The apps available to day are pretty nice. One would assume that in a couple of years things will have shaken out that the new interfaces are more consistent and compatible. There's nothing wrong with 10.10, which I am about to REINSTALL soon as I burn another thumb drive.

If they fix the fuckign panel I might be able to stick with 11.04. But using ubuntu in "classic" mode has, for me, resulted in a desktop that crashes more often than a virus infected windows machine. So remind me: why did I switch to linux, again?

buttons on the left actually works if you get used to it. The menu is up there, the panel menus are there, and if you think about it most of your focus is on the upper left. Putting the buttons at varying places way out to the right is actually kind of cumbersome.

Problem is they seem to have focused so much on the new shit they forgot to qc the rest of it! Since I upgraded to 11.04 the goddamn panel has crashed SO MUCH that I have just added a custom launcher in the lower right that I can find and easily press when the panel suddenly decides to become invisible again.

There's a lot to like here, and much to despise. I've worked out enough adaptation that I'm really, really regretting the upgrade. How many months before my system is as stable as it was under 10.10? It seems a pattern is emerging here: AVOID the LTS releases until a year after release! How sad.

A little late to mod something "flamebait" when others have already shown to have found value in the conversation. Enjoy your days metamodding...

You can no more "monitor every clock cycle" with one of these than with any other. No more do you have to "guess" than with any other. Intel and AMD have both shipped chips with WELL DOCUMENTED bugs in them. Moreover, they shipped REPLACEMENT chips in many cases. Sure sounds like a "greedy corporation" to me. Think one of these socialistic corps will be able to afford that?

Too bad that, because it's an ASIC, all you can do is LOOK at that source code then try to design your code around the problem.

I'm down with open source, but this seems fantastically stupid to me. I can buy a pretty powerful CPU from a host of manufacturers at some very good prices - less than the $25 donation they request on their page, in fact.

We want to provide an alternative to the profit-hunting semiconductor giants who only provide "cost efficient prices" to large multi-national companies...

This is bullshit. This is about an agenda, not about the economic reality of "competing."

Not just that. Reno pushed cases to the supreme court to establsh precedent, then the white house started lobbying for more crackdowns on "the coming plague of online child pornography."

There were lots of articles about it at the time, including warnings of the toxic effects this increased focus on child porn would have on our society.

I argue that these laws, intended to protect children from sexual exploitation, threaten to reinforce the very problem they attack. The legal tool that we designed to liberate children from sexual abuse threatens to enslave us all, by constructing a world in which we are enthralled - anguished, enticed, bombarded - by the spectacle of the sexual child.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Speech/Adler_full.html

Of course, those articles were dismissed. Still are today, and yet....

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5516511.ece

But, in the case of child abuse, the potential harm greatly outweighs the small amount of freedom granted.

PROVE IT.

I know lots of people who were abused. I know many who were abused and quite successful, and I know others who were never abused and turned out 8 ways of lunacy.

Don't forget that "abuse" is often only abuse when someone else says it is. I've had friends who were "abused" by having sex with older partners at a young age who would laugh in your face if you tried to call them victim. But oif course, when you KNOW YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT that just makes them "poor souls who don't know any better."

Fuck you arrogant PC pricks.

Yeah! Just like watching Brokeback mountain will make straight men into fags, and playing Madden 2010 will make geeks into NFL linebackers!

Do you even hear the bullshit coming from your fingertips? Do you sound this insane in person?

Because it's not fucking debian and it's not great lengths. It's a matter of running a script I keep updated that does things like

apt-get install build-essential privoxy spamassassin
apt-get remove mono-runtime

and so forth. It's not fuckign hard, and as I said I LIKE some of the ubuntu features like maximus and global-menu. I don't give a shit that they no longer include gimp because it takes like 30 seconds to install it and it's still updated with the rest of the packages.

Debian, otoh, means learning a whole new "base install." I have no idea what's isntalled and some of the ubuntu-ish features won't be included and I now I gotta go looking for them. Sounds like more work to me than what I got. Features are generally easier to remove than to add.
 

the dude has lots of money, and apple started in steve's dad's garage. So ya... duh. Canonical could start selling prepackaged systems in a minute.

That's crazy. Ubuntu isn't perfect but nothing is. I like many of the added geegaws that you get with ubuntu that don't come with other distros, and it's trvivially easy to switch pulseaudio for alsa and to switch to "classic gnome mode" if that's what you ant (I actually use a hybrid myself, I find it works great in my living room). I don't even like compiz because since I've removed it completely I almost NEVER have desktop crashes and even getting rid of that is pretty easy. Mono? Also gone.

http://mypicturepalace.com/poptones/Screenshot.png2.jpg

Everyone has favorite stuff they install and configurations they prefer. Given this, it's insane to say "I'm not using that open source distro X" simply because they offer, by default, packages you don't like. I also have my own thumbnailer I prefer to use. Should I throw a fit because ubuntu uses that SLOW-ASS video thumbnailer? Of course not - It's just too damn easy to fix.

Um, no. A contract with an ISP is like an electric bill. you pay your money and you get your service. By accepting that money each month they are not held responsible for your acts, but they are agreeing to the service as it has been delivered and used.

Spoken like a true AC.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html

Put up a shared wap. Make it so that they have to click through a web page every 24 hours to get access enabled. Make sure there is a contact email address on your web page.

Make the DHCP leases expire, say, every 30 minutes. That will allow sporadic youtube viewing, email checking and all sort of other activity without allowing lengthy file transfers.

Now your neighbors have access, you have good qos, and you may be reasonably protected under the dmca.