Seriously, as a parent, I've seen packaging on kids toys get progressively worse. Not just ultrasonic-sealed plastic clamshells, but toys attached to cardboard boxes with dozens (sometimes over a hundred) wire twist-ties and highly strecthy rubber-band-like straps.
It took me over an hour just to de-package ONE toy for my kid last Christmas. Seriously, there is no excuse for such obnoxious packaging. I, for one, will be keeping a close eye on this initiative and it will likely make me look at Amazon first for my purchases.
Because you bought hardware from a manufacturer that seems to think you should?
No, I use the secondhand hardware that my company tells me I have to use. I know a small number of people who can specify what laptop their employer should buy, but they are rare. So let's go back to the original question: Ubuntu runs faster than Vista, just not on my laptop or any laptop I'm likely to use. Therefore, Ubunutu (in fact linux in general) is not useful to me. I, and people like me, are theoretically the target market share, otherwise these comparisons would be unnecessary. Don't you think it would make more sens to solve the problems rather than berate me for choosing the wrong hardware?
I think the distinction here is that YOU cannot get it to work on YOUR laptop. No problem with the OS. Problem exists between keyboard and chair!
Yes. That's why I said "Wake me when it'll work on my laptop".
The fact is that if Ubuntu in particular and Linux in general want to make headway against Microsoft, these kinds of problems cannot exist. Sleep/Hibernate has been a perennial problem in the various *nixes for years and it's always blamed on broken ACPI implementations, but the fact is that it works under Windows and that's what users care about. Yes, it's true that I can use ndiswrapper, but then why doesn't the OS offer to set that up for you during installation when it sees there's no driver for your wireless card?
It's nice to sit there on your little pedestal and look down your nose at people who can't get it to work, but it doesn't do anything to help and ends up making you look like a douchebag. But since you posted A.C., I expect you know that already.
- Sleep/Hibernation should work but doesn't, at least not reliably - Wireless will work if you use ndiswrapper why should I jump through hoops to use something that should work out of the box? - Not sure about softkeys. Don't need them. I do, if I want to use my volume and mute buttons, as well as enable/disable wireless
Wake up, 8.04 does all those out of the box just fine on my laptop.
Oh, well I guess as long as it works on your laptop, everyone should be happy. Me? I have to jump through hoops just to get to "passable", much less "working".
Ummmm....TFS says they're using an infrared telescope. The water vapor shouldn't matter much, right? Especially since they're mostly trying to look at the atmosphere to study things such as global warming.
They're not observing the Earth. It's a celestial telescope.
The problem in making a good survival horror game is that people just aren't scared anymore.
The problem is that we're tired of producers confusing "scaring" us with "startling" us. How many times did something jump out of the dark at you in Doom 3? Don't you remember playing 95% of the game switching between your gun and your flashlight and constantly entering rooms backwards because you knew the monster was going to come out of a hidden door behind you? That's not scary, it's just annoying as hell.
You look at recent horror films like The Ring (setting aside that it wasn't a very good movie). That movie was scary as crap, and the director did it by actually scaring you.
Of course the return rate is higher! Linux is NOT READY FOR THE DESKTOP! You can't buy off-the-shelf software for it at Best Buy and it's hard to use. People buy things based on the price tag without doing their research first. Most of the time, they can't even get their microwave oven to stop flashing 12:00. What makes you think they're going to want to read an extremely lengthy linux user manual?
What other aftermarket accessories used to exist that no longer do?
Everything you just listed. The stuff for the DS Lite does not fit the DS. Occasionally, you can still find a stylus or a screen protector for the DS, but it's rare indeed.
When the DS Lite was introduced, the supply of aftermarket accessories for the DS dried up completely. I wonder if the same thing will happen to DS Lite accessories. It would make sense as it will help to drive sales for this new hardware release.
I don't have the AT&T user agreement in front of me, but I believe when you sign the contract with them, you agree not to use their data plan with a tethered computer. It's possible that Apple is using that as a way of helping AT&T enforce compliance.
You can use Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2007 if the Exchange admin hasn't disabled access for older clients. I think Outlook 2003 works better with Crossover than Outlook 2007.
Sophos informed BusinessWeek of the infection last week, although at the time of writing the hackers' scripts are still present and active on their site.
It's bad enough to have an insecure site, but to ignore the break-in for a week or more is just unconscionable.
"It's a very good time remind Western reporters that there are such tools," said Tao Wang
I don't know. You get a couple hundred (or thousand) reporters getting censored while reporting on a very high-profile event? I think it would do more to call attention to China's policies. They'll talk for months about how hard it was for them to do their jobs and the freedoms they had to live without. If they use these tools, they'll go home afterward and forget all about the fact that they needed them at all.
then why are you letting them have local admin rights?
*I* don't, but I know a lot of places do because of the vast preponderance of Windows software that requires local admin rights to run properly (or at all). That's a failing of both the Windows security model and the laziness of the programmers.
Slashdot Mirror
I wanna live on the left dot.
I haven't seen so much as a slight dip in spam-per-hour on any of the spam filters I manage.
*sniff* I never thought the day would come!
Seriously, as a parent, I've seen packaging on kids toys get progressively worse. Not just ultrasonic-sealed plastic clamshells, but toys attached to cardboard boxes with dozens (sometimes over a hundred) wire twist-ties and highly strecthy rubber-band-like straps.
It took me over an hour just to de-package ONE toy for my kid last Christmas. Seriously, there is no excuse for such obnoxious packaging. I, for one, will be keeping a close eye on this initiative and it will likely make me look at Amazon first for my purchases.
Because you bought hardware from a manufacturer that seems to think you should?
No, I use the secondhand hardware that my company tells me I have to use. I know a small number of people who can specify what laptop their employer should buy, but they are rare. So let's go back to the original question: Ubuntu runs faster than Vista, just not on my laptop or any laptop I'm likely to use. Therefore, Ubunutu (in fact linux in general) is not useful to me. I, and people like me, are theoretically the target market share, otherwise these comparisons would be unnecessary. Don't you think it would make more sens to solve the problems rather than berate me for choosing the wrong hardware?
I think the distinction here is that YOU cannot get it to work on YOUR laptop. No problem with the OS. Problem exists between keyboard and chair!
Yes. That's why I said "Wake me when it'll work on my laptop".
The fact is that if Ubuntu in particular and Linux in general want to make headway against Microsoft, these kinds of problems cannot exist. Sleep/Hibernate has been a perennial problem in the various *nixes for years and it's always blamed on broken ACPI implementations, but the fact is that it works under Windows and that's what users care about. Yes, it's true that I can use ndiswrapper, but then why doesn't the OS offer to set that up for you during installation when it sees there's no driver for your wireless card?
It's nice to sit there on your little pedestal and look down your nose at people who can't get it to work, but it doesn't do anything to help and ends up making you look like a douchebag. But since you posted A.C., I expect you know that already.
- Sleep/Hibernation should work but doesn't, at least not reliably
- Wireless will work if you use ndiswrapper why should I jump through hoops to use something that should work out of the box?
- Not sure about softkeys. Don't need them. I do, if I want to use my volume and mute buttons, as well as enable/disable wireless
Wake up, 8.04 does all those out of the box just fine on my laptop.
Oh, well I guess as long as it works on your laptop, everyone should be happy. Me? I have to jump through hoops just to get to "passable", much less "working".
Wake me when it'll work on my laptop.
-Sleep/hibernation
-Wireless
-Softkeys
Ummmm....TFS says they're using an infrared telescope. The water vapor shouldn't matter much, right? Especially since they're mostly trying to look at the atmosphere to study things such as global warming.
They're not observing the Earth. It's a celestial telescope.
Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Earth-Observing Telescope
FTFW:
SOFIA is an airborne observatory that will study the universe in the infrared spectrum.
So, by "Earth-observing", what you meant was "everything EXCEPT Earth", right?
ah, i feel vindicated. one of my paranoid thoughts is that people have their memories wiped of certain things they've done
How do you know it hasn't already been done to you?
The problem in making a good survival horror game is that people just aren't scared anymore.
The problem is that we're tired of producers confusing "scaring" us with "startling" us. How many times did something jump out of the dark at you in Doom 3? Don't you remember playing 95% of the game switching between your gun and your flashlight and constantly entering rooms backwards because you knew the monster was going to come out of a hidden door behind you? That's not scary, it's just annoying as hell.
You look at recent horror films like The Ring (setting aside that it wasn't a very good movie). That movie was scary as crap, and the director did it by actually scaring you.
Let us know when the BBC opens their content to the rest of the world.
I would love to see a feature list.
Took all of three seconds to go to the website and get it.
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html
Of course the return rate is higher! Linux is NOT READY FOR THE DESKTOP! You can't buy off-the-shelf software for it at Best Buy and it's hard to use. People buy things based on the price tag without doing their research first. Most of the time, they can't even get their microwave oven to stop flashing 12:00. What makes you think they're going to want to read an extremely lengthy linux user manual?
No benefit? You can get free porn via turning on ipv6.
You mean "eventually at some future unannounced date, but not right now". The last update was four months ago and it still says "coming soon".
What other aftermarket accessories used to exist that no longer do?
Everything you just listed. The stuff for the DS Lite does not fit the DS. Occasionally, you can still find a stylus or a screen protector for the DS, but it's rare indeed.
When the DS Lite was introduced, the supply of aftermarket accessories for the DS dried up completely. I wonder if the same thing will happen to DS Lite accessories. It would make sense as it will help to drive sales for this new hardware release.
I don't have the AT&T user agreement in front of me, but I believe when you sign the contract with them, you agree not to use their data plan with a tethered computer. It's possible that Apple is using that as a way of helping AT&T enforce compliance.
You can use Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2007 if the Exchange admin hasn't disabled access for older clients. I think Outlook 2003 works better with Crossover than Outlook 2007.
Sophos informed BusinessWeek of the infection last week, although at the time of writing the hackers' scripts are still present and active on their site.
It's bad enough to have an insecure site, but to ignore the break-in for a week or more is just unconscionable.
If only there was a big island somewhere where we could send all these idiots.
"It's a very good time remind Western reporters that there are such tools," said Tao Wang
I don't know. You get a couple hundred (or thousand) reporters getting censored while reporting on a very high-profile event? I think it would do more to call attention to China's policies. They'll talk for months about how hard it was for them to do their jobs and the freedoms they had to live without. If they use these tools, they'll go home afterward and forget all about the fact that they needed them at all.
I knew a guy doing a Susan B. Anthony for movie piracy.
What, he was supposed to do 100 years, but only did 25 because the warden didn't look close enough?
then why are you letting them have local admin rights?
*I* don't, but I know a lot of places do because of the vast preponderance of Windows software that requires local admin rights to run properly (or at all). That's a failing of both the Windows security model and the laziness of the programmers.