If you are going to run closed, proprietary, unaudited code in ring 0, what benefits do you think you are going to get from running a Free/Open OS?
It doesn't cost $300 and includes a pretty decent array of software while providing a stable networking platform? MOST of the arguments for switching to Linux involve the price and have nothing to do with open source philosophy. If Linux cost $300 nobody would be running it.
Of course the front page isn't going to appeal to many Slashdot readers since it is too general. Change your view to the technology section on Digg and you'll find more interesting stuff, albeit heavily Mac-biased and prone to rumor mongering.
Tornados, floods, deer ticks with lyme disease, falling rocks, little globulous things you can't even see, all of it trying its damndest to kill you every day you exist.
And yet the only species in the entire world that gives a damn about preserving other species is human beings.
I guess it time to dig in and learn another tool to replace it.
Meh, I'd rather replace MySQL than my Debian distribution. If I was truly concerned about commercial support for my database then I'd buy a commercial database like Sybase or Oracle. People use MySQL because it's free, not necessarily because it's better, or even comparable, to commercial offerings.
They only discontinued analog broadcasts over the air. The majority of people in the Netherlands get their television service through analog cable and not digital service.
Why did MS change the format of their documents in the next version of Office anyway? It seems like the current version was getting to be pretty well supported across the board... what do they possibly gain by breaking compatibility with third party office suites? People that could afford Office will still buy and use office, but everyone else gets screwed. If you're going to switch to a completely new format that even breaks Office 2003, why not adopt the OpenDocument format that's a standard instead of inventing your own new kludgey format?
I know, because they're greedy sons of bitches and they need to make a profit for their shareholders by selling new versions of Office. I know that's the real reason, but it just doesn't seem logical from a computing standpoint.
Which means more telecommuting and smaller suburbs, something I am okay with on both accounts.
I realize a lot of Slashdot readers are city folks and love the hustle and bustle of overcrowded city life, but many of us prefer the quiet, safe, suburban life. I don't mind driving 5 minutes away to go to the local grocery store or 20 minutes away to get to the massive super-grocery-mart place that has everything else. I don't WANT to live in a 600 square foot box paying $3000 a month in rent with crack whores for neighbors. Why hold so much animosity towards suburbanites? If you choose to live in the city, fine, gas prices shouldn't even really effect you since you're all mindless sheep and take mass transit everywhere, but for the rest of us we deal quite well with supply and demand dictating fuel prices. Leave your socialist agenda at home.
I think you just need to take people's word for it. If there wasn't a need for a minivan then people wouldn't buy a minivan. They're not exactly a status symbol like an SUV so I don't see why they're being singled out. When's the last time you saw the homies cruising down in the ghetto with their pimped out Dodge Caravan with chrome spinners, lowered chassis, and blacked out windows with some horrible window-rattling bass being emitted from what is probably a 5000 watt stereo system that costs more than the vehicle itself? I *have* seen SUVs outfitted like that, but never a minivan.
You never use cash? Not for getting a haircut? Buying a newspaper? Buying a coffee? Buying a bus ticket? How about buying a beer in a bar - do you pass your card to be swiped for each drink you purchase?
Now that you mention it, I think the barber shop and the vending machines at work are the only place I ever use cash anymore. Fast food places, drug stores, grocery stores, etc. all take credit cards. I LOVE having the credit card purchases because I can track them via Quicken after downloading my transactions from the bank. I used to have $300 or $400 worth of cash withdrawals from ATMs to pay for lunch here or there but not I can track exactly where and when I spent money on food or goods and services.
I mean how fun it will be drving a car simulator and if you crash you will need to repair the car yourself after staying 3 weeks in hospital.
That'd actually be pretty cool. Crash your car and have to call the police, then phone up your Geiko representative to come down and check your car out to see if he'll total it. Then when the ambulance shows up they cart you off to the hospital where the car simulation turns into a medical simulation for 3 *real* weeks. When they discharge you it then turns into an insurance simulation where you have to fight with your insurance company to get your car fixed or written off. Then car buying simulation kicks into effect!
You're not comparing apples to apples - please correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't have a flat-panel DLP screen hanging on your wall
I'm not sure why anyone would find this appealing though. Where do you put your cable box, DVR, home theater receiver, DVD player, etc.? All that shit goes in the stand under my 32" CRT TV now. I don't know where the hell I'd put them if my TV just hung on the wall. I guess you could go crazy and build it all into shelves on the wall, but you'd still have the ugly cables hanging down from the back of the TV going over to your components unless you went nuts and cut holes in your wall and ran them down between the wall somehow.
Last week some guy used a rare multi-million dollar stamp to send his absentee ballot in and now we've got icebergs floating north toward some unknown destination. How many other "Brewster's Millions" sub-plots are going to arise before you people accept that Richard Pryor is messing with us from the afterlife.
It's really too bad our society is moving away from the free-enterprise capitalism market that made the US so great so quickly and moving towards a feel-good socialistic system.
Say hello to the liberal Democrats in Congress. If George W. Bush wasn't there to stop their evil plans we'd be looking at stagflation, runaway tax increases, enormous increases in the size of our federal government, and massive amounts of new regulations on our businesses that will make it impossible for them to compete with foreign competitors.
Just because he doesn't write them, doesn't mean he doesn't influence the process a great deal.
Of course. That's the entire basis of our system of checks and balances. The legislature can pass whatever bills they want, but the President must sign them into law. If he vetoes them then the legislature has the ability to override his veto with a two-thirds majority vote. Likewise, in the Senate one senator can choose to filibuster a bill to death and can only be stopped by 60 senators voting to stop discussion. Since the Senate is so closely divided, it's unlikely anything will get done for the next two years because the Democrats can't override a filibuster and certainly can't override a Presidential veto. Essentially the United States Government is in a state of complete gridlock now and it is unlikely either party will get any of their agenda passed. Also, expect the old issues of shutting down the government to come back up again next year as the executive and legislative branch clash over passing a budget.
Or you could just stop having casual unprotected sex with people you don't know well enough to confirm whether or not they have an STD. I feel sorry for the people that got it before donated blood testing was tested or babies that get it from their infected mothers, but I don't have any sympathy for whores (both men and women alike) that contract it through sexual intercourse. This isn't 1980 anymore folks. If you're stupid enough to be having sex with a stranger without protection you really deserve to contract whatever you get.
Finally, let's talk wireless. Unless the government wants to crack down on unsecured wireless connections, they're going to lose this one.
What's there to crack down on? If someone is allowing someone to use their open access point to conduct illegal activities then they are just as guilty as the person that committed the crime. Either keep detailed logs and require a login and encryption to use your access point so you can prove who was using it at the time or face the consequences. I am 100% for punishing people that run open access points then feign ignorance of any illicit activities coming from that IP when the authorities show up.
Besides running some other OS than the most PCS i failt to seee why a "Mac" isnt an Apple PC, apple just happens to call a "Mac".
Macs only have one mouse button, a PC would have two or more. MacOS X doesn't run (legally) on any machine but a Mac. So there! *stomps off to his room*
I want to see real benchmarks like perhaps windows running on it vs a comparable "PC" laptop from say dell, toshiba or some other vendor.
The MacBook Pro is a Mac, not a PC. Why would anyone compare it to a Dell or Toshiba that runs Winblows? I buy a Mac to run MacOS X and couldn't care less about hacking it to work with Windows so I can run PC viruses and spyware.
buy them Macs and quit worrying. I took the easy way out w/some old tangerine iMacs, a couple new Minis, and a family pack of Tiger.
I tried to do that with my mother but she refuses to switch from her PC and instead prefers to call me and complain every time her computer is broken. Apparently Macs don't have any sort of voice chat functionality for the Yahoo Messenger client and they don't support something called Paltalk. I don't know why she does it, but she always goes out of her way to pick the most obscure piece of shit programs she can find and use that as justification for why she HAS to run Windows or her life is over. She's retired, disabled, and has nothing to do all day but play on the computer so I don't push the point anymore. I just accept the fact that every month or so I have to visit her and fix her computer. It's really a drag on my life since I have a family of my own to worry about and frankly couldn't give a shit whether her computer works or not. I would have easily bought her a Mac Mini if she would have taken it, but alas, no... Yahoo Messenger on her old piece of shit Windows box is more important.
As someone in an earlier reply to you has already said most people just want their computer to be like every other machine in their house, an appliance.
Most people are completely ignorant too. A computer is NOT an appliance. A computer is a complex programmable machine. There's a reason the "appliance" computers have all failed... the paradigm SUCKS. Nobody wants to buy a computer that can only browse the web with some limited web browser or ONLY lets them retrieve e-mail or even only allows them to play video games. People buy computers because they are vastly superior to a single purpose appliance.
Since there are a few reasons for buying a television and not using it for receiving broadcast TV there is a process to apply for a waiver.
I can think of a lot of reasons I would want a television and not receive broadcast TV. In fact, I haven't watched broadcast TV in the United States in 20 years... I've had cable or DirecTV over the years, but I've never had to resort to the old rabbit ears to pick up television. The other use is as a monitor for video game consoles, DVD player, VCR, and at one time, my Commodore computer. Just because it can receive broadcast TV doesn't mean you want to receive a specific channel or set of channels on broadcast TV. I shouldn't have to go through some ridiculous waiver process and continually prove I'm not watching any BBC channels just because they're too short sighted to come up with a better system to restrict the content without inconveniencing everyone and turning them into criminals. Don't the British have a concept of innocent until proven guilty there?
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Of course the front page isn't going to appeal to many Slashdot readers since it is too general. Change your view to the technology section on Digg and you'll find more interesting stuff, albeit heavily Mac-biased and prone to rumor mongering.
And yet the only species in the entire world that gives a damn about preserving other species is human beings.
They only discontinued analog broadcasts over the air. The majority of people in the Netherlands get their television service through analog cable and not digital service.
I know, because they're greedy sons of bitches and they need to make a profit for their shareholders by selling new versions of Office. I know that's the real reason, but it just doesn't seem logical from a computing standpoint.
I think you just need to take people's word for it. If there wasn't a need for a minivan then people wouldn't buy a minivan. They're not exactly a status symbol like an SUV so I don't see why they're being singled out. When's the last time you saw the homies cruising down in the ghetto with their pimped out Dodge Caravan with chrome spinners, lowered chassis, and blacked out windows with some horrible window-rattling bass being emitted from what is probably a 5000 watt stereo system that costs more than the vehicle itself? I *have* seen SUVs outfitted like that, but never a minivan.
I'm not sure why anyone would find this appealing though. Where do you put your cable box, DVR, home theater receiver, DVD player, etc.? All that shit goes in the stand under my 32" CRT TV now. I don't know where the hell I'd put them if my TV just hung on the wall. I guess you could go crazy and build it all into shelves on the wall, but you'd still have the ugly cables hanging down from the back of the TV going over to your components unless you went nuts and cut holes in your wall and ran them down between the wall somehow.
Last week some guy used a rare multi-million dollar stamp to send his absentee ballot in and now we've got icebergs floating north toward some unknown destination. How many other "Brewster's Millions" sub-plots are going to arise before you people accept that Richard Pryor is messing with us from the afterlife.
Or you could just stop having casual unprotected sex with people you don't know well enough to confirm whether or not they have an STD. I feel sorry for the people that got it before donated blood testing was tested or babies that get it from their infected mothers, but I don't have any sympathy for whores (both men and women alike) that contract it through sexual intercourse. This isn't 1980 anymore folks. If you're stupid enough to be having sex with a stranger without protection you really deserve to contract whatever you get.
What's there to crack down on? If someone is allowing someone to use their open access point to conduct illegal activities then they are just as guilty as the person that committed the crime. Either keep detailed logs and require a login and encryption to use your access point so you can prove who was using it at the time or face the consequences. I am 100% for punishing people that run open access points then feign ignorance of any illicit activities coming from that IP when the authorities show up.
The MacBook Pro is a Mac, not a PC. Why would anyone compare it to a Dell or Toshiba that runs Winblows? I buy a Mac to run MacOS X and couldn't care less about hacking it to work with Windows so I can run PC viruses and spyware.
You remind me of this guy.
Not just for bumper stickers anymore.