I'll remember that, I bet you've made a joke in your life and I bet I can find someone in the world it WOULD have offended had they heard it. The Irwin family almost certainly won't.
And that's assuming they WOULD be offended like this. Not everyone has your value system. I'm fairly certain if my family had been his we'd have giggled at that.
But everything you've said is a angative for normal people.
Hell, the very fact you think of the concept of having mroe than one distro on a computer makes you utterly unable to judge it as an operating system for normal people.
I can only assume you're joking about xvid and divx, or you're completely blind.
No I'm with you, I hate trackpoints, they're not accurate, they're not quick, unless you turn it off they randomly click the mouse for you if your finger is in the same postcode.
The nipple is a perfect control means, it's accurate, it's quick and you don't accidentally click.
I should explain that by "Acceptable alternative", I mean "good enough to avoid paying £90 for windows on my next laptop". No way can it do everything I need windows to do on my actual desktop.
And I have GOT to find a way to get KDE to give me a wide multi-line taskbar, it's got room for about a program and a half in default config.
But thanks for being patronising. It's not that I don't use Linux because I "don't understand it". I've used it more than enough in home and business.
I don't use it because it's an utter pig to get running, an utter pig to install things and an utter pig to manage. And that goes for Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, Suse and even Fedora. Freespire worked.
And actually I think Microsoft has had pefect success in that area. I've never had the slightest hint of a virus, security or crashing problem with XP behind a router. Of course I don't use IE.
And to be quite frank, as a windows only computer user, Freespire is EASILY the most impressive Linux I've ever seen. Everything I wanted to work did and it highly likely to go on my next laptop.
You don't understand how emulation works. The 90% of games that "suck ass" as you put it almost certainly "just worked" when they made changes to get one of the AA titles to work.
And indeed the similar Red Dwarf debacle where they not only replaced the old model shots with some hideous looking CGI but CUT ACTUAL EPISODE OUT to make room for more of them!
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So presumably you have, for instance, never laughed at any comedy skit involving the depiction of Hitler?
I'll remember that, I bet you've made a joke in your life and I bet I can find someone in the world it WOULD have offended had they heard it. The Irwin family almost certainly won't.
And that's assuming they WOULD be offended like this. Not everyone has your value system. I'm fairly certain if my family had been his we'd have giggled at that.
But everything you've said is a angative for normal people.
Hell, the very fact you think of the concept of having mroe than one distro on a computer makes you utterly unable to judge it as an operating system for normal people.
I can only assume you're joking about xvid and divx, or you're completely blind.
Yes, that's exactly what I said.
Oh no wait, it isn't.
talk yes.
Shout and swear as was implied. NO.
So it's ok to treat people with no control over things like shit because you have a self-esteem problem.
Gotcha.
Because you install it and Flash works, Divx works, xvid works.
You can connect to windows shares from an installed gui.
It installs in 10 mins without asking me bizzare questions that if I wasn't a geek I wouldn't have the slightest clue about.
I did.
I'll let myself out.
I don't like the editorialising of the story either, let US make up our mind whether it's a "lie" or "Stupid" thanks.
No I'm with you, I hate trackpoints, they're not accurate, they're not quick, unless you turn it off they randomly click the mouse for you if your finger is in the same postcode.
The nipple is a perfect control means, it's accurate, it's quick and you don't accidentally click.
And Freespire, with a very resonable chance of attracting normal users happens to be Debian based.
Don't ask me, ask him.
I should explain that by "Acceptable alternative", I mean "good enough to avoid paying £90 for windows on my next laptop". No way can it do everything I need windows to do on my actual desktop.
And I have GOT to find a way to get KDE to give me a wide multi-line taskbar, it's got room for about a program and a half in default config.
For people like us who don't turn off PCs... nothing.
For my dad who turns on his laptop and goes to make a cup of tea, it tells him that the laptop is ready.
Of course this usefulness pales on any windows with a login prompt because it doesn't sound until after you've returned to the PC to log in.
Given that's the whole point then yes.
But thanks for being patronising. It's not that I don't use Linux because I "don't understand it". I've used it more than enough in home and business.
I don't use it because it's an utter pig to get running, an utter pig to install things and an utter pig to manage. And that goes for Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, Suse and even Fedora. Freespire worked.
And actually I think Microsoft has had pefect success in that area. I've never had the slightest hint of a virus, security or crashing problem with XP behind a router. Of course I don't use IE.
And to be quite frank, as a windows only computer user, Freespire is EASILY the most impressive Linux I've ever seen. Everything I wanted to work did and it highly likely to go on my next laptop.
CNR free might have clinched that.
It's an implication that the two comapanies share similar values which in itself offers us some kind of glimpse into the future direction of both.
You don't understand how emulation works. The 90% of games that "suck ass" as you put it almost certainly "just worked" when they made changes to get one of the AA titles to work.
They only remastered as far as series 4 I believe. Either way, the original R2 DVDs of both S1 and 2 are unmolested and you should get those instead.
If only because, as I pointed out elsewhere, they actually cut parts of the episode during the remaster to fit more CGI.
And indeed the similar Red Dwarf debacle where they not only replaced the old model shots with some hideous looking CGI but CUT ACTUAL EPISODE OUT to make room for more of them!
If it's a free service you haven't purchased anything.
I suspect I'll leap on board this, it might even inspire me to go get the odd CD. I'm with you though, as soon as they expect money, I expect freedom.
Are you seriously comparing a soverign UN member nation with a cult?
Well I'm not sure how many people seriously believe they don't want the weapons so I proceeded apon that basis.
If it really was just a power plant that just makes the UK/US/Whoever's in this week position even more pathetic.
You may want to look up the Magna Carta. The UK had a consitution equivilent over 500 years before there WAS a USA.
Or do nothing and yet an independant country develop technology and keep your nose out of their business.
The US/UK etc have a right to tell Iran not to have a nuclear program only when they themselves have got rid of every last nuke they have.