NEWSFLASH: wifi access is already free in most locations, I purposefully avoid Starbucks because of their lack of free wifi. Both are a bit late to the party, hell even McDonald's has free wifi these days.
Some of us want an ACTIVE SCANNER to run on our spouse and kid's pcs, is a new version of F-Prot finally doing this? I know the old free 'dos' version was only a file scanner. And I'm too lazy to go check.;)
Find a Caribou Coffee, its miles beyond Starbucks in quality even if its the same corporate froofy bs experience. Albeit, if you have a dunkin donuts with wifi, might as well save $2 on a cup of coffee and go there, their stuff aint too bad.
Some of us make purchasing decisions based on the piece of shit game we are thinking of buying. Crysis is a joke with such high requirements for a playable experience. I base my game purchases on what will run on my old pos single core p4 2.8ghz box. Any game that can't impress with such insanely fast hardware as we have these days even on the 'budget' boxes is not a game worth investing in.
I must be getting old, I haven't upgraded my box in almost 2 years.
All any of this shows us is that Lawyers are the SysAdmins of Law, a few really know their stuff, most of them are 'paper' certified instead of experienced and don't know what the fuck they are doing, and nobody likes them until they need help, upon which they get to stick it to you with their hourly rates.
Also, the saying applies to both IT and Law: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
Actually, out of the box, Ubuntu tends to 'feel' more like XP than Vista, and its also less intrusive, and you can 'feel' it making better use of the available system resources.
XP vs Ubuntu, not so much, but Vista vs Ubuntu, a generic 'home' user will have an easier time with Ubuntu.
I hadn't considered that angle. Maybe its the first step of the aliens plans to disable the internet prior to invasion, they're checking response time on repairs, its a great tactical move.
Whereas you are busy making a (valid) point about consumers and wireless, I'm actually trying to assist with the problem, perhaps thats the difference between windows and linux... the users.
So before you give me a utterly _common sense_ spiel of 'end consumers' and come up with some left field example of cars rolling over, take a moment and consider that maybe your rush to assume my motive for reply just made an ass of you and me.
If you do not know why wireless just 'works' in XP despite different hardware all over the place, get researched. Apple doesn't do an 'any box' because they were afraid of big bad MS (although this seems to be changing).
Wow, way to fuck up an argument. A library does not charge for people to enter and use it, its wholly funded by taxes. There is no yearly payment to 'publishers' thru a tax that allows the library to continue to share books. Don't fucking speak until you can comprehend the difference.
Yes, I sound like a dick, but if you had to read a moronic response, while sitting and staring at a virtual machine that you have been informed will need Novell and a proprietary application from 1990 running on it in the next 24 hours (not to mention porting the data from old, crashed server, to new virtual machine), you'd probably experience the same nutball reaction I've had. Sorry about that.
Its Business Welfare at that point. What if you don't want to download 'Canadian' copyrighted music? How does this legalize downloading American copyrighted music? I'm fairly certain that treaties between the US and Canada require upholding copyright.
It should not be on the citizens to support a business model that simply doesn't work. Sorry labels and other bullshit middlemen, if you have not adapted by now, you will die.
Try using an off the shelf name brand computer with Vista, without any customization and cleanup, and you'll see the 5-10 secs to delete a file. Out of the box speed is a must for a consumer OS, in that realm, Vista is epic fail. Core2Duo 2.4ghz, 4GB ram (of which only 3 is being used, apparently. !!!WTF!!!) I'm glad its so terrible, though, its great job security. (What, you thought that pos was anywhere near my own machines?)
nd what exactly is the problem with each country asserting control over the internet within it's own borders?
The internet is too goddamn important to allow each country to assert such stringent control to create an isolated DNS/IP/access control within its own borders. This is a worldwide phenomenon, isolationi leads to disagreement without conciliatory resolution leads to war.
Note: I also think ICANN is a raging pile of crap, its corporate control instead of government, at least with a government agency we can require full disclosure without the ability for the corporation to hide behind constitutional rights to privacy, etc.
Not at all, you could rtfa instead of shooting from the hip. We're not talking OEM deals here, we are talking end user licensing requirements, which is a form of exclusivity.
FROM TFA "The company's educational funding comes with a hitch: "Of course, that includes the fact they [the schools] use Windows," Ayala said."
Btw, it was exclusivity deals from the 90s era that made MS a monopoly, once MS hit monopoly status, they are at a higher standard for fair trade and ethics.
Your lack of understanding is disappointing. Microsoft is the only software company with the cash to just throw around $200+ million on such a thing. They have billions they can leverage in a tax-paying non-ethics violating commercial way to grow market share, and they still feel the need to use SCHOOLS in this way to leverage their market share, both in the immediate (what, you thought they wouldn't include all of the $3/ea licenses they give the schools in their marketing numbers?), and the long term (teaching students windows now and getting them oriented towards its quirks and design, as opposed to general use). I'm certainly not opposed to MS donating licenses (or SUBSIDIZING the cost and charging very little, which they tend to do now) for schools and students to use MS software, but tacking on a requirement that all competitors be cut out as part of the deal is not an honest effort towards furthering education. Its a very egotistical and selfish strategy to build good PR and get a tax cut.
In this case, there is no Redhat et al. to be learned when you take this money.
Thats the problem, the training isnt free, its SUBSIDIZED. You HAVE to use MS products in exchange for their 'free' training. There is an ethical line you can cross by using a monopoly position coupled with free training to grow market share. Not mention possible tax fraud if MS is writing off all of this money spent and in turn getting a kickback in the form of new sales and other market growth factors.
E.T. and 2001 are hollywood nonsense, I'm talking about the breakdown of religion, you think terrorism is an issue now? Just imagine how crazy the crazies can get if we ever make contact.
Actually it would make sense that this is a reversal for the sake of coverup, the world already has lots of civil unrest, actual alien contact could spin it all out of control and everyone goes apeshit for a while, until we realize the signal is from a long since gone species (unless they're already on the way here).
The nice part would be increased focus on space faring technology and more defense spending towards space based defenses (from the outside, not all point down at us).
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NEWSFLASH: wifi access is already free in most locations, I purposefully avoid Starbucks because of their lack of free wifi. Both are a bit late to the party, hell even McDonald's has free wifi these days.
Cheers.
Actually Doom 2 was really the last game the joystick was useful for, due to no mouselook system. Quake was the death of the joystick.
I'd really like a Quake 1 experience in a HL2 engine. With the Reznor soundtrack and all. Mmmmm, grappling hook rocket rape.
Cheers.
You must live in the northwest then, Dunkin is ~1.99 for a large coffee in downtown Chicago.
;)
More to the point, a Dunkin coffee with cream and sugar tastes about as good as a $4.00 latte from starbucks, add a donut and it wins hands down.
Cheers.
Some of us want an ACTIVE SCANNER to run on our spouse and kid's pcs, is a new version of F-Prot finally doing this? I know the old free 'dos' version was only a file scanner. And I'm too lazy to go check. ;)
Cheers.
then how can we quantify it?
By making shit up.
Thats how all the religions got started, no?
Cheers.
Find a Caribou Coffee, its miles beyond Starbucks in quality even if its the same corporate froofy bs experience. Albeit, if you have a dunkin donuts with wifi, might as well save $2 on a cup of coffee and go there, their stuff aint too bad.
That analogy makes no sense, everyone knows its the internet that causes fat people, not tv, ive got firsthand proof!
Cheers.
You, too, are absolutely right, I say we run out into the streets and riot against such injustice.
Maybe we can get Anon in on it too, they seem to have some traction this week.
Cheers.
Some of us make purchasing decisions based on the piece of shit game we are thinking of buying. Crysis is a joke with such high requirements for a playable experience. I base my game purchases on what will run on my old pos single core p4 2.8ghz box. Any game that can't impress with such insanely fast hardware as we have these days even on the 'budget' boxes is not a game worth investing in.
I must be getting old, I haven't upgraded my box in almost 2 years.
Cheers.
All any of this shows us is that Lawyers are the SysAdmins of Law, a few really know their stuff, most of them are 'paper' certified instead of experienced and don't know what the fuck they are doing, and nobody likes them until they need help, upon which they get to stick it to you with their hourly rates.
Also, the saying applies to both IT and Law: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
Cheers.
Actually, out of the box, Ubuntu tends to 'feel' more like XP than Vista, and its also less intrusive, and you can 'feel' it making better use of the available system resources.
XP vs Ubuntu, not so much, but Vista vs Ubuntu, a generic 'home' user will have an easier time with Ubuntu.
Cheers.
I hadn't considered that angle. Maybe its the first step of the aliens plans to disable the internet prior to invasion, they're checking response time on repairs, its a great tactical move.
Then mine was a real tank, it still works, although the screen contrast slider itself is a bit finicky, and I had it in FL from 89 till 04.
Cheers.
Whereas you are busy making a (valid) point about consumers and wireless, I'm actually trying to assist with the problem, perhaps thats the difference between windows and linux... the users.
So before you give me a utterly _common sense_ spiel of 'end consumers' and come up with some left field example of cars rolling over, take a moment and consider that maybe your rush to assume my motive for reply just made an ass of you and me.
If you do not know why wireless just 'works' in XP despite different hardware all over the place, get researched. Apple doesn't do an 'any box' because they were afraid of big bad MS (although this seems to be changing).
Cheers.
We can help. What kind of laptop and what chipset is the wireless card?
Wow, way to fuck up an argument. A library does not charge for people to enter and use it, its wholly funded by taxes. There is no yearly payment to 'publishers' thru a tax that allows the library to continue to share books. Don't fucking speak until you can comprehend the difference.
Yes, I sound like a dick, but if you had to read a moronic response, while sitting and staring at a virtual machine that you have been informed will need Novell and a proprietary application from 1990 running on it in the next 24 hours (not to mention porting the data from old, crashed server, to new virtual machine), you'd probably experience the same nutball reaction I've had. Sorry about that.
Cheers.
Its Business Welfare at that point. What if you don't want to download 'Canadian' copyrighted music? How does this legalize downloading American copyrighted music? I'm fairly certain that treaties between the US and Canada require upholding copyright.
It should not be on the citizens to support a business model that simply doesn't work. Sorry labels and other bullshit middlemen, if you have not adapted by now, you will die.
Cheers.
Try using an off the shelf name brand computer with Vista, without any customization and cleanup, and you'll see the 5-10 secs to delete a file. Out of the box speed is a must for a consumer OS, in that realm, Vista is epic fail. Core2Duo 2.4ghz, 4GB ram (of which only 3 is being used, apparently. !!!WTF!!!) I'm glad its so terrible, though, its great job security. (What, you thought that pos was anywhere near my own machines?)
Cheers.
nd what exactly is the problem with each country asserting control over the internet within it's own borders?
The internet is too goddamn important to allow each country to assert such stringent control to create an isolated DNS/IP/access control within its own borders. This is a worldwide phenomenon, isolationi leads to disagreement without conciliatory resolution leads to war.
Note: I also think ICANN is a raging pile of crap, its corporate control instead of government, at least with a government agency we can require full disclosure without the ability for the corporation to hide behind constitutional rights to privacy, etc.
Cheers.
Not at all, you could rtfa instead of shooting from the hip. We're not talking OEM deals here, we are talking end user licensing requirements, which is a form of exclusivity.
FROM TFA "The company's educational funding comes with a hitch: "Of course, that includes the fact they [the schools] use Windows," Ayala said."
Btw, it was exclusivity deals from the 90s era that made MS a monopoly, once MS hit monopoly status, they are at a higher standard for fair trade and ethics.
Cheers.
Your lack of understanding is disappointing. Microsoft is the only software company with the cash to just throw around $200+ million on such a thing. They have billions they can leverage in a tax-paying non-ethics violating commercial way to grow market share, and they still feel the need to use SCHOOLS in this way to leverage their market share, both in the immediate (what, you thought they wouldn't include all of the $3/ea licenses they give the schools in their marketing numbers?), and the long term (teaching students windows now and getting them oriented towards its quirks and design, as opposed to general use). I'm certainly not opposed to MS donating licenses (or SUBSIDIZING the cost and charging very little, which they tend to do now) for schools and students to use MS software, but tacking on a requirement that all competitors be cut out as part of the deal is not an honest effort towards furthering education. Its a very egotistical and selfish strategy to build good PR and get a tax cut.
In this case, there is no Redhat et al. to be learned when you take this money.
Thats the problem, the training isnt free, its SUBSIDIZED. You HAVE to use MS products in exchange for their 'free' training. There is an ethical line you can cross by using a monopoly position coupled with free training to grow market share. Not mention possible tax fraud if MS is writing off all of this money spent and in turn getting a kickback in the form of new sales and other market growth factors.
Cheers.
E.T. and 2001 are hollywood nonsense, I'm talking about the breakdown of religion, you think terrorism is an issue now? Just imagine how crazy the crazies can get if we ever make contact.
Actually it would make sense that this is a reversal for the sake of coverup, the world already has lots of civil unrest, actual alien contact could spin it all out of control and everyone goes apeshit for a while, until we realize the signal is from a long since gone species (unless they're already on the way here).
The nice part would be increased focus on space faring technology and more defense spending towards space based defenses (from the outside, not all point down at us).
Cheers.
I think I'll bite the bullet and go ahead and get HD-DVD, just in the hope that it wins and all those PS3 early adopters feel stupid.
Now we just have to come up with a way to make the iPhone early adopters feel stupid (aside from price cuts and crappy internet speed).
Cheers.