If I want freedom on my Android phone I need do nothing, because I already have it. The only way to get freedom on an Apple phone or tablet is either to be unable to return it if it breaks or to pay extra for the privilege. That, and the fact that they want 100GBP for an extra 16GB of flash RAM puts me off their version of 'freedom'.
Your patronising comment at the end doesn't exactly advance your argument. I object to paying anything just so I can put what I choose on my portable computer. My phone belongs to me, not Apple or Google or Samsung, and Samsung get my money because they don't restrict my freedom in the way that Apple would, plus they allow me to add another 16GB of storage for about 10GBP from Amazon.
Upgrade the storage. Use other app stores than Apple's or Google's. See what permissions apps require and therefore be able to avoid any bandwidth hogs or privacy violators. Use Swype. Use whatever browser I choose.
Overthrowing a democratic government and replacing it with a murderous dictatorship is not the lesser of two evils. Ask the Iranians or the Chileans what the "furthering of freedom and democracy" got them. Or ask the people of Egypt for that matter.
Photoshop Express is not Photoshop, AutoCAD WS appears to have a long way to go to match the desktop version, the GaiKai demo is not available for general users yet and will require another subscription
OS X may cost 29GBP but the cheapest Apple computer here costs 529GBP and the cheapest Apple laptop costs 849GBP and cannot be upgraded. We're about to issue our field staff with new laptops. They'll cost 600GBP each. You can't get an Apple laptop for that. They might be able to use iPads in the future but at the moment Dynamics CRM only runs in IE and the Outlook CRM offline client only runs on Windows.
As for hardware, there have been numerous complaints about the poor quality of graphics card drivers on Linux and I've come across hardware that doesn't have drivers for anything but Windows.
I'm not sure where you work but I work in the IT department of a medium sized organisation in the UK, I've worked in 6 different places since 2002 and I have yet to see a single Linux client. I've seen a few Macs in the advertising agency I worked at but anyone who didn't need a Mac got a 300GBP desktop. Where do you buy a brand new Apple for 300 quid?
In the end though you have completely failed to answer why, if the platform is irrelevant, why have so few organizations migrated to a free alternative? Is everyone but you stuck in 2002 then? If native apps are irrelevant, then what is XP Mode on Windows 7 there for?
Not all native applications. The company I work for still has a few. The organisation I worked for before had a few ActiveX only solutions. Everywhere I've worked has used Outlook. World of Warcraft doesn't run in a browser and only has official clients for Windows or a much more expensive alternative. Photoshop doesn't run in a browser. AutoDesk doesn't run in a browser and: "Note: The Autodesk Design Review Browser Add-in does not support scripting or automation in the browser because Firefox and Chrome do not support COM controls." - Windows only restrictions on their browser plugin.
Hardware drivers don't run in a browser and again the alternatives don't always support hardware as well as Windows does - look at the criticism of both NVidia and AMD this week for worse support for Linux than Windows.
Face it. You and your hysterical friend below are wrong. Windows is entrenched. It's the 21st century mainframe. It might go away eventually but we're stuck with it for now and for a long time to come. There is no realistic alternative to it. That's realistic, not just another OS with a GUI and an slightly worse office suite, but an OS that can run whatever people want and need it to. That is Windows largely. Mac OS X is great but the devices it runs on are far more expensive than Windows machines. No corporation will be spending twice as much on computers that won't run all their software and Mac home users tend to have a Windows machine/partition as well.
The wisdom of outsourcing will not be questioned because they can just blame and sue the outsourcing company. No blame will be attached to the fools responsible for outsourcing (if they're even still there).
Because despite what the Libertarians, deluded Linux fans and Microsoft apologists will tell you, Microsoft do have a monopoly in this area. There are no realistic alternatives, otherwise there would have been a mass exodus a long time ago, especially in the corporate sector.
Possibly. I have wasted many an hour trying to convince my wifi to work. Now I accept that in some cases this is not Linux's fault, and most of the time that I've tried to get wifi working that's been the problem, but in two different releases of Ubuntu they broke the wifi driver supplied by the manufacturer. Luckily the manufacturer was good enough to supply working source which I then had to build and include in the startup. Not user-friendly, not convenient and not for the non-technical. There are also cases where the wifi works better in Windows than in Linux, which, again may not be the fault of Linux, but it's not exactly a compelling incentive to switch.
If you disable third-party cookies, Verified by Visa and whatever the Mastercard equivalent is no longer work. That is one example, which took me a while to track down and fix; there are probably others, and there is no error message to tell you that a third-party cookie has been blocked, so there's no obvious way of finding out what's happening.
Windows only meets their needs because it runs their software. It's not reliable, quick or easy to use. Paid software in general is not evil. Paid software with no viable alternatives is. IPads and smartphones don't run Win32 software and there's an awful lot of that about especially in the corporate sector. Besides which they are not good desktop or laptop replacements - try typing a long document on an iPad or smartphone for example.
Check out his other comments on this thread. He's been pretty abusive to me and others for daring to question his religion and so I decided to take the piss out of him.
Windows machines of the time weren't a vast improvement on my Amiga 1200. They cost 10 times as much and despite all the raw computing power were slower and less reliable.
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If I want freedom on my Android phone I need do nothing, because I already have it. The only way to get freedom on an Apple phone or tablet is either to be unable to return it if it breaks or to pay extra for the privilege. That, and the fact that they want 100GBP for an extra 16GB of flash RAM puts me off their version of 'freedom'.
Your patronising comment at the end doesn't exactly advance your argument. I object to paying anything just so I can put what I choose on my portable computer. My phone belongs to me, not Apple or Google or Samsung, and Samsung get my money because they don't restrict my freedom in the way that Apple would, plus they allow me to add another 16GB of storage for about 10GBP from Amazon.
So you can:
a) Invalidate your warranty
b) Invalidate your warranty
c) Pay $99 a year
to be able to do what you like with something you've paid a lot of money for. Apple fanboys LOL.
Posted from my iMac before you start calling me an Apple hater.
Upgrade the storage. Use other app stores than Apple's or Google's. See what permissions apps require and therefore be able to avoid any bandwidth hogs or privacy violators. Use Swype. Use whatever browser I choose.
Overthrowing a democratic government and replacing it with a murderous dictatorship is not the lesser of two evils. Ask the Iranians or the Chileans what the "furthering of freedom and democracy" got them. Or ask the people of Egypt for that matter.
Photoshop Express is not Photoshop, AutoCAD WS appears to have a long way to go to match the desktop version, the GaiKai demo is not available for general users yet and will require another subscription
OS X may cost 29GBP but the cheapest Apple computer here costs 529GBP and the cheapest Apple laptop costs 849GBP and cannot be upgraded. We're about to issue our field staff with new laptops. They'll cost 600GBP each. You can't get an Apple laptop for that. They might be able to use iPads in the future but at the moment Dynamics CRM only runs in IE and the Outlook CRM offline client only runs on Windows.
As for hardware, there have been numerous complaints about the poor quality of graphics card drivers on Linux and I've come across hardware that doesn't have drivers for anything but Windows.
I'm not sure where you work but I work in the IT department of a medium sized organisation in the UK, I've worked in 6 different places since 2002 and I have yet to see a single Linux client. I've seen a few Macs in the advertising agency I worked at but anyone who didn't need a Mac got a 300GBP desktop. Where do you buy a brand new Apple for 300 quid?
In the end though you have completely failed to answer why, if the platform is irrelevant, why have so few organizations migrated to a free alternative? Is everyone but you stuck in 2002 then? If native apps are irrelevant, then what is XP Mode on Windows 7 there for?
LOL
Unlike the impartial and totally honest reporting of the private media?
So why do Microsoft have Windows XP Mode? What does that run? You really are a fucking retard aren't you.
Not all native applications. The company I work for still has a few. The organisation I worked for before had a few ActiveX only solutions. Everywhere I've worked has used Outlook. World of Warcraft doesn't run in a browser and only has official clients for Windows or a much more expensive alternative. Photoshop doesn't run in a browser. AutoDesk doesn't run in a browser and: "Note: The Autodesk Design Review Browser Add-in does not support scripting or automation in the browser because Firefox and Chrome do not support COM controls." - Windows only restrictions on their browser plugin.
Hardware drivers don't run in a browser and again the alternatives don't always support hardware as well as Windows does - look at the criticism of both NVidia and AMD this week for worse support for Linux than Windows.
Face it. You and your hysterical friend below are wrong. Windows is entrenched. It's the 21st century mainframe. It might go away eventually but we're stuck with it for now and for a long time to come. There is no realistic alternative to it. That's realistic, not just another OS with a GUI and an slightly worse office suite, but an OS that can run whatever people want and need it to. That is Windows largely. Mac OS X is great but the devices it runs on are far more expensive than Windows machines. No corporation will be spending twice as much on computers that won't run all their software and Mac home users tend to have a Windows machine/partition as well.
I have no beard and you have no brain. What alternative runs Win32 binaries? None of them. Next.
The wisdom of outsourcing will not be questioned because they can just blame and sue the outsourcing company. No blame will be attached to the fools responsible for outsourcing (if they're even still there).
[roman_mir]It's all the government's fault because they wouldn't let the banks go bust and people lose all their money. Vote Ron Paul![/roman_mir]
Because despite what the Libertarians, deluded Linux fans and Microsoft apologists will tell you, Microsoft do have a monopoly in this area. There are no realistic alternatives, otherwise there would have been a mass exodus a long time ago, especially in the corporate sector.
Possibly. I have wasted many an hour trying to convince my wifi to work. Now I accept that in some cases this is not Linux's fault, and most of the time that I've tried to get wifi working that's been the problem, but in two different releases of Ubuntu they broke the wifi driver supplied by the manufacturer. Luckily the manufacturer was good enough to supply working source which I then had to build and include in the startup. Not user-friendly, not convenient and not for the non-technical. There are also cases where the wifi works better in Windows than in Linux, which, again may not be the fault of Linux, but it's not exactly a compelling incentive to switch.
The UN isn't a government so cannot pass any laws at all.
Put them in front of it and see how quickly the love dissipates.
Either that or they just want their hardware to work without spending several hours/days on Google.
They aren't outselling Apple, and don't look as pretty so therefore the company sucks and is doomed.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Just reply with a hearty fuck off otherwise you'll just get buried in tiresome pedantry.
If you disable third-party cookies, Verified by Visa and whatever the Mastercard equivalent is no longer work. That is one example, which took me a while to track down and fix; there are probably others, and there is no error message to tell you that a third-party cookie has been blocked, so there's no obvious way of finding out what's happening.
My New Year's resolution was to stop arguing with people on the internet. I lasted about 5 months which I think is pretty good :)
Windows only meets their needs because it runs their software. It's not reliable, quick or easy to use. Paid software in general is not evil. Paid software with no viable alternatives is. IPads and smartphones don't run Win32 software and there's an awful lot of that about especially in the corporate sector. Besides which they are not good desktop or laptop replacements - try typing a long document on an iPad or smartphone for example.
Check out his other comments on this thread. He's been pretty abusive to me and others for daring to question his religion and so I decided to take the piss out of him.
Windows machines of the time weren't a vast improvement on my Amiga 1200. They cost 10 times as much and despite all the raw computing power were slower and less reliable.