Linux protects the dynamic libraries by putting them in a folder with read only permissions. If you have root access and want to break the libraries, it won't stop you.
...but what was a surprise: Noting that Win7 allows programs like Photoshop to insert themselves stealthily into your firewall exception list
Given the firewall issue...
What's with this "Windows 7 firewall issue" nonsense? This is how it has always worked for the Windows firewall, XP and Vista suffers from the same flaw. It isn't new or surprising for Windows 7.
Who said the war had to be between USA and China? What about a civil war? The Tiananmen Square protests could easily have escalated much worse than they did, and something like that could happen again as the government hasn't really changed its stance.
The most overlooked product you can recycle though, is the Microsoft OS license on the system itself. I don't know how many hundreds of millions have been wasted because people did know that little piece of information.
Maybe it is just me, but I was under the impression that you cannot transfer OEM licences to different hardware (according to the EULA). I believe you can with Retail licences, but not OEM.
What language is !== considered an inequality operator? C, C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby (and the list goes on) all use != as the inequality operator.
most people with touchpad-only laptops use mouse if they can
Wait, your argument revolves around the fact that "proper" mice are better than touchpads, so therefore clit/whatever must be better? I've never seen anyone who prefers the clit over the mouse, so don't try introducing that red herring.
I agree that it would be nice to see at least one netbook with the choice for a clit, but please don't try to use the logical fallacy of the mouse argument to express your opinion.
Why would they have to statically compile it? Adobe is a fairly big customer of the Qt toolkit, which most distros have dynamic libraries already installed (or at least in the repository). Photoshop is an image editor where they are mostly just modifying memory, they shouldn't need to write much (if any) platform specific code if they did it properly (although being a legacy app that's not very likely at this point).
Not even the most demanding new games require 3GB.
On a 32-bit system, an application gets 4GB virtual address space. 2GB of that is kernel space (typically graphics memory related) and the other 2GB is user space. Supreme Commander does hit the 2GB limit now and then, crashing in a flaming heap.
Well, my plan has two distinct advantages over yours:
I haven't announced my plan yet, I merely stated that I disagreed with yours and stated some facts about the upstream situation.
Despite the underlying heritage, most of the core distros behave quite differently and deserve distinction if only to narrow down support questions. Call the name of the OS by the name of the complete package, not the core foundation. We don't go around calling Vista "Windows NT 6.0".
Why would you keep the name Linux for the OS-based-on-the-kernel? The name was given to the kernel itself, and was never intended to refer to the entire operating system. The official name for the environment is GNU/Linux. I'd really like to see you try to convince Richard Stallman to abandon GNU and accept the name Linux for the userspace, and to convince Linus Torvalds to change the name of the kernel to something else. Hell, while you are at it, try convincing Linus to change his own name while you are at it.
The problem isn't that Windows 7 is based on Vista, of course it is. The point is that all Windows 7 seems to be is Vista 1.1.
Windows 2000 was NT 5.0. Windows XP was NT 5.1, and it seems everyone loves that. Vista was NT 6.0 and Windows 7 is NT 6.1. What's your point?
It would be the same if Apple came out with yet another X.something release and called it "OS XI". If they are not releasing a new OS then they shouldn't be pretending that they are.
What, you mean like changing names between Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard? Yeah, Apple would never change the name and sell it as a new product. "OS X" is somewhat analogous to "Windows NT" as it is a family of different releases based on the same technology.
It's the *communicator's* job to be understood, not the comunicatee. (When you think about it, how could it work otherwise?)
You don't seem to be doing a good job of that yourself. You appear to claim that the kernel needs to "get its semantics in order" and call itself something other than Linux to avoid confusion. Why should the kernel drop the Linux name? The name Linux doesn't apply to any other part of the system. Calling the kernel "Bob" will only result in the following situation: Someone comes in, "I tried Bob and my printer didn't work" then the reply is, "Bob is a kernel!!! It doesn't do printers!"
If Linux has been unsuccessful at getting the populace to "reject mass media branding" for the last decade then it needs to give up on that and try something else. Like, for example, coming up with a decent naming scheme that people understand clearly.
It's the GNU folk who are failing to get the public to use the correct name. The kernel (aka "Linux") guys just build a kernel and don't really care what people call the completed distro.
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Linux protects the dynamic libraries by putting them in a folder with read only permissions. If you have root access and want to break the libraries, it won't stop you.
I was locked out of my car a while back, does that mean it is no longer mine?
...but what was a surprise: Noting that Win7 allows programs like Photoshop to insert themselves stealthily into your firewall exception list
Given the firewall issue...
What's with this "Windows 7 firewall issue" nonsense? This is how it has always worked for the Windows firewall, XP and Vista suffers from the same flaw. It isn't new or surprising for Windows 7.
Who said the war had to be between USA and China? What about a civil war? The Tiananmen Square protests could easily have escalated much worse than they did, and something like that could happen again as the government hasn't really changed its stance.
The most overlooked product you can recycle though, is the Microsoft OS license on the system itself. I don't know how many hundreds of millions have been wasted because people did know that little piece of information.
Maybe it is just me, but I was under the impression that you cannot transfer OEM licences to different hardware (according to the EULA). I believe you can with Retail licences, but not OEM.
Every music CD you buy comes without DRM.
Not true at all. Ever heard of the Sony rootkit fiasco? (and that is just one example)
Not really, it can take longer than two years for the second service pack to come along.
Very little choice? How about one of the three largest ISPs in Australia?
No, the argument that we want to make is "Because when we fuck up your computer, you can still fix it". Shit happens, software isn't perfect.
Make that Guy Fawkes masks.
Popular !== good
What language is !== considered an inequality operator? C, C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby (and the list goes on) all use != as the inequality operator.
What would you prefer they be modded as? Informative? It is a perfectly valid statement.
A lawyer with ethics...a novel concept.
Says an Anonymous Coward to everyone's favourite NewYorkCountryLawyer...
most people with touchpad-only laptops use mouse if they can
Wait, your argument revolves around the fact that "proper" mice are better than touchpads, so therefore clit/whatever must be better? I've never seen anyone who prefers the clit over the mouse, so don't try introducing that red herring.
I agree that it would be nice to see at least one netbook with the choice for a clit, but please don't try to use the logical fallacy of the mouse argument to express your opinion.
And abandon the European Swallows?!? I think not!
Some people are old enough to have kids that need their diapers changed, you insensitive clod!
Why would they have to statically compile it? Adobe is a fairly big customer of the Qt toolkit, which most distros have dynamic libraries already installed (or at least in the repository). Photoshop is an image editor where they are mostly just modifying memory, they shouldn't need to write much (if any) platform specific code if they did it properly (although being a legacy app that's not very likely at this point).
Real money, but I lost it all hehe
You should file a bug report about that.
If one big one would go ahead, all have to follow
There have already been a few big games (such as Doom 3, UT2k4), with very little following.
Not even the most demanding new games require 3GB.
On a 32-bit system, an application gets 4GB virtual address space. 2GB of that is kernel space (typically graphics memory related) and the other 2GB is user space. Supreme Commander does hit the 2GB limit now and then, crashing in a flaming heap.
Well, my plan has two distinct advantages over yours:
I haven't announced my plan yet, I merely stated that I disagreed with yours and stated some facts about the upstream situation.
Despite the underlying heritage, most of the core distros behave quite differently and deserve distinction if only to narrow down support questions. Call the name of the OS by the name of the complete package, not the core foundation. We don't go around calling Vista "Windows NT 6.0".
Why would you keep the name Linux for the OS-based-on-the-kernel? The name was given to the kernel itself, and was never intended to refer to the entire operating system. The official name for the environment is GNU/Linux. I'd really like to see you try to convince Richard Stallman to abandon GNU and accept the name Linux for the userspace, and to convince Linus Torvalds to change the name of the kernel to something else. Hell, while you are at it, try convincing Linus to change his own name while you are at it.
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The problem isn't that Windows 7 is based on Vista, of course it is. The point is that all Windows 7 seems to be is Vista 1.1.
Windows 2000 was NT 5.0. Windows XP was NT 5.1, and it seems everyone loves that. Vista was NT 6.0 and Windows 7 is NT 6.1. What's your point?
It would be the same if Apple came out with yet another X.something release and called it "OS XI". If they are not releasing a new OS then they shouldn't be pretending that they are.
What, you mean like changing names between Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard? Yeah, Apple would never change the name and sell it as a new product. "OS X" is somewhat analogous to "Windows NT" as it is a family of different releases based on the same technology.
It's the *communicator's* job to be understood, not the comunicatee. (When you think about it, how could it work otherwise?)
You don't seem to be doing a good job of that yourself. You appear to claim that the kernel needs to "get its semantics in order" and call itself something other than Linux to avoid confusion. Why should the kernel drop the Linux name? The name Linux doesn't apply to any other part of the system. Calling the kernel "Bob" will only result in the following situation:
Someone comes in, "I tried Bob and my printer didn't work" then the reply is, "Bob is a kernel!!! It doesn't do printers!"
If Linux has been unsuccessful at getting the populace to "reject mass media branding" for the last decade then it needs to give up on that and try something else. Like, for example, coming up with a decent naming scheme that people understand clearly.
It's the GNU folk who are failing to get the public to use the correct name. The kernel (aka "Linux") guys just build a kernel and don't really care what people call the completed distro.