Comment Re:Apple? (Score 0) 421
Linux in the nineties was simply not a mass market OS.
But OS/2 certainly was.
MSDOS and Windows ecosystem were god-sent
Blow it out your ass.
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BMO
Linux in the nineties was simply not a mass market OS.
But OS/2 certainly was.
MSDOS and Windows ecosystem were god-sent
Blow it out your ass.
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BMO
You want to take one of the most important advantages of a Linux distribution like Debian, the flexibility, and take it away?
This is one of the dumbest things I've seen on
There are already "specialist" distributions for people who don't know what they're doing or simply want something to plug-and-play. But Debian is not only a distribution unto itself, it is the basis for other distributions, like Kali, a meta-distribution if you will. And the OP wants to basically take this away from Debian or the other large distributions.
This has to be a joke, or the OP is a softie. If not a softie, then a quisling. Certainly not someone playing with all cards in the deck.
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Halve your margin and triple your sales.
>NO BREAKS TO ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY STUDENTS
It's like they're begging for piracy to happen.
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I thought people were allowed to have their own beliefs in this country without others attacking them for it.
>modded insightful
Yeah, well moderation here isn't perfect. Because you are wrong, and I will demonstrate how in the next two sentences.
You are perfectly free to spout inane bullshit.
Other people are perfectly free to call you on it.
That's how free speech works.
And your post was complete bullshit supported by toddler logic.
Have a nice day.
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It's almost like large organizations have voting rights.
What do you mean "almost"?
They have more voting rights than you, me, or anyone.
And you know what? We've got "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" who will fight you tooth-and-nail to defend that, in spite of their own interests.
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>I was trying to figure out how to turn on focus-follows-mouse in Ubuntu,
1. You can't even
2. You're doing it wrong: http://i.imgur.com/46fP493.png
3. You find 3 ways to do it, pick the worst one, and imply that's the one that users have to do.
Idiot. Troll.
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throw the ones responsible into jail for a long ass time to make a nice example.
While I applaud the sentiment behind this, the "ones responsible" will be some poor schmuck low on the totem pole sacrificed to the god Mammon. Probably a janitor somewhere that would be blamed for throwing away an "important memo" on "please don't do that" which didn't exist anyway.
In an ideal world, emails would be pulled, phone records retrieved, evidence recorded, and those up top would be held responsible for this. And in a really ideal world, none of this would happen. But this isn't an ideal world and fines are "just the cost of doing business."
Look at what Duke Energy got away with. Look at what they all get away with.
>letting the corporation survive
No. That won't fix anything. It has come to the point that corporate death penalties actually have to start happening to light a fire under the asses of employees that would see their livelihoods taken away by higher-ups in the corporation through mismanagement, along with boards seeing their corporate governance (and cash that goes with it) taken away, and stock holders wiped out. Only then will there be any motivation for good corporate governance.
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There is a reason why you are "foed" here by me and others who have two brain cells to rub together:
You're dumb and a liar.
http://www.motherjones.com/blu...
Extract your Duke shilling head from your anus, you stupid fuck.
Sincerely,
Me.
Rooftop Solar is
Even if generating at the powerplant is free, the transmission costs alone are greater than the cost of rooftop solar.
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
The gyrations of wholesale power prices are rarely reflected in consumer power bills. But letâ(TM)s imagine that the wholesale price of electricity fell to zero and stayed there, and that the benefits were passed on to consumers. In effect, that coal-fired energy suddenly became free. Could it then compete with rooftop solar?
The answer is no. Just the network charges and the retailer charges alone add up to more than 19c/kWh, according to estimates by the Australian energy market commissioner. According to industry estimates, solar ranges from 12c/kWh to 18c/kWh, depending on solar resources of the area, Those costs are forecast to come down even further, to around 10c/kWh and lower.
Math, motherfuckers.
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Where is the private key stored?
It doesn't matter.
Yahoo lost control of my login credentials *twice* that I know of. While I have never been to Sweden and Bulgaria, I have apprently sent mail from there. Yahoo is the only service that I have ever used that lost control of my login creds like that - since 1986. Y! mail is now a spamtrap for me. I will never use it again.
Knowing Yahoo, the private key be stored in plaintext on the user's profile page.
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I don't think he had Internet access in 1987. That came a bit later, I believe. Certainly not on the Microvax. Andy didn't charge for access to the machine when it was a BBS which probably saved his butt.
Lots of time spent in Vax Multi-User Moria and VMS Phone.
I believe Daver was 12 or something when he wrote the full-screen editor for the BBS.
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>Yup. On a VAX stolen from Brown & Sharpe.
I saw that Microvax in Andy's basement. "Hey Andy, where'd ya get the Vax?" "We don't talk about that."
"...Ok..." >proceed to turn up Pink Floyd's DSOTM.
After he returned it, he got an ancient 780 and I believe 2 (or 3?) washing machine sized disks.
slightly related tangent -
Ferguson Perforating got rid of their Microvax II one day and I found out that it went to the landfill, because the guy they gave it to couldn't operate the damn thing "and it was old." I was catatonic with disappointment. "DO YOU THROW AWAY A MICROMETER BECAUSE IT'S NOT ELECTRONIC?!" I yelled.
It was 1993/4. Still the heyday of the BBS networks. I could have created a beast of a multiline setup bigger than Andy's. *grumble grumble*
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Hacking is supposed to be good stuff here, right? Or did something change?
Yes, something changed.
An Internet media "giant" bought Slashdot. Thus the "media" definition of hack, not ours. Jerks.
Our definition of hack would relate more to hot-rodding instead of this system-smashing claptrap.
>vw beetle
I agree.
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>My first taxi ride from Boston Logan to MIT
>taxi
Wut.
Logan -> Blue line -> Orange or Green Line -> Red line -> Kendall/MIT
How hard is that?
>3 years
Oh man...
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
