I personally find Vista fantastic and they've made a lot of changes I appreciate, sans UAC, but it's Microsoft and proprietary software.
I think it's good for the people willing to deal with that, it's a refreshing step after they ironed out the wrinkles, and I hope Microsoft will continue to improve on usability though they could focus more on consistency.
Regardless of how Vista trumped my predictions it would be total garbage, when new users are willing to resort to strange, I aim them towards Ubuntu.
Gutsy had poor bluetooth support. Hardy had decent bluetooth support. Intrepid broke bluetooth support, I skipped over it for Jaunty which works perfectly.
Sometimes it takes a while to get things right, but I can absolutely assure you they've got it crystal clear now. I can pair my bluetooth mouse on a new installation in seconds and I use the earpiece thing I use for my phone to listen to music whenever I remember to charge it.
Get a Wind U100 and install Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it, it runs so incredibly perfectly it's startling to think any other netbook has any problems with it.
That's the one I have, I even managed to put a mini bluetooth adapter thing inside it; there's a part of the spraypaint shield that's left clear and mine even provided a wiring harness taped inside for after-market installation I cut up and used. I glued the adapter on the unpainted surface, put a layer of foil on it and taped over it and it works perfectly.
I used to 'infringe copyrights' because I didn't have the money to entertain myself otherwise. I could afford to pay 40 bucks for an internet connection, sometimes, but not 15 for this and this album and 35 for this and this game.
What I didn't download I usually picked up second-hand or borrowed from someone.
It wasn't merely convenience or a lack of consequence, those hardly played a part at all. The real motivation was jealousy, others had much more than I did, better lives than I could establish. I wanted fun things too, and it's effortless to copy bits than it is physical objects.
Life's been much different to me for the past few years, I've really picked up and put myself together and I finally do have the money to spend on more frivolous things. I used to never think I would buy a DVD but now I'm getting them all the time. I couldn't possibly afford to replace all my music with legal purchases at the time, but I can begin to start.
I don't regret any of the stuff I've downloaded, I even appreciate having the chance to see what games I looked forward to were garbage and not buy as soon as they came out.
Everyone missing a few days of work won't necessarily destroy society, and I know enough stubborn mules who won't miss work even should their limbs be hacked off.
Someone had to take the extreme approach, it's how the first seeds got planted. I highly respect RMS and I think he's done some amazing things, but his extremism is better for preparing a happy-middle for everyone to learn from.
Some people don't care about numbers, words, a summary of what amazing features are there, pictures, youtube videos... There's really a point where you just have to sit down with something yourself.
It's irrelevant what features they talk about, you just got to get enough people saying "Hell yeah I like this!" to get other people trying it out. Then maybe they too will say "Hell yeah I like this!"
The message isn't Ubuntu has this, this and this. The message is Ubuntu is this, this, and this. Someone out there thinks this thing is great and wants someone else to try it. There's only so many features you can talk about before it's up to someone to just look for themself.
My friend gave me his cracked PSP about a year ago. The only game I play on it is Disgaea. I have free grabs at roms I can download within hours and stll the only game I play is Disgaea.
I'm just happy you can install other full-fledged themes without having to resort to third party hacks that modify a binary file with a less than exquisite patch.
Eh, you're right. I at least am happy for the fact that there are groups of people, like the EFF and FSF, that will fight for individual rights and protect the freedoms the masses have yet to understand.
I only started to give a damn about things like this a few years ago, when I really got to be in a position where I didn't have to look out for myself constantly.
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I personally find Vista fantastic and they've made a lot of changes I appreciate, sans UAC, but it's Microsoft and proprietary software.
I think it's good for the people willing to deal with that, it's a refreshing step after they ironed out the wrinkles, and I hope Microsoft will continue to improve on usability though they could focus more on consistency.
Regardless of how Vista trumped my predictions it would be total garbage, when new users are willing to resort to strange, I aim them towards Ubuntu.
When people use the term "Market Share" for anything I judo-chop them over the back of the head.
Gutsy had poor bluetooth support. Hardy had decent bluetooth support. Intrepid broke bluetooth support, I skipped over it for Jaunty which works perfectly.
Sometimes it takes a while to get things right, but I can absolutely assure you they've got it crystal clear now. I can pair my bluetooth mouse on a new installation in seconds and I use the earpiece thing I use for my phone to listen to music whenever I remember to charge it.
Get a Wind U100 and install Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it, it runs so incredibly perfectly it's startling to think any other netbook has any problems with it.
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That's the one I have, I even managed to put a mini bluetooth adapter thing inside it; there's a part of the spraypaint shield that's left clear and mine even provided a wiring harness taped inside for after-market installation I cut up and used. I glued the adapter on the unpainted surface, put a layer of foil on it and taped over it and it works perfectly.
Oh shit! Time for Adobe to properly support Flash on Linux!
I used to 'infringe copyrights' because I didn't have the money to entertain myself otherwise. I could afford to pay 40 bucks for an internet connection, sometimes, but not 15 for this and this album and 35 for this and this game.
What I didn't download I usually picked up second-hand or borrowed from someone.
It wasn't merely convenience or a lack of consequence, those hardly played a part at all. The real motivation was jealousy, others had much more than I did, better lives than I could establish. I wanted fun things too, and it's effortless to copy bits than it is physical objects.
Life's been much different to me for the past few years, I've really picked up and put myself together and I finally do have the money to spend on more frivolous things. I used to never think I would buy a DVD but now I'm getting them all the time. I couldn't possibly afford to replace all my music with legal purchases at the time, but I can begin to start.
I don't regret any of the stuff I've downloaded, I even appreciate having the chance to see what games I looked forward to were garbage and not buy as soon as they came out.
My father just died on the 5th and I'm still torn over it, but the idea of... whatever the Hell this is supposed to be is just downright hilarious.
I miss him and he'll forever be in my thoughts, I won't need reminders of when he died or an artificial ghost of him to haunt the internet with.
So far the effects of GPLv3 seem far from cataclysmic.
Everyone missing a few days of work won't necessarily destroy society, and I know enough stubborn mules who won't miss work even should their limbs be hacked off.
What will you do with gold if society collapses? It's a pretty metal; do you think anyone cares in that situation?
Absolutely correct, it's obvious we'll resort to bottle caps as our new post collapse monetary deity.
Someone had to take the extreme approach, it's how the first seeds got planted. I highly respect RMS and I think he's done some amazing things, but his extremism is better for preparing a happy-middle for everyone to learn from.
Some people don't care about numbers, words, a summary of what amazing features are there, pictures, youtube videos... There's really a point where you just have to sit down with something yourself.
You know, like OS X.
These comparisons don't help Linux.
It's irrelevant what features they talk about, you just got to get enough people saying "Hell yeah I like this!" to get other people trying it out. Then maybe they too will say "Hell yeah I like this!"
The message isn't Ubuntu has this, this and this. The message is Ubuntu is this, this, and this. Someone out there thinks this thing is great and wants someone else to try it. There's only so many features you can talk about before it's up to someone to just look for themself.
My friend gave me his cracked PSP about a year ago. The only game I play on it is Disgaea. I have free grabs at roms I can download within hours and stll the only game I play is Disgaea.
No problem booting persistently off an SD card on my Wind, and it sees the Broadcom chipset without a problem.
Splitting hairs over what to call a reference point in a virtual arrangement of bytes, are we?
You put paper files in a folder, you put data entries in a directory. Physically of symbolically, the analogy is perfect.
I'm just happy you can install other full-fledged themes without having to resort to third party hacks that modify a binary file with a less than exquisite patch.
I'm sure there's D&D players working for Microsoft, too.
And the real GNU/Linux enthusiasts I know that P&P play World of Darkness.
I'm a natural disaster, you insensitive clod!
"... manufacturing cost is almost half as much as its retail price."
Wow, they're actually selling it pretty cheap then.
The "spin" is completely unintended. Those both were merely examples in a long list of groups with the interest of protecting freedom.
Eh, you're right. I at least am happy for the fact that there are groups of people, like the EFF and FSF, that will fight for individual rights and protect the freedoms the masses have yet to understand.
I only started to give a damn about things like this a few years ago, when I really got to be in a position where I didn't have to look out for myself constantly.
I guess you have to be illusioned before you can be disillusioned.
It's a shame we have a right to bear arms but no dedication to using them when it isn't death we have to fend off.
I think there's a co-dependency loop problem.
GPL Depends on Copyright Law to Unfix Copyright Law
Unfixed Copyright Law depends on Copyright Law
That's probably the source of confusion for the law compilers, we'll need to see about debugging this or putting in a hack for now.
Until we can really resolve this, let's just comment out the Legal Bullshit routine entirely.