In all your examples, the part that you're suggesting should be left out is made by the same company that makes the rest of the item.
In the Microsoft/hardware manufacturer case, they're two different companies. In the obligatory car analogy, rather than the paint removed, it would be more like every car manufacturer (except for some niche ones like TVR, Saleen, Koenigsegg, and Caterham, none of which you can afford) sold you a car, but required you to buy a Nokia cellphone along with it. You already have a perfectly functional Samsung cellphone and plan, but you can't buy a car without this extra Nokia phone and plan being forced on you. The thing they're removing is the Nokia, not the paint on the car.
A law that forbids selling hardware and software together would increase innovation. Consumers would only be able to buy hardware and software separately. That way, hardware vendors are encouraged to document the hardware and software vendors will compete on quality. Installation procedures would become very easy very quickly due to market pressure.
Normal people don't like that though. Let's say that you try and sell product A to somebody that requires product B to function. This person has neither used nor ever had interest in A or B. Most people aren't interested in one or the other. Normal people want an A+B product where somebody else has worked out all of the compatibility problems.
The thing is, in this case, product A doesn't require product B to function. It can use product B, but it can also use product C, product D, product E, or product F. It only requires one of them, but when it's sold to you, even if you want to use it with product C, D, E, or F, you are required to buy product B.
Apple doesn't develop their own supporting chipsets, CPU or GPU hardware, or any other such thing. At most, there may be some proprietary "System Protection Chip" that isn't needed at all for the system to work.
In fact, Apple themselves have instructions on their website for how to install Windows on Mac hardware. I guess you need to catch up to what the world has known for a while.
If you don't have all the same fonts installed, this can happen transferring between the same version and patxh level of Word, on two different computers. Hardly a LibreOffice compatibility issue....
Hey, it's an APK sockpuppet, which doesn't really count as a sockpuppet, because everything APK posts is AC. Stop trying to pretend you have supporters here, by posting without your APK sig.
Maybe if you weren't such an abusive asshole, you wouldn't get karmaslammed into oblivion, and you'd actually be able to use a real account, instead of your AC crap.
It doesn't matter if what you say is true or not (and I'm not saying it is completely, even though you do have some legit points at times), but when you present your points like a maniacal raving psychotic, it doesn't matter. You're branded an asshole from the beginning, and rightly so.
there isn't a clear line of sight to them from my house, even with a 16' mast and large antenna point correctly. I gave up on TV with the switch to digital and I find that I really haven't missed much.
A 16' mast? That's tiny for my area. My parents have a two story house, plus attic, so the building's got to be at least 27 feet high, maybe over 30. The antenna is a good 10 feet higher than the highest part of the roof, so it's got to be 40 feet high.
My brother has a ranch, with attic, and his isn't as tall, but it's still got to be 20 feet, and it's the shortest antenna I've seen anywhere.
I don't have an antenna, because I'm in town, and use satellite.
who is cleaning up the bodies? show me 1 picture of 80 dead birds at one of these facilities.
You don't get a body when it's hot enough to incinerate the carcass. You might as well say someone isn't dead because all you see is a bunch of ash in an urn.
I didn't say "Why wouldn't you have a IPv6 capable network" I asked "Why would you use IPv6?"
Well, it's a good thing that I actually answered the second question, rather than the first, isn't it?
All my equipment/OS's can handle IPv6 just fine, but there's no reason to ever use it inside a local network. I can hit IPv6 outside my network just fine... http://test-ipv6.com/
Granted, that's entirely up to your ISP. But out-of-the-box equipment that's IPv6 capable equipment should support IPv6 as long as your ISP does as well.
If you only run IP4 internally, then you can only address, at best, a subset of IPv6 addresses on the public Internet.
I have to spend an hour to have a system that compares to a commerial OS.
It takes a heck of a lot longer than that to get Windows installed, along with all drivers, updates, and extra software to make it functional as something more than a web dumb terminal....
There's far too much broken desktop stuff for Linux to be usable on the desktop en-masse. Playing a video file from the network. Simple, right? OS X will play directly from share. Windows will play directly from share. Linux will copy it (all 4 GB or whatever) before it will play.
Errr...WTF are you talking about? Linux plays directly from network shares just fine. I do it all the time. In fact, I've been doing it for years. I can't remember the last time I had to wait for it to copy the entire file before it would start playing. (Although I do remember that happening, but it was YEARS ago. Maybe even a decade.)
Well, that's what you get for running Ubuntu in a dev environment. It's a distribution that's meant to be installed from Ubuntu's repositories, only updated from those same repositories, and never really used for any third party software. I've got a 75+ year old guy using it, because he kept getting infected when he was running Windows. Hasn't had any problems with it at all, other than when a stick of memory went bad, and it started crashing all the time.
For stable servers (and even workstations) I've been running Debian since at least as far back as 1997. There were some issues like you describe in the first 5 years or so, but honestly, the only thing I've run across in the last 5 years was when I tried to do a database server upgrade, and uninstalled the old postgreSQL version 7 before migrating the data to the new version 8 server. That was a relatively easy fix, though, and it only happened because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. Other than that, every Debian machine I maintain (and there are A LOT of them...) just runs perfectly.
I have a customer who installed an Ubuntu server because "it has a GUI and it'll be easy for me to use". I stuck with it for a while because they liked it, solving problem after problem that cropped up because we kept needing to add third party software to it, which broke on literally EVERY SINGLE kernel upgrade. Finally, I figured out the amount of time I'd spent fixing shit that wouldn't have broken if we'd been using Debian, and how long it would take me to back up, blow away, install Debian, and restore data. Turned out the customer would have been 4 figures richer if I hadn't had to fix all the Ubuntu screwups over a couple of years. Recommended migrating to Debian, they agreed, and that machine hasn't had a problem since. That was 6 months ago.
Israel army (on phone to Gaza officials): We're going to be bombing this building, so make sure you get all the children, women, and others out. Hamas terrorist: HA! Children! Stay where you are! You are safe here from the Jewish infidels! Don't move! ---- bombs drop ---- Hamas terrorist (to foreign media): That accursed Israeli army! They bombed children! How could they!
What other military actively warns the enemy ahead of time that they're going to be bombing a specific target? It's Hamas that makes sure civilians stay there, so they can use their deaths in the propaganda war against Israel. And you've fallen for it.
You somehow find it impossible for a Ford to break down?
Of course. That would require a Ford that actually runs in the first place. Buh dum, crash! Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the fish; it's delicious!
(I don't really have anything against Ford, other than their miserable first gen Sync system, but it was just too good to pass up....)
Because if you didn't, when (he he....maybe "if") the entire Internet finally switches to IPv6, you'd have to run 4to6 hacks on your router, and probably have large swathes of the Internet unreachable, because your IPv4 internal network doesn't have the capability to properly address the IPv6 address space. Much easier to just use IPv6 internally to begin with.
Most snail mail is read and sorted by machines before it gets to the postman. There is ample opportunity to collect metadata electronically with snail mail.
A snail mail letter can be dropped into a bulk, anonymous mailbox outside a variety store miles from your home/workplace, with no return address, and still get to where it needs to go. That makes the connections between sender and receiver impossible to track.
This isn't possible for email, as it needs an email account to be sent from.
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In all your examples, the part that you're suggesting should be left out is made by the same company that makes the rest of the item.
In the Microsoft/hardware manufacturer case, they're two different companies.
In the obligatory car analogy, rather than the paint removed, it would be more like every car manufacturer (except for some niche ones like TVR, Saleen, Koenigsegg, and Caterham, none of which you can afford) sold you a car, but required you to buy a Nokia cellphone along with it. You already have a perfectly functional Samsung cellphone and plan, but you can't buy a car without this extra Nokia phone and plan being forced on you.
The thing they're removing is the Nokia, not the paint on the car.
A law that forbids selling hardware and software together would increase innovation. Consumers would only be able to buy hardware and software separately. That way, hardware vendors are encouraged to document the hardware and software vendors will compete on quality. Installation procedures would become very easy very quickly due to market pressure.
Normal people don't like that though. Let's say that you try and sell product A to somebody that requires product B to function. This person has neither used nor ever had interest in A or B. Most people aren't interested in one or the other. Normal people want an A+B product where somebody else has worked out all of the compatibility problems.
The thing is, in this case, product A doesn't require product B to function. It can use product B, but it can also use product C, product D, product E, or product F. It only requires one of them, but when it's sold to you, even if you want to use it with product C, D, E, or F, you are required to buy product B.
Apple doesn't develop their own supporting chipsets, CPU or GPU hardware, or any other such thing. At most, there may be some proprietary "System Protection Chip" that isn't needed at all for the system to work.
In fact, Apple themselves have instructions on their website for how to install Windows on Mac hardware. I guess you need to catch up to what the world has known for a while.
What people? A handful of geeks who've heard of Linux?
Maybe the municipal government of Turin?
Which is probably the case. 1 idiot mayor says Linux is gone. A whole bunch of council members say it's not.
If you don't have all the same fonts installed, this can happen transferring between the same version and patxh level of Word, on two different computers.
Hardly a LibreOffice compatibility issue....
Minion 1: His head!
Minion 2: It`s on backward!
Scroob: Why didn`t anybody tell me my ass was so big?!?!
Hey, it's an APK sockpuppet, which doesn't really count as a sockpuppet, because everything APK posts is AC. Stop trying to pretend you have supporters here, by posting without your APK sig.
Maybe if you weren't such an abusive asshole, you wouldn't get karmaslammed into oblivion, and you'd actually be able to use a real account, instead of your AC crap.
It doesn't matter if what you say is true or not (and I'm not saying it is completely, even though you do have some legit points at times), but when you present your points like a maniacal raving psychotic, it doesn't matter. You're branded an asshole from the beginning, and rightly so.
there isn't a clear line of sight to them from my house, even with a 16' mast and large antenna point correctly. I gave up on TV with the switch to digital and I find that I really haven't missed much.
A 16' mast? That's tiny for my area. My parents have a two story house, plus attic, so the building's got to be at least 27 feet high, maybe over 30. The antenna is a good 10 feet higher than the highest part of the roof, so it's got to be 40 feet high.
My brother has a ranch, with attic, and his isn't as tall, but it's still got to be 20 feet, and it's the shortest antenna I've seen anywhere.
I don't have an antenna, because I'm in town, and use satellite.
"I'll pass on the latest climate change panic..."
Oh, that kind of idiot.
Yup. That's right. He had the gall to question the one world religion. Burn him at the stake!
who is cleaning up the bodies? show me 1 picture of 80 dead birds at one of these facilities.
You don't get a body when it's hot enough to incinerate the carcass. You might as well say someone isn't dead because all you see is a bunch of ash in an urn.
fake owl from harbor freight and stuck it on a poll.
Crows, what are you more afraid of?
1. Hawks.
2. Eagles.
3. Hunters with shotguns.
4. A fake owl.
5. None of the above. I ain't scared o' nuthin!!
Last of the bald eagles?
Piece of history. Would've been a shame to blow it up.
FUCK MOHAMMAD!!
No thanks. I don't swing that way....
I didn't say "Why wouldn't you have a IPv6 capable network" I asked "Why would you use IPv6?"
Well, it's a good thing that I actually answered the second question, rather than the first, isn't it?
All my equipment/OS's can handle IPv6 just fine, but there's no reason to ever use it inside a local network. I can hit IPv6 outside my network just fine... http://test-ipv6.com/
Granted, that's entirely up to your ISP. But out-of-the-box equipment that's IPv6 capable equipment should support IPv6 as long as your ISP does as well.
If you only run IP4 internally, then you can only address, at best, a subset of IPv6 addresses on the public Internet.
I have to spend an hour to have a system that compares to a commerial OS.
It takes a heck of a lot longer than that to get Windows installed, along with all drivers, updates, and extra software to make it functional as something more than a web dumb terminal....
There's far too much broken desktop stuff for Linux to be usable on the desktop en-masse. Playing a video file from the network. Simple, right? OS X will play directly from share. Windows will play directly from share. Linux will copy it (all 4 GB or whatever) before it will play.
Errr...WTF are you talking about? Linux plays directly from network shares just fine. I do it all the time. In fact, I've been doing it for years. I can't remember the last time I had to wait for it to copy the entire file before it would start playing. (Although I do remember that happening, but it was YEARS ago. Maybe even a decade.)
And it could just be one politician with a chair up his ass.)
FTFY. We're talking Ballmer here, after all.....
Well, that's what you get for running Ubuntu in a dev environment. It's a distribution that's meant to be installed from Ubuntu's repositories, only updated from those same repositories, and never really used for any third party software. I've got a 75+ year old guy using it, because he kept getting infected when he was running Windows. Hasn't had any problems with it at all, other than when a stick of memory went bad, and it started crashing all the time.
For stable servers (and even workstations) I've been running Debian since at least as far back as 1997. There were some issues like you describe in the first 5 years or so, but honestly, the only thing I've run across in the last 5 years was when I tried to do a database server upgrade, and uninstalled the old postgreSQL version 7 before migrating the data to the new version 8 server. That was a relatively easy fix, though, and it only happened because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. Other than that, every Debian machine I maintain (and there are A LOT of them...) just runs perfectly.
I have a customer who installed an Ubuntu server because "it has a GUI and it'll be easy for me to use". I stuck with it for a while because they liked it, solving problem after problem that cropped up because we kept needing to add third party software to it, which broke on literally EVERY SINGLE kernel upgrade.
Finally, I figured out the amount of time I'd spent fixing shit that wouldn't have broken if we'd been using Debian, and how long it would take me to back up, blow away, install Debian, and restore data. Turned out the customer would have been 4 figures richer if I hadn't had to fix all the Ubuntu screwups over a couple of years. Recommended migrating to Debian, they agreed, and that machine hasn't had a problem since. That was 6 months ago.
Israel army (on phone to Gaza officials): We're going to be bombing this building, so make sure you get all the children, women, and others out.
Hamas terrorist: HA! Children! Stay where you are! You are safe here from the Jewish infidels! Don't move!
---- bombs drop ----
Hamas terrorist (to foreign media): That accursed Israeli army! They bombed children! How could they!
What other military actively warns the enemy ahead of time that they're going to be bombing a specific target? It's Hamas that makes sure civilians stay there, so they can use their deaths in the propaganda war against Israel. And you've fallen for it.
You somehow find it impossible for a Ford to break down?
Of course. That would require a Ford that actually runs in the first place.
Buh dum, crash!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the fish; it's delicious!
(I don't really have anything against Ford, other than their miserable first gen Sync system, but it was just too good to pass up....)
Android is an OS for toys, it doesn't count.
Yes it does.
https://play.google.com/store/...
Well, aren't you just the smartass? :)
Because if you didn't, when (he he....maybe "if") the entire Internet finally switches to IPv6, you'd have to run 4to6 hacks on your router, and probably have large swathes of the Internet unreachable, because your IPv4 internal network doesn't have the capability to properly address the IPv6 address space.
Much easier to just use IPv6 internally to begin with.
You 'ave a complaint!? Look at these shoes! I've only 'ad 'em three weeks and.....
Most snail mail is read and sorted by machines before it gets to the postman.
There is ample opportunity to collect metadata electronically with snail mail.
A snail mail letter can be dropped into a bulk, anonymous mailbox outside a variety store miles from your home/workplace, with no return address, and still get to where it needs to go. That makes the connections between sender and receiver impossible to track.
This isn't possible for email, as it needs an email account to be sent from.