Bad thing about eees with Xandros is that it sucks. And people who'll see it would think that Linux generally sucks. MSI had a more acceptable pre-installed Linux offering; that's why return rates are about the same with Windows and Linux MSI Winds.
Because it is sooooo hard to hold the Alt key and drag a window (a killer feature btw if you have to use a touchpad). PEBKAC, my friend, that's what it is. Oh, and shitty ISP too.
These are not evil games, these are patriotic games which is a Good Thing (tm).The difference is that evil games make you want to kill anyone (at least in Jack Thompson's mind) and patriotic games make you want to kill enemies of the State aka terorrists.
>This war has been great in that we have greatly reduced the number of innocent people killed as compared to historical numbers.
Let's have a look :
In the first World War civilian casualities were about 41% of all died people. In WWII this rate was about 65%, greatly increased by US' carpet bombings (think about Dresden for instance). In Iraq -- about 90% of all dead are civilians . So tell me -- how exactly did you "greatly reduced the number of innocent people killed"? Compared to what?
Think about it yourself: killing civilians is a bad thing. Let's think further -- a soldier only obeys orders, so it's "better" to kill officers instead. Even better -- generals or Supreme Commander-in-Chief, target the tops, those who are responsible for the war if you want to stop it. But if you are at war with a country like USA, even the President isn't the highest-ranked person. Because he is elected. The people shape the course of USA and support its wars while thriving in safety of their suburban homes, separated by two oceans from the battle theatre.
So, while I don't like the idea of killing civilians, it is they who should share responcibility for the mistakes their country makes (provided USA has the Democracy they claim to have).
USA has started the war based on lies about WMD's, against a country which has posed no real threat to the USA, ignoring the rest of the world. It is called agression. In this agression about a million people die, only a few thousands of them being US soldiers because the country has most advanced and well-equipped military. And that's supposed to be a good thing? Tellyou what, nazis had similar approach valuing others' lives.
And now you tell me "that's what war is"? Think again who has started it. Sadly, your own civilians are now safe from your war, otherwise they might be a lot less likely to build, finance and cheer on the armies to fight for them.
Great! I totally agree. And since US society supports this war (and it does because you have both the Democracy and the war) it is perfectly valid to attack any targets on US soil, civilian or not. If you didn't want this, you'd be having a different government.
"Once enough cities have been leveled, people will get the idea."
Then it's a sweet little baby penguin which is trapped on an ice floe which shrinks until he falls off... Damn! That thing can swim?! (so can polar bears too)
I wouldn't even consider the software piracy as a threat to Microsoft. The corporation benefits hugely from high level of piracy in emerging markets. Only because of pirates it is able to hold absolute monopoly in many countries without spending a penny for it. They get full regions of the earth which are dependant on Windows and have built Windows-only software ecosystems for free! They don't want to fight piracy -- people will still be able to buy XP or Vista for 1$. And pirated DVDs which are sold now are more like Linux distributions -- they have all the software you might need: MSO, Photoshop firewalls antiviruses etc. Very convenient and Linux is very hard pressed to top that offer. That way Microsofts monopoly will remain for years to come.
What the company really want is to milk those markets, to go after government institutions, companies and OEM's -- big targets which can be forced to pay (especially the governments).
Note that most users don't have USB CD-ROM drive to install pirated XP on such netbook in the first place. And installing XP from USB stick or via network... I better stick with Linux instead for it is much easier. In case of netbooks the argument "they just buy it cheaper to install pirated Windows" doesn't hald.
Not only did you read TFA, you follow the link from TFA! I'm sorry sir, but the usual question whether or not are you new here doesn't apply to you. How did it come you have a slashdot account? By./ standards you are not born yet!
You've lost visitors, that's for sure. But you have saved much time in not dealing with IE6-only issues. Don't know whether it pays off for you but being a lazy person I would do just the same.
While I was working for SiemensVDO, we had to use IE6 too, so I have installed firefox portable (had to rename the executable to iexplore.exe too), downloaded a IE6-like skin and made a few quircks to make it look even more like IE (like got rid of yellow addressbar for https). Here are the instructions: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_internet_explorer/ It works very well, even the colleagues who have used it didn't spot the difference. So I could use all the benefits of firefox and pretend I was using IE6.
You need compatibility to truly enter the desktop OS market, something that Microsoft actively prevents. Even more for office productivity suite market.
Oh well, if a site requires IE -- that site has lost a visitor, because I won't install Windows or IE in wine just to see some crappy piece of web. Well, I am a home user, no fancy intranet apps so I have it easy.
KDE 4.2 can handle filesharing through samba or you can have it through zeroconf + FISH or zeroconf + SFTP or even zeroconf + NFS although I couldn't get the last combination to work properly, it seem that nfs:// browsing is a bit buggy there.
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Bad thing about eees with Xandros is that it sucks. And people who'll see it would think that Linux generally sucks. MSI had a more acceptable pre-installed Linux offering; that's why return rates are about the same with Windows and Linux MSI Winds.
Dover?
And Windows7 is supposed to sell things (like Ultimate licenses which allow to downgrade to XP).
Because it is sooooo hard to hold the Alt key and drag a window (a killer feature btw if you have to use a touchpad).
PEBKAC, my friend, that's what it is. Oh, and shitty ISP too.
It'd be on Fox with a big "We told ya it was a good thing" headline.
Well, calling others stupid because they disagree with you point of view -- I sure recognize the military bearing here.
These are not evil games, these are patriotic games which is a Good Thing (tm).The difference is that evil games make you want to kill anyone (at least in Jack Thompson's mind) and patriotic games make you want to kill enemies of the State aka terorrists.
>This war has been great in that we have greatly reduced the number of innocent people killed as compared to historical numbers.
Let's have a look :
In the first World War civilian casualities were about 41% of all died people.
In WWII this rate was about 65%, greatly increased by US' carpet bombings (think about Dresden for instance).
In Iraq -- about 90% of all dead are civilians . So tell me -- how exactly did you "greatly reduced the number of innocent people killed"? Compared to what?
Think about it yourself: killing civilians is a bad thing. Let's think further -- a soldier only obeys orders, so it's "better" to kill officers instead. Even better -- generals or Supreme Commander-in-Chief, target the tops, those who are responsible for the war if you want to stop it.
But if you are at war with a country like USA, even the President isn't the highest-ranked person. Because he is elected. The people shape the course of USA and support its wars while thriving in safety of their suburban homes, separated by two oceans from the battle theatre.
So, while I don't like the idea of killing civilians, it is they who should share responcibility for the mistakes their country makes (provided USA has the Democracy they claim to have).
USA has started the war based on lies about WMD's, against a country which has posed no real threat to the USA, ignoring the rest of the world. It is called agression.
In this agression about a million people die, only a few thousands of them being US soldiers because the country has most advanced and well-equipped military.
And that's supposed to be a good thing? Tellyou what, nazis had similar approach valuing others' lives.
And now you tell me "that's what war is"? Think again who has started it. Sadly, your own civilians are now safe from your war, otherwise they might be a lot less likely to build, finance and cheer on the armies to fight for them.
Great! I totally agree. And since US society supports this war (and it does because you have both the Democracy and the war) it is perfectly valid to attack any targets on US soil, civilian or not. If you didn't want this, you'd be having a different government.
"Once enough cities have been leveled, people will get the idea."
The post was meant to be ironic, but thanks for such a detailed explanation :)
Then it's a sweet little baby penguin which is trapped on an ice floe which shrinks until he falls off... Damn! That thing can swim?! (so can polar bears too)
Well, according to broken window theory it will stimulate the economy.
I wouldn't even consider the software piracy as a threat to Microsoft. The corporation benefits hugely from high level of piracy in emerging markets. Only because of pirates it is able to hold absolute monopoly in many countries without spending a penny for it.
They get full regions of the earth which are dependant on Windows and have built Windows-only software ecosystems for free!
They don't want to fight piracy -- people will still be able to buy XP or Vista for 1$. And pirated DVDs which are sold now are more like Linux distributions -- they have all the software you might need: MSO, Photoshop firewalls antiviruses etc. Very convenient and Linux is very hard pressed to top that offer. That way Microsofts monopoly will remain for years to come.
What the company really want is to milk those markets, to go after government institutions, companies and OEM's -- big targets which can be forced to pay (especially the governments).
Note that most users don't have USB CD-ROM drive to install pirated XP on such netbook in the first place. And installing XP from USB stick or via network... I better stick with Linux instead for it is much easier.
In case of netbooks the argument "they just buy it cheaper to install pirated Windows" doesn't hald.
Baselayout2 uses openrc which is written in C. (damn, it even rhymes!)
It is clearly first step of Microsoft's infamous Elevate-Extend-Extinguish tactics.
Just wait till they aproach the third phase.
Not only did you read TFA, you follow the link from TFA! I'm sorry sir, but the usual question whether or not are you new here doesn't apply to you. ./ standards you are not born yet!
How did it come you have a slashdot account? By
I always thought that "Human" theme is a fork of "Gorilla" theme.
You've lost visitors, that's for sure. But you have saved much time in not dealing with IE6-only issues. Don't know whether it pays off for you but being a lazy person I would do just the same.
While I was working for SiemensVDO, we had to use IE6 too, so I have installed firefox portable (had to rename the executable to iexplore.exe too), downloaded a IE6-like skin and made a few quircks to make it look even more like IE (like got rid of yellow addressbar for https). Here are the instructions: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_internet_explorer/
It works very well, even the colleagues who have used it didn't spot the difference. So I could use all the benefits of firefox and pretend I was using IE6.
You need compatibility to truly enter the desktop OS market, something that Microsoft actively prevents.
Even more for office productivity suite market.
Oh well, if a site requires IE -- that site has lost a visitor, because I won't install Windows or IE in wine just to see some crappy piece of web.
Well, I am a home user, no fancy intranet apps so I have it easy.
KDE 4.2 can handle filesharing through samba or you can have it through zeroconf + FISH or zeroconf + SFTP or even zeroconf + NFS although I couldn't get the last combination to work properly, it seem that nfs:// browsing is a bit buggy there.