Putting the words or phrases "Polly Walker, sexual politics, grappling with love sex and politics" in one article... Excuse me I have to go to the bathroom.
I just went through a process of buying a house. I limited myself to $50k cash total with the intent of doing most of the repairs myself. This limited me to HUD and foreclosures. One thing that was a common denominator of all houses listed by HUD was every piece of copper; AC unit, water heater, pipes, fixtures, and electric wires, were completely striped. I was amazed at the efficiency of many of the robberies. Only a few had holes punched randomly in the walls like someone searching for cable and pipes. The vast majority looked as if someone took the time to walk through the house with a metal detector and surgically removed everything. It made me wonder if someone did just watch for houses to hit the HUD list then rob them.
I find it ironic his complaints are completely based on non-conformity and too many choices then his last complaint mentions... Commercially Hosted Backup And Restore... Windows and Mac users have endless choices:
I couldn't agree more. I like Ubuntu. It is a good distro. But "out of the box" is exactly what a distro is. Therefore it should be judged on its out of the box abilities. People looking at this as a comparison of operating systems are way off. If they wanted to compare the three at their optimum they would have used Linux from scratch, and the equivalent for the others, tweek'd the living crap out of them, then ran them over the cliff. So IMHO that article is a good comparison.
Besides. It gives all three another objective that we will all benefit from.
My grandfather showed me how to work on radios back when Heath was big time. Heath would send us a catalog every month. When They came out with the H8 I put my pennies together. So. My first computer was a Heath H8. It was fun to build and ran HDOS "Heath DOS", Pascal and had a built in compiler. I didn't get the floppy drive add on. It was too expensive. But the tape drive worked great. It was the most fun I ever had with a computer.
Having a phone/pda that is usable while I'm mobile yet powerful enough to be attached to a docking station which turns it into a PC is just brilliant. As long as the dock has additional ports and its own power source sign me up.
Wait. Isn't that describing a laptop? Have they finally improved the hardware for portable devices to the point of being able to put them in your pocket?
colonists would have to be somewhat eccentric. That's not because of the dangers they will face, but because they are leaving behind friends, family and the general wider human society for the rest of their lives.
So we send teenagers that have no friends and like to play video games instead of socializing?
Administrators would have a bunch of misfits on their hands and would have to assign expert psychologists to handle the situation.
Does that mean if we don't send teenagers that have no friends and like to play video games instead of socializing we will be stuck with that task here?
Everyone assumes one can grow plants in any old dirt. You not only need soil; but more importantly, you need the proper microbiology in the soil for the plants you are growing. Unfortunately, too many people in charge of things are more concerned with proving the existence of life on other planets then the advancement of humanity. If they would be replaced by people less concerned with ideology and more concerned with the future we would be able to take microbiology to mars. IMHO Until someone can figure out a way to prove to an ideologist something that can't be proven, or get rid of ideologists all together, Mars colonies will never happen.
The IRS is only interested because Google released their own browser. In the eyes of the IRS it doesn't make sense for Google to continue to give money away unless it is specifically for the write off. Of course, the IRS is incapable of understanding things like OSS. The IRS management was staffed by POS leaders who think of nothing but themselves so they assume everyone else is the same.
Hey IRS. Here is a shocker. Google wouldn't let Firefox get hit with a sudden drop in funds because... Wait for it... They are not total fucking assholes!
Of course by "total fucking assholes" I mean the most loving and wonder people, please don't audit me, to ever walk the face of the earth.
It seems to me people that don't understand the desire for this tech are missing the concept. While they use MP3 players and understand that it makes their music portable they totally miss the fact that this tech makes it possible to make reading material just as portable. Yes. You can open a laptop, connect to a network, connect to a web site, read and article. You can do that for music too. However, how portable are you. Really? How portable is an MP3 player. Add music, plug in ear phones, go jogging. With a reader you can add a book, walk to the park, and have 2 chapters read before someone mugs you for your portable reader.
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I wondered how long it would take the spelling police to catch up with that post.
wouldn't they just steal that for the aluminum?
mmmm phosgene. tastes like chicken.
Putting the words or phrases "Polly Walker, sexual politics, grappling with love sex and politics" in one article... Excuse me I have to go to the bathroom.
I just went through a process of buying a house. I limited myself to $50k cash total with the intent of doing most of the repairs myself. This limited me to HUD and foreclosures. One thing that was a common denominator of all houses listed by HUD was every piece of copper; AC unit, water heater, pipes, fixtures, and electric wires, were completely striped. I was amazed at the efficiency of many of the robberies. Only a few had holes punched randomly in the walls like someone searching for cable and pipes. The vast majority looked as if someone took the time to walk through the house with a metal detector and surgically removed everything. It made me wonder if someone did just watch for houses to hit the HUD list then rob them.
Well at least it is good to know that it could still be "tested" after 2700 years. No worries the stash will go bad now.
p2p applications should switch to SCTP.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt
+1 Nail on the head.
I find it ironic his complaints are completely based on non-conformity and too many choices then his last complaint mentions... Commercially Hosted Backup And Restore... Windows and Mac users have endless choices:
You are 100% correct sir! Serdar Yegulalp must be one of those that needs conformity. If he wants F/OSS and conformity he can stick with a distro.
but I think out-of-the-box numbers are valuable.
I couldn't agree more. I like Ubuntu. It is a good distro. But "out of the box" is exactly what a distro is. Therefore it should be judged on its out of the box abilities. People looking at this as a comparison of operating systems are way off. If they wanted to compare the three at their optimum they would have used Linux from scratch, and the equivalent for the others, tweek'd the living crap out of them, then ran them over the cliff. So IMHO that article is a good comparison.
Besides. It gives all three another objective that we will all benefit from.
Polyester leisure suits have been keeping women dry for years.
Is /. trying to tell us something?
permission to block cell phone signals
Have the phone companies become so powerful government institutions have to get permission from them?
+1 ROFLMAO
My grandfather showed me how to work on radios back when Heath was big time. Heath would send us a catalog every month. When They came out with the H8 I put my pennies together. So. My first computer was a Heath H8. It was fun to build and ran HDOS "Heath DOS", Pascal and had a built in compiler. I didn't get the floppy drive add on. It was too expensive. But the tape drive worked great. It was the most fun I ever had with a computer.
They are trying to lure young geeks into the military. You won't be allowed to play video games. Trust me.
Having a phone/pda that is usable while I'm mobile yet powerful enough to be attached to a docking station which turns it into a PC is just brilliant. As long as the dock has additional ports and its own power source sign me up.
Wait. Isn't that describing a laptop? Have they finally improved the hardware for portable devices to the point of being able to put them in your pocket?
colonists would have to be somewhat eccentric. That's not because of the dangers they will face, but because they are leaving behind friends, family and the general wider human society for the rest of their lives.
So we send teenagers that have no friends and like to play video games instead of socializing?
Administrators would have a bunch of misfits on their hands and would have to assign expert psychologists to handle the situation.
Does that mean if we don't send teenagers that have no friends and like to play video games instead of socializing we will be stuck with that task here?
Everyone assumes one can grow plants in any old dirt. You not only need soil; but more importantly, you need the proper microbiology in the soil for the plants you are growing. Unfortunately, too many people in charge of things are more concerned with proving the existence of life on other planets then the advancement of humanity. If they would be replaced by people less concerned with ideology and more concerned with the future we would be able to take microbiology to mars. IMHO Until someone can figure out a way to prove to an ideologist something that can't be proven, or get rid of ideologists all together, Mars colonies will never happen.
In other words the U.S.A has finally become an Idiocracy.
Very cool! I wonder how it would play within a Wt environment.
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/doc/tutorial/wt-sdj.xhtml
The IRS is only interested because Google released their own browser. In the eyes of the IRS it doesn't make sense for Google to continue to give money away unless it is specifically for the write off. Of course, the IRS is incapable of understanding things like OSS. The IRS management was staffed by POS leaders who think of nothing but themselves so they assume everyone else is the same.
Hey IRS. Here is a shocker. Google wouldn't let Firefox get hit with a sudden drop in funds because... Wait for it... They are not total fucking assholes!
Of course by "total fucking assholes" I mean the most loving and wonder people, please don't audit me, to ever walk the face of the earth.
That just what they want us to think. In all reality they are trying to make people scared to go into space so they can rule the universe!
It seems to me people that don't understand the desire for this tech are missing the concept. While they use MP3 players and understand that it makes their music portable they totally miss the fact that this tech makes it possible to make reading material just as portable. Yes. You can open a laptop, connect to a network, connect to a web site, read and article. You can do that for music too. However, how portable are you. Really? How portable is an MP3 player. Add music, plug in ear phones, go jogging. With a reader you can add a book, walk to the park, and have 2 chapters read before someone mugs you for your portable reader.