I am sure that if the hardware vendors aren't going to cooperate, there will eventually be third-party linux drivers created by someone who really needs it on Linux.
As much as I despise Myspace, I don't necessarily agree on blocking it. However one thing IT guys gotta rememember is that there is always someway to get to the site. It is nearly impossible to stop people from getting there, that is, unless the It guy wants to wage a daily war blocking every single method constantly for the rest of his life.
Unfortunately, the "boogieman" exists, and if you think he doesn't tell that to the families of the 9/11 victims, tell that to the Madrid subway victims. Do realize that our government catches and foils terrorist plots a lot more then anyone would like to think. Also, while Saddam never posed a direct threat to us, he did pose and indirect threat. He was providing terrorists with weapons and had known links to al queda, if Saddam successfully created an atomicbomb, then there was a good chance it would end up in the hands of terrorists and be used against us. This isn't government propoganda or fear tactics, it's common sense.
I don't know what I'm talking about? Then why were you unable to refute a single one of those statements?
I don't need to refute statements such as those, they refute themselves simply based on their own stupidity and absurdity. If you honestly believe any of those, then I truly feel sorry for you. They show the deepest level of misunderstanding and immaturity.
The war in Iraq is a great example, the torture and murder camps.
All of them were driven by fear and hatred.
I'm not sure what news channel your watching, but the United States doesn't have toture and murder camps, the terrorists do.
I hate those who are actively turning my country into a police state.
If it was a police state, you wouldn't be able to have this discussion with me. Instead you would be hauled away and shot.
I'm curious, since you seem to have all the answers, how would you deal with the war? No one else can come with any solutions, just critism. You hate Republicans because you are too retarded to do anything else. You believe all the lies and propaganda. Right now, Repulicans make an easy scapegoat because of the media, so idiots like you think you know what the hell you're talking about due to mob mentality. Over the couse of how many posts, you have yet to post something that actually provides proof to any of your claims.
Would you care to point out how the fact I stated is in any way delusional
You honestly believe that Republicans are murderous facists?? You honestly believe that Republicans murder and torture people? (btw, that makes your sig very ironic) You honestly believe that Republicans are destroying your freedom? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then just stop talking. You honestly don't know anything about what your talking about.
That is pretty much entirely the Republican agenda.
Gay hatred is the single issue that made the difference in the 2004 election. Hatred of Moslems is the Republican selling poinbt on their rape of the constitution.
Number one, Republicans do not hate homosexuals. I have plenty of homosexual friends and I don't hate them. Preaching hatred is what your doing, not what the Republicans are doing. I have never seen any hatred expressed towards homesexuals or Muslims. Do not confuse Catholic teachings with Republican dogma
Name one fucking issue where the Republicans haven't used fear and hatred to drive their agenda.
I would love for you to give me one example. ONE EXAMPLE. of when Republicans used fear and or hatred to drive an agenda.
Ok, now lets take a look at the records of the Democrats: 1)Would allow terrorists to destroy our country. (yeah, I have yet to see the Democrats do a damn thing about the situation with terrorism. Our nation was attacked, sitting back and doing nothing is no longer an option. President Clinton had many chances to go after Osama bin Laden (you remember the World Trade Center bombing under Clintion's administration I assume). 2)Democrats voted for the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. 3)Democrats hurt American soldiers by condeming them as criminals. 4)Have yet to do anything in terms of constructive critism, all they know how to do is complain and bitch.
The main point here is that you are accusing Republicans of hatred, yet you are doing so with such hatred that you invalidate your own point. If you want to debate me or convince me, you had better start providing some examples and some coherent thoughts.
It is not cool to be a Democrat. It is *sane* to hate the Republicans, which is why it is impossible to find one single decent, sane human being alive today who still supports that groups of murderous fascists.
And you are calling me dilusional.
The Republicans have literally gotten away with mass murder with the aid of the one sided media. It's reality and it's right in front of you. If you actually believe that idiotic bile you spewed, then you are quite literally dumber than a bag of rocks.
The sad thing is that you can vote. You preach the hate you condemn.
By promoting an agenda entirely driven by hate, lies, murder and torture, the Republicans willingly and with malice aforethought have entirely alienated every single decent human being in the world without exception.
Could you please be more specific? Cause I am looking everywhere, and I don't see any major political group in American that preaches any of that. Get rid of your bias, and come back when you actually have any real facts or knowledge.
Did you read my second post??? After stating my point, I gave multiple examples that proved my point, and a link to an external site that provided more examples. Read my post before complaining about me not being specific enough. And yes, I would change my mind if shown proper unbiased information that proved my point wrong.
actually, the maker of the movie was only one person, there is stil no proof that the GOP was behind it, or that the person was paid to do it. The article does not offer concrete data, but speculation to a possible connection.
everything he claims is pretty much backed by facts
Actually, it has been proven that almost every fact he uses in his movies are twisted lies and propoganda. Almost every single one can be proven to be completely made up, or an actual fact that he twisted to make his point. The reason he hasn't been sued for libel or slander is because of freedom of speech.
Mr. Moore relies on people being too lazy to look up facts for themselves, allowing those people to be tricked by his propoganda and lies. In fact, Mr. Moore has made millions of dollars tricking people and telling people what they want to hear. I would not want be surprised if Mr. Moore was hired by the Democratic party but no one will ever know, and do you know why? Because at the moment, it is cool to be a Democrat. The media has done a very good job of creating a bandwagon of GOP haters. It is easier for people to join what they think to be the larger and stronger cause, hence mob mentality. The media has become so one sided, that Democrats can get away with murder and Republicans can't get away with not crossing a t.
Allow me to back up my argument for a moment with a few quick facts about Fahrenheit 9/11: 1)During the movie, Mr. Moore flashes a newspaper article stating "Latest Flordia Recount shows Gore Won Election". Later it was found out that there never was any headline such as that, but rather he re-typeset a letter to the editor of a newspaper with that title onto the front page of the newspaper. 2) Mr. Moore states that the bin Laden clan was flown out of the country right after 9/11, however the 9/11 committee report states "first, we found no evidence that any flights of Saudi nationals, domestic or international, took place before the reopenning of national airspace on the morning of September 13, 2001. To the contrary, every flight we have identified occurred after national airspace reopened.
Second, we found no evidence of any political intervention. (Discussion of how decision was made by Richard Clarke in coordination with the FBI)." There are millions of inconsistancies such as these in his movie, a few of them documented here: http://www.mooreexposed.com/911.html. I would consider these "inconsistances" as lies.
By the way, I am not out to change your political views. I respect everyone's opinion, even those who disagree with my own. Political conflict is one of the things that make our nation great. All I ask is that you see things from my point of view.
Well, considering how much propoganda comes out, especially from the left (I mean seriously Michael Moore movies are nothing but lies and propaganda), does it really matter if it's from the GOP or not. Sounds to me like another news story trying to be cool by bashing the GOP and trying to dig up any dirt they can find.
But regardless, if you think it's funny, then watch it. If you don't agree, then point your browser somewhere else, but don't bitch 24/7 about it being propganda or from the GOP.
Finally, I had high hopes for Lenovo, especially after IBM's implementation of Linux. Now the only thing to wait for is for more distros to be available.
. . . along the lines of , "hmmm, the people are poor and upset, hmmm we could give them food, water and shelter, or pr0n....hmmmm, lets go with pron."
I know that people really want a Star Trek movie or a new tv show or something, I know I do, but is this movie/plot really a good idea? Maybe they should take a bit more time and make something decent then trying to push out something that they think will sell just with the Star Trek name. I don't know, but I don't see Matt Damon as captain Kirk. It just doens't work.
The ones that are supported actually run faster than native on windows. Don't ask me why, as it is natural to assume that the translation would slow them down. It could just be that OpenGL/linux is faster than DirectX/windows
That is because Wine is not an emulator but rather a set of libraries. Running a set of libraries is very similar to running the game native. You could think of Wine more of a directx install for linux, however the problem lies in the fact that Wine does not provide support for every function in DirectX. Also, the performace boost can also be attributed to the Linux kernel being more effient.
How about Microsoft focuses on the operating system until it is flawless, then decide what their case design looks like, rather then wasting time designing a pretty case. A pretty case isn't going to help when every script kiddie on the block can use your pc and you have spyware to the point of a non-booting computer.
what I am trying to say though is that people underestimate how many people use linux and game on it. I believe that if developers released versions for all consoles, Linux users would appreciate having a native game and would buy it. Perhaps you are right, maybe they aren't enough people to earn a profit, but from what I have seen, I believe that there would be enough to make quite a large profit. I personally use Linux and that causes me to shun away from buying or playing video games that aren't supported well with wine simply because I don't want to have to tweak with wine to play. There are millions of people like me (I hear about this everyday of various Linux forums and the like) and I am sure that these people would be hapy to purchase these native games.
People say that developing for Linux is not profitable. More developers should make games setup like Unreal Tournament. Unreal Tournament contains the Windows, mac, and Linux installers on the disks that you buy. By making a game that will run on any os, you are actually vastly broadening your audience. People greatly underestimate the number of Linux and Mac users who would buy games. Thus, by providing universal support, developers are widening their audience and thus making more money because the game now appeals to more people. Developers should care if you are playing their game, not what operating system you are playing it on.
apparently you have never been on irc chat before or played CounterStrike: Source, becuase what I posted is a pheasible situation in both. This kinda of behavior paints a bad picture of the internet in women's eyes and convinces women that the internet is filled with a bunch of "creepy wierdos". How can you expect them to get involved after dealing with this? And yes, these people have experienced women such as you described, in fact, I think most people have.
How is it in Microsoft's interest to see open source succeed. Everytime someone uses something open source, it is usually is to replace an expensive M$ product. Open source causes M$ to lose money. . .
Beta testing is a service to the company that is having their product beta tested. This will most likely deter most people from beta testing office 2007, so the office 2007 product will suffer because of this. Gotta wonder what they are thinking.
see, I was truly captivated by the story lines of the Zelda series. Especially Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker. While I believe that the controls and exploration were great, it was the story line that made people want to continue playing.
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I am sure that if the hardware vendors aren't going to cooperate, there will eventually be third-party linux drivers created by someone who really needs it on Linux.
As much as I despise Myspace, I don't necessarily agree on blocking it. However one thing IT guys gotta rememember is that there is always someway to get to the site. It is nearly impossible to stop people from getting there, that is, unless the It guy wants to wage a daily war blocking every single method constantly for the rest of his life.
Unfortunately, the "boogieman" exists, and if you think he doesn't tell that to the families of the 9/11 victims, tell that to the Madrid subway victims. Do realize that our government catches and foils terrorist plots a lot more then anyone would like to think. Also, while Saddam never posed a direct threat to us, he did pose and indirect threat. He was providing terrorists with weapons and had known links to al queda, if Saddam successfully created an atomicbomb, then there was a good chance it would end up in the hands of terrorists and be used against us. This isn't government propoganda or fear tactics, it's common sense.
I'm not sure what news channel your watching, but the United States doesn't have toture and murder camps, the terrorists do.
If it was a police state, you wouldn't be able to have this discussion with me. Instead you would be hauled away and shot.
I'm curious, since you seem to have all the answers, how would you deal with the war? No one else can come with any solutions, just critism. You hate Republicans because you are too retarded to do anything else. You believe all the lies and propaganda. Right now, Repulicans make an easy scapegoat because of the media, so idiots like you think you know what the hell you're talking about due to mob mentality. Over the couse of how many posts, you have yet to post something that actually provides proof to any of your claims.
Number one, Republicans do not hate homosexuals. I have plenty of homosexual friends and I don't hate them. Preaching hatred is what your doing, not what the Republicans are doing. I have never seen any hatred expressed towards homesexuals or Muslims. Do not confuse Catholic teachings with Republican dogma
I would love for you to give me one example. ONE EXAMPLE. of when Republicans used fear and or hatred to drive an agenda.
Ok, now lets take a look at the records of the Democrats:
1)Would allow terrorists to destroy our country. (yeah, I have yet to see the Democrats do a damn thing about the situation with terrorism. Our nation was attacked, sitting back and doing nothing is no longer an option. President Clinton had many chances to go after Osama bin Laden (you remember the World Trade Center bombing under Clintion's administration I assume).
2)Democrats voted for the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
3)Democrats hurt American soldiers by condeming them as criminals.
4)Have yet to do anything in terms of constructive critism, all they know how to do is complain and bitch.
The main point here is that you are accusing Republicans of hatred, yet you are doing so with such hatred that you invalidate your own point. If you want to debate me or convince me, you had better start providing some examples and some coherent thoughts.
And you are calling me dilusional.
The sad thing is that you can vote. You preach the hate you condemn.
Could you please be more specific? Cause I am looking everywhere, and I don't see any major political group in American that preaches any of that. Get rid of your bias, and come back when you actually have any real facts or knowledge.
Did you read my second post??? After stating my point, I gave multiple examples that proved my point, and a link to an external site that provided more examples. Read my post before complaining about me not being specific enough. And yes, I would change my mind if shown proper unbiased information that proved my point wrong.
You can mod me down and make my comments disappear, but the facts don't go away so easily.
Coming from someone who is too scared to log in and post that, I don't think you have any right saying anything.
actually, the maker of the movie was only one person, there is stil no proof that the GOP was behind it, or that the person was paid to do it. The article does not offer concrete data, but speculation to a possible connection.
Actually, it has been proven that almost every fact he uses in his movies are twisted lies and propoganda. Almost every single one can be proven to be completely made up, or an actual fact that he twisted to make his point. The reason he hasn't been sued for libel or slander is because of freedom of speech.
Mr. Moore relies on people being too lazy to look up facts for themselves, allowing those people to be tricked by his propoganda and lies. In fact, Mr. Moore has made millions of dollars tricking people and telling people what they want to hear. I would not want be surprised if Mr. Moore was hired by the Democratic party but no one will ever know, and do you know why? Because at the moment, it is cool to be a Democrat. The media has done a very good job of creating a bandwagon of GOP haters. It is easier for people to join what they think to be the larger and stronger cause, hence mob mentality. The media has become so one sided, that Democrats can get away with murder and Republicans can't get away with not crossing a t.
Allow me to back up my argument for a moment with a few quick facts about Fahrenheit 9/11: 1)During the movie, Mr. Moore flashes a newspaper article stating "Latest Flordia Recount shows Gore Won Election". Later it was found out that there never was any headline such as that, but rather he re-typeset a letter to the editor of a newspaper with that title onto the front page of the newspaper. 2) Mr. Moore states that the bin Laden clan was flown out of the country right after 9/11, however the 9/11 committee report states "first, we found no evidence that any flights of Saudi nationals, domestic or international, took place before the reopenning of national airspace on the morning of September 13, 2001. To the contrary, every flight we have identified occurred after national airspace reopened. Second, we found no evidence of any political intervention. (Discussion of how decision was made by Richard Clarke in coordination with the FBI)." There are millions of inconsistancies such as these in his movie, a few of them documented here: http://www.mooreexposed.com/911.html. I would consider these "inconsistances" as lies.
By the way, I am not out to change your political views. I respect everyone's opinion, even those who disagree with my own. Political conflict is one of the things that make our nation great. All I ask is that you see things from my point of view.
Well, considering how much propoganda comes out, especially from the left (I mean seriously Michael Moore movies are nothing but lies and propaganda), does it really matter if it's from the GOP or not. Sounds to me like another news story trying to be cool by bashing the GOP and trying to dig up any dirt they can find.
But regardless, if you think it's funny, then watch it. If you don't agree, then point your browser somewhere else, but don't bitch 24/7 about it being propganda or from the GOP.
Finally, I had high hopes for Lenovo, especially after IBM's implementation of Linux. Now the only thing to wait for is for more distros to be available.
. . . along the lines of , "hmmm, the people are poor and upset, hmmm we could give them food, water and shelter, or pr0n....hmmmm, lets go with pron."
I know that people really want a Star Trek movie or a new tv show or something, I know I do, but is this movie/plot really a good idea? Maybe they should take a bit more time and make something decent then trying to push out something that they think will sell just with the Star Trek name. I don't know, but I don't see Matt Damon as captain Kirk. It just doens't work.
That is because Wine is not an emulator but rather a set of libraries. Running a set of libraries is very similar to running the game native. You could think of Wine more of a directx install for linux, however the problem lies in the fact that Wine does not provide support for every function in DirectX. Also, the performace boost can also be attributed to the Linux kernel being more effient.
How about Microsoft focuses on the operating system until it is flawless, then decide what their case design looks like, rather then wasting time designing a pretty case. A pretty case isn't going to help when every script kiddie on the block can use your pc and you have spyware to the point of a non-booting computer.
what I am trying to say though is that people underestimate how many people use linux and game on it. I believe that if developers released versions for all consoles, Linux users would appreciate having a native game and would buy it. Perhaps you are right, maybe they aren't enough people to earn a profit, but from what I have seen, I believe that there would be enough to make quite a large profit. I personally use Linux and that causes me to shun away from buying or playing video games that aren't supported well with wine simply because I don't want to have to tweak with wine to play. There are millions of people like me (I hear about this everyday of various Linux forums and the like) and I am sure that these people would be hapy to purchase these native games.
People say that developing for Linux is not profitable. More developers should make games setup like Unreal Tournament. Unreal Tournament contains the Windows, mac, and Linux installers on the disks that you buy. By making a game that will run on any os, you are actually vastly broadening your audience. People greatly underestimate the number of Linux and Mac users who would buy games. Thus, by providing universal support, developers are widening their audience and thus making more money because the game now appeals to more people. Developers should care if you are playing their game, not what operating system you are playing it on.
apparently you have never been on irc chat before or played CounterStrike: Source, becuase what I posted is a pheasible situation in both. This kinda of behavior paints a bad picture of the internet in women's eyes and convinces women that the internet is filled with a bunch of "creepy wierdos". How can you expect them to get involved after dealing with this? And yes, these people have experienced women such as you described, in fact, I think most people have.
Maybe women stay away from "nerds" on the internet for the fear of being hounded to death by people who have never seen a woman online before.
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How is it in Microsoft's interest to see open source succeed. Everytime someone uses something open source, it is usually is to replace an expensive M$ product. Open source causes M$ to lose money. . .
Beta testing is a service to the company that is having their product beta tested. This will most likely deter most people from beta testing office 2007, so the office 2007 product will suffer because of this. Gotta wonder what they are thinking.
see, I was truly captivated by the story lines of the Zelda series. Especially Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker. While I believe that the controls and exploration were great, it was the story line that made people want to continue playing.
Tell that to Nintendo games such as Zelda. I dont think their games would half as addictive if their storylines werent usually so good.