How is that different than anywhere else in the country, (where traffic isn't backed up) in the morning. I do 70 and feel like I'm in the way and going to be run off the road.

Probably because the 8 cents of PCB and 12 cents of metal on a new $500 GPU is not justified, even after R&D costs. Imagine if other people could enter the market and make $100 or $200 dollar top of the line cards. They're just trying to keep things status quo for their Oligopoly.

And KSM. Amen.

Why? To save disk space? Ever hear of de-duplication? To save RAM? There is KSM for that. Your answer is to have an installation option that makes your life difficult by eliminating useful tools and daemons when the problem is already solved with some forethought and careful setup.

Just to own. I'm not 100% certain on how New Hampshire works, but here in MA the whole thing is terrible. I think license to carry is just an endorsement on a class a, but in some towns, good luck just getting the license to start... as I said they can deny you because you look funny...

I forgot to add my example for illustration. Imagine being in New Hampshire now where the gun laws are fairly liberal and getting licensed to own firearms is generally a non-issue, to now being a member of my state, Massachusetts, where the local sheriff can deny your license for just any old reason, up to including he doesn't like your haircut. I'm sure there wouldn't be riots, protests, demonstrations, and just a general displeasure over that one issue in one area alone. Now multiple that buy thousands of areas and thousands of issues. Want a few more: income tax, property tax, and sales tax.

It's pointless to argue for this. We don't have a unitary system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state) of government like say the United Kingdom. Oh, how I wish we did. My kingdom for everything from speed limits, and rules on turning right on red, on up to more important things like firearms licensing and ownership to be the same no matter where you travelled or lived in the country.

Instead we have Federalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism) where the states share sovereignty. And if you think they're going to just dissolve themselves, it's just not going to happen. And if you believe they would, please I have multiple bridges around the world to sell you. The only up side to this model in my book is what some people would argue about different states trying different things, and those that are found to work tend to get adopted by others as well. I simply don't buy the argument that the Federal government is out to get us all. But that is a discussion/argument/flame war for another day.

Not just.

They have medals for good conduct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Conduct_Medal_(United_States)

Serving during time of war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Service_Medal

Doing your job well inside or outside of combat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achievement_Medal

Wounded or killed while serving:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart

Serving in various Campaigns, wars, etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Service_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Defense_Service_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Service_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_War_on_Terrorism_Service_Medal

Not to mention a plethora of ribbons for sea and other service:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Service_Ribbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruiting_Service_Ribbon

You can tell a lot about what a person has done inside and outside of combat by the ribbons they wear. Obviously some medals are a lot more prestigious than others. That is why the order of wear is ranked.

No need, was really just happy to help a Fedora user.

I think the grub2 password protect thing is fixable - need to add --unrestricted to allow anyone to boot the entry, so it doesn't ask for a password every time. There is a bug for it with the details. Granted it should just work, but it's being tracked and should see the light of day someday... I gather from the trail of comments it is not as trivial as would be liked to fix.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840204 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853430

On the updated packages, use cobbler (or whatever) to create a kickstart that adds the updates repo - during the install the latest version should get installed, unless there is some reason that now doesn't work now, but I can't imagine why.

I do use kickstarts to do automated installs and they do work. Without more detail I can't help you more, except to say that I know some of the kickstart options, especially around disk configuration, have changed.

Why doesn't GDM run? Do you just need to run a post install script to ln -sf to set /etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target? Would need more details to even say why it won't work..."

I'm not the guy you responded to, but can I get a nice gift?

Granted, this is nearly twice as big, but the Samsung 840 (non Pro) can already be gotten for $349.99 for 500GB = $0.69...

Certainly I count for at least one. Even though I have the Steam Linux client installed to play a few games I have the Windows client installed under WINE to play the rest that aren't available. The only thing that might help them account for it is that I do see a reference to wine in the hardware information I submit when it randomly asks for it, so it is entirely possible they are able to account for this... whether they do or not is another story.

You don't know what the hell you're talking about. A semi-automatic weapon can still be an assault rifle by the federal definition. When I was in the Marine Corps I bought an AR-15 that was built with a military surplus upper receiver that had a flash suppressor and bayonet stud. I never ever ever mounted a bayonet on that thing. The sheer idea of doing so is pretty absurd to me, as I bought it for target practice to improve my range scores since I tended to be on the lower side of qualifying and having something very similar to an M16 was ideal for learning and I got a damn good price on it. The point though is that that thing which most definitely was not fully automatic fully qualified as an assault weapon because of those two features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

I think one of the University of Illinois campuses does a CS degree completion, though you need some courses completed before coming in. University of Massachusetts at Lowell does an IT degree online, which is obviously not the same as CS, but you can take several computer science courses and it will get you a Bachelor's same as if you attended the school; it is not an 'Online' degree and there is no differentiation. I traveled a lot at the time so attending on campus was not an option. I was literally writing papers in airports and taking tests in hotels. I did 9-12 credits a semester like this for 2.5 years to finish up. It was pure hell, and I was a grumpy bastard since all I did is work, school, sleep, rinse, repeat, but it is worth it.

One thing college proves is that you have the drive to stick with something for 4 years and succeed. You learn a whole lot of other valuable lessons and information while doing that too.

Look, I'm not a fan of rising tuition costs, and the growing requirement for manufacturing jobs, that clearly have no need, requiring a college degree. But we need to stop encouraging people to be stupid and give up while insinuating that they're doing the right thing. They're not. As mentioned most of the drop outs already had lots of contacts, maybe a good idea, and mommy and daddy's money to carry them. Most of us don't.

Instead, maybe they should get a degree and use their new found skills and insight into the system to help reform it and make it better for everyone. The message certainly should not be to ignore the broken system and subscribe to a life of indifference and complacency. That message is crap served with a steaming side of bullshit.