If you are really serious about running both, it probably makes the most sense to have Linux host a minimal Windows VM.
If you absolutely positively need to run some bit of Windows software, run it in a minimal environment that will have the smallest possible surface area vulnerable to the wide array of malware that tends to infect Microsoft products.
It's useful to separate out the OS from the apps. The fact that some of the apps might be interesting is quite distinct from the fact that the OS is crap.
People were buying MS-DOS just to run Lotus and we're still suffering for it.
Cheapbytes didn't even really come around until broadband was commonplace. The fact that they are "cheap" is a reflection of that. Before then, you had more expensive CD sets.
Then put it on a RAID array. I knew people that were doing this more than 10 years ago. They needed to move large amounts of data around. So they would FedEx a RAID array around.
> I am going to guess that none of the 40000 people at this conference actually care about whether or not you agree with them.
Ask any Israeli how well this works out where such people actually have some ability to impact public policy. Basically this is a case of "if they could, they would". They can't because they are a very tiny minority. This is the only reason not to be seriously concerned.
> You don't agree that they should be able to control themselves
I wonder why they can't already.
If they can't, I wonder what they intend to do about it.
Fundies are notorious for limiting other people's choices because they find them disagreeable. You make it sound like we don't already have plenty of experience with people of this mindset.
H*LL we have an entire political party infected with them.
I already have cable and don't bother with HBO. I don't bother with HBO because beyond their original content, they have an incomplete selection of things like movies. If you want full access to all new movie content, you pretty much have to pay for ALL of the premium channels rather than one.
That's not happening in my house.
For the originals, the marginal cost of an HBO subscription is still more than I would pay for any boxed DVDs.
So I just buy the DVDs and am patient enough to wait for them.
I expect I am rather weird when it comes to the whole "patience" thing. So I don't knock others for not (being patient).
If I were running HBO then I would be seriously preparing for the post-cable apocalypse.
I would be preparing to do everything the OP said not because "I am a nice guy" but out of concern for my company's continued survival in a changing technology landscape.
That's pretty lame. I have some recording rules that are as old as my DVR. You only have to "program the DVR" once. That's the whole value proposition of a DVR.
Set it. Forget it. Let the whole "automation" thing do it's work.
Patents aren't supposed to cover ideas but they really do in practice because if you try to re-create a particular sort of device it is up to you to try and convince the clueless trial court that your fundementally difference device is not a patent violation. I believe that companies have already been bit by this very thing with regards to Tivo workalikes. They tried to design around the patents but got declared "in violation" anyways.
Patents aren't supposed to cover "ideas" but they do in practice.
That is part of why patents should be considered toxic waste and not candy. Every patent stifles innnovation. Every one. The question is whether or not the relevant trade secrets are worth the tradeoff.
This mindless "everything is intellectual property" nonsense is very destructive. It leads to the default view being "it can be owned" and "it should be owned'. The opposite is really true.
> This is not an infringement to freedom of thought
Sure it is. You can't use the labors of your own mind because some jackass got a bad patent on something any CIS student could come up with. Bad patents are THEFT. They are theft from you and from me (assuming you are a CS professional).
Software patents allow Apple and friends to claim ownership of things I have created. This isn't just some theoretical idea or academic idea. Someone like Apple or Amazon can sue me for re-implementing some blatantly obvious thing.
THAT is the very real problem with patents generally and software patents in particular.
Trivial shit is patented granting "exclusive ownership" to whatever lucky company was granted that patent. That means that NO ONE ELSE can recreate it. Doesn't matter if it is trivial shit that 10 companies are re-inventing at the same time.
1 company can get a patent, sue the other 9 and create massive chaos and stagnation in the industry.
Still sounds like very mundane data mining and the sort of associated user interfaces that any college intern could whip up. It sound more like a college homework assignment then something that the PTO should be granting a patent for.
Chances are that you can't remove all of the crap simply any other way. It might be a clean copy of what you had before but an OS install is going to come in there somewhere.
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If you are really serious about running both, it probably makes the most sense to have Linux host a minimal Windows VM.
If you absolutely positively need to run some bit of Windows software, run it in a minimal environment that will have the smallest possible surface area vulnerable to the wide array of malware that tends to infect Microsoft products.
It's useful to separate out the OS from the apps. The fact that some of the apps might be interesting is quite distinct from the fact that the OS is crap.
People were buying MS-DOS just to run Lotus and we're still suffering for it.
> ..as soon as (insert your fav brand of Linux) can properly install my video, network, sound drivers without a glitc
Linux has been doing this for me since 1996.
Troll harder.
Considering the mess it is to install Windows from scratch, that's an awful lot of trouble to be going to.
A VM is much less bothersome. So is a LiveCD.
Cheapbytes didn't even really come around until broadband was commonplace. The fact that they are "cheap" is a reflection of that. Before then, you had more expensive CD sets.
It's cheap for a reason.
I got mine in 1994 from Walnut Creek. 6 CDs. 4 Distributions.
Then put it on a RAID array. I knew people that were doing this more than 10 years ago. They needed to move large amounts of data around. So they would FedEx a RAID array around.
No. The cloud is really irrelevant.
Either I can't push it out there and thus can't use it.
Or, I can push it out there but it is irrelevant because I could just host my own stuff to begin with.
I either can't use it or don't need it.
That covers about 40 people.
Now how about the rest of us?
Stats companies can't break out their stats?
Sounds a bit worthless really.
You can miss an entire new emerging market like that.
Bacon soap!
Considering that it's the original "fat of the land", it shouldn't be too hard to do for real actually.
Don't forget to include some Israeli friends. They will be happy for the opportunity to indulge in some sacrelicous delicacy.
> I am going to guess that none of the 40000 people at this conference actually care about whether or not you agree with them.
Ask any Israeli how well this works out where such people actually have some ability to impact public policy. Basically this is a case of "if they could, they would". They can't because they are a very tiny minority. This is the only reason not to be seriously concerned.
> You don't agree that they should be able to control themselves
I wonder why they can't already.
If they can't, I wonder what they intend to do about it.
Fundies are notorious for limiting other people's choices because they find them disagreeable. You make it sound like we don't already have plenty of experience with people of this mindset.
H*LL we have an entire political party infected with them.
There's really no magic involved.
Just don't go looking for trouble.
The Internet is rather effective in that respect.
I already have cable and don't bother with HBO. I don't bother with HBO because beyond their original content, they have an incomplete selection of things like movies. If you want full access to all new movie content, you pretty much have to pay for ALL of the premium channels rather than one.
That's not happening in my house.
For the originals, the marginal cost of an HBO subscription is still more than I would pay for any boxed DVDs.
So I just buy the DVDs and am patient enough to wait for them.
I expect I am rather weird when it comes to the whole "patience" thing. So I don't knock others for not (being patient).
If I were running HBO then I would be seriously preparing for the post-cable apocalypse.
I would be preparing to do everything the OP said not because "I am a nice guy" but out of concern for my company's continued survival in a changing technology landscape.
> -- Don't have to remember to program the DVR
That's pretty lame. I have some recording rules that are as old as my DVR. You only have to "program the DVR" once. That's the whole value proposition of a DVR.
Set it. Forget it. Let the whole "automation" thing do it's work.
It's a DVR, not a VCR.
Yes. Patents are generally bad. This idea needs to gain more traction. The idea that "patents are good" is actually very harmful.
It encourages people to treat toxic waste like it's candy.
Patents aren't supposed to cover ideas but they really do in practice because if you try to re-create a particular sort of device it is up to you to try and convince the clueless trial court that your fundementally difference device is not a patent violation. I believe that companies have already been bit by this very thing with regards to Tivo workalikes. They tried to design around the patents but got declared "in violation" anyways.
Patents aren't supposed to cover "ideas" but they do in practice.
That is part of why patents should be considered toxic waste and not candy. Every patent stifles innnovation. Every one. The question is whether or not the relevant trade secrets are worth the tradeoff.
This mindless "everything is intellectual property" nonsense is very destructive. It leads to the default view being "it can be owned" and "it should be owned'. The opposite is really true.
> This is not an infringement to freedom of thought
Sure it is. You can't use the labors of your own mind because some jackass got a bad patent on something any CIS student could come up with. Bad patents are THEFT. They are theft from you and from me (assuming you are a CS professional).
Software patents allow Apple and friends to claim ownership of things I have created. This isn't just some theoretical idea or academic idea. Someone like Apple or Amazon can sue me for re-implementing some blatantly obvious thing.
THAT is the very real problem with patents generally and software patents in particular.
Trivial shit is patented granting "exclusive ownership" to whatever lucky company was granted that patent. That means that NO ONE ELSE can recreate it. Doesn't matter if it is trivial shit that 10 companies are re-inventing at the same time.
1 company can get a patent, sue the other 9 and create massive chaos and stagnation in the industry.
You see "search engines" and "television commercials" and we see the necessary table structures and SQL queries.
> Except that neither of those have anything to do with the patent. This is about offering products visible in a scene to viewers
Nonsense. It's exactly the same thing. All they have done is juiced up the data a little bit so that it's more detailed.
Same process. Different data.
Classic case of patenting a mahogany mouse trap.
Still sounds like very mundane data mining and the sort of associated user interfaces that any college intern could whip up. It sound more like a college homework assignment then something that the PTO should be granting a patent for.
Chances are that you can't remove all of the crap simply any other way. It might be a clean copy of what you had before but an OS install is going to come in there somewhere.