1. adds a list of people to harrass for republican activists.
2. even more sign the democratic party is less based on ideals, but more on the sense of community that has been taken from us by the paranoia and fear taken from us by the government and RIAA/MPAA affliated communities. Make otherwise unsure people feel like part of something, and hopefully they won't pay attention to issues.
I've never gotten complete noons through the windows installer.
I usually do it for them
"But more importantly... Getting people running the system isn't the problem: being able to use it for the sort of thing they do everyday is. Being able to keep chatting, video chatting, audio chatting with people over MSN and other popular networks just as a blatant example."
who fucking uses MSN???? oh, but anyways, there is pidgin, empathy or other libpurple(does MSN quite well) clients which work very very very well, as well as a native skype build.
Oh, and linux works far far far far better, because it will recognize and use every filesystem you are likely to encounter to include some awesome ntfs drivers, great FAT support, and even MAC hfs+.
Then there is gstreamer which has every codec to include ones that MS doesn't ship with that will run every video and audio file under the sun, without installing shady third party players and codecs.
And if you want to install third party, VLC has a great port which plays just as well on linux as windows. day to day activities run smoother in linux with better native driver and codec support.
then there is navigating the filesystem. in windows exploder, its just as clunk as it was in windows 95. in modern linux GUIs you can active type parts of the filename to select them, instead of just the first letter with windows. it goes on and on.
then we have better intergration between apps, like media players and the desktop/interface.
Try that in windows.
Then for the powerusers, linux has a modern CLI, with better integration with the GUI with the terminal to include translucent terminal windows, scroll wheel support, better cut and paste, modern commands. windows is stuck in 1985 with this.
gnome 3 is smooth as butter. I hit the start key, and all my running aps tile-ise so I can just click on them, a shortcut on my dashboard, browse applications, or just type what I am looking for.
windows 7 is clunky as fucking shit. The same crap since NT4
it makes it sound like microsoft was ever a company that made great innovate products.
in the 1990s it flourished becuase of a demand for computers and NO competition. They were probably more hated then than now. Their software was far less reliable then, than now.
They were far more overreaching in their rhetoric and legal prowess to cover up their inability to make good products then, than now. They were far more evil then than now.
They have competition now, and if they tried what they did then, now, they would be sink.
thats why they are these things called "agent provecatuers".
Oh and no need for shooting, they just mass arrest anyone vaugely connected, charge them with vauge crimes like terrorism, while using a massive disinformation program to associate the protestors with societies boogeymen(terrorists, pedophiles, etc...).
Then create a black list (like no fly list, hollywood "known communists" list,etc..), leak it to the public, and make it policy that anyone on the list gets shunned by people not on the list for fear of retribution. Its easier to pressure people who have no idea whats going on, than those who do. You can then use them to create vigilante lynch mobs, of which get officially ignored.
it was there under reagan in the 1980s.(no it really got bad under reagan)
I don't know about carter, but if you read anything but Hunter Thompson it was there under Nixon in the 1970s
I'm also pretty sure its been going on since FDR in the 1940s consistantly.
so what do you want us to do?
IN the USA of A, if you demonstrate, stike, or as much as step outside the mainstream one bit, you'll be harrassed, intimidated, denounced, ruined emotionally and financially by the FBI, NSA, and even intrested private parties.
All of this they will brag about in public, but have reasonable denyablity because they still have the loyality of the police, and everyone who would be prosecuting them. Either that, or scared the rest into not only compliance, but silence.
The problem with people in the US of A, is they THINK they are free because of the semantics.
They can SAY you own a house, but they take it back at any time with "eminent domain", basicly government power to seize property in the common interest, no court case or anything. They are supposed to give you fair money for it, which generally means %50 or less than market value in the real world.
They SAY you have freedom of speech, but they also say that say that is limited to the good tastes of society, and what society thinks was dictated by a handful of self clergy made famous by massive TV marketing campaigns, and now its soley RIAA/MPAA affiliated media. Independents get harassed for criticizing latest trends, or offering products to counter or compete.
They SAY you have the right to bear arms. The courts have ruled the phrase "the people" doesn't mean the people, but in fact the government.
They SAY you have the right to a fair trial. We've all see how this goes right here.
microsoft is ready to OEM itself, and fuck over its partners....again.
So I think it would be REALLY safe for all OEMs to hedge their bets and at least make linux an option on all systems, just to let MS known two can play that game.
if you play games, old computers don't cut it. MMOs like world of warcraft, and eve online are consistantly getting their graphics updated, requiring better and better machines. Then there is the FPS scene which often requires modern up to date hardware to get decent frames per second and/or latest and greatest effects.
Even though the clock speeds are the same, actual per-core performance is still drasticly improving. Thats not including the various bus technologies, like SATA 6/GBs, USB3, hypertransport, the various FSBs, etc...Then there is USB power 3x which gives your the amperage you might need for charging a docked tablet. The motherboard with an old Phenom I 3-core just might choke.
"Insanely overpowered" is relative to what you are powering. Back in the day IRC clients were middleweight apps, MP3 players heavyweights enough to use almost the entire system resources(and were just that, players), and webrowsers so heavy weight, you did nothing else while surfing the web.
None of them to include firefox use a serious amount of system resources today.
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at least we have open APIs. so we can know just how secure vs insecure
1. adds a list of people to harrass for republican activists.
2. even more sign the democratic party is less based on ideals, but more on the sense of community that has been taken from us by the paranoia and fear taken from us by the government and RIAA/MPAA affliated communities. Make otherwise unsure people feel like part of something, and hopefully they won't pay attention to issues.
I've never gotten complete noons through the windows installer.
I usually do it for them
"But more importantly... Getting people running the system isn't the problem: being able to use it for the sort of thing they do everyday is. Being able to keep chatting, video chatting, audio chatting with people over MSN and other popular networks just as a blatant example."
who fucking uses MSN???? oh, but anyways, there is pidgin, empathy or other libpurple(does MSN quite well) clients which work very very very well, as well as a native skype build.
Oh, and linux works far far far far better, because it will recognize and use every filesystem you are likely to encounter to include some awesome ntfs drivers, great FAT support, and even MAC hfs+.
Then there is gstreamer which has every codec to include ones that MS doesn't ship with that will run every video and audio file under the sun, without installing shady third party players and codecs.
And if you want to install third party, VLC has a great port which plays just as well on linux as windows. day to day activities run smoother in linux with better native driver and codec support.
then there is navigating the filesystem. in windows exploder, its just as clunk as it was in windows 95. in modern linux GUIs you can active type parts of the filename to select them, instead of just the first letter with windows. it goes on and on.
then we have better intergration between apps, like media players and the desktop/interface.
Try that in windows.
Then for the powerusers, linux has a modern CLI, with better integration with the GUI with the terminal to include translucent terminal windows, scroll wheel support, better cut and paste, modern commands. windows is stuck in 1985 with this.
gnome 3 is smooth as butter. I hit the start key, and all my running aps tile-ise so I can just click on them, a shortcut on my dashboard, browse applications, or just type what I am looking for.
windows 7 is clunky as fucking shit. The same crap since NT4
you know nothing about modern linux desktops.
your right! my mistake. apologize for the error. Still maintain Linux was always Free software.
and
'Torvalds has stated, “making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.”'
from your own link.
most of the "industry standard" apps are fucking shit.
use audacity, I think its the new standard when people work on their own.
I've gotten complete noobs running mint and ubuntu.
They've walked through the installer themselves. They run it themselves. Little instruction mind you. try that on windows.
If your reasonable competitant there is no reason you can't do it. I keep hearing this and I hate it. Its simply not true.
I read that and laughed.
windows 7 has a terrible clunky interface.
Compare that to the sleak lines of GNOME, the future desktop of KDE, and then MATE and cinnamon take the cake.
all are far easier to learn than windows which banks 10+ years of user experiance and familiarity.
Windows lags severely in user interface. They are 2 years behind ubuntu and gnome in replacing the desktop with a dashboard.
yes it is, GPLv2.
Its still GPLv2, and probably will be until the end of time.
better yet, just make the PC into a game console.
bundle a minimal version of linux with kernel + drivers + game, attach controller and boot off a live CD.
Just like a console.
like the mass with the LOICs
they make up the "infantry" of anonymous, mabey with a small core of hackers writing the scripts and giving broad dirrection.
my ass it is.
GTK is far better, or at least doesn't crash X with nvidia drivers
it makes it sound like microsoft was ever a company that made great innovate products.
in the 1990s it flourished becuase of a demand for computers and NO competition. They were probably more hated then than now. Their software was far less reliable then, than now.
They were far more overreaching in their rhetoric and legal prowess to cover up their inability to make good products then, than now. They were far more evil then than now.
They have competition now, and if they tried what they did then, now, they would be sink.
thats why they are these things called "agent provecatuers".
Oh and no need for shooting, they just mass arrest anyone vaugely connected, charge them with vauge crimes like terrorism, while using a massive disinformation program to associate the protestors with societies boogeymen(terrorists, pedophiles, etc...).
Then create a black list (like no fly list, hollywood "known communists" list,etc..), leak it to the public, and make it policy that anyone on the list gets shunned by people not on the list for fear of retribution. Its easier to pressure people who have no idea whats going on, than those who do. You can then use them to create vigilante lynch mobs, of which get officially ignored.
since dubya???
it was there under clinton in the 1990s
it was there under reagan in the 1980s.(no it really got bad under reagan)
I don't know about carter, but if you read anything but Hunter Thompson it was there under Nixon in the 1970s
I'm also pretty sure its been going on since FDR in the 1940s consistantly.
so what do you want us to do?
IN the USA of A, if you demonstrate, stike, or as much as step outside the mainstream one bit, you'll be harrassed, intimidated, denounced, ruined emotionally and financially by the FBI, NSA, and even intrested private parties.
All of this they will brag about in public, but have reasonable denyablity because they still have the loyality of the police, and everyone who would be prosecuting them. Either that, or scared the rest into not only compliance, but silence.
The problem with people in the US of A, is they THINK they are free because of the semantics.
They can SAY you own a house, but they take it back at any time with "eminent domain", basicly government power to seize property in the common interest, no court case or anything. They are supposed to give you fair money for it, which generally means %50 or less than market value in the real world.
They SAY you have freedom of speech, but they also say that say that is limited to the good tastes of society, and what society thinks was dictated by a handful of self clergy made famous by massive TV marketing campaigns, and now its soley RIAA/MPAA affiliated media. Independents get harassed for criticizing latest trends, or offering products to counter or compete.
They SAY you have the right to bear arms. The courts have ruled the phrase "the people" doesn't mean the people, but in fact the government.
They SAY you have the right to a fair trial. We've all see how this goes right here.
kernel 3.2 aka 2.6.42
in fact they have very little of the market, and have very little chance on gaining ANY of the market
there is only one all-windows phone shop, nokia, and its not doing so well right now.
They have 1.4% of the phone market, so I almost don't care. No one is going to be running gnu/linux any more than they are on iphone/pads.
All the real hackers and modders will be using android hardware, of which now has a mainline kernel.
many games especially older ones can switch APIs.
even world of warcraft which is NOT SUPPORTED in linux has a command line option for wow.exe --unix --opengl
so it can run in *NIX with opengl.
Granted most of the effects are disabled, and DX9 in wine actually works better.
we need DX11 in wine.
microsoft is ready to OEM itself, and fuck over its partners....again.
So I think it would be REALLY safe for all OEMs to hedge their bets and at least make linux an option on all systems, just to let MS known two can play that game.
thats pretty crappy on their part.
how long do they leave OEM windows drivers on their site for?
for all intents and purposes download page with OEM drivers <= repo with OEM drivers.
I don't get this.
OEMs pay royalities to MS for windows sales, they don't for any ver of linux.
Also, a modern linux desktop is far far far easier with better support than windows is these days. If you've used both you understand it.
Linux mint cinnamon is great for newbs who just want a desktop.
%5 of new PCs are shipping ubuntu now.
Dell is going back to offering it.
I think its a good hedge bet for steam.
if you play games, old computers don't cut it. MMOs like world of warcraft, and eve online are consistantly getting their graphics updated, requiring better and better machines. Then there is the FPS scene which often requires modern up to date hardware to get decent frames per second and/or latest and greatest effects.
Even though the clock speeds are the same, actual per-core performance is still drasticly improving. Thats not including the various bus technologies, like SATA 6/GBs, USB3, hypertransport, the various FSBs, etc...Then there is USB power 3x which gives your the amperage you might need for charging a docked tablet. The motherboard with an old Phenom I 3-core just might choke.
"Insanely overpowered" is relative to what you are powering. Back in the day IRC clients were middleweight apps, MP3 players heavyweights enough to use almost the entire system resources(and were just that, players), and webrowsers so heavy weight, you did nothing else while surfing the web.
None of them to include firefox use a serious amount of system resources today.
solves "right click", but what about the scroll wheel, and the scroll wheel click (middle button), or what about the new side buttons on some mice?
then you also need an onscreen keyboard talking up screen space, which is more clumbsy than a physical one.
touch screen, especially multi touch is great for some applications, such as maps, graphics, design layout, but its still needs a keyboard
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