Why must you take what I said in the worst possible light? Let me make this plain: The fact that there are many, many forums dedicated to solving the many, many problems with Windows does not let Ubuntu off the hook. But it does reduce your argument of "the Ubuntu support forum is full of Ubuntu problems, therefore Ubuntu isn't ready for primetime" to a pile of smoldering ash.
Unless, of course, you think that none of the operating systems available today are ready for primetime.
There is nothing government can accomplish that can't be done better by private entities subject to healthy free market pressures.
Yeah, because deregulating the electric companies worked out so well. Or maybe you'd like to some other company supplying a vital service to pull an Enron?
Re: Digital distribution that's keeping PC gaming alive
There's one other thing that's revived PC gaming for me, and digital distribution does it by default. Apart from games I bought on Steam or from GOG, only one of them doesn't force me to insert the %^&*ing CD in order to play. This is despite the fact that games load just about nothing from CD these days because it's too slow!
Steam gives you an easy way to reach customers, and takes a cut of the profit in return. You think they're taking too much, don't put your game on Steam. Where's the problem here?
Woah, there, buddy. You've got the scientific process exactly the wrong way around. You guess, then you try to disprove it. If you can't, you see if others can disprove it. If they can't, then your guess becomes a working model for some small aspect of the Universe until either evidence contradicting your guess is discovered and someone else makes a better, more refined guess.
That's Science. Constant improvement to our understanding of the Universe via learning that what we thought before wasn't quite right.
Yes, it's cost savings. That's the reason they're switching. Not the fact that Accenture and Microsoft's system is 6-7x slower. Or that very embarrassing outage they suffered under the aforementioned previous system.
Look, we're not trying to bash Microsoft here, but the simple fact is that Microsoft and Accenture worked very closely together to produce a product. They got the LSE to use that product, and touted that as proof that.NET was high-quality, enterprise-ready stuff. LSE then suffered an outage because of a problem in the.NET area of the product. And now LSE is switching away. To a cheaper, faster system, running open source. We don't have to bash Microsoft, the story does it for us.
Will you idiots please stop prefixing stuff with "cyber"? I know you're trying to make yourselves sound all cool and tech-savvy, but all you're really doing is sounding like someone from a bad 80s sci-fi movie.
"Cyberorganization"? What the hell does that even mean? You use computers and computer networks? Computers and computer networks are your primary focus? Big goddamn deal! You don't see Microsoft or IBM or Cisco calling themselves "cybercorporations", do you?
Look at me, I spend a lot of my time on the Internet! I'm a cyberperson!
Except it's not the pirates with pwned machines that suffer, it's whoever the machines are currently targeting. Denying pirates security just increases the size of some Russian guy's botnet and makes life a little nastier for everyone, but it doesn't affect the pirate himself very much.
Of course, this is all assuming the pirated copy didn't come pre-infected...
Well, of course. You can't expect suave, intelligent, and wealthy Mac users to use the same cables as the common rabble, can you? The connector must be smaller, sleeker, and made of shiny white plastic or solid gold, depending on taste.
In this "no replica guns" law you aren't opposed to, what exactly constitutes a "replica gun"? Do you really think prosecuting people for carrying a chunk of metal that just looks vaguely like a gun is OK? What about cap guns? They have a gun shape, and make a loud sound. That seems mildly threatening. Or squirt guns? They still look kind of like a gun, it might upset people. How about an L-shaped piece of cardboard, covered in tin foil, held by a five-year-old who's saying "Bang! Bang!"?
If the main tenet of the Falun Gong really was "suicide rocks!", the Chinese wouldn't need to crack down on them. They'd just have to wait a couple weeks and the problem would solve itself.
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Yes.
Except that, back in 1943, there was a world market for maybe 5 computers.
Why must you take what I said in the worst possible light? Let me make this plain: The fact that there are many, many forums dedicated to solving the many, many problems with Windows does not let Ubuntu off the hook. But it does reduce your argument of "the Ubuntu support forum is full of Ubuntu problems, therefore Ubuntu isn't ready for primetime" to a pile of smoldering ash.
Unless, of course, you think that none of the operating systems available today are ready for primetime.
Go and spend 24 hours or so on Ubuntu's forums before you try and tell me it is stable.
That's your argument against Ubuntu? Do you know just how many forums are dedicated to solving various Windows fuckups?
There is nothing government can accomplish that can't be done better by private entities subject to healthy free market pressures.
Yeah, because deregulating the electric companies worked out so well. Or maybe you'd like to some other company supplying a vital service to pull an Enron?
It can get you quite far, actually, provided the letter you send has each word written on a separate $100 bill.
I'm waiting for OSX 10.14 ("Common Housecat").
It's kind of interesting. I can program at home after a day of programming at work... but only if the languages are different.
Re: Digital distribution that's keeping PC gaming alive
There's one other thing that's revived PC gaming for me, and digital distribution does it by default. Apart from games I bought on Steam or from GOG, only one of them doesn't force me to insert the %^&*ing CD in order to play. This is despite the fact that games load just about nothing from CD these days because it's too slow!
Steam gives you an easy way to reach customers, and takes a cut of the profit in return. You think they're taking too much, don't put your game on Steam. Where's the problem here?
Dr. Seuss goes political.
Woah, there, buddy. You've got the scientific process exactly the wrong way around. You guess, then you try to disprove it. If you can't, you see if others can disprove it. If they can't, then your guess becomes a working model for some small aspect of the Universe until either evidence contradicting your guess is discovered and someone else makes a better, more refined guess.
That's Science. Constant improvement to our understanding of the Universe via learning that what we thought before wasn't quite right.
Yes, it's cost savings. That's the reason they're switching. Not the fact that Accenture and Microsoft's system is 6-7x slower. Or that very embarrassing outage they suffered under the aforementioned previous system.
.NET was high-quality, enterprise-ready stuff. LSE then suffered an outage because of a problem in the .NET area of the product.
Look, we're not trying to bash Microsoft here, but the simple fact is that Microsoft and Accenture worked very closely together to produce a product. They got the LSE to use that product, and touted that as proof that
And now LSE is switching away. To a cheaper, faster system, running open source. We don't have to bash Microsoft, the story does it for us.
Mmmmmm.... royal pita.
Will you idiots please stop prefixing stuff with "cyber"? I know you're trying to make yourselves sound all cool and tech-savvy, but all you're really doing is sounding like someone from a bad 80s sci-fi movie.
"Cyberorganization"? What the hell does that even mean? You use computers and computer networks? Computers and computer networks are your primary focus? Big goddamn deal! You don't see Microsoft or IBM or Cisco calling themselves "cybercorporations", do you?
Look at me, I spend a lot of my time on the Internet! I'm a cyberperson!
Except it's not the pirates with pwned machines that suffer, it's whoever the machines are currently targeting. Denying pirates security just increases the size of some Russian guy's botnet and makes life a little nastier for everyone, but it doesn't affect the pirate himself very much.
Of course, this is all assuming the pirated copy didn't come pre-infected...
I don't think you realize just how many rubber chickens he bought...
Well, of course. You can't expect suave, intelligent, and wealthy Mac users to use the same cables as the common rabble, can you? The connector must be smaller, sleeker, and made of shiny white plastic or solid gold, depending on taste.
If he existed, I'm willing to bet he drank something from a cup at some point before his death.
In this "no replica guns" law you aren't opposed to, what exactly constitutes a "replica gun"? Do you really think prosecuting people for carrying a chunk of metal that just looks vaguely like a gun is OK?
What about cap guns? They have a gun shape, and make a loud sound. That seems mildly threatening.
Or squirt guns? They still look kind of like a gun, it might upset people.
How about an L-shaped piece of cardboard, covered in tin foil, held by a five-year-old who's saying "Bang! Bang!"?
Could've been worse. Could've named it "Carmen Sandiego".
If their DRM only effected pirates...
Ah, but their onerous DRM does effect piracy: It creates new pirates where there weren't any previously!
It's not like the turbines are going to be traveling SSE at 30 MPH.
With a strong enough tornado, they just might.
If the main tenet of the Falun Gong really was "suicide rocks!", the Chinese wouldn't need to crack down on them. They'd just have to wait a couple weeks and the problem would solve itself.
(Mind you, this is with OpenGL composting enabled, ...
Ah, I see you're a fan of the "pile of rotting plants" wallpaper.