"Lesson I learned: you get to be a highly paid lawyer by being smart, not by knowing anything in particular. And I would happily have her defend me in a trial."
And my you get prosecuted be an equally intelligent and ignorant DA.
"So some girls at Rutgers got their feelings hurt. I hate to tell them, but it's not going to be the last time in their lives that happens. In the grand scheme of things? If this is the worst insult they ever have had in their short lives, and if this is the worst insult they ever get... they're going to be the luckiest people on earth. I was called worse by the time I was six."
I wonder if those young ladies are thinking about the fact that Imus used his shows as a platform to raise millions of dollars for charities each year, something he is unlikely to be able to do 10% as well now. I realize they didn't personally can him, but their over reacting playing the victim role was a major contributor to the old crackers demise.
As others have said, Imus has a record of being crude and mean spirited, it's that long record of being allowed to get away with it by the networks as long as it was bringing money in that makes firing him now look absurd. The initial two week suspensions, some public humiliation and apologies along with some well defined standards for future shows would have been more than enough.
I personally think Imus is a horses ass, but he did a lot of good work.
"'Buzz' means squat. Sales and market penetration are everything."
That would be true for a person who is only interested in where they have been and has no interest in where they are going.
That's like basing your driving 100% on what you see in your rear view mirror. Unfortunately, that's how a lot of businesses (and ex businesses) are run.
"They are requiring you to use a specific, additional product. This is like saying that I need to put specified transmission fluid in my car before I can get warranty service, which is very much not the case."
No, they aren't requiring that she use an additional product. They are requiring that she use the operating system that was provided with the machine when she bought it.
Your transmission fluid analogy is also faulty. If you used a non-specified transmission fluid in your transmission and there was a problem that could legitimately be related to that transmission fluid, or couldn't be diagnosed with their normal procedures because of the transmission fluid you would be SOL.
HP, like a car company, isn't obligated to go the least bit out of their way to work around an end-user mod that makes problem diagnosis more difficult.
FTFA " "When she called Compaq -- the unit comes with a one-year warranty on the hardware -- they asked what operating system she was running. When she told them Linux, they said, "Sorry, we do not honor our hardware warranty when you run Linux." In order to get warranty service, she was told, she would have to remove Linux and reinstall the original OS."
HP didn't refuse warranty coverage, they told he she needed to remove Linux and reinstall the original OS to get warranty service.
That is completely reasonable. The script readers doing the trouble shooting at HP wouldn't be able to trouble shoot a system that didn't have the OS on it that HP originally installed.
I had the opposite experience to yours. After several tries, Debian still wouldn't run on my machine, so I tried Ubuntu and it loaded flawlessly and everything worked. So far, I have installed dual boot 'Doze/Ubuntu on three computers and the only problem was couple of hours to configure the wifi card on one old laptop. Had the old laptop been my first installation instead of the second, I might have tried another distro, but by then I was hooked.
At the novice and novice+ Linux user level, I think that most users swear the installation that loaded the easiest is the best.
It's a bit of a crap shoot, although if I were a betting man and had to bet on which distro would run with the least problems on some random x86 machine, I would bet on Ubuntu.
The important thing is that people try some flavor of Linux and get it working so they can evaluate it. The combination of Ubuntu working well (and some other distros too) and Vista being what it is may get me to competely switch to Linux in the next couple of years.
"I work at a Big Company, where over-engineering, paying 10k where 1k would do, and endless discussion on the color of the bikeshed happen thrice before lunch every day."
"Over engineering" is much misused phrase. If it's overly complicated or overly expensive for what it does, it's under engineered. Over kludged or over bought, but under engineered.
"is that many people want the government to have even more control over our lives, mainly health care and retirement. Look, this is the FBI, if they cannot keep track of sensitive data how in hell can we trust another government organization to do better?"
It looks like 1 in 200 FBI laptops went missing. I wish private medicines or medical insurance companies serious error rate were that low.
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Dear Novell:
Didn't anyone tell you that if you sleep with dogs, you'll get fleas.
Yes, but it's not the Linux community's fault that someone else didn't supply good a good driver.
"The quality of a browser is directly proportional to its version number"
U mispilled inversely
Look at the bright side, it would be one less card to report stolen :)
"Lesson I learned: you get to be a highly paid lawyer by being smart, not by knowing anything in particular. And I would happily have her defend me in a trial."
And my you get prosecuted be an equally intelligent and ignorant DA.
MS is an expert on the topic.
"So some girls at Rutgers got their feelings hurt. I hate to tell them, but it's not going to be the last time in their lives that happens. In the grand scheme of things? If this is the worst insult they ever have had in their short lives, and if this is the worst insult they ever get... they're going to be the luckiest people on earth. I was called worse by the time I was six."
I wonder if those young ladies are thinking about the fact that Imus used his shows as a platform to raise millions of dollars for charities each year, something he is unlikely to be able to do 10% as well now. I realize they didn't personally can him, but their over reacting playing the victim role was a major contributor to the old crackers demise.
As others have said, Imus has a record of being crude and mean spirited, it's that long record of being allowed to get away with it by the networks as long as it was bringing money in that makes firing him now look absurd. The initial two week suspensions, some public humiliation and apologies along with some well defined standards for future shows would have been more than enough.
I personally think Imus is a horses ass, but he did a lot of good work.
"Fluorinert and oil cooling are completely different things and I don't think you can compare them."
You just did.
And it was interesting. Thanks
Theo, first you get all pissy, then you post as an AC.
"A Vista license allows you to "downgrade"."
A Vista license is a downgrade.
Do you think he would notice....even if it were real?
Well written article, I was a few paragraphs in before I realized what day it was.
"'Buzz' means squat. Sales and market penetration are everything."
That would be true for a person who is only interested in where they have been and has no interest in where they are going.
That's like basing your driving 100% on what you see in your rear view mirror. Unfortunately, that's how a lot of businesses (and ex businesses) are run.
"They are requiring you to use a specific, additional product. This is like saying that I need to put specified transmission fluid in my car before I can get warranty service, which is very much not the case."
No, they aren't requiring that she use an additional product. They are requiring that she use the operating system that was provided with the machine when she bought it.
Your transmission fluid analogy is also faulty. If you used a non-specified transmission fluid in your transmission and there was a problem that could legitimately be related to that transmission fluid, or couldn't be diagnosed with their normal procedures because of the transmission fluid you would be SOL.
HP, like a car company, isn't obligated to go the least bit out of their way to work around an end-user mod that makes problem diagnosis more difficult.
FTFA
" "When she called Compaq -- the unit comes with a one-year warranty on the hardware -- they asked what operating system she was running. When she told them Linux, they said, "Sorry, we do not honor our hardware warranty when you run Linux." In order to get warranty service, she was told, she would have to remove Linux and reinstall the original OS."
HP didn't refuse warranty coverage, they told he she needed to remove Linux and reinstall the original OS to get warranty service.
That is completely reasonable. The script readers doing the trouble shooting at HP wouldn't be able to trouble shoot a system that didn't have the OS on it that HP originally installed.
I had the opposite experience to yours. After several tries, Debian still wouldn't run on my machine, so I tried Ubuntu and it loaded flawlessly and everything worked. So far, I have installed dual boot 'Doze/Ubuntu on three computers and the only problem was couple of hours to configure the wifi card on one old laptop. Had the old laptop been my first installation instead of the second, I might have tried another distro, but by then I was hooked.
At the novice and novice+ Linux user level, I think that most users swear the installation that loaded the easiest is the best.
It's a bit of a crap shoot, although if I were a betting man and had to bet on which distro would run with the least problems on some random x86 machine, I would bet on Ubuntu.
The important thing is that people try some flavor of Linux and get it working so they can evaluate it. The combination of Ubuntu working well (and some other distros too) and Vista being what it is may get me to competely switch to Linux in the next couple of years.
The shoes sound like a shoe version of this US gas powered pogo stick that actually made it to the market.
http://www.bpmlegal.com/wpogo.html
Or promote them and then have Bush give them a medal.
Is Syria attacked Turkey from the rear, would Greece help?
I did read it all the way through, that's exactly why I made my comment.
Dude, you acted like a spoiled jerk.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122473
The thread on Unbuntu forums confirms that and shows what a patient bunch of people there are on the Unbuntu forums.
"I work at a Big Company, where over-engineering, paying 10k where 1k would do, and endless discussion on the color of the bikeshed happen thrice before lunch every day."
"Over engineering" is much misused phrase. If it's overly complicated or overly expensive for what it does, it's under engineered. Over kludged or over bought, but under engineered.
There are two versions of each one at 6 month intervals so it takes a year per animal.
The English alphabet, to be a bit more specific
'I'll wait for the "zombie zebra"'
Don't get your hopes up, I was waiting for Farty Ferret. Now it will be nearly 26 years before the Fs come back again.
"is that many people want the government to have even more control over our lives, mainly health care and retirement. Look, this is the FBI, if they cannot keep track of sensitive data how in hell can we trust another government organization to do better?"
It looks like 1 in 200 FBI laptops went missing. I wish private medicines or medical insurance companies serious error rate were that low.