Windows never really failed to install for me. I've had other problems, like trying to hunt down drivers, having to disable drivers in order to get Windows to boot, Safe Mode failing, and Windows ME blue screened on its first boot.
The main problem I have with installing Windows is that it takes so long. Why does it have to take 1 hour to install an OS? You pretty much just copy a bunch of files onto the HDD, right? Even on a slow CD drive that shouldn't take more than 10 mins max. And why does it ask me questions at several different parts of the install? It should ask them all at once. If it only took a few minutes, this would be forgivable, but if it's going to take an hour, I would at least like to set my options when the CD boots, and then let the install go on for the next hour while I do other things. I shouldn't have to babysit my computer. And why do I have to boot twice to install, once from CD, and once from HDD? And I have to answer questions on each boot.
Microsoft could learn a lot from Linux about OS installs.
1) Mumbo Jumbo 2) Put drive platter into otherwise identical drive 3) proprietary secret stuff (sound like they used Windows to get the data off and then burn to DVDs.
I RTFA. Nowhere does it even mention the word "privilege", let alone mention any claims that internet access is a privilege. Whose side are you on, ScuttleMonkey?
Government inefficiency is a good thing. Bureaucracies (attempt to) keep the government slow and sane. The extreme alternative is a dictatorship, which is much more efficient.
They are removing some things. According to Splab, above, removing these things is a huge step forward. More importantly, removing things should always be a major release. They are breaking backwards compatibility with everything that uses the things that they are removing.
I'm totally against (hands full) cellphone calls while driving.
Everybody is against that. The only debate is whether or not it should be illegal, and you raise a valid point for making it illegal.
When on the road there is only one thing that is important and that is safety.
The safest thing is not driving at all. Clearly there are other important things, such as getting from point A to point B in a timely manner. I'm all for improving public transportation, which would help with a lot of problems, including road safety.
Wine is often used for games. It is also used to run in-house Windows software that would be expensive to port, and Windows-only programs that don't have a Linux equivalent, such as Photoshop.
That being said, I had pretty much the same experience as you, at first at least. When I switched to Linux, I didn't really need any Windows apps, and didn't even bother installing wine. Since then, I've used wine a few times, mostly for games, and while I hardly use it, I keep it around in case I need it.
This has got to be the lamest article in a long time. It keeps alluding to pictures, but doesn't show them. Sometimes it doesn't even describe the pictures. The only picture the article has is of a guy laying back, possibly sleeping, in his cubicle.
Your post isn't going to be popular around here, but I'm totally with you. People don't seem to realize that copyright is unnatural. It might have worked before the digital age, when most people weren't going to hand-copy their books and sell them anyway, and mass publishers weren't expecting to be able to publish in mass and make a profit off of somebody else's work.
But now that things are so easy to copy, it's hard not to. It's unnatural and counter-intuitive. People make small sacrifices for their friends and family, such as giving them birthday presents. Why wouldn't they do something nice for them when it means no sacrifice? Why would I go all the way to the store and pay for something when I can just download it off of the internet? To sponsor some faceless corporation?
Copyright law was established a long time ago, in a different world. It just doesn't work any more, at least not in its current form.
You're probably wondering about the check, aren't you? It was more than $10 but less than $100. Enough to fill up my tank a few times back when gas was less than $3/gallon.
There's a hole in your bucket, Dear Liza. http://www.bbspot.com/comics/Lab-Bratz/2007/08/2827.php However, that is only the case if you assume that DRM is a method to fight piracy, which is like saying a super soaker is a method to protect your property from burglars.
Between piracy and DRM, one of them has a small chance of becoming irrelevant to industry.
I think the GPP meant, "Why do the game development companies bother infecting their products with DRM?" But yes, The Pirate Bay and other such sites are an excellent solution to DRM.
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In first world countries, government is always the biggest impediment to freedom. Anything that makes a powerful government more powerful is an impediment to freedom.
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Except that those times I successfully installed Windows. It was just a lot of work beyond the "ideal" 1 hour install.
Windows never really failed to install for me. I've had other problems, like trying to hunt down drivers, having to disable drivers in order to get Windows to boot, Safe Mode failing, and Windows ME blue screened on its first boot.
The main problem I have with installing Windows is that it takes so long. Why does it have to take 1 hour to install an OS? You pretty much just copy a bunch of files onto the HDD, right? Even on a slow CD drive that shouldn't take more than 10 mins max. And why does it ask me questions at several different parts of the install? It should ask them all at once. If it only took a few minutes, this would be forgivable, but if it's going to take an hour, I would at least like to set my options when the CD boots, and then let the install go on for the next hour while I do other things. I shouldn't have to babysit my computer. And why do I have to boot twice to install, once from CD, and once from HDD? And I have to answer questions on each boot.
Microsoft could learn a lot from Linux about OS installs.
It doesn't matter so much what he downloaded. It would be interesting if the protocol was specified. http? bittorrent?
Recovering hard drives is a 3 step process:
1) Mumbo Jumbo
2) Put drive platter into otherwise identical drive
3) proprietary secret stuff (sound like they used Windows to get the data off and then burn to DVDs.
Now you don't have to read the article.
How would you feel if you knew you were pushed out of your mom's vagina?
I RTFA. Nowhere does it even mention the word "privilege", let alone mention any claims that internet access is a privilege. Whose side are you on, ScuttleMonkey?
Isn't everything the opposite in Soviet Russia?
Government inefficiency is a good thing. Bureaucracies (attempt to) keep the government slow and sane. The extreme alternative is a dictatorship, which is much more efficient.
They are removing some things. According to Splab, above, removing these things is a huge step forward. More importantly, removing things should always be a major release. They are breaking backwards compatibility with everything that uses the things that they are removing.
Everybody is against that. The only debate is whether or not it should be illegal, and you raise a valid point for making it illegal.
When on the road there is only one thing that is important and that is safety.The safest thing is not driving at all. Clearly there are other important things, such as getting from point A to point B in a timely manner. I'm all for improving public transportation, which would help with a lot of problems, including road safety.
Wine is often used for games. It is also used to run in-house Windows software that would be expensive to port, and Windows-only programs that don't have a Linux equivalent, such as Photoshop.
That being said, I had pretty much the same experience as you, at first at least. When I switched to Linux, I didn't really need any Windows apps, and didn't even bother installing wine. Since then, I've used wine a few times, mostly for games, and while I hardly use it, I keep it around in case I need it.
Thanks. I guess there can be pictures. The article is still worthless though.
This has got to be the lamest article in a long time. It keeps alluding to pictures, but doesn't show them. Sometimes it doesn't even describe the pictures. The only picture the article has is of a guy laying back, possibly sleeping, in his cubicle.
> EA had planned to use the validation method for upcoming titles Mass Effect and Spore (pictured).
Those games look a lot like a joystick.
wk2@COMPUTER:~$ ping microsoft.com
PING microsoft.com (207.46.232.182) 56(84) bytes of data.
Darl McBride + Jack Thompson + Jack Valenti + kdawson + George W Bush = 2/3 person
Your post isn't going to be popular around here, but I'm totally with you. People don't seem to realize that copyright is unnatural. It might have worked before the digital age, when most people weren't going to hand-copy their books and sell them anyway, and mass publishers weren't expecting to be able to publish in mass and make a profit off of somebody else's work.
But now that things are so easy to copy, it's hard not to. It's unnatural and counter-intuitive. People make small sacrifices for their friends and family, such as giving them birthday presents. Why wouldn't they do something nice for them when it means no sacrifice? Why would I go all the way to the store and pay for something when I can just download it off of the internet? To sponsor some faceless corporation?
Copyright law was established a long time ago, in a different world. It just doesn't work any more, at least not in its current form.
So why can't I buy human cheese? And don't say it's for the same reason I can't buy platypus cheese.
drug-dealers and prostitutes != biker-vandals and muggers
Hey man, public urination is a basic human right.
Comcast? Is that you?
There's a hole in your bucket, Dear Liza. http://www.bbspot.com/comics/Lab-Bratz/2007/08/2827.php However, that is only the case if you assume that DRM is a method to fight piracy, which is like saying a super soaker is a method to protect your property from burglars.
Between piracy and DRM, one of them has a small chance of becoming irrelevant to industry.
Haha. The wooosh was over your head. It's a (slightly modified) Malcolm in the Middle quote.
I think the GPP meant, "Why do the game development companies bother infecting their products with DRM?" But yes, The Pirate Bay and other such sites are an excellent solution to DRM.
In first world countries, government is always the biggest impediment to freedom. Anything that makes a powerful government more powerful is an impediment to freedom.