Secure Boot is very much required security feature. It will lock out malware that hides rootkits in boot sector. That's a very good thing. It's also optional, so you can always install Linux. Hell, both Linux and OS X do this already.
That's really impressive. In what world is Microsoft losing money ? They're the largest software house (and also hardware manufacturer) on planet. Everyone knows Microsoft, everyone trusts Microsoft and everyone loves Microsoft.
While FSF just tries to fight their ideological war, Ubuntu takes less hard road and understands why Microsoft needs to employ secure boot. Good for them, and better for Linux.
How is tennis game won by specialists? A good tennis player is a good tennis player. Sports really takes skills. It really does. Sports is amazingly difficult career and something "engineers" and geeks don't see. And don't get me even started on the psychological aspect of having the necessary coping skills to be a celebrity and always on spotlight.
Big pharma should be broken up too. World would be much better if everyone had a supply of cheap medication. Especially those in non-western poorer countries. But US bullies the world and lets other citizens die because they're not American.
Netscape did that themselves. Do you remember how crappy it was and how Netscape tried to include their proprietary tags in HTML? Do you remember those flashy marquee scrolling texts?? Netscape was shit. IE was good. Opera played by the rules and was the most fantastic browser, but it was shareware well into the year 2004.
And Spotlight is fantastic. I only started using Macs in February and I can already see why people love it. OS X really is much nicer OS, it has UNIX on background and Apple (and other OS X companies) produce fantastic products. It really is amazingly fabulous.
Please. Our high for today is forecast to be 103 F / 39.4 C with high humidity. Lately (here in Richmond VA) our LOWS have been higher than the highs in Portland, OR where my brother lives. He loves rubbing that in. At least I don't have moss growing on me.
Slashdot. Weather discussions. Stuff that matters!
Girls on a computer screen are so much better: they'll never start bitching over something ridiculous, they don't smell sweaty, they don't spend your money, they're accessible whenever you want them but they also won't ever bother you when you don't want to. This "summer" and "outside" thing really sounds very much an inferior experience.
You're right, it's actually really nice and amazing here. It's so beautiful and hot now. And the girls don't wear those long black trousers anymore, they all wear so short jean shorts it's amazing. Everywhere and everybody. There's so many beautiful legs around. Amazing.
yesterday I went past this bakery and they had these donuts - let me tell you they smelled amazing - I smiled at them. Should have bought one. Amazing.
You went to bakery and bought donuts? Why in the world? There's tons of nice stuff in bakeries - and you buy donuts!
An equal hypothesis could be, everyone has stopped downloading files from the pirate bay and with all the free time they have now they are unable to watch movies, the are now committed WoW or D3 players, or whatever other games use Bittorrent as a patch delivery mechanism.
This really sounds like you think sitting at computer is the only thing to do in the world.
But yesterday I went out and there was lots of beautiful and cute girls and people spending time outside in the summer. Amazing, I know. But the best thing - and let me tell she was so cute - was one girl who sat down to draw what she saw when people walked past her. I smiled at her. Should had said hello. Amazing.
They are kind of selling it, but they just sell advertising. I don't get why selling advertising usually gets different, almost free pass on everything. And at the same time Slashdot users use AdBlock. It's the same in The Pirate Bay discussions, Google discussions and pretty much everything (not on TV and movies tho). It's still selling and making money.
That's not the point, is it? Of course you shouldn't modify code on someone else's server, but you should still have access to the source code. If you go with open source mentality, that is, and especially if you use other people's work. That's the point of open source and Google is abusing it.
But Google itself keeps most of its source code hidden behind servers. They even take GPL'd code and don't give their improvements to others because they don't have to.
The much larger problem is how to open source code that is hidden behind servers. GPLv3 doesn't do it.
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Why microsoft needs to employ a microsoft controlled boot loader - tftfy.
Windows (7, Vista, XP and so on) bootloader is already Microsoft "controlled".
Secure Boot is very much required security feature. It will lock out malware that hides rootkits in boot sector. That's a very good thing. It's also optional, so you can always install Linux. Hell, both Linux and OS X do this already.
That's really impressive. In what world is Microsoft losing money ? They're the largest software house (and also hardware manufacturer) on planet. Everyone knows Microsoft, everyone trusts Microsoft and everyone loves Microsoft.
While FSF just tries to fight their ideological war, Ubuntu takes less hard road and understands why Microsoft needs to employ secure boot. Good for them, and better for Linux.
Why does it need to be a guy? Tons of women play video games.
It's appreciate to the discussion.
$1200 a month wth? Living in Thailand costs like $100 a month.
.. at state prison!
How is tennis game won by specialists? A good tennis player is a good tennis player. Sports really takes skills. It really does. Sports is amazingly difficult career and something "engineers" and geeks don't see. And don't get me even started on the psychological aspect of having the necessary coping skills to be a celebrity and always on spotlight.
Big pharma should be broken up too. World would be much better if everyone had a supply of cheap medication. Especially those in non-western poorer countries. But US bullies the world and lets other citizens die because they're not American.
"cut off Netscape's air supply".
Netscape did that themselves. Do you remember how crappy it was and how Netscape tried to include their proprietary tags in HTML? Do you remember those flashy marquee scrolling texts?? Netscape was shit. IE was good. Opera played by the rules and was the most fantastic browser, but it was shareware well into the year 2004.
And Spotlight is fantastic. I only started using Macs in February and I can already see why people love it. OS X really is much nicer OS, it has UNIX on background and Apple (and other OS X companies) produce fantastic products. It really is amazingly fabulous.
Please. Our high for today is forecast to be 103 F / 39.4 C with high humidity. Lately (here in Richmond VA) our LOWS have been higher than the highs in Portland, OR where my brother lives. He loves rubbing that in. At least I don't have moss growing on me.
Slashdot. Weather discussions. Stuff that matters!
Yes. Microsoft Research.
Girls on a computer screen are so much better: they'll never start bitching over something ridiculous, they don't smell sweaty, they don't spend your money, they're accessible whenever you want them but they also won't ever bother you when you don't want to. This "summer" and "outside" thing really sounds very much an inferior experience.
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You're right, it's actually really nice and amazing here. It's so beautiful and hot now. And the girls don't wear those long black trousers anymore, they all wear so short jean shorts it's amazing. Everywhere and everybody. There's so many beautiful legs around. Amazing.
yesterday I went past this bakery and they had these donuts - let me tell you they smelled amazing - I smiled at them. Should have bought one. Amazing.
You went to bakery and bought donuts? Why in the world? There's tons of nice stuff in bakeries - and you buy donuts!
Have a look:
http://www.swedishbakery.com/site/epage/133153_222.htm
http://www.swedishbakery.com/site/largepics/222/133153/443788/608708/Cherry_Boat.JPG
http://www.swedishbakery.com/site/largepics/222/133153/443788/608709/Apple_Turnover.JPG
http://www.swedishbakery.com/site/largepics/222/27316/336857/527255/Biskvier.jpg
http://www.swedishbakery.com/site/largepics/222/27316/336857/527281/Chocolate_Almond_Truffle.jpg
An equal hypothesis could be, everyone has stopped downloading files from the pirate bay and with all the free time they have now they are unable to watch movies, the are now committed WoW or D3 players, or whatever other games use Bittorrent as a patch delivery mechanism.
This really sounds like you think sitting at computer is the only thing to do in the world.
But yesterday I went out and there was lots of beautiful and cute girls and people spending time outside in the summer. Amazing, I know. But the best thing - and let me tell she was so cute - was one girl who sat down to draw what she saw when people walked past her. I smiled at her. Should had said hello. Amazing.
They are kind of selling it, but they just sell advertising. I don't get why selling advertising usually gets different, almost free pass on everything. And at the same time Slashdot users use AdBlock. It's the same in The Pirate Bay discussions, Google discussions and pretty much everything (not on TV and movies tho). It's still selling and making money.
That's not the point, is it? Of course you shouldn't modify code on someone else's server, but you should still have access to the source code. If you go with open source mentality, that is, and especially if you use other people's work. That's the point of open source and Google is abusing it.
But Google itself keeps most of its source code hidden behind servers. They even take GPL'd code and don't give their improvements to others because they don't have to.
The much larger problem is how to open source code that is hidden behind servers. GPLv3 doesn't do it.