I disagree. Fedora shouldn't try to simplify what has basically been standardized. Linus already made this mistake. The problem with the linux filesystem is what is different about it from UNIX. Trying to make it simpler is just going to cause all kinds of issues... like a fracturing of the linux communities. No... don't try to make it simpler... make it more like UNIX. That will make it simpler.
Your request is baffling, as is the insightful moderation. So... compression keeps you clinging to Windows and ntfs? Your argument may have made sense in 1993 when HDD space was expensive... but now that space is cheaper than the proc cycles it takes to compress. Go ahead and stretch your legs, we'll make room.
Odd that everyone seems to miss the fact that you can indeed run RHEL free without paying for their excellent support. I point this out to everyone who tells me CentOS is free. RHEL is free, too. If you want support you must pay.
... rather than send it to Yucca mountain safe storage in Nevada.
Hey, maybe you missed it, but everything you think you know about Yucca is political bullshit. There is no science there that hasn't been bastardized for politcal purposes.
but they are not dangerous per see to live "beside" as long as you do not ingest them
and that's kind of hard not to do as its in the water table, and in the soil, in the food growing in the soil, and in the animals eating the food growing there. So its not dangerous so long as you order your food and water from a distant, uncontaminated location.
congress cant get their shit together to open up the storage facility.
Not to defend Congress, but we know that isn't the issue. No one wants the waste. Its not Congress, but the states. Yucca, we know now, is a political farse; all the science was bent to serve the politics.
Sadly, that's not the case. As far as they are concerned, if it's not 100% down-to-earth solid fact, then it's a Lie. So you just called their God a lie by implying that the facts disagree with their preconceived notions of Divinity and Reality.
Not at all. And in fact we can expect another solar deity with the same story within the next 500 years or so as these characters show up once an age, like clockwork. Jesus said his successor will be carrying jugs of water. Its not a joke, look at the procession of the equinoxes... "this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!"
And Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is rivaled only by your own. I guess the fact that Apple is the most valuable company in the world, the most valuable company the world has ever seen thus far, and they are tiny compared to the next 9 most valuable companies, doesn't impress you. All the major tech companies seem to hit a wall at some point, and strain under the weight of their dead... Adobe, Microsoft, IBM, RIM, Nokia... they move like slugs. Apple has been running rings around the competition for nearly half of the last decade.
It's funny, though... how Apple is held up to a higher standard... how its always "Apple vs EVERYONE ELSE" and never a fair comparison. Try Apple v Microsoft. or Apple v Dell. or Apple v RIM. or Apple v. Sony... and then you'll see what a silly person you are saying things like "Apple sucks... because the combined forces of their 20 competitors are starting to eat away at their market share."
Well, I made a lot of money using that crap OS in the mid-nineties. It was the worst OS available for things like desktop publishing, graphic design, photo manipulation, and professional audio tracking... except for all the others.
Granted, by the late 90's the unprotected memory was getting to be a bother, and Apple knew it needed a refresh, needed a modern OS. BeOS was an option... but so was OPENSTEP. Unfortunately for BeOS, they didn't have Steve Jobs.
But I'm curious what OS in the 90's you believe wasn't crap. Windows NT 4 served a purpose, but it couldn't do the things MacOS could do, certainly couldn't replace it, and wasn't an OS for the masses... not until they slapped a poor copy of the new Mac OS X interface across it (bubbly colors!), and called it "XP." And ironically, considering Windows 7 is really Windows NT 6.5, Microsoft is now in the position Apple was in the 90's, regarding their OS, it is quite long in the tooth... all the problems NT had in the 90's they are still dealing with today. How many times can they repaint an interface and re-release it?
It's unlikely that Apple will be able to continue in the same vein for long
If you're talking about the pace of their innovation, I have to agree... but only because... what the heck else can they do now? A television... and then what? But Apple should do fine with a slowed innovation pace, with minor hw/sw updates at the schedule they are accustomed to, for years to come. They have the best hw, the best sw available for the desktop, the best integration of products... they can focus on increasing the install base... but their success is going to slide out for at least a decade before they need to even begin to worry.
Nope, it is a star. The mythology behind the birth of Christ is far older than Christianity, as Horus, Krishna, and many others, all have the same basic birth/martre story. The star is Sirius. The "Three Kings" are the prominent stars in Orion's Belt. On December 25th, the Three Kings (stars) "follow" Sirius... they always line up, but on Dec. 25th, they point at the spot where the Sun rises. Looks like all these religions that have the same outline of a mythology all have a common source in some unknown early agrarian society. I'm not sure what problem these BCE/CE secularists have with agriculture... it is a calendar, after all, and what better way to build a calendar than by using the clockwork of the cosmos to tell us when to plant and harvest?
Apple's Airport Extreme is one of the best available. Doubt you can get dd-wrt on it, and I'm sure the software will annoy... but it works, and works well by all reports. Worth a look even if only for comparison, to make sure whatever you get is just as good.
Ritchie is a hero, UNIX is my life. It was not my intention to belittle his contributions, which are massively important. But most of the world, those offline, never noticed that he lived. Sometimes we forget that us sophistos are the global minority. Most of the 7 billion alive today will never use or see a computer. Still, Apple, thanks to Jobs, is the most well known, most recognizable brand in the world, even to them. I believe he deserves at least the same respect garnered by Mr. Ritchie and Mr. McCarthy, and now that he cannot defend himself, I will no longer suffer the Apple trolls. Fuck the haters.
Well, that is pretty close, but doesn't match quite. A few things stick out... glaringly. That display doesn't even come close to the MBP displays. That display is straight out of 2001. Also, no Thunderbolt, fw800, or even USB3.
I have always liked Acer hw, but I don't have enough experience with it to know a whole lot about how well the things hold up to the kinds of abuse I've seen Macs take.
it's no secret that MBPs are way overpriced
Actually, this is proven false again and again, usually right after every Apple hw refresh there's comparisons made after the teardown. Match components, you'll see Apple's margins are just as thin as every other hw manufacturer.
I've personally worked with a lot of Dell hardware, a lot of Dell laptops. Generally speaking, they tend to fall apart or break or have critical components fail within a year or two, and this happens enmasse with any population of Dell hw... just in time for the warranty expiration. Actually... kind of shrewd business planning on Dell's part, requiring a new hw purchase every 2 years. Kudos, Dell.
Also... you can't get this NEW for $600. Or even $800. New from the factory, and not refurb, this machine's price averages about $1100. Please try again.
Fucking Hell. Hilarious equating Steve Jobs to a ruthless murdering dictator. Unfortunately, the comparison doesn't even remotely make sense. Had Gadaffi never existed, the world would hardly be different. But if not for Steve Jobs, you'd be posting from some shitty descendant of Windows 3.1, and not the awesome eye candy interface that was clearly inspired by work at R&D South.
Ritchie and McCarthy are important. Steve Jobs' importance to the world is in a class of its own. Without Ritchie and McCarthy, the tech world would be pretty different. Without Jobs, the whole world would be unrecognizable.
Just give it up, troll. Apple, from humble beginnings, with the leadership of Steve Jobs, finally, kicked the shit out of IBM and Microsoft, lived to fight another day, out maneuvered them and ultimately won the PC and OS war. IBM and Microsoft aren't even a concern for Apple any more — not even remotely competitors anymore — as Apple has moved on to bigger fish (and become the biggest, yet most nimble fish) while IBM left the space and Microsoft has been running on momentum alone since Win2K, even after the new Coke success that Vista was, their momentum, which is clearly slowing, no where near what it was in 1998, comes from their early successes and no where else.
Consider this: as it always has been, so it will always be. Anything Apple does, Microsoft and others will attempt to duplicate. Apple drives today's consumer technology forward, again and again, and has been the only one doing so for 30 years. You know this is true, and I know it pisses you off. Enjoy Windows 8 you flat, uncreative, borderline retarded troll.
I didn't buy it for mine, because $379 seems a bit egregious. If a manufacturing defect doesn't manifest in the first year, I don't see the point in paying for 2 more years of coverage. I use my laptop every day on the go, if something's screwy on it, it's gonna die young.
Because Apple's bad cooling designs cause normal failure in 2-3 years even without manufacturing defects.
Ah... then why are all these Core Duos from 2005/6 still selling at these prices if they suffered normal failure in 2007/8? Let me answer that for you: because you're either wrong, attempting to mislead others, or both. Apple's hardware has a fantastic reputation for lasting far far beyond the warranty.
For your edification, the cooling defects which you refer to as bad cooling designs were always confined to the initial hw runs of the models that suffered from it, and in laptops always had to do with over-application of thermal paste, not design, and these issues are always somehow mitigated by Apple, either by adjustments in the manufacturing, and/or by replacing your hardware. Apple's customer service year in and year out beats every other hw manufacturer in customer satisfaction.
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There is no reason for PAM ever
We don't need no stinking authentication!
I disagree. Fedora shouldn't try to simplify what has basically been standardized. Linus already made this mistake. The problem with the linux filesystem is what is different about it from UNIX. Trying to make it simpler is just going to cause all kinds of issues... like a fracturing of the linux communities. No... don't try to make it simpler... make it more like UNIX. That will make it simpler.
Your request is baffling, as is the insightful moderation. So... compression keeps you clinging to Windows and ntfs? Your argument may have made sense in 1993 when HDD space was expensive... but now that space is cheaper than the proc cycles it takes to compress. Go ahead and stretch your legs, we'll make room.
Odd that everyone seems to miss the fact that you can indeed run RHEL free without paying for their excellent support. I point this out to everyone who tells me CentOS is free. RHEL is free, too. If you want support you must pay.
... rather than send it to Yucca mountain safe storage in Nevada.
Hey, maybe you missed it, but everything you think you know about Yucca is political bullshit. There is no science there that hasn't been bastardized for politcal purposes.
but they are not dangerous per see to live "beside" as long as you do not ingest them
and that's kind of hard not to do as its in the water table, and in the soil, in the food growing in the soil, and in the animals eating the food growing there. So its not dangerous so long as you order your food and water from a distant, uncontaminated location.
congress cant get their shit together to open up the storage facility.
Not to defend Congress, but we know that isn't the issue. No one wants the waste. Its not Congress, but the states. Yucca, we know now, is a political farse; all the science was bent to serve the politics.
Sadly, that's not the case. As far as they are concerned, if it's not 100% down-to-earth solid fact, then it's a Lie. So you just called their God a lie by implying that the facts disagree with their preconceived notions of Divinity and Reality.
Not at all. And in fact we can expect another solar deity with the same story within the next 500 years or so as these characters show up once an age, like clockwork. Jesus said his successor will be carrying jugs of water. Its not a joke, look at the procession of the equinoxes... "this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!"
nice history lesson... its all coming back... chick bands... and lo fi... :)
And Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is rivaled only by your own. I guess the fact that Apple is the most valuable company in the world, the most valuable company the world has ever seen thus far, and they are tiny compared to the next 9 most valuable companies, doesn't impress you. All the major tech companies seem to hit a wall at some point, and strain under the weight of their dead... Adobe, Microsoft, IBM, RIM, Nokia... they move like slugs. Apple has been running rings around the competition for nearly half of the last decade.
It's funny, though... how Apple is held up to a higher standard... how its always "Apple vs EVERYONE ELSE" and never a fair comparison. Try Apple v Microsoft. or Apple v Dell. or Apple v RIM. or Apple v. Sony... and then you'll see what a silly person you are saying things like "Apple sucks... because the combined forces of their 20 competitors are starting to eat away at their market share."
in the mid-nineties because it had a crap OS
Well, I made a lot of money using that crap OS in the mid-nineties. It was the worst OS available for things like desktop publishing, graphic design, photo manipulation, and professional audio tracking... except for all the others.
Granted, by the late 90's the unprotected memory was getting to be a bother, and Apple knew it needed a refresh, needed a modern OS. BeOS was an option... but so was OPENSTEP. Unfortunately for BeOS, they didn't have Steve Jobs.
But I'm curious what OS in the 90's you believe wasn't crap. Windows NT 4 served a purpose, but it couldn't do the things MacOS could do, certainly couldn't replace it, and wasn't an OS for the masses... not until they slapped a poor copy of the new Mac OS X interface across it (bubbly colors!), and called it "XP." And ironically, considering Windows 7 is really Windows NT 6.5, Microsoft is now in the position Apple was in the 90's, regarding their OS, it is quite long in the tooth... all the problems NT had in the 90's they are still dealing with today. How many times can they repaint an interface and re-release it?
It's unlikely that Apple will be able to continue in the same vein for long
If you're talking about the pace of their innovation, I have to agree... but only because... what the heck else can they do now? A television... and then what? But Apple should do fine with a slowed innovation pace, with minor hw/sw updates at the schedule they are accustomed to, for years to come. They have the best hw, the best sw available for the desktop, the best integration of products... they can focus on increasing the install base... but their success is going to slide out for at least a decade before they need to even begin to worry.
Nope, it is a star. The mythology behind the birth of Christ is far older than Christianity, as Horus, Krishna, and many others, all have the same basic birth/martre story. The star is Sirius. The "Three Kings" are the prominent stars in Orion's Belt. On December 25th, the Three Kings (stars) "follow" Sirius... they always line up, but on Dec. 25th, they point at the spot where the Sun rises. Looks like all these religions that have the same outline of a mythology all have a common source in some unknown early agrarian society. I'm not sure what problem these BCE/CE secularists have with agriculture... it is a calendar, after all, and what better way to build a calendar than by using the clockwork of the cosmos to tell us when to plant and harvest?
And what of Y2K38?
Fat chance in the US. More likely it will be like this.
Apple's Airport Extreme is one of the best available. Doubt you can get dd-wrt on it, and I'm sure the software will annoy... but it works, and works well by all reports. Worth a look even if only for comparison, to make sure whatever you get is just as good.
Speaking as someone who took a couple meteorology courses in college, I can confirm the Bad Astronomer's observation: it is weird.
Ritchie is a hero, UNIX is my life. It was not my intention to belittle his contributions, which are massively important. But most of the world, those offline, never noticed that he lived. Sometimes we forget that us sophistos are the global minority. Most of the 7 billion alive today will never use or see a computer. Still, Apple, thanks to Jobs, is the most well known, most recognizable brand in the world, even to them. I believe he deserves at least the same respect garnered by Mr. Ritchie and Mr. McCarthy, and now that he cannot defend himself, I will no longer suffer the Apple trolls. Fuck the haters.
LMAO thx for that
Well, that is pretty close, but doesn't match quite. A few things stick out... glaringly. That display doesn't even come close to the MBP displays. That display is straight out of 2001. Also, no Thunderbolt, fw800, or even USB3.
I have always liked Acer hw, but I don't have enough experience with it to know a whole lot about how well the things hold up to the kinds of abuse I've seen Macs take.
it's no secret that MBPs are way overpriced
Actually, this is proven false again and again, usually right after every Apple hw refresh there's comparisons made after the teardown. Match components, you'll see Apple's margins are just as thin as every other hw manufacturer.
I've personally worked with a lot of Dell hardware, a lot of Dell laptops. Generally speaking, they tend to fall apart or break or have critical components fail within a year or two, and this happens enmasse with any population of Dell hw... just in time for the warranty expiration. Actually... kind of shrewd business planning on Dell's part, requiring a new hw purchase every 2 years. Kudos, Dell.
Also... you can't get this NEW for $600. Or even $800. New from the factory, and not refurb, this machine's price averages about $1100. Please try again.
yeah... that's a refurb, genius... pre-owned. Try again with new hardware.
Fucking Hell. Hilarious equating Steve Jobs to a ruthless murdering dictator. Unfortunately, the comparison doesn't even remotely make sense. Had Gadaffi never existed, the world would hardly be different. But if not for Steve Jobs, you'd be posting from some shitty descendant of Windows 3.1, and not the awesome eye candy interface that was clearly inspired by work at R&D South.
Ritchie and McCarthy are important. Steve Jobs' importance to the world is in a class of its own. Without Ritchie and McCarthy, the tech world would be pretty different. Without Jobs, the whole world would be unrecognizable.
Just give it up, troll. Apple, from humble beginnings, with the leadership of Steve Jobs, finally, kicked the shit out of IBM and Microsoft, lived to fight another day, out maneuvered them and ultimately won the PC and OS war. IBM and Microsoft aren't even a concern for Apple any more — not even remotely competitors anymore — as Apple has moved on to bigger fish (and become the biggest, yet most nimble fish) while IBM left the space and Microsoft has been running on momentum alone since Win2K, even after the new Coke success that Vista was, their momentum, which is clearly slowing, no where near what it was in 1998, comes from their early successes and no where else.
Consider this: as it always has been, so it will always be. Anything Apple does, Microsoft and others will attempt to duplicate. Apple drives today's consumer technology forward, again and again, and has been the only one doing so for 30 years. You know this is true, and I know it pisses you off. Enjoy Windows 8 you flat, uncreative, borderline retarded troll.
I didn't buy it for mine, because $379 seems a bit egregious. If a manufacturing defect doesn't manifest in the first year, I don't see the point in paying for 2 more years of coverage. I use my laptop every day on the go, if something's screwy on it, it's gonna die young.
Because Apple's bad cooling designs cause normal failure in 2-3 years even without manufacturing defects.
Ah... then why are all these Core Duos from 2005/6 still selling at these prices if they suffered normal failure in 2007/8? Let me answer that for you: because you're either wrong, attempting to mislead others, or both. Apple's hardware has a fantastic reputation for lasting far far beyond the warranty.
For your edification, the cooling defects which you refer to as bad cooling designs were always confined to the initial hw runs of the models that suffered from it, and in laptops always had to do with over-application of thermal paste, not design, and these issues are always somehow mitigated by Apple, either by adjustments in the manufacturing, and/or by replacing your hardware. Apple's customer service year in and year out beats every other hw manufacturer in customer satisfaction.
Might help to see those used sale prices if I had linked to the completed auctions.