Historically, windows didn't fail to properly configure hardware because IT DIDN'T TRY.
Only now ("only in 2008 or so") does it have even a modicum of driver detection.
Windows didn't have video, wireless, or even wired networking out of the box. It worked after *you* installed drivers for it.
The vast majority of hardware detection issues on Linux have been because of hardware vendors.
Popular music would float to the top, sure, but popular and good are not equivalent concepts. Like free jazz much? Some of it is excellent, but none of it is popular. So you go to a forum or website that rates the music genre you like. Overall popularity is how things work in a free market as well, if anything free jazz would be easier to find on the Internet than it would in a free market.
They don't even have to be your friends. Good music would quickly get widespread attention from the masses. All you'd have to do is browse a forum occasionally. Good music would float to the top, bad music sinks into obscurity.
Then let the people who are too fucking stupid to learn these things get what's coming to them.
It's called natural selection, and it is AWESOME. If you're too fucking stupid to survive, you don't, and you (hopefully) don't make stupid babies.
It will never be the "Year of the Linux (or whatever) desktop." When (if) Linux does win out over Windows, it will be very gradual. It won't gain 50%, 20%, or even 10% market share in one year. Only way that's going to happen is if Microsoft gets some *very serious* antitrust action against it from the US government.
"- How to text and talk on the cell phone, even in stores and while standing in line. - How to drive like an asshole" Don't forget: - How to drive and talk or even drive and text at the same time.
Oh, and generalizations make you a moron, which means you clearly belong here in the USA. Please report to the nearest airport. (On the off chance that you're a durkadurkasthani, try not to bomb it)
Why yes, I did just contradict myself 3 or more times. I can't be bothered to count, though, and I probably wouldn't be able to because I'm american.
"Now if we can just get the game developers to write code which will run at acceptable FPS on mid- to low-end video hardware..."
You want to run games on your older hardware, run older games.
Today's game releases will run on today's lowish-midrange hardware, but only if you're willing to sacrifice some eyecandy.
Ubuntu works near-flawlessly out of the box on the vast majority of systems, and most of the software is trivial to install and takes less than 30 seconds each. A fresh Windows install requires 4 hours of updates, quite a while searching for drivers (depending on version of Windows and the hardware), several hours getting firefox, (open)office, gaim, codecs, media players that don't suck, photoshop/gimp, and the other million things that Ubuntu has out of the box that Windows doesn't, and then you spend a lot of your time over the next 3 days installing random shit. Then it breaks and you have to do it again, because its so horrendously designed that its unfixable when it breaks.
He was clearly posting in Java.
You're incrementing a pointer. it should segfault after it prints 'c', i believe.
In java, the + concatenates the string representation of i with the string "rfc"
Why pay for their product if you're just going to download a pirated version? They can and will still nail you just as hard with a lawsuit. You have 3 choices: 1. You buy Windows. You're a fucking retard. 2. You pirate Windows. You're still a moron, and you potentially go to jail. 3. You use a linux distro. Doing both 1 and 2 makes you a retard AND a moron.
If she stole 25 CDs from a record store, she'd have to return the stolen goods and she'd go to jail for *up to* six months (in california - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft#United_States)
I bet her income is less than $440,000 a year.
Ok, after reading through some of the other replies and thinking about it, I've decided to talk a little more about the actual issue - "the consumer cannot install their own OS."
They can sure as hell click "yes" on every dialog box they see on the web.
Why can't they do the same in an installer? Installers are NOT hard to use - for Ubuntu: you pop the disc in, you hit install, you give it the timezone and the time of day, it'll ask how much space you want it to use, you say the whole hard drive, then input some info on the first account, then tell it to go for it and it installs. This is not a hard thing to do.
However, it would have to download updates.
Now, in terms of having a store do it for you, an optimized install process would probably take about an hour of bench time including downloading updates from a local mirror. You say, "I'll take that one with Ubuntu," they grab a big box, take it to the back, you get lunch and come back in an hour, and there it is ready for you.
Windows, however, is another deal. The Windows installer is a total pain in the ass. I would give an Ubuntu disc to an average consumer and, assuming their computer has already been set to boot to CD, expect them to be able to install it themselves. A Windows disc is a different beast. A windows install comes with nothing beyond generic drivers. An Ubuntu install comes with open source drivers (which are decent) and you're about 2 clicks away from installing proprietary drivers.
Unbundling Windows would force competition on Microsoft. Competition that's already creeping up on them, fast - even with their vendor lock-ins.
Unbundling Windows would eventually bring the price of windows down to around $25 and force them to make a better installer.
Unbundling Windows would be a good thing from every point of view, except Microsoft's.
From the consumer's point of view - quality would go up, Microsoft prices would go down, installing their own OS would become a viable option as installers got easier. They would also have a choice between Windows and alternatives.
From my point of view - Linux market share would go up, Microsoft's would go down, drivers would be released for linux, software would be released for linux, more people would work on developing linux.
From a computer store's point of view - more services would get sold.
From Microsoft's point of view - "OMGWTFTHATSNOTFAIRIMSUINGEVERYONETHATUSES LINUXFORAMILLIONDOLLARSANDILLDIELIKESCO"
So instead of spending $400 on your emachine, you'll either spend $350 on your emachine (that's about what windows costs for the oem bulk license), $100 on your oem copy of windows that you purchased with a computer, and $80 on a tech to install it. Or, you can spend $350 on your emachine, $0 on linux, and $0 on a linux geek eager to get market share for linux. Or you can just install ubuntu yourself. Its not like its any harder than installing a program on Windows. As linux would pick up market share, sure people would charge to install it, but also open source developers would make EVEN EASIER installers for it. Installing Ubuntu requires no technical knowledge until you hit a driver snag where breaking Microsoft's hardware-vendor lock-in is the only permanent fix.
Unbundle it, and let the competition roll with easier to install, easier to use, faster, better, better looking, free-as-in-speech as well as free-as-in-beer software. Unbundle it, and Windows is good as dead. I think most people who've bought a computer with Vista on it will agree - that's a good thing.
You can also target almost all radio stations.
They go out in their vans and set up those tent canopy things and speakers somewhere randomly in town. I've seen almost every radio station where I live do this.
Grammar Nazi alert.
It's "affected" in that context. Your next sentence is so wrong that I'm not going to bother fixing it.
*Yes, you can use "effect" as a verb, but it means something else.
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Historically, windows didn't fail to properly configure hardware because IT DIDN'T TRY. Only now ("only in 2008 or so") does it have even a modicum of driver detection. Windows didn't have video, wireless, or even wired networking out of the box. It worked after *you* installed drivers for it.
The vast majority of hardware detection issues on Linux have been because of hardware vendors.
How do you know you can trust your compiler binary?!?!?!?
Popular music would float to the top, sure, but popular and good are not equivalent concepts. Like free jazz much? Some of it is excellent, but none of it is popular.
So you go to a forum or website that rates the music genre you like. Overall popularity is how things work in a free market as well, if anything free jazz would be easier to find on the Internet than it would in a free market.
They don't even have to be your friends.
Good music would quickly get widespread attention from the masses. All you'd have to do is browse a forum occasionally. Good music would float to the top, bad music sinks into obscurity.
It doesn't fly to altitude and then launch, it launches from the ground. The only time it really flies like an aircraft is on landing.
Then let the people who are too fucking stupid to learn these things get what's coming to them. It's called natural selection, and it is AWESOME. If you're too fucking stupid to survive, you don't, and you (hopefully) don't make stupid babies.
It can already log your keys and read your screen. It wouldn't get much more even if it could.
It will never be the "Year of the Linux (or whatever) desktop."
When (if) Linux does win out over Windows, it will be very gradual. It won't gain 50%, 20%, or even 10% market share in one year. Only way that's going to happen is if Microsoft gets some *very serious* antitrust action against it from the US government.
I'll take cheap and good, kthx.
"- How to text and talk on the cell phone, even in stores and while standing in line.
- How to drive like an asshole"
Don't forget:
- How to drive and talk or even drive and text at the same time.
Oh, and generalizations make you a moron, which means you clearly belong here in the USA. Please report to the nearest airport. (On the off chance that you're a durkadurkasthani, try not to bomb it)
Why yes, I did just contradict myself 3 or more times. I can't be bothered to count, though, and I probably wouldn't be able to because I'm american.
"Now if we can just get the game developers to write code which will run at acceptable FPS on mid- to low-end video hardware..." You want to run games on your older hardware, run older games. Today's game releases will run on today's lowish-midrange hardware, but only if you're willing to sacrifice some eyecandy.
No one cares about user vs kernel. Just write the fucking drivers and stop whining that there's nothing to write.
There's no reason to put "and" at the beginning of a sentence, either.
Ubuntu works near-flawlessly out of the box on the vast majority of systems, and most of the software is trivial to install and takes less than 30 seconds each.
A fresh Windows install requires 4 hours of updates, quite a while searching for drivers (depending on version of Windows and the hardware), several hours getting firefox, (open)office, gaim, codecs, media players that don't suck, photoshop/gimp, and the other million things that Ubuntu has out of the box that Windows doesn't, and then you spend a lot of your time over the next 3 days installing random shit. Then it breaks and you have to do it again, because its so horrendously designed that its unfixable when it breaks.
He was clearly posting in Java. You're incrementing a pointer. it should segfault after it prints 'c', i believe. In java, the + concatenates the string representation of i with the string "rfc"
Why pay for their product if you're just going to download a pirated version? They can and will still nail you just as hard with a lawsuit.
You have 3 choices:
1. You buy Windows. You're a fucking retard.
2. You pirate Windows. You're still a moron, and you potentially go to jail.
3. You use a linux distro.
Doing both 1 and 2 makes you a retard AND a moron.
Only because you're a fucking moron using Internet Exploder on Windows.
Why would you expect sympathy for that on Slashdor?
My internet is upside down :(
It looks like this
If she stole 25 CDs from a record store, she'd have to return the stolen goods and she'd go to jail for *up to* six months (in california - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft#United_States) I bet her income is less than $440,000 a year.
Ok, after reading through some of the other replies and thinking about it, I've decided to talk a little more about the actual issue - "the consumer cannot install their own OS." They can sure as hell click "yes" on every dialog box they see on the web. Why can't they do the same in an installer? Installers are NOT hard to use - for Ubuntu: you pop the disc in, you hit install, you give it the timezone and the time of day, it'll ask how much space you want it to use, you say the whole hard drive, then input some info on the first account, then tell it to go for it and it installs. This is not a hard thing to do. However, it would have to download updates. Now, in terms of having a store do it for you, an optimized install process would probably take about an hour of bench time including downloading updates from a local mirror. You say, "I'll take that one with Ubuntu," they grab a big box, take it to the back, you get lunch and come back in an hour, and there it is ready for you. Windows, however, is another deal. The Windows installer is a total pain in the ass. I would give an Ubuntu disc to an average consumer and, assuming their computer has already been set to boot to CD, expect them to be able to install it themselves. A Windows disc is a different beast. A windows install comes with nothing beyond generic drivers. An Ubuntu install comes with open source drivers (which are decent) and you're about 2 clicks away from installing proprietary drivers. Unbundling Windows would force competition on Microsoft. Competition that's already creeping up on them, fast - even with their vendor lock-ins. Unbundling Windows would eventually bring the price of windows down to around $25 and force them to make a better installer. Unbundling Windows would be a good thing from every point of view, except Microsoft's. From the consumer's point of view - quality would go up, Microsoft prices would go down, installing their own OS would become a viable option as installers got easier. They would also have a choice between Windows and alternatives. From my point of view - Linux market share would go up, Microsoft's would go down, drivers would be released for linux, software would be released for linux, more people would work on developing linux. From a computer store's point of view - more services would get sold. From Microsoft's point of view - "OMGWTFTHATSNOTFAIRIMSUINGEVERYONETHATUSES LINUXFORAMILLIONDOLLARSANDILLDIELIKESCO"
So instead of spending $400 on your emachine, you'll either spend $350 on your emachine (that's about what windows costs for the oem bulk license), $100 on your oem copy of windows that you purchased with a computer, and $80 on a tech to install it.
Or, you can spend $350 on your emachine, $0 on linux, and $0 on a linux geek eager to get market share for linux. Or you can just install ubuntu yourself. Its not like its any harder than installing a program on Windows. As linux would pick up market share, sure people would charge to install it, but also open source developers would make EVEN EASIER installers for it.
Installing Ubuntu requires no technical knowledge until you hit a driver snag where breaking Microsoft's hardware-vendor lock-in is the only permanent fix.
Unbundle it, and let the competition roll with easier to install, easier to use, faster, better, better looking, free-as-in-speech as well as free-as-in-beer software.
Unbundle it, and Windows is good as dead. I think most people who've bought a computer with Vista on it will agree - that's a good thing.
You can also target almost all radio stations. They go out in their vans and set up those tent canopy things and speakers somewhere randomly in town. I've seen almost every radio station where I live do this.
That's my response, as well. I do it in firefox in linux in qemu in linux though.
Grammar Nazi alert. It's "affected" in that context. Your next sentence is so wrong that I'm not going to bother fixing it. *Yes, you can use "effect" as a verb, but it means something else.
I've had countless crashes. All of them have been caused by Compiz or Beryl.