Ash: Ok you Primitive SCOheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
How many more stories of SCO being {evil|stupid|malicious} do we need.
You must be new here.
Ok, more seriously... IMHO, the real reason why SCO stories are covered so often here on/. is because SCO decided to mess with Linux and the GPL, thus pissing off a very large set of communities (including, but by no means limited to the Linux community, Open Source Developers...). Now, since there is a large number of people who care about the SCO case, there is a demand for articles concerning the case as well as anything related to it. Therefore, SCO stuff gets on the front page.
The company is almost dead now, let them die alright
(As of May 1, 2007) They aren't dead yet. Although, the dead collector will be around on Thursday...
If I go to court over one of these tickets, aren't I entitled to face my accuser? Obviously, I can't question the box that took my picture, so it's my word against whose exactly?
Here in Chicago, peope who get traffic camera tickets can go to a special city clerk court to fight the ticket. The accuser happens to be a representative of the city of Chicago, since the cameras are municipal property. Unfortunately, 99% of people who fight the tickets lose and have their fines *doubled*.
It just seems that red light cameras subvert some of my fundamental rights as a citizen, and the local governments are willing to be complicit in that because the cameras generate bigtime revenue.
While I think the cameras can be beneficial in reducing the number of accidents caused by red light running, I agree that they subvert some of our fundamental citizen's rights. They are definitely a municipal money maker.
Of course, traffic cameras would be unnecessary if people would just obey the 'effin law and not blow red lights... but I digress...
Is it just me, or is Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot by pushing this new, and somewhat unpopular product into the marketplace?
Do you remember Windows ME? It seems like history is repeating itself again.
Let me use an analogy... You can take a Honda Civic and with very liberal applications of accessories bolt on enough stuff to make it riced out enough so that it (almost) appears to be a Porche. Of course, it still isn't a Porche, just a Honda with a bunch of bolted on toys... Microsoft seems to have a problem understanding this, and this is one reason why I think they keep on making the same OS mistakes.
Well, from my sources, I heard they are planning to try using interpretive dance to sell licenses in about a month. If that fails, they will use flatulent dogs or poo flinging monkies.
Let's see of the results hold after Serenity makes a sequel with Jar Jar Binks.
Would this prequel/sequel have a long scene where Jar Jar Binks is locked in a room full of reavers? If so *I* will definately be first in line to see it.
I guess it doesn't really matter too much which distro you choose these days. They're all easy.
I agree with you there.
I've never had much difficulty with my various Gentoo (from stage 3 as well as the new installer), Ubuntu, (old school) Red Hat, Fedora, and FreeBSD desktop installs.
Windows XP, on the other hand tended to be somewhat of a pain in the ass for me to get installed successfully. For some odd reason, at least 2.cab files would claim to be corrupted, thus borking up my install. Keep in mind that my install disk was brand new thanks to ACM. My student chapter was given a 'gift' of microsoft products, and if absolutely necessary, I could have used my MSDNAA account to download a new copy and key.
Makes me want to take the next moron who says Linux isn't ready for the desktop and shove his teeth so far down his throat he'll have to stick his toothbrush up his ass...
I totally know where you are comming from on that...
It doesn't matter if it lives up to its claim or not, as long as it helps the average user get into Linux. Any 'easy' distro is welcome to join the fray. Welcome aboard.
Hopefully they will do the right thing and provide good user support. Having a distro which is "easy to use" is nice, but helping (read: 'rtfm' responces to user questions doesn't qualify) users out as well as having good and easy to read tutorials and documentation is a must.
Installing Gentoo is a serious commitment. After installing comes the countless hours waiting for updates as well as software installs to compile.
God forbid someone should forget that "Gentoo is all about choice" is a mandate to obscenely rice out your GCC flags and make non-trivial changes to make.conf in order to get that whopping 0.00000000000000000001% performance gain as well as the satisfaction that you know what exactly what the "OMGPONIES" and "WTFAMIDOING" GCC flags do in conjunction with the countless other ricer flags out there.
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Damn! Well, there goes the free toaster.
I can only imagine how that will go...
Ash: Ok you Primitive SCOheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
Hey, if you wait long enough you may get the entire company as an added bonus after purchasing one license.
You must be new here.
Ok, more seriously... IMHO, the real reason why SCO stories are covered so often here on
(As of May 1, 2007) They aren't dead yet. Although, the dead collector will be around on Thursday...
Hey, It couldn't hurt the price of the toilet paper posing as SCO's stock.
I'm still waiting to see "Less-filling-net" vs "Tastes-Great-net"
Surprisingly enough, no. I mean, between video games, movies, and having to LART (l)users, I have learned a great deal concerning firearms.
Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-IL) is no longer a member of congress. He has been replaced by Barak Obama
I love living in Chicago. I really enjoy the fact that corruption is the oil which keeps the machine which is the city running.
If you think some Chicago police are asses, certian suburban departments aren't any better. *cough* Schaumburg *cough* Arlington Heights *cough*...
I would assume the mole people who work for Microsoft in the division responsible for the Zune...
Here in Chicago, peope who get traffic camera tickets can go to a special city clerk court to fight the ticket. The accuser happens to be a representative of the city of Chicago, since the cameras are municipal property. Unfortunately, 99% of people who fight the tickets lose and have their fines *doubled*.
While I think the cameras can be beneficial in reducing the number of accidents caused by red light running, I agree that they subvert some of our fundamental citizen's rights. They are definitely a municipal money maker.
Of course, traffic cameras would be unnecessary if people would just obey the 'effin law and not blow red lights... but I digress...
Do you remember Windows ME? It seems like history is repeating itself again.
Let me use an analogy... You can take a Honda Civic and with very liberal applications of accessories bolt on enough stuff to make it riced out enough so that it (almost) appears to be a Porche. Of course, it still isn't a Porche, just a Honda with a bunch of bolted on toys... Microsoft seems to have a problem understanding this, and this is one reason why I think they keep on making the same OS mistakes.
Well, from my sources, I heard they are planning to try using interpretive dance to sell licenses in about a month. If that fails, they will use flatulent dogs or poo flinging monkies.
Well, after rereading the original story post, one answer came to mind to your question...
Good point... but then again, this is
Am I the only person who misread that as "...we need a goatse'd doctor..."?
I believe that would make you 14 years too young to be eligible to become president of the United States of America.
Would this prequel/sequel have a long scene where Jar Jar Binks is locked in a room full of reavers? If so *I* will definately be first in line to see it.
A Pink Ponies filled Zune... now *that* I will have to run out and buy. (Provided that it comes with an OMGPONIES sign made with glitter)
Actually, that is a completely appropriate responce.
I agree with you there.
I've never had much difficulty with my various Gentoo (from stage 3 as well as the new installer), Ubuntu, (old school) Red Hat, Fedora, and FreeBSD desktop installs.
Windows XP, on the other hand tended to be somewhat of a pain in the ass for me to get installed successfully. For some odd reason, at least 2
I totally know where you are comming from on that...
Hopefully they will do the right thing and provide good user support. Having a distro which is "easy to use" is nice, but helping (read: 'rtfm' responces to user questions doesn't qualify) users out as well as having good and easy to read tutorials and documentation is a must.
Very true.
Installing Gentoo is a serious commitment. After installing comes the countless hours waiting for updates as well as software installs to compile.
God forbid someone should forget that "Gentoo is all about choice" is a mandate to obscenely rice out your GCC flags and make non-trivial changes to make.conf in order to get that whopping 0.00000000000000000001% performance gain as well as the satisfaction that you know what exactly what the "OMGPONIES" and "WTFAMIDOING" GCC flags do in conjunction with the countless other ricer flags out there.
Gentoo is pretty easy to install. Hell, I even remember the two of three commands for installation: