I have a feeling that in 10 to 20 years Atlantis will be just as real as Troy. People searched for that imaginary city for years too. Many mythical cities have turned into fact. I wonder if that would get people interested in archeology for a day or two. Maybe they'll do a Fox special on it.:)
So people trusted this guy to switch 10k machines to linux. Now, how will people look at his face when he is promoting windows OVER linux? Seems there isn't such thing as integrity.
You were expecting integrity from a salesman?!
That's like expecting integrity from pickpockets, child molesters, tapeworms and Darl McBride. Don't even go there!
Reminds me of Sun's SPARC archetecture. This was supposed to be used in everything from the top-end processors to little embedded thingies, using different performance silicon but a common instruction set. And it was supposed to be open.
You don't hear much about that either, do you?
The difference here is that Power/PowerPC is already being used in everything from the top-end processors to little embedded thingies. IBM has a pre-established market with an interest in their technology. Other than a few half-hearted SPARC based Sun clones, Sun never had anything besides high hopes for the SPARC technology.
You might have noticed that there aren't any actual libertarian governments. If poor people don't get any support or services from the goverment then they eventually revolt, and this results in either a socialist nation (if they win) or a military dictatorship (if they lose).
Um, no. Revolutions are rarely started by the poor, usually they're started by the middle classes. See the French Revolution, the American Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution as examples.
Which select group are you speaking of? What evidence do you have to support your position that the general population does not benefit from social programs?
Considering that those who wish to establish social programs propose to spend *my* tax dollars on them, I submit that it's incumbent on *them* to make the case that they are beneficial to the general population. Not my case to make that they aren't.
Is that even the point of social programs? No, it is not. The point of them are to help people who have been marginalized by society.
Marginalized by *what* society? Who is "society", anyway? Point to them.
You have a right to equal treatment under the law. You aren't entitled to special treatment just because a lot of people dislike you.
Or better yet- keep the much needded social projects and drop a few less bombs next year.
I've got a better idea.
How about less bombs and less social programs, and letting the taxpayers keep their own damn money so they can figure out how they'd like it to be spent?
It is, after all, their money in the first place. Right?
Why use Microsoft Office when Open Office is getting so good?
Because, while it may be getting good, it isn't quite good enough. While I would personally like to dump Office, the fact is if I did, it would seriously inhibit my ability to interoperate with other Office users in my workplace.
Yes, I know that OO has implemented compatability with most of Office's features. Most doesn't cut it, because someone is always going to be creating a document that uses one of the obscure features that's not implemented, and having to switch back and forth between office suites to accomodate this isn't worth the time and aggrevation just so I can have bragging rights to using OO.
Anyway, one step at a time. Anything which helps Linux gain parity with Windows on the desktop is a good thing. Once that victory is achieved, then worry about commoditizing office suites. When you consider how long it's taken for Linux to achieve even the desktop penetration it's achieved now, it becomes apparent how silly it is to expect the whole world to convert to open source only solutions over night. The chances of OO and other open source solutions gaining ground are vastly improved if Linux gets it's foot in the door first. Promoting applications that just aren't satisfactory for their purpose at the expense of promoting solutions which make Linux a viable alternative is self-defeating.
People aren't "things" or "machines." Nobody is perfect, and sometimes crap happens to people outside of their control -- debilitating car accident, significant other empties the bank accounts and disappears, someone slips on your sidewalk and sues, your child gets sick and requires expensive medical treatment, your apartment burns down,
Then give money to charity.
you have an IQ of 50
Speak for yourself.
People who think that people deserve to starve or live without a roof on their head "because they don't try hard enough" make me sick. Seriously, who the fuck wants to live like that? What makes you think that someone would want to live like that?
It's not a matter of wanting to be poor, everybody wants to be rich. It's a matter of how bad they don't want to be poor.
You can go down the skid row of any major city in the world and find people who don't want to live like that.
Unfortunately, they want to avoid being sober more than they want to avoid living like that.
The jails are full of people who don't want to live like that.
But the want to make a quick buck more than they want to stay out of jail.
It's a matter of setting your priorities.
People who think people should be taxed to give money to people who make bad decisions make me sick. Seriously, who the fuck wants to work for that? What makes you think that someone would want to work for that?
I haven't run Mozilla in awhile, been running Firebird instead. I must say it's pretty snappy and responsive. Too bad they haven't fixed the Control+Enter bug yet:(
What behavior does that produce? I haven't noticed any problems with it.
Firebird is a great browser about to hit 0.8 and stepping closer towards the great 1.0 release that took Mozilla years to obtain.
Well, yeah, but you have to consider Firebird uses the Gecko rendering engine, the same as Mozilla. Having a pre-written rendering engine wasn't an advantage enjoyed by Mozilla.
Thunderbird is still in need of lots of work, but the progress is fantastic and I exclusively use it even in its immature state.
I've been using it across Linux, Windows, and MacOS X, and I haven't had a single problem with it. I'm not really sure how much more work it needs, since it seems pretty clean of bugs, unless they're planning on adding some more features.
I hope not. Creeping featuritis has been the death of too many fine pieces of software that were fine just the way they were.
Political correctness is mostly associated with the "left". I'd say most people who react negatively to an image of a devil are conservative Christians.
I take you assume that because I'm not a liberal, I must be a conservative Christian.
Hello? There's more than two ways of looking at the world. It isn't a binary proposition.
But I guess its only bad if us darn liber-uhls do it, eh?
Perhaps you could point out where I said or implied that?
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Understandable enough. Apple earns revenue from licensing on this every time Motorola sells a cell phone. What do they earn when Real sells a song?
That is the most absurdly ignorant, hateful statement I have ever read.
Look, if it upsets you that much, post your address and we'll be glad to mail you a hankie - a nice pink one to go with your politics!
Join the US Army - pee all that you can pee!
I have a feeling that in 10 to 20 years Atlantis will be just as real as Troy. People searched for that imaginary city for years too. Many mythical cities have turned into fact. I wonder if that would get people interested in archeology for a day or two. Maybe they'll do a Fox special on it. :)
;-)
Only if they find the WMD's there, too.
So people trusted this guy to switch 10k machines to linux. Now, how will people look at his face when he is promoting windows OVER linux? Seems there isn't such thing as integrity.
You were expecting integrity from a salesman?!
That's like expecting integrity from pickpockets, child molesters, tapeworms and Darl McBride. Don't even go there!
Reminds me of Sun's SPARC archetecture. This was supposed to be used in everything from the top-end processors to little embedded thingies, using different performance silicon but a common instruction set. And it was supposed to be open.
You don't hear much about that either, do you?
The difference here is that Power/PowerPC is already being used in everything from the top-end processors to little embedded thingies. IBM has a pre-established market with an interest in their technology. Other than a few half-hearted SPARC based Sun clones, Sun never had anything besides high hopes for the SPARC technology.
You might have noticed that there aren't any actual libertarian governments. If poor people don't get any support or services from the goverment then they eventually revolt, and this results in either a socialist nation (if they win) or a military dictatorship (if they lose).
Um, no. Revolutions are rarely started by the poor, usually they're started by the middle classes. See the French Revolution, the American Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution as examples.
How about we hire the Russians either to do the work themselves or to transport our guys up to do it?
They seem to have manned launch technology available with a decent reliability and safety record.
Yes, they do have a decent reliability and safety record.
Unfortunately, what they don't have is a space shuttle for transporting the components that need to be replaced.
Which select group are you speaking of? What evidence do you have to support your position that the general population does not benefit from social programs?
Considering that those who wish to establish social programs propose to spend *my* tax dollars on them, I submit that it's incumbent on *them* to make the case that they are beneficial to the general population. Not my case to make that they aren't.
Is that even the point of social programs? No, it is not. The point of them are to help people who have been marginalized by society.
Marginalized by *what* society? Who is "society", anyway? Point to them.
You have a right to equal treatment under the law. You aren't entitled to special treatment just because a lot of people dislike you.
You know, the next part of that sentence in the constitution after "provide for the common defence" is "promote the general welfare".
I'd say that's a pretty strong constitutional mandate for social programs.
Exactly so - "provide for the common defence" and "promote the general welfare". There's a difference there. "Promote" is not a synonym of "provide".
The best evidence of how that was intended to be interpreted is by considering what the people who wrote it actually did.
We know the Founding Fathers established a military. Name a single social program they implemented.
Somehow, it took nearly 150 years before an interpretation that authorized social programs mysteriously materialized.
Kind of peculiar, don't you think?
Or better yet- keep the much needded social projects and drop a few less bombs next year.
I've got a better idea.
How about less bombs and less social programs, and letting the taxpayers keep their own damn money so they can figure out how they'd like it to be spent?
It is, after all, their money in the first place. Right?
Glenn, a retired Democratic senator from Ohio
That might go a longer way in explaining Glenn's agenda than his previous career as an astronaut.
Why use Microsoft Office when Open Office is getting so good?
Because, while it may be getting good, it isn't quite good enough. While I would personally like to dump Office, the fact is if I did, it would seriously inhibit my ability to interoperate with other Office users in my workplace.
Yes, I know that OO has implemented compatability with most of Office's features. Most doesn't cut it, because someone is always going to be creating a document that uses one of the obscure features that's not implemented, and having to switch back and forth between office suites to accomodate this isn't worth the time and aggrevation just so I can have bragging rights to using OO.
Anyway, one step at a time. Anything which helps Linux gain parity with Windows on the desktop is a good thing. Once that victory is achieved, then worry about commoditizing office suites. When you consider how long it's taken for Linux to achieve even the desktop penetration it's achieved now, it becomes apparent how silly it is to expect the whole world to convert to open source only solutions over night. The chances of OO and other open source solutions gaining ground are vastly improved if Linux gets it's foot in the door first. Promoting applications that just aren't satisfactory for their purpose at the expense of promoting solutions which make Linux a viable alternative is self-defeating.
Q: How come you can't circumsize Darl McBride?
A: Because there's no end to that prick.
People aren't "things" or "machines." Nobody is perfect, and sometimes crap happens to people outside of their control -- debilitating car accident, significant other empties the bank accounts and disappears, someone slips on your sidewalk and sues, your child gets sick and requires expensive medical treatment, your apartment burns down,
Then give money to charity.
you have an IQ of 50
Speak for yourself.
People who think that people deserve to starve or live without a roof on their head "because they don't try hard enough" make me sick. Seriously, who the fuck wants to live like that? What makes you think that someone would want to live like that?
It's not a matter of wanting to be poor, everybody wants to be rich. It's a matter of how bad they don't want to be poor.
You can go down the skid row of any major city in the world and find people who don't want to live like that.
Unfortunately, they want to avoid being sober more than they want to avoid living like that.
The jails are full of people who don't want to live like that.
But the want to make a quick buck more than they want to stay out of jail.
It's a matter of setting your priorities.
People who think people should be taxed to give money to people who make bad decisions make me sick. Seriously, who the fuck wants to work for that? What makes you think that someone would want to work for that?
I haven't run Mozilla in awhile, been running Firebird instead. I must say it's pretty snappy and responsive. Too bad they haven't fixed the Control+Enter bug yet :(
What behavior does that produce? I haven't noticed any problems with it.
Firebird is a great browser about to hit 0.8 and stepping closer towards the great 1.0 release that took Mozilla years to obtain.
Well, yeah, but you have to consider Firebird uses the Gecko rendering engine, the same as Mozilla. Having a pre-written rendering engine wasn't an advantage enjoyed by Mozilla.
Thunderbird is still in need of lots of work, but the progress is fantastic and I exclusively use it even in its immature state.
I've been using it across Linux, Windows, and MacOS X, and I haven't had a single problem with it. I'm not really sure how much more work it needs, since it seems pretty clean of bugs, unless they're planning on adding some more features.
I hope not. Creeping featuritis has been the death of too many fine pieces of software that were fine just the way they were.
Political correctness is mostly associated with the "left". I'd say most people who react negatively to an image of a devil are conservative Christians.
I take you assume that because I'm not a liberal, I must be a conservative Christian.
Hello? There's more than two ways of looking at the world. It isn't a binary proposition.
But I guess its only bad if us darn liber-uhls do it, eh?
Perhaps you could point out where I said or implied that?
It's offical, Netcraft confirms Net BSD's logo is dying
Maybe they should change the logo to a closed casket.
"too complicated... hard to reproduce... [and] has negative cultural, and religious ramifications."
So political correctness has made it to open source.
Oy!
I guess that's why I'm not a liberal.
I prefer to subsidize achievement.
Liberals prefer to subsidize a lack of it.