So you want to install a 10 year old OS on a new computer. Good luck with that. Let's see you install a 10 year old copy of Linux on the same computer.
Indeed, they do, because 99.9% of people couldn't care less about any of the things you mentioned.
As for Politicians... I think you are confused. The very job.. in fact, the entire reason politicians were created was to make decisions for their constituents. That's their only purpose. You act like them doing their job is horrific thing.
just the activation process and the fact that I have many clients that are noobs(like you?)/me looks at his slasdot id/me looks at hesaigo999ca's slashdot id./me wonders which is the noob.
And I steadfastly refused to sign up for an account for the first couple of years I used slashdot.
I'm not sure what you're referring to regarding USB speeds. I just transferred a 3.8GB iso file (a downloaded image of Windows 7 from MSDN) to my simpletech 500GB drive and got between 35 and 40MB/s (byte, not bit). That doesn't seem slow to me, and further research shows that this is close to the limits of USB 2.0.
I have no idea what you mean by "what your cpu clocks out at compared to what is supposed to do". It's actually a feature to reduce clock speeds while idling, part of the CPU's feature set. Or are you suggesting the Windows magiclaly makes the CPU run at slower clock speeds?
And my ethernet transfer speed is just fine thanks. There is no evidence of any performance problems with Windows ethernet, other than an early problem with Vista that throttled network bandwidth in favor of audio/video performance that was corrected in a service pack.
Where do you get this stuff? Is there a "Windows haters handbook list of talking points"? Wherever you get it, it's wrong.
On the one hand, you have no end of problems with XP, a 10 year old OS which has been patched a billion times. You complain about viruses, security, WGA problems, activation, blah blah blah... You expend no end of effort to avoid upgrading to systems that are a) Far more secure, b) have far fewer problems with WGA and the like, and c) more stable and reliable.
Now, perhaps i'm just lucky, but neither I nor anyone I know have had any of the problems most people who run XP seem to have. And yes, I upgrade my machines quiet frequently. I just don't get it. If you hate XP that much, and you can't switch to Linux or MacOS, then why don't you just get Windows 7?
I'm noticing a theme here. You can't be bothered to call Microsoft to get your genuine copy activated, and now you can't even be bothered to read the post on how to crack it, in which he tells you how to auto-import at every boot.
Perhaps you should just take the time to call Microsoft, and get your legitimate copy working.
That said, the core issue here is that WGA is not a critical security update by any stretch of the imagination.
Actually, I can stretch my imagination a bit... WGA is required to get security updates, thus it's a critical security patch because without it, you can't get the critical security patches.
Ummm.. I would think that doing a block copy of an ISO image to a USB drive would result in a corrupt disk, though I suppose you could always force the mount to mount it as a CDFS, but even so it would seem to the disk characteristics of a floppy vs cd would be totally different.
My understanding is that you have to do more than a block for block translate to make a bootable USB device from an ISO image.
No, I do not hear about new music from my friends. In fact, my friends don't have the same musical tastes as I do.
I find music via 1) listening to the radio 2) by buying random music, which has it's ups and downs and 3) Pandora, which presents music based on it's similarity to other music I like. I do not use rating systems to buy music. Ever.
And yes, Record companies do own radio stations. Not directly, but via parent companies. As an example, Columbia Records, Epic, etc.. are part of CBS (and Sony BMG), and CBS owned (until recently) ClearChannel which owned a ton of stations.
It's all very messy, but the record labels are all part of larger conglomerates that all have their fingers in various pies, including radio stations.
Record companies may not be able to pay DJ's to play their music anymore, but they get around that problem by owning most of the radio stations, and controlling their playlists.
You didn't really address my system. Your argument was that iTunes is successful, so moderation must work is kind of stupid. First, I never read the moderations of anything i buy on iTunes. I know what i'm looking for, and buy it. iTunes provides no market to me, it's merely a distribution channel.
I'm sure some people use it for such, and maybe it contributes a sizable percentage of sales, but there are still lots of people like me that prefer to make my own choices in music.
Moderation is a terrible system for Music, because musical tastes vary so much. Something that sounds like moose singing to me might sound wonderful to you. The *ONLY* way to know good music is to listen to it yourself, which is why Radio's have been very popular marketing tools for so many years.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to entrust the selection of my music to anyone but myself.
I have heard many quality recordings from basement studios built on a shoestring budget. This cost has dropped significantly.
Yes, it's possible, with certain kinds of recordings. Frank Zappa used to record all his stuff in his basement.
However, and this is a big however, most musicians are simply not capable of doing that. They need a producer and decent equipment, and someone that knows how to use Protools or its equivelents. A producer does more than yell "More Cowbell!".
You also need the Radio play, you need the magazine ads and interviews, you need the concerts... Making money in music is a lot more than just putting your songs in an online music catalog and hoping people will buy them. Advertising on the internet only markets you to people that are on the internet, and looking for music on the internet, which is a huge market, but not where near (yet) the market of traditional music stores.
The internet doesn't work, at least not yet. You can't get the kind of exposure you want with only the internet.
As an owner of the Archos 7, I can tell you that it's not as nice as it seems. They nickel and dime you on everything. For instance, if you want AC3 playback, you have to buy an add-on for like $35. Also, it doesn't have 3G, doesn't have multi-touch, doesn't have 140,000 App Store apps (most of which probably won't even work on the iPad.. lol), doesn't have GPS or an Accelerometer. doesn't have a capacitance sensitive display (the pressure sensitve on the Archhos is not very good), and I could go on and on.. the A7 is a decent enough media player, but other than that it's basically useless.
Ummm.. How exactly do I as the author of a book make money by allowing you to write fan fiction and freely copy my work?
The point is, creative types need to survive. They need money. In software, they make this money through support contracts or working for companies that charge for support.
That's a strawman, and you know it. Yes, you can sell open source software, but only an idiot buys it without some kind of added value (like technical support). What kind of added value can an author of an ebook offer that would compel someone to buy it? None.
Simple fact is, the open source model doesn't apply to other creative works because there isn't the opportunity for side revenue.
First, Stephen king did not make any profit from that. Second, He killed the project in mid-story. Third, it frustrates readers. Fourth, if that's the future of books, then I don't want any part of it.
While that is true... The open source community does respect authorship. On the other hand, the culture does flourish on "free as in beer", despite a lot of lip service to "free as in speech", since you can't have "free as in speech" software without it being "free as in beer".
The sad fact is, open source encourages a sort of entitlement feeling from people. RMS (Yes, I know.. there's a difference between Free software and open source, ignore it for this debate) himself encourages this attitude by claiming that all software should be free as in speech (thus also being free as in beer).
The open source movement has managed to create a nice ecosystem around charging for support, and that works pretty well for software. However, most other forms of creative works (Music, movies, books) don't require technical or any other kind of support, so there simply is no avenue to earn revenue from other sources.
Simply put, open source doesn't apply to most creative works, but open source people fail to understand why it shouldn't.
One solution to this problem is to carry external battery storage. There are various external batteries for iPhones and other devices.. so I see this as the real solution in the short term to a convergence device. Carrying one or two external batteries has got to be a lot less trouble (though probably as much weight) as 10 devices.
The certificate issue you mention is in regards to a feature called Rights Management, which allows a user to choose to protect a document from others. In other words, the whole point of the feature is to "lock away" the document. So, if you don't want your data locked away, don't lock it away by using that feature. how hard is that?
And the no longer supported argument is equally silly, since the Office file format is the most widely interoperated document format short of HTM (and maybe even exceeds that). However, the new XML formats ensure that the data is always at least human readable, whether or not any other document can read it. At least you can open the XML and copy and paste the text.
I find it very odd that you haven't made the connection that the round circle is the same as the File menu in old Office versions. All the same functions. How have you not made that simple connection?
And how is it not logical that Print Preview wouldn't be a part of print? You act like this is nonsense. The old method was nonsense.
And your Excel comment doesn't make sense because Excel 2003 didn't do that either.
Well, you should. XP is now in "extended" support, which means that in less than 2 years it will achieve full end of life status. When that happens, there will no longer be any security patches issued, which means when new flaws are found your computers will stay vulnerable to exploitation of those flaws forever.
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So you want to install a 10 year old OS on a new computer. Good luck with that. Let's see you install a 10 year old copy of Linux on the same computer.
Indeed, they do, because 99.9% of people couldn't care less about any of the things you mentioned.
As for Politicians... I think you are confused. The very job.. in fact, the entire reason politicians were created was to make decisions for their constituents. That's their only purpose. You act like them doing their job is horrific thing.
Lol. Talk about the irony meter going off the scale.
gah, slashdot eating non-html messages that start with slashes... odd..
I wrote above:
(slash)me looks at his slashdot id
(slash)me looks at your slashdot id
(slash)me wonders which is the noobie
just the activation process and the fact that I have many clients that are noobs(like you?) /me looks at his slasdot id /me looks at hesaigo999ca's slashdot id. /me wonders which is the noob.
And I steadfastly refused to sign up for an account for the first couple of years I used slashdot.
I'm not sure what you're referring to regarding USB speeds. I just transferred a 3.8GB iso file (a downloaded image of Windows 7 from MSDN) to my simpletech 500GB drive and got between 35 and 40MB/s (byte, not bit). That doesn't seem slow to me, and further research shows that this is close to the limits of USB 2.0.
I have no idea what you mean by "what your cpu clocks out at compared to what is supposed to do". It's actually a feature to reduce clock speeds while idling, part of the CPU's feature set. Or are you suggesting the Windows magiclaly makes the CPU run at slower clock speeds?
And my ethernet transfer speed is just fine thanks. There is no evidence of any performance problems with Windows ethernet, other than an early problem with Vista that throttled network bandwidth in favor of audio/video performance that was corrected in a service pack.
Where do you get this stuff? Is there a "Windows haters handbook list of talking points"? Wherever you get it, it's wrong.
It's amazing how many people blindly say that you can use dd for this, obviously never having done it themselves.
Do a google search, and you find tons of people saying the same thing, finding the real information is actually quite difficult.
I'm amused by people like you. Really.
On the one hand, you have no end of problems with XP, a 10 year old OS which has been patched a billion times. You complain about viruses, security, WGA problems, activation, blah blah blah... You expend no end of effort to avoid upgrading to systems that are a) Far more secure, b) have far fewer problems with WGA and the like, and c) more stable and reliable.
Now, perhaps i'm just lucky, but neither I nor anyone I know have had any of the problems most people who run XP seem to have. And yes, I upgrade my machines quiet frequently. I just don't get it. If you hate XP that much, and you can't switch to Linux or MacOS, then why don't you just get Windows 7?
I'm noticing a theme here. You can't be bothered to call Microsoft to get your genuine copy activated, and now you can't even be bothered to read the post on how to crack it, in which he tells you how to auto-import at every boot.
Perhaps you should just take the time to call Microsoft, and get your legitimate copy working.
That said, the core issue here is that WGA is not a critical security update by any stretch of the imagination.
Actually, I can stretch my imagination a bit... WGA is required to get security updates, thus it's a critical security patch because without it, you can't get the critical security patches.
Ummm.. I would think that doing a block copy of an ISO image to a USB drive would result in a corrupt disk, though I suppose you could always force the mount to mount it as a CDFS, but even so it would seem to the disk characteristics of a floppy vs cd would be totally different.
My understanding is that you have to do more than a block for block translate to make a bootable USB device from an ISO image.
No, I do not hear about new music from my friends. In fact, my friends don't have the same musical tastes as I do.
I find music via 1) listening to the radio 2) by buying random music, which has it's ups and downs and 3) Pandora, which presents music based on it's similarity to other music I like. I do not use rating systems to buy music. Ever.
And yes, Record companies do own radio stations. Not directly, but via parent companies. As an example, Columbia Records, Epic, etc.. are part of CBS (and Sony BMG), and CBS owned (until recently) ClearChannel which owned a ton of stations.
It's all very messy, but the record labels are all part of larger conglomerates that all have their fingers in various pies, including radio stations.
Record companies may not be able to pay DJ's to play their music anymore, but they get around that problem by owning most of the radio stations, and controlling their playlists.
You didn't really address my system. Your argument was that iTunes is successful, so moderation must work is kind of stupid. First, I never read the moderations of anything i buy on iTunes. I know what i'm looking for, and buy it. iTunes provides no market to me, it's merely a distribution channel.
I'm sure some people use it for such, and maybe it contributes a sizable percentage of sales, but there are still lots of people like me that prefer to make my own choices in music.
Moderation is a terrible system for Music, because musical tastes vary so much. Something that sounds like moose singing to me might sound wonderful to you. The *ONLY* way to know good music is to listen to it yourself, which is why Radio's have been very popular marketing tools for so many years.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to entrust the selection of my music to anyone but myself.
Yes, it's possible, with certain kinds of recordings. Frank Zappa used to record all his stuff in his basement.
However, and this is a big however, most musicians are simply not capable of doing that. They need a producer and decent equipment, and someone that knows how to use Protools or its equivelents. A producer does more than yell "More Cowbell!".
You also need the Radio play, you need the magazine ads and interviews, you need the concerts... Making money in music is a lot more than just putting your songs in an online music catalog and hoping people will buy them. Advertising on the internet only markets you to people that are on the internet, and looking for music on the internet, which is a huge market, but not where near (yet) the market of traditional music stores.
The internet doesn't work, at least not yet. You can't get the kind of exposure you want with only the internet.
As an owner of the Archos 7, I can tell you that it's not as nice as it seems. They nickel and dime you on everything. For instance, if you want AC3 playback, you have to buy an add-on for like $35. Also, it doesn't have 3G, doesn't have multi-touch, doesn't have 140,000 App Store apps (most of which probably won't even work on the iPad.. lol), doesn't have GPS or an Accelerometer. doesn't have a capacitance sensitive display (the pressure sensitve on the Archhos is not very good), and I could go on and on.. the A7 is a decent enough media player, but other than that it's basically useless.
People have tried that approach. Guess what? The story never gets finished.
This not only punishes the people who do pay, but it also makes it frustrating to everyone because they get a story that's not complete.
Voluntary works almost never make any money, it's a rare one that does. Everyone assumes someone else will donate.
Ummm.. How exactly do I as the author of a book make money by allowing you to write fan fiction and freely copy my work?
The point is, creative types need to survive. They need money. In software, they make this money through support contracts or working for companies that charge for support.
That doesn't work for book authors.
That's a strawman, and you know it. Yes, you can sell open source software, but only an idiot buys it without some kind of added value (like technical support). What kind of added value can an author of an ebook offer that would compel someone to buy it? None.
Simple fact is, the open source model doesn't apply to other creative works because there isn't the opportunity for side revenue.
First, Stephen king did not make any profit from that. Second, He killed the project in mid-story. Third, it frustrates readers. Fourth, if that's the future of books, then I don't want any part of it.
While that is true... The open source community does respect authorship. On the other hand, the culture does flourish on "free as in beer", despite a lot of lip service to "free as in speech", since you can't have "free as in speech" software without it being "free as in beer".
The sad fact is, open source encourages a sort of entitlement feeling from people. RMS (Yes, I know.. there's a difference between Free software and open source, ignore it for this debate) himself encourages this attitude by claiming that all software should be free as in speech (thus also being free as in beer).
The open source movement has managed to create a nice ecosystem around charging for support, and that works pretty well for software. However, most other forms of creative works (Music, movies, books) don't require technical or any other kind of support, so there simply is no avenue to earn revenue from other sources.
Simply put, open source doesn't apply to most creative works, but open source people fail to understand why it shouldn't.
One solution to this problem is to carry external battery storage. There are various external batteries for iPhones and other devices.. so I see this as the real solution in the short term to a convergence device. Carrying one or two external batteries has got to be a lot less trouble (though probably as much weight) as 10 devices.
On the other hand, if you have Debugging rights, you can be administrator if you want. Debugging gives you, effectively, SYSTEM level access.
Ummm.. your logic is a bit odd.
The certificate issue you mention is in regards to a feature called Rights Management, which allows a user to choose to protect a document from others. In other words, the whole point of the feature is to "lock away" the document. So, if you don't want your data locked away, don't lock it away by using that feature. how hard is that?
And the no longer supported argument is equally silly, since the Office file format is the most widely interoperated document format short of HTM (and maybe even exceeds that). However, the new XML formats ensure that the data is always at least human readable, whether or not any other document can read it. At least you can open the XML and copy and paste the text.
I find it very odd that you haven't made the connection that the round circle is the same as the File menu in old Office versions. All the same functions. How have you not made that simple connection?
And how is it not logical that Print Preview wouldn't be a part of print? You act like this is nonsense. The old method was nonsense.
And your Excel comment doesn't make sense because Excel 2003 didn't do that either.
Well, you should. XP is now in "extended" support, which means that in less than 2 years it will achieve full end of life status. When that happens, there will no longer be any security patches issued, which means when new flaws are found your computers will stay vulnerable to exploitation of those flaws forever.