Yes, it's less of an excuse than it used to be. Also in the news, Windows 7 is way more stable than Win 95 used to be.
"Better" doesn't always mean that it's superior to "good". We still haven't arrived at the point where you can easily or at least with (for Joe Randomuser) manageable effort migrate your gaming experience to Linux. Mostly because gaming hardware support is still lackluster.
Talent is never cheap. Or rather, it isn't for long. For a simple reason: Talent that gets discovered is quickly drowning in work, leading to either sloppier work, less availability or higher prices.
In the end, you're back at square one: Want it good, cheap or quick?
Every time a customer starts lamenting about cost and how everything has to be done right now and perfectly, I draw an equilateral triangle on a sheet of paper, label the corners accordingly (fast, cheap, good) and tell him to make a point at the spot where he puts his focus.
Most get the hint.
I forgot who said it, but it's true: Paying too much isn't very wise, but paying too little is a catastrophe. Paying too much means you lose a little money. Paying too little, though, means that you can lose it all. Because you'll always find someone who will make whatever you're asking for cheaper, but at the cost of quality and speed. Which can in the end mean that the product is not up to your requirements, rendering the whole item you bought useless and all the money spent on it wasted.
Take a look around why people have PCs in their home today. Some will do some work, yes, but in the end, gaming is a huge issue. Most people at least use their PC partly as a gaming machine, and this means that they will use an OS that provides them with the ability to do both, work AND play.
If you cannot provide this, people will switch back to Windows.
Documentation means less than a thorough collection of how-tos that are also updated to stay current with the progress of the distribution itself. Most of the time, the matter at hand is "I want to do X", and for that the user needs a solution, and he needs it now. Not after digging through a heap of docs, half of which deal with a version two generations past.
True, but citing porn as an example is maybe the worst example you could field.
Google has any obligation to host anything, no doubt about that. The question is, though, where this will lead to. It won't affect Jihadists. That's for sure. They'll simply create new accounts, inform their fellows about it and continue to spread their bullshit. It's like spam, you can't stop that by shutting down the mail account that spams you.
The much bigger effect will be on channels that offer controversial opinions. How about those that debunk charlatans, snake-oil peddlers, religious nuts or others trying to bring their version of "the truth" to the people? Today, what we have is some people posting their, let's say incredibly well researched, conspiracies about chemtrails, the illuminati and other secret societies, flat earths and various other things, and you will of course get those that debunk them. That is, essentially, what an argument is like. One presents his theories, the other one refutes them and presents his, followed, hopefully, by another answer to it and so on.
If this "hate speech must be banned" trend catches on, you will find both sides increasingly locked into attempts to silence the other side by disabling them from actually monetizing so they essentially have to stop. Yes, that means we get to hear a lot less bullshit on YouTube, but at the same time it also means way less diversity. What we will eventually get is what we already have in various other media and social platforms: One side of the argument is forced one way or another to leave, turning the whole thing essentially into a huge echo chamber for one sided reinforcement.
Well, considering this maybe Mint is the better choice, since Ubuntu actually presents you with the choice of your favorite window manager, which may be confusing for a new user. Then again, not having any predisposition for any of them means essentially that they're back at square one: For which one is the most support out there.
Unfortunately the usual approach, i.e. googling something like "which desktop environment for ubuntu" gives you tons of shitty "top 10" pages that can't agree on anything, along with a few lists of the few dozen options you have that leave you with more questions than answers.
Generally, what I'd do as a beginner with Linux is grab one of the "official" images of the distribution I chose and run with this. It doesn't really matter to the beginner and the chance to get sensible answers with screenshots he can recognize is higher.
Download an install image... how? The only machine in her household probably capable of doing this is not capable of anything at the moment when she'd have to download the image.
Ah. I see you have no Thunderbolt card, no gaming mouse or keyboard, no soundcard that offers more than onboard quality, no flight stick/pedal system, no head tracking device, no VR system,...
Seriously, she's Britain's answer to Sarah Palin. Or rather, an answer to a question nobody asked.
And while Palin is at least a looker, Rudd also has this "used car" air about her. This woman has so far in her total career never said a single sentence that wasn't a tear-soaked platitude, an "outraged demand" that simply echoed what everyone else has already been saying or simply and plainly stupid. I really have no idea what service she could provide other than being the bad example on how NOT to do something.
Seriously. When asked at her funeral to say anything good about her, all you can sensibly say is "she died".
Yeah, so he saved the man who instead offered his daughters to be raped.
A good US-based god would have sent Lot some guns to make short work of the guys outside. There is this little known artist rendition of what really happened.
Religion IS a disease. Actually, it's a mental disorder. The very definition of "delusion" according to the ICD-10 F22.0 is a pretty good description of a religion.
Microsoft, of all the companies out there, has a long, long history of vaporware, promising time and again a product they either never really planned to deliver or they delivered so late that you'd have been better off buying the competing model. Which is essentially what they want to keep you from doing: Don't buy Brand X now, because MS has the same product out Really Soon Now (tm).
If they ever delivered, then usually by buying out Brand X as soon as they were on the verge of bankruptcy because people waited for MS to deliver.
Sorry, MS, I don't care anymore what you announce. Put up or shut up.
You aren't using many MS products, are you? Their past few desktop OSs were all catering to the touch-toys and, Win8 specifically, originally a PITA to work on with mouse + keyboard.
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Yes, it's less of an excuse than it used to be. Also in the news, Windows 7 is way more stable than Win 95 used to be.
"Better" doesn't always mean that it's superior to "good". We still haven't arrived at the point where you can easily or at least with (for Joe Randomuser) manageable effort migrate your gaming experience to Linux. Mostly because gaming hardware support is still lackluster.
Even right and fast is possible. The question is only whether you're willing and able to afford it.
Talent is never cheap. Or rather, it isn't for long. For a simple reason: Talent that gets discovered is quickly drowning in work, leading to either sloppier work, less availability or higher prices.
In the end, you're back at square one: Want it good, cheap or quick?
Every time a customer starts lamenting about cost and how everything has to be done right now and perfectly, I draw an equilateral triangle on a sheet of paper, label the corners accordingly (fast, cheap, good) and tell him to make a point at the spot where he puts his focus.
Most get the hint.
I forgot who said it, but it's true: Paying too much isn't very wise, but paying too little is a catastrophe. Paying too much means you lose a little money. Paying too little, though, means that you can lose it all. Because you'll always find someone who will make whatever you're asking for cheaper, but at the cost of quality and speed. Which can in the end mean that the product is not up to your requirements, rendering the whole item you bought useless and all the money spent on it wasted.
I'd rather pay too much than too little.
That IS the game breaker. Literally so.
Take a look around why people have PCs in their home today. Some will do some work, yes, but in the end, gaming is a huge issue. Most people at least use their PC partly as a gaming machine, and this means that they will use an OS that provides them with the ability to do both, work AND play.
If you cannot provide this, people will switch back to Windows.
Documentation means less than a thorough collection of how-tos that are also updated to stay current with the progress of the distribution itself. Most of the time, the matter at hand is "I want to do X", and for that the user needs a solution, and he needs it now. Not after digging through a heap of docs, half of which deal with a version two generations past.
True, but citing porn as an example is maybe the worst example you could field.
Google has any obligation to host anything, no doubt about that. The question is, though, where this will lead to. It won't affect Jihadists. That's for sure. They'll simply create new accounts, inform their fellows about it and continue to spread their bullshit. It's like spam, you can't stop that by shutting down the mail account that spams you.
The much bigger effect will be on channels that offer controversial opinions. How about those that debunk charlatans, snake-oil peddlers, religious nuts or others trying to bring their version of "the truth" to the people? Today, what we have is some people posting their, let's say incredibly well researched, conspiracies about chemtrails, the illuminati and other secret societies, flat earths and various other things, and you will of course get those that debunk them. That is, essentially, what an argument is like. One presents his theories, the other one refutes them and presents his, followed, hopefully, by another answer to it and so on.
If this "hate speech must be banned" trend catches on, you will find both sides increasingly locked into attempts to silence the other side by disabling them from actually monetizing so they essentially have to stop. Yes, that means we get to hear a lot less bullshit on YouTube, but at the same time it also means way less diversity. What we will eventually get is what we already have in various other media and social platforms: One side of the argument is forced one way or another to leave, turning the whole thing essentially into a huge echo chamber for one sided reinforcement.
I wouldn't want this to happen on YouTube, too.
The quickest way to shut up a bible thumper?
"Gimme the definition of a 'kind' of animal"
There isn't one that doesn't make the whole Genesis chapter 6 absurd.
Q: What is Bing?
A: The sound a MS service makes when it crashes.
Any Windows user knows it.
Well, considering this maybe Mint is the better choice, since Ubuntu actually presents you with the choice of your favorite window manager, which may be confusing for a new user. Then again, not having any predisposition for any of them means essentially that they're back at square one: For which one is the most support out there.
Unfortunately the usual approach, i.e. googling something like "which desktop environment for ubuntu" gives you tons of shitty "top 10" pages that can't agree on anything, along with a few lists of the few dozen options you have that leave you with more questions than answers.
Generally, what I'd do as a beginner with Linux is grab one of the "official" images of the distribution I chose and run with this. It doesn't really matter to the beginner and the chance to get sensible answers with screenshots he can recognize is higher.
And how do you like the US so far, Mr. Trump?
Download an install image ... how? The only machine in her household probably capable of doing this is not capable of anything at the moment when she'd have to download the image.
You get one, the FBI gets one and god knows who else does.
Ah. I see you have no Thunderbolt card, no gaming mouse or keyboard, no soundcard that offers more than onboard quality, no flight stick/pedal system, no head tracking device, no VR system, ...
Seriously, she's Britain's answer to Sarah Palin. Or rather, an answer to a question nobody asked.
And while Palin is at least a looker, Rudd also has this "used car" air about her. This woman has so far in her total career never said a single sentence that wasn't a tear-soaked platitude, an "outraged demand" that simply echoed what everyone else has already been saying or simply and plainly stupid. I really have no idea what service she could provide other than being the bad example on how NOT to do something.
Seriously. When asked at her funeral to say anything good about her, all you can sensibly say is "she died".
A mental disorder.
Hush! That's not the part you should correct them on.
Yeah, so he saved the man who instead offered his daughters to be raped.
A good US-based god would have sent Lot some guns to make short work of the guys outside. There is this little known artist rendition of what really happened.
Confirm... others would say copying an entertaining story is better than writing a boring one yourself.
Religions are just lucky that copyright wasn't a thing back then. Or every single of them would get into trouble with Mesopotamia for the flood story.
Uhhh... Allah is kinky!
Religion IS a disease. Actually, it's a mental disorder. The very definition of "delusion" according to the ICD-10 F22.0 is a pretty good description of a religion.
Corporations are above the law already anyway, the law only applies to peasants, not royalty.
We have way bigger problems than suicide bombers. If you want to go after suicide killers, ban smoking.
What? Smokers are suicide killers. They kill themselves and others who happen to stand nearby. Why is one ok and the other one scares you shitless?
Maybe if we put warning labels on bombs you're less afraid?
"Detonating this can endanger your life and the life of those around you"
Feeling better already?
Microsoft, of all the companies out there, has a long, long history of vaporware, promising time and again a product they either never really planned to deliver or they delivered so late that you'd have been better off buying the competing model. Which is essentially what they want to keep you from doing: Don't buy Brand X now, because MS has the same product out Really Soon Now (tm).
If they ever delivered, then usually by buying out Brand X as soon as they were on the verge of bankruptcy because people waited for MS to deliver.
Sorry, MS, I don't care anymore what you announce. Put up or shut up.
You aren't using many MS products, are you? Their past few desktop OSs were all catering to the touch-toys and, Win8 specifically, originally a PITA to work on with mouse + keyboard.