You will never be able to review the source code of your windows OS.
That's funny. In school we got to examine a huge chunk of the NT kernel source code. One has been able to do so in an academic environment for years now.
Oops I misread you saying 2Gig. Either way what I linked is still has a better video card and processor and has a larger hard drive and for only 28 more Euro you can bump it up to 3 gigs of RAM. And it's still almost 159 Euro less.
Last night I was browsing the web on my Windows XP partition, which I usually use solely for gaming. It's completely up to date, and I'm running the RC of Firefox 3.6. I was viewing a web page and the browser crashed, and things started popping up, and my desktop wallpaper changed. It seems that Internet Security 2010 was silently installed on my PC through a buffer overflow in some Firefox module (I suspect an adobe plugin, but that's neither here nor there).
So basically you're blaming Windows for a buffer overflow in a program written by an entirely different company?
You want to know why *nix operating systems have inherently better architecture? You don't have to be an admin to use your computer, and userspace programs don't have the power to do to my PC what IS2010 did to me last night. Windows was always designed to be a single user system, and although that's improving, it's still obviously just stapled on top of the OS, because they don't want to break backward compatibility.
It's been trivial to set up a reduced-priviledged account in Windows since Win2k. It's your own damn fault for using an admin account as your primary account.
Another pet peeve of mine is Windows' driver support. It's atrocious. Answer me why I can't install Windows and have all my hardware just work? Linux is capable of doing this. But with Windows, I can't even expect my networking to work out of the box. I have to hunt for a driver CD and install the drivers from there. Granted, I'm talking about Windows XP, which is presumably the decade old OS you are talking about.
So basically according to your last sentence your entire argument is flawed and disengenuous. You're comparing most likely a modern-day Linux distro to probably a vanilla XP install, which is 9 years old at this point. Yeah, that can't possibly be why you see poorer hardware support in the stock XP install. No, it couldn't be.
But I've heard plenty of horror stories about Vista/7 from coworkers. (Primarily that even once the drivers are installed, the network is unreliable at best).
Then the people you are working with are fucking idiots.
What he's complaining about is what ALL hardware companies do. No piece of hardware has indefinite support unless you're paying them a bunch of money to do so.
but that doesn't rule out linux from running on all the other devices that make up the remaining 90%.
No, that statement in and of itself wouldn't rule it out. But what does rule that out is the actual facts themselves which are that VxWorks is the most widely deployed embedded OS.
It doesn't dominate the embedded world, as Linux doesn't run on the Z80 which is the most widely used embedded controller, nor the desktop. So is there another category missing from your list?
I'm sorry but I have to conclude that they do in fact abandon support.
Which is a entirely different claim. You said they abandon a product right after the next generation which is completely unadulterated bullshit. Of course they will eventually abandon support for old products because they get no revenue from doing so and most of the older cards they drop support for have a tiny market share.
Buying now gt200 card is pointless as it is a well known fact that nVidia literally abandons support of previous GPU generation when they release new one.
Such bullshit. For example the latest Geforce 4 drivers date to Nov 2006 which was when the GeForce 8 series came out 4 years after the initial Geforce 4 card. Even the Geforce 6 has Win7 drivers that came out barely 2 months ago and thats 5 series back from the current 200 series.
This is what happens when you make your search engine the default one for your web browser as well as make it difficult for someone to add or change this option.
How is it hard to change the default web browser for IE? It takes less than 5 seconds to do.
Food has been genetically mutated since humans began farming. Or did you somehow think that previous generations of humans turned those wild plants into the common food plants we know today through magic?
Yeah it's amusing to hear right-wing loons like the GP say such things while they ignore that even renowned conservatives like Ronald Reagan weren't above executive branch power grabs such as these. While this doesn't excuse Obama in this, as his administration is despicable for even proposing such a thing, the legacy of the Patriot Act and Bush's legions of Executive Orders paved the way for such a thing to happen.
Liberals are maniacally pro-government and want a hugely powerful entity capable of forcing everyone to live the way they want them to live because they believe they are enlightened intellectuals.
Yeah, cause it was that hugely liberal president and Congress that overwhelmingly passed the Patriot Act that has been the progenitor of all of these stupid policies to follow. Oh wait, you mean it was a Republican president and Republic-controlled House and Senate that passed such policies?
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You will never be able to review the source code of your windows OS.
That's funny. In school we got to examine a huge chunk of the NT kernel source code. One has been able to do so in an academic environment for years now.
You will notice that that error was found and corrected fairly quickly
Actually it wasn't found until 2 years after the code was originally committed.
Oops I misread you saying 2Gig. Either way what I linked is still has a better video card and processor and has a larger hard drive and for only 28 more Euro you can bump it up to 3 gigs of RAM. And it's still almost 159 Euro less.
I haven't seen any computer with 3G ram for 175 Euro, much less with Windows.
Then you've apparently not looked very hard.
Could you give me a pointer to the products you have in mind?
Sure. It's more powerful than this "Open-PC" and costs equivalent to 175 Euro.
Is this ignoring the fact that lemmings don't run off cliffs?
And what needs are those?
Last night I was browsing the web on my Windows XP partition, which I usually use solely for gaming. It's completely up to date, and I'm running the RC of Firefox 3.6. I was viewing a web page and the browser crashed, and things started popping up, and my desktop wallpaper changed. It seems that Internet Security 2010 was silently installed on my PC through a buffer overflow in some Firefox module (I suspect an adobe plugin, but that's neither here nor there).
So basically you're blaming Windows for a buffer overflow in a program written by an entirely different company?
You want to know why *nix operating systems have inherently better architecture? You don't have to be an admin to use your computer, and userspace programs don't have the power to do to my PC what IS2010 did to me last night. Windows was always designed to be a single user system, and although that's improving, it's still obviously just stapled on top of the OS, because they don't want to break backward compatibility.
It's been trivial to set up a reduced-priviledged account in Windows since Win2k. It's your own damn fault for using an admin account as your primary account.
Another pet peeve of mine is Windows' driver support. It's atrocious. Answer me why I can't install Windows and have all my hardware just work? Linux is capable of doing this. But with Windows, I can't even expect my networking to work out of the box. I have to hunt for a driver CD and install the drivers from there. Granted, I'm talking about Windows XP, which is presumably the decade old OS you are talking about.
So basically according to your last sentence your entire argument is flawed and disengenuous. You're comparing most likely a modern-day Linux distro to probably a vanilla XP install, which is 9 years old at this point. Yeah, that can't possibly be why you see poorer hardware support in the stock XP install. No, it couldn't be.
But I've heard plenty of horror stories about Vista/7 from coworkers. (Primarily that even once the drivers are installed, the network is unreliable at best).
Then the people you are working with are fucking idiots.
What he's complaining about is what ALL hardware companies do. No piece of hardware has indefinite support unless you're paying them a bunch of money to do so.
but that doesn't rule out linux from running on all the other devices that make up the remaining 90%.
No, that statement in and of itself wouldn't rule it out. But what does rule that out is the actual facts themselves which are that VxWorks is the most widely deployed embedded OS.
It doesn't dominate the embedded world, as Linux doesn't run on the Z80 which is the most widely used embedded controller, nor the desktop. So is there another category missing from your list?
Needless duplication of effort is fucking dumb.
Especially when one of the cards he's whining about that gets no support anymore is a fucking 11 year old TNT2.
I'm sorry but I have to conclude that they do in fact abandon support.
Which is a entirely different claim. You said they abandon a product right after the next generation which is completely unadulterated bullshit. Of course they will eventually abandon support for old products because they get no revenue from doing so and most of the older cards they drop support for have a tiny market share.
Buying now gt200 card is pointless as it is a well known fact that nVidia literally abandons support of previous GPU generation when they release new one.
Such bullshit. For example the latest Geforce 4 drivers date to Nov 2006 which was when the GeForce 8 series came out 4 years after the initial Geforce 4 card. Even the Geforce 6 has Win7 drivers that came out barely 2 months ago and thats 5 series back from the current 200 series.
Okay. What do I win?
You can still use google. You just have to navigate to their webpage instead of using the built in search.
Give IBM 700 billion dollars and I guarantee that the unemployment would be well below 10% (or 17% real unemployement).
In India, maybe.
Yes, but when Microsoft does it it's teh ebil!! Oh emm gee! EMBRACE, EXTEND, EXTINGUISH!!
You mean like with Google and Firefox?
This is what happens when you make your search engine the default one for your web browser as well as make it difficult for someone to add or change this option.
How is it hard to change the default web browser for IE? It takes less than 5 seconds to do.
Food is genetically mutated.
Food has been genetically mutated since humans began farming. Or did you somehow think that previous generations of humans turned those wild plants into the common food plants we know today through magic?
Yeah it's amusing to hear right-wing loons like the GP say such things while they ignore that even renowned conservatives like Ronald Reagan weren't above executive branch power grabs such as these. While this doesn't excuse Obama in this, as his administration is despicable for even proposing such a thing, the legacy of the Patriot Act and Bush's legions of Executive Orders paved the way for such a thing to happen.
Then you are simply confused on how treason is defined in the US Constitution.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort./b>
How is this levying war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to enemies?
Probably due to your x86 processor doing all sorts of monkeying with the code.
Liberals are maniacally pro-government and want a hugely powerful entity capable of forcing everyone to live the way they want them to live because they believe they are enlightened intellectuals.
Yeah, cause it was that hugely liberal president and Congress that overwhelmingly passed the Patriot Act that has been the progenitor of all of these stupid policies to follow. Oh wait, you mean it was a Republican president and Republic-controlled House and Senate that passed such policies?