Neither of these are particularly great distros. Xandros signed an evil patent-deal, and neither distro jumps out at me with any real advantages to use them.
Can someone please explain what these guys have to offer?
I'd certainly like to see fewer distros. I sincerely believe we'd see higher quality if people focused their efforts to improving a few major distros rather than forking them every few seconds.
Yes, much of this is security theatre, but allowing me to carry my laptop on and attempting to stream-line the current cluster fuck is an improvement none the less.
The IOC made this call a few years back actually. I believe most international competitions leading up the Olympics have been using this new scoring system.
But this has nothing to do with Nike. Scoring is exciting, and higher offenses often mean higher attendance.
Part of this is that athletes get better with each generation. Sports with the exact same rules often see records fall one after the other. So rule changes are only part of the story.
So Firefox should be iTunes and handle media subscriptions, download media, and handle media library functions?
How would Firefox even know which podcasts to download?
Let's say I want to listen to Bill Simmon's BS Report from ESPN. The link the podcast is always different. How will the browser just know to find the link, even if I tell it I always want the BS Report?
Mozilla uses experimental names, and changes them at release all the time. I'd ask them if they intend to use a different name upon a possible release.
Not necessarily a situation where you can expect great support.
People always blast "driver" issues on Linux, which I find funny. Manufacturers rarely update old drivers on Windows, and sometimes finding old drivers is impossible.
You'll find that Nvidia wrote first-party Linux drivers for their motherboards which is nice. However, many people have complained that Vista is difficult to write good drivers for.
Their focus is likely newer chipsets, not getting old ones to work well with Vista.
Every single police scanner would be scanning tons and tons plates every few seconds. You're talking about combining that with GPS data, and then also cross-referencing that with other relevant data of what exists in that geography, and then people monitoring that find something relevant?
It seems like quite a bit to store, monitor, etc. Having run a security company and dealt with police forces, often they are under-budgeted and under-manned. I just don't seem something like that happening any time soon.
Slashdot Founder CmdrTaco reportedly plans to shut down the popular Slashdot web destination. "People forget my website was once largely just a portal for enlightenment themes. The purpose of Slashdot is to report on news that matters."
Slashdot will be replaced with a new web portal, OMGPonies which will focus on over reacting to all pony news that someone might have remembered reading on 4chan.
CmdrTaco has asked that the community assist him by submitting stories and drawings in the idiom of a otatu-catgirl and jacked up on pocky. We were unable to substantiate the rumor that the site will feature bedazzler fan art of Hannah Montana, despite CmdrTaco's legendary collection.
This is very clever sabotage. Now Foxconn is trying to convince Linux users that we should rush out and buy from them.
Once we build all our rigs with Foxconn motherboards, they trigger the new dormant BIOS bug that destroys all Linux systems.
The only way to repair the BIOS at that point will be a patch that can only be installed from Microsoft BOB, and will come shipped in a shrink-wrapped CD case that can only be opened by throwing a chair at it.
Seriously, kudos to them for taking ownership and addressing this so quickly. I've seen some vendors ignore hardware issues if they hear the world Linux.
I didn't RTFA, but I for one welcome our new, naked Natalie Portman and grits overlords, to which CmdrTaco replied, "you must be new here." He's a Twitter sock-puppet, but so am I, you insensitive clod! In Soviet Russia, the only way to be sure is for orbit to nuke you with a beowulf cluster (yes, it runs Linux!). ??? Profit!
I am trying to condense Slashdot down to a fine extract. Anyone else want to see if they can perfect it?
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Neither of these are particularly great distros. Xandros signed an evil patent-deal, and neither distro jumps out at me with any real advantages to use them.
Can someone please explain what these guys have to offer?
I'd certainly like to see fewer distros. I sincerely believe we'd see higher quality if people focused their efforts to improving a few major distros rather than forking them every few seconds.
Obfuscating how you're slacking off
Convincing suits that you really need that Alienware
Switching people to Linux without them realizing it
...is a butt-load more players. They're hurting. Please help WoW out. Recruit the one friend you know who hasn't played this game yet.
Yes, much of this is security theatre, but allowing me to carry my laptop on and attempting to stream-line the current cluster fuck is an improvement none the less.
Citation of my wife/girlfriend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scully
The IOC made this call a few years back actually. I believe most international competitions leading up the Olympics have been using this new scoring system.
But this has nothing to do with Nike. Scoring is exciting, and higher offenses often mean higher attendance.
Part of this is that athletes get better with each generation. Sports with the exact same rules often see records fall one after the other. So rule changes are only part of the story.
Many gymnasts are in the 12-16 age range.
So Firefox should be iTunes and handle media subscriptions, download media, and handle media library functions?
How would Firefox even know which podcasts to download?
Let's say I want to listen to Bill Simmon's BS Report from ESPN. The link the podcast is always different. How will the browser just know to find the link, even if I tell it I always want the BS Report?
Mozilla uses experimental names, and changes them at release all the time. I'd ask them if they intend to use a different name upon a possible release.
What do you want for podcast support?
When I click on a podcast in Firefox, either it plays through the site's player, or the mp3 downloads and plays in my computer's media player.
What is missing here?
As for handling library functions of my media, I leave that to my media player. I'm not sure I need Firefox to handle that.
I'm a Mason, but not yet a member of the York Rite. It is something I've been looking into.
There is an order within the Free Masons who call themselves Knights Templar, but it is symbolic. It is a Christian-only order within the York Rite.
Old motherboard and new OS.
Not necessarily a situation where you can expect great support.
People always blast "driver" issues on Linux, which I find funny. Manufacturers rarely update old drivers on Windows, and sometimes finding old drivers is impossible.
You'll find that Nvidia wrote first-party Linux drivers for their motherboards which is nice. However, many people have complained that Vista is difficult to write good drivers for.
Their focus is likely newer chipsets, not getting old ones to work well with Vista.
Every single police scanner would be scanning tons and tons plates every few seconds. You're talking about combining that with GPS data, and then also cross-referencing that with other relevant data of what exists in that geography, and then people monitoring that find something relevant?
It seems like quite a bit to store, monitor, etc. Having run a security company and dealt with police forces, often they are under-budgeted and under-manned. I just don't seem something like that happening any time soon.
Someday perhaps, but not today.
His astrophysicist professors kept arguing with him that despite his assertions, fat-bottomed girls did not make the world go round.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Goes_To_College
Milo from the Descendents got his doctorate in Biochemistry.
I have an NForce5-SLI chipset with just air cooling. The whole system runs pretty cool, even with a 10% overclock.
Slashdot Founder CmdrTaco reportedly plans to shut down the popular Slashdot web destination. "People forget my website was once largely just a portal for enlightenment themes. The purpose of Slashdot is to report on news that matters."
Slashdot will be replaced with a new web portal, OMGPonies which will focus on over reacting to all pony news that someone might have remembered reading on 4chan.
CmdrTaco has asked that the community assist him by submitting stories and drawings in the idiom of a otatu-catgirl and jacked up on pocky. We were unable to substantiate the rumor that the site will feature bedazzler fan art of Hannah Montana, despite CmdrTaco's legendary collection.
(Man, I'm just picking on that guy today!)
Nvidia released nice overclocking tools, had good BIOS options, nice features (such a firewall built directly into the NIC), etc.
I always buy NForce chipsets.
It looks like they licensed a BIOS, and the issue was actually with the BIOS-maker, but they made a fix for it regardless.
This is very clever sabotage. Now Foxconn is trying to convince Linux users that we should rush out and buy from them.
Once we build all our rigs with Foxconn motherboards, they trigger the new dormant BIOS bug that destroys all Linux systems.
The only way to repair the BIOS at that point will be a patch that can only be installed from Microsoft BOB, and will come shipped in a shrink-wrapped CD case that can only be opened by throwing a chair at it.
Will it run Linux?
Seriously, kudos to them for taking ownership and addressing this so quickly. I've seen some vendors ignore hardware issues if they hear the world Linux.
I didn't even see them or know they were there. I use a Greasemonkey script to automatically filter out rockslides.
I didn't RTFA, but I for one welcome our new, naked Natalie Portman and grits overlords, to which CmdrTaco replied, "you must be new here." He's a Twitter sock-puppet, but so am I, you insensitive clod! In Soviet Russia, the only way to be sure is for orbit to nuke you with a beowulf cluster (yes, it runs Linux!). ??? Profit!
I am trying to condense Slashdot down to a fine extract. Anyone else want to see if they can perfect it?