If you do this right, you can cover any blemishes on the phone with cardboard and glitter glue, and never admit that it was a used iphone in the first place. Did that for my daughter when we bought her a gamecube from "Santa" a few years ago. The nice old guy set the thing up, put the pokemon skin on it and everything, and she never new it wasn't brand new.
There are plenty of geeks who buy Macs. It is, underneath, a fully functional and powerful Unix OS. The iPhone, on the other hand, really was never intended for real geeks, or even wannabe geeks. OSX on a Mac has none of the restrictions of the iPhone, and can be a true joy for a Unix geek.
If you are looking at a difference of a few dozen linux installs and thousands of Windows installs, then certainly your own comfort level and experience with windows installs must color your perceptions on this. I when I install linux, more of my hardware just works from the gate, but the stuff that doesn't work more than makes up for it with difficulty level. I would call the two experiences (Windows install vs Linux install)
Again, I also have vastly more experience with Windows than with Linux, so I would expect the difficulty gap to close as my own use of the system starts to catch up to Windows, whereas I would say I am probably at this point as proficient at installing Windows as I will ever get, so eventually I would expect to find Linux easier to install in the long run.
Microsoft was never even accused, let alone convicted, of holding a monopoly on console gaming. Monopoly in one market does not translate to monopoly in all markets.
In what religion does God not either have no competitors to speak of or has/will/is completely destroying them?
Does Google think it's BETTER than God?
No one really claims that unions were never relevant, the issue is that they have outlived their purpose, and are now nothing more than one more drain on budgets that can't afford them.
Another point, an author who uses a typewriter probably only needed one his entire computer. If a computer lasts you 5 years, and your career is, say 25 years long, you have gone through 5 computers, assuming you had one at any given time, more if you used desktop and laptop. This significantly decreases the individual value of each one, as the computer owned by so and so is one of 5+, not just a single item.
I'm not sure that this is the case. The marketing possibilities of the US Air Force using PS3s must be worth more than the hardware. I doubt anyone at Sony is particularly upset.
Why is it freedom of religion is so sacred in these modern times?
Because, only with the freedom to believe freely do you have your freedom not to believe. The intolerance you preach is as bad as any Catholic/Muslim/CoS etc.
The problem with this is that it is not that far a jump from "defective" to "undesirable."
People cannot be given the choice of who gets to breed, we as a species are far too immature.
Actually, if he used school equipment than the school isn't a third party. Also, Even the summary says he resigned, not fired, although I am not sure he had an option, I doubt he has any legal recourse here.
I think the issue people have against Truecrypt isn't the philisophical ideal of OSS, but that without an open source license there is no guarantee that the source will remain available. Considering that the source is floating around available, I don't really think this is much of a worry.
Heck, if nothing else think of it as insurance: what if there is a God?
The problem I have with forcing baptism on a child (not that I see any harm in it) because "what if" is this:
You baptize a baby because that child might die before making becoming old enough to make that choice for themselves and would thus be sent straight to Hell. Why in the hell would you teach children to worship a being so petty and malicious that he would send a child to hell for the sin of not being baptized?
The BSA rules for rewards that the person turning in the company was never complicit in the piracy. If he installed any of the pirated software as ordered, he won't get a dime.
I keep them in my blackberry, which is also password protected and set to wipe after 5 failures. Works well enough for me, as I access the blackberry so often I almost can't forget that password. Not sure if other smart phones have the auto wipe feature.
But it will be okay, because they will be shouted down by OSS and Apple fans, finally make use of the more embarassing members of those two communities.
It might be interesting to see if the open source parts of Safari (webkit) had more vulnerabilities listed (reported) than the closed. Another thing to point out is that IE and Opera have only their own eyeballs on the code to find and fix vulnerabilities, whereas FF and (for parts of it) Apple have the eyes of anyone interested. I would think that this alone would make finding vulnerabilities a much faster process, no gaming even needed.
Anybody that allows their darling pet to run around free, without supervision, doesn't really love that dog and deserves to have it shot. No law is needed nor is the Sheriff's time wasted.
And the animal, who didn't know any better, does he deserve to die over this? wow....
I said this earlier, but this doesn't parse. Windows needs a different set of drivers to run AMD or Intel based prcessors, and those are also both x86.
If I recall correctly (I don't really care enough to look it up) wasn't there a problem when XP SP3 came out that it broke certain machines that were using an intel driver on an AMD chip? This would suggest that their are technical issues to supporting multiple x86 processors, and that all you people saying "Atom is x86 so its just like Inte" are makiing a rather large assumption?
That, and they do "explicitly state their product's system requirements and let the consumer decide"
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If you do this right, you can cover any blemishes on the phone with cardboard and glitter glue, and never admit that it was a used iphone in the first place. Did that for my daughter when we bought her a gamecube from "Santa" a few years ago. The nice old guy set the thing up, put the pokemon skin on it and everything, and she never new it wasn't brand new.
There are plenty of geeks who buy Macs. It is, underneath, a fully functional and powerful Unix OS. The iPhone, on the other hand, really was never intended for real geeks, or even wannabe geeks. OSX on a Mac has none of the restrictions of the iPhone, and can be a true joy for a Unix geek.
If you are looking at a difference of a few dozen linux installs and thousands of Windows installs, then certainly your own comfort level and experience with windows installs must color your perceptions on this. I when I install linux, more of my hardware just works from the gate, but the stuff that doesn't work more than makes up for it with difficulty level. I would call the two experiences (Windows install vs Linux install) Again, I also have vastly more experience with Windows than with Linux, so I would expect the difficulty gap to close as my own use of the system starts to catch up to Windows, whereas I would say I am probably at this point as proficient at installing Windows as I will ever get, so eventually I would expect to find Linux easier to install in the long run.
Microsoft was never even accused, let alone convicted, of holding a monopoly on console gaming. Monopoly in one market does not translate to monopoly in all markets.
In what religion does God not either have no competitors to speak of or has/will/is completely destroying them? Does Google think it's BETTER than God?
Please look up the definition of "monotheism"
It certainly predates DOS, so of the two optons, ls came first.
No one really claims that unions were never relevant, the issue is that they have outlived their purpose, and are now nothing more than one more drain on budgets that can't afford them.
Another point, an author who uses a typewriter probably only needed one his entire computer. If a computer lasts you 5 years, and your career is, say 25 years long, you have gone through 5 computers, assuming you had one at any given time, more if you used desktop and laptop. This significantly decreases the individual value of each one, as the computer owned by so and so is one of 5+, not just a single item.
It's a processor bug exposed by a new hypervisor technique used by MS and nobody else.
I'm not sure why you want to blame this on MS.
Well, it is kind of what he do around here...
I'm not sure that this is the case. The marketing possibilities of the US Air Force using PS3s must be worth more than the hardware. I doubt anyone at Sony is particularly upset.
Why is it freedom of religion is so sacred in these modern times?
Because, only with the freedom to believe freely do you have your freedom not to believe. The intolerance you preach is as bad as any Catholic/Muslim/CoS etc.
The problem with this is that it is not that far a jump from "defective" to "undesirable." People cannot be given the choice of who gets to breed, we as a species are far too immature.
Gateway does, or at least has for me.
I read Slashdot to try to wise myself up.
There is so much wrong with this statement that I don't have a clue where to begin....
Actually, if he used school equipment than the school isn't a third party. Also, Even the summary says he resigned, not fired, although I am not sure he had an option, I doubt he has any legal recourse here.
I think the issue people have against Truecrypt isn't the philisophical ideal of OSS, but that without an open source license there is no guarantee that the source will remain available. Considering that the source is floating around available, I don't really think this is much of a worry.
Heck, if nothing else think of it as insurance: what if there is a God?
The problem I have with forcing baptism on a child (not that I see any harm in it) because "what if" is this: You baptize a baby because that child might die before making becoming old enough to make that choice for themselves and would thus be sent straight to Hell. Why in the hell would you teach children to worship a being so petty and malicious that he would send a child to hell for the sin of not being baptized?
The BSA rules for rewards that the person turning in the company was never complicit in the piracy. If he installed any of the pirated software as ordered, he won't get a dime.
Even better, make all those other passwords some sort of produce and write "grocery list" at the top.. best if written on the back of an envelope.
I keep them in my blackberry, which is also password protected and set to wipe after 5 failures. Works well enough for me, as I access the blackberry so often I almost can't forget that password. Not sure if other smart phones have the auto wipe feature.
But it will be okay, because they will be shouted down by OSS and Apple fans, finally make use of the more embarassing members of those two communities.
It might be interesting to see if the open source parts of Safari (webkit) had more vulnerabilities listed (reported) than the closed. Another thing to point out is that IE and Opera have only their own eyeballs on the code to find and fix vulnerabilities, whereas FF and (for parts of it) Apple have the eyes of anyone interested. I would think that this alone would make finding vulnerabilities a much faster process, no gaming even needed.
Anybody that allows their darling pet to run around free, without supervision, doesn't really love that dog and deserves to have it shot. No law is needed nor is the Sheriff's time wasted.
And the animal, who didn't know any better, does he deserve to die over this? wow....
I said this earlier, but this doesn't parse. Windows needs a different set of drivers to run AMD or Intel based prcessors, and those are also both x86.
If I recall correctly (I don't really care enough to look it up) wasn't there a problem when XP SP3 came out that it broke certain machines that were using an intel driver on an AMD chip? This would suggest that their are technical issues to supporting multiple x86 processors, and that all you people saying "Atom is x86 so its just like Inte" are makiing a rather large assumption? That, and they do "explicitly state their product's system requirements and let the consumer decide"