3) I hate to say it, but Windows XP actually runs consistently faster under load on my laptop than Ubuntu. The GUI in particular is more responsive under load than GNOME or KDE.
stop messing around and tell your device manufacturers (especially graphics card) to either open up its drivers under GPL, or provide adequate documentation for the open source people to write drivers *for* them.
They just need to give the consumer some choices in available OS. Instead, they are behaving like the only "working" OS out there were Windows... is this ignorance, or...
How nice those OEMs are to Microsoft, right? In the meantime, I will keep doing all sorts of clowning and turning somersaults just to make my wireless and my winmodem work in Linux.
Don't you love how market forces work for the good of the consumer;)
Any time you attempt to wake Vista up from Hibernation or "Deep Sleep" (S3-induced sleep mode), it dies. It's either a BSOD, or a driver error, or a broken network, no DWM, lack of sound... the list goes on, and on.
there is no such thing as "neutral point of view". If you can see, what you see is your point of view. What you see will change according to who you are. The important thing is to balance different point of views in a single article.
"We will not focus too much on technology and materials. We will focus on substance,"
Translation: "We will screw our dear students by not giving them much needed educational materials. We will further screw our students by teaching them stupid, useless stuff. Because we think we cannot compete with the tech services offered by nations such as India et al, we will provide the so-called developed world with cheap, undereducated, unimaginative lumpenproletariat who will not and cannot act against oppression-thru-sweatshops. Therefore, we will be able to compete with other developing nations to provide you the cheapest possible labor."
Believe me when I tell you: I know how such a government thinks...
Apart from the colonialist approach Western nations take, this is also partly because your neighborhood knows nothing about fixing hardware, and even when he does, he'll still screw you over. Example:
1. Get the lcd inverter of your laptop to break 2. Go to your neighborhood store so they screw you for $400. Enjoy the ride or buy a new laptop, discarding the old one (unless you really know that the inverter is broken).
Folks at Ubuntu should borrow a leaf from Xandros and Freespire. These distributions actually work as advertised.
You should have known that mentioning Freespire or Linspire or (god forbid) Lindows as model distros in Slashdot is karma suicide... And not unfairly so...
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I don't think the problem is with the penguin. It's the environment this penguin is trying to survive in...
enjoy
accepting a submission. maybe then, you can see that it's full of crap (i.e. it has much more advertisement than quality content).
it will be the well tempered out-of-date Debian desktop.
Novell did it!
2. replace them with penguins from free-penguin.org
3. ???
4. profit...
yay
oh wait, we're destroying the environment they live in.
Dee dee dee...
about +$65 and -oss
is this ignorance, or...
hmmm...
oh yes, 4. profit!
Don't you love how market forces work for the good of the consumer ;)
ay, here goes my karma again...
lol :)
...but it doesn't mention research on how they will help Novell kill itself... :(
To bury news by marking them flamebait...
But nevertheless, this statement ("there is no such thing as a neutral point of view") is more stable for issues with social connotations.
"We will screw our dear students by not giving them much needed educational materials. We will further screw our students by teaching them stupid, useless stuff. Because we think we cannot compete with the tech services offered by nations such as India et al, we will provide the so-called developed world with cheap, undereducated, unimaginative lumpenproletariat who will not and cannot act against oppression-thru-sweatshops. Therefore, we will be able to compete with other developing nations to provide you the cheapest possible labor."
Believe me when I tell you: I know how such a government thinks...
1. Get the lcd inverter of your laptop to break
2. Go to your neighborhood store so they screw you for $400. Enjoy the ride or buy a new laptop, discarding the old one (unless you really know that the inverter is broken).
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2490/