I am so making a big commission selling you this Dell with Vista... for $700, $500, $300? Dude, how am I going to pay for this $400 OS? Please buy my computers, please?
It's hard to act all big while you are busy crying like a little girl about twitter. If you do that, you won't get your big laughs from calling Mac users trendy fags and people might notice that your favorite OS sucks.
You should read this "agreement" as meaning those nicer devices won't happen or will be Vista only. They won't really talk about the details and once you get sucked into a limiting deal like this, there's no bottom to it. I can't imagine why they would rather keep pushing the Vista turd than go with stuff that works, but Vista has to be the leverage they used to make vendors agree to sell eight year old, bloated and featureless software instead of Linux, Open Office, Firefox and friends - all modern and efficient. For some reason, the vendors still see a future in the non free way.
Hopefully, vendors will break out of this or there's one or two that have not signed up for this stupidity.
Why not just run Wine in it's home environment and skip the whole Vista dissaster? It's not like Wine is going to magically get around Vista's DRM and driver issues. Now that Wine does DX 9, you don't need Windows for games.
Trust your neighbors and give them what they need to verify your own intentions. The case here points out the problems of imaginary property more than it makes a case for trusting non free software.
Of course, an ethical country that cared about freedom would not be trading with China in the first place. It is right for us to fear the wrongs committed there as much as we fight those committed here.
I've got bad news for both NBC and their friends at M$ - you have to have an audience that's actually captive before you try to screw them like this. In the mean time, Apple needs to slap them both with an anti-trust lawsuit for the attempted collusion. Both of those greedy pigs are crying about "suffering" "piracy" but most companies would be happy to suffer with their market share. Most companies would also be bright enought to milk it by delivering product that does not suck life.
Zune was never good but this will surely make it complete shit. A network that "squirts" vanishing media and advertisments. A clunky form factor that's trying hard to match competiton from three years ago. About the only thing they could do worse is make it less reliable than it already is. Bingo. They can't make Vista DRM work with quad processors and always on networking, do they really think an embedded device has a snowballs chance in hell? If you bought an old one of these on firesale, learn how to load it with free software because an auto "update" might cripple it.
Only if it's your bird finger and the others are retracted but Blizzard(TM) is not responsible for what your office mates do to you about it. Now send me more money.
Besides bugs, there could be DRM issues and other nonsense with the newer SSDs. The tests were further compromised by "dynamical" partitioning of the copy and again Vista might have been suspicious of the cloned coppies of itself.
To make sure I was working from an even playing field, I installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista Home Premium on the 3.5-in. desktop drive, fully updated the installation and then cloned that drive to each of the SSDs and the 2.5-in. mechanical Seagate drive using Apricorn Inc.'s DriveWire hard drive adapter and Easy Gig II hardware/software package. The software uses dynamic partitioning, making the differences between the 250GB, 200GB and 32GB devices irrelevant. Vista Home Premium occupied about 12GB of space.To make sure I was working from an even playing field, I installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista Home Premium on the 3.5-in. desktop drive, fully updated the installation and then cloned that drive to each of the SSDs and the 2.5-in. mechanical Seagate drive using Apricorn Inc.'s DriveWire hard drive adapter and Easy Gig II hardware/software package. The software uses dynamic partitioning, making the differences between the 250GB, 200GB and 32GB devices irrelevant. Vista Home Premium occupied about 12GB of space.
Windows stuff always makes me cringe because they always end up being a test of how Windows works with a very specific set up rather than an objective and transferable hardware test. Let's just say I'm not impressed by a 32 second fastest Vista boot time and that these results will only work for the computer they were recorded with and will change in less than six months. It would have been nice to see hdparm results and boot times with an OS that lacked DRM issues and could be coppied with dd.
For all of that, the fastest times recorded for look rather typical and lame. His 8GB transfer of 5 thousand files took at best 130 seconds, that's about 66MB/s. This test was clearly limited by the ordinary drive performance in his unspecified "second" drive. Much better burst speeds show that he could have done better but it's hard to say. People who need speed have been using 80MB/S SCSI PCI cards and drives for nearly ten years and some of the better IDE/SATA drives are starting to do better at last. Severs have had 160 and 320 MB/s for almost as long too. The test results seen here could have been obtained on well built box 5 years ago. Much better burst speeds show that he could have done better but it's hard to say. The equipment is not well described and the OS is an ongoing dissaster.
So you just want to ignore the whole botnet thing that's creates the opportunity to screw up? That's a bad idea because everyone makes mistakes. Some make fewer than others but everyone will fail given enough chances. This also points out the futility of Paypal's ill advised action. The platform is insecure so their little green bandaid is not going to fix anything.
Pay Pal does not really have or they have chosen not to publish what browsers are "safe" based on actual fraud. Safari and other blocked browsers would not be at the top of that list, but any version of IE would and let's face it, IE 7 users are pushovers likely to get screwed. Windows itself is unsafe with anyuser, so the whole thing is just stupid.
People who run Safari are not idiots and PayPal does not have any data indicating one browser is any more secure than another. The only basis for this stupid policy is that IE7 has some kind of anti-phishing and they noticed that IE7 users don't abandon PayPal as frequently as users of other browsers. That's it, leap of logic and case closed.
M$ has it's hooks deep into PayPal for them to say crazy shit like that.
Considering their basis for this decision is some kind of market data about fewer IE7 users abandoning their accounts, yes they would be dumb enough to block free browsers that run on more secure platforms than Windoze. The whole phishing problem is one created by M$ - it would not exist without the high percentage of compromised desktop machines that are sending out spam in the first place. IE7 is no more safe than it is standards compliant because the platform itself is easily, remotely compromised with keyloggers that report user information regardless of user activity. This whole thing is stupid.
I got to sit in on a lecture by a high ranking official from the US DOE. His opinion was that paper production was the fifth largest consumer of electricity in the United States. One of his pet projects could turn it around into a net producer of electricity but the mills were not interested and considered the equipment dangerous. Here's a reputable source of information that pegs paper production at 12% of US electricity consumption.
The Chinese government, which is filled with all sorts of Nationalism and Socialism, edits the internet everyday. They want to put themselves in a good light so that the people they are oppressing don't rise up and burn the lot of them at the stake. It would be very nice to hear from the Chinese people themselves, just as it is nice to hear from US people. Sooner or later we will all realize that the only "bad" edits are ones that prevent people like you and me from expressing our real opinions so that some ass can send us around the world to conquer yet more innocent people.
I'm not sure the costs will balance out but community developed and monitored software would be more secure. Sooner or later, the counts go to a computer already and paper ballots have the infamous "hanging chad" uncertainty that fraudsters can work within to steal elections. Paper, though energy intensive and wasteful to make, is still awefully cheap.
Tinfoil wallets make sense if you have a device to check like the RFID Privacy Guard that's been talked about here so often.
As for the "how to catch a thief" problem, you would hope the answer would be police work and a trial, but the grim reality is that all too often the answer it to throw a missile at the suspect in a crowd. Shamefully, some people think this kind of terrorism is a fine substitute for justice. Observation is only the first part of this kind of crime.
Microsoft is not really happy to have anything running on Windows if they can sell the same service. Look at Word Perfect, X11, Netscape, Samba and so on. Anyone who ports to Windoze has had to face the same treadmill of changing specs and sabotage. Now it's AV, Open Office, Safari and iTunes. Just look at the stink people made over something as trivial as *gasp* Apple offering another browser on Windows. Anything that threatens M$ revenue and control will always be under attack.
The OOXML and OLPC sagas are more than enough evidence that Microsoft is the same old M$ we have always known.
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Jobs is not the only person generating excitement. I'd rather people expected miracles of me than corruption.
I am so making a big commission selling you this Dell with Vista ... for $700, $500, $300? Dude, how am I going to pay for this $400 OS? Please buy my computers, please?
It's hard to act all big while you are busy crying like a little girl about twitter. If you do that, you won't get your big laughs from calling Mac users trendy fags and people might notice that your favorite OS sucks.
You should read this "agreement" as meaning those nicer devices won't happen or will be Vista only. They won't really talk about the details and once you get sucked into a limiting deal like this, there's no bottom to it. I can't imagine why they would rather keep pushing the Vista turd than go with stuff that works, but Vista has to be the leverage they used to make vendors agree to sell eight year old, bloated and featureless software instead of Linux, Open Office, Firefox and friends - all modern and efficient. For some reason, the vendors still see a future in the non free way.
Hopefully, vendors will break out of this or there's one or two that have not signed up for this stupidity.
Why not just run Wine in it's home environment and skip the whole Vista dissaster? It's not like Wine is going to magically get around Vista's DRM and driver issues. Now that Wine does DX 9, you don't need Windows for games.
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Trust your neighbors and give them what they need to verify your own intentions. The case here points out the problems of imaginary property more than it makes a case for trusting non free software.
Of course, an ethical country that cared about freedom would not be trading with China in the first place. It is right for us to fear the wrongs committed there as much as we fight those committed here.
What, did twitter spoil the smell for you? Please don't pretend to represent anyone but yourself when you flame RMS in the very same post.
I've got bad news for both NBC and their friends at M$ - you have to have an audience that's actually captive before you try to screw them like this. In the mean time, Apple needs to slap them both with an anti-trust lawsuit for the attempted collusion. Both of those greedy pigs are crying about "suffering" "piracy" but most companies would be happy to suffer with their market share. Most companies would also be bright enought to milk it by delivering product that does not suck life.
Zune was never good but this will surely make it complete shit. A network that "squirts" vanishing media and advertisments. A clunky form factor that's trying hard to match competiton from three years ago. About the only thing they could do worse is make it less reliable than it already is. Bingo. They can't make Vista DRM work with quad processors and always on networking, do they really think an embedded device has a snowballs chance in hell? If you bought an old one of these on firesale, learn how to load it with free software because an auto "update" might cripple it.
It shows.
Only if it's your bird finger and the others are retracted but Blizzard(TM) is not responsible for what your office mates do to you about it. Now send me more money.
Paper infused with a mysterious chemical that turns black on UV exposure. I wonder what that will do for ground water and office worker health.
Besides bugs, there could be DRM issues and other nonsense with the newer SSDs. The tests were further compromised by "dynamical" partitioning of the copy and again Vista might have been suspicious of the cloned coppies of itself.
Windows stuff always makes me cringe because they always end up being a test of how Windows works with a very specific set up rather than an objective and transferable hardware test. Let's just say I'm not impressed by a 32 second fastest Vista boot time and that these results will only work for the computer they were recorded with and will change in less than six months. It would have been nice to see hdparm results and boot times with an OS that lacked DRM issues and could be coppied with dd.
For all of that, the fastest times recorded for look rather typical and lame. His 8GB transfer of 5 thousand files took at best 130 seconds, that's about 66MB/s. This test was clearly limited by the ordinary drive performance in his unspecified "second" drive. Much better burst speeds show that he could have done better but it's hard to say. People who need speed have been using 80MB/S SCSI PCI cards and drives for nearly ten years and some of the better IDE/SATA drives are starting to do better at last. Severs have had 160 and 320 MB/s for almost as long too. The test results seen here could have been obtained on well built box 5 years ago. Much better burst speeds show that he could have done better but it's hard to say. The equipment is not well described and the OS is an ongoing dissaster.
IIS has not been cracked for five years - drool, spittle.
So you just want to ignore the whole botnet thing that's creates the opportunity to screw up? That's a bad idea because everyone makes mistakes. Some make fewer than others but everyone will fail given enough chances. This also points out the futility of Paypal's ill advised action. The platform is insecure so their little green bandaid is not going to fix anything.
Pay Pal does not really have or they have chosen not to publish what browsers are "safe" based on actual fraud. Safari and other blocked browsers would not be at the top of that list, but any version of IE would and let's face it, IE 7 users are pushovers likely to get screwed. Windows itself is unsafe with anyuser, so the whole thing is just stupid.
People who run Safari are not idiots and PayPal does not have any data indicating one browser is any more secure than another. The only basis for this stupid policy is that IE7 has some kind of anti-phishing and they noticed that IE7 users don't abandon PayPal as frequently as users of other browsers. That's it, leap of logic and case closed.
M$ has it's hooks deep into PayPal for them to say crazy shit like that.
Considering their basis for this decision is some kind of market data about fewer IE7 users abandoning their accounts, yes they would be dumb enough to block free browsers that run on more secure platforms than Windoze. The whole phishing problem is one created by M$ - it would not exist without the high percentage of compromised desktop machines that are sending out spam in the first place. IE7 is no more safe than it is standards compliant because the platform itself is easily, remotely compromised with keyloggers that report user information regardless of user activity. This whole thing is stupid.
I got to sit in on a lecture by a high ranking official from the US DOE. His opinion was that paper production was the fifth largest consumer of electricity in the United States. One of his pet projects could turn it around into a net producer of electricity but the mills were not interested and considered the equipment dangerous. Here's a reputable source of information that pegs paper production at 12% of US electricity consumption.
The Chinese government, which is filled with all sorts of Nationalism and Socialism, edits the internet everyday. They want to put themselves in a good light so that the people they are oppressing don't rise up and burn the lot of them at the stake. It would be very nice to hear from the Chinese people themselves, just as it is nice to hear from US people. Sooner or later we will all realize that the only "bad" edits are ones that prevent people like you and me from expressing our real opinions so that some ass can send us around the world to conquer yet more innocent people.
I'm not sure the costs will balance out but community developed and monitored software would be more secure. Sooner or later, the counts go to a computer already and paper ballots have the infamous "hanging chad" uncertainty that fraudsters can work within to steal elections. Paper, though energy intensive and wasteful to make, is still awefully cheap.
Black box voting has been insecure and cost more. Let's hope this stops it.
Tinfoil wallets make sense if you have a device to check like the RFID Privacy Guard that's been talked about here so often.
As for the "how to catch a thief" problem, you would hope the answer would be police work and a trial, but the grim reality is that all too often the answer it to throw a missile at the suspect in a crowd. Shamefully, some people think this kind of terrorism is a fine substitute for justice. Observation is only the first part of this kind of crime.
Microsoft is not really happy to have anything running on Windows if they can sell the same service. Look at Word Perfect, X11, Netscape, Samba and so on. Anyone who ports to Windoze has had to face the same treadmill of changing specs and sabotage. Now it's AV, Open Office, Safari and iTunes. Just look at the stink people made over something as trivial as *gasp* Apple offering another browser on Windows. Anything that threatens M$ revenue and control will always be under attack.
The OOXML and OLPC sagas are more than enough evidence that Microsoft is the same old M$ we have always known.
I thought that was pretty funny. That El Lobo character has got to be joking too to praise IIS like he did.