I'm not even a fan of Ayn Rand (in fact in most things I strongly disagree with her) but she is right that legislation is often used as a cudgel to add to the legislators' power base.
To be fair, Slashdot specifically is very nice about that; some of us have a little checkbox that lets us disable ads legally in order to thank us for our contributions. I realize you were talking in hypotheticals though.
Man. Is it even possible to get a +5 Troll anymore? It's like the holy grail of Slashdot: perpetually just out of reach. Oh well, I'll settle for a +5 Funny.
The other thing is that often for me the SD channel has perfect reception while the HD channel is stuttering or outright dead. (Time Warner Cable, western PA)
And that is why Canonical shot itself in the foot with the latest changes - a less customizable experience can only possibly fly with an OS/distro that "just works" out of the box. There's just no one who both wants to labor to get their PC working, but then doesn't want to customize and tune it.
Canonical blew their leg clean off, because not only did it become less customizable, it made my laptop less customizable, the one I had already worked to get "just right", in a way that was nigh irreversible. It's fine to make another product like Unity but goddamn, make it a different product, don't mark it as an upgrade to a very different system that plenty of people were happily using.
Download Ubuntu 11.10 and tell me how to change to Gnome 2 easily in a supported way that doesn't involve random PPAs (and I don't mean the crappy "fallback mode" they put in place). Even on 11.04 the writing was on the wall.
This with me too, and I run Linux on a daily basis at work and home; I'm just keeping the Windows partition around for Windows games and the occasional time I need Microsoft Office specifically (and even then it's only because I haven't installed it on the VM yet).
That was where I got my start as well. We had four or five in our grade 5 / 6 classroom and were basically encouraged to do anything we wanted with them short of actually damaging them. It was awesome. (Whether or not BASIC is an ideal starting programming language is not a topic I want to get into here.)
I was under the impression that the query foo +bar meant that bar was mandatory and foo was optional, but that items with both would be at the top, whereas the query for "foo bar" searches for the phrase "foo bar" without considering any documents that just had foo or just had bar, but didn't have them both together.
Yep. I'm one of those users. I'm currently in limbo (having found a userspace app called tint2 to give me a taskbar in Unity) while I decide on which other distribution I'm going to try. It sucks, too, because the time I invested into Ubuntu means more time making sure I back everything up before installing something else over top. I'm looking at either straight Debian or Mint.
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Yep. And what are they going to do, tell everyone that it's part of their show technical blueprint and it's a check on the venue management? That would kind of ruin their rock star image.
That's pretty stupid, and probably more true than "omg they're trying to screw you with the promo codes!" They should let you mail it to them without late fees if you can't return it to the same box from which you got it (and provide postage). It would be easy to record that you tried to return it too since (I believe) all those boxes have internet.
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Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a web developer!
I'm patenting this weapon and never licensing it to anyone, for the good of mankind.
Using Google and being dependent upon Google are two completely different things, and if you believe that Bing is the latter, you are mistaken.
Saying that Carmack is "skilled" at gaming is like saying Einstein was "skilled" in physics.
Whoosh. (A very sad whoosh.)
I'm not even a fan of Ayn Rand (in fact in most things I strongly disagree with her) but she is right that legislation is often used as a cudgel to add to the legislators' power base.
To be fair, Slashdot specifically is very nice about that; some of us have a little checkbox that lets us disable ads legally in order to thank us for our contributions. I realize you were talking in hypotheticals though.
If everything is illegal, it means the government gets to pick and choose who to prosecute, meaning you'd better be on their good side.
Then they would have sued him for the lost value of his followers.
Man. Is it even possible to get a +5 Troll anymore? It's like the holy grail of Slashdot: perpetually just out of reach. Oh well, I'll settle for a +5 Funny.
Watch out for that jet passing overhead! Man, that was flying at a really low altitude!
The other thing is that often for me the SD channel has perfect reception while the HD channel is stuttering or outright dead. (Time Warner Cable, western PA)
Logitech realizes jumping into TV market was a really strange and ill-planned leap for them, tries to blame failure on supplier. News at 11.
And that is why Canonical shot itself in the foot with the latest changes - a less customizable experience can only possibly fly with an OS/distro that "just works" out of the box. There's just no one who both wants to labor to get their PC working, but then doesn't want to customize and tune it.
Canonical blew their leg clean off, because not only did it become less customizable, it made my laptop less customizable, the one I had already worked to get "just right", in a way that was nigh irreversible. It's fine to make another product like Unity but goddamn, make it a different product, don't mark it as an upgrade to a very different system that plenty of people were happily using.
Dear pedant,
STFU.
Yours truly,
Everyone Else
Download Ubuntu 11.10 and tell me how to change to Gnome 2 easily in a supported way that doesn't involve random PPAs (and I don't mean the crappy "fallback mode" they put in place). Even on 11.04 the writing was on the wall.
Just fire the non-perfomers. You get the non-vested stock back anyway; that's what it means to be non-vested.
This with me too, and I run Linux on a daily basis at work and home; I'm just keeping the Windows partition around for Windows games and the occasional time I need Microsoft Office specifically (and even then it's only because I haven't installed it on the VM yet).
I took both at the same time. Oh man, that was a hell of a night.
I <3 C64 BASIC. :^)
That was where I got my start as well. We had four or five in our grade 5 / 6 classroom and were basically encouraged to do anything we wanted with them short of actually damaging them. It was awesome. (Whether or not BASIC is an ideal starting programming language is not a topic I want to get into here.)
I was under the impression that the query foo +bar meant that bar was mandatory and foo was optional, but that items with both would be at the top, whereas the query for "foo bar" searches for the phrase "foo bar" without considering any documents that just had foo or just had bar, but didn't have them both together.
Yep. I'm one of those users. I'm currently in limbo (having found a userspace app called tint2 to give me a taskbar in Unity) while I decide on which other distribution I'm going to try. It sucks, too, because the time I invested into Ubuntu means more time making sure I back everything up before installing something else over top. I'm looking at either straight Debian or Mint.
Yep. And what are they going to do, tell everyone that it's part of their show technical blueprint and it's a check on the venue management? That would kind of ruin their rock star image.
Wow, very nice post. Well thought out. We need more people like you in office, and I'm a pretty far left liberal.
That's pretty stupid, and probably more true than "omg they're trying to screw you with the promo codes!" They should let you mail it to them without late fees if you can't return it to the same box from which you got it (and provide postage). It would be easy to record that you tried to return it too since (I believe) all those boxes have internet.