What about people that do searches for their relatives? Or their pets? My dog has glaucoma. I'd be troubled greatly if my researching glaucoma medicines (dogs use the same medicine as people for this disease) caused any sort of reaction from anyone other than a pharmacy to offer me lower priced drops/pills. Just be glad you weren't searching for "incontinency" and "huge tits".
If by "Tweak it until it purrs like a kitten" you mean search the internet for someone to tell you how to get it to recognize your hard drive so you can install it, and then spend two days trying to get Wi-Fi working, then I agree. However, what I think you mean is absolutely the exact opposite of the experience of everyone I know who has tried Linux and isn't a programmer/developer/fanboy. Linux won't be ready for prime time until joe blow can install it effortlessly.
The time I've spent tweaking Vista is annoying, but not nearly as annoying as the fruitless two days I spent trying to get Ubuntu working on my very basic, brand new, completely generic laptop. The main difference being that while I've been tweaking Vista, at least its been working as compared to the nightmare that was my wireless-less Linux laptop.
It is more than probable that a skilled, disgruntled employee of the company you trust with your data could... sell off your personal information Given that the scenario in question calls for a skilled, disgruntled insider, its unclear to me that it matters very much where your personal info is. Wouldn't the real concern be surrounding outsiders getting access to your info via a web based application? Surely an insider can get to your stuff regardless of where you keep it.
'[W]hat can a company do to boost its share price? Besides stopping to burn money and come up with a working business model, I mean.'"
I suggest sending out 400 million anonymous emails: SCO has announced priority production of devices based on its proprietary technology. Analysts indicate that there is "almost limitless demand for this revolutionary technology". XYZI is rated an immediate and "STRONG BUY".
You lose all credibility when you say stupid things like:
It wasn't the justification for action, it was one of many, and it was a perfectly valid justification. You can't launch a war against global terrorism and ignore the worlds largest state sponsor of terrorism at the same time.
You are actually claiming that Iraq in 2003 was the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism? Before it was removed from the State Dept's list of states supporting terrorism, Iraq was listed as being a sponsor of the following groups: Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), and the Abu Nidal organization (ANO). None of these are exactly the "A-team" of international terror.
If you really believe that the war on terror requires the US to invade the worlds largest sponsors of terrorism, I assume you are lobbying your representatives for an immediate invasion of Iran, Syria, and IMHO, Saudi Arabia.
I was very disappointed that tweakers.net didn't even try out the 'self-destruct' feature. I was hoping they'd find a wee little piece of C4 when they cracked the case open... Heh. Actually, I think that rather than just destroy the stick, it would be better to add in just a little more explosive and ensure that the blast actually kills whoever enters the wrong password. Now THAT is bad ass security.
'Due to its unique technology it has the ability to destroy itself once an incorrect password is entered.' "This stick will self-destruct in 10 seconds."
Great, I can see people weeping and tearing their clothes after losing their novel because the caps lock key was on...
Seriously though, how many people have data so sensitive that it requires a piece of hardware to self-destruct (destroying the data itself) because of one wrong password entry?
Those of you who remember the good old cold war days will recall that the Soviets can be credited with inventing the LED, television, ramen noodles, california rolls, snow tires, the hanging curveball, and pants.
If you can show me Outlook running on 2 non-Microsoft operating systems, providing the same array of features that Outlook currently provides for Windows, I will concede. I think you're a little confused. You claim that Thunderbird is a viable replacement for outlook. The other guy points out that it isn't, because Outlook's main attraction for business is the interoperability with Exchange and until Thunderbird provides the same (not close - not sort of - not kinda - the same or better) interoperability, it will never be a viable replacement for Outlook for most businesses. So how does the fact that Thunderbird runs on multiple OSes challenge his basic claim? Who cares? The point remains that until it can do everything Outlook can (especially with regards to Exchange), most business will never consider it.
Next you'll be telling us that okay, Thunderbird doesn't interface with Exchange, but it does come with some cool skins. Take that Microsoft!
This is very good news. It always amazed me how good it feels to have a real OS on these devices (I've had a Sharp Zaurus and several Palms). It is not a special , reduced version of Linux, but the real thing. The only problem I always had was lack of stability of end user aplications. I hope Palm has addressed this issue. (bold added)
No offence, but isn't that like saying that the only problem you had with your new car was that it wouldn't start reliably?
Well you're wrong because poverty is much greater in china.
[sarcasm]That's one mighty convincing arguement you have there.[/sarcasm] Seriously, where are your supporting facts or sources to back-up your claims? The burden of proof rests on you. Just to be clear, are you actually doubting that poverty in much worse in China than in the US? Seriously?
Who depends on IRC and IM so much that they need to leave their computer on 24/7 so they don't miss anything? Wouldn't this fall pretty squarely into the category where people look at you sadly and suggest going outside for some fresh air?
think that once it's clear that the artist is doing it on purpose, on a digital medium, in 2007, with the label's permission - that's implicit license to share it with everybody over the 'Net to your heart's content. Um, no. My wife is in the music business, and we're often at shows where artists give away CDs as promos. Since the songs on those CDs are a digital medium, does the act of giving them away entitle the recipients to post those on the web for "everybody" to share? I don't think so.
I think my point is that in response to the "Vista is unstable" article, lots of people were gloating about how great Linux was. I'm part of the demographic that these people want to switch to Linux (like to upgrade/tinker with my computers constantly, not afraid to try new things, appreciative of the potential of Linux). But even the most rabid fanboy has to admit that Ubuntu isn't going to catch on very quickly if a person can't even count on it recognizing a hard drive on a basic laptop made by one of the largest comsumer computer companies around (Dell). Its not some obscure piece of gear or a driver for a cutting edge video card - its a Hitachi hard drive...
If a "stable OS is stable on all the hardware it is supposed to run on" then I'm not sure what your point is. Neither MS or Linux have ever produced a stable OS if that is the definition.
Well, I've only been using Vista for about a week, but I haven't encountered any of the problems he complains about.
However, before I installed my Vista upgrade, I first wiped my laptop and decided, at the urging of a friend, to try Ubuntu 6.10. Oooooo, I thought, "Edgy". Sounds cool.
So, day one, I download the distro (on my desktop), make a cd and slap it into the drive. Rubbing my hands in glee, I watch the startup window appear, tell it I want to Start or Install Ubuntu, and then watch little green letters say "Loading", while nothing happens. Reboot ad nauseum. Very odd.
Go to web. Discover that Ubuntu apparently has a hard time recognizing some hard drives. WTF? Okay, so after some searching I discover that I have to modify the boot up instructions to include "pci=nomsi" at the end. Sounds like gibberish, but what the hell. I do it, and sure enough the loading takes place with no problem.
Installation goes smoothly. Update goes smoothly. I'm good to rock and roll. I plug in my ethernet cable and internet is up and running instantly. Awesome. Windows was never that easy. I play around a little. Hmmm, system doesn't recognize my wireless card or printer. Okay, fix wireless first.
Search internet. Discover 11,000 competing and contradictory sets of instructions on how to get wireless working with Ubuntu. All agree that the stock driver is useless and must be blacklisted. Odd, why is it the stock driver then? I actually finally find a web page of instructions of a guy setting up wireless on exactly my model of laptop (Dell 1501). Awesome!
I follow his instructions - I type 23 (TWENTY-THREE) separate commands into the terminal, rebooting twice along the way. Apparently good news, as the wifi light comes on, indicating the computer actually notices the card. No internet though. Lots of searching/learning about iwconfig, ifconfig, lshw, and a bunch of other commands. I screw around at the command line, following numerous instructions found on credible websites. Nada. After 4 hours, I'm out of free time, but I do notice that somehow by trying to fix wireless, I've fucked up my regular wired connection. No internet at all now (good thing about that desktop!).
Next morning, determined to succeed, I wipe the computer and start over with a fresh install, since I have no idea where I screwed up the network. Besides, now I'm more comfortable with Linux. Again I enter the several dozen command line codes, none of which I remotely understand (why tar -xvzf ndiswrapper? WTF is -xvzf?). Result? Another 3 hours and no working wireless.
Wipe drive, install Vista. 30 mins later, computer and all its devices and peripherals are humming along and I'm comfortably surfing and installing software on my couch in front of the TV.
Now tell me, which experience sounds most attractive to the average computer user? Linux's famed "stability" is useless as long as I can't do something as simple as install (ooops, HD not recognized) or get a critical piece of kit working (wireless is kind of important guys) without spending 7+ hours entering command line prompts and searching for info.
Oh, and I never even bothered trying to install that printer. Call me when you have a product that works out of the box.
It has been equipped with larger wheels than the usual TGV to cover more ground with each rotation and a stronger, 25,000-horsepower engine What, no word on what kind of rims it has?
I believe the difference here is that Gnome doesn't have all its advertising show off the cool 3D effects available from Beryl/Compiz. Do you see a lot of Gnome advertising? I must be watching the wrong shows.
While its true that many of us laughed and giggled about boobies in national geographic or maybe, if we lucky or sneaky, in Playboy, the reality is that compared to that tame stuff, kids today can access pornography that would make a crack whore vomit. I'm not saying that I'm in favour of censorship, just that you can't compare the kind of material kids could get 30 years ago with today's abundance of videos showing teenage girls banging great danes in hot-tub full of cocaine.
Most people who actually bother to secure their wireless use WEP as a very basic precaution. They aren't really concerned that someone is going to spend time trying to break into their system, they're just discouraging casual visitors. If someone really really wants to break into my extremely boring home network, I'm sure they could, but they're more likely to use the two unsecured networks I can detect from my living room. Frankly, its just not worth the effort for me to go to extremes to protect my network when the likelihood of a real attack is so small.
Some groups want sites such as YouTube to be subject to Canadian content requirements Fellow Canadians, I am shocked to learn that YouTube is apparently not meeting its committment to ensure that at least 30% of its content is Canadian. I call upon all of you to immediately get a camcorder and make a tape of: yourself smashing your testes during an ill-fated skateboard stunt; two drunk Canadian girls kissing; a dog (Canadian) biting someone's crotch; your sister, passed out and naked; Canadian ninjas fighting Canadian pirates, or; a montage of guys showing off their plumbers butts at hockey games.
Only by lowering ourselves to their level will we ever be fairly represented on YouTube.
F*** you and your ilk, Steve Jobs. Why should I have to pay more for DRM free music? If we're getting *less* than what we would get with your DRM laden crap, we should be paying less too. How exactly is buying DRM-less music at a much higher bitrate (256) getting "less" than the standard DRMed file at only 128?
I swear that if Steve Jobs announced tomorrow that all iTunes music would be available DRM-free and would be given away at no cost, people would log on here to complain that Apple should be sending hookers to everyone's house to give them a free blowjob while the music is downloading.
Since then he's received hundreds of messages from readers who've also made the switch. Hundreds. As in, less than a thousand. So there are what, a couple of hundred million computers in the US? And you're talking about hundreds of people making the switch. Wow, talk about a movement!
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If by "Tweak it until it purrs like a kitten" you mean search the internet for someone to tell you how to get it to recognize your hard drive so you can install it, and then spend two days trying to get Wi-Fi working, then I agree. However, what I think you mean is absolutely the exact opposite of the experience of everyone I know who has tried Linux and isn't a programmer/developer/fanboy. Linux won't be ready for prime time until joe blow can install it effortlessly.
The time I've spent tweaking Vista is annoying, but not nearly as annoying as the fruitless two days I spent trying to get Ubuntu working on my very basic, brand new, completely generic laptop. The main difference being that while I've been tweaking Vista, at least its been working as compared to the nightmare that was my wireless-less Linux laptop.
Good thing I installed that anti virus program that unexpectedly emails me attachments to protect me. Otherwise I'd be in trouble!
I suggest sending out 400 million anonymous emails: SCO has announced priority production of devices based on its proprietary technology. Analysts indicate that there is "almost limitless demand for this revolutionary technology". XYZI is rated an immediate and "STRONG BUY".
It wasn't the justification for action, it was one of many, and it was a perfectly valid justification. You can't launch a war against global terrorism and ignore the worlds largest state sponsor of terrorism at the same time.
You are actually claiming that Iraq in 2003 was the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism? Before it was removed from the State Dept's list of states supporting terrorism, Iraq was listed as being a sponsor of the following groups: Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), and the Abu Nidal organization (ANO). None of these are exactly the "A-team" of international terror.
If you really believe that the war on terror requires the US to invade the worlds largest sponsors of terrorism, I assume you are lobbying your representatives for an immediate invasion of Iran, Syria, and IMHO, Saudi Arabia.
Those of you who remember the good old cold war days will recall that the Soviets can be credited with inventing the LED, television, ramen noodles, california rolls, snow tires, the hanging curveball, and pants.
Who depends on IRC and IM so much that they need to leave their computer on 24/7 so they don't miss anything? Wouldn't this fall pretty squarely into the category where people look at you sadly and suggest going outside for some fresh air?
"Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply. "
I think my point is that in response to the "Vista is unstable" article, lots of people were gloating about how great Linux was. I'm part of the demographic that these people want to switch to Linux (like to upgrade/tinker with my computers constantly, not afraid to try new things, appreciative of the potential of Linux). But even the most rabid fanboy has to admit that Ubuntu isn't going to catch on very quickly if a person can't even count on it recognizing a hard drive on a basic laptop made by one of the largest comsumer computer companies around (Dell). Its not some obscure piece of gear or a driver for a cutting edge video card - its a Hitachi hard drive... If a "stable OS is stable on all the hardware it is supposed to run on" then I'm not sure what your point is. Neither MS or Linux have ever produced a stable OS if that is the definition.
Well, I've only been using Vista for about a week, but I haven't encountered any of the problems he complains about.
However, before I installed my Vista upgrade, I first wiped my laptop and decided, at the urging of a friend, to try Ubuntu 6.10. Oooooo, I thought, "Edgy". Sounds cool.
So, day one, I download the distro (on my desktop), make a cd and slap it into the drive. Rubbing my hands in glee, I watch the startup window appear, tell it I want to Start or Install Ubuntu, and then watch little green letters say "Loading", while nothing happens. Reboot ad nauseum. Very odd.
Go to web. Discover that Ubuntu apparently has a hard time recognizing some hard drives. WTF? Okay, so after some searching I discover that I have to modify the boot up instructions to include "pci=nomsi" at the end. Sounds like gibberish, but what the hell. I do it, and sure enough the loading takes place with no problem.
Installation goes smoothly. Update goes smoothly. I'm good to rock and roll. I plug in my ethernet cable and internet is up and running instantly. Awesome. Windows was never that easy. I play around a little. Hmmm, system doesn't recognize my wireless card or printer. Okay, fix wireless first.
Search internet. Discover 11,000 competing and contradictory sets of instructions on how to get wireless working with Ubuntu. All agree that the stock driver is useless and must be blacklisted. Odd, why is it the stock driver then? I actually finally find a web page of instructions of a guy setting up wireless on exactly my model of laptop (Dell 1501). Awesome!
I follow his instructions - I type 23 (TWENTY-THREE) separate commands into the terminal, rebooting twice along the way. Apparently good news, as the wifi light comes on, indicating the computer actually notices the card. No internet though. Lots of searching/learning about iwconfig, ifconfig, lshw, and a bunch of other commands. I screw around at the command line, following numerous instructions found on credible websites. Nada. After 4 hours, I'm out of free time, but I do notice that somehow by trying to fix wireless, I've fucked up my regular wired connection. No internet at all now (good thing about that desktop!).
Next morning, determined to succeed, I wipe the computer and start over with a fresh install, since I have no idea where I screwed up the network. Besides, now I'm more comfortable with Linux. Again I enter the several dozen command line codes, none of which I remotely understand (why tar -xvzf ndiswrapper? WTF is -xvzf?). Result? Another 3 hours and no working wireless.
Wipe drive, install Vista. 30 mins later, computer and all its devices and peripherals are humming along and I'm comfortably surfing and installing software on my couch in front of the TV.
Now tell me, which experience sounds most attractive to the average computer user? Linux's famed "stability" is useless as long as I can't do something as simple as install (ooops, HD not recognized) or get a critical piece of kit working (wireless is kind of important guys) without spending 7+ hours entering command line prompts and searching for info.
Oh, and I never even bothered trying to install that printer. Call me when you have a product that works out of the box.
While its true that many of us laughed and giggled about boobies in national geographic or maybe, if we lucky or sneaky, in Playboy, the reality is that compared to that tame stuff, kids today can access pornography that would make a crack whore vomit. I'm not saying that I'm in favour of censorship, just that you can't compare the kind of material kids could get 30 years ago with today's abundance of videos showing teenage girls banging great danes in hot-tub full of cocaine.
Most people who actually bother to secure their wireless use WEP as a very basic precaution. They aren't really concerned that someone is going to spend time trying to break into their system, they're just discouraging casual visitors. If someone really really wants to break into my extremely boring home network, I'm sure they could, but they're more likely to use the two unsecured networks I can detect from my living room. Frankly, its just not worth the effort for me to go to extremes to protect my network when the likelihood of a real attack is so small.
He's not downloading movies, he's downloading porn! Do you know how much porn there is out there? 5G is NOTHING!
Only by lowering ourselves to their level will we ever be fairly represented on YouTube.
I swear that if Steve Jobs announced tomorrow that all iTunes music would be available DRM-free and would be given away at no cost, people would log on here to complain that Apple should be sending hookers to everyone's house to give them a free blowjob while the music is downloading.