We've done it both ways. Servers are all Linux. Dev workstations were Linux the last 6 years or so but the last round of Ubuntu UI stupidity made me bite the bullet and switch back to Windows (we have several Windows only apps that we require that ran under vms, the UI was just the tipping point). We have had zero issues switching between dev platforms and I have to say, unfortunately, that Linux seems to run better under Virtual Box on Windows than Windows did under KVM on Linux.
<rant>I would love to be Windows free but honestly, and it pains me to say this, the Windows 7 UI is infinitely better that Gnome. It is on par with KDE from an interface standpoint, but the KDE team seems obsessed with turning my operating system into some @#$#@ twitter/facebook/etsy love child. I don't need 50% of my CPU cycles dedicated to tagging files in my file system thank you very much. I know what the files are. I know where they are, I put them there. Now get back to making drop shadows and reflections. We switched back to Windows because we find it to be less resource intensive than KDE, a fact that I hope disturbs the KDE devs as much as it does me.</rant>
Is it the case that until Android came around, Java, the language, the libraries and the VM collectively known as "Java" was write once run everywhere platform?
I was there. It was never, ever that way. You couldn't even run multiple java apps on the same computer, because one service provider would only run under and support (made up version) 1.1 and another would only run under and support (made up version) 1.2 and they'd crash horrifically on each other's version. So you'd have workers with two PCs on their desk because they need access to both apps. It was just a nightmare.
It was supposed to be multi-platform across anything, but it wasn't even as inter-compatible as windows. Ugh.
Things may have improved in the last decade or so, but in the olden days it was horrific.
You do realize, don't you, that what you are describing is a situation that was created by Microsoft (to "embrace and extend" Java) and was at least part of the basis for Sun's lawsuit against them, right? That said, I do see vendors doing stupid crap like this still, improperly written applet tags/jnlp files or (for kriseakes) still requiring JInitiator (I'm looking at you FAMIS). Any company that creates a Windows-only Java applet deserves to die of acute, concurrent syphilis+gonorrhea+dysentery. If you are going to make it Windows only, just make it a damn Windows application in C++ or C# or whatever and stop trying to embed it in a friggin' web page.
Eeek! The horrors of that code are just too numerous to list. If I saw that in code I was maintaining my instant reaction would be ctrl+a delete. Like back in the day when some Geocities page would cause a porn-site ad to pop-up on your screen at work. Kill it fast! Before anyone notices!
Not having unsigned types is probably the second dumbest decision in Java's design, after compulsory garbage collection.
If these things are important to you, then you are programming in an arena where Java is the wrong choice. These are not defects in Java's design, but Java is not the best language for, say, writing device drivers.
Seriously? So you use a device driver to open an arbitrary binary data file? I don't know that I would go so far as to call it a defect as much as a short-sightedness.
Agreed. Most of what I see cited as "memory leaks" in Java are just poorly written libraries with improperly scoped variables. But it is just like the performance arguments against Java. While Java will never perform as fast as a lower level language, properly written code executes extremely efficiently, enough so that the performance gained by programming in a more "native code" language (non-vm) is rarely significant enough to justify the set of complications and additional risks that it brings with it. Another thing that bugs me coming from Java haters is the whole "insecure" horse shyte. No language is perfectly secure, but I would say there are few that are more secure than Java. In fact, Sun's focus on this particular issue is what has created the most problems from Java from applet/application deployment with big scary "OMG, You are going to run a Java app, do you really want to do such a dangerous thing?" dialogs that Sun idiotically created, to their plain and simple HORRIBLE keystore arrangement that makes the already PITA process of certificate management and turns it into full on John Holmes buttsex painful.
+1 I love Java and spend 6 or 7 of each 8 working hours immersed in it, but the lack of unsigned types is infuriating. It makes dealing with bit level protocols an absolute nightmare. I know the problems are not insurmountable by any means, but there is just no reason that it needs to be such a PITA. I love you Dr. James, but that was an F'up.
When our certificate renewals come up next year I will be switching companies. I don't give a flying fart that they cowardly backtracked on their initial stupidity. If they actually needed to hear from the "internet community" to discover just how fscking distructive SOPA is to everyone but the *iaa then they are too fscking stupid for me to trust my security with. FOAD GoDaddy!
- A former customer
The claim that water prevents dehydration is demonstrably false. The decision was made to protect the willfully ignorant and the hopelessly stupid, like the people here posting with their self-righteous populist outrage about how "dem big gubment politishuns gone done sumtin stupid 'gain". Do us a favor and pull your heads out of your collective asses.
Think of it this way: Does air prevent a plane from crashing? Does water prevent a boat from sinking? Yes, it's true that a plane cannot fly without air (aerodynamic flight to any pedants, I know what you are thinking). Having air, however does not prevent a plane from falling from the sky. A boat necessarily requires water in order to float. Having water does not, however, mean that a boat won't sink. Likewise, water is required to be hydrated. Water alone, however, DOES NOT PREVENT DEHYDRATION. Saying that this is a stupid decision would be akin to saying that it should be perfectly acceptable for a company to sell cans of air to passengers in an airport to prevent their flight from crashing, or cruise lines telling passengers that bottled of water makes a suitable substitute for a life preserver.
Just because your teeny weeny little brain can't get around the fact that sometimes there are actually people in elected/appointed positions making decisions that are both correct and good intentioned in addition to those that aren't, doesn't mean that you should react as though you are afloat in a sea of stupidity. A little investigation might lead you to discover that you are the one filling the wading pool in which you stand.
Things are now clear to me. I guess the other 9 are too busy looking for their geocities page to bother with email.
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told Brian that the royalties from the book were only $700 and only gave him $350? No, we would call him an asshole, which is what he would have been if he had done that. But that wasn't him. Steve Jobs was an asshole given way more credit than he deserved. Look at this story, he is being given credit for recognizing Dennis Ritchie. WTF?
By "about half the country feeling directly opposite of us" I have to assume...
You know what assuming does.
Until we get over the "left vs right" paradigm and focus on a "right vs wrong" paradigm
The parent didn't bring up "left vs right". YOU did. He/she said half. That half could be 50% of dems and 50% of reps. Maybe 75% tea party, 25% OWS. Maybe the half was AARP members plus crystal meth addicts, I don't know, the parent never made any kind of claim to demographics, yet you laid down a passive-aggressive "it's the liberal's fault" argument. The reality is that post 9/11, the majorities of both parties were tripping over themselves to abridge liberty because they were all a bunch wet-pantied panzies.
The bottom line is that unless our economy continues to plunge and we truly end up a third-world nation, then we will always be targets. Sometimes based on real injustices that we have committed (WE are OUR government after all). Sometimes because the biggest target is the easiest to hit. We WILL get hit again. Count on it. People will die. It will be tragic, and people of all political dispositions will do their best to use the circumstance to their advantage. It doesn't matter how much we spend, how many countries we bomb, how many people we kill or how many of our own liberties we relegate to the dusty pages of history books and retirement home porches with old men spouting out "back in my day".
At that point, the only thing we will have left to measure ourselves by will be they way we lived our lives, and if the last decade or so of governance by both ends of the political spectrum is any indication, we will only be able to lament "what a waste". And then, my friend, it will be far too late.
to is a telemarketer or collections agent, and one that doesn't have an automated dialing system at that. So clearly the solution to damaged muscle memory is to grab a wire coat hanger, bend it in half till it breaks, then place each piece (while holding them) into the two vertical slots on an electrical outlet. Careful though, this can damage any equipment on the circuit so I would suggest unplugging your clothes drier or stove and using one of those since the circuit is isolated. This will help stimulate muscle memory so that you will seamlessly be able to use both configurations after several such treatments.
(Note: Since you probably are a telemarketer, and thus near clinically brain-dead, let me explain that this is sarcasm and in no way is it a good idea to stick things into electrical outlets the weren't intended to go there. Doing so might cause serious injury such as brain damage, and as if telemarketers weren't enough of a problem already I certainly don't want to be responsible for creating another politician.)
It's subtle in that people using Oracle coming from a standards compliant database usually have this one bite them in the ass big time without any idea that it was coming. I hate this behavior, and the us of NVs all over the damn place. Outside of cost, it is one of my biggest beefs moving to Oracle. It significantly increased the complexity of moving a large application from MySQL to Oracle. Every single query had to be re-written looking for places where this would get you. It is just plain dumb behavior.
No I am not Carol. I only wish I could be as good as her at what she does. This whole situation is crap.
Yeah, she's the genius behind the whole "Let's re-skin Autocad every year and rape our customers over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Oh, and buy any company that might pose even the slightest potential competition. Our customers will love us! Because we will demand that they do." She's a douche-bag (and likely the only woman I have ever used that term for, so there is some accomplishment there). AutoDesk is nothing but a marketing/legal firm pretending to be a tech company now, and that was her doing. (of course, that's why Yahoo hired her in the first place, so I suppose their board is even worse than she is).
And I don't think the police could stop someone from killing you any better than you can yourself. They provide "justice" afterward.
The police do NOT (or rather should not) provide justice before, during or afterward. That is NOT their responsibility, nor their purview. They provide for the protection of you, your things, and your rights as defined by the law during the heat of the moment, as they are to provide protection to others from you. One cannot abdicate their responsibility for their own safety, but the utilization of an organized police force serves to prevent the atrocities and escalation of violence the would result from individual dispensation of justice. As such, I prefer that the cops are there to maintain peace and provide an avenue to arrive at civilized resolution of disputes whenever possible. Anyone who has ever played COD on-line or anything similar (hell, even Netrek provided a scary insight into the mentality of a distinct portion of the general populace) should be acutely aware of how bad things would get if governance and justice were left to the impulse whims of the individual.
The COURTS are there to provide justice, via a constitutionally guaranteed right to a trial by a jury of your peers, such that you are bound by the jurisprudence of the society within which you reside, but not by the whims of mob rule (ideally). A police officer who believes that his or her purpose is the provision of justice constitutes a threat to society in their own right, and should be relieved of their privileged position of power.
The system is far from perfect. But no system of, by, and for the people will ever achieve perfection. This does not mean that a system devoid of consensual governance would be better. Or even survivable. I, along with most people, do not wish to live our lives in a form of varying degrees of combat every day. Which is why we maintain a system of justice that in general punishes those who decide to live their lives in such a fashion.
the akonadi/nepomuk dependency? If not, wgaff? I won't touch desktop linux again until this semantic desktop bullshit runs its course and the kde devs/designers pull their heads out their asses. I've grudgingly switched my office (5 workstations) back to MS after 8 or so years on Debian/Ubuntu. Heaven forbid Microsoft ever figures out how to create a real shell, I'll never even have to think about it again. I mean seriously, fixed width, STILL have to hit that shitty little menu to copy and paste? Powsershell is better, but the bar was pretty frickin' low to start with. That said, I'm still finding Win 7 much more productive than the last two or three releases of KDE on Ubuntu. For the same reasons that I switched to Linux in the first place. I don't have to fight with it to do what I want (well, at least not as much as I have found myself doing with Linux the last couple of years). And Gnome still sucks. I LIKE QT. A lot. I like most things about KDE. But 25 Akondi processes running for PIM that I don't even use (Thunderbird+Lightning does everything my staff needs) makes me has angry as I would get buying a big-box HP desktop and spending 2 weeks trying to get rid of all the bloatware.
Seems I only post here to bitch about what has happened to KDE/Ubuntu... I guess it's kinda like watching your sister get into porn. You can say you like it all you want, I loathe it.
Unfortunately, nothing much has changed, as current-day US Liberals/Progressives still push for large, powerful, intrusive central government...
Don't be such a tool. I no more want the government telling me what I can and can't do with my reproductive system than you want them telling you whether you can or can't purchase and own a firearm. Dems have their supporters believing this is all the fault of the other party, Reps have theirs believing the same thing about the Dems. What you fail to note is that the stroll towards totalitarianism has been the only bi-partisan activity taken on by this government for the last decade+. That's why the "small government" right helped give us the Department of Homeland Security and the "civil libertarian" left pushed along the Patriot Act.
Unless we, the voting public, get our collective heads out of our asses and stop swearing allegiance to the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party, or the Tea Party, or the Green Party or whatever other collection of group-think fucktards that are just manipulating us for their own purposes, and instead swear allegiance to the principles of all men are created equal, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then this trend toward a small group of very powerful and very wealthy ruling elites, who's only political purpose is to ensure their continued wealth and power, is going to continue.
It's worth noting that the Board of Directors for SAIC consists of ex-government officials from the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush administrations. SAIC is simply a manifestation of Eisenhower's portended military industrial complex. I'm sure Obama officials will find their way there too. Look at most of the major think-tanks out there, regardless of their cant, and you will find much the same. This isn't about right vs. left. This isn't even about citizens vs. the government. This is about we the people wresting back control of our government from the incestuous group of political and corporate elites that have been consolidating power for the last 50+ years.
If you need more evidence of the purpose of this right vs. left fallacy, look no further than the Tea Party itself. I didn't agree with very much of what they were pushing (other than on a very abstract philosophical level), but they could have been a force to be reckoned with. Instead, they got tied up in the usual dogma, rejecting anyone who wasn't of the political party that most of them came from. This despite the fact that there were quite a few fiscally conservative democrats/liberal candidates that could have strengthened their movement. Instead, they let themselves get caught up in the same old wedge issues (gay marriage, abortion, etc.,) that had absolutely nothing to do with what they purported to be aiming for. They have been degraded, albeit with a larger voice, to little more than the colorful wing of the Republican party. Mission accomplished.
I mean, this is the nation that rejected socialized healthcare.
And instead passed measures that fine people for not purchasing private insurance from the same broken-ass system that they were supposedly trying to fix.
If they reject changes that are patently good for them, surely they'll reject changes that are bad?
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We've done it both ways. Servers are all Linux. Dev workstations were Linux the last 6 years or so but the last round of Ubuntu UI stupidity made me bite the bullet and switch back to Windows (we have several Windows only apps that we require that ran under vms, the UI was just the tipping point). We have had zero issues switching between dev platforms and I have to say, unfortunately, that Linux seems to run better under Virtual Box on Windows than Windows did under KVM on Linux.
<rant>I would love to be Windows free but honestly, and it pains me to say this, the Windows 7 UI is infinitely better that Gnome. It is on par with KDE from an interface standpoint, but the KDE team seems obsessed with turning my operating system into some @#$#@ twitter/facebook/etsy love child. I don't need 50% of my CPU cycles dedicated to tagging files in my file system thank you very much. I know what the files are. I know where they are, I put them there. Now get back to making drop shadows and reflections. We switched back to Windows because we find it to be less resource intensive than KDE, a fact that I hope disturbs the KDE devs as much as it does me.</rant>
Is it the case that until Android came around, Java, the language, the libraries and the VM collectively known as "Java" was write once run everywhere platform?
I was there. It was never, ever that way. You couldn't even run multiple java apps on the same computer, because one service provider would only run under and support (made up version) 1.1 and another would only run under and support (made up version) 1.2 and they'd crash horrifically on each other's version. So you'd have workers with two PCs on their desk because they need access to both apps. It was just a nightmare.
It was supposed to be multi-platform across anything, but it wasn't even as inter-compatible as windows. Ugh.
Things may have improved in the last decade or so, but in the olden days it was horrific.
You do realize, don't you, that what you are describing is a situation that was created by Microsoft (to "embrace and extend" Java) and was at least part of the basis for Sun's lawsuit against them, right? That said, I do see vendors doing stupid crap like this still, improperly written applet tags/jnlp files or (for kriseakes) still requiring JInitiator (I'm looking at you FAMIS). Any company that creates a Windows-only Java applet deserves to die of acute, concurrent syphilis+gonorrhea+dysentery. If you are going to make it Windows only, just make it a damn Windows application in C++ or C# or whatever and stop trying to embed it in a friggin' web page.
Eeek! The horrors of that code are just too numerous to list. If I saw that in code I was maintaining my instant reaction would be ctrl+a delete. Like back in the day when some Geocities page would cause a porn-site ad to pop-up on your screen at work. Kill it fast! Before anyone notices!
Not having unsigned types is probably the second dumbest decision in Java's design, after compulsory garbage collection.
If these things are important to you, then you are programming in an arena where Java is the wrong choice. These are not defects in Java's design, but Java is not the best language for, say, writing device drivers.
Seriously? So you use a device driver to open an arbitrary binary data file? I don't know that I would go so far as to call it a defect as much as a short-sightedness.
Agreed. Most of what I see cited as "memory leaks" in Java are just poorly written libraries with improperly scoped variables. But it is just like the performance arguments against Java. While Java will never perform as fast as a lower level language, properly written code executes extremely efficiently, enough so that the performance gained by programming in a more "native code" language (non-vm) is rarely significant enough to justify the set of complications and additional risks that it brings with it. Another thing that bugs me coming from Java haters is the whole "insecure" horse shyte. No language is perfectly secure, but I would say there are few that are more secure than Java. In fact, Sun's focus on this particular issue is what has created the most problems from Java from applet/application deployment with big scary "OMG, You are going to run a Java app, do you really want to do such a dangerous thing?" dialogs that Sun idiotically created, to their plain and simple HORRIBLE keystore arrangement that makes the already PITA process of certificate management and turns it into full on John Holmes buttsex painful.
+1 I love Java and spend 6 or 7 of each 8 working hours immersed in it, but the lack of unsigned types is infuriating. It makes dealing with bit level protocols an absolute nightmare. I know the problems are not insurmountable by any means, but there is just no reason that it needs to be such a PITA. I love you Dr. James, but that was an F'up.
When our certificate renewals come up next year I will be switching companies. I don't give a flying fart that they cowardly backtracked on their initial stupidity. If they actually needed to hear from the "internet community" to discover just how fscking distructive SOPA is to everyone but the *iaa then they are too fscking stupid for me to trust my security with. FOAD GoDaddy! - A former customer
Kubuntu is hardly going "out of your way to use it".
The claim that water prevents dehydration is demonstrably false. The decision was made to protect the willfully ignorant and the hopelessly stupid, like the people here posting with their self-righteous populist outrage about how "dem big gubment politishuns gone done sumtin stupid 'gain". Do us a favor and pull your heads out of your collective asses.
Think of it this way: Does air prevent a plane from crashing? Does water prevent a boat from sinking? Yes, it's true that a plane cannot fly without air (aerodynamic flight to any pedants, I know what you are thinking). Having air, however does not prevent a plane from falling from the sky. A boat necessarily requires water in order to float. Having water does not, however, mean that a boat won't sink. Likewise, water is required to be hydrated. Water alone, however, DOES NOT PREVENT DEHYDRATION. Saying that this is a stupid decision would be akin to saying that it should be perfectly acceptable for a company to sell cans of air to passengers in an airport to prevent their flight from crashing, or cruise lines telling passengers that bottled of water makes a suitable substitute for a life preserver.
Just because your teeny weeny little brain can't get around the fact that sometimes there are actually people in elected/appointed positions making decisions that are both correct and good intentioned in addition to those that aren't, doesn't mean that you should react as though you are afloat in a sea of stupidity. A little investigation might lead you to discover that you are the one filling the wading pool in which you stand.
Things are now clear to me. I guess the other 9 are too busy looking for their geocities page to bother with email.
told Brian that the royalties from the book were only $700 and only gave him $350? No, we would call him an asshole, which is what he would have been if he had done that. But that wasn't him. Steve Jobs was an asshole given way more credit than he deserved. Look at this story, he is being given credit for recognizing Dennis Ritchie. WTF?
You're a fucktard for equating states' rights with racism.
Is that you Jefferson Davis? States' rights arguments and racism go together like peanut butter and jelly. 600,000 dead Americans can't be wrong.
Nice. Post an Ayn Rand quote that I agree with. As if I didn't have enough self-loathing in my life.
By "about half the country feeling directly opposite of us" I have to assume...
You know what assuming does.
Until we get over the "left vs right" paradigm and focus on a "right vs wrong" paradigm
The parent didn't bring up "left vs right". YOU did. He/she said half. That half could be 50% of dems and 50% of reps. Maybe 75% tea party, 25% OWS. Maybe the half was AARP members plus crystal meth addicts, I don't know, the parent never made any kind of claim to demographics, yet you laid down a passive-aggressive "it's the liberal's fault" argument. The reality is that post 9/11, the majorities of both parties were tripping over themselves to abridge liberty because they were all a bunch wet-pantied panzies.
The bottom line is that unless our economy continues to plunge and we truly end up a third-world nation, then we will always be targets. Sometimes based on real injustices that we have committed (WE are OUR government after all). Sometimes because the biggest target is the easiest to hit. We WILL get hit again. Count on it. People will die. It will be tragic, and people of all political dispositions will do their best to use the circumstance to their advantage. It doesn't matter how much we spend, how many countries we bomb, how many people we kill or how many of our own liberties we relegate to the dusty pages of history books and retirement home porches with old men spouting out "back in my day".
At that point, the only thing we will have left to measure ourselves by will be they way we lived our lives, and if the last decade or so of governance by both ends of the political spectrum is any indication, we will only be able to lament "what a waste". And then, my friend, it will be far too late.
to is a telemarketer or collections agent, and one that doesn't have an automated dialing system at that. So clearly the solution to damaged muscle memory is to grab a wire coat hanger, bend it in half till it breaks, then place each piece (while holding them) into the two vertical slots on an electrical outlet. Careful though, this can damage any equipment on the circuit so I would suggest unplugging your clothes drier or stove and using one of those since the circuit is isolated. This will help stimulate muscle memory so that you will seamlessly be able to use both configurations after several such treatments.
(Note: Since you probably are a telemarketer, and thus near clinically brain-dead, let me explain that this is sarcasm and in no way is it a good idea to stick things into electrical outlets the weren't intended to go there. Doing so might cause serious injury such as brain damage, and as if telemarketers weren't enough of a problem already I certainly don't want to be responsible for creating another politician.)
I would be more interested in if my spectrum analyzer could tell the difference. I know how I would bet and it wouldn't be with the audiophile.
Why does everyone keep spelling alchemist incorrectly?
It's subtle in that people using Oracle coming from a standards compliant database usually have this one bite them in the ass big time without any idea that it was coming. I hate this behavior, and the us of NVs all over the damn place. Outside of cost, it is one of my biggest beefs moving to Oracle. It significantly increased the complexity of moving a large application from MySQL to Oracle. Every single query had to be re-written looking for places where this would get you. It is just plain dumb behavior.
No I am not Carol. I only wish I could be as good as her at what she does. This whole situation is crap.
Yeah, she's the genius behind the whole "Let's re-skin Autocad every year and rape our customers over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Oh, and buy any company that might pose even the slightest potential competition. Our customers will love us! Because we will demand that they do." She's a douche-bag (and likely the only woman I have ever used that term for, so there is some accomplishment there). AutoDesk is nothing but a marketing/legal firm pretending to be a tech company now, and that was her doing. (of course, that's why Yahoo hired her in the first place, so I suppose their board is even worse than she is).
Thanks, and best of luck to you!
And I don't think the police could stop someone from killing you any better than you can yourself. They provide "justice" afterward.
The police do NOT (or rather should not) provide justice before, during or afterward. That is NOT their responsibility, nor their purview. They provide for the protection of you, your things, and your rights as defined by the law during the heat of the moment, as they are to provide protection to others from you. One cannot abdicate their responsibility for their own safety, but the utilization of an organized police force serves to prevent the atrocities and escalation of violence the would result from individual dispensation of justice. As such, I prefer that the cops are there to maintain peace and provide an avenue to arrive at civilized resolution of disputes whenever possible. Anyone who has ever played COD on-line or anything similar (hell, even Netrek provided a scary insight into the mentality of a distinct portion of the general populace) should be acutely aware of how bad things would get if governance and justice were left to the impulse whims of the individual.
The COURTS are there to provide justice, via a constitutionally guaranteed right to a trial by a jury of your peers, such that you are bound by the jurisprudence of the society within which you reside, but not by the whims of mob rule (ideally). A police officer who believes that his or her purpose is the provision of justice constitutes a threat to society in their own right, and should be relieved of their privileged position of power.
The system is far from perfect. But no system of, by, and for the people will ever achieve perfection. This does not mean that a system devoid of consensual governance would be better. Or even survivable. I, along with most people, do not wish to live our lives in a form of varying degrees of combat every day. Which is why we maintain a system of justice that in general punishes those who decide to live their lives in such a fashion.
And nepomuk still sucks ass.
the akonadi/nepomuk dependency? If not, wgaff? I won't touch desktop linux again until this semantic desktop bullshit runs its course and the kde devs/designers pull their heads out their asses. I've grudgingly switched my office (5 workstations) back to MS after 8 or so years on Debian/Ubuntu. Heaven forbid Microsoft ever figures out how to create a real shell, I'll never even have to think about it again. I mean seriously, fixed width, STILL have to hit that shitty little menu to copy and paste? Powsershell is better, but the bar was pretty frickin' low to start with. That said, I'm still finding Win 7 much more productive than the last two or three releases of KDE on Ubuntu. For the same reasons that I switched to Linux in the first place. I don't have to fight with it to do what I want (well, at least not as much as I have found myself doing with Linux the last couple of years). And Gnome still sucks. I LIKE QT. A lot. I like most things about KDE. But 25 Akondi processes running for PIM that I don't even use (Thunderbird+Lightning does everything my staff needs) makes me has angry as I would get buying a big-box HP desktop and spending 2 weeks trying to get rid of all the bloatware. Seems I only post here to bitch about what has happened to KDE/Ubuntu... I guess it's kinda like watching your sister get into porn. You can say you like it all you want, I loathe it.
I'm normally a big NASA supporter, but when exactly did NASA get into law enforcement? NASA agents? wtf.
This sounds like Mini stealing technology from Yugo to me.
Unfortunately, nothing much has changed, as current-day US Liberals/Progressives still push for large, powerful, intrusive central government ...
Don't be such a tool. I no more want the government telling me what I can and can't do with my reproductive system than you want them telling you whether you can or can't purchase and own a firearm. Dems have their supporters believing this is all the fault of the other party, Reps have theirs believing the same thing about the Dems. What you fail to note is that the stroll towards totalitarianism has been the only bi-partisan activity taken on by this government for the last decade+. That's why the "small government" right helped give us the Department of Homeland Security and the "civil libertarian" left pushed along the Patriot Act.
Unless we, the voting public, get our collective heads out of our asses and stop swearing allegiance to the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party, or the Tea Party, or the Green Party or whatever other collection of group-think fucktards that are just manipulating us for their own purposes, and instead swear allegiance to the principles of all men are created equal, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then this trend toward a small group of very powerful and very wealthy ruling elites, who's only political purpose is to ensure their continued wealth and power, is going to continue.
It's worth noting that the Board of Directors for SAIC consists of ex-government officials from the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush administrations. SAIC is simply a manifestation of Eisenhower's portended military industrial complex. I'm sure Obama officials will find their way there too. Look at most of the major think-tanks out there, regardless of their cant, and you will find much the same. This isn't about right vs. left. This isn't even about citizens vs. the government. This is about we the people wresting back control of our government from the incestuous group of political and corporate elites that have been consolidating power for the last 50+ years.
If you need more evidence of the purpose of this right vs. left fallacy, look no further than the Tea Party itself. I didn't agree with very much of what they were pushing (other than on a very abstract philosophical level), but they could have been a force to be reckoned with. Instead, they got tied up in the usual dogma, rejecting anyone who wasn't of the political party that most of them came from. This despite the fact that there were quite a few fiscally conservative democrats/liberal candidates that could have strengthened their movement. Instead, they let themselves get caught up in the same old wedge issues (gay marriage, abortion, etc.,) that had absolutely nothing to do with what they purported to be aiming for. They have been degraded, albeit with a larger voice, to little more than the colorful wing of the Republican party. Mission accomplished.
I mean, this is the nation that rejected socialized healthcare.
And instead passed measures that fine people for not purchasing private insurance from the same broken-ass system that they were supposedly trying to fix.
If they reject changes that are patently good for them, surely they'll reject changes that are bad?
Objection your honor! Assumes facts that are not in evidence.