Also, as an addendum, Windows is MUCH harder to install than the latest Ubuntu. Ubuntu pretty much was functional out of the box last install. I installed Windows 7 on a generic old emachine the other day, and there was no sound.... I went and found a driver, but Ubuntu did it OUT OF BOX, and was faster and had Compiz. Of course it was an ugly shit brown color, but that's why I usually use Mint.
these other words are here to limit the percentage of caps in my original post. In case you were wondering, yes, it is satirical. I enjoy the occasional amusing flame war on a disused game website as much as the next guy. I hope this is enough non-caps.
I disagree. There are plenty of easy to use distros out that replace windows in every way. Linux Mint is a favorite of mine. I install it on Grandma's Machine with Open Office, show her how to export.pdf, and never get another phone call.
Windows is for teen age boys who want to get viruses and the latest game.
Mac is for people with too much money, and too fancy of a haircut.
It's nice that all the MSOOXML defenders are anonymous cowards. Hey Bill! How you doing!
In other news, this is clearly false. There is plenty of ODF out there. Sure the new 1.2 is better and improves initial failings. Duh. That's why there IS a 1.2. In fact, that's the whole logic behind version numbers in general!
Zealots can be right. Again and again, in this case. Don't deny the message because the messenger is a zealot. Show me an example of RMS having been wrong AND not having retracted or modified his original statement. I think like any good scientist, he has shown a remarkable degree of modesty and retraction when needed. That doesn't seem like zealotry.
Of course, I'm totally open to being proven wrong (so long as we rely on facts!)!
I didn't have any mod points, but this is EXACTLY what I wanted to say.
Despite MANY good standards in the open document arena, De Icaza was supporting OOXML, which is an obvious trap by MS to make all other office products incompatible with the "standard" they are trying to ram through.
No matter WHAT De Icaza has done, this alone cements him as a scum bag. A corporate whore, a liar, and a charlatan. Even if you hate RMS's vitriol, as usual, he is right, and everyone against him is clearly, and most solidly in the wrong.
Most Americans are decent hard working people. They bear you and your thousands of years old religion no ill will. They are poor, sometimes unemployed, trying to feed their families, spending time bettering themselves through reading and fitness.
There is a problem group of Americans though that give the corporations free reign, subvert our constitutional democracy, and starve and torture our citizens as well as yours, and hundreds of others across the globe.
These heathens and criminals by and large live in Washington DC. You can google map it.
Please leave Seattle, Portland, Boise, Tampa, LA, Frisco, San Diego, Atlanta and all the rest of our cities alone. The people who live there are decent hard working honest people, who really wish the best for you and the rest of the planet.
Most Americans still want to know who killed JFK effectively ending their constitutional democracy. Most Americans know that buildings don't explode from the top down spontaneously. Most Americans know that the most extreme "terrorists" were actually trained and hired by the CIA and Mossad.
Once again, Washington DC is easy to find. I'd just like to point that out again.
Oh I agree. It's not an ethical choice to pirate the documentaries, but it is an ethical choice to stay informed. Would you steal to feed your family? I would steal to educate myself and others. Particularly if I feel that the BBC is not going out of business any time soon.
Well, for the most part you summed it up exactly. I don't in fact listen to modern music. Or watch modern movies. I mean, occasionally I will try one of either out, but I usually lose interest quickly and move on.
I do however pirate plenty of documentaries, as I feel everyone should.
I would agree with this. However, since we are able to get files like this directly on an internet somebody else invented, via a computer somebody else invented, I think the spirit would remain the same. I doubt very much old Ben would have ANY truck with the RIAA and MPAA and their sequestering of modern culture in favour of the cookie cutter rehash sequel bands and movies that they put out instead.
Let's have that curriculum, and then a much more in depth look at Benjamin Franklin, arguably the smartest and most important of the founding fathers.
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
That's a quote I like in particular, RIAA, you rat bastards contrary to all human achievement and creativity. I hope you die a horrible, horrible, slow and agonising death, every last member.
Why would ANYONE use this? Google Apps is free. Open Office is free. Open Office exports to PDF, and does a damned good job, too. I send everything as a PDF now. I know it will look on their computer just like it does on my computer.
I really can't understand why anybody, particularly a business that wants to save money, would use any of Microsoft's products.
Linux Mint, Firefox, Pidgin, Open Office...... These are GREAT business tools. FREE. With FREE updates. That beat the pants off of every MS offering. Why is the MS hegemony so powerful? Some companies would save MILLIONS by switching, once the get through the rough patch of upgrading. But they're going to have to upgrade to Windows 7 and some bullshit new MS Office anyway.
I'm about 80% done rebuilding and restoring a 1964 Dodge Dart.
I love the push button automatic. I love the rock solid and reliable slant six. I love that when it came off the line in mid 1963, JFK was still alive, and America was still a democracy.
I've upgraded to electronic ignition. It is MILES better than the old distributor!! I can't wait to upgrade the plugs to laser ignition! Future generations of this technology will definitely supersede the old plugs!
Maybe we should go down there bomb the shit out of them, and spread some more "Democracy".
Seriously, there hasn't been a non-rigged election in this country for at least 50 years.
Not to mention that the entire press is owned by 5 corporations, so even if there WAS a valid election, real honest people like Ron Paul would still lose to stuffed shirts like Obama.
It's OK, I'm sure RIGHT TO PRIVACY and WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING are copacetic. In our new Orwellian reality, privacy means something else anyway. Just ask Bertelsmann, Disney, News Corp, AOL/Time and Viacom.
Windows 7 takes almost double the amount of ram to run as XP.
Windows 7 is much, much uglier than most of the compiz setups I've seen and run since sometime in 2007.
Windows 7 crashes frequently, and does not play well with many applications and hardware that run perfectly on XP.
Windows 7 takes longer to boot up than XP, Ubuntu, or most other distros.
Windows 7 takes longer to install than XP or Ubuntu.
Windows 7 lacks many of the great FOSS apps that come standard in nearly every Linux distro. And the proprietary offerings that are suggested in many cases are inferior, slower, and not standards compliant (Firefox vs IE just being one very egregious example).
Windows 7 had very lackluster gaming performance. I get easily 10 fps more in both Ubuntu AND XP when I play Urban Terror. There is a marked difference in performance in 1964 and Zsnes as well.
Windows 7 comes with Windows Media Player. VLC is much, much better in every way imaginable.
Do I need more?
I'm not trolling. Windows 7 sucks. I know because I am actively using it RIGHT NOW. It is at least one generation behind Ubuntu and XP in performance and features, if not two in several instances.
And as such, totally sucks. I've tried several RC of Win 7, and it's bloated, buggy, slow.... Sure it beats the pants off of Vista, but so does punching myself in the face repeatedly. It totally sucks compared to XP or Linux Mint.
I mean, it is at least a generation behind on performance and features.
Besides which XP still does everything I want.
I for one would WAY rather have a $100 netbook with either lightweight Linux or XP and 1gb of ram and a webcam than any newer laptop with Vista, or Vista 2.0.
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Also, as an addendum, Windows is MUCH harder to install than the latest Ubuntu. Ubuntu pretty much was functional out of the box last install. I installed Windows 7 on a generic old emachine the other day, and there was no sound.... I went and found a driver, but Ubuntu did it OUT OF BOX, and was faster and had Compiz. Of course it was an ugly shit brown color, but that's why I usually use Mint.
MAKE IT LIIIKEE## TENABRAAAYYYYY##@@!!!
these other words are here to limit the percentage of caps in my original post. In case you were wondering, yes, it is satirical. I enjoy the occasional amusing flame war on a disused game website as much as the next guy. I hope this is enough non-caps.
I disagree. There are plenty of easy to use distros out that replace windows in every way. Linux Mint is a favorite of mine. I install it on Grandma's Machine with Open Office, show her how to export .pdf, and never get another phone call.
Windows is for teen age boys who want to get viruses and the latest game.
Mac is for people with too much money, and too fancy of a haircut.
I'm waiting for an improved ReactOS VM to be included and installed automagically as one side of my compiz cube in Virtualbox....
Now that will be a nice Distro!!
It's nice that all the MSOOXML defenders are anonymous cowards. Hey Bill! How you doing!
In other news, this is clearly false. There is plenty of ODF out there. Sure the new 1.2 is better and improves initial failings. Duh. That's why there IS a 1.2. In fact, that's the whole logic behind version numbers in general!
Anti-ODF FUD. From a Coward.
Next.
Zealots can be right. Again and again, in this case. Don't deny the message because the messenger is a zealot. Show me an example of RMS having been wrong AND not having retracted or modified his original statement. I think like any good scientist, he has shown a remarkable degree of modesty and retraction when needed. That doesn't seem like zealotry.
Of course, I'm totally open to being proven wrong (so long as we rely on facts!)!
I didn't have any mod points, but this is EXACTLY what I wanted to say.
Despite MANY good standards in the open document arena, De Icaza was supporting OOXML, which is an obvious trap by MS to make all other office products incompatible with the "standard" they are trying to ram through.
No matter WHAT De Icaza has done, this alone cements him as a scum bag. A corporate whore, a liar, and a charlatan. Even if you hate RMS's vitriol, as usual, he is right, and everyone against him is clearly, and most solidly in the wrong.
Most Americans are decent hard working people. They bear you and your thousands of years old religion no ill will. They are poor, sometimes unemployed, trying to feed their families, spending time bettering themselves through reading and fitness.
There is a problem group of Americans though that give the corporations free reign, subvert our constitutional democracy, and starve and torture our citizens as well as yours, and hundreds of others across the globe.
These heathens and criminals by and large live in Washington DC. You can google map it.
Please leave Seattle, Portland, Boise, Tampa, LA, Frisco, San Diego, Atlanta and all the rest of our cities alone. The people who live there are decent hard working honest people, who really wish the best for you and the rest of the planet.
Most Americans still want to know who killed JFK effectively ending their constitutional democracy. Most Americans know that buildings don't explode from the top down spontaneously. Most Americans know that the most extreme "terrorists" were actually trained and hired by the CIA and Mossad.
Once again, Washington DC is easy to find. I'd just like to point that out again.
Oh I agree. It's not an ethical choice to pirate the documentaries, but it is an ethical choice to stay informed. Would you steal to feed your family? I would steal to educate myself and others. Particularly if I feel that the BBC is not going out of business any time soon.
Well, for the most part you summed it up exactly. I don't in fact listen to modern music. Or watch modern movies. I mean, occasionally I will try one of either out, but I usually lose interest quickly and move on.
I do however pirate plenty of documentaries, as I feel everyone should.
I would agree with this. However, since we are able to get files like this directly on an internet somebody else invented, via a computer somebody else invented, I think the spirit would remain the same. I doubt very much old Ben would have ANY truck with the RIAA and MPAA and their sequestering of modern culture in favour of the cookie cutter rehash sequel bands and movies that they put out instead.
I think he would think Britney Spears sucks too.
Let's have that curriculum, and then a much more in depth look at Benjamin Franklin, arguably the smartest and most important of the founding fathers.
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
That's a quote I like in particular, RIAA, you rat bastards contrary to all human achievement and creativity. I hope you die a horrible, horrible, slow and agonising death, every last member.
Why would ANYONE use this? Google Apps is free. Open Office is free. Open Office exports to PDF, and does a damned good job, too. I send everything as a PDF now. I know it will look on their computer just like it does on my computer.
I really can't understand why anybody, particularly a business that wants to save money, would use any of Microsoft's products.
Linux Mint, Firefox, Pidgin, Open Office...... These are GREAT business tools. FREE. With FREE updates. That beat the pants off of every MS offering. Why is the MS hegemony so powerful? Some companies would save MILLIONS by switching, once the get through the rough patch of upgrading. But they're going to have to upgrade to Windows 7 and some bullshit new MS Office anyway.
I seriously, seriously don't get it.
OK, can the Pidgin team PLEASE finish up voice and video support (AND ON WINDOWS!), so I can switch everybody over?
Thanks in Advance.
You should switch to Tiny7 rev01. And you should wubi install Linux Mint, and use that 90% of the time.
So when do I move to a Scandinavian country? Am I too late?
Can you make a new version of Civ 2 with updated graphics? All the ones since then are only about half as much fun, at best.
GUIs are for pussies. Why isn't everyone just using the command line?!?
I have a design that meets every one of these specifications on paper. It is a zeppelin though, not a car.
Acrobat is like a giant virus on every machine I've run it on.
SumatraPDF is much, much faster and better.
Besides Adobe is a Fox news sponsor. Don't give them your money or your ram!!!
http://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable
I'm about 80% done rebuilding and restoring a 1964 Dodge Dart.
I love the push button automatic. I love the rock solid and reliable slant six. I love that when it came off the line in mid 1963, JFK was still alive, and America was still a democracy.
I've upgraded to electronic ignition. It is MILES better than the old distributor!! I can't wait to upgrade the plugs to laser ignition! Future generations of this technology will definitely supersede the old plugs!
and THAT is why Marijuana is illegal!
Maybe we should go down there bomb the shit out of them, and spread some more "Democracy".
Seriously, there hasn't been a non-rigged election in this country for at least 50 years.
Not to mention that the entire press is owned by 5 corporations, so even if there WAS a valid election, real honest people like Ron Paul would still lose to stuffed shirts like Obama.
It's OK, I'm sure RIGHT TO PRIVACY and WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING are copacetic. In our new Orwellian reality, privacy means something else anyway. Just ask Bertelsmann, Disney, News Corp, AOL/Time and Viacom.
No problem.
Windows 7 takes almost double the amount of ram to run as XP.
Windows 7 is much, much uglier than most of the compiz setups I've seen and run since sometime in 2007.
Windows 7 crashes frequently, and does not play well with many applications and hardware that run perfectly on XP.
Windows 7 takes longer to boot up than XP, Ubuntu, or most other distros.
Windows 7 takes longer to install than XP or Ubuntu.
Windows 7 lacks many of the great FOSS apps that come standard in nearly every Linux distro. And the proprietary offerings that are suggested in many cases are inferior, slower, and not standards compliant (Firefox vs IE just being one very egregious example).
Windows 7 had very lackluster gaming performance. I get easily 10 fps more in both Ubuntu AND XP when I play Urban Terror. There is a marked difference in performance in 1964 and Zsnes as well.
Windows 7 comes with Windows Media Player. VLC is much, much better in every way imaginable.
Do I need more?
I'm not trolling. Windows 7 sucks. I know because I am actively using it RIGHT NOW. It is at least one generation behind Ubuntu and XP in performance and features, if not two in several instances.
And as such, totally sucks. I've tried several RC of Win 7, and it's bloated, buggy, slow.... Sure it beats the pants off of Vista, but so does punching myself in the face repeatedly. It totally sucks compared to XP or Linux Mint.
I mean, it is at least a generation behind on performance and features.
Besides which XP still does everything I want.
I for one would WAY rather have a $100 netbook with either lightweight Linux or XP and 1gb of ram and a webcam than any newer laptop with Vista, or Vista 2.0.