No. It includes versions that your average n00b is actually likely to be aware of. It's stuff they might have seen at Microcenter or Frys over the years.
Most people have never heard of the Alpha version of NT.
Most people aren't even aware that there are other microprocesors that you could make a PC out of.
We're talking about wireless phone networks here so stuff doesn't have to be multi-gig to be a bother. There are apps for the phones that are big enough to be a bother on a slow phone network.
Even these are relatively tiny compared to anything but "shareware utilities" on Windows.
Stuff is small and suituable for "download only" on Windows or MacOS or even Linux only if it is tiny and trivial doesn't need any supporting shared libraries.
Big serious apps for real work or even a decent hobby simply aren't going to be that tiny. Add in a crap wireless network and things seem bigger still.
Some stuff still requires it. WinDOS Games especially like to have DRM that require you to have the actul game disk loaded when you are playing the game.
Although if you have two full power USB ports it's not going to be a real problem.
You would have the same exact problem if Microsoft suddenly started supporting Sparc and PPC. You would have these other flavors of Windows floating around and most users not realizing that there are other platforms out there that won't run an x86 binary.
It's all about managing expecations and clearly Microsoft wants you to associate their legacy application monopoly with their tablet. It's really the only advantage they have.
Otherwise it just seems silly like a Windows phone.
They need to conflate their tablet and their PC product just to be competitive but that's going to ultimately cause some people to be disappointed.
People have been downloading software since the 70s.
That doesn't mean that they have given up completely on physical media. The fact that kids with no memory or experience are excited about something doesn't mean that every thing else suddenly and magically goes away.
There's just one X. One kernel. One SDL. Beyond that you might have a couple choices for things like sound or the desktop API.
It's not quite as bad as or "fragmented" as some people like to make out.
libvorbis is libvorbis regardless of what distro you're running.
Packaging is different but that's something you can let individuals handle. Allow Debian or Redhat users the lattitude and they will make their own packages.
Linux is no more in flux than any other desktop PC that can have any combination of various versions of various libraries.
This is like saying that Apple is stealing content because your movie trailer has the only interesting bits of your movie. So people only watch your trailer and don't bother to actually go see the movie.
Google provides trailers (like Hollywood.com or Apple) and directions to the cinema.
It still doesn't matter. The fact that you can "steal" cable is irrelevant. If they are OTA channels, then they should be available to anyone anyways as a matter of public interest.
Any argument that starts with 'but we have to prevent you from watching OTA channels off of our cable" is inherently bogus.
It's all the mechanics of how your body works. The same thing that allows for you to be descended from creatures you find embarrassing is also at the heart of every cell in your body.
If you aren't willing to have an open mind about how the human body works, you have no business in medicine.
A lot of that stuff Heinlein mentioned either falls into basic survival skills or knowledge you need in order to not be taken advantage of by specialists. Even if you outsource something, you need to have enough of a clue to be able to judge the results.
Willful ignorance is an open invitation to those that would see to take advantage of you.
If the public schools have managed to push a kid outside of his comfort zone then that is something that should be celebrated and replicated. That's exactly the kind of well rounded education that the great orators of the past would take for granted as being the bare minimum that's acceptable.
I guess that's the benefit of not buying Apple products. It's like you are living in some sort of closed off religious community where you don't have access to the outside world and you aren't free to do your own thing.
Ours is collecting dust (iPad). The smaller tablets are more than adequate. They are functionally equivalent while being much more mobile. The eBook vendors were all onto something when they chose that size for their devices.
> You REALLY dont want to have users doing random computer actions on your recording device.
Considering the fact that you are talking about a real PC and not some underpowered video appliance, your hysterics are really not that warranted. A real PC should have both the computing power and the scheduler sophistication to handle diverse workloads.
Although your notion of how a HTPC/PVR is put together is rediculously out of date. This is another advantage of the HTPC approach.
The display terminal doesn't need to be the recording device.
Your understanding of the technical requirements of a PVR are completely lacking.
Crap that the cable companies provide is why those HTPC solutions exist in the first place. This isn't about "geekiness". This is about having something that is not a total pile of crap. What you get from your local cable monopoly reflects the fact that they think they don't have to compete for your business.
With the "latest and greatest" from your local cable company, you would be lucky to have something as good as a Series 1 Tivo from back in the 90s.
My users would have a hard enough time going back to an actual Tivo. Never mind the crap that your cable company wants to give you.
If it's OTA channels then you are just a pro corporate shill and completely full of shit.
At the BARE minimum, these MONOPOLIES should be on the hook for helping to ensure that OTA broadcast signals get to everyone they were originally intended for.
If cable companies can't compete in a tight economy then it's THEIR problem. It's not your bosses problem. It's not Exxon's problem. This kind of thinking is exactly what is going to KILL their little cash cow.
Sooner or later people will drop them in favor of things that aren't entertainment products with highly elastic demand.
Physical monopolies are powerful but it's ultimately a luxury item.
He's enlightened because he realizes that the local snake oil salesman doesn't have any answers either. Trying to latch onto some cult in an effort to avoid thinking for yourself is not helpful even if you are a "spiritual" type.
The "religious types" who founded our nation some 200+ years ago were much closer to the kind of sectarian strife that caused concepts like "separation of church and state" to be embedded in our culture to begin with.
The modern American evangelical is sheltered and out of touch with the genuine sort of religious persecution that they falsely perceive that they are victims of. They have forgotten the past and aren't encouraged to remember.
Of course the problem here is that your right not to be offended might prevent meaningful discourse. If you try to ban what is basically just blasphemy, then you eventually eliminate any meaningful discussion of religious doctrine.
If you can't be a jackass then you can't be a blasphemer and you can't have any freedom of religion.
The right to be offensive is also the right to be something other than a Puritan.
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> That's a nicely cherry picked list.
No. It includes versions that your average n00b is actually likely to be aware of. It's stuff they might have seen at Microcenter or Frys over the years.
Most people have never heard of the Alpha version of NT.
Most people aren't even aware that there are other microprocesors that you could make a PC out of.
We're talking about wireless phone networks here so stuff doesn't have to be multi-gig to be a bother. There are apps for the phones that are big enough to be a bother on a slow phone network.
Even these are relatively tiny compared to anything but "shareware utilities" on Windows.
Stuff is small and suituable for "download only" on Windows or MacOS or even Linux only if it is tiny and trivial doesn't need any supporting shared libraries.
Big serious apps for real work or even a decent hobby simply aren't going to be that tiny. Add in a crap wireless network and things seem bigger still.
> An optical drive? What is this? The 90s?
Some stuff still requires it. WinDOS Games especially like to have DRM that require you to have the actul game disk loaded when you are playing the game.
Although if you have two full power USB ports it's not going to be a real problem.
You would have the same exact problem if Microsoft suddenly started supporting Sparc and PPC. You would have these other flavors of Windows floating around and most users not realizing that there are other platforms out there that won't run an x86 binary.
It's all about managing expecations and clearly Microsoft wants you to associate their legacy application monopoly with their tablet. It's really the only advantage they have.
Otherwise it just seems silly like a Windows phone.
They need to conflate their tablet and their PC product just to be competitive but that's going to ultimately cause some people to be disappointed.
People have been downloading software since the 70s.
That doesn't mean that they have given up completely on physical media. The fact that kids with no memory or experience are excited about something doesn't mean that every thing else suddenly and magically goes away.
That's actually much less bothersome that trying to ditch 30 years of UI expecations.
Attempts to sabotage the UI impact everyone as opposed to a few trolls fixating on some corner case.
No.
There is indeed a single Linux.
There's just one X. One kernel. One SDL. Beyond that you might have a couple choices for things like sound or the desktop API.
It's not quite as bad as or "fragmented" as some people like to make out.
libvorbis is libvorbis regardless of what distro you're running.
Packaging is different but that's something you can let individuals handle. Allow Debian or Redhat users the lattitude and they will make their own packages.
Linux is no more in flux than any other desktop PC that can have any combination of various versions of various libraries.
This is like saying that Apple is stealing content because your movie trailer has the only interesting bits of your movie. So people only watch your trailer and don't bother to actually go see the movie.
Google provides trailers (like Hollywood.com or Apple) and directions to the cinema.
Google is free advertising.
It still doesn't matter. The fact that you can "steal" cable is irrelevant. If they are OTA channels, then they should be available to anyone anyways as a matter of public interest.
Any argument that starts with 'but we have to prevent you from watching OTA channels off of our cable" is inherently bogus.
It's all the mechanics of how your body works. The same thing that allows for you to be descended from creatures you find embarrassing is also at the heart of every cell in your body.
If you aren't willing to have an open mind about how the human body works, you have no business in medicine.
Your religion will simply get in the way.
A lot of that stuff Heinlein mentioned either falls into basic survival skills or knowledge you need in order to not be taken advantage of by specialists. Even if you outsource something, you need to have enough of a clue to be able to judge the results.
Willful ignorance is an open invitation to those that would see to take advantage of you.
If the public schools have managed to push a kid outside of his comfort zone then that is something that should be celebrated and replicated. That's exactly the kind of well rounded education that the great orators of the past would take for granted as being the bare minimum that's acceptable.
No one bought it because it cost $2000.
The fact that it had a real OS on it was not the main burden.
No. It's Microsoft that doesn't have anything to worry about from Apple. Microsoft is safe in it's "legacy app" business niche.
It's Android that Apple has to worry about. The numbers already bear this out.
Apple doesn't have anywhere to grow. Not that Apple ever seriously competed outside of the consumer space anyways.
Apple and Microsoft could be in parallel universes based on how relevant they are to each other in this one.
We already have a PC like that in the office.
I guess that's the benefit of not buying Apple products. It's like you are living in some sort of closed off religious community where you don't have access to the outside world and you aren't free to do your own thing.
Ours is collecting dust (iPad). The smaller tablets are more than adequate. They are functionally equivalent while being much more mobile. The eBook vendors were all onto something when they chose that size for their devices.
> Ever tried to be a tattoo artist?
Ever heard of Hepatitis?
> You REALLY dont want to have users doing random computer actions on your recording device.
Considering the fact that you are talking about a real PC and not some underpowered video appliance, your hysterics are really not that warranted. A real PC should have both the computing power and the scheduler sophistication to handle diverse workloads.
Although your notion of how a HTPC/PVR is put together is rediculously out of date. This is another advantage of the HTPC approach.
The display terminal doesn't need to be the recording device.
Your understanding of the technical requirements of a PVR are completely lacking.
You've got to be joking.
Crap that the cable companies provide is why those HTPC solutions exist in the first place. This isn't about "geekiness". This is about having something that is not a total pile of crap. What you get from your local cable monopoly reflects the fact that they think they don't have to compete for your business.
With the "latest and greatest" from your local cable company, you would be lucky to have something as good as a Series 1 Tivo from back in the 90s.
My users would have a hard enough time going back to an actual Tivo. Never mind the crap that your cable company wants to give you.
If it's OTA channels then you are just a pro corporate shill and completely full of shit.
At the BARE minimum, these MONOPOLIES should be on the hook for helping to ensure that OTA broadcast signals get to everyone they were originally intended for.
Joe? Joe the Plumber? Is that you?
Stop repeating someone else's election year rhetoric as if you actually have some sort of clue or meaningful real world experience.
If cable companies can't compete in a tight economy then it's THEIR problem. It's not your bosses problem. It's not Exxon's problem. This kind of thinking is exactly what is going to KILL their little cash cow.
Sooner or later people will drop them in favor of things that aren't entertainment products with highly elastic demand.
Physical monopolies are powerful but it's ultimately a luxury item.
He's enlightened because he realizes that the local snake oil salesman doesn't have any answers either. Trying to latch onto some cult in an effort to avoid thinking for yourself is not helpful even if you are a "spiritual" type.
The "religious types" who founded our nation some 200+ years ago were much closer to the kind of sectarian strife that caused concepts like "separation of church and state" to be embedded in our culture to begin with.
The modern American evangelical is sheltered and out of touch with the genuine sort of religious persecution that they falsely perceive that they are victims of. They have forgotten the past and aren't encouraged to remember.
Of course the problem here is that your right not to be offended might prevent meaningful discourse. If you try to ban what is basically just blasphemy, then you eventually eliminate any meaningful discussion of religious doctrine.
If you can't be a jackass then you can't be a blasphemer and you can't have any freedom of religion.
The right to be offensive is also the right to be something other than a Puritan.