of course you can defeat any measure, but in doing so you also reduce the effectiveness of the advertising... advertisers aren't going to pay big money for ads that are indestinguishable from regular programming... they pay for loud, in your face blaring annoying idiots in chicken suits etc.
do you really think any network would reduce the loudness of their ads just to stop some percentage of viewers blocking them for recordings? if you are recording, then you are still counted as a viewer and the ads can not be blocks during the initial recording (on free to air tv) so there's a good chance you may be exposed to them at least once even if subsequent recording views are ad-free. even if you can detect the ads, all you can do it black the screen and mute the volume because the program won't return until the ad break is finished regardless. ad blocking/skipping is only useful for recording.
unless made illegal, networks will always want their ads loud and annoying because apparently they think that gets the viewer's attention. it obviously helps them get more advertising revenue.
you're likely reading the statistics wrong, and murder isn't the only thing that gun laws are meant to reduce... most gun related injuries/deaths are from accidents due to incompetence and stupidity on the part of the gun owner, not to mention threats of their use (such as in hold ups)
there is also an increased sense of safety that guns are illegal... at least i know that most people walking past me in the street aren't carrying one
many people with guns in america are misguided morons who are more likely to shoot themselves or their loved ones than any criminal
gun laws are good and they do work. if you judge the value of a law merely by a single statistic (rather than a holistic overview) then maybe we should just abolish all laws because most of them can be shown as not being of any value according to select statistics
private hospitals maybe, but they are run as a business and if you choose to do business there its your choice. if you have no private health cover you are stuck with what level of care is available in a government hospital. that's how it works in australia at least. most hospitals aren't privately owned or publically listed on the stock exchange (they are owned, operated and funded entirely by government and the taxpayer) so there is no profit to be had. healthcare is usually always a big issue during elections because most governments never adequately fund the public health system so there's always room for empty promises about more health funding from bullshit artist politicians wanting your vote.
salaries are continuous and huge expenses for any company
use an OS that requires one less admin and you save upwards of $40k/year
until windows server can be remotely managed en-mass on headless blades with fuck all overhead like linux and a heap of real basic scripts on a simple shell over ssh, more admins will be required to manage win server farms.
license costs are one aspect (that makes windows look bad), but tco is a much more important metric, and linux shits all over windows in the datacenter in this respect, and fortune 500 knows this and has known for years, which is why windows will always play second fiddle.
linux drivers are easy. maybe once upon a time it was a pain, but unless you're one of those morons that spends $1000 on the latest and greatest graphics card (example) then its not rocket science to get most setups to work well. in a datacenter drivers are even easier because they all use similar stock standard reliable hardware and stable kernels. if drivers were even a slight problem in the datacenter, companies like ibm etc would be all over it (not to mention it would make slashdot headlines). linux driver problems are mostly with new hardware, which ironically is also usually where windows problems occur (apart from the usual trying to get a newer version of windows working on an existing machine, which is why i would never buy a windows upgrade license).
if someone has a problem with linux drivers, is it any different to someone having a problem with windows drivers? good luck trying to find evidence that there are more linux driver problems than windows. its not the OS's fault if someone can't install a driver while most have no problems. linux is actually easier in many cases because drivers are handled automagically or (becoming more and more rare) you might have to select a package in the package manager, which is still easier than handling optical media and putting up with installshield dialog prompt hell, but again each to their own.
for a small business, windows sbs is probably easier, but big iron has very few windows:)
hospitals are underfunded as it is, and any markup they have may well actually be the reason you are still alive (keeping nurses employed and purchasing equipment that the government is to cheap and corrupt to provide funding for)
if you want to stop someone doing something you have to give them an incentive to stop, and repercussions such as posting of nude photos outweighs collection of random data to the point where the perp reconsiders the value of collecting the data
also, if it was really only you spending $5 at starbucks then fine... not so bad
also, smart techy dudes are likely looking for privacy/security loopholes to exploit for marketing companies (though why the fuck a smart techy dude would want to work for a marketing company is beyond me, but i guess a salary is a salary). most security problems aren't realised until they are exploited.
actually banning guns has worked in Australia... yes there are notable exceptions (there always will be) but Australia is one of the safest countries in the world to live
can i get an autohop program to get rid of fucking youtube ads?... i started youtubing because i was sick of ads on tv and now even youtube is being infected by the ad virus
tco of linux is only less than for windows in the datacenter because one guy can remotely manage 1000 blades, whereas windows server is designed for keeping sysadmins employed. when you buy 1000 windows server licenses, the cost per license isn't that much and is easily absorbed into the cost of hardware. unfortunately you have been swizzled by the linux fantards into thinking zero initial cost for an OS license really matters a shit in big business (it doesn't). time spent by employees (or contractors) x the number of personnel is always the biggest cost.
i also wasn't changing the goalposts. nowhere in your post do you mention talking about only the desktop, and how many desktop users even use VMs (especially windows)?... virtualisation is a big part of datacenters. nice try at moving the goalposts yourself. your post was attempting to poke holes in the linux kernel generally (no mention of things specific to the desktop). i also didn't mention embedded etc. hyperv (the original topic) is also not really much to do with the desktop as it is the datacenter.
what part of linux can walk side by side with microsoft? its not as if "linux" is a company.
if microsoft buys out canonical, millions of ubuntu users may defect to debian or redhat etc.
even if microsoft somehow gained control of the mainline linux kernel, it would merely be forked (same as what happened when openoffice was forked to make libreoffice when shitty smells were wafting out of the oracle offices).
and microsoft has too many commercial operating system competitors (google, apple, redhat, canonical, etc) to fuck linux up that bad.
microsoft is fast becoming the schoolyard bully that got too fat from pigging out on stolen lunches and is now a laughing stock because of its fatness.
microsoft just contributed a big heap of useless crapware... probably loaded up with extra crap just to fool morons like you into thinking they actually give a shit about linux... in reality, microsoft's contribution was to make linux run better as a client OS on top of a windows hypervisor (which is a market that microsoft has fought a losing battle with linux for a long time).
heaps of code written to do something doesn't mean heaps of code is required to do something... many programmers (particularly those brought up around gui and oo) are very lazy and write inefficient code.
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only windows is fragmented... thats why they made defrag
my desktop is full of bomb icons so that it is very risky for a virus to infect it without tripping over one of the bombs and stubbing its toe
likewise for the number of viruses infecting it :)
of course you can defeat any measure, but in doing so you also reduce the effectiveness of the advertising... advertisers aren't going to pay big money for ads that are indestinguishable from regular programming... they pay for loud, in your face blaring annoying idiots in chicken suits etc.
do you really think any network would reduce the loudness of their ads just to stop some percentage of viewers blocking them for recordings? if you are recording, then you are still counted as a viewer and the ads can not be blocks during the initial recording (on free to air tv) so there's a good chance you may be exposed to them at least once even if subsequent recording views are ad-free. even if you can detect the ads, all you can do it black the screen and mute the volume because the program won't return until the ad break is finished regardless. ad blocking/skipping is only useful for recording.
unless made illegal, networks will always want their ads loud and annoying because apparently they think that gets the viewer's attention. it obviously helps them get more advertising revenue.
you're likely reading the statistics wrong, and murder isn't the only thing that gun laws are meant to reduce... most gun related injuries/deaths are from accidents due to incompetence and stupidity on the part of the gun owner, not to mention threats of their use (such as in hold ups)
there is also an increased sense of safety that guns are illegal... at least i know that most people walking past me in the street aren't carrying one
many people with guns in america are misguided morons who are more likely to shoot themselves or their loved ones than any criminal
gun laws are good and they do work. if you judge the value of a law merely by a single statistic (rather than a holistic overview) then maybe we should just abolish all laws because most of them can be shown as not being of any value according to select statistics
private hospitals maybe, but they are run as a business and if you choose to do business there its your choice. if you have no private health cover you are stuck with what level of care is available in a government hospital. that's how it works in australia at least. most hospitals aren't privately owned or publically listed on the stock exchange (they are owned, operated and funded entirely by government and the taxpayer) so there is no profit to be had. healthcare is usually always a big issue during elections because most governments never adequately fund the public health system so there's always room for empty promises about more health funding from bullshit artist politicians wanting your vote.
salaries are continuous and huge expenses for any company :)
use an OS that requires one less admin and you save upwards of $40k/year
until windows server can be remotely managed en-mass on headless blades with fuck all overhead like linux and a heap of real basic scripts on a simple shell over ssh, more admins will be required to manage win server farms.
license costs are one aspect (that makes windows look bad), but tco is a much more important metric, and linux shits all over windows in the datacenter in this respect, and fortune 500 knows this and has known for years, which is why windows will always play second fiddle.
linux drivers are easy. maybe once upon a time it was a pain, but unless you're one of those morons that spends $1000 on the latest and greatest graphics card (example) then its not rocket science to get most setups to work well. in a datacenter drivers are even easier because they all use similar stock standard reliable hardware and stable kernels. if drivers were even a slight problem in the datacenter, companies like ibm etc would be all over it (not to mention it would make slashdot headlines). linux driver problems are mostly with new hardware, which ironically is also usually where windows problems occur (apart from the usual trying to get a newer version of windows working on an existing machine, which is why i would never buy a windows upgrade license).
if someone has a problem with linux drivers, is it any different to someone having a problem with windows drivers? good luck trying to find evidence that there are more linux driver problems than windows. its not the OS's fault if someone can't install a driver while most have no problems. linux is actually easier in many cases because drivers are handled automagically or (becoming more and more rare) you might have to select a package in the package manager, which is still easier than handling optical media and putting up with installshield dialog prompt hell, but again each to their own.
for a small business, windows sbs is probably easier, but big iron has very few windows
hospitals are underfunded as it is, and any markup they have may well actually be the reason you are still alive (keeping nurses employed and purchasing equipment that the government is to cheap and corrupt to provide funding for)
hahahaha... its funny that you think taxes are used for things that they are meant for.... you poor (but probably ignorantly happy) fool
...or the fat uncouth chainsmoking centrelink bludgers with saggy tits and a fannies that could fit the entire collingwood footy club in
true though... slashdot is either about google, apple, nasa, australia, or "ask slashdot: what cloud backup solution is best?"
eye for an eye doesn't work... it just prolongs
...just remember to multiply that by a billion
if you want to stop someone doing something you have to give them an incentive to stop, and repercussions such as posting of nude photos outweighs collection of random data to the point where the perp reconsiders the value of collecting the data
also, if it was really only you spending $5 at starbucks then fine... not so bad
also, smart techy dudes are likely looking for privacy/security loopholes to exploit for marketing companies (though why the fuck a smart techy dude would want to work for a marketing company is beyond me, but i guess a salary is a salary). most security problems aren't realised until they are exploited.
erm... change banks
actually banning guns has worked in Australia... yes there are notable exceptions (there always will be) but Australia is one of the safest countries in the world to live
exorbitant profiteering
the very definition of capitalism... welcome to the Home of the Free (to charge whatever you like)
hospital? i think the op was referring to drug companies. if you want to know how much life is worth, ask companies like pfizer.
on some networks you can tell merely by a change in loudness
can i get an autohop program to get rid of fucking youtube ads?... i started youtubing because i was sick of ads on tv and now even youtube is being infected by the ad virus
COST with a capital C
tco of linux is only less than for windows in the datacenter because one guy can remotely manage 1000 blades, whereas windows server is designed for keeping sysadmins employed. when you buy 1000 windows server licenses, the cost per license isn't that much and is easily absorbed into the cost of hardware. unfortunately you have been swizzled by the linux fantards into thinking zero initial cost for an OS license really matters a shit in big business (it doesn't). time spent by employees (or contractors) x the number of personnel is always the biggest cost.
i also wasn't changing the goalposts. nowhere in your post do you mention talking about only the desktop, and how many desktop users even use VMs (especially windows)?... virtualisation is a big part of datacenters. nice try at moving the goalposts yourself. your post was attempting to poke holes in the linux kernel generally (no mention of things specific to the desktop). i also didn't mention embedded etc. hyperv (the original topic) is also not really much to do with the desktop as it is the datacenter.
double-edged sword: no exit means the microsoft reps can't escape :)
i already have surface on linux... i have an android touchphone.
how much damage can a fox without teeth cause?
what part of linux can walk side by side with microsoft? its not as if "linux" is a company.
if microsoft buys out canonical, millions of ubuntu users may defect to debian or redhat etc.
even if microsoft somehow gained control of the mainline linux kernel, it would merely be forked (same as what happened when openoffice was forked to make libreoffice when shitty smells were wafting out of the oracle offices).
and microsoft has too many commercial operating system competitors (google, apple, redhat, canonical, etc) to fuck linux up that bad.
microsoft is fast becoming the schoolyard bully that got too fat from pigging out on stolen lunches and is now a laughing stock because of its fatness.
microsoft just contributed a big heap of useless crapware... probably loaded up with extra crap just to fool morons like you into thinking they actually give a shit about linux... in reality, microsoft's contribution was to make linux run better as a client OS on top of a windows hypervisor (which is a market that microsoft has fought a losing battle with linux for a long time).
heaps of code written to do something doesn't mean heaps of code is required to do something... many programmers (particularly those brought up around gui and oo) are very lazy and write inefficient code.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody".