Remember that the landers were designed to only last a short time. Hence they probably didn't think about putting in components that would have lasted the landers for 10 years.
Liquidators find selling code worthless and if you don't try now then the copyright will forever be gone down the blackhole and you'll never be able to find the right owners or even get a copy of the code.
That's probably what they're trying to figure out with this.
Why should we fund this? I mean look at the depression we're all in, they're obviously trying to make budget cuts and aren't sure if they should drop quantum computing.
Yes, I'd rather not waste my time and effort on boot licking these management assholes to get things changed only to end up where I started, which is no where.
One of the things I always hate about using the cmd in windows is that tab doesn't auto complete to more then one directory deep.
So you can type f + tab and it will auto complete to "foo/" but if you type "foo/b" and press tab it won't auto complete to "foo/bar". Annoys the hell out of me.
Another thing that pisses me off is that the cmd box never exceeds 80 characters. In bash I can maximise the whole window full screen and it will take up all the room with text, not possible in cmd.
Looking at some Microsoft dlls you can see they're signed by Thawt which is the company Mark Shuttleworth sold for millions, so in a round-a-bout kind of way Microsoft funded the ability for Mark to start Ubuntu which is now competing with Microsoft in Africa. Woops.
Many people are very smart, but either couldn't afford university
Nonsense you can get a grant to go to university for free, you can also get a student loan from the government for up to £4000 a year for living expenses. The can afford excuse? There is none, however I do agree that not everyone needs a degree, however that's just a side effect of everyone having one, why take on the dross of society when another section actually put effort into their education.
there are perfectly intelligent people who didn't pay any attention in classes due to peer pressure, there are those who missed the exams due to illness or similar
Then you go to college and re-take them. Either you make the effort or you don't get a job because employers see your shitty effort.
That's how the world works, no one owes you a god damn thing, you have to show you're willing to make an effort, not bothering to show up, not bothering to re-take shows only one thing. That's not being a snob, that's being smart and not being taken for a ride.
It's not snobbish to expect someone to have GCSEs especially when some people I know couldn't even be bothered to turn up to the exam. Why the hell would you want to hire someone like that?
If they couldn't be bothered to show up for the exam, or if they did then failed, they're either too lazy or too dumb to do any IT job.
Some of theses tests such as the SQLite test I am wondering if they used SQLite within ubuntu or they build and run it on the system they were testing.
This matters because Ubuntu comes with different versions of SQLite.
However if there is a problem then I hope they report it on launchpad. I have noticed any slowness myself.
No, that's because in places such as India and Thailand (which is a better example) they completely trash the patents on US medicines in favour of their citizens having good healthcare.
Your problem is that you're just not reading anything I write....
You word it so that the Windows partitioning step looks like it involves more steps than the Ubuntu stage, when both systems have a partition stage. You even have the user create a new partition for some reason when their disk is most likely already partitioned, and all they have to do is press Enter.
If you buy a new hard drive and install windows on it, it is not partitioned to NTFS. I'll quote what I said since you didn't read it, hopefully you will this time..
2) First you have to setup a partition to install windows.. lets assume it's an empty disk so you'd press c (create partition) and number the number of disk space for that partition then enter, then you press enter again to install on that partition.
You see those words? "empty disk", this was so that everyone knew what I was talking about.
you cite Ubuntu's inclusion of OpenOffice as an advantage while pretending that versions of Office don't already come preinstalled on PCs or even on the OEM Windows recovery install disc included with the PC.
and what the fuck has an OEM disk got to do with any of this, it's a cheap answer. An OEM disk (if you're lucky enough to have kept it or not have a custom PC) does not come in the retail box of Microsoft Windows.
Guess what also comes with an OEM disk, that's right! Ubuntu.
And if it doesn't, OpenOffice is a free download for Windows too. I really don't see the point is of even bringing it up as an advantage.
Because it's one less piece of junk you need to install before you can start doing your work.
"Click install" is obviously a figure of speech used to illustrate the ease of installation.
Ease of installation?! What a joke and did you even check out some of the other comments? I was being very restrictive in my list of steps, yet you lack any kind of thought in your response as though when people reinstall windows they don't need to take any of these steps.
You start making up hypothetical situations of people having OEM computers with special install disks. I notice that when you give these lame situations you never give a balanced view of Ubuntu either..
Where is the OEM version of Ubuntu in your response? You're comments are simply more bias then my original comment in this thread.
(typing this on a Mac sitting next to a compiling FreeBSD box),
Oh right I get it now, you've seen the ubuntu article and in typical BSD and Mac user fashion come to troll. Get the fuck out.
Nonsense, you should already know yourself that the Debian/Ubuntu exploit was fixed months ago. My point is that even Microsoft has these problems, not that it's ok to have exploits because windows has them too.
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So what's the hack this time chaps? How do we get free wifi without an iphone?
Remember that the landers were designed to only last a short time. Hence they probably didn't think about putting in components that would have lasted the landers for 10 years.
Seriously ask the developers for it.
Liquidators find selling code worthless and if you don't try now then the copyright will forever be gone down the blackhole and you'll never be able to find the right owners or even get a copy of the code.
That's probably what they're trying to figure out with this.
Why should we fund this? I mean look at the depression we're all in, they're obviously trying to make budget cuts and aren't sure if they should drop quantum computing.
Yes, I'd rather not waste my time and effort on boot licking these management assholes to get things changed only to end up where I started, which is no where.
I don't think taking stuff off our planet is such a good idea, I need that oxygen to breath.
meh, then you'll claim god put the fossil there to fool us, I'm not playing your games.
Thanks, I'll try that next time I'm on windows, obviously I'm doing it wrong.
One of the things I always hate about using the cmd in windows is that tab doesn't auto complete to more then one directory deep.
So you can type f + tab and it will auto complete to "foo/" but if you type "foo/b" and press tab it won't auto complete to "foo/bar". Annoys the hell out of me.
Another thing that pisses me off is that the cmd box never exceeds 80 characters. In bash I can maximise the whole window full screen and it will take up all the room with text, not possible in cmd.
Does power shell fix those things at all?
So Microsoft aren't religious OS fanatics because they're doing it for a long term profit? Open your eyes.
Looking at some Microsoft dlls you can see they're signed by Thawt which is the company Mark Shuttleworth sold for millions, so in a round-a-bout kind of way Microsoft funded the ability for Mark to start Ubuntu which is now competing with Microsoft in Africa. Woops.
Can someone tell me the difference between "Linux Pro" and "Games Linux"?
GuloGulo is right, you could have just installed noscript and checked the site, but you needed to be a dick.
Nonsense you can get a grant to go to university for free, you can also get a student loan from the government for up to £4000 a year for living expenses. The can afford excuse? There is none, however I do agree that not everyone needs a degree, however that's just a side effect of everyone having one, why take on the dross of society when another section actually put effort into their education.
Then you go to college and re-take them. Either you make the effort or you don't get a job because employers see your shitty effort.
That's how the world works, no one owes you a god damn thing, you have to show you're willing to make an effort, not bothering to show up, not bothering to re-take shows only one thing. That's not being a snob, that's being smart and not being taken for a ride.
It's not snobbish to expect someone to have GCSEs especially when some people I know couldn't even be bothered to turn up to the exam. Why the hell would you want to hire someone like that?
If they couldn't be bothered to show up for the exam, or if they did then failed, they're either too lazy or too dumb to do any IT job.
Microsoft isn't in anyway related to mono, stop trolling.
.. I just can't figure out how you could program vote software wrong, it's simple integer counts.
It's one of the easiest things to program.
Some of theses tests such as the SQLite test I am wondering if they used SQLite within ubuntu or they build and run it on the system they were testing.
This matters because Ubuntu comes with different versions of SQLite.
However if there is a problem then I hope they report it on launchpad. I have noticed any slowness myself.
No, that's because in places such as India and Thailand (which is a better example) they completely trash the patents on US medicines in favour of their citizens having good healthcare.
I bet you wouldn't be saying this if you didn't live in the US.
Your problem is that you're just not reading anything I write....
If you buy a new hard drive and install windows on it, it is not partitioned to NTFS. I'll quote what I said since you didn't read it, hopefully you will this time..
You see those words? "empty disk", this was so that everyone knew what I was talking about.
and what the fuck has an OEM disk got to do with any of this, it's a cheap answer. An OEM disk (if you're lucky enough to have kept it or not have a custom PC) does not come in the retail box of Microsoft Windows.
Guess what also comes with an OEM disk, that's right! Ubuntu.
Because it's one less piece of junk you need to install before you can start doing your work.
Ease of installation?! What a joke and did you even check out some of the other comments? I was being very restrictive in my list of steps, yet you lack any kind of thought in your response as though when people reinstall windows they don't need to take any of these steps.
You start making up hypothetical situations of people having OEM computers with special install disks. I notice that when you give these lame situations you never give a balanced view of Ubuntu either..
Where is the OEM version of Ubuntu in your response? You're comments are simply more bias then my original comment in this thread.
Oh right I get it now, you've seen the ubuntu article and in typical BSD and Mac user fashion come to troll. Get the fuck out.
Maybe because the racist ccp charges Europeans more money (excluding tax) then the US?
Then they pretend it would be impossible for them to charge a similar price, excluding the fact that many MMOs do account for the currency difference.
Sounds like what this is. It's yet another way to stop you getting a refund on that crappy game which promised the moon and delivered crap.
That's not what I am talking about from the beginning and it's not the point I am trying to get across here.
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It's not and you idiots can keep replying here as much as you want but it doesn't change the fact that windows is not a click install.
It doesn't matter what dell fucking ships to you, it's still NOT a click install.
It doesn't matter if Microsoft office is on your windows xp disk, it's STILL NOT a click install.
It doesn't matter if it gives you a blow job while it copies the files to disk, it's still not a click install.
You mean like System->Admin->Network Settings-> Ticking Active Network Services and hitting the netstat button?
oh, you mean like going to Application->Add/Remove and searching for "boot" to get the graphical boot up manager..
Seriously? No usable way to install software?! apt-get can get you anything you want!
Oh man you are really trolling here.
Nonsense, you should already know yourself that the Debian/Ubuntu exploit was fixed months ago. My point is that even Microsoft has these problems, not that it's ok to have exploits because windows has them too.