What I don't get is why they should care in the slightest if their trademark becomes genericized. They don't stand to loose a profit like Xerox would, they are a nonprofit. Keeping their website recognizable is worthless if they are recognized primarily for being dicks.
My thoughts exactly. People look at me weird when I say I prefer linux to windows because windows is far to complicated. What they don't understand is that there are more kinds of 'complicated' than just "what icon do I click to get internet?".
Well, I'd certainlly concede that this could be classified as terrorism but I was refering more to the "ZOMG TALIBAN" kind of terrorists. Modern media interpretation of the word.;)
Lets not all go blaming terrorist organizations on this one.
My money is on unionized workers facing layoffs or payroll cuts. They would best know how to hurt the system and this sort of sabotage being linked to unions is not exactly unheard of.
1) Agreed. 2) UID means nothing, also he doesn't exactly sound like a frequent windows user. Furthermore, I don't really see how he indicated that he didn't. 3)...probably none? If he just uses windows for games it's probably safe to assume he doesn't care if he can't run other applications at the same time. When I (rarely) boot windows to play games I know I don't use other applications at the same time. My conclusion: You are a very overreactive anti-MS shill who can't even be bothered to read and understand posts before attacking people for percievably supporting MS.
Actually the 3d effect is not affected by color blindness. Assuming you are talking about those old blue/red 3d movies, then it will work fine enough. The colored lenses of the glasses filter the colors for you, leaving you with two slightly different images for each eye. Nowadays they use polarized light or something fancy like that though.
The actual color in the film will of course be lost on them howerver.;)
You are missing how time dilation works, it's not linear.
If the distance is greater than a few lightyears then you are going to be moving faster than.95c, say perhaps.98. At that speed the effects of time dilation are going to be even greater.
Fedora does have the ability to smoothely update from version to version, though I don't think it's officially supported. Personally I just have a seperate home partition that I leave alone, installing new versions is about a 20 minute job for me. If you don't like the 6-month release schedule then I'd suggest going with a distro that takes it slower, Debian perhaps. The Open Source scene changes very rapidly though, a lot has changed in 3 years.
Holy crap man, scrap all of that and upgrade already! Fedora 10 has been out for months and Fedora 11 is coming out in about a month. You really really really should no longer be using Fedora Core 5, nobody is going to be able to help you with it anymore and I don't even think the repositories for it are still up!
Just install Fedora 10 clean and let yum (the package manager used by Fedora) handle all the hard work with installing things. `yum install gimp` will install gimp for you and all of it's dependancies, it really couldn't be simplier.
I'm not familar with the technical aspects of how exactly ATM machines work, but if the system preclude decent security I'd feel safe in asserting that they are doing it wrong.
Being "excellent lawyers" does not preclude them from being despicable scum.
The tactics used by RIAA lawyers in the past demonstrate a near complete lack of human decency, not exactly the type of people I feel comfortable with in the Department of Justice.
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The posts in that thread make me just about lose all hope for humanity.
Mathematical symbols would be super handy on a site that claims to appeal to nerds though.
What I don't get is why they should care in the slightest if their trademark becomes genericized. They don't stand to loose a profit like Xerox would, they are a nonprofit. Keeping their website recognizable is worthless if they are recognized primarily for being dicks.
More like 30
Hell, we're going on 40 now.
No.
If Aliens taught us anything it's that we should nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. ;)
My thoughts exactly. People look at me weird when I say I prefer linux to windows because windows is far to complicated. What they don't understand is that there are more kinds of 'complicated' than just "what icon do I click to get internet?".
Personally I'd prefer to go out and do things with my family (even if it is just watch a movie) than sit on my ass in front of a television.
Most people who watch movies in theatres do it mostly for the experiance.
much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
And us linux users consider that a feature.
Did I say it was wrong? No. I merely stated that more likely than not it was them.
more than likely it was a disgruntled fiber optics' company exec
Oh, I see. You don't actually care about being grounded in reality....
Understood, I was just envisioning in my mind dozens of wingnut drones trying to make that connection.
Well, I'd certainlly concede that this could be classified as terrorism but I was refering more to the "ZOMG TALIBAN" kind of terrorists. Modern media interpretation of the word. ;)
Lets not all go blaming terrorist organizations on this one.
My money is on unionized workers facing layoffs or payroll cuts. They would best know how to hurt the system and this sort of sabotage being linked to unions is not exactly unheard of.
We've been on stage 2 for a looong time now. Perhaps even on the beginnings of stage 3, depending on who you ask.
1) Agreed. ...probably none? If he just uses windows for games it's probably safe to assume he doesn't care if he can't run other applications at the same time. When I (rarely) boot windows to play games I know I don't use other applications at the same time.
2) UID means nothing, also he doesn't exactly sound like a frequent windows user. Furthermore, I don't really see how he indicated that he didn't.
3)
My conclusion: You are a very overreactive anti-MS shill who can't even be bothered to read and understand posts before attacking people for percievably supporting MS.
My school blocked Youtube, maybe I should have called the ACLU too...
Seriously though, is the blocking tasteful? Of course not. But illegal...?
Actually the 3d effect is not affected by color blindness. Assuming you are talking about those old blue/red 3d movies, then it will work fine enough. The colored lenses of the glasses filter the colors for you, leaving you with two slightly different images for each eye. Nowadays they use polarized light or something fancy like that though.
The actual color in the film will of course be lost on them howerver. ;)
"...and most compelling"
Ya know, that's what I like most about sci-fi actually.
You are missing how time dilation works, it's not linear.
If the distance is greater than a few lightyears then you are going to be moving faster than .95c, say perhaps .98. At that speed the effects of time dilation are going to be even greater.
Fedora does have the ability to smoothely update from version to version, though I don't think it's officially supported. Personally I just have a seperate home partition that I leave alone, installing new versions is about a 20 minute job for me. If you don't like the 6-month release schedule then I'd suggest going with a distro that takes it slower, Debian perhaps. The Open Source scene changes very rapidly though, a lot has changed in 3 years.
Holy crap man, scrap all of that and upgrade already! Fedora 10 has been out for months and Fedora 11 is coming out in about a month. You really really really should no longer be using Fedora Core 5, nobody is going to be able to help you with it anymore and I don't even think the repositories for it are still up!
Just install Fedora 10 clean and let yum (the package manager used by Fedora) handle all the hard work with installing things. `yum install gimp` will install gimp for you and all of it's dependancies, it really couldn't be simplier.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, they just reinvented 'nice'?
TI-86's are the bomb.
I'm not familar with the technical aspects of how exactly ATM machines work, but if the system preclude decent security I'd feel safe in asserting that they are doing it wrong.
Seriously? This is just incredibly stupid.
What ever happened to accessing the routing information but leaving the data encrypted? SSL really is not that complicated of a concept.
Being "excellent lawyers" does not preclude them from being despicable scum.
The tactics used by RIAA lawyers in the past demonstrate a near complete lack of human decency, not exactly the type of people I feel comfortable with in the Department of Justice.