Microsoft seems to understand that complications at installation time (dual booting? preserving an existing data partition?) can sour one's experience pretty thoroughly.
That's how we make Linux take over the desktop! Erase all partitions, and always use the whole hard disk! None of this "Mount / on target partition" business! Just wipe out Windows when Linux installs! Clearly, that's the remedy suggested here.
Except for the part where, y'know, not being able to dual-boot would actually kind of suck. I still need to play Touhou Project outside of school.
But that's really the only reason I keep Windows around (Touhou does not run perfectly in Wine, in my experience). If I didn't need the games, I would destroy that partition.
I'm sure there are other good reasons to dual-boot, too. Like, maybe you want a DEB-based system and a RPM-based system or something, right? Debian and Fedora, side-by-side? That doesn't sound useful? What if a binary is only available in one format and not the other? More reason to dual-boot than just "I need Windows for this one specific task."
M$ should be worried when FOSS can produce this grade of product
Agreed. Very much agreed. Last week, a friend of mine caught Conficker on his XP laptop. He had me wipe the hard disk and install Kubuntu 8.04.2. I showed him what I did, so that he would know how to do it. I have been showing him the basics of functioning in his new OS.
And I really think that, after overcoming a few differences, he'll be back to his old level of functionality (writing school papers, browsing Internet, playing media) in no time. I'll be there to get him going, and then we can learn our new environment together.
I just dual-booted my laptop for the first time around the beginning of the year. So far, my Linux experience (starting with Ubuntu 8.04.1) have been very, very positive. It really feels like it can replace Microsoft Windows for day-to-day use. In fact, that's part of the reason we used a Linux-based OS to fix my friend's laptop - it was quick, easy, and provides 95% of the same functionality, plus some nice features not found in Microsoft Windows (like the Package Manager). Easier than pirating a Windows ISO to replace his infected installation.
[Linux] has the same flaw as Macintosh OS (tends to be ignored by software vendors), but far far worse.
Can you please explain to me how this is a flaw in Linux/Macintosh and not a flaw in the software vendors? How is it the fault of Linux/Macintosh if developers choose not to develop for those platforms? Is it because Linux/Mac haven't grabbed a proportion of the market share to rival that of MS Windows? Is it because Linux/Mac platforms are any harder to develop for?
I honestly don't see how this is the fault of Linux or Macintosh. Please explain?
This Lent (2009), I gave up Mountain Dew. I was drinking 40 FL oz. per day of the stuff, which totaled to almost 200 mg/day of caffeine. I always hated weekends, because I couldn't get enough caffeine/sugar during those two days between Friday and Monday. I decided to break out of this.
I replaced my Mountain Dew consumption with bottled green tea. Felt great. Healthier drink in general, and less caffeine, and I felt great about it.
I picked up a bottle of Mt. Dew and a bottle of green tea one day in the school cafeteria, and looked at the nutrition stuff on the labels. The Mt. Dew had literally three times the caffeine of the green tea! I was disgusted. I'm not drinking that much Mt. Dew that often ever again. That much caffeine is a luxury, to be enjoyed on occasion.
Also, I have anxiety issues. This is also better for me in that respect.
I feel a lot better about myself in general now. I highly advise reducing caffeine consumption to about 100 mg/day or less, like I have now. That's tolerable by the body if you go a few days without it.
Sure, there's no compelling reason to switch to Vista, but I can sum up in three words why people will want to switch to Win7: Shiny. New. Taskbar.
There is no way that this thing wasn't a good idea. Works well, seems to use the space properly, and looks really damn cool.
That, combined with the fact that ever since I installed a Win7 build the OS itself has not yet broken (for example: holy crap, stable Windows explorer!), will sell Windows 7!:D
Okay, now would you like to present any definitive proof? Microsoft still has, like, another 6 months or so to break Win7 before they release it. What sort of powers of prophecy do you have that tell you that Win7 will be faster than Vista?
Your post should have read something like this:
Win7 = Vista, plus a pretty skin and a service pack. Therefore, Windows 7 will probably be faster and more stable than Vista.
Had your post read like that, I would have absolutely no issue with it.
And guess what - modify KDE a little, and this would be exactly what you get.
As an April Fools' joke, I left live CDs running Kubuntu 8.04.2 live sessions in school computers. I had to leave immediately after, but according to a friend of mine, all people noticed was that there was no flash player installed. Other than that, no one was really lost at all.
This was at a community college that is 100% Windows XP machines.
Replace some of the images in KDE with the MSWindows equivalents (like, for example, replacing the K Menu icon with the one for the MS Start menu), and it can and will look exactly like Windows.
Not quite. History in general can still be applied to the modern day, so that we can hopefully avoid repeating things like the situations leading up to WWI or WWII or similar bad times.
However, I see no viable application of this particular story to today. Win95 is obsolete. Floppy disks are obsolete. Everything about this article simply does not matter.
Now, given that I'm really not any sort of computer expert yet (so I don't know this, myself), can you tell me where to apply lessons from Win95 almost having floppy autoplay to today's world of computers? I don't see a situation that will be influenced by this particular almost-added feature.
Does this mean that Google reserves the right to filter my web browsing experience in Chrome (without my consent to boot)?
(Emphasis added)
IANAL. Does anyone remember if clicking "I Agree" actually constitutes a legally enforceable contract? I think I saw a/. story one day where it was something like where the EULA appeared or something that determined legal enforceability. Like, if it's after you pay for the product and you have to unseal it to read the Agreement (so the product can't be returned), then it can't be enforced or something.... Man, I wish I wasn't too lazy to look this one up....
Anyway, I'm pretty sure you have the opportunity to freely read and freely agree to Chrome's EULA before you do anything with Google (other than visit their domain in your web browser of choice). Seems like this would not be, by any means, filtering without the user's consent.
P.S.: Story is tagged "troll". I just wrote all this out. I hate how easily trolled I am.... >_
P.P.S.: Anyone else here think that Steve Ballmer (or anyone else with good reason to hate Google/Chrome) might be the "anonymous reader" who submits crap like this? Wouldn't surprise me.
- What's wrong with discussing it for the sake of nerdy discussion?
Only the fact that for a discussing something this old, one must be extremely bored to carry it on, because there is no longer a problem to fix. Heck, the storage media that is the subject of this story has been obsolete for quite a while.
- Why did you click Read More on the story instead of scrolling past it?
(1) You don't use a web feed? I have a Slashdot RSS feed on my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar. That's where I clicked from. In other words, I never click "Read More". (2) I was hoping the posted story would be somehow relevant to today's technology.
- Why did you click reply and write a post to the story?
people should be allowed to communicate in any manor of their choosing.
(1) That should be "manner", not "manor". Unless, of course, you meant that we should be able to communicate in any elite house of our choice. If that is the case, I apologize.
(2) If I ever meet you IRL, I will be sure to communicate only in gestures with ambiguous interpretations, because that is how I shall choose to communicate.:D
Is this the "International Space Station", or the "Cool Building In The Sky That We All Helped Build, But We Still Don't Like You And Our Daddy Can Beat Up Your Daddy"?
Politicians get to make up their minds right now. It is one of those two. One implies peaceful coexistence and one implies living side-by-side, never crossing the line that defines "your half" of the room. Which is it?
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Oh, never mind - you're an American. Of course. You write the date the wrong way around.
Why do you say we write the date incorrectly? You know that time is written hour:minute:seconds, right? Expand that.
Year:Month:Day:Hour:Minute:Second
4/1 is clearly correct. The time as I post this in Eastern Daylight Time is about 2008:4:9:15:14:23 or so.
But with the rise of nice and silent SSDs, don't computers with moving hard disks already make excessive, unneeded noise anyway?
Microsoft seems to understand that complications at installation time (dual booting? preserving an existing data partition?) can sour one's experience pretty thoroughly.
That's how we make Linux take over the desktop! Erase all partitions, and always use the whole hard disk! None of this "Mount / on target partition" business! Just wipe out Windows when Linux installs! Clearly, that's the remedy suggested here.
Except for the part where, y'know, not being able to dual-boot would actually kind of suck. I still need to play Touhou Project outside of school.
But that's really the only reason I keep Windows around (Touhou does not run perfectly in Wine, in my experience). If I didn't need the games, I would destroy that partition.
I'm sure there are other good reasons to dual-boot, too. Like, maybe you want a DEB-based system and a RPM-based system or something, right? Debian and Fedora, side-by-side? That doesn't sound useful? What if a binary is only available in one format and not the other? More reason to dual-boot than just "I need Windows for this one specific task."
theft via laws.
Taxes. That is all.
M$ should be worried when FOSS can produce this grade of product
Agreed. Very much agreed. Last week, a friend of mine caught Conficker on his XP laptop. He had me wipe the hard disk and install Kubuntu 8.04.2. I showed him what I did, so that he would know how to do it. I have been showing him the basics of functioning in his new OS.
And I really think that, after overcoming a few differences, he'll be back to his old level of functionality (writing school papers, browsing Internet, playing media) in no time. I'll be there to get him going, and then we can learn our new environment together.
I just dual-booted my laptop for the first time around the beginning of the year. So far, my Linux experience (starting with Ubuntu 8.04.1) have been very, very positive. It really feels like it can replace Microsoft Windows for day-to-day use. In fact, that's part of the reason we used a Linux-based OS to fix my friend's laptop - it was quick, easy, and provides 95% of the same functionality, plus some nice features not found in Microsoft Windows (like the Package Manager). Easier than pirating a Windows ISO to replace his infected installation.
[Linux] has the same flaw as Macintosh OS (tends to be ignored by software vendors), but far far worse.
Can you please explain to me how this is a flaw in Linux/Macintosh and not a flaw in the software vendors? How is it the fault of Linux/Macintosh if developers choose not to develop for those platforms? Is it because Linux/Mac haven't grabbed a proportion of the market share to rival that of MS Windows? Is it because Linux/Mac platforms are any harder to develop for?
I honestly don't see how this is the fault of Linux or Macintosh. Please explain?
This Lent (2009), I gave up Mountain Dew. I was drinking 40 FL oz. per day of the stuff, which totaled to almost 200 mg/day of caffeine. I always hated weekends, because I couldn't get enough caffeine/sugar during those two days between Friday and Monday. I decided to break out of this.
I replaced my Mountain Dew consumption with bottled green tea. Felt great. Healthier drink in general, and less caffeine, and I felt great about it.
I picked up a bottle of Mt. Dew and a bottle of green tea one day in the school cafeteria, and looked at the nutrition stuff on the labels. The Mt. Dew had literally three times the caffeine of the green tea! I was disgusted. I'm not drinking that much Mt. Dew that often ever again. That much caffeine is a luxury, to be enjoyed on occasion.
Also, I have anxiety issues. This is also better for me in that respect.
I feel a lot better about myself in general now. I highly advise reducing caffeine consumption to about 100 mg/day or less, like I have now. That's tolerable by the body if you go a few days without it.
Yes. Because smoking is bad for you, but caffeine is A-OK! :)
Sure, there's no compelling reason to switch to Vista, but I can sum up in three words why people will want to switch to Win7:
Shiny. New. Taskbar.
There is no way that this thing wasn't a good idea. Works well, seems to use the space properly, and looks really damn cool.
That, combined with the fact that ever since I installed a Win7 build the OS itself has not yet broken (for example: holy crap, stable Windows explorer!), will sell Windows 7! :D
Okay, now would you like to present any definitive proof? Microsoft still has, like, another 6 months or so to break Win7 before they release it. What sort of powers of prophecy do you have that tell you that Win7 will be faster than Vista?
Your post should have read something like this:
Win7 = Vista, plus a pretty skin and a service pack. Therefore, Windows 7 will probably be faster and more stable than Vista.
Had your post read like that, I would have absolutely no issue with it.
*decides to be a giant nitpicking ass about the capitalization*
From the first link you gave:
8. How do I capitalize Firefox? How do I abbreviate it?
Only the first letter is capitalized (so it's Firefox, not FireFox.) The preferred abbreviation is "Fx" or "fx".
The suggested abbreviation is not "FX". It is "Fx" or "fx".
And guess what - modify KDE a little, and this would be exactly what you get.
As an April Fools' joke, I left live CDs running Kubuntu 8.04.2 live sessions in school computers. I had to leave immediately after, but according to a friend of mine, all people noticed was that there was no flash player installed. Other than that, no one was really lost at all.
This was at a community college that is 100% Windows XP machines.
Replace some of the images in KDE with the MSWindows equivalents (like, for example, replacing the K Menu icon with the one for the MS Start menu), and it can and will look exactly like Windows.
Not quite. History in general can still be applied to the modern day, so that we can hopefully avoid repeating things like the situations leading up to WWI or WWII or similar bad times.
However, I see no viable application of this particular story to today. Win95 is obsolete. Floppy disks are obsolete. Everything about this article simply does not matter.
Now, given that I'm really not any sort of computer expert yet (so I don't know this, myself), can you tell me where to apply lessons from Win95 almost having floppy autoplay to today's world of computers? I don't see a situation that will be influenced by this particular almost-added feature.
Does this mean that Google reserves the right to filter my web browsing experience in Chrome (without my consent to boot)?
(Emphasis added)
IANAL. Does anyone remember if clicking "I Agree" actually constitutes a legally enforceable contract? I think I saw a /. story one day where it was something like where the EULA appeared or something that determined legal enforceability. Like, if it's after you pay for the product and you have to unseal it to read the Agreement (so the product can't be returned), then it can't be enforced or something.... Man, I wish I wasn't too lazy to look this one up....
Anyway, I'm pretty sure you have the opportunity to freely read and freely agree to Chrome's EULA before you do anything with Google (other than visit their domain in your web browser of choice). Seems like this would not be, by any means, filtering without the user's consent.
P.S.: Story is tagged "troll". I just wrote all this out. I hate how easily trolled I am.... >_
P.P.S.: Anyone else here think that Steve Ballmer (or anyone else with good reason to hate Google/Chrome) might be the "anonymous reader" who submits crap like this? Wouldn't surprise me.
- What's wrong with discussing it for the sake of nerdy discussion?
Only the fact that for a discussing something this old, one must be extremely bored to carry it on, because there is no longer a problem to fix. Heck, the storage media that is the subject of this story has been obsolete for quite a while.
- Why did you click Read More on the story instead of scrolling past it?
(1) You don't use a web feed? I have a Slashdot RSS feed on my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar. That's where I clicked from. In other words, I never click "Read More". (2) I was hoping the posted story would be somehow relevant to today's technology.
- Why did you click reply and write a post to the story?
To answer your silly questions.
Hurry up ./!!!
What is your problem with the current working directory? Why is it slow? Do you just need to start working in a different directory or something?
Or is there some other news site called "Dotslash" that was slow in posting a story, and you happened to post in the wrong thread?
*google searches for "dotslash"*
...hmm.... Okay, you clearly have a problem with the current working directory. Hopefully, a more knowledgeable user can help you with that.
people should be allowed to communicate in any manor of their choosing.
(1) That should be "manner", not "manor". Unless, of course, you meant that we should be able to communicate in any elite house of our choice. If that is the case, I apologize.
(2) If I ever meet you IRL, I will be sure to communicate only in gestures with ambiguous interpretations, because that is how I shall choose to communicate. :D
You mean the next time my computer catches a virus, it could infect me as well? And this virus will work even if I run Linux?
Everything I know is a lie!!!! >_
Someone stop this thing before it infects 12 million PCs!
Doesn't seem to me like alcohol is killing our planet. Seems more like it's the carbon dioxide that's doing it.
CO2 is killing our planet. Beer is a fortunate side-effect of that.
This isn't News. This is Olds. Twitter's popularity is spiking. This was only inevitable.
(Also, searching for April Fool's story. >_>)
An excellent idea. And here's an idea to expand on that: Make them all +5, Off-topic. I just wanna see that kind of mod happen. :)
Bad example. There are also those who call torture "learning". Or have you never had a class like that?
It's a little tough to wade through the sea of comments just for the April Fools' Story achievement, so I skipped a bunch of it. But...
We've retroactively granted around 900,000 achievements to our logged in users.
IT'S OVER 9000!
I'm sorry. I just had to say it. Sorry if I'm being -1, Redundant here.
And it still ain't taken. Go register it now!
Is this the "International Space Station", or the "Cool Building In The Sky That We All Helped Build, But We Still Don't Like You And Our Daddy Can Beat Up Your Daddy"?
Politicians get to make up their minds right now. It is one of those two. One implies peaceful coexistence and one implies living side-by-side, never crossing the line that defines "your half" of the room. Which is it?