I'm making the (perhaps bold, and perhaps totally wrong claim) that you are not effectively paying for it. I'm suggesting that the various crapware companies have banded together to pay for your Windows license (and then some).
Its like buying a bottle of Tequila and the counter wench saying "Hey you also get $20 cash back and a lifetime membership of Grande - The most poorly constructed amusement park in town". Money in the pocket, membership card in the bin.
Everyone crys foul when the manufacturers charge more for the Linux option, but its not that far fetched. My partners laptop came with about 4 trialware programs. One of these was Norton Super Max Plus, at about $199 (and an annual fee) if you decided to register it (or get Horrible Viruses and Your Files Will be Hacked Tommorow - according to the scary massive popup window). It would not surprise me if Norton is seeing an above 30% conversion rate, so they are probably paying a minimum of $50 themselves for the preload. Then there was a music/movie download program, PC-Doctor, AOL/Earthlink trials, etc. There was even a 30 day trial of Office. "Nice documents you have there - would be a terrible pity if you could no longer edit them - pay $399".
I honestly think that adding Windows + Crapware reduces the price of the laptop - and if you are going to format it anyway, why worry?
I can probably give you a Windows license right now. Its just permission to use it after all. I'm sure I have some unused XP licenses somewhere. Would it make you feel dirty if I told you that one of them exclusively yours?;)
Haha, worse. In Australia we basically get forced to put 12% of our salary into mutual funds, its called superannuation, and you can't touch it until you retire:(
If you are making are moral argument against someone _paying_ you to have a license for a particular piece of software, then frankly you are an idiot.
You are getting with your hardware an envelope containg money and a note: "We, the Unified Crapware Alliance, are giving you Ten Shiny Dollars, and permission to use Windows!"
The correct response is: "Uh... thanks."
Then you pocket the free money, toss the note in the bin and run the Hardon Heron installer.
Or I guess you could say "OMG I FKN HATE M$!!oheone" and throw the $5 note out with the license.
Apple is the largest supplier of DRM media via the iTunes store.
Microsoft is one of many vendors who has been strongarmed into supporting playback of DRM files. You think they want to spend money developing DRM shit, or snorting blow off hookers?
Content owners are pushing DRM the hardest. They get the most blame. Then the content providers that agree to push this bullshit onto their customers.
TBH I really doubt the cost of the Windows license counts. IIRC its incredibly small in that kind of volume, and probably easily covered by Norton, CrapJukeBox etc paying for their trialware.
The only cost would be in the configuration & customization which would be roughly equal, depending on your choice of OS.
So is "pedophile". Ho, ho, ho, those child molesters and their funny funny ways. Lets all be tolerant and have a big happy party and invite all the pedos and dog-fuckers^W furry friends around.
Most people do a similar form of escapism and empowerment by identifying themselves with an archetype and trying to adopt perceived good traits from it.
Most people do not look at, say, a tiger, and think "Hey look how that tiger gets a boner when it see another tiger. I identify with that! I'm going to adopt that useful trait!"
Life is no fun if there's no adversary.
Most people tend to find sufficient adversaries without turning animal fucking into a hobby.
If I was drawing a line in the sand then "dressing up like an animal and fucking other animals" would be so far on the gassing side you might as well just climb in the oven now.
Even pedos seem to be rehabilitatable, compared to the rabid defense of the "furry fandom" when we want to gas you bastards - and also whole "its about fucking animals, its about unleasing my inner dragon (all over that badgers face)" bullshit.
The most freaky shit I've ever done was three girls at once. (One of them was fat, so it hardly counts). Most of male society would agree that it was fucking awesome, and it was. I'm definitely on the side of the line-drawers, and not side of the furrys burning in their semen and gas soaked fursuits.
Yeah its less of an issue on Vista too. IIRC on XP you've blown a whole quanta which can't be given to another thread so the kernel has to give the rest of your slice to a DPC. The 6 kernel can give out partial time slices (and the quanta is smaller) so its less of an issue.
Hrmmm not 100% clear on that actually. I think Russonavich had a good article on it, I might go google it.
Mod it Flamebait if you like (its actually a +1 Flamebait with my config).
Fact is the only good Xserver implementation I've used is NoMachine - which runs an Xserver proxy on the server end which it translates into its own actually efficient protocol to send to the (client/xserver). Then it works fine, but not because of the X implementation.
* Backup software knows theres nothing vital in the Program Files directory.
* Users should not (and never did) have permission to write to Program Files.
Thats just 2 off the top of my head. Like someone else mentioned, you dont store config in/bin/.myproduct
You're probably running my code now. You just don't know it.
I'm sure thousands of Administrators all over the world are running your software, because we can be damn sure that anyone in the Users group hasn't been.
I'm (as in me) using 1.8 gigs now while running a simulation of an entire bulk loading plant, status server and client interface. 1.5 extra gigs are used as cache, which is well worth it on this shitty hitachi 20 megs a sec drive.
With RAM being around $20 a gig, you definitely want to max your system out regardless. My home PC works fine on 2 gig, but I only really use that for gaming.
For the past 7 or 8 years the developer guidelines have told you where to store user data. Its also been required for the "Designed for XP" logo programme.
Microsoft says "don't put your.INI file in the program files directory. You put it in the program files directory. Microsoft changes permissions so you can't do it anymore. You blame them?
Do you expect them to be compatible with every abomination that hack developers crap out for every release forever? Nobody gives two shits about your 15 year old bad habits. Learn to code properly. RTFM. If the API says "Do not pass null" then you don't. It doesnt matter if it works today, it may not work in future.
X11 is actually more efficient than either the Windows or the Mac display servers.
The fuck wha? Have you actually used X11 remotely vs RDP?
I'm lucky if a menu can open in half a second from work->home using X. When RDPing into my home windows box I even get limited Direct3D (as in small flat shaded anti-collision machine models) at fairly low but usable FPS.
Still if 5.2 is trojaned then it will take the clean 5.3 source and emit gcc53at. 53at will then emit 53bt. 53bt will then emit 53ct.
53b and 53c should be equal, and the trojan will also be equal, so 53bt == 53ct. You could comsider the trojan as part of an "optimisation pass", which will be performed by all builds of gcc.
A trojan compiler that always compiled printf with an extra check for if("crashme") exit; and always compiled the preprocessor with the printf mangler would always emit: * A compiler that repeatably compiles printf with the trojan. * A compiler that repeatably compiles the preprocessor with the trojanned preprocessor.
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I'm making the (perhaps bold, and perhaps totally wrong claim) that you are not effectively paying for it. I'm suggesting that the various crapware companies have banded together to pay for your Windows license (and then some).
Its like buying a bottle of Tequila and the counter wench saying "Hey you also get $20 cash back and a lifetime membership of Grande - The most poorly constructed amusement park in town". Money in the pocket, membership card in the bin.
Everyone crys foul when the manufacturers charge more for the Linux option, but its not that far fetched. My partners laptop came with about 4 trialware programs. One of these was Norton Super Max Plus, at about $199 (and an annual fee) if you decided to register it (or get Horrible Viruses and Your Files Will be Hacked Tommorow - according to the scary massive popup window). It would not surprise me if Norton is seeing an above 30% conversion rate, so they are probably paying a minimum of $50 themselves for the preload. Then there was a music/movie download program, PC-Doctor, AOL/Earthlink trials, etc. There was even a 30 day trial of Office. "Nice documents you have there - would be a terrible pity if you could no longer edit them - pay $399".
I honestly think that adding Windows + Crapware reduces the price of the laptop - and if you are going to format it anyway, why worry?
I can probably give you a Windows license right now. Its just permission to use it after all. I'm sure I have some unused XP licenses somewhere. Would it make you feel dirty if I told you that one of them exclusively yours? ;)
Haha, worse. In Australia we basically get forced to put 12% of our salary into mutual funds, its called superannuation, and you can't touch it until you retire :(
If you are making are moral argument against someone _paying_ you to have a license for a particular piece of software, then frankly you are an idiot.
You are getting with your hardware an envelope containg money and a note:
"We, the Unified Crapware Alliance, are giving you Ten Shiny Dollars, and permission to use Windows!"
The correct response is:
"Uh... thanks."
Then you pocket the free money, toss the note in the bin and run the Hardon Heron installer.
Or I guess you could say "OMG I FKN HATE M$!!oheone" and throw the $5 note out with the license.
Wrong metric.
Apple is the largest supplier of DRM media via the iTunes store.
Microsoft is one of many vendors who has been strongarmed into supporting playback of DRM files. You think they want to spend money developing DRM shit, or snorting blow off hookers?
Content owners are pushing DRM the hardest. They get the most blame. Then the content providers that agree to push this bullshit onto their customers.
I mentioned before, I strongly doubt you are actually paying anything. The MS tax is covered by your friends at McAfee, MusicMatch, AOL, etc.
Sucks for them if you are planning on formatting the drive an installing Ubuntu anyway ;)
TBH I really doubt the cost of the Windows license counts. IIRC its incredibly small in that kind of volume, and probably easily covered by Norton, CrapJukeBox etc paying for their trialware.
The only cost would be in the configuration & customization which would be roughly equal, depending on your choice of OS.
So is "pedophile". Ho, ho, ho, those child molesters and their funny funny ways. Lets all be tolerant and have a big happy party and invite all the pedos and dog-fuckers^W furry friends around.
There'll be cake!
I have learnt two things. First, arguing is futile when you are a dog-fucker. Secondly, get in the first flame.
Most people do a similar form of escapism and empowerment by identifying themselves with an archetype and trying to adopt perceived good traits from it.
Most people do not look at, say, a tiger, and think "Hey look how that tiger gets a boner when it see another tiger. I identify with that! I'm going to adopt that useful trait!"
Life is no fun if there's no adversary.
Most people tend to find sufficient adversaries without turning animal fucking into a hobby.
Master, I feel that Ed Grubermann was not entirely wrong. I want to boot some furrys too....
If I was drawing a line in the sand then "dressing up like an animal and fucking other animals" would be so far on the gassing side you might as well just climb in the oven now.
Even pedos seem to be rehabilitatable, compared to the rabid defense of the "furry fandom" when we want to gas you bastards - and also whole "its about fucking animals, its about unleasing my inner dragon (all over that badgers face)" bullshit.
The most freaky shit I've ever done was three girls at once. (One of them was fat, so it hardly counts). Most of male society would agree that it was fucking awesome, and it was. I'm definitely on the side of the line-drawers, and not side of the furrys burning in their semen and gas soaked fursuits.
Or possibly "disregard that, I suck cocks". This seems to be the article I remember: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162494.aspx - and its talking about interrupts.
Yeah its less of an issue on Vista too. IIRC on XP you've blown a whole quanta which can't be given to another thread so the kernel has to give the rest of your slice to a DPC. The 6 kernel can give out partial time slices (and the quanta is smaller) so its less of an issue.
Hrmmm not 100% clear on that actually. I think Russonavich had a good article on it, I might go google it.
Mod it Flamebait if you like (its actually a +1 Flamebait with my config).
Fact is the only good Xserver implementation I've used is NoMachine - which runs an Xserver proxy on the server end which it translates into its own actually efficient protocol to send to the (client/xserver). Then it works fine, but not because of the X implementation.
there was no reason to do so.
* Backup software knows theres nothing vital in the Program Files directory.
* Users should not (and never did) have permission to write to Program Files.
Thats just 2 off the top of my head. Like someone else mentioned, you dont store config in /bin/.myproduct
You're probably running my code now. You just don't know it.
I'm sure thousands of Administrators all over the world are running your software, because we can be damn sure that anyone in the Users group hasn't been.
I'm (as in me) using 1.8 gigs now while running a simulation of an entire bulk loading plant, status server and client interface. 1.5 extra gigs are used as cache, which is well worth it on this shitty hitachi 20 megs a sec drive.
With RAM being around $20 a gig, you definitely want to max your system out regardless. My home PC works fine on 2 gig, but I only really use that for gaming.
For the past 7 or 8 years the developer guidelines have told you where to store user data. Its also been required for the "Designed for XP" logo programme.
Microsoft says "don't put your .INI file in the program files directory. You put it in the program files directory. Microsoft changes permissions so you can't do it anymore. You blame them?
Do you expect them to be compatible with every abomination that hack developers crap out for every release forever? Nobody gives two shits about your 15 year old bad habits. Learn to code properly. RTFM. If the API says "Do not pass null" then you don't. It doesnt matter if it works today, it may not work in future.
You have to install more memory than Windows is able to address before it works properly?
Vista Ultimate (x64)
You fail at raising two to the power of things!
X11 is actually more efficient than either the Windows or the Mac display servers.
The fuck wha? Have you actually used X11 remotely vs RDP?
I'm lucky if a menu can open in half a second from work->home using X. When RDPing into my home windows box I even get limited Direct3D (as in small flat shaded anti-collision machine models) at fairly low but usable FPS.
Garbage collection not working across an unmanaged boundary? GC doesn't work that way.
Theres a similar issue with COM components referring to .Net COM components which refer back to the COM component.
That guy should perhaps learn to code?
As a minor nitpick, Sleep(0) can return immediately. You'll end up with the main thread burning CPU in a tight loop if nothing is waiting.
Thread.Join would be more appropriate, or using Monitor.* manually.
You'd probably go for IOCP on Windows.
Hence you would use a work queue and a pool of threads. Not 100,000 threads.
Ah I see.
Still if 5.2 is trojaned then it will take the clean 5.3 source and emit gcc53at. 53at will then emit 53bt. 53bt will then emit 53ct.
53b and 53c should be equal, and the trojan will also be equal, so 53bt == 53ct. You could comsider the trojan as part of an "optimisation pass", which will be performed by all builds of gcc.
A trojan compiler that always compiled printf with an extra check for if("crashme") exit; and always compiled the preprocessor with the printf mangler would always emit:
* A compiler that repeatably compiles printf with the trojan.
* A compiler that repeatably compiles the preprocessor with the trojanned preprocessor.
If the compiler has any optimisation improvements, then they will be different anyway.
Furthermore, if the trojaning process is deterministic, the both versions of the compiler emit the binaries with the trojan in the same place.