This is one of the main reasons why many vendors selling Linux netbooks stopped and switched to XP after high return and support rates, not some vast conspiracy, but economics.
There wouldn't be such a big support cost if the linux distribution on most of the netbooks wasn't so half-assed. I'm sure it would reduce the cost by quite a bit if they had a simple pamphlet that told people how to install certain apps etc and if they used a linux distro which was more mainstream.
You can't guarantee that the machine isn't compromised unless you reinstall from a known good backup(eg. an os disk). Thats why I reinstall any windows computers with any virus on it automatically
I could stick any version number on any piece of software, the version number doesn't matter. I could give the program a version number of 3.14 and it could be alpha quality. The package maintainers should have at least read the giant sign posted on the website saying its not ready for end users, yet they still put it in the distros as a main DE.
I think you are being a bit too harsh on the KDE dev team. They had big signs plastered all over their website that kde 4.0 wasn't usable but yet the package maintainers still put it in. The kde dev team couldn't be any more clear that kde 4.0 wasn't for regular users but everyone ignored them.
The kde dev team had to make a release at some point, otherwise KDE 4 would be stuck in beta forever. I place the blame on the package maintainers because they were stupid enough to ignore the various warnings and still put it in the distros as a default DE when it was obviously not ready yet.
The holocaust doesn't necessarily have to be a hate crime, it can be about the murder and torture of innocent people. Most "hate crimes" are already covered under law, for example, if I attack an african american with a knife, I'm still guilty of assault with a weapon, regardless of "hate crime" laws. "Hate crimes", imo, are redundant, because anything you can do to harm another human being is already against the law, so its pointless to make 2 laws do the same thing. Also, it keeps everyone from being treated equal, I believe that all humans should only be treated as humans, not as black, hispanic, asian etc. so "hate crime" laws defeat that because it acknowledges the fact that there are different races and it forces the law to treat them differently.
The reason inventions in the real world can be patented is because you can't copyright a physical object, for example, you can't copyright a car, you can trademark the name of the car, but you can't copyright the actual car. Software, on the other hand, can be patented and you can copyright it, which I think is too much. I think we should just be able to copyright software, not patent it.
Just like supernova before em. Well that's the end of that..
Well not really. It will be called something else except they probably won't have a cool name.
Personally I don't really approve of piracy because it hurts Open Source alternatives and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
Have you ever actually downloaded something from thepiratebay?
Well it didn't help that the OEMs badly implemented linux on their netbooks, if they actually had a good implementation, then it wouldn't have been that bad for consumers
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Linux is a hell of a lot closer to Unix then XP is to DOS, for one DOS doesn't even have multi-tasking.
T By the time I get it running I have to update the kernel again and that broke the drivers all over again. .
Thats why you don't use an unstable distro like ubuntu.
This is one of the main reasons why many vendors selling Linux netbooks stopped and switched to XP after high return and support rates, not some vast conspiracy, but economics.
There wouldn't be such a big support cost if the linux distribution on most of the netbooks wasn't so half-assed. I'm sure it would reduce the cost by quite a bit if they had a simple pamphlet that told people how to install certain apps etc and if they used a linux distro which was more mainstream.
"IP2P is used exclusively to STEAL"
Wrong. True, a lot of people use it to steal.
Apparently you can physically deprive people of electronic bits now
JCreator is windows only and why would you use CVS nowadays?
You can't guarantee that the machine isn't compromised unless you reinstall from a known good backup(eg. an os disk). Thats why I reinstall any windows computers with any virus on it automatically
I could stick any version number on any piece of software, the version number doesn't matter. I could give the program a version number of 3.14 and it could be alpha quality. The package maintainers should have at least read the giant sign posted on the website saying its not ready for end users, yet they still put it in the distros as a main DE.
I think you are being a bit too harsh on the KDE dev team. They had big signs plastered all over their website that kde 4.0 wasn't usable but yet the package maintainers still put it in. The kde dev team couldn't be any more clear that kde 4.0 wasn't for regular users but everyone ignored them.
The kde dev team had to make a release at some point, otherwise KDE 4 would be stuck in beta forever. I place the blame on the package maintainers because they were stupid enough to ignore the various warnings and still put it in the distros as a default DE when it was obviously not ready yet.
Step 1: Trademark a common term
Step 2: Sue google
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit!
The holocaust doesn't necessarily have to be a hate crime, it can be about the murder and torture of innocent people. Most "hate crimes" are already covered under law, for example, if I attack an african american with a knife, I'm still guilty of assault with a weapon, regardless of "hate crime" laws.
"Hate crimes", imo, are redundant, because anything you can do to harm another human being is already against the law, so its pointless to make 2 laws do the same thing. Also, it keeps everyone from being treated equal, I believe that all humans should only be treated as humans, not as black, hispanic, asian etc. so "hate crime" laws defeat that because it acknowledges the fact that there are different races and it forces the law to treat them differently.
The reason inventions in the real world can be patented is because you can't copyright a physical object, for example, you can't copyright a car, you can trademark the name of the car, but you can't copyright the actual car. Software, on the other hand, can be patented and you can copyright it, which I think is too much. I think we should just be able to copyright software, not patent it.
I'm 127.0.0.1
Because VLC only runs on linux and is the only video player for linux
Why do people in your office have admin privileges to the computers there?
Except the exploits actually get patched in a reasonable timeframe
I don't think many people would be reading academic papers on those devices
Rich Text Format is nothing like SGML. It has a completely different syntax and it behaves a lot differently.
I'm pretty sure every one that has a browser, has a pdf reader to read pdfs written in latex
Just like supernova before em. Well that's the end of that..
Well not really. It will be called something else except they probably won't have a cool name.
Personally I don't really approve of piracy because it hurts Open Source alternatives and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
Have you ever actually downloaded something from thepiratebay?
You get to listen to 30 songs before you have to pay
tinyurl is your friend
Well my harddrive is worth $16.88B , so there!
Well it didn't help that the OEMs badly implemented linux on their netbooks, if they actually had a good implementation, then it wouldn't have been that bad for consumers
Arr! I'm a pirate on the high seas
The sad thing is that I know people who are in IT departments that think the same thing about linux