The problem is that his only alternative is to install an old version of XP and wait an eternity while it updates, then spend an age hunting around for all the drivers and then spend lots more time installing those. Imagine the pain of having to reinstall XP from an original pre-SP1 copy.
The trojan will of course have to work on several subtly different distros that are running one of several windowing environments and the users will be browsing the web with one of half a dozen web browsers. Windows is a monoculture and is therefore very easy to attack. Desktop Linux is not.
Yeh yeh because an OEM is going to provide a PC without a web browser. God dammit why does this ludicrously moronic argument come up time and again. I pity the people who rely on you for tech support.
Don't be ridiculous - there are a lot of alternatives to Windows. Just ask any of the armchair libertarians on here who keep pretending that there are drop-in replacements for Windows just because Open Office can open.DOC and.XLS files.
Unless they have a load of in-house systems that only work on Windows. Like a Word document generator written in Excel VBA to pick a rather horrible example.
Movies. He talks about South Korea as an example. But I just don't see illegal copying of movies being a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. He says an illegal copy of the new X-Men film was downloaded four million times. That isolated example is a drop in the bucket compared to the whole U.S. movie market. I know tons of people who illegally download music, but I don't know anybody who's ever illegally downloaded a movie.
Really? I know plenty of people who download movies, tv series etc etc.
I did use my brain. I typed the exact phrase into Google and found that lots of people have had the exact problem I have. I suggest you take your own advice.
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Apache? An argument can be made for Firefox vs IE too. Yeh open source sucks so much that Apple built OS X from it.
It made Microsoft very wealthy.
Not sure about Silverlight but Open Office can read Office 2007 files.
Any medical care that Ken Lay gets would have to be the very best since he's been dead for 3 years. But I get your point ;-)
The problem is that his only alternative is to install an old version of XP and wait an eternity while it updates, then spend an age hunting around for all the drivers and then spend lots more time installing those. Imagine the pain of having to reinstall XP from an original pre-SP1 copy.
The trojan will of course have to work on several subtly different distros that are running one of several windowing environments and the users will be browsing the web with one of half a dozen web browsers. Windows is a monoculture and is therefore very easy to attack. Desktop Linux is not.
Imagine expecting huge US corporations to obey the law in the jurisdiction they trade in. The evil thieving bastards!
Which anti-trust laws have Apple and Canonical broken again? It's not a double standard, it's a punishment for breaking the law.
Yeh yeh because an OEM is going to provide a PC without a web browser. God dammit why does this ludicrously moronic argument come up time and again. I pity the people who rely on you for tech support.
My LG Viewty (KU990) has a VGA camera on the front for video calls.
There are plenty of Scientologists here in the UK as well and I wish they would bugger off.
Yes each of the three main religions have a CEO going by the aliases God, Jehovah and Allah.
As was once said (I think) in the Register: "Scientology is a religion in the same way as Dunkin Donuts is a restaurant".
Exactly. Look at how heated people get on here. Imagine Microsoft vs Linux with real weaponry.
I can reference another Marshall case where they were a defendant:
http://www.shvoong.com/internet-and-technologies/gaming/1875809-microsoft-settles-lawsuit-xbox/
Big? Yes. Innocent? Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Don't be ridiculous - there are a lot of alternatives to Windows. Just ask any of the armchair libertarians on here who keep pretending that there are drop-in replacements for Windows just because Open Office can open .DOC and .XLS files.
Unless they have a load of in-house systems that only work on Windows. Like a Word document generator written in Excel VBA to pick a rather horrible example.
I wouldn't give Watchmen to a 12 year old even if they could understand it. It's not exactly what I'd call family-friendly.
It's on the Asus website in the UK.
Except it's linked from the Asus website in the UK.
They could work at Microsoft Research and have lots of great ideas that never see the light of day.
Movies. He talks about South Korea as an example. But I just don't see illegal copying of movies being a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. He says an illegal copy of the new X-Men film was downloaded four million times. That isolated example is a drop in the bucket compared to the whole U.S. movie market. I know tons of people who illegally download music, but I don't know anybody who's ever illegally downloaded a movie.
Really? I know plenty of people who download movies, tv series etc etc.
Oh and it's Office applications that crash. Not the printer which works fine with everything else. Your reading skills appear to need work too.
I did use my brain. I typed the exact phrase into Google and found that lots of people have had the exact problem I have. I suggest you take your own advice.