You know, I was going to point out that most people have some idea of how their car works, and how to do so safely, even if not the actual details, but then I recalled all the crazies driving down the freeway putting on make up, or shaving (I saw some guy doing that last week, talk about asking for a 'close shave'!), etc.
And then there's my wife, whose car's engine seized a couple of months after we moved into together. When I asked her when her last oil change was, she said (with a straight face), "Two years ago, I think." So I guess I can't really argue with you at all. Sadly.
...Too many people think "Oh Mcaffee was included with my computer, I don't have to get an anti-virus." Not knowing that it was a trial version and it stopped working two years ago.
That's for sure. Back in 2002 and 2003 I worked for a few major PC vendors repairing computers on-site and I can't count how many times I heard that from people (I was only supposed to fix hardware, but a very significant minority of the problems were actually software related). It sort of boggled my mind to see how many people didn't have a basic understanding of their system. And it isn't any better now from what I can tell (glad I'm not in that side of the computer business anymore!)
I haven't used Kubuntu for a long time (I used to, when I first switched from Windows to Linux full time about 2004ish) but sound in Ubuntu has worked perfectly out of the box for me on 5 different systems (except for a recent intermittent problem with Flash that I mentioned in an earlier comment), but I also don't understand the Gnome hate many people have. When I switched to Gnome full time a couple of years ago (just to see what it was like since I hadn't used it at all in many years) and figured out what the differences were, KDE wasn't something I missed at all.
I've had the same hardware since 8.04 (now using 9.10) and I've had almost no problems of any sort, with one exception. Since most of my work in web based I tend to have firefox open continually, and after a while (ranging from a few hours to a day or so) I will lose sound in flash (outside of flash it is fine) until I restart FF, which actually requires me to kill firefox since just closing it doesn't work at that point. Everything else seems to bee exceptionally stable for me (better than 9.04 actually). I wonder if these complaints come from a particular chipset? I used to have problems with sound pretty frequently years ago (with my older system) but I haven't had any (any that can't be traced back to flash anyway) sound based problems in a few years at least with Linux.
Just out of curiosity, while I've done some programming professionally, I haven't touched C or Assembly in well over 15 years, since I needed immediate results and haven't had bosses that allowed anything less, how much work is it to convert something from X86 to ARM? Assuming you didn't write it with the intention of every needing to do so, vs having planned for such a possibility.
I just assume that half of all the comments on here are the result of millions of monkeys in front of million of keyboards, with some sort of quick check to filter out most of the comments without real words in them.
They have it now, it'll take an act of Congress to get rid of it.
Or an act of the courts protecting the constitutional rights of the people.
Hahahahahaha!!!! I'll have to remember that one the next time I need a good laugh. Have you ever considered doing stand up? Since we lost GC, somethings been missing in the world.
Would they though? Enough of them, I mean. I'm sure some percentage would, but I know more than a few people I'd fully expect to react like the government had asked them to cut off their own genitalia, and if you didn't get enough cooperation, asking nicely wouldn't help. I'm not suggesting anything here, just wondering out loud.
Well, on the good side at least someone was able to post the the URL for the retraction. Obviously it isn't perfect (since it was rather far down from the summary) but at least it is there.
I was with Dreamhost a few years ago, too. I switched away to a VPS around the same time some doofus there ran a script that charged everyone for a full year's worth of hosting (was supposed to be run in December, but this was about March or April). And then they ran it again. Fortunately I wasn't one of the people bitten by it (my hosting was paid through that December, so it didn't think I owed anything). But that was a serious enough goof (I mean they ran it twice for Christ's sake) that I decided I didn't want to stick around (they didn't off decent Ruby support at that time, either). I imagine they are better now, and I'm usually all about giving people the benefit of the doubt (far too much according to my friends) but even I have my limits.
...My understanding of social networking involves some kind of game of watching your number of friends increment...
What are these 'friends' you speak of? Are they a theoretical mental construct like this 'outside' I sometimes hear about? Or are they more like irrational numbers, useful to certain academic persuits but useless to most people?
I know you were joking, but you just described our Monday morning routine with these (Windows based) film scanners*, which was gleaned after careful work with the current engineers working for Sunrise.
* This is not an ad, it is a warning, they are a POS, IMHO of using them for 3 years.
...And that if the company goes under they'll give users enough notice for them to get their data off the server.
Why would you assume that? Unless UK law requires it (and IANAL, nor English, so it might for all I know) I wouldn't assume any such thing as it would be rather extraordinary in my experience.
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You know, I was going to point out that most people have some idea of how their car works, and how to do so safely, even if not the actual details, but then I recalled all the crazies driving down the freeway putting on make up, or shaving (I saw some guy doing that last week, talk about asking for a 'close shave'!), etc.
And then there's my wife, whose car's engine seized a couple of months after we moved into together. When I asked her when her last oil change was, she said (with a straight face), "Two years ago, I think." So I guess I can't really argue with you at all. Sadly.
Out of curiosity, how long did your appeal take and how many hoops did you have to jump though?
...Too many people think "Oh Mcaffee was included with my computer, I don't have to get an anti-virus." Not knowing that it was a trial version and it stopped working two years ago.
That's for sure. Back in 2002 and 2003 I worked for a few major PC vendors repairing computers on-site and I can't count how many times I heard that from people (I was only supposed to fix hardware, but a very significant minority of the problems were actually software related). It sort of boggled my mind to see how many people didn't have a basic understanding of their system. And it isn't any better now from what I can tell (glad I'm not in that side of the computer business anymore!)
I haven't used Kubuntu for a long time (I used to, when I first switched from Windows to Linux full time about 2004ish) but sound in Ubuntu has worked perfectly out of the box for me on 5 different systems (except for a recent intermittent problem with Flash that I mentioned in an earlier comment), but I also don't understand the Gnome hate many people have. When I switched to Gnome full time a couple of years ago (just to see what it was like since I hadn't used it at all in many years) and figured out what the differences were, KDE wasn't something I missed at all.
I've had the same hardware since 8.04 (now using 9.10) and I've had almost no problems of any sort, with one exception. Since most of my work in web based I tend to have firefox open continually, and after a while (ranging from a few hours to a day or so) I will lose sound in flash (outside of flash it is fine) until I restart FF, which actually requires me to kill firefox since just closing it doesn't work at that point. Everything else seems to bee exceptionally stable for me (better than 9.04 actually). I wonder if these complaints come from a particular chipset? I used to have problems with sound pretty frequently years ago (with my older system) but I haven't had any (any that can't be traced back to flash anyway) sound based problems in a few years at least with Linux.
That's not a bug, that's a feature!
I think it's called privateering, isn't it?
Just out of curiosity, while I've done some programming professionally, I haven't touched C or Assembly in well over 15 years, since I needed immediate results and haven't had bosses that allowed anything less, how much work is it to convert something from X86 to ARM? Assuming you didn't write it with the intention of every needing to do so, vs having planned for such a possibility.
That's just what they want you to think. They are the East European Ninja's Ninja. First Rule of the Chech Dynasty is you don't talk abou.@$!@$&*
Maybe he's a mute pirate?
Not quite, I meant the one google suggests on that page, though.
Okay, you win. Your prize is 1 internets.
Why am I reminded of the quote about understanding recursion?
I just assume that half of all the comments on here are the result of millions of monkeys in front of million of keyboards, with some sort of quick check to filter out most of the comments without real words in them.
They have it now, it'll take an act of Congress to get rid of it.
Or an act of the courts protecting the constitutional rights of the people.
Hahahahahaha!!!! I'll have to remember that one the next time I need a good laugh. Have you ever considered doing stand up? Since we lost GC, somethings been missing in the world.
Would they though? Enough of them, I mean. I'm sure some percentage would, but I know more than a few people I'd fully expect to react like the government had asked them to cut off their own genitalia, and if you didn't get enough cooperation, asking nicely wouldn't help. I'm not suggesting anything here, just wondering out loud.
Hey, pervs gotta work, too. And rarely do they need a justification for their actions.
Well, on the good side at least someone was able to post the the URL for the retraction. Obviously it isn't perfect (since it was rather far down from the summary) but at least it is there.
I was with Dreamhost a few years ago, too. I switched away to a VPS around the same time some doofus there ran a script that charged everyone for a full year's worth of hosting (was supposed to be run in December, but this was about March or April). And then they ran it again. Fortunately I wasn't one of the people bitten by it (my hosting was paid through that December, so it didn't think I owed anything). But that was a serious enough goof (I mean they ran it twice for Christ's sake) that I decided I didn't want to stick around (they didn't off decent Ruby support at that time, either). I imagine they are better now, and I'm usually all about giving people the benefit of the doubt (far too much according to my friends) but even I have my limits.
...My understanding of social networking involves some kind of game of watching your number of friends increment...
What are these 'friends' you speak of? Are they a theoretical mental construct like this 'outside' I sometimes hear about? Or are they more like irrational numbers, useful to certain academic persuits but useless to most people?
I'm not sure how you were modded insightful. Read the quote carefully. Eventually you'll understand it. Or die. Either way the world is better off*.
*This is a joke. Or not.
I know you were joking, but you just described our Monday morning routine with these (Windows based) film scanners*, which was gleaned after careful work with the current engineers working for Sunrise.
* This is not an ad, it is a warning, they are a POS, IMHO of using them for 3 years.
Sounds like a better premise than the the last ~500 movies of the week on Syfy.
I'd prefer the name "Linux Snippy" for that feature.
...And that if the company goes under they'll give users enough notice for them to get their data off the server.
Why would you assume that? Unless UK law requires it (and IANAL, nor English, so it might for all I know) I wouldn't assume any such thing as it would be rather extraordinary in my experience.