Configuring Ubuntu still basically requires significant command line work.
Nonsense. Yes, I have systems that have required a lot of command-line work, but then again, I have a custom-created LDAP directory server complete with roaming profile support that "JUst WOrks" with Windows and Linux clients, a custom Intranet with a web portal, web-based e-mail and calendaring, Kerberos for security, complete with single sign on support, etc.
IF I just wanted a basic desktop, I can (and have) just ran the install and everything Just Works.
The technical advances that Bell Labs made could never have been recreated with what was left.
Look at before and after the breakup. Look at how quickly modems got faster and faster. ANd once the telecom industry was deregulated in 1996, high-speed access bloomed, at least in more profitable markets.
The rest of the country needs high-speed access. This can be accomplished by either adding some controls and requiring some level of access or by creating a 'rural telecom company' that operates with subsidies from the federal government.
In related news, students were found to do far better on multiple choice tests when given an unlimited number of guesses at each question. Even students that didn't study eventually got As.
I'm extremely dissapointed in the democratic leadership that they haven't had the guts to stand against the whitehouse on this crap, which would have avoided this position in the first place.
Do you really think that either major party gives a flying fsck about you or about any principles?
Large clue stick: they don't. They care about their campaign war che$t$. That's it. So they are going to do whatever they feel will garner the most cash from their brib^H^H^H^Hlobbyists.
First, I am not sure that email is really by Gates -- from reading his writing or listening to him in the past, it really does not sound like his style
Agreed. He doesn't say any of his trademarks like "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" or "I could have written MovieMaker in Excel macros over the weekend!" (okay, the last one is a stretch.;)
Next, people complain about Linux usability? apt-get install mplayer k3b, etc? It is not harder, just different. In fact, having all of the software most people need in one place makes Linux easier for most people in many ways, specifically the way that possible-Bill rants about here.
Here's the problem from a usability standpoint: I want to install a media player. I don't know that I need to install mplayer, xine or totem. (What is a totem and WTF does it have to do with playing media? WTF is a xine anyhow?) THe 'Add/Remove Programs' in Ubuntu addresses some of this, but try installing an app that plays podcasts WITHOUT KNOWING that democracyplayer and VLC play podcasts.
The funny thing is that on XP you still have to install Service Pack 2 to get MovieMaker. You can't just download it separately. Oh, well, you can order it on CD, too, I guess, but who wants to do that?
Just say no to Chrysler. THey make the most HORRIBLE pieces of sh** on the planet. I'm not kidding. Check out the cheap, cheezy, "Z-frame" suspensions they use on all of their front-wheel drive models. Total crap. Google for "Chyselr Z-Frame" and you'll see what I mean. These people are from Detroit and should know better. Seriously.
Maybe the EPA shouldn't have mentioned V1agra in the subject...
I heard they put "BUSH: We found the WMDs!" in the subject line in order to trick them, but it didn't work because nobody in the White House believed it.
A Bush official, with fingers in his ears, was quoted as saying: "Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! I can't hear you! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!...."
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It's not just that. For those who have no idea what an absolute mess our airline system is, you can read this book, but for more entertainment value, I also recommend Airframe by Michael Crighton. Yes, it's Crighton's usual stuff -- heavy on technical details, some of which may be flubbed. But he does grasp the complexities of air travel in the U.S. today.
We have deregulation, which lead to more passengers, more airlines, more competition, cheapter flights, etc. -- but at the same time, we failed to upgrade our infrastructure in a timely fashion. This includes our airports and the planes themselves -- many of which have been in the sky more than twice their intended service life. On top of that, our air-traffic control system is so out of date, it is being featured on an episode of Cavemen.
Anyway think of it like this: you have a system now that only upper management (aobut 100 users) uses. Now, you intend to open up the system for all 30,000 users in the entire enterprise. But instead of upgrading, management hems and haws about the cost and so you don't upgrade anything except to add couple of new front-end servers, and the backend servers don't get upgraded at all.
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Configuring Ubuntu still basically requires significant command line work.
Nonsense. Yes, I have systems that have required a lot of command-line work, but then again, I have a custom-created LDAP directory server complete with roaming profile support that "JUst WOrks" with Windows and Linux clients, a custom Intranet with a web portal, web-based e-mail and calendaring, Kerberos for security, complete with single sign on support, etc.
IF I just wanted a basic desktop, I can (and have) just ran the install and everything Just Works.
Stop spreading FUD.
The technical advances that Bell Labs made could never have been recreated with what was left.
Look at before and after the breakup. Look at how quickly modems got faster and faster. ANd once the telecom industry was deregulated in 1996, high-speed access bloomed, at least in more profitable markets.
The rest of the country needs high-speed access. This can be accomplished by either adding some controls and requiring some level of access or by creating a 'rural telecom company' that operates with subsidies from the federal government.
Maybe one day.
Then we will starve to death.
In related news, students were found to do far better on multiple choice tests when given an unlimited number of guesses at each question. Even students that didn't study eventually got As.
Great!!! Now how can we get this drug out to 80% of the population quickly enough?
Do you really think that either major party gives a flying fsck about you or about any principles?
Large clue stick: they don't. They care about their campaign war che$t$. That's it. So they are going to do whatever they feel will garner the most cash from their brib^H^H^H^Hlobbyists.
Really. Why are people in this country so naive?
That's what I meant by 'sucks for the torrent'.
Disabling uploading works better, but sucks for the torrent.
I'd rather have HTM-403.
Nero didn't burn Christians. Nero burned *ROME* Get it. Nero burning ROM?
*sigh*
WTF do they teach in schools these days?
No, it's Kubuntu. Ubuntu is the GNOME-based distro. It's not called 'Gubuntu'.
The funny thing is that on XP you still have to install Service Pack 2 to get MovieMaker. You can't just download it separately. Oh, well, you can order it on CD, too, I guess, but who wants to do that?
I couldn't parse your post. You must be using a meaning of the 'literate' that I was previously unaware of.
Huh. Republicans. :-P
Sure, just give us your name and address and we'll send you a check!
Thanks,
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Just say no to Chrysler. THey make the most HORRIBLE pieces of sh** on the planet. I'm not kidding. Check out the cheap, cheezy, "Z-frame" suspensions they use on all of their front-wheel drive models. Total crap. Google for "Chyselr Z-Frame" and you'll see what I mean. These people are from Detroit and should know better. Seriously.
Mine are increasingly worried that I'm turning into a Slashbot. I'm not sure why.
Well, anyway, I, for one, welcome our new Slashdot-trolling parental overlords!
In Soviet Russia, children worry about YOU!!!
In related news, Cosmo whines about the lack of great intellectual thinkers.
Do you reall not understand the HEADLINE? The White House refused to open the mail, not the EPA.
I doubt that very much.
A Bush official, with fingers in his ears, was quoted as saying: "Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! I can't hear you! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! ...."
It's not just that. For those who have no idea what an absolute mess our airline system is, you can read this book, but for more entertainment value, I also recommend Airframe by Michael Crighton. Yes, it's Crighton's usual stuff -- heavy on technical details, some of which may be flubbed. But he does grasp the complexities of air travel in the U.S. today.
We have deregulation, which lead to more passengers, more airlines, more competition, cheapter flights, etc. -- but at the same time, we failed to upgrade our infrastructure in a timely fashion. This includes our airports and the planes themselves -- many of which have been in the sky more than twice their intended service life. On top of that, our air-traffic control system is so out of date, it is being featured on an episode of Cavemen.
Anyway think of it like this: you have a system now that only upper management (aobut 100 users) uses. Now, you intend to open up the system for all 30,000 users in the entire enterprise. But instead of upgrading, management hems and haws about the cost and so you don't upgrade anything except to add couple of new front-end servers, and the backend servers don't get upgraded at all.
That's what's happened to the airline industry.
But seeing as how this just got posted and already it's Slashdotted, I'll bet it's not the same way Flowgram stores its presentations.