I think everyone understands that it would be impossible to just wake up one day and *pop* everything runs Linux. It's just not possible.
The only way Linux will come to the desktop is in a slow march. All this article is describing is another step, another foothold that free software has on the desktop. The 'year of the desktop' isn't 'coming'; it's here. Just not everywhere.
I've tried the Aspire One and I have to say it's a bit frustrating that you can't add custom icons to your desktop, and that it ships with Firefox 2. But you are right, it has no problems updating or adapting to the small screen size.
Actually, the "observable" universe is around the time of the big bang. If one remembers that gravitational waves (and thus gravity) travels at the speed of light,it would seem we're looking past the beginning to before the "big bang". This, of course, violates everything we've been taught in school.
In this week's Disagree Mail, I try to show the range of messages I get. It's not all angry or insane, sometimes it's sent to us for no apparent reason. We start off a little mad, slip into a whole bunch of crazy and finish with someone who has a complaint about racism at his favorite restaurant. Read below to get started. The last sentence in this one is what sold me.
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, wrote: "I have been blocked from Slashdot. I have done nothing worthy of being banned and if you would take your head out of your ass long enough you would realize it! I have to put up with this kind of shit at work but I won't put up with it here! so here's what I demand you do: Apologize to me, both here and in a letter. Apologize to my isp, I called at yelled at them yesterday thinking it was their fault. Finally, I want a written promise that you will never do this to me or anyone else again. If you do not meet these demands in 10 business days, I will be forced to take drastic action, including but not limited to: emailing everyone I know to tell them of how you treat innocent users or reading my news else where. Your move asshole!"
I've often wondered to myself, what would you do if someone who stole from the FBI found out you were a human computer? Thanks to this woman I still don't know.
On Fri, 30 Nov, - wrote: "I'm in search for one of your representatives, or National Security. I have been able to read - mind. I showed up at - in Eugene, Oregon and let him know about the money that he stole from government agencies, including the FBI, which ironically protects him. He thought I was undercover or believed I was a human computer; which he still may believe. He witnesses that his computers talk to me, as if I were one of them. I can tell what program his computers are on and what they are interlocking with most of the time. He gave me a 400 million dollar check that day, as I sat there reading his mind explaining to him what I knew. At that point he had 8-10 billion dollars of government money/funding hidden away. But after the planes went down he stole over a 100 billion. He used Mike's pin# and password to get into National Security. He helped himself into instruments and institutions, and began using them incorrectly and illegally. I am offering National Security or any Representative a lot of my money to help me put this man away. It seems he is being protected by the forces I need. He is station #3 of the HAARP Project and I'm in search for anyone ready to earn a lot of money; for actually representing the United States of America the Right Way. He's been looking into the minds of his people and brainwashing them, so he will not be seen. I can read his mind faster than any instrument, and ironically he seems he has to answer my questions like I was a machine. When I listen, I can hear him telling people he's playing God and to digest this information; or to Change their mind. Another one he uses, line one--, line two--, line three--, Lock and Load, which also seems to convince people that he is innocent. He changes the information nightly so he won't be seen, for he is a computer programmer as you will soon see. I've even tried try to get the HAARP to tune into me, so they could see me which would see him. This is just the beginning of what I know. Eugene, Oregon's FBI seem to be full of idiots or his "Change Your mind Method" is working pretty damn good. Right now I get denied as they listen to him and not me. But COME ON PEOPLE, He wrote me a $400 Million dollar check. (SO, WAKE UP! FBI, because you are obviously, virtually blind),. This Nation seems to be lacking people like me. That can discover people like - and his black market industry."
The next is a bit long. I'm not sure why this was sent to us or what he thought we were going to do about it. He might have a legitimate complaint but even with the vast power of the internet I can't make racist people stay away from restaurants. Calling them terrorists is a bit of a stretch too.
That's either $DEITY or %DEITY%, please learn basic shell scripting for your platform:)
Morale: if you're gonna rant, make sure you do not make the same mistakes as the target of your rant
That's moral, which is a lesson to be learned. Morale refers to high spirits, or lack thereof, as in "his morale was crushed when he realized his error in verbiage".
I spent 20 minutes trying to further this string of grammar naziism but have been reduced to mockery of your HTML tags.
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Good point! We'll need a "-1 not funny" while you're at it, too!
But I am irked, for I am a super-fan.
Pull the power cord out of the wall.
That's just a fork bomb. That won't actually slow down your system for very long on most modern systems that limit the number of processes.
It's a trap!
This whole "malware" thing sounds exciting! How can I get it? I'm running Ubuntu 8.10.
And the year after that is the year of the Linux Microwave!
His point is that in windows, the majority of software isn't signed, so it's the norm for the user to install crapware without knowing it.
Aren't there already third party apps that do this?
I think everyone understands that it would be impossible to just wake up one day and *pop* everything runs Linux. It's just not possible.
The only way Linux will come to the desktop is in a slow march. All this article is describing is another step, another foothold that free software has on the desktop. The 'year of the desktop' isn't 'coming'; it's here. Just not everywhere.
I love whoever modded you troll.
You know, I went looking for the plugin for linux, but I couldn't find it. Could you link to the download?
How do you know which is the original?
I've tried the Aspire One and I have to say it's a bit frustrating that you can't add custom icons to your desktop, and that it ships with Firefox 2. But you are right, it has no problems updating or adapting to the small screen size.
Actually, the "observable" universe is around the time of the big bang. If one remembers that gravitational waves (and thus gravity) travels at the speed of light,it would seem we're looking past the beginning to before the "big bang". This, of course, violates everything we've been taught in school.
To conclude, I'm tagging this story "impossible".
Link to YouTube audio
The federal reserve isn't owned by the US taxpayers. It's a private company.
It's turned into pure fairies as per the rule of thumb of e = (fairies)c^2
Oh no, it's twitter!
Here goes my karma!
Or maybe like this?
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You do realize that the LHC is producing roughly 400 GB of data every 10 seconds, right?
Given MS a break guys.. wait for some time before you start bashing them
It's only been in beta for 2 years. Yeah, give it more time.
From the site: Only Windows XP (SP2 or SP3) and Windows Vista are supported at this time.
No Linux support? In this day and age? Bah.
In this week's Disagree Mail, I try to show the range of messages I get. It's not all angry or insane, sometimes it's sent to us for no apparent reason. We start off a little mad, slip into a whole bunch of crazy and finish with someone who has a complaint about racism at his favorite restaurant. Read below to get started.
The last sentence in this one is what sold me.
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, wrote:
"I have been blocked from Slashdot. I have done nothing worthy of being banned and if you would take your head out of your ass long enough you would realize it! I have to put up with this kind of shit at work but I won't put up with it here! so here's what I demand you do: Apologize to me, both here and in a letter. Apologize to my isp, I called at yelled at them yesterday thinking it was their fault. Finally, I want a written promise that you will never do this to me or anyone else again. If you do not meet these demands in 10 business days, I will be forced to take drastic action, including but not limited to: emailing everyone I know to tell them of how you treat innocent users or reading my news else where. Your move asshole!"
I've often wondered to myself, what would you do if someone who stole from the FBI found out you were a human computer? Thanks to this woman I still don't know.
On Fri, 30 Nov, - wrote:
"I'm in search for one of your representatives, or National Security. I have been able to read - mind. I showed up at - in Eugene, Oregon and let him know about the money that he stole from government agencies, including the FBI, which ironically protects him. He thought I was undercover or believed I was a human computer; which he still may believe. He witnesses that his computers talk to me, as if I were one of them. I can tell what program his computers are on and what they are interlocking with most of the time. He gave me a 400 million dollar check that day, as I sat there reading his mind explaining to him what I knew. At that point he had 8-10 billion dollars of government money/funding hidden away. But after the planes went down he stole over a 100 billion. He used Mike's pin# and password to get into National Security. He helped himself into instruments and institutions, and began using them incorrectly and illegally. I am offering National Security or any Representative a lot of my money to help me put this man away. It seems he is being protected by the forces I need. He is station #3 of the HAARP Project and I'm in search for anyone ready to earn a lot of money; for actually representing the United States of America the Right Way. He's been looking into the minds of his people and brainwashing them, so he will not be seen. I can read his mind faster than any instrument, and ironically he seems he has to answer my questions like I was a machine. When I listen, I can hear him telling people he's playing God and to digest this information; or to Change their mind. Another one he uses, line one--, line two--, line three--, Lock and Load, which also seems to convince people that he is innocent. He changes the information nightly so he won't be seen, for he is a computer programmer as you will soon see. I've even tried try to get the HAARP to tune into me, so they could see me which would see him. This is just the beginning of what I know. Eugene, Oregon's FBI seem to be full of idiots or his "Change Your mind Method" is working pretty damn good. Right now I get denied as they listen to him and not me. But COME ON PEOPLE, He wrote me a $400 Million dollar check. (SO, WAKE UP! FBI, because you are obviously, virtually blind),. This Nation seems to be lacking people like me. That can discover people like - and his black market industry."
The next is a bit long. I'm not sure why this was sent to us or what he thought we were going to do about it. He might have a legitimate complaint but even with the vast power of the internet I can't make racist people stay away from restaurants. Calling them terrorists is a bit of a stretch too.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, - wrote:
Hello info@o
That's moral, which is a lesson to be learned. Morale refers to high spirits, or lack thereof, as in "his morale was crushed when he realized his error in verbiage".
I spent 20 minutes trying to further this string of grammar naziism but have been reduced to mockery of your HTML tags.