That said, it has come a long way, and once hardware support gets beyond a certain point, it could be a useful system to have around. I tried it out on a Dell Mini 9 netbook, where the performance seemed pretty good, but I don't have networking working, so it's of limited value at the moment.
I just tried it in VirtualBox OSE. It booted up in about 35 seconds. That's the same as Ubuntu. Nothing to get excited about. Also, the first thing it did after boot up, was show an error message...
In Linux, the open office might be the default for editing your wordfiles, and you might prefer ubuntu brown over the grassy knoll of the windows desktop, but mark my words young man - without the windows drivers sitting below the visible surface, allowing the linus to talk to the hardware, it is without worth.
And so, by choosing your linux as an alternative to windows on the desktop, you still need a windows licence to run this operating system through the windows drivers to talk to the hardware. Linux is only a code, it cannot perform the low level function.
My point being, young man, that unless you intend to pirate and steal the Windows drivers and services, how is using the linux going to save money ? Well ? It seems that no linux fan can ever provide a straight answer to that question !
May as well just stay legal, run the Windows drivers, and run Office on the desktop instead of the linus.
This doesn't help with educating people that IE is not the Internet. If people realize there is a choice, and that there are serious reasons for choosing one option over another, then they might start to think for themselves instead of needing to be fooled into thinking they're using the same old thing they always used.
Why does this comment make someone look stupid? I don't get it. I also don't know why an IE user would have any more windows open than any other browser user. I'm totally missing the misinformation here.
Wow, you got Windows 7 to connect to a network. I decided to give it a spin and it didn't detect the VirtualBox network adapter. As far as I can see, it has no log telling me which hardware it has no drivers for, and I've never had to manually install a network driver within VirtualBox (even for previous Microsoft operating systems) so have no idea what to do.
I've been using Ubuntu (with Gnome) exclusively at work for some time and have never seen this. I don't have Compiz running - perhaps that has something to do with it?
The grammar Nazi in me states you should always start a sentence with a capital letter as is a stand alone "I"
I must point out that considering this is a Grammar Nazi sentence, it doesn't entirely make sense. Yes, I understand what it means, but something's not right. Perhaps the grammar?
Running the text editor with admin priviledges has been the normal way to do it on Unix-like systems for decades (sudo vi anyone?). Is this concept seriously new to Windows users despite the Run As option having been there since around Windows 2000 time?
I can't believe that this willingness to fight is a valid reason to let people travel with such weapons. Surely safety should come above any religious beliefs here?
Really? I sat in a bar and watched Superbowl. I didn't see anything that I'd consider particularly raunchy or inappropriate, and I didn't hear any complaints from the people around me either. Are Americans really this prudish when it comes to TV advertising?
A few years ago I played Unreal Tournament on a PS2 using a keyboard and mouse. All consoles have USB connectors. I used my USB keyboard to set up my XBox Live account on my 360. I do hope that support for USB keyboards and mice hasn't taken a huge leap backwards. I guess some games might now allow the same reconfigurability of the controls as their PC counterparts do. This would be the fault of the game designer, not the console itself.
I also play the most recent in the Command and Conquer series on the XBox 360, but not tried it with a mouse yet. Might try that this evening.
What hardware would I need to encompass grand scale strategy games? Guess the CPU/memory in the 360 is a bit behind today's PC standards. I'm not too familiar with its specs.
Fine with me. I play games and the only 'PC' I own is an Ubuntu netbook. This would also stop people sticking with windows simply because they want to play the latest games.
Thankyou for explaining this. I was getting frustrated with the amount of people coming out with comments like "Why doesn't company X not get forced to give customers a choice of what browser they get?" and the general lack of knowledge of the subject they have while commenting on the story.
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That said, it has come a long way, and once hardware support gets beyond a certain point, it could be a useful system to have around. I tried it out on a Dell Mini 9 netbook, where the performance seemed pretty good, but I don't have networking working, so it's of limited value at the moment.
I just tried it in VirtualBox OSE. It booted up in about 35 seconds. That's the same as Ubuntu. Nothing to get excited about. Also, the first thing it did after boot up, was show an error message...
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In Linux, the open office might be the default for editing your wordfiles, and you might prefer ubuntu brown over the grassy knoll of the windows desktop, but mark my words young man - without the windows drivers sitting below the visible surface, allowing the linus to talk to the hardware, it is without worth.
And so, by choosing your linux as an alternative to windows on the desktop, you still need a windows licence to run this operating system through the windows drivers to talk to the hardware. Linux is only a code, it cannot perform the low level function.
My point being, young man, that unless you intend to pirate and steal the Windows drivers and services, how is using the linux going to save money ? Well ? It seems that no linux fan can ever provide a straight answer to that question !
May as well just stay legal, run the Windows drivers, and run Office on the desktop instead of the linus.
Really? I always thought the Atom used less power, making it a better processor for use in netbooks (where the Atom is aimed at).
*Facepalm*
Do you understand what the antitrust suit is about?
Yeah, because we hear about milliinches, microinches and nanoinches all the time ;-)
This doesn't help with educating people that IE is not the Internet. If people realize there is a choice, and that there are serious reasons for choosing one option over another, then they might start to think for themselves instead of needing to be fooled into thinking they're using the same old thing they always used.
Why does this comment make someone look stupid? I don't get it. I also don't know why an IE user would have any more windows open than any other browser user. I'm totally missing the misinformation here.
Agreed. Anyone getting less than 35 mpg like a lot of European/Asian cars do should not consider themselves to be helping with solving the problem.
Only in some states... get a slap on the back of the hand and possibly a small fine here
Wow, you got Windows 7 to connect to a network. I decided to give it a spin and it didn't detect the VirtualBox network adapter. As far as I can see, it has no log telling me which hardware it has no drivers for, and I've never had to manually install a network driver within VirtualBox (even for previous Microsoft operating systems) so have no idea what to do.
Do you mean PC users or Windows users? Because Apple's machines are PCs too.
I've been using Ubuntu (with Gnome) exclusively at work for some time and have never seen this. I don't have Compiz running - perhaps that has something to do with it?
I must point out that considering this is a Grammar Nazi sentence, it doesn't entirely make sense. Yes, I understand what it means, but something's not right. Perhaps the grammar?
Playing online against your friends is the fun way to play games.
Running the text editor with admin priviledges has been the normal way to do it on Unix-like systems for decades (sudo vi anyone?). Is this concept seriously new to Windows users despite the Run As option having been there since around Windows 2000 time?
I can't believe that this willingness to fight is a valid reason to let people travel with such weapons. Surely safety should come above any religious beliefs here?
Really? I sat in a bar and watched Superbowl. I didn't see anything that I'd consider particularly raunchy or inappropriate, and I didn't hear any complaints from the people around me either. Are Americans really this prudish when it comes to TV advertising?
Or go do something more productive than watching TV.
Oops... what am I doing here?
A few years ago I played Unreal Tournament on a PS2 using a keyboard and mouse. All consoles have USB connectors. I used my USB keyboard to set up my XBox Live account on my 360. I do hope that support for USB keyboards and mice hasn't taken a huge leap backwards. I guess some games might now allow the same reconfigurability of the controls as their PC counterparts do. This would be the fault of the game designer, not the console itself.
I also play the most recent in the Command and Conquer series on the XBox 360, but not tried it with a mouse yet. Might try that this evening.
What hardware would I need to encompass grand scale strategy games? Guess the CPU/memory in the 360 is a bit behind today's PC standards. I'm not too familiar with its specs.
Totally :-)
Now if only I could find somewhere in California that sells them...
Fine with me. I play games and the only 'PC' I own is an Ubuntu netbook. This would also stop people sticking with windows simply because they want to play the latest games.
To me too.
I'm a Cox customer, and I for one welcome this.
Thankyou for explaining this. I was getting frustrated with the amount of people coming out with comments like "Why doesn't company X not get forced to give customers a choice of what browser they get?" and the general lack of knowledge of the subject they have while commenting on the story.
Doesn't that put it in the same category as US comedies then, for most of the world?