That's true for all operating systems, not just the free ones. It's one of the reasons Mac OS X adoption had been so slow until the Intel switch. One pretty much had to go cold turkey when buying a Mac.
You actually had a legitimate argument, in my opinion, until your last paragraph:
I think I take exception at saying it is ISP greed; I'm more inclined to say it is a small handful of P2P users that can rationalize their theft of copyrighted material as (astonishingly) helping the people they are stealing from.
Well, I know that I take exception to people who condemn P2P users as "thieves."
I remember responses on Slashdot to Biden's poor tech record being rebutted with "well, he's just vice president." Couldn't you argue the same thing for Palin as well?
Based on what I've read, cookies are one of the main ways a Web site tracks its users. So then why should I trust these "opt-out" cookies from companies like DoubleClick and NebuAd to not track me, as opposed to just blocking their cookies from ever getting to my machine in the first place?
I believe you misunderstood me when I said "seems to cancel it out."
Most people (Joe Average types, not those who actually know about such things) when comparing fuel efficiency will use the cost of gas as a control. That is, it's much easier to see how a 30 MPG car saves money than a 25 MPG car if the fuel for both costs the same. Even hybrids can be compared like this, since most of them use the same engine and therefore the same fuel. What diesel does is remove that control, making it more difficult to guess the savings. Because the fuel price has increased along with the MPG, to most it would appear at a glance to "cancel out" any advantages to gasoline.
The problem with current all-electric vehicles is that the battery technology that is most affordable (lead acid) doesn't last long, the most efficient battery (lithium ion) is too expensive, and the in-between (NiMH) is patented by Ceveron-Texaco and therefore will never be seen in an electric vehicle*.
*Yes, the patents will expire in 20 years, but by then lithium ion should be much cheaper, making NiMH batteries pointless.
The recall relates to a problem with wiring near the computer's hinge, which could short-circuit and overheat in certain circumstances, perhaps burning the user.
Users generally get burned for buying Sony anyway.
Hopefully none. A smart business knows better than to run beta software for their mission-critical tasks.
A smart business would also know never to upgrade their systems the very moment an upgrade to a piece of software comes out. It's much smarter to wait a few weeks for the developers to figure out the problems that slipped by unnoticed during the beta stages due to fewer users. This is true for both free software and proprietary software. I remember having some nasty problems when I upgraded to the last two Ubuntu releases the day they came out. Now I'm waiting for Hardy to "stabilize" because I now know not to run software that's just been released. It's true that what we are talking about is just a service pack, but based on what happened when SP2 came out the public really should have expected Microsoft's future service packs to do just as much under-the-hood tinkering as SP2 did.
Yes, it is partially Microsoft's fault for not warning users on Automatic Updates that SP3 is still brand new and could potentially cause problems, but unless you never had problems with SP2 or were not in charge of a Windows XP machine during that time, this should have been seen from a mile away.
The way I understand it, the majority of NASA's work is placed in the public domain. If the Discovery Channel is giving NASA a copy of their restored HD footage for their archives, will this copy be public domain as well, or will it remain under the copyright of the Discovery Channel?
It would take a mighty hacker indeed to break into a sleeping Macbook and raise the lid via remote connection. I hear that feature's coming in Mac OS X 10.6.
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North Korea already has nukes.
You have no idea how the system functions, do you?
solving the problem once and for all.
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
That's true for all operating systems, not just the free ones. It's one of the reasons Mac OS X adoption had been so slow until the Intel switch. One pretty much had to go cold turkey when buying a Mac.
Here's a novel idea: they can stop calling it "unlimited" service.
You actually had a legitimate argument, in my opinion, until your last paragraph:
I think I take exception at saying it is ISP greed; I'm more inclined to say it is a small handful of P2P users that can rationalize their theft of copyrighted material as (astonishingly) helping the people they are stealing from.
Well, I know that I take exception to people who condemn P2P users as "thieves."
Can you set up your own AIM server and add it to the network?
No, but AIM users can talk to Jabber.
I remember responses on Slashdot to Biden's poor tech record being rebutted with "well, he's just vice president." Couldn't you argue the same thing for Palin as well?
Based on what I've read, cookies are one of the main ways a Web site tracks its users. So then why should I trust these "opt-out" cookies from companies like DoubleClick and NebuAd to not track me, as opposed to just blocking their cookies from ever getting to my machine in the first place?
I believe you misunderstood me when I said "seems to cancel it out."
Most people (Joe Average types, not those who actually know about such things) when comparing fuel efficiency will use the cost of gas as a control. That is, it's much easier to see how a 30 MPG car saves money than a 25 MPG car if the fuel for both costs the same. Even hybrids can be compared like this, since most of them use the same engine and therefore the same fuel. What diesel does is remove that control, making it more difficult to guess the savings. Because the fuel price has increased along with the MPG, to most it would appear at a glance to "cancel out" any advantages to gasoline.
Hybrids still require gasoline to operate. Fully electric vehicles do not.
.kr is South Korea (i.e: not communist).
And is that 34 MPG city or highway?
The fact that they get 40+ MPG makes them pretty attractive.
And the fact that diesel fuel costs even more than regular unleaded gasoline seems to cancel it out.
The problem with current all-electric vehicles is that the battery technology that is most affordable (lead acid) doesn't last long, the most efficient battery (lithium ion) is too expensive, and the in-between (NiMH) is patented by Ceveron-Texaco and therefore will never be seen in an electric vehicle*.
*Yes, the patents will expire in 20 years, but by then lithium ion should be much cheaper, making NiMH batteries pointless.
The cost of BD-Rs doesn't mean much when the majority of computers don't have BD drives, much less BD burners.
Only to realize that the attempts to crack the remaining DRM on Blu-Ray will have increased tenfold.
The recall relates to a problem with wiring near the computer's hinge, which could short-circuit and overheat in certain circumstances, perhaps burning the user.
Users generally get burned for buying Sony anyway.
And just how many business users are using IE8?
Hopefully none. A smart business knows better than to run beta software for their mission-critical tasks.
A smart business would also know never to upgrade their systems the very moment an upgrade to a piece of software comes out. It's much smarter to wait a few weeks for the developers to figure out the problems that slipped by unnoticed during the beta stages due to fewer users. This is true for both free software and proprietary software. I remember having some nasty problems when I upgraded to the last two Ubuntu releases the day they came out. Now I'm waiting for Hardy to "stabilize" because I now know not to run software that's just been released. It's true that what we are talking about is just a service pack, but based on what happened when SP2 came out the public really should have expected Microsoft's future service packs to do just as much under-the-hood tinkering as SP2 did.
Yes, it is partially Microsoft's fault for not warning users on Automatic Updates that SP3 is still brand new and could potentially cause problems, but unless you never had problems with SP2 or were not in charge of a Windows XP machine during that time, this should have been seen from a mile away.
Seems like these crashes would be doing the opposite.
Lame.
The way I understand it, the majority of NASA's work is placed in the public domain. If the Discovery Channel is giving NASA a copy of their restored HD footage for their archives, will this copy be public domain as well, or will it remain under the copyright of the Discovery Channel?
Well, it is just a big dull rock.
You can always change it. From what I recall, that particular shortcut key is configurable.
Maybe now the WINE team will start focusing on compatibility with 64-bit programs now that WINE 1.0 is going to be released.