...given your inability to express yourself clearly.
How was I unclear?
You are correct that it wasn't a joke, though. I'm not going to lose an auction to someone that has second thoughts about what "Maximum Bid" actually means. If people were willing to bid once and only once, it wouldn't matter if I bid at the last second or at the first.
The alternative is a bidding war. I outbid someone (because it is my actual maximum bid), and they decide to up the ante until either they can't justify bidding higher, or they outbid me. Either way, the price gets driven higher.
I decided I would never go the bidding war route after watching my dad bid on some appliance: He made a bid, and the guy he outbid bid again. My dad commented aloud how stupid the guy was for driving up the price like that... and then bid higher.
We still have what, ten years left to invent an FTL drive and get there to preemptively apologize for reality television, right?
Faster than light merely means... Faster than light. c + 1 cm/second would count, but would get us there mere microseconds before the announcement that we had started the trip. Leaving now, we would need to go at >2c.
Could you be specific about what makes it better? I've always found Synaptic to be a better user experience, even for Windows People, because at the very least, it is safer than downloading random EXEs from the Internet.
Probably user-friendly vs. choice. Like an online gnome-app-install.
Windows isn't very accommodating to the concept of meta-packages, so a user seeking to install, say, Battle for Wesnoth might get confused about all the packages with 'wesnoth' in the name. gnome-app-install, on the other hand, has only a single entry.
We're a bit less subtle about it. We've already admitted to Echelon, extensive wiretapping at the carrier level, etc. We've also got Gitmo, prisoner torture, and two wars going for us. Simple spying barely registers.
So... It's like shooting people in the subway system to distract from the fact that you are a pickpocket?
Without copyright, you would have the right to copy it, but the original problem still stands - you can't fix bugs, because the (additional) source code is not available.
The binary blobs are not the problem. The problem is that reverse engineering those blobs is prohibited.
To most organizations, which are already Windows only anyway, this is meaningless.
It loosens vendor lock-in. One less thing that holds them back from exploring BSD or Linux workstations in the future. Or at least threatening MS with Linux to get better deals on OS licenses.
To most organizations, which communicate with other organizations that use Windows and MS Office anyway, this is meaningless.
No more cross-version and file archive incompatibility. Companies won't be dragged into updating just because ACME is only sending documents in $CURRENT_VERSION's file format.
To most organizations, which already have a support contract with Microsoft and don't want to deal with multiple vendors for the same product, this is meaningless.
Why would they need to deal with multiple vendors? Pick one. As a bonus, the price is set by competition rather than what will eke as much money out of the market as possible.
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Get the RC next time. Practically identical, except for the land rush of release day.
I usually go for a fresh install because I'm not a hardcore user and can get everything back to how I want it without much effort...
I always do a fresh install while retaining my /home partition. (and I may occasionally nuke inconsequential .hidden files)
You're just going to have come on down to the courthouse to see Mr. Altman in action.
Bad idea.
The chances of it ending in assault charges are just too high.
Is that just the result of crappy programming, or is there more to it?
Feature creep?
I'm a military commander and I often find that my troops are invading the wrong houses, bombing schools, et cetera.
Put a bullet in it.
Or... Right-Click the desktop>>Properties (I think. It's been a while.)
...given your inability to express yourself clearly.
How was I unclear?
You are correct that it wasn't a joke, though. I'm not going to lose an auction to someone that has second thoughts about what "Maximum Bid" actually means. If people were willing to bid once and only once, it wouldn't matter if I bid at the last second or at the first.
The alternative is a bidding war. I outbid someone (because it is my actual maximum bid), and they decide to up the ante until either they can't justify bidding higher, or they outbid me. Either way, the price gets driven higher.
I decided I would never go the bidding war route after watching my dad bid on some appliance:
He made a bid, and the guy he outbid bid again. My dad commented aloud how stupid the guy was for driving up the price like that... and then bid higher.
I feel that if Ubuntu made it easier to change to well made themes...
How is System>>Preferences>>Appearance anything but easy?
(Whether what they have in there is well-made or not is a matter of opinion.)
...we're still ok because we have security through obscurity.
Because that argument works so well for closed-source software.
I assume you were going for Funny rather than Interesting.
Windows is it generally handed to you as long as you are sat in front of the machine.
What, the cracker can't reboot into single-user mode?
Last time I checked there were 7.
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Oh dear....
Europe/Asia can be considered one continent, as can North/South America.
See here.
We still have what, ten years left to invent an FTL drive and get there to preemptively apologize for reality television, right?
Faster than light merely means... Faster than light. c + 1 cm/second would count, but would get us there mere microseconds before the announcement that we had started the trip. Leaving now, we would need to go at >2c.
Could you be specific about what makes it better? I've always found Synaptic to be a better user experience, even for Windows People, because at the very least, it is safer than downloading random EXEs from the Internet.
Probably user-friendly vs. choice. Like an online gnome-app-install.
Windows isn't very accommodating to the concept of meta-packages, so a user seeking to install, say, Battle for Wesnoth might get confused about all the packages with 'wesnoth' in the name. gnome-app-install, on the other hand, has only a single entry.
Yeah but they are pretty deadly with handguns ;)
But they're no match for kittens with sniper rifles.
Taking a perfect weightless incompressible solid marbles, and place them in a 1 lightyear long gutter made of a similar perfect inelastic material.
Why go through so much trouble? Make a very long rod. Push and pull it from one end, and you will transmit information.
I hate last-minute eBay bidders
Minute? How slow of reflexes do you have?
I never bid with more than 10 seconds left, and it's usually closer to 5.
Accidentally? How many basement-dwellers that have read too many comics do you think will be throwing themselves in front of this thing?
We're a bit less subtle about it. We've already admitted to Echelon, extensive wiretapping at the carrier level, etc. We've also got Gitmo, prisoner torture, and two wars going for us. Simple spying barely registers.
So... It's like shooting people in the subway system to distract from the fact that you are a pickpocket?
How else do you think it all fits in the basement?
Mod them up?
Was the brief they are rebutting not also in Legalese?
Without copyright, you would have the right to copy it, but the original problem still stands - you can't fix bugs, because the (additional) source code is not available.
The binary blobs are not the problem. The problem is that reverse engineering those blobs is prohibited.
I didn't realize there was a pun until I read your post.
To most organizations, which are already Windows only anyway, this is meaningless.
It loosens vendor lock-in. One less thing that holds them back from exploring BSD or Linux workstations in the future. Or at least threatening MS with Linux to get better deals on OS licenses.
To most organizations, which communicate with other organizations that use Windows and MS Office anyway, this is meaningless.
No more cross-version and file archive incompatibility. Companies won't be dragged into updating just because ACME is only sending documents in $CURRENT_VERSION's file format.
To most organizations, which already have a support contract with Microsoft and don't want to deal with multiple vendors for the same product, this is meaningless.
Why would they need to deal with multiple vendors? Pick one. As a bonus, the price is set by competition rather than what will eke as much money out of the market as possible.