I'm not saying that there aren't people who would actually have the guts and the ability to start a rebellion. The point is that the people who constantly post that Jefferson quote on Slashdot and the subsequent postings by armchair soldiers about starting a rebellion are a bunch of pansies. There's probably a good reason that they almost always do so as AC.
We just need to see Windows support for ARM, and then we'll be well on our way towards it being a widely available option.
And you also mean the porting of thousands and thousands of x86 apps as well? If the ARM version of Windows can't run the apps people want, they aren't going to by an ARM netbook.
The best thing America could do later this year in the election is to vote out EVERY incumbent
And what is that really going to achieve? They themselves will just end up becoming incumbents and will end up as dirty and corrupted as the current lot. Or do you think they are magically going to be immune to being corrupted unlike every other politician in the history of human politics?
Except none of these little wimps on Slashdot would ever have the balls to revolt. They posture on the internet all the time in their parent's basement and that's about all that ever comes of it.
I call your bullshit. Windows 7 has a completely new sound engine.
No it doesn't. Windows 7 has some additional features but to claim it's a "completely new sound engine" is completely unadulterated hyperbole. Windows 7 uses WASAPI and UAA just like in Vista.
A heap of old drivers are incompatible with it, because they step outside their boundaries and try to do stuff that clashes with the new engine, such as speaker management and overzealous jack sensing.
Such as which drivers? If there was such a huge driver incompatibility then why can I find only a handful of forum posts and those were mostly over a year old?
I mean, it's nice to provide a "friends" chat interface (if it follows standards, like XMPP, so it doesn't become your only choice), but it's also nice to default to being able to play a game without anyone else being able to interrupt, or even knowing.
And you've been able to do this from the start. You set your status to show that your offline. It takes all of like 2 mouse clicks to do.
People do not care about the approval process until it bites them in the rear; for example, when Apple refuses to approve Google voice for the iPhone. Suddenly, people who never cared about the issue were up in arms.
Really? Outside of a few sites like Slashdot you can hardly find many iPhone users who even care. I never heard a single thing from the few dozen people I know at work who have iPhones and when I would bring it up they'd just shrug and seemed completely disinterested. The funny thing is that the people complaining the most about all these app refusals are people who don't even own iPhones.
People do not care about the approval process until it bites them in the rear; for example, when Apple refuses to approve Google voice for the iPhone. Suddenly, people who never cared about the issue were up in arms.
Really? Outside of Slashdot and a few other techie sites, I never heard any other iPhone users even care online or people I know in real life.
I'm sure the iPad will find an audience and will sell by the truckload, but come on...are they really claiming that people won't pay for a netbook, but they will pay the same price for something with half the functionality and none of the openness, just because it's pretty?
You mean like how no one wants to buy an iPhone because it's less open than an Android phone... Oh wait... Oh and how everyone is returning their Windows dekstops and notebooks in order to get ones installed with Linux because it's more "open"? Oh wait again...
Did you see the Amanda Knox trial? This is the same legal system that convicted 2 obviously innocent people of murder with no evidence and sentenced them to prison for over 20 years even though they had already CONVICTED SOMEONE ELSE FOR THE SAME CRIME!
So according to this logic if 3 people participate in robbing a store then only one of them can be convicted. Because otherwise those other two people will be sentenced to prison even they may have already CONVICTED SOMEONE ELSE FOR THE SAME CRIME!!
You mean other than the dearth of peer-reviewed medical studies to back up the claims? You seem to have the burden of proof backwards. Until they can provide some double-blind studies that prove the efficacy of the treatment, there is no reason to accept any of it as fact.
So instead of just seeing what an actual robust and fast site uses we should instead follow Twitter which switches at whim to whatever is the technology de jour of the moment while still being unstable and slow?
You would be quite wrong in your claims. The term "homeopathy" was coined and first appeared in print in 1807 in the works by Samuel Hahnemann who founded homeopathy to begin with.
Your education is tuition free.
I would hope so since what you're saying is absolutely rubbish and wrong.
Yes MODERN,LEGAL, homeopathy is watered down horseshit.
Nope, it's been that way since 1796. Homeopathy was founded by Samuel Hahnemann as a way to mitigate the toxic effects of chemicals being given to patients by diluting them down in water. Also, you keep falsely equivocating herbalism with homeopathy. The two are not synonymous.
I wasn't trying to claim that PCBs are safe or that I'd want to drink of. But ask a random person what they know about PCBs and you'll get a blank stare versus how they can go on and on about the dangers of a nuclear plant.
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I'm not saying that there aren't people who would actually have the guts and the ability to start a rebellion. The point is that the people who constantly post that Jefferson quote on Slashdot and the subsequent postings by armchair soldiers about starting a rebellion are a bunch of pansies. There's probably a good reason that they almost always do so as AC.
We just need to see Windows support for ARM, and then we'll be well on our way towards it being a widely available option.
And you also mean the porting of thousands and thousands of x86 apps as well? If the ARM version of Windows can't run the apps people want, they aren't going to by an ARM netbook.
The best thing America could do later this year in the election is to vote out EVERY incumbent
And what is that really going to achieve? They themselves will just end up becoming incumbents and will end up as dirty and corrupted as the current lot. Or do you think they are magically going to be immune to being corrupted unlike every other politician in the history of human politics?
Except none of these little wimps on Slashdot would ever have the balls to revolt. They posture on the internet all the time in their parent's basement and that's about all that ever comes of it.
Says the big bad armchair soldier who would wet his pants at the first sight of an army batallion heading his way.
Get slaughtered by the US military for inciting rebellion?
I call your bullshit. Windows 7 has a completely new sound engine.
No it doesn't. Windows 7 has some additional features but to claim it's a "completely new sound engine" is completely unadulterated hyperbole. Windows 7 uses WASAPI and UAA just like in Vista.
A heap of old drivers are incompatible with it, because they step outside their boundaries and try to do stuff that clashes with the new engine, such as speaker management and overzealous jack sensing.
Such as which drivers? If there was such a huge driver incompatibility then why can I find only a handful of forum posts and those were mostly over a year old?
I mean, it's nice to provide a "friends" chat interface (if it follows standards, like XMPP, so it doesn't become your only choice), but it's also nice to default to being able to play a game without anyone else being able to interrupt, or even knowing.
And you've been able to do this from the start. You set your status to show that your offline. It takes all of like 2 mouse clicks to do.
I call bullshit. If the sound worked in Vista it would work in Win7 too. In fact Win7 is probably running the exact same driver as well.
They exist. They just aren't as cheap.
People do not care about the approval process until it bites them in the rear; for example, when Apple refuses to approve Google voice for the iPhone. Suddenly, people who never cared about the issue were up in arms.
Really? Outside of a few sites like Slashdot you can hardly find many iPhone users who even care. I never heard a single thing from the few dozen people I know at work who have iPhones and when I would bring it up they'd just shrug and seemed completely disinterested. The funny thing is that the people complaining the most about all these app refusals are people who don't even own iPhones.
People do not care about the approval process until it bites them in the rear; for example, when Apple refuses to approve Google voice for the iPhone. Suddenly, people who never cared about the issue were up in arms.
Really? Outside of Slashdot and a few other techie sites, I never heard any other iPhone users even care online or people I know in real life.
They'll probably also carry them at Best Buys and other places that also sell Apple hardware.
I'm sure the iPad will find an audience and will sell by the truckload, but come on...are they really claiming that people won't pay for a netbook, but they will pay the same price for something with half the functionality and none of the openness, just because it's pretty?
You mean like how no one wants to buy an iPhone because it's less open than an Android phone... Oh wait... Oh and how everyone is returning their Windows dekstops and notebooks in order to get ones installed with Linux because it's more "open"? Oh wait again...
Did you see the Amanda Knox trial? This is the same legal system that convicted 2 obviously innocent people of murder with no evidence and sentenced them to prison for over 20 years even though they had already CONVICTED SOMEONE ELSE FOR THE SAME CRIME!
So according to this logic if 3 people participate in robbing a store then only one of them can be convicted. Because otherwise those other two people will be sentenced to prison even they may have already CONVICTED SOMEONE ELSE FOR THE SAME CRIME!!
You mean other than the dearth of peer-reviewed medical studies to back up the claims? You seem to have the burden of proof backwards. Until they can provide some double-blind studies that prove the efficacy of the treatment, there is no reason to accept any of it as fact.
So instead of just seeing what an actual robust and fast site uses we should instead follow Twitter which switches at whim to whatever is the technology de jour of the moment while still being unstable and slow?
Yes, because twitter is the epitome of robustness and speed. Oh wait... Just in the 2 months of this year alone they've had something like 4 outages.
You would be quite wrong in your claims. The term "homeopathy" was coined and first appeared in print in 1807 in the works by Samuel Hahnemann who founded homeopathy to begin with.
Your education is tuition free.
I would hope so since what you're saying is absolutely rubbish and wrong.
Yes MODERN,LEGAL, homeopathy is watered down horseshit.
Nope, it's been that way since 1796. Homeopathy was founded by Samuel Hahnemann as a way to mitigate the toxic effects of chemicals being given to patients by diluting them down in water. Also, you keep falsely equivocating herbalism with homeopathy. The two are not synonymous.
Why is it that whenever twitter makes any random change to some part of its infrastructure that we need a front page story about it?
That would be only if you copy and pasted the code in. Using the library itself would have no such issue.
I wasn't trying to claim that PCBs are safe or that I'd want to drink of. But ask a random person what they know about PCBs and you'll get a blank stare versus how they can go on and on about the dangers of a nuclear plant.
Yeah but people are still worried about the big bad nuclear boogeyman after so many years of the cold war and all the nuclear missle scares.
Yes, but lying about the situation and being found out feeds the nonsense even more than just coming clean in the first place.