And all it really took in the end, before I was lynched by the "respectable" Matthew Garrett, because he can't stand a smartass....was a really hot cup of tea.:P
It never gets trolled by Anonymous Coward.
Move along, move along...
Garrett's stuff doesn't get into the kernel unless the maintainers of the kernel like it, I've seen some of his stuff bounce.
The man is not God.
Carl Brunning told me that guy is in some amount of trouble with him, and with Foxconn's home office.
He was in California btw, methink he needs to drop teh medical marijuana in the mail (to yours truly) and run off and get my answer.:P
The XBOX 360 failures were due to Microsoft cheaping out on the design.
Microsoft already sells consoles as a loss leader, so if they can save $1 on a part that goes into 100 million units, woohooo! Evilness=Profit
In this case, the zip archive for the test BIOS is only two kilobytes larger than the bundle for the one that only likes Windows which was 683 kilobytes already.
So it amounts to a few kilobytes of code that I guess nobody at AMI or motherboard makers like Foxconn/ASUS/MSI cared about, cause they jsut wanted a shippable BIOS in time for Vista.
Maybe I was one of the idiots here, maybe all sides were right about something though.
And maybe Foxconn just basically said "go away" because they didn't think so many people cared.
In the end, the biggest motherboard maker has said they won't ignore us.
So we all get something out of this in that fewer people will have a malfunctioning computer they want to slap, that needs Vista to run properly.
Now for some beer, hooray, beer!
Is to pretend like you're a satellite TV repair man and offer everyone in the San Fernando valley free upgrades so you can secretly turn their dishes into a distributed radio telescope to collect data to foil the plans of the space aliens in human suits that are running pollution factories in Mexico to raise the temperature of the Earth and wipe us all out.
In one corner: Soccer Mom talking on her cell phone in her Hummer H3.
In the other corner: Driver in the VW One-Liter.
Guess which one they give up counting body parts on, and which one they're trying to pull out of the vehicle because she's still talking on her cell phone.
These for pay distributions like Linspire and Xandros make sure they can never get big, they try to turn Linux into cheap Windows on the assumption that there are all these potential users out there.
What they end up doing it alienating 99% of the market cause all they have left are the people that want rid of Windows, are too impatient or stupid to learn real Linux, and too cheap to buy a Mac.
Thats another reason why Microsoft bribes these little nothing distributions into signing that "pact", easy target.
You can just keep stuff like OpenOffice.org on a USB thumb drive, or be a real man and just take your whole operating system with you (Fedora on a USB thumb drive).
Why anyone, or a business for that matter, would use Google apps or something, is beyond me.
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And all it really took in the end, before I was lynched by the "respectable" Matthew Garrett, because he can't stand a smartass....was a really hot cup of tea. :P
It never gets trolled by Anonymous Coward. Move along, move along... Garrett's stuff doesn't get into the kernel unless the maintainers of the kernel like it, I've seen some of his stuff bounce. The man is not God.
Carl Brunning told me that guy is in some amount of trouble with him, and with Foxconn's home office. He was in California btw, methink he needs to drop teh medical marijuana in the mail (to yours truly) and run off and get my answer. :P
The XBOX 360 failures were due to Microsoft cheaping out on the design. Microsoft already sells consoles as a loss leader, so if they can save $1 on a part that goes into 100 million units, woohooo! Evilness=Profit In this case, the zip archive for the test BIOS is only two kilobytes larger than the bundle for the one that only likes Windows which was 683 kilobytes already. So it amounts to a few kilobytes of code that I guess nobody at AMI or motherboard makers like Foxconn/ASUS/MSI cared about, cause they jsut wanted a shippable BIOS in time for Vista.
Maybe I was one of the idiots here, maybe all sides were right about something though. And maybe Foxconn just basically said "go away" because they didn't think so many people cared. In the end, the biggest motherboard maker has said they won't ignore us. So we all get something out of this in that fewer people will have a malfunctioning computer they want to slap, that needs Vista to run properly. Now for some beer, hooray, beer!
It's from Apple, it's secure from day four hundred eighty-One.
We, the robot masters, your overlords.......hereby serve you with a DMCA Take-Down.
Is to pretend like you're a satellite TV repair man and offer everyone in the San Fernando valley free upgrades so you can secretly turn their dishes into a distributed radio telescope to collect data to foil the plans of the space aliens in human suits that are running pollution factories in Mexico to raise the temperature of the Earth and wipe us all out.
Does that mean in 65 million years, we'll have cars powered by extinct soccer moms?
In one corner: Soccer Mom talking on her cell phone in her Hummer H3. In the other corner: Driver in the VW One-Liter. Guess which one they give up counting body parts on, and which one they're trying to pull out of the vehicle because she's still talking on her cell phone.
Lobbying from the PUBLIC seems to have an effect there.
"and could not disconnect for MONTHS" I wiah AOL had that problem 10 years ago when I was using it. :P
These for pay distributions like Linspire and Xandros make sure they can never get big, they try to turn Linux into cheap Windows on the assumption that there are all these potential users out there. What they end up doing it alienating 99% of the market cause all they have left are the people that want rid of Windows, are too impatient or stupid to learn real Linux, and too cheap to buy a Mac. Thats another reason why Microsoft bribes these little nothing distributions into signing that "pact", easy target.
"She got 1000 Valium for $4." Of course that may have been the Wal-Mart pharmacy helping her out with the day-to-day. Doing Good Works......
You can just keep stuff like OpenOffice.org on a USB thumb drive, or be a real man and just take your whole operating system with you (Fedora on a USB thumb drive). Why anyone, or a business for that matter, would use Google apps or something, is beyond me.
Al Gore sues Mcdonalds, because he not only invented the internet, but wifi and "premium coffee" too.