also the exchange students, diplomatic community, international visitors, anyone who's new to town and doesn't know which cafe to go to but knows Starbucks is "safe"
same reason i end up eating breakfast at Macdonalds when I'm in tokyo.
Plus as others have mentioned big boys can rnu at a loss for a long time until they drive the competition out of the market.
most cafes can run at a loss anything from 1 week to a couple of months.
In the american context they might not be so vile,
In the Australian context where we already have a thriving independent cafe culture, Starbucks is offering an inferior product and using marketting size and brand recognition to crush smaller players (plus wireless access).
If their coffee was better than the alternatives I wouldn't get so riled up,
so, for example, i could buy a cheap(ish) handheld with wifi, get this program running on it, tape it under a table at a starbucks and deny their access point as long as the batteries held out?
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I believe you're mistaken.
I've got it running fine under wine
And I've installed it fine on Win 95 in the past.
I'm sure you meant "IE is available free of charge".
http, ftp, email (smtp, pop or imap), ssh.
thats 5 ports.
why do you need to have ANY others open to incoming connections?
I mean stateful firewalls aren't rocket science any more.
Forbidden?
Verboten even?
Sieg Heil!
Down with Thought Crimes!
If it aint got bluetooth to talk to my phone (and through my phone the world) then its a wanky toy.
independent GPRS i could just about go for, but failing that bluetooth.
Nice try, but it won't work.
to those people microsoft = computer = internet.
The "free" world of alternative computing isn't even a concept they can readily understand.
Unless you tell them that there are alternatives that don't have these problems you won't get anywhere.
Thats Westron to you buddy.
you'd prefer we lived in a value free zone where no one makes any judgments?
go drink your swill and support the corporate goliath, I'm not stopping you.
If there's no better alternative I suppose I'll end up there myself.
But make your own judgments instead of being offended, not by the subtance of others judgements, but that they make them at all.
and you certainly can't make it work in a closed system when you feed the bodies into one another.
more efficient to make ethanol out of that lovely sugar.
But this is neat for running implants and no mistake.
Some of us sadly are,
also the exchange students, diplomatic community, international visitors, anyone who's new to town and doesn't know which cafe to go to but knows Starbucks is "safe"
same reason i end up eating breakfast at Macdonalds when I'm in tokyo.
Plus as others have mentioned big boys can rnu at a loss for a long time until they drive the competition out of the market.
most cafes can run at a loss anything from 1 week to a couple of months.
if not for the predatory nature of large businesses when they share space with small ones I'd agree with you completely.
In the american context they might not be so vile,
In the Australian context where we already have a thriving independent cafe culture, Starbucks is offering an inferior product and using marketting size and brand recognition to crush smaller players (plus wireless access).
If their coffee was better than the alternatives I wouldn't get so riled up,
less subtle, much quicker to debug.
so, for example, i could buy a cheap(ish) handheld with wifi, get this program running on it, tape it under a table at a starbucks and deny their access point as long as the batteries held out?
interesting,
I really, really hate Starbucks...
*shudder*
don't you need some sort of command character to enter?
whats it like ssh'ing with grafitti anyway?
also the only palm ssh clients i've seen were ssh1 only, where do you get ssh2?
I share an IP number in my flat with the two other guys that live there, the ISP account is in my name.
You're saying if my flatmate runs kazaa without my knowledge over the LAN I should be held responsible?
you are both vulgar and wrong.
i hope you filed bug reports.
thats all anyone can base anything off.
can't recall the last time i saw a kernel panic under debian under any circumstance (except fouled up kernel compiles)
across a variety of OEM hardware our office finds linux under similar tasks and to be an order of magnitude more stable than windows XP.
Your mileage may vary.
The average user shouldn't be running as root, the ability to screw stuff up normally resides as root.
admining your own system when unfamiliar to linux is quite different to this situation.
in the worst case they'll just restore the users home directory from backup and all will be as it was.
windows crashes as a linux session start it up again.
windows crashes while hosting a linux session you're offline until it reboots.
windows crashes a lot more and needs reinstalling a lot more.
linux at the bottom of the stack works a lot better in my practical experience, plus it gets you headed in the direction you want to go.
still somewhat prone to braiding their armpit hair,
and the price of liquor?? sweet jesus.
you reckon?
American girls are cute until all the fried food catches up and they expand (much in the manner of robot balloons)
Australian girls are cute until they go wrinkly like a raisin from too much sun.
Euro girls frequently have body hair in the wrong places.
Asian girls are often gorgeous of course,
But your British girls are actually something of a high point of world femininity in my reasonable experience, and they age much better than most..