no, only the companies that were previously selling wireless devices without paying license fees who will now have to pay license fees will raise their prices. other companies selling wireless devices legally won't be affected, and will also become more competitive. if you're stupid enough to pay more for your next router from unscrupulous US ripoff merchants, then sucks to be you. if you're smart, you'll buy your next router from one of the many unscrupulous chinese ripoff merchants that haven't been (and likely won't be) prosecuted.
who the fuck tosses shrimp on the barbie in Orstralya? maybe if you're a Toorak tosser. everyone else chucks (yes "chucks", not "tosses") a few snags on the barbie... all while never putting down their piss in a green tin.
its funny how people talk about the bottom line, thinking its about price, only to be burned by cheap crap before realizing the bottom line is really that you get what you pay for
if something seems too good to be true, it usually is
a pound is only comparable to kg on the surface of the earth, because everywhere else a pound is a force and kg must be multiplied by acceleration due to gravity to be comparable
NASA has been spending its budget on a developing a super race of monkey that will someday supersede humanity in space exploration. that's why they've achieved fuck all else since the moon race.
(You must be American and unfamiliar with SI units.)
actually a pound weighs less than a kilogram, but only on the surface of the earth because pound is not really a measure of mass, although retards who get their physics from supermarket scales are welcome to disagree.
my car doesn't use fuel either... just material that when ignited in a mixture with oxygen generates an explosion inside a chamber with a piston that imposes a moment in a crankshaft and induces a reaction from the earth against the tire surfaces in such a way as to get me where i need to go with a bit of interaction via an orientation correction device inside the cabin. apparently there are 6 of these miraculous so called "cylinders" in my transportation machine! modern technology is just amazing isn't it?
i don't use facebook a lot. i have an account, and my wife is obsessed with it and i get tagged in photos and whatnot, but the one thing i have never understood is the apparent tendency of users of social media to broadcast menial things like what they eat for breakfast or how sexually deprived their husband is. my wife definitely isn't the worst at this, but it would seem the more into it you get, the more desperate you become in posting something... anything.
...that linux users neither want nor need their proprietary flash player.
flash has been the web's unwanted runt bastard since its inception. anyone who uses flash over html5 nowadays should be shot, and then fired, and then shot again just to be sure.
if users were to abandon Windows in droves for Linux, Linux would quickly be the target of virus writers
true, but it doesn't mean they would get anywhere
isn't actually inherently more secure than Windows
if microsoft actually used filesystem permissions to protect system files rather than including it as an optional gimmick, and got rid of their stupid click-through privilege escalation dialogs, then maybe, but without those changes, i disagree, and majority of fortune 500 companies would too. there may be millions more windows machines but majority aren't of any value to malware developers for anything other than building botnets for targeting the much more worthy linux targets. history kind of speaks for itself here; windows has an atrocious track record for viruses, and its primary market is consumer and workstations. if a workstation bombs, it can be easily replaced. i think its generally accepted that linux is trusted for servers for good reason.
There is no video editing software for Linux (outside of specialty software)
...that you've heard of. i'm sure if you went digging deep enough you would find something that could do what you needed. of course you won't find any reference to it splashed all over billboards or on tv, and if you already have vested interest (financial, time, effort, etc) in proprietary equivalents there of course isn't much incentive for you to go looking for such free alternative.
i doubt that you would consider putting as much time and effort into learning a free alternative than you already have learning a proprietary product, because spending money on something offers a fairly good incentive to make the most of it. most people don't appreciate something they get for free as much.
If we don't "understand" the ribbon it is simply because we are obstinate
actually the ribbon is merely for the benefit of new office users. if office is seen as easier to learn than free alternatives, then they will be happier to part with their money for it. users who dispise the ribbon are existing customers who have already paid their money and are stuck with vested interest in microsoft products (having spent years learning microsoft ways). it is also a cash cow for training organisations. many users of microsoft office aren't even aware of the existence of openoffice, but if they were they might find that openoffice suited their needs just fine.
Linux users thinks that users who are unwilling to put up with badly designed user interfaces are "lazy"
this was the funniest part of your reply, because you seem to imply that proprietary windows software interfaces are better designed than those developed by "lazy" linux developers. i actually think that many people (yourself included) have been brainwashed into using poorly developed interfaces for so long that you are simply accustomed to them, and anything different is alien and uncomfortable. linux programs are often used by the people that develop them, and as a software developer who uses his own programs i can assure you that it is very much in my interest to make sure the interface is designed as cleanly and ergonomically as possible for my needs. the big difference is that my needs are of a proficient user, rather than a noob. it would seem that you are an expert in the use of software designed for noobs, and a noob in the use of software designed for experts. how do it
i'm a happy user of debian. i can do everything i need, even play my favourite windows games like bf1942, starcraft and gta vice city (thanks to wine). recently i started learning some new tricks in gimp (gimp is written by experts for experts, so don't knock it just cos you can't figure it out). i host multiple websites, including with ssl (lamp, openssl). oo calc shits all over excel (ribbons single-handedly killed excel, word and access for me). file searches are so much quicker by simply using "locate" on the cli, and i don't have to put up with dialog box hell. i also use dassault systems draftsight, which is an autocad dwg compatible drafting program.
and by far the biggest advantage of all... i can browse the internet without fear, and i don't even need to use a virus scanner, or malware agent, etc (except on occasions i have used clamav to scan files downloaded off the web that might be opened on a windows box). perhaps if consumers knew they could buy a linux pc and not have to worry about viruses, that might have them abandoning microsoft in droves.
it would be unreasonable to expect average joe consumer to know the benefits of setting shells for all non-human users in/etc/passwd to/bin/false, or how to put together an iptables script, but for an average user debian out of the box isn't too bad security-wise already.
i also have a samsung gs2 running android 2.3.6, and it is a nice phone.
there are applications for linux. the problem is that they aren't blathered all over the place in tv ads or banners, and they aren't forced on people to have to learn. you just have to figure stuff out using help from forums etc. windows users have taken years to learn windows and office (many have had no choice), and spend countless hours trolling the web for solutions to stupid problems that microsoft would never bother to help with.
if windows users are too lazy to learn how to do things on linux, then good on them and they should stick with windows. the linux community will be better for it.
in the barrage of junk mail catalogs i get, all are android based except the ipad, the android ones are always cheaper (significantly) and there is decent offering of them from different companies. not everyone has a pic of steve jobs glued to the face of their inflatable sex doll.
voters in Gillard's electorate don't give a flying fuck about assange or internet freedom or whatever. unless his party can lower their rates, improve their roads, etc better than Gillard, they're just pissing in the wind. twatter is just a shoutbox for retarded publicity stunts. and assange won't be able to do much for voters while he's locked up, so that won't go down well
guns don't kill people, but stupid fucking irresponsible redneck retards kill people, and these people will always be a danger to the community around them as long as they have access to guns
there are lots of other bad things out there, but getting rid of a lot of guns was a bloody good start
but the Australian public are too stupid to realise
at least some of us are smart enough not to give a shit about all this impossible-to-implement and enforce internet censorship garbage, and our pollies are smart enough to have a bit of fun giving the SOPA retards a good butt fucking before sending them home to their mighty "home of the free"
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no, only the companies that were previously selling wireless devices without paying license fees who will now have to pay license fees will raise their prices. other companies selling wireless devices legally won't be affected, and will also become more competitive. if you're stupid enough to pay more for your next router from unscrupulous US ripoff merchants, then sucks to be you. if you're smart, you'll buy your next router from one of the many unscrupulous chinese ripoff merchants that haven't been (and likely won't be) prosecuted.
in the US its the iron curtain of media and government brainwashing
who the fuck tosses shrimp on the barbie in Orstralya? maybe if you're a Toorak tosser. everyone else chucks (yes "chucks", not "tosses") a few snags on the barbie... all while never putting down their piss in a green tin.
i wish our anthem was "we are australian", but i guess i'll have to be content being girt by sea for the time being
its funny how people talk about the bottom line, thinking its about price, only to be burned by cheap crap before realizing the bottom line is really that you get what you pay for
if something seems too good to be true, it usually is
more like you
care to elaborate?
a pound is only comparable to kg on the surface of the earth, because everywhere else a pound is a force and kg must be multiplied by acceleration due to gravity to be comparable
NASA has been spending its budget on a developing a super race of monkey that will someday supersede humanity in space exploration. that's why they've achieved fuck all else since the moon race.
(You must be American and unfamiliar with SI units.)
actually a pound weighs less than a kilogram, but only on the surface of the earth because pound is not really a measure of mass, although retards who get their physics from supermarket scales are welcome to disagree.
my car doesn't use fuel either... just material that when ignited in a mixture with oxygen generates an explosion inside a chamber with a piston that imposes a moment in a crankshaft and induces a reaction from the earth against the tire surfaces in such a way as to get me where i need to go with a bit of interaction via an orientation correction device inside the cabin. apparently there are 6 of these miraculous so called "cylinders" in my transportation machine! modern technology is just amazing isn't it?
its getting there that’s not
i don't use facebook a lot. i have an account, and my wife is obsessed with it and i get tagged in photos and whatnot, but the one thing i have never understood is the apparent tendency of users of social media to broadcast menial things like what they eat for breakfast or how sexually deprived their husband is. my wife definitely isn't the worst at this, but it would seem the more into it you get, the more desperate you become in posting something... anything.
Do you like sit around and paint or turn clay pots or what?
pffft... are you serious? boards don't ever actually create anything or make money. they just get in the way of those that do.
...that linux users neither want nor need their proprietary flash player.
flash has been the web's unwanted runt bastard since its inception. anyone who uses flash over html5 nowadays should be shot, and then fired, and then shot again just to be sure.
then you're a fool for thinking consumers are intelligent
"money talks and bullshit walks"... always
if users were to abandon Windows in droves for Linux, Linux would quickly be the target of virus writers
true, but it doesn't mean they would get anywhere
isn't actually inherently more secure than Windows
if microsoft actually used filesystem permissions to protect system files rather than including it as an optional gimmick, and got rid of their stupid click-through privilege escalation dialogs, then maybe, but without those changes, i disagree, and majority of fortune 500 companies would too. there may be millions more windows machines but majority aren't of any value to malware developers for anything other than building botnets for targeting the much more worthy linux targets. history kind of speaks for itself here; windows has an atrocious track record for viruses, and its primary market is consumer and workstations. if a workstation bombs, it can be easily replaced. i think its generally accepted that linux is trusted for servers for good reason.
There is no video editing software for Linux (outside of specialty software)
top result for google search of "linux video editing" are:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/top5-linux-video-editing-system-software/
you'll also find linux featured prevalently on the wikipedia page for video editing software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software
i doubt that you would consider putting as much time and effort into learning a free alternative than you already have learning a proprietary product, because spending money on something offers a fairly good incentive to make the most of it. most people don't appreciate something they get for free as much.
If we don't "understand" the ribbon it is simply because we are obstinate
actually the ribbon is merely for the benefit of new office users. if office is seen as easier to learn than free alternatives, then they will be happier to part with their money for it. users who dispise the ribbon are existing customers who have already paid their money and are stuck with vested interest in microsoft products (having spent years learning microsoft ways). it is also a cash cow for training organisations. many users of microsoft office aren't even aware of the existence of openoffice, but if they were they might find that openoffice suited their needs just fine.
Linux users thinks that users who are unwilling to put up with badly designed user interfaces are "lazy"
this was the funniest part of your reply, because you seem to imply that proprietary windows software interfaces are better designed than those developed by "lazy" linux developers. i actually think that many people (yourself included) have been brainwashed into using poorly developed interfaces for so long that you are simply accustomed to them, and anything different is alien and uncomfortable. linux programs are often used by the people that develop them, and as a software developer who uses his own programs i can assure you that it is very much in my interest to make sure the interface is designed as cleanly and ergonomically as possible for my needs. the big difference is that my needs are of a proficient user, rather than a noob. it would seem that you are an expert in the use of software designed for noobs, and a noob in the use of software designed for experts. how do it
i'm a happy user of debian. i can do everything i need, even play my favourite windows games like bf1942, starcraft and gta vice city (thanks to wine). recently i started learning some new tricks in gimp (gimp is written by experts for experts, so don't knock it just cos you can't figure it out). i host multiple websites, including with ssl (lamp, openssl). oo calc shits all over excel (ribbons single-handedly killed excel, word and access for me). file searches are so much quicker by simply using "locate" on the cli, and i don't have to put up with dialog box hell. i also use dassault systems draftsight, which is an autocad dwg compatible drafting program.
/etc/passwd to /bin/false, or how to put together an iptables script, but for an average user debian out of the box isn't too bad security-wise already.
and by far the biggest advantage of all... i can browse the internet without fear, and i don't even need to use a virus scanner, or malware agent, etc (except on occasions i have used clamav to scan files downloaded off the web that might be opened on a windows box). perhaps if consumers knew they could buy a linux pc and not have to worry about viruses, that might have them abandoning microsoft in droves.
it would be unreasonable to expect average joe consumer to know the benefits of setting shells for all non-human users in
i also have a samsung gs2 running android 2.3.6, and it is a nice phone.
there are applications for linux. the problem is that they aren't blathered all over the place in tv ads or banners, and they aren't forced on people to have to learn. you just have to figure stuff out using help from forums etc. windows users have taken years to learn windows and office (many have had no choice), and spend countless hours trolling the web for solutions to stupid problems that microsoft would never bother to help with.
if windows users are too lazy to learn how to do things on linux, then good on them and they should stick with windows. the linux community will be better for it.
in the barrage of junk mail catalogs i get, all are android based except the ipad, the android ones are always cheaper (significantly) and there is decent offering of them from different companies. not everyone has a pic of steve jobs glued to the face of their inflatable sex doll.
more like borophil! no i do not want to make out with you
maybe ms office runs faster for you, but for me and apparently others openoffice runs faster than ms office
maybe microsoft should make damn sure your head isn't too far up their ass
how about "microsoft bing live office workgroup server 2012", or affectionately "microsoft blows"
voters in Gillard's electorate don't give a flying fuck about assange or internet freedom or whatever. unless his party can lower their rates, improve their roads, etc better than Gillard, they're just pissing in the wind. twatter is just a shoutbox for retarded publicity stunts. and assange won't be able to do much for voters while he's locked up, so that won't go down well
move along... nothing to see here
guns don't kill people, but stupid fucking irresponsible redneck retards kill people, and these people will always be a danger to the community around them as long as they have access to guns
there are lots of other bad things out there, but getting rid of a lot of guns was a bloody good start
but the Australian public are too stupid to realise
at least some of us are smart enough not to give a shit about all this impossible-to-implement and enforce internet censorship garbage, and our pollies are smart enough to have a bit of fun giving the SOPA retards a good butt fucking before sending them home to their mighty "home of the free"
He should literally be tried for treason
and if that doesn't work we can always figuratively try him for treason