...it's just one more nail in the coffin of being "allowed" to use OSS. After all, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear, and only criminals would use OSS that would allow them to evade government snooping.
I'm sure some lobbyist is sitting with a Congressional staffer right now, explaining how requiring Windows on every computer is essential to the War on Terrorism.
I wouldn't take your suggestion seriously, but having flipped through MCSE materials and seeing how much of it is based on rote memorization, I'm inclined to agree.
Ubuntu, actually, and my understanding is that Canonical supports each release for 18 months, which is more than sufficient time for people to realize the most recent Ubuntu (Itchy Ibex, IIRC) is plenty stable and even easier to use, as long as you don't blindly let the Adept Manager automatically uninstall core KDE libraries and render X completely inoperable just so you can install the latest version of some obscure package (Yes, this really happened to me).
All things considered, Ubuntu is the cat's pajamas, and I love using it.
I'm waiting for the light bee, so it can just follow me around where ever I go. Of course, the down side is that it will be constantly misquoting Space Core Directives.
Of course, I suppose this is a bad time to mention that Linux and Google don't charge end users for their "works in progress"...
No. Neither is it a good idea to mention that Linux and Google won't kill off the version everyone prefers to the newest bleeding-edge train wreck just to force upgrades. It's kind of wrapped up in that whole "not charging" thing.
Microsoft's biggest liability in the past decade has been that they are forced to focus primarily on maintaining their monopoly since they are unwilling, in any way, to compete fairly... probably because they will usually lose. Since maintaining an unfair advantage is completely independent of producing good or desirable product, and Microsoft's worst possible scenario is satisfied customers who don't need to, or want to, upgrade, plus the fact that their _real_ customers are media companies and governments who want unprecedented control of the average user's computers, I don't see any way Vista _could_ have turned out good.
The problem is that they screwed up with XP... its customers are generally satisfied and have no desire, nor need, to upgrade.
The people complaining about speed are probably the same ones who expect Aero to perform as well as Compiz (which looks way cooler and is orders of magnitude more flexible) on a 1GHz box.
You must be new to Windows, for years, UAE was "Unrecoverable Application Error" which was eventually replaced by GPF "General Protection Fault", and is now replaced by some kind of soothing pleasant and totally content-free message like:
Windows has determined this program isn't using its 'indoor voice' and is going to give it a time-out until it calms down.
Pointing out my obvious grammatical errors doesn't make you a big man. Nor does it invalidate my point.
No, but it will help you use the phrase correctly next time, which will make you more persuasive.
It's nitpicking, but the problem for many people is that the only text they read is written by people who use poor grammar and worse spelling (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet including many news sites). It may have been misguided, but it is an attempt to educate. Since reading books is out of the question for too many people, gentle (or not) nagging is the only possible way to correct these blatant mistakes.
Of course, it could have been a typo, but too many people use the phrase incorrectly for typos to explain all of them.
You may be right, but I am always a technology optimist, and between nanotechnology-driven breakthroughs in power storage (i.e., super batteries) and fusion power, we could see the main sources of energy largely replaced in the next 50 years.
I wouldn't plan for it if I were in charge of policy, but I would do my best to try to encourage and help it.
Or maybe the LHC will create a black hole and destroy the planet.;-)
I didn't think that was that much, because I assumed it was dollars, but euros now, that's some real money, not these George Washington pesos we have over here.
That works fine until all those ex-rich Middle Easterners suddenly have a lot of time on their hands and are _really_ pissed off.
I'm hoping we are past using fossil fuels by 2050, in Technology Years (short, even if they are longer than Internet Years), that's a long time. I hear fusion power is at least 10 years less away than it was 50 years ago.
Well, even that seems more carelessly written than evil.
Perhaps, but the difference between a modern, functioning society and a broken corporatocratic dystopia can probably be found in a couple of "carelessly written" laws.
Your comment would be funny if my comment weren't true. I've used Microsoft products for 25 years now, and I've always lived by the motto "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." Microsoft has always had some good stuff and some crappy stuff, but lately the crappy has exceeded the good by a large margin. Stupidity doesn't explain it any more. The only thing that explains Microsoft these days is malice because no one is that stupid, not even a Monkeyboy.
If Comcast doesn't want you to do P2P, what is all that bandwidth for? If you're just browsing and watching movie trailers, there's not a lot of difference between 1.5 Mbps and 8 Mbps.
Because even marketing people are smart enough to know that "8 Mbps" looks a lot better than "1.5 Mbps" in an advertisement.
You seem to have "perception of what you'll get for service" and "actual service" confused.
That said, I've been a happy, happy FIOS customer for about a year now. No complaints whatsoever, and yes, I do a bit of P2P.
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Well, of course, the GOVERNMENT can use what it wants...
I'm being a little facetious here regarding making Windows a legal requirement, but you know Microsoft is thinking about it.
Well, Congress routinely exempts itself from legislation the rest of us have to deal with.
I would have agreed to you in the past, but in Soviet Amerika, your corporate overlords welcome you.
...it's just one more nail in the coffin of being "allowed" to use OSS. After all, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear, and only criminals would use OSS that would allow them to evade government snooping.
I'm sure some lobbyist is sitting with a Congressional staffer right now, explaining how requiring Windows on every computer is essential to the War on Terrorism.
I wouldn't take your suggestion seriously, but having flipped through MCSE materials and seeing how much of it is based on rote memorization, I'm inclined to agree.
Yeah. My brain corps dumped when I was posting about it.
Ubuntu, actually, and my understanding is that Canonical supports each release for 18 months, which is more than sufficient time for people to realize the most recent Ubuntu (Itchy Ibex, IIRC) is plenty stable and even easier to use, as long as you don't blindly let the Adept Manager automatically uninstall core KDE libraries and render X completely inoperable just so you can install the latest version of some obscure package (Yes, this really happened to me).
All things considered, Ubuntu is the cat's pajamas, and I love using it.
I can't believe I wrote "Space Core" instead of "Space Corps". I was even thinking about it. Stupid fingers.
I'm waiting for the light bee, so it can just follow me around where ever I go. Of course, the down side is that it will be constantly misquoting Space Core Directives.
Of course, I suppose this is a bad time to mention that Linux and Google don't charge end users for their "works in progress"...
No. Neither is it a good idea to mention that Linux and Google won't kill off the version everyone prefers to the newest bleeding-edge train wreck just to force upgrades. It's kind of wrapped up in that whole "not charging" thing.
Microsoft's biggest liability in the past decade has been that they are forced to focus primarily on maintaining their monopoly since they are unwilling, in any way, to compete fairly... probably because they will usually lose. Since maintaining an unfair advantage is completely independent of producing good or desirable product, and Microsoft's worst possible scenario is satisfied customers who don't need to, or want to, upgrade, plus the fact that their _real_ customers are media companies and governments who want unprecedented control of the average user's computers, I don't see any way Vista _could_ have turned out good.
The problem is that they screwed up with XP... its customers are generally satisfied and have no desire, nor need, to upgrade.
When was the last time you heard an elderly gentleman say "get off my yard" in a civil voice to a bunch of rowdy teenagers?!
I'd be inclined to do so, but punctuate my civil voice with a few shotgun blasts in their general direction.
I miss the days when the biggest U.S. domestic terrorist threats were considered to be these guys.
The people complaining about speed are probably the same ones who expect Aero to perform as well as Compiz (which looks way cooler and is orders of magnitude more flexible) on a 1GHz box.
There, I fixed it for you.
Vista boots more slowly than my floppy-based Amiga 500 with 1.5MB of RAM, for crying out loud.
Pointing out my obvious grammatical errors doesn't make you a big man. Nor does it invalidate my point.
No, but it will help you use the phrase correctly next time, which will make you more persuasive.
It's nitpicking, but the problem for many people is that the only text they read is written by people who use poor grammar and worse spelling (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet including many news sites). It may have been misguided, but it is an attempt to educate. Since reading books is out of the question for too many people, gentle (or not) nagging is the only possible way to correct these blatant mistakes.
Of course, it could have been a typo, but too many people use the phrase incorrectly for typos to explain all of them.
You may be right, but I am always a technology optimist, and between nanotechnology-driven breakthroughs in power storage (i.e., super batteries) and fusion power, we could see the main sources of energy largely replaced in the next 50 years.
;-)
I wouldn't plan for it if I were in charge of policy, but I would do my best to try to encourage and help it.
Or maybe the LHC will create a black hole and destroy the planet.
...because I refuse to put on pants.
0x12C dollars?
I didn't think that was that much, because I assumed it was dollars, but euros now, that's some real money, not these George Washington pesos we have over here.
That works fine until all those ex-rich Middle Easterners suddenly have a lot of time on their hands and are _really_ pissed off.
I'm hoping we are past using fossil fuels by 2050, in Technology Years (short, even if they are longer than Internet Years), that's a long time. I hear fusion power is at least 10 years less away than it was 50 years ago.
Well, even that seems more carelessly written than evil.
Perhaps, but the difference between a modern, functioning society and a broken corporatocratic dystopia can probably be found in a couple of "carelessly written" laws.
Your comment would be funny if my comment weren't true. I've used Microsoft products for 25 years now, and I've always lived by the motto "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." Microsoft has always had some good stuff and some crappy stuff, but lately the crappy has exceeded the good by a large margin. Stupidity doesn't explain it any more. The only thing that explains Microsoft these days is malice because no one is that stupid, not even a Monkeyboy.
And how did you know I have a buzzcut?!
If Comcast doesn't want you to do P2P, what is all that bandwidth for? If you're just browsing and watching movie trailers, there's not a lot of difference between 1.5 Mbps and 8 Mbps.
Because even marketing people are smart enough to know that "8 Mbps" looks a lot better than "1.5 Mbps" in an advertisement.
You seem to have "perception of what you'll get for service" and "actual service" confused.
That said, I've been a happy, happy FIOS customer for about a year now. No complaints whatsoever, and yes, I do a bit of P2P.
They are lulling everyone into a false sense of complacency and then WHAM! just like that, they are going to blow you away.
So are you saying they are going on a double-bill reunion tour with WHAM!?