all?