No. This is a good example of those evil government regulations that Republicans like to whine about. This isn't some Depression era reaction to ponzi schemes but burdensome government regulation that effectively put a small business out of business.
ANY single $1200 line item expesnse is nothing to trivialize for a small business.
The drug war is no excuse to effectively ban this stuff or effective cold medicines either for that matter.
This problem also afflicted Solaris and Nexstep. Either one of these as well as being quite expensive also didn't support anything but SCSI. I would have been willing to shell out for Solaris x86 but I wasn't going deal with the added cost of SCSI.
MacOS is Unix at only a very crude and rudimentary level. From the point of view of anyone that actually works with multiple Unixen on a regular basis, it's really nothing like Unix. Beyond the bits that it needs to conform to for "certification" purposes, it diverges from all other Unixen quite quickly.
That guy claiming to be a "BSD sysadmin" is on crack.
> Windows beats Linux because, however crappy it often is, it's crappy in entirely consistent ways
Nope. Windows beats Linux because it is essentially the latest version of MS-DOS. 3rd parties predominantly support Microsoft only and there's a vast array of legacy software.
What's funny is that you decided to fixate on licensing since I didn't mention anything about that in my post.
No. I did not attribute the forking behavior of Linux developers to the license. So it may be a purely cultural thing.
It might also be an effect of the size of the developer community and that is something where the stated ground rules might make a difference. You might attract more of them if they're assured that no one will pull an "emacs" on them.
An Ivy League school is certainly useful for the whole networking thing. You have to have the right personality type to take advantage of it though. Otherwise it's just wasted money.
>>A large chunk of the enterprise sector uses Linux, as do a large chunk of web servers. > > We were talking about viruses.
No. You were trying to conflate trojans with viruses. They aren't the same thing.
Besides, even if you do get a Unix user to install a trojan it still won't propagate by itself.
The main problem with Windows for which anti-virus is a band-aid is the common practice of running random untrusted binaries without the knowledge or consent of the end user. The system has been specifically designed to do this under the guise of "usability".
Eliminate that variety of nonsense and you eliminate a great deal of the need for "proactive prevention measures".
I'm not so sure that a place like MIT is any more theoretical than some land grant college. It's certainly more stressful though. It's also a lot more expensive. You will likely be saddled with a much larger debt when your done.
What advantage you get might not be worth the cost.
The OP isn't talking about a "gaming laptop" but a laptop capable of limited casual gaming. This is perfectly within scope for the target demographic.
I see the total lack of support my i945 Minis have in this regard and wonder how the MBA gets treated. Extant products may simply tell you to take a hike if you try to install them on a MBA.
The Apple netbook should be able play some 5 year old RTS port.
Are you sure it wasn't because the MC68000 was insanely expensive when compared to the Intel part that IBM eventually chose? The Motorola part was a much more capable bit of tech and it was priced accordingly.
Volume and secondary sources were likely relatively minor concerns.
Unless you are some clueless granny who only ever clicks on the OK button, you really have no excuse for a Linux installer not doing exactly what you want.
The real problem with BSD as a mass movement has always been it's approach and management style. Blaming those old lawsuits are just a sort of "lost cause" excuse.
What really gave Linux the advantage was the cooperative development approach with "hobbyists". The chaos of multiple different versions that many people like to knock Linux for is precisely the advantage it had over BSD and probably still has. People fork Linux for their own reasons and make tweaks and improvements on it. Eventually those changes propagate to other distributions and the whole thing gets better.
It's the Cathedral and the Bazzar.
In my own case, Linux was simply the first Unix that supported the hardware I had at the time.
When Slackware botched the 2.0.0 release, it was nice that Redhat was there to help pick up the pieces.
For backup purposes, a hard drive would probably be much more effective. Use the one in the laptop or an external one. Use two if you are really paranoid.
DVD seems like a ugly backup medium if you're on the road.
Ripping an entire season of some show is not that much of a burden. Although admittedly there aren't really any good "shiny happy" GUI tools for this. It's something that's easily automated once you get past the "metadata" hurde.
Of course this requires having a little Script Fu.
Admittedly, your average Windows or Mac user isn't.
So yeah, the mundane case here will be a bunch of spinny disks and some device capable of dealing with them. All of us geeking out about our highly geeky solutions (even Handbrake qualifies here) isn't terribly relevant to the market at large.
Plus spinny disk media takes up a lot of space. Even compressed, it's perhaps not something you want crufting up your tiny SSD on a MBA with.
Alternatively, I have a Mac that sits and collects dust because it doesn't live up to the hype. I don't "need" it for many of the reasons that fanboys like to crow about. Plus the thing is underpowered and difficult to deal with.
The only real valid part of you comment is "software functionality".
For that, Windows has a far greater advantage in both apps and games as well as having a less "walled garden" mindset.
Apple products want you to adapt to them as much as the worst Unix interfaces out there. They just look prettier while they are doing it.
You never "left Linux". If you had ever ran it, you would have half a clue.
Although a decent machine should not start at $2400.
Now if you are going to run anything in a bottle, Windows is the one to do it with. It's a menace on bare metal and is best treated as a quarantined contagion regardless of what hardware you run.
What do you expect the average Apple Store shopper to do with fink and homebrew exactly? You might as well ask them to BUILD their own software. Crowing over tools like that in the n00b OS is really stupid.
The App Store is relatively new and is not nearly as flexible as it's Linux counterparts.
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If that is revenue rather than profits, then it probably isn't.
None of you have ever run a small business and it shows.
No. This is a good example of those evil government regulations that Republicans like to whine about. This isn't some Depression era reaction to ponzi schemes but burdensome government regulation that effectively put a small business out of business.
ANY single $1200 line item expesnse is nothing to trivialize for a small business.
The drug war is no excuse to effectively ban this stuff or effective cold medicines either for that matter.
The fact that the bullet doesn't ricochet is not the be the "cop killer" part.
Perhaps the founding fathers should have included a constitutional right to farm equipment and seed saving. They probably didn't forsee the need.
> No. You are describing an application program
No. I am describing a piece of OS vendor bundleware. It's not "just another random app".
Of course Apple sets the tone for their platform just like Microsoft does.
This problem also afflicted Solaris and Nexstep. Either one of these as well as being quite expensive also didn't support anything but SCSI. I would have been willing to shell out for Solaris x86 but I wasn't going deal with the added cost of SCSI.
MacOS is Unix at only a very crude and rudimentary level. From the point of view of anyone that actually works with multiple Unixen on a regular basis, it's really nothing like Unix. Beyond the bits that it needs to conform to for "certification" purposes, it diverges from all other Unixen quite quickly.
That guy claiming to be a "BSD sysadmin" is on crack.
As someone who has tried to treat MacOS as "just another Unix", I say that you are no BSD sysadmin at all.
If MacOS were really a Unix, then iMovie would not care whether my video came directly from the camera or if it took a trip on another platform first.
The fact that MacOS is built on top of a Unix does not make it Unix.
> Windows beats Linux because, however crappy it often is, it's crappy in entirely consistent ways
Nope. Windows beats Linux because it is essentially the latest version of MS-DOS. 3rd parties predominantly support Microsoft only and there's a vast array of legacy software.
What's funny is that you decided to fixate on licensing since I didn't mention anything about that in my post.
No. I did not attribute the forking behavior of Linux developers to the license. So it may be a purely cultural thing.
It might also be an effect of the size of the developer community and that is something where the stated ground rules might make a difference. You might attract more of them if they're assured that no one will pull an "emacs" on them.
Bush II is a legacy moron. Obama is the "poor kid scholarship student".
Both examples are a demonstration of the principle and how it works out in practice.
Yes. Legacy. He had it beforehand.
An Ivy League school is certainly useful for the whole networking thing. You have to have the right personality type to take advantage of it though. Otherwise it's just wasted money.
>>A large chunk of the enterprise sector uses Linux, as do a large chunk of web servers.
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> We were talking about viruses.
No. You were trying to conflate trojans with viruses. They aren't the same thing.
Besides, even if you do get a Unix user to install a trojan it still won't propagate by itself.
The main problem with Windows for which anti-virus is a band-aid is the common practice of running random untrusted binaries without the knowledge or consent of the end user. The system has been specifically designed to do this under the guise of "usability".
Eliminate that variety of nonsense and you eliminate a great deal of the need for "proactive prevention measures".
I'm not so sure that a place like MIT is any more theoretical than some land grant college. It's certainly more stressful though. It's also a lot more expensive. You will likely be saddled with a much larger debt when your done.
What advantage you get might not be worth the cost.
The OP isn't talking about a "gaming laptop" but a laptop capable of limited casual gaming. This is perfectly within scope for the target demographic.
I see the total lack of support my i945 Minis have in this regard and wonder how the MBA gets treated. Extant products may simply tell you to take a hike if you try to install them on a MBA.
The Apple netbook should be able play some 5 year old RTS port.
Are you sure it wasn't because the MC68000 was insanely expensive when compared to the Intel part that IBM eventually chose? The Motorola part was a much more capable bit of tech and it was priced accordingly.
Volume and secondary sources were likely relatively minor concerns.
Linux doesn't insist on anything.
Unless you are some clueless granny who only ever clicks on the OK button, you really have no excuse for a Linux installer not doing exactly what you want.
The whole lawsuit thing really isn't relevant.
The real problem with BSD as a mass movement has always been it's approach and management style. Blaming those old lawsuits are just a sort of "lost cause" excuse.
What really gave Linux the advantage was the cooperative development approach with "hobbyists". The chaos of multiple different versions that many people like to knock Linux for is precisely the advantage it had over BSD and probably still has. People fork Linux for their own reasons and make tweaks and improvements on it. Eventually those changes propagate to other distributions and the whole thing gets better.
It's the Cathedral and the Bazzar.
In my own case, Linux was simply the first Unix that supported the hardware I had at the time.
When Slackware botched the 2.0.0 release, it was nice that Redhat was there to help pick up the pieces.
Get a bigger memory card.
For backup purposes, a hard drive would probably be much more effective. Use the one in the laptop or an external one. Use two if you are really paranoid.
DVD seems like a ugly backup medium if you're on the road.
Some brands of optical drive have been known to do really stupid things. The name LG comes to mind for some reason.
I used to use DVDs for disposable media storage before USB thumbdrives and hard drives became cheap, plentiful, and large enough to displace them.
DVDs are still tops when it comes to being cheap and disposable.
They beat thumbdrives by at least 20:1.
Ripping an entire season of some show is not that much of a burden. Although admittedly there aren't really any good "shiny happy" GUI tools for this. It's something that's easily automated once you get past the "metadata" hurde.
Of course this requires having a little Script Fu.
Admittedly, your average Windows or Mac user isn't.
So yeah, the mundane case here will be a bunch of spinny disks and some device capable of dealing with them. All of us geeking out about our highly geeky solutions (even Handbrake qualifies here) isn't terribly relevant to the market at large.
Plus spinny disk media takes up a lot of space. Even compressed, it's perhaps not something you want crufting up your tiny SSD on a MBA with.
Alternatively, I have a Mac that sits and collects dust because it doesn't live up to the hype. I don't "need" it for many of the reasons that fanboys like to crow about. Plus the thing is underpowered and difficult to deal with.
The only real valid part of you comment is "software functionality".
For that, Windows has a far greater advantage in both apps and games as well as having a less "walled garden" mindset.
Apple products want you to adapt to them as much as the worst Unix interfaces out there. They just look prettier while they are doing it.
> It seems to me that Linux is a poor mans Mac.
Linux is Unix.
You never "left Linux". If you had ever ran it, you would have half a clue.
Although a decent machine should not start at $2400.
Now if you are going to run anything in a bottle, Windows is the one to do it with. It's a menace on bare metal and is best treated as a quarantined contagion regardless of what hardware you run.
What do you expect the average Apple Store shopper to do with fink and homebrew exactly? You might as well ask them to BUILD their own software. Crowing over tools like that in the n00b OS is really stupid.
The App Store is relatively new and is not nearly as flexible as it's Linux counterparts.