There are so many companies out there who, if they took a real and honest accounting of the software and tools and plug-ins they have, would find that if they did actually purchase everything they own, they'd likely not have half of it. And if they did, they would have spent themselves into bankruptcy.
Or they could use Debian. It's really not that hard to get rid of things owned by greed heads and get your work done, once you step out of the owned world. When you do, you realize just how ripped off you have been. Until you escape, there's no way you can know just how "guilty" you are.
The kind of "piracy" which is encouraged by greed heads is part of the way they maintain a perception of value. They want you to think of yourself as dirty and stealing, stealing something of... value. They want you to be greatfull they don't sick the BSA on you for all your stealing, so greatfull that you obediently send in your money and show loyalty. They sue public schools for copying a text editor, why not you for all those pretty fonts?
Non free things are viral and should be avoided. There's no mechanism to tell in the non free world. When you get a font from a friend, can you tell if it is free from Font Fairy or ripped off? What mechanisms are there to keep your employee from not removing that "free trail" paint program? Did they leave their music collection in a shared directory? Only the BSA knows for sure and no one really wants a visit from them to find out. The only way to keep your hands clean is to not use stuff that's owned by people who don't like sharing.
The guy making all the noise is just shooting his mouth off until he's actually tested the patch.... the crux of his complaint balances on the fact that MS allegedly patched something without coming out and saying so.
No, the crux of his complaint is that he can't tell what he's supposed to be looking for. How is he supposed to test what M$ does not tell him? For some reason he thinks M$ is going to tell him what their "updates" do. How many hours do you expect him to test every month?
It's incredibly stupid to put yourself out on the line like that. One day it'll come back and bite him when he's wrong.
Looks like you've already bitten him. Do you work for M$ or do you just like shooting your mouth off?
The only dumb thing here is trust in M$. Look at the reward he's getting for all of his "responsible disclosure" and patient work trying to patch the XP sieve. He sits and waits for 700 days while everyone else gets hosed. M$ is oh so happy he's put their interests ahead of yours. Yet, you've acted like Steve Baller and called him incredibly stupid now that he's changed his mind and stood up for you. Other's have called him selfish and publicity seeking. I think he's getting a little fed up with it all, which is the first step in a very smart move.
Business users, they might actually want to know what might break if they do the update - especially since many cannot be "un-done".
Too bad you are using software from a company that thinks it's OK to treat people like "consumers". When you think it's OK to treat one person that way, who won't you abuse?
When you release an operating system used by 300 million people around the world - the vast majority of which don't know what a 'partition' is, nor do they care - we'll chat about this.
Mail me a ticket now, Bill, and I'll think about it. I won't be interested when you have zero market share.
And in any case if they provided a partitioning utility you'd probably be crying about how they are an evil monopoly.
Only if they bought up or broke all the others and then provided one that did not work, like they did back up utilities back in the day. They can't buy free software, so I don't think I'll be crying foul when and if they ever release a partitioning utility.
What contacts does community recommend for long periods at the computer?"
Even people with "perfect" vision have problems with computer screens. The recommended solution is to take breaks and look at something far away every hour or more. Your eyes need exercise just like everything else.
"Why do my eyes hurt?"
"Because you have never used them."
Good luck in your quest for contact lenses. I'm lucky enough to only need mild corrective glasses at night.
Email is DESIGNED to handle failures of this kind.
Yes it is.
The web itself is supposed to be redundant, but it's not. Cox, under pressure from M$ and AOL, made sure you could only use their SMTP server on their network. That leaves every computer on their network reliant on their servers or web mail and it sucks. The only thing that's distributed now are the spam and DoS attacks. Yahoo's failure is just andother example of what a bad idea to concentrate services in one place. If everyone ran their own mail server, things would work much better. To DoS that, you would have to turn off everyone's computer.
Wow! I am like TOTALLY SHOCKED that something that Apple says is *beta* and that they refuse to, at this time, provide technical support for, is buggy!
You might be shocked by something that did not work if you used anything but Windoze. I'm genuinely surprised when an application fails in Debian testing. I'd be slack jawed amazed if it failed to boot by software error, but I understand that any M$ system has to be rebuilt periodically to avoid "bit rot."
how could people not anticipate these sorts of things based on the long-established pattern of problems with being among the first adopters of a new hardware/software system?
You are a Windows user, right? User of such an "innovative" system must always be having problems. Users of other systems, which happen to provide real innovation, are used to better performance. I'll believe this is a real apple problem and not Astroturf when Apple admits it.
PC World finds "a dozen" complaining users - a story is born.
I'd like to see Apple comment on this before I really believe it. Any dork with a mail tool could have created this whole thing. Add a bot net can you can have hundreds of complaining Astroturfers. It happens here all the time and I would not put it past the people who invented the "Apple Switcher". Anything is possible.
I mean seriously - when has dual booting with Windows "ever" worked out of the box? It seeks always to dominate and does not ever like to share.
Yes, Windoze sucks like that but dual booting has worked since... forever. Dual booting with lilo worked out of the box when I first tried it with Red Hat 5.x, back in 1997. I imagine it worked before that. Today, live distributions can fix GRUB on the fly, even if Windoze messes it up. NTFS resizing is safe and reliable. If the live CD boots, everything else usually works.
The news is that Apple managed to get something wrong that's been working for a decade. I half wonder if you could use Mepis to fix the mess. If you can't now, you will be able to in a few months.
Since there can be no practical competition to a land line phone provider,
There's no practical competition to land lines only because landlines are no longer practical. Cell phone networks are both cheaper and more reliable. Freeing broadcast spectum would solve all of these problems. Eliminating the monopoly on wire laying is a also a very practical solution. If there's really no money in it, people won't do it. If they do it, there's more choice for everyone.
The great thing about merging two incompetent companies is they usually collapse faster and make room for someone who can do what the customer wants.
The really awful thing about government supported monopoly is that they never go away and you can never compete with them no matter how incompetent they may be. If these idiots have their way, you will once again be renting your phone and begging permission to hook up a modem.
You actually start to understand why the screwy security features like the one that means you can't just type "progname" in a directory with progname in it are there.
Try "./progname" next time, or modify your path to include/home/username/bin if you need programs to run and you are not root. Be sure to "chmod u+x progname" first. Works great if you like to play with compilers.
And all of a sudden, you can work perfectly well again, with the occasional paste of an error from/var/log/syslog into Google
I'm glad you feel that way but things have gotten much easier than that if you use the right distribution. The average user no longer sees those errors with distributions like Mepis. The average user won't touch the command line again. When things don't work, there's more than enough local help but the local Windoze skill base is going away. RTFM is and always will be for the few people who actually care. In the free software world, there is a manual and it works. The non free world is far more frustrating and people are leaving it. I've given Mepis to plenty of people who used it and never read a man page.
I want to write a Linux program that runs a series of invasive system checks to make sure you didn't pay for it.
Bill Gates might like that but RMS would not. Freedom is about your ability to use your computer, change and share your code as you please, not price. As IBM and others are reaping billions of dollars, we can say that the market is rewarding free software and those who know how to use it.
The whole M$ party line is bullshit. They would like you to think the only way to make money is to give up your freedom and that they are the only people who can run your computer. Part of that freedom is to hire who you want to fix your problems. The only thing Bill hates more than losing a sale is someone else making one. As features, available in other OS's, fall off Vista It should be obvious by now that many other groups are making better software to run your computer. Non free sucks that way, so put your money where it will do you some good for a change.
Why does he think a beta OS is going to be any more secure than 'legacy' OSes?
Because someone lied to him.
How many times M$ can get away with the same lie? "This OS is totally new and improved and does not have the problems our last one did." It's sickening to hear the head of a US government agency buy such stuff while perfectly usable and secure free software is available.
says Schmidt. Instead of running Windows 2000, "I'd be racing to run the beta of the next generation of operating system... and not worry about legacy stuff that we know isn't going to be supported too much longer and has had issues."
It's amazing someone who was in that position thinks the next Windoze won't have the same problems every other version has had. What a total waste of money.
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A little slip there, no?
Or they could use Debian. It's really not that hard to get rid of things owned by greed heads and get your work done, once you step out of the owned world. When you do, you realize just how ripped off you have been. Until you escape, there's no way you can know just how "guilty" you are.
The kind of "piracy" which is encouraged by greed heads is part of the way they maintain a perception of value. They want you to think of yourself as dirty and stealing, stealing something of ... value. They want you to be greatfull they don't sick the BSA on you for all your stealing, so greatfull that you obediently send in your money and show loyalty. They sue public schools for copying a text editor, why not you for all those pretty fonts?
Non free things are viral and should be avoided. There's no mechanism to tell in the non free world. When you get a font from a friend, can you tell if it is free from Font Fairy or ripped off? What mechanisms are there to keep your employee from not removing that "free trail" paint program? Did they leave their music collection in a shared directory? Only the BSA knows for sure and no one really wants a visit from them to find out. The only way to keep your hands clean is to not use stuff that's owned by people who don't like sharing.
He was pretty clear about it all:
The bottom line is this: we just dont know [what's being patched].
Your little smear does nothing to change that fact.
No, the crux of his complaint is that he can't tell what he's supposed to be looking for. How is he supposed to test what M$ does not tell him? For some reason he thinks M$ is going to tell him what their "updates" do. How many hours do you expect him to test every month?
It's incredibly stupid to put yourself out on the line like that. One day it'll come back and bite him when he's wrong.
Looks like you've already bitten him. Do you work for M$ or do you just like shooting your mouth off?
The only dumb thing here is trust in M$. Look at the reward he's getting for all of his "responsible disclosure" and patient work trying to patch the XP sieve. He sits and waits for 700 days while everyone else gets hosed. M$ is oh so happy he's put their interests ahead of yours. Yet, you've acted like Steve Baller and called him incredibly stupid now that he's changed his mind and stood up for you. Other's have called him selfish and publicity seeking. I think he's getting a little fed up with it all, which is the first step in a very smart move.
Too bad you are using software from a company that thinks it's OK to treat people like "consumers". When you think it's OK to treat one person that way, who won't you abuse?
Mail me a ticket now, Bill, and I'll think about it. I won't be interested when you have zero market share.
And in any case if they provided a partitioning utility you'd probably be crying about how they are an evil monopoly.
Only if they bought up or broke all the others and then provided one that did not work, like they did back up utilities back in the day. They can't buy free software, so I don't think I'll be crying foul when and if they ever release a partitioning utility.
Even people with "perfect" vision have problems with computer screens. The recommended solution is to take breaks and look at something far away every hour or more. Your eyes need exercise just like everything else.
"Why do my eyes hurt?"
"Because you have never used them."
Good luck in your quest for contact lenses. I'm lucky enough to only need mild corrective glasses at night.
Yes it is.
The web itself is supposed to be redundant, but it's not. Cox, under pressure from M$ and AOL, made sure you could only use their SMTP server on their network. That leaves every computer on their network reliant on their servers or web mail and it sucks. The only thing that's distributed now are the spam and DoS attacks. Yahoo's failure is just andother example of what a bad idea to concentrate services in one place. If everyone ran their own mail server, things would work much better. To DoS that, you would have to turn off everyone's computer.
I blame Debian. Both their "testing" and "unstable" both seem to work wonderfully.
I can also blame Apple, damn them for being reliable.
While we are making a list, how about those no goods at IBM or Sun. They do new and innovative things all the time and it just works.
How's a second rate operation supposed to make up excuses in a world like that? I mean really, it's just not fair.
You might be shocked by something that did not work if you used anything but Windoze. I'm genuinely surprised when an application fails in Debian testing. I'd be slack jawed amazed if it failed to boot by software error, but I understand that any M$ system has to be rebuilt periodically to avoid "bit rot."
I have my doubts about this whole thing.
If your computer already has Windows XP installed and you do not want to reinstall and reconfigure Windows and other programs, you need a third-party disk utility to resize the Windows partition and leave unallocated disk space for Windows Disk Protection. Note Microsoft does not provide support for third-party disk partitioning products.
How pathetic and typical. Bill Gates is letting everyone else "support" his OS and providing nothing but headache in return.
No, it's not. No version of Microsoft Windoze that I know of comes with a partition resizer.
You are a Windows user, right? User of such an "innovative" system must always be having problems. Users of other systems, which happen to provide real innovation, are used to better performance. I'll believe this is a real apple problem and not Astroturf when Apple admits it.
I'd like to see Apple comment on this before I really believe it. Any dork with a mail tool could have created this whole thing. Add a bot net can you can have hundreds of complaining Astroturfers. It happens here all the time and I would not put it past the people who invented the "Apple Switcher". Anything is possible.
Yes, Windoze sucks like that but dual booting has worked since ... forever. Dual booting with lilo worked out of the box when I first tried it with Red Hat 5.x, back in 1997. I imagine it worked before that. Today, live distributions can fix GRUB on the fly, even if Windoze messes it up. NTFS resizing is safe and reliable. If the live CD boots, everything else usually works.
The news is that Apple managed to get something wrong that's been working for a decade. I half wonder if you could use Mepis to fix the mess. If you can't now, you will be able to in a few months.
Because what was bad is now impossible.
There's no practical competition to land lines only because landlines are no longer practical. Cell phone networks are both cheaper and more reliable. Freeing broadcast spectum would solve all of these problems. Eliminating the monopoly on wire laying is a also a very practical solution. If there's really no money in it, people won't do it. If they do it, there's more choice for everyone.
The really awful thing about government supported monopoly is that they never go away and you can never compete with them no matter how incompetent they may be. If these idiots have their way, you will once again be renting your phone and begging permission to hook up a modem.
Try "./progname" next time, or modify your path to include /home/username/bin if you need programs to run and you are not root. Be sure to "chmod u+x progname" first. Works great if you like to play with compilers.
And all of a sudden, you can work perfectly well again, with the occasional paste of an error from /var/log/syslog into Google
I'm glad you feel that way but things have gotten much easier than that if you use the right distribution. The average user no longer sees those errors with distributions like Mepis. The average user won't touch the command line again. When things don't work, there's more than enough local help but the local Windoze skill base is going away. RTFM is and always will be for the few people who actually care. In the free software world, there is a manual and it works. The non free world is far more frustrating and people are leaving it. I've given Mepis to plenty of people who used it and never read a man page.
Bill Gates might like that but RMS would not. Freedom is about your ability to use your computer, change and share your code as you please, not price. As IBM and others are reaping billions of dollars, we can say that the market is rewarding free software and those who know how to use it.
The whole M$ party line is bullshit. They would like you to think the only way to make money is to give up your freedom and that they are the only people who can run your computer. Part of that freedom is to hire who you want to fix your problems. The only thing Bill hates more than losing a sale is someone else making one. As features, available in other OS's, fall off Vista It should be obvious by now that many other groups are making better software to run your computer. Non free sucks that way, so put your money where it will do you some good for a change.
Because someone lied to him.
How many times M$ can get away with the same lie? "This OS is totally new and improved and does not have the problems our last one did." It's sickening to hear the head of a US government agency buy such stuff while perfectly usable and secure free software is available.
It's amazing someone who was in that position thinks the next Windoze won't have the same problems every other version has had. What a total waste of money.