If you want a true offroad vehicle you get a military surplus HMMV, if you want a truly seemless out-of-box KDE experience you should get a linux distro built around KDE.
From kubuntu.org (it's the quote in gargantuan font on the FRONT PAGE, in case you missed it...)
What is Kubuntu? Kubuntu is a free, user-friendly operating system based on the K Desktop Environment and on the award winning Ubuntu operating system.
That's why it's called Kubuntu.
what makes ubuntu ubuntu rather than debian is the very tight integration between the out-of-box debian kernel and the gnome user interface.
If you pry off gnome and slap KDE on there what you have is debian with KDE and updates from ubuntu's repositories.
You can usually tell if a car doesn't have the factory stereo installed, it just doesn't look as whole.
There are plenty of distros which are built around KDE by default rather than gnome, but ubuntu is not one of them.
Or, you know, Microsoft could have about one hundred thousand tech savvy employees (like myself) who also happen to frequent tech sites and have a higher than average opinion of the company. Doesn't have to be nefarious. That might not even be it either. Especially since the launch of Xbox, there are a surprising number of MS-fanboys out there unassociated with the company in any way.
Anyway, sorry to interrupt, I have no real evidence one way or another - conspiracy theory away!
let's read the overall tone of your post, including the last sentence, and say it's not nefarious and/or biased by your paycheck with a straight face again.
I've spent plenty of time around xbox gamers and am a huge fan of the halo series, but the common thread among all of them is love for specific games and their independent developing houses (in the case of halo, it's bungie, which was developing the cannon for that franchise before MS bought it).
Most have it for the same reason they have the other consoles: exclusivity deals on certain titles give them no other choice as gamers.
Save the unique control system on the wii, there simply is not a substantial enough difference in the look and feel of the same title from one system to another, and as someone from a middle-income background I can tell you the exorbitant pricing on the latest generation of consoles has been shaking people's will to purchase them even if it means being denied exclusive titles.
"As Microsoft strives to migrate their core technologies from the desktop onto the Web, so too is their propaganda machine migrating from the established press to the informal social web. Microsoft shills are invading social web sites everywhere - in forums, discussion groups, comments to news items, edits to Wikipedia, manipulation of search engines, comments to blogs - posing as innocent participants to promote their agenda and counter wide spread complaints about their shady click link to continue reading
Oh, you mean, random shit that used to work, doesn't anymore?
Why can't I connect to my wireless network at home?
Why does krunner randomly crash? Or Plasma?
On second thought, maybe you're right. It's things like this that are the reason I left Windows in the first place. Maybe it's time to go back.
Ubuntu is unabashedly and unequivocally built around gnome.
complaining about kubuntu not performing properly is like complaining a stretched hummer limousine doesn't perform to proper off-road specs. Sure they're based on their respective distro/model, but they're both a completely new animal.
If you want a true offroad vehicle you get a military surplus HMMV, if you want a truly seemless out-of-box KDE experience you should get a linux distro built around KDE.
Though, to be candid, I think GP's comparison of windows to kubuntu is humorously apt given the kludgy nature of windows in general (for the record, I use neither windows nor linux, i'm a mac man after a decade of using windows and 2 years of trying out linux distros)
"As Microsoft strives to migrate their core technologies from the desktop onto the Web, so too is their propaganda machine migrating from the established press to the informal social web. Microsoft shills are invading social web sites everywhere - in forums, discussion groups, comments to news items, edits to Wikipedia, manipulation of search engines, comments to blogs - posing as innocent participants to promote their agenda and counter wide spread complaints about their shady...(click link to read on).
I'd also like to point out another story detailing a strong statistical anomaly in the speed at which anti-microsoft and pro-linux stories get "buried" on social news sites.
A while back coke.. err i mean microsoft.. introduced "new coke".. err.. i mean windows vista.. which was an unfort--*cough*purposeful*cough*--unate flop.
Then, they released "coca-cola classic".. err.. i mean windows xp again...err.. i mean "windows 7".. which the public raved was so much better than before!
HURRAY! *cough*and microsoft gets away with zero innovation by simply engineering expectations*cough*
Makes you wonder just how much this nations spends annually on corn and soy subsidies and just how much we will pay in the future as more and more people become sickly due to the low price of the poor nutrition that they are often offered.
What if we got rid of those agricultural subsidies? How will that affect the cost of McDonalds', Wendys', etc. foods?
It would cause famine whenever the climate so much as sneezed, because over-production is the only way to get around that, but it will not happen without subsidies.
On the other hand, if the government mandated a larger fraction (larger than current) of this extra food be shipped overseas for aid or stored for a catastrophe it would have the same effect you're looking for without putting the US under threat of famine.
When you skip voting and participating in government and then decide things are suddenly not to your liking and then protest violently that is not courage. That is failure. It never ceases to amaze me that people would rather do something violent than do something sane and boring like keeping a close watch on government to begin with.
Tell me which candidate to vote for in my nation (which is not canada or sweden) which is for the repeal of the DMCA, legalization of filesharing and marijuana, letting failed companies die, and stimulating the economy through "trickle up" rather than 'trickle down'.
I don't hear you..
people who don't vote actually ARE making a choice. They don't put "none of the above" on the ballots, so they leave the ballots blank.
you can compromise the data, hack it, crack it, breach the computer, etc, but its not theft.
Please don't promote this butchery of the english language being perpetrated by luddites and imbeciles so paranoid they feel the need to apply a double standard in which the bill of rights does not apply on the internet.
How better to sum up in few words the 2 major socio-economic trends, growth sectors of the 21st century: entertainment and security. Navel feed our complacency and our fear of others. All excuses will be good to better enslave us. We will accept, even desire the loss of freedom to better satisfy our desire for pleasure, our narcissism, our brainless. But n'incriminons person, our own consumerist decadence us for this purpose
I suppose I could touch up the grammar mistakes made by an automated translator, but the message comes across quite clearly and eloquently as is.
Besides, the whole point of insurance is about risk management. If an insurance cannot manage the risk, it cannot operate as a company.
there is a difference between "managing risk" and "cherry picking".
you CAN run an insurance company while covering people who actually need that insurance, it's all about properly sharing risk rather than avoiding it.
By the way, what say you to the hypocrisy of insurers handing out plans to 500 lb slobs who cant stop eating and/or smoking, but denying me coverage for a disease i was born with despite continued healthy living?
Pirate party members of parliament have a distinct advantage of a plethora of rich, undefended parliamentary seats to board, plunder, and retain for the cause.
I expect to see them take 5 seats a day in the EU and german parliament at this point, or they'll be keelhauled by the party captain.
So can this be appealed to a higher court, and will the order be stayed until such time as it can be reviewed?
I don't see this as an issue until it sets national precedent, otherwise its much like the other short-sighted and technically incompetent rulings in podunk areas of the US later overturned by more discriminating higher courts.
The UK government already made these empty threats about "3 strikes" before and never followed through with it.
Add to this EU measures against such disconnection and the failure of such measures in other nations for human rights reasons, and I don't see this as a credible threat, just a bunch of babbling on.
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From kubuntu.org (it's the quote in gargantuan font on the FRONT PAGE, in case you missed it...)
That's why it's called Kubuntu.
what makes ubuntu ubuntu rather than debian is the very tight integration between the out-of-box debian kernel and the gnome user interface.
If you pry off gnome and slap KDE on there what you have is debian with KDE and updates from ubuntu's repositories.
You can usually tell if a car doesn't have the factory stereo installed, it just doesn't look as whole.
There are plenty of distros which are built around KDE by default rather than gnome, but ubuntu is not one of them.
Or, you know, Microsoft could have about one hundred thousand tech savvy employees (like myself) who also happen to frequent tech sites and have a higher than average opinion of the company. Doesn't have to be nefarious. That might not even be it either. Especially since the launch of Xbox, there are a surprising number of MS-fanboys out there unassociated with the company in any way.
Anyway, sorry to interrupt, I have no real evidence one way or another - conspiracy theory away!
let's read the overall tone of your post, including the last sentence, and say it's not nefarious and/or biased by your paycheck with a straight face again.
I've spent plenty of time around xbox gamers and am a huge fan of the halo series, but the common thread among all of them is love for specific games and their independent developing houses (in the case of halo, it's bungie, which was developing the cannon for that franchise before MS bought it).
Most have it for the same reason they have the other consoles: exclusivity deals on certain titles give them no other choice as gamers.
Save the unique control system on the wii, there simply is not a substantial enough difference in the look and feel of the same title from one system to another, and as someone from a middle-income background I can tell you the exorbitant pricing on the latest generation of consoles has been shaking people's will to purchase them even if it means being denied exclusive titles.
Gaming.
yes gaming
Oh, you mean, random shit that used to work, doesn't anymore?
Why can't I connect to my wireless network at home?
Why does krunner randomly crash? Or Plasma?
On second thought, maybe you're right. It's things like this that are the reason I left Windows in the first place. Maybe it's time to go back.
Ubuntu is unabashedly and unequivocally built around gnome.
complaining about kubuntu not performing properly is like complaining a stretched hummer limousine doesn't perform to proper off-road specs. Sure they're based on their respective distro/model, but they're both a completely new animal.
If you want a true offroad vehicle you get a military surplus HMMV, if you want a truly seemless out-of-box KDE experience you should get a linux distro built around KDE.
Though, to be candid, I think GP's comparison of windows to kubuntu is humorously apt given the kludgy nature of windows in general (for the record, I use neither windows nor linux, i'm a mac man after a decade of using windows and 2 years of trying out linux distros)
This is quite astute.
I'd also like to point out another story detailing a strong statistical anomaly in the speed at which anti-microsoft and pro-linux stories get "buried" on social news sites.
A while back coke.. err i mean microsoft.. introduced "new coke".. err.. i mean windows vista.. which was an unfort--*cough*purposeful*cough*--unate flop.
Then, they released "coca-cola classic".. err.. i mean windows xp again...err.. i mean "windows 7".. which the public raved was so much better than before!
HURRAY! *cough*and microsoft gets away with zero innovation by simply engineering expectations*cough*
Makes you wonder just how much this nations spends annually on corn and soy subsidies and just how much we will pay in the future as more and more people become sickly due to the low price of the poor nutrition that they are often offered.
What if we got rid of those agricultural subsidies? How will that affect the cost of McDonalds', Wendys', etc. foods?
It would cause famine whenever the climate so much as sneezed, because over-production is the only way to get around that, but it will not happen without subsidies.
On the other hand, if the government mandated a larger fraction (larger than current) of this extra food be shipped overseas for aid or stored for a catastrophe it would have the same effect you're looking for without putting the US under threat of famine.
When you skip voting and participating in government and then decide things are suddenly not to your liking and then protest violently that is not courage. That is failure. It never ceases to amaze me that people would rather do something violent than do something sane and boring like keeping a close watch on government to begin with.
Tell me which candidate to vote for in my nation (which is not canada or sweden) which is for the repeal of the DMCA, legalization of filesharing and marijuana, letting failed companies die, and stimulating the economy through "trickle up" rather than 'trickle down'.
I don't hear you..
people who don't vote actually ARE making a choice. They don't put "none of the above" on the ballots, so they leave the ballots blank.
you can't "steal" data.
you can compromise the data, hack it, crack it, breach the computer, etc, but its not theft.
Please don't promote this butchery of the english language being perpetrated by luddites and imbeciles so paranoid they feel the need to apply a double standard in which the bill of rights does not apply on the internet.
I suppose I could touch up the grammar mistakes made by an automated translator, but the message comes across quite clearly and eloquently as is.
whoops, forgot to remove the "not"
Perhaps it isthe Europeans who are more courageous after all.
Perhaps it is not the Europeans who are more courageous after all.
if I might also suggest this is true.
madoff has been sentenced and the trial is over..
people have gotten used to the spectacle of embezzlement and ponzi schemes, so we have to find another one.
nope, i'm not kidding.
one of the biggest differences between overweight and skinny people in equal environments is skinny people have a fidget.
make a fidget part of your habits and you wont have a weight issue.
You need a warrant if you're going to bug MY property.
Try this and you'll have privacy advocates from the left and anti-government advocates from the right forming powerful coalitions to block it.
nope, you dont have to wait
http://www.gamesites200.com/wowprivate/
Wikipedia is not a news site, it's meant to be an online open source encyclopedia.
Perhaps you should start a wiki based news source?
Damning wikipedia over this would be like damning mayfield dairies for also refusing to print this story on their milk cartons.
Besides, the whole point of insurance is about risk management. If an insurance cannot manage the risk, it cannot operate as a company.
there is a difference between "managing risk" and "cherry picking".
you CAN run an insurance company while covering people who actually need that insurance, it's all about properly sharing risk rather than avoiding it.
By the way, what say you to the hypocrisy of insurers handing out plans to 500 lb slobs who cant stop eating and/or smoking, but denying me coverage for a disease i was born with despite continued healthy living?
that's what i thought..
Pirate party members of parliament have a distinct advantage of a plethora of rich, undefended parliamentary seats to board, plunder, and retain for the cause.
I expect to see them take 5 seats a day in the EU and german parliament at this point, or they'll be keelhauled by the party captain.
So can this be appealed to a higher court, and will the order be stayed until such time as it can be reviewed?
I don't see this as an issue until it sets national precedent, otherwise its much like the other short-sighted and technically incompetent rulings in podunk areas of the US later overturned by more discriminating higher courts.
The UK government already made these empty threats about "3 strikes" before and never followed through with it.
Add to this EU measures against such disconnection and the failure of such measures in other nations for human rights reasons, and I don't see this as a credible threat, just a bunch of babbling on.
who says they'll digitize the old stuff?
until i see the ferris bueller mix of beat city on their network i will not be sated.
they can claim a song file is illegal all they want, but they can't prove you didn't lose the album.
I think when they refer to customs officials finding pirate content they mean actual physical counterfeit products.