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>By "most people who like to use Linux" - realize that you are talking about 0.5% of the desktop population. The market could be a lot bigger if it were easier to find one's way.

Your first sentence deliberately ignores my main point which was of course that Linux by and large doesn't care if you're a little too intimidated by the range of choices to try something new. In fact I would go so far as to say if you're a person who likes to have everything spoon fed to you and is not comfortable and/or does not enjoy doing some research for yourself when you encounter issues, then you actually are better off sticking to Windows or possibly a Mac. Linux helps those who help themselves.

> And what about most of us who are not acquainted with anybody that uses Linux on a regular basis?

a) Local Linux user groups.
b) Distro forums.
c) Mailing lists.
d) Google.

I also mentioned that these days, the choice for a newbie wanting to try Linux in general terms is pretty much made for them. You ignored that bit too.

> If their goal is not being popular, then I would say they are succeeding.

I never said their goal was not being popular, this is quite obvious to anyone who actually read my previous reply rather than skimming over it and trying to twist it into something that could be used to reinforce their existing beliefs.

What I did say was that many distros see popularity as a low or non-existent priority when compared to others, such as quality of implementation.

Debian has often gotten flak in the past for its long release cycle. If Debian devs are asked when the next stable Debian release will be ready, the usual answer is "When it's done." (though this is changing somewhat now) When the quality is assured, then it's released.

It's not released when the marketing department says it should be just because they are trying to hit an artificial deadline imposed by some middle manager who's more interested in his coke and hookers.

From the sound of it, I would recommend that you stay as far away from Linux as you can. You do not seem to have the required mind set that would make it an enjoyable experience for you.
The Austrians were predicting it in '02: http://mises.org/story/986

Raines may be in a dream business, but the net result of Fannie Mae’s actions in the credit markets is a nightmare of resource misallocation and massive systemic risk.
I think these reasons verge on a tautology.

Consumer solutions are cheaper, because they are often free/cheap - therefore you don't need to guarantee a high level of service.

Whereas, business solutions generally require some defined QoS. So you need to invest more - but on the flip-side, it's easier to turn this into defined revenue.
Good fences make good neighbors
I'm still stuck on the get hot girl to accompany me step. I hear that's where the expense lies.
Why is it silly to make conjouring money out of nowhere illegal?

If there is only $100 in the world, and a bank gives it to you and you pay it back with interest, where does the interest come from?

If there's $100 in the world, and a bank "gives $100" to 10 people, who all have to pay back $100 + interest, where does that come from?

You have to borrow it from another bank. Total money in the world increases, the economy grows, but it's a con, a mirage, a convenient consensual fiction. A system based on eternal growth, which relies on pushing around ever increasing debt for its very existence, where repaying the total debt would require giving the banks back all the money they ever loaned plus all the stuff in the world to the value of the conjured extra. How is this not silly?
In "The God Delusion", Richard Dawkins puts forth an argument something along the lines that the US is the most religious of the rich countries since it, unlike most European countries, never had an official state religion. Over time, faiths like the Church of England (and on another level the Catholic Church) became dull bureaucratic institutions which nobody really took seriously, whereas in America there arose a tradition that if you don't quite take your own church's beliefs seriously you can start up a new, slightly different, church down the road.

Supporting this idea is the fact that while Catholics in the US make up a fairly large portion of the population, the vast majority of the real religious craziness comes from the many varieties of protestantism.
Maybe this video really went viral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsC2k9opOP0
You're probably right. But it makes me uncomfortable that this is the FSF's official line, not just Stallman's private rant.
My point is that for better or ill, every American is in this together.

The nail salons and restaurants will go bankrupt and the workers will go unemployed. The faster we get it over with the better.

Those nail salons and restaurants are real people with real money. It may in fact be that many of them are destined to fail, and that many of them shouldn't have been in business in the first place, but the people that allowed them to get in over their heads - that would be the collective American republic - have a duty to make sure they fall as gently as possible. By temporarily putting trust back into the credit markets, this bill would have bought the time to explore the options.

To simply pull the rug out from under the little guy is a violation of the contract that the government has with its people.
People assume that 1.2 trillion was lost(stock market). However that money still exists, just the ownership has changed. Today was probably the largest transfer of wealth ever.

In my opinion this is a good thing. You can't have unchecked growth forever. You need to have a downturn to jolt consumer confidence and investor confidence.
I'm not suggesting it's trivial. I'm simply suggesting that the worst is probably yet to come.
No one clicked on my link above or they would have understood what I meant.
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I should mention somewhere that the inputs should be surrounded by square brackets. Try this:
http://www.pycmds.org/#youtube search for [miley]

The auto-suggest is supposed to only display partial matches like you said. What browser/operating system are you using?
From wikipedia - "Invention that gets out in to the world is innovation."

In that sense, a real innovation is something that is well understood, and tested for its benefit. The thing about craigslist, twitter, facebook, wikipedia, etc is that the real reason that they are so valuable is only a matter of speculation at this point. They are only the beginning of the experiment - not the final output.

You can take a circuit level innovation, and re-apply it in several contexts. You can't take the magic of craigslist or facebook and incur the same value in another situation.. all you can do is speculate on why it worked, and be another iteration of a highly distributed experiment.

What the author is calling innovation, is really just leveraging off the reduced costs of infrastructure to test new tools on consumers. When someone formalizes why the 'social engineering' approaches work, predictably, against this data set, they will then be able to improve, and re-apply with more certainty in the market. That's innovation. I'm not sure how rigorous 'social engineering' is at present, but maybe 'social experimenters' is a better name.
also as the dollar become inflated holding, i would rather hold shares than currency. i would also get my hands on some GLD
Bustaname! That's it! thanks.
Absolutely none of that $700 billion will wind up spent a nail salon that is doomed to close, or otherwise enable someone to get a manicure. It will only serve to devalue the dollar and drive up import costs, drive up interest rates (as the credit worthiness of the US is questioned), and feather the nests of certain elites. You seem to favor emotional appeals over a discussion of the macroeconomic reality.
Heh, one of the only reasons I stick to buying index funds is because I don't have the energy to learn what those terms mean.
FDIC is a joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDIC

Just because you're insured up 100k doesn't mean the 100k will be worth that much when you get it. Printing money and giving it to people doesn't fix the problem. color me cynical
a few thoughts:

this guy sounds like he comes from an english/journalism background.. heavy on the words, light on the substance.

there is virtue in brevity

tl;dr
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wtf, no julia allison??1
You need to tell people to enable javascript.

Also please make the obvious commands like "help" or "info" do something useful.
Which of Google's billion dollar resources did Sergey use? It's a fucking blog post. He can write pro-gay blog posts and still donate to AIDS orphans at the same time.
Same exact thing here - I consider myself to be a pretty religious Muslim (pretty religious != fanatic or terrorist, btw), and that's never been an issue with regards to hacking away at the console.. and I'm always up for a nice philosophical (non-prejudiced) discussion at the appropriate time and venue :)
Allow me to humbly suggest that Mr. Dawkins is a biologist, not a sociologist or an economist, so his ponderings on the metaphysics, such as his ideas on the religious state of our religious states, while interesting, should be regarded as that of any layman's opinion.
The most mind control I have ever seen is on TV. It used to be every time my kids would see a commercial they would ask for whatever the commercial was promoting (they are a little older now and don't do that as often).

I am not sure if there could be any more powerful mind control then the marketing machine we live in day-in and day-out.
Adobe's CS4 pricing is completely bananas
I'm a young founder building an "enterprise" SaaS start-up and I agree with most of this.

One important fact that is often overlooked in terms of SaaS+capital is the need to have a basic infrastructure in place in order to get customers. It's not, as the author says, as simple as building a product quickly and getting customers.

Your customers will usually be big companies who invest in software very conservatively and your competing with massive billion dollar enterprise software businesses.

To get customers requires sales reps, 1800 numbers, basic technical support, knowledge base, very secure servers, implementation support, etc. When your app is mission critical, theres no time for beta.
" ... think that Barack Obama is a looney because he's a practicing Christian ..."

Many people deride Sarah Palin for assorted religious beliefs (such as the co-existence of people and dinosaurs) yet there is next to no deriding of Obama for believing that there lived a man who could bring the dead back to life, and who was himself killed and then rose from the dead.

How and where do people draw the line for acceptable bizarre beliefs?
Again: any Solaris kernel vulnerability likely allows a non-root zone to compromise the root zone. There are other real and potential problems with pretending that kernel security is just about the filesystem namespace and some additional access control on the process table, but "one kernel memory corruption bug costs you the whole server" is a simple enough security problem to get your head around.

VMWare does not have this problem --- you need both a kernel fault (not rare) and a hypervisor fault (quite rare) to take over a whole VMWare server.

You can say "most people don't need" the features Zones don't offer, but I see my clients using them, and expect they'd mention them immediately if asked why they use VMWare.

Very few people will do well with Zones, because very few people still deploy Solaris. The choice between shelling out for Sun gear and shelling out for ESX is a no-brainer.
That rug really ties the room together.
Boys do better when they are taught by men, study finds
oversight by 2 small committees who can be bought isn't enough oversight - all transactions need to be made available to the public.

Not to mention that while payments would be made in installments, there was still no cap.
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well when you don't know how much the asset was bought for and how much the gov will sell it for - that's all just conjecture. Records of the transactions themselves will not be publicly available; they will only be given to two small committees.
Here's another article on how to land an airpline:

http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-
land-airplane.html
It's stained with piss.
I disagree; an evolutionary biologist who knows his game theory may wel know more about how the mind works than an economist (a student of "the dismal science") or a sociologist (don't get me started). Just because Dawkins is not an accredited expert at the subject he discusses doesn't mean his arguments are false.
So when my portfolio dropped today, who exactly got that money? I didn't sell any stocks, mind you. I just had X dollars worth of stock this morning, and now I have < X.
Of course. Fortunately, sociology seems to be one of those handwavey areas where the opinions of laymen are, on average, not much worse than those of experts.

Or at least, that's my opinion, speaking as a layman.
Not luxury for everyone. A lot of people use Macs for work and will only buy Macs if they need another computer.
What's wrong with having the company charge you (and all users) enough to make their service profitable, and having a contract between you that they wont erase your data without sending you a copy first?

Keeping your personal data on a free account might be a bit of a crapshoot, but keeping your company data on a paid for service account shouldn't be.
"If there's $100 in the world, and a bank "gives $100" to 10 people, who all have to pay back $100 + interest, where does that come from?"

That's not how fractional reserve banking works. Banks don't lend more than they have in their vaults, they just have less in their vaults than the sum of their depositors' accounts.

That's tangential to your main point, which seems to be an objection to a perpetually increasing amount of money that only exists as numbers in a computer backed by nothing. That only becomes a problem in a severe recession, where the rate of wealth creation slows so much that loans can't be paid back. The system breaks, and governments have to intervene to fix it. This isn't done by just giving banks money, as you suggest. The government typically takes over the banks. The proposed bailout involves buying assets, but it's still not giving banks money.

That is only a problem if you think we'd be better off with the slower economic growth that would result from banning fractional reserve banking. We're not. A system that breaks on a regular basis sounds like a bad idea, but you still have to compare it with the alternative before you condemn it.
So, two things.

First, the other comment in this thread, where the commenter talks about all the conversations they have with Christians that are useful and don't wind up offending people? I'm guessing they don't start by calling people's beliefs "bizarre". Bizarre means "strikingly out of the ordinary"; Christianity is one of the most common belief systems on the planet. Just a thought.

Second, Palin's beliefs are far outside of the mainstream. Mainstream Christians don't reject the most basic findings of science; plenty of mainstream Christians believe in evolution, the big bang, and quantum mechanics. Palin's beliefs are, by modern standards, eccentric. They also directly impact her job: I have zero problem with a President who believes in the Ten Commandments, but a lot of problems with a President who believes who should ban books on evolution from the libraries.

Does that answer your question?
You're using a link that claims the resource limit to be 1000 years (the first one).

It's your link. I was quoting you and commenting on it.
Doesn't the Robert Frost poem this article takes its title from make pretty much the exact opposite point?

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'

...

It comes to little more:

There where it is we do not need the wall [...]

...

[...] Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offence.
Bug report, when doing a search for 'albums by [muse]' (btw oops is not spelled opps ;-)):

Opps! You found a bug. Here's the skinny:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/data/home/apps/pycmds/1.34/main.py", line 36, in get
out = self.dispatch(cmd)
File "/base/data/home/apps/pycmds/1.34/main.py", line 59, in dispatch
data = func(**kwargs)
File "/base/data/home/apps/pycmds/1.34/pycommands/entertainment.py", line 67, in albums_by
"type": "/music/artist"
File "/base/data/home/apps/pycmds/1.34/pycommands/freebase.py", line 26, in mql_read
return result['qname']['result']
Canada is arguably set up for a harder fall. Household balance sheets are even worse there, and the dependence on commodities could prove to be a disaster in a global economic downturn.
To be taught something, to brutally paraphrase Schopenhauer, is like a patch on ones skin, to learn it by your own accord it becomes your own skin, indistinguishable from other parts of your body.

My point is that Europe was religious, but it was taught by great immortal men, that religioun is actually a scam. America or the Middle East has not had such lessons. Hence they remain religious for no one has managed to shake their world view like it was done in Europe.
Why must something be done?

Good question. And one I think ought to be asked. It's a standard tactic of both sides to frame a debate such that any result is one they'd be happy with. This appears to be a classic case of that. Both sides want a bailout, and so they've framed the debate as "What kind of bailout do we want?" rather than "Do we need a bailout, or can this problem be solved in other ways?"

Interestingly, a huge percentage of Americans (even a few who understand what's going on) don't want a bailout, at all.
How about when they cause problems?

Too many people confuse faith with the idea of absolute belief. It's one thing to be faithful to a set of teachings and it's another to believe a particular set of statements to be literally true.

I'm no great fan of religion because most require the suspension of inquiry into their core principles when really that's exactly what they should encourage.
What about the case of a religious message broadcast on TV in support of a political cause?
In my opinion, Ubuntu is doing a much better job of "helping linux" than any of the other vendors because they've managed to attract something approaching "mainstream" users.
For Enterprise software, absolutely. It's a pretty damn big undertaking. That's why we're straying away from "enterprise sales".

For SaaS, I don't think it's true at all. Why does it have to be different than the consumer market? You have a piece of software, it solves a need, you use it. In the consumer market people pay for an upgrade, with SaaS/biz software people pay on a freemium model/ after a trial basis.

-jlb
The money would go towards strengthening the distressed loans that everyone is going crazy about. In turn this would (should) hopefully slow the housing crash enough that some real decisions could be made about how to get on with fixing this mess. It's not the end solution, I agree. It is however a better option than smashing headfirst into a recession, possibly even a depression.

It will devalue the dollar, that much is true. Interest rates are fubared either way. Feathering the nest of elites was a major concern, but with proper oversight injected into a succeeding bill, this will be mitigated.

You seem to favor emotional appeals over a discussion of the macroeconomic reality.

And you seem to favour the "let the fuckers burn" attitude that is so similar to that which created this mess: greed and an unfounded confidence in the self.
Hm... That's a possibility. Lower housing values led to decreased home equity, which led to decreased consumer spending, which led to lowered expectations for businesses, which led to fewer loans being made. If this is true, the bailout won't work and we'll head into a recession, possibly a severe one.

However, I wouldn't say that's why the financial firms are suffering. They're suffering because they all made the same bad investments.

Anyway, I doubt that the situation is as simple as what I've laid out here. I don't trust my previous justification for the bailout, but even the economists who opposed it said we still need to do something (http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/...).
And some rebuttals to such claims:

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=did_liberals_cau...

http://www.newamerica.net/blog/asset-building/2008/no-larry-...
If you're the startup, then you have to be beyond beta.

But if you're the billion dollar enterprise company, then that's not quite true. All you have to do is sell a checklist of features on some glossy paper and throw in some "services" which basically gives you cover for trying to get a functional (or maybe even just installable) build out the door.

And here's an article talking about Waste Management suing SAP for playing that game:

http://www.itworld.com/waste-management-sues-sap-080327
It doesn't still exist - it never existed in the first place.
Ha! One of the reasons I stick to buying low cost index funds is because I know what those terms mean and have realized finance is mostly a fools game. Especially hedge funds.

Different means - same ends.
Yahoo's Zimbra e-mail program exposes passwords
Houses are not an investment vehicle. If you buy one, it should be the for the long-term. Otherwise - don't. And I do feel for the minority of people with special circumstances.

I do not think I'm superior; I just try to know what I'm doing before acting.

The people who took out those loans knew what they were getting in to, and if they didn't, they should have. If it sounds too good to be true...

I'm well aware that this affects everyone in some way. We're at a point where fixing liquidity is crucial and something needs to be done, and we need to make sure to profit from any money lent. I really like what Sweden did: http://is.gd/3iO2

I just worry our government is going to react instead of decide.
Jesus once told a parable about sheep going to heaven and goats going to hell. The meaning, I think, is that in the end the church* will be judged by its works: the disciples who fed the poor and did nice things to the least of society were promoted, while the "goat" disciples who refused to be kind to others, were sent away.

Most people don't really care whether Obama believes in Zombie Jesus, but they care about whether his interpretation of believing in Jesus leads to actions which they deem unacceptable or unkind to themselves or others. Obama, McCain and Palin are all judged by their actions, not their faith.

[PS: Jesus never said anything anyone who wasn't already "part of his flock" to begin with. He judges his own Church the harshest out of anybody. Don't let anyone tell you the fire and brimstone is meant for the unbelievers -- it's always been meant for the flock]