i was surprised to wake my computer up one morning, find that it had downloaded updates in the middle of the night and put itself back to sleep while saving the wordpad doc i had left open with some notes in it.
Also it's obvious that if people couldn't pirate, they would buy more. *Not the same amount they pirate, but still more*
While this may be true in some cases, don't underestimate the number of poor college students like me who already spend 100% of their disposable income on entertainment.
For example: Say I have 100 dollars left over after rent and food this month. I spend about $45 on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (on steam) I spend $5 on Hitman: Blood Money (steam again) because i know its a good game and I can't resist that price. I have to get my 13 year old sister a birthday present, so I spend $20 on whatever the latest Pixar movie was. I spend $20 on a concert ticket, and my last $10 on a t-shirt, because the band was awesome.
Now they have 100% of what I have to spend. How can I buy more?
You cannot honestly believe that the US government, which depends on tax revenue from American businesses and their employees, would intentionally handicap said businesses?
Are you claiming that the US government acts rationally? Citation needed.
Granted, and booting up does appear to take 17 min.
The point is that doing something like that with Vista would be quite impossible. Win 7 looks to be a very decentish replacement for XP, which was itself not really a good replacement for 98 until after SP2 was fixed.
Also, a 1ghz proc with half a gig of ram sounds kinda like a netbook, which win 7 was actually designed for.
I've been running XP x64 on my gaming machine since fall of '07 as well, and the only driver issues I ever had were an inability to get any netgear wireless adapters to work.
This interests me greatly. I just had to install Ubuntu (9.04) on my gaming computer because my wireless card "just works" with it and I don't have a way to get it up near enough to the router to plug it into the intertubes.
Downloading wireless drivers for windows on Linux ftw.:-)
I have been running Ubuntu on my other (non gaming) computers for over a year, as well as setting up my parents with Ubuntu, and have so far used a CLI about 4 times.
Installing flash was interesting, and was the biggest pain. However it should be noticed that I was installing a workaround to allow flash to run in an 64 bit browser and that's not even possible in windows as far as I know.
meanwhile I am constantly having to kill the explorer process and restart it from the task manager in windows. I'd personally much rather have a CLI to fall back on.
The netbook companies made much of how the zebras looked pretty much like horses, and could do most of the things that horses could.
I can't think of anything that XP on a netbook can do that Linux on the same netbook can't... assuming that drivers are fully available for linux.
The things that Windows is better at (Gaming, Video Editing, etc.) just don't enter into the equation when you are considering machines of such limited capacity.
In addition, over the last few months I've been dual booting Win7 and jaunty jackalope, and I've found Linux to actually be easier than Windows to get set up with all the miscellaneous drivers and such. (My wireless HP printer in particular was a bitch to set up in Windows, and set up in under a minute on Linux.)
I realize I could just be getting Iucky, but I am convinced that the perceived usability gap between Linux and Windows is beginning to be non existent.
Seriously though, even I've hardly ever seen my password in plain text in front of me! It hurts my eyes.
No kidding, the only time I ever see my password is when i type too fast and the keyboard misses the enter or tab press between username and password... O.o
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i was surprised to wake my computer up one morning, find that it had downloaded updates in the middle of the night and put itself back to sleep while saving the wordpad doc i had left open with some notes in it.
See... that's just creepy to me.
Just for the record, I now have $45 freed up in my budget since MW2 has self destructed...
Also it's obvious that if people couldn't pirate, they would buy more. *Not the same amount they pirate, but still more*
While this may be true in some cases, don't underestimate the number of poor college students like me who already spend 100% of their disposable income on entertainment.
For example:
Say I have 100 dollars left over after rent and food this month.
I spend about $45 on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (on steam)
I spend $5 on Hitman: Blood Money (steam again) because i know its a good game and I can't resist that price.
I have to get my 13 year old sister a birthday present, so I spend $20 on whatever the latest Pixar movie was.
I spend $20 on a concert ticket, and my last $10 on a t-shirt, because the band was awesome.
Now they have 100% of what I have to spend. How can I buy more?
In my world the government blowing trillions of dollars on ANYTHING is insane.
Take your Red Team/Blue Team mentality and fuck off with it.
Are you certain?
Blackboard has worked fine with Firefox for me under XP, Ubuntu 9.04, and Win7.
I AM a Snoopy snow cone push cart, you insensitive clod!
Why not just make Microsoft compensate Dell for the extra work and expense required to change the images?
I have a bad feeling about this...
Thank you. This deserves every mod point available. I'm sorry I don't have any.
You cannot honestly believe that the US government, which depends on tax revenue from American businesses and their employees, would intentionally handicap said businesses?
Are you claiming that the US government acts rationally? Citation needed.
Dirk Gently and Tea-Time are quite a bit better than HHG in my opinion.
Although maybe that's just because they aren't so overplayed...
Granted, and booting up does appear to take 17 min.
The point is that doing something like that with Vista would be quite impossible. Win 7 looks to be a very decentish replacement for XP, which was itself not really a good replacement for 98 until after SP2 was fixed.
Also, a 1ghz proc with half a gig of ram sounds kinda like a netbook, which win 7 was actually designed for.
LOL. on my old 1GHz/512ram/pata hdd i have 22 seconds from ntldr to busy cursor gone. windows 7 doesn't even install on that
Yes, actually it does:
http://www.dailytech.com/Tinkerer+Squeezes+Windows+7+Onto+Pentium+II+System/article15509.htm
I've been running XP x64 on my gaming machine since fall of '07 as well, and the only driver issues I ever had were an inability to get any netgear wireless adapters to work.
Please think about that for a few seconds...
Crime rates are based on *reported* crime, correct?
How much crime gets reported when criminals are responsible for reporting it?
actually, kbatshit_insane.
Sorry for the mistake. O.o
The other problem with KDE is "everything" is named starting with a "K" which makes it harder to scan to find stuff quickly.
This drives me absolutely batshit insane...
This interests me greatly. I just had to install Ubuntu (9.04) on my gaming computer because my wireless card "just works" with it and I don't have a way to get it up near enough to the router to plug it into the intertubes.
Downloading wireless drivers for windows on Linux ftw. :-)
I have been running Ubuntu on my other (non gaming) computers for over a year, as well as setting up my parents with Ubuntu, and have so far used a CLI about 4 times.
Installing flash was interesting, and was the biggest pain. However it should be noticed that I was installing a workaround to allow flash to run in an 64 bit browser and that's not even possible in windows as far as I know.
meanwhile I am constantly having to kill the explorer process and restart it from the task manager in windows. I'd personally much rather have a CLI to fall back on.
Can't you see my smoke signals?
Invent a new word if you have to.
Like copyleft, perhaps?
It was a joke. Sorry if it wasn't very funny :(
Pedantry? On MY slashdot?!??!
The netbook companies made much of how the zebras looked pretty much like horses, and could do most of the things that horses could.
I can't think of anything that XP on a netbook can do that Linux on the same netbook can't... assuming that drivers are fully available for linux.
The things that Windows is better at (Gaming, Video Editing, etc.) just don't enter into the equation when you are considering machines of such limited capacity.
In addition, over the last few months I've been dual booting Win7 and jaunty jackalope, and I've found Linux to actually be easier than Windows to get set up with all the miscellaneous drivers and such.
(My wireless HP printer in particular was a bitch to set up in Windows, and set up in under a minute on Linux.)
I realize I could just be getting Iucky, but I am convinced that the perceived usability gap between Linux and Windows is beginning to be non existent.
If the government can't even manage to make a computer game well...
Seriously though, even I've hardly ever seen my password in plain text in front of me! It hurts my eyes.
No kidding, the only time I ever see my password is when i type too fast and the keyboard misses the enter or tab press between username and password... O.o