If it is a Trojan than yes it is the user fault. If you run an executable attached to email it is your fault. Now if exploit happens because of a buffer overflow in a GIF file in an HTML email then you can blame the application or even the OS if the OS is providing the service to open the GIF file. Attachments are not a terrible thing at all. I use them all the time and it beats using uuencode. HTML Email on the other hand I feel is a huge mistake. ActiveX was also a huge mistake. Making it easy to use is not a mistake. Just stop click on attachments of nude tennis starts and you will be just fine.
A herd of Lamas have escaped a local zoo and nibbled on the Christmas lights at CERN. The short caused the cooling system to go off line and the LHC will be off line for five months.
For the most part I tend to agree. Any user installed Trojan is the users responsibly. If the malware gets installed through an exploit then it is the OS/Applications fault. In a good amount of cases it is no longer Microsoft's fault.
supersonic? Tell me that means above the range of human hearing. I really doubt that older technology speakers give better quality than what is available today. This entire post sounds like something from a company that sells a CD demagnatizer. Even with your statements I stand by mine that there is NO reason to go past a 96kHZ sampling rate since that is twice the sampling rate that a CD uses and twice the rate needed for human hearing!
I wonder what you mean by harassed? Yes people have a right to not like you for what you believe. If someone says that they believe that it is alright for adults to have sex with children it is okay to not like them. Think about how many people on Slashdot say the hate people that watch Fox News or that are Republican or Demarcate. Is that okay. It is fine if you wish to keep your beliefs a secret because you want to be liked but it is up to you to do so and not anybody else. If you post something publicly then yes everybody has a right to judge you on it. I have people get mad at me because the THINK they know who I voted for or because they think they know what I believe and sometimes because of what I believe. Freedom of speech means freedom from fear. You shouldn't have to fear jail or violence for what you say. It doesn't and has never meant freedom from responsibility or judgment for what you say.
GPS, accelerometers, and a compass in a netbook? Maybe i tablet but that is over kill on a netbook. A gps maybe but even that is iffy. Knowing where you are is great for things like finding a restaurant or store but netbooks tend to be used indoors and getting a GPS lock can be iffy at best. 3G/4G maybe but the customer friendly solution is tethering. I don't want to buy a second account just for my netbook. Bundle it in for an extra $5 a month or let me tether. Touch screen? On a netbook? Seems like a tablet smart phone thing again to me. Maybe but I really don't want to take my hands from the keyboard all that often. Maybe I would like it if I tried it but I don't think so.
Camera, mic, and speakers plus a headphone jack? Yes This is what I think a killer Smartbook/Netbook needs. 1. Long battery life. I want to run all day on a charge. 2. Small and light. No it doesn't have to be super thin if it means I loose battery life or standard connectors. I want something that is easy to carry and use. 3. WiFi and 3/4G but only if the 3/4G is cheap enough. 4. A good screen. It doesn't have to be huge 9 or 10 is fine but make it clear and I would like it to be high resolution. Let's get that DPI up. 5. Must handle HD video playback including FLASH. 6. A good UI for a Netbook/Smartbook. 7. An App store. Yes I know the internet is your app store except a lot of users don't want to hunt all over the Internet for an App. A lot of developers don't want to run an online store or advertise their apps. An App store gives the user the convenience of just one place to look for apps and one interface to install, uninstall, and update apps. I know this will inflame the FOSS zealots but making it easy to sell apps gives the users more choice not less. And it gives the developers more choice not less. It can even help FOSS developers. I can release my app as FOSS but charge a small amount for the compiled version. If an end user really wants to see the source or modify it they can then download it from my website and do their own build. That way a FOSS developer can have an income stream/ BTW there is NOTHING in the GPL that makes selling FOSS illegal or even immoral. It is even encouraged by RMS. An App store would also help with preventing malware and other infections. If most end users only used the app store and didn't "side load" applications the OS would face fewer issues with trojans and other malware. Of course it would do nothing to prevent Worms or other exploits except hopefully prevent vectors through apps. 8. USB client as well as host. I would be very handy to use my netbook/smartbook as a mass storage device for my Laptop, Desktop, or Car stereo. 9. IR reciver and HDMI. If it can play HD video let me hook to my TV and use a remote with it. 10. Price point at around $299 or less
And here is one that is really a fantasy idea. I want a standard dock connector for Smartbooks and smartphones. I don't think USB will do for what I really want but it might if there was a standard interface. I want to hook up my smartphone/book to my car and have it integrate with it. The connector would need to supply a GPS antenna feed or data, all engine and other data and a video connection from the screen to the smart device as well as a multitouch screen and buttons. I could use any navigation software I want and any entertainment software I want in my car. I would no longer be stuck with the GPS system maps they provide or entertainment choices they make. I don't see that happening but it would be really nice.I
Frankly Apple could pretty much do it tomorrow with an iPhone with a keyboard, a bigger screen and multi-tasking. But would Apple want to lose Notebook sales? Apple is making money hand over fist as is so they lack a reason. Other companies all have issues that would make it harder. Intel could do it except that I don't think the Atom is the right way to go. Maybe if they bought nVidia. HP doesn't do consumer software. Google doesn't do hardware. The c
Is IEE754r a superset of 754? If couldn't it be used on hardware that supports it as an option? Also what does ARM support? Some Arm cores now have FPUs and that is an important architecture for Mobile and is going to be a big percentage of the systems running ECMAScript in the future.
I will bite. Not every German was a Nazi, the US was at that time at peace with Germany so exactly what was the problem with selling say soda pop to Germany? Also some of those deals where done before anybody really knew just how evil Hitler was. The same can be said of dealing with China today. We are not at war with them. I do think we do too much business with China but I have a lot less of an issue with Google doing search in China than with Apple building all their stuff their. I will throw in HP, and Dell into that mix of building too much stuff in China as well to spread the love around. Selling stuff to China for the most part isn't an issue. Building stuff in and buying stuff from is an issue.
You do understand that China will intercept that before it gets to Google right? In that case it is really poor judgment. If you live under a totalitarian dictatorship you are in big trouble to start with. Google doesn't have to provide info to them for you to get busted.
No actually it was a warning. Don't do evil or else we will publish it. All kidding aside way to many people seem to not know the difference between public and private anymore. Anything you do in public is public. If you take a hit off a bong at a party that is in public. Even if it is a private party if there are other people there you are in public. If somebody posts it on Facebook then it is really public. It is silly to expect people to not judge you for how you act and what you do. The internet has made the planet into one small town. If you act like a fool in public everybody will find out about it.
"That's true, and I doubt 96 kHz sampling would come close to LPs. Make it 440 kHz and digital would blow analog away. But you're right, the "engineers" would screw it up." Your nuts.Humans have a range of 20Hz to 20kHz Even at 96Khz sampling would take you to 48 kHz which is twice human hearing. Anybody that claims they need more than just let me know. I have some LP and CD demagnetizes that I can sell them for a low $800. I can also sell them a virgin granite table for their turntable that has also be demagnetized and de stressed for that perfect sound that only a true audiophile can hear.
A better question would be why is Google offering this service? What does it have to gain by doing it. Most users will never switch to Google's DNS they get their DNS through DHCP and never worry about it. My guess is that Google is hoping that ISPs and big companies will start to use Google's DNS. Hey why bother maintaining a DNS if you don't have too. You are still left with what does Google gain. Well without going into the land of evil I can think of a few things. 1. Data. Google can see just how many hits each site really gets for the entire Internet. This should give Google some great metrics. 2. Good will with the ISPs. With the stupid "Google is getting a free ride crap" this is a way that Google can "give" back to the ISPs. 3 Well if Google is running the DNS it is a little harder for the DNS to used to block Google sites.
Under the evil list the mind goes nuts with privacy abuses and redirects but I will let others go there.
I would have to agree. Since this is an international treaty the only people that you can keep it secret from is the people. Wow that is just a terrible selling out to big business. Yes the media companies are big business folks. So much for the idea of open government this time around. Will the next round of wanabee elected officials please stand up and start telling lies to me now.
What I would like is if some windows would start to scale the data. For some windows it just doesn't make sense to scroll the window at all. It would probably be difficult to do and not be confusing but I know that there are times when I would find it very useful. BTW I really hate most fixed width sites. It just makes me crazy.
I am a Linux user but for a NAS ZFS is a HUGE advantage and btrfs isn't here yet so that doesn't matter right now. Linux is faster? For NAS all you really need to worry about is IO. To be anywhere close to fair you would want to benchmark two FreeNAS and say OpenFiler. Feature rich? What features do you need outside of a filesystem and networking? Stability and security are all that matters for a NAS. The one benefit I see with going to Linux is that it will be easier to integrate into a Linux shop than BSD is. I see this as more of a marketing move than anything. FreeNAS will now perfectly integrate into an IT shop that is using Ubuntu server.
"Looks like U.S. military is already at least 1, if not 2 generations ahead of its allies. Besides, its enemies still have WWII-level technologies." Really? The latest Russian SAMS and fighters seem to be well in advance of The ME-262 and FLAK 88. Maybe you don't know it but Drones tend to be pretty cheap for what they do so they are super expensive.
There is money to be made. The news corps get money because people tune in to see "Is your cell phone killing you?" Other make money with their book. The Cell Phone Death Sentence? Other make money by their speaking gigs. How the Cell Phone companies are kill your children. While other make money ding studies about cell phones. "The government is caving into the Cell phone companies by not funding this 30 year study!"
Radio waves are part of the EM spectrum just like light, X-Rays, and Gamma rays the only difference is the color/frequency of the EM. That being said the frequencies used in cell phones are not ionizing. At a high enough energy level they will cause harm but that level is really high. Will it cause cancer? Not that I know of. It doesn't matter people will still fear cell phones and other things because there is money to be made scaring people.
Just as limited? 100,000 apps vs 0 is just a limited? I find the iPhone to be the limit of what I will put up with in a device as far as locked down and vendor control. Google goes past that and to me that is just too far. I don't hate google and I do use them. I just know where I stand with them. Heck I am even a customer of theirs since I pay for ads. But I feel Chrome is that step to far into making a computer nothing more than a terminal.
What about support for more than one monitor? And or projectors? HD video? The big thing and I think that the x.org might have gotten this one is a fail safe mode. No matter how bad xorg.conf is messed up xorg should come up in some safe default mode. I think the last few versions did that which is a big help but I have been using x for so long that I forget when things really borked on me last. I think things are improving but that is proof that they where a mess to begin with:)
I said that X is well documented but it is too fragile. It fails all to easy and once it fails it is a pain to fix. A good amount of the problem isn't x.orgs fault at all. The lack of a stable binary driver interface in Linux is one big issue. You update the kernel and the driver then needs to be updated and it may or may not work correctly. Not x.orgs fault but still a pain for the end user. The configuration of monitors is another issue. It is just a pain and to fix it is a HUGE project. SAX actually has a very good database of monitors and it works well. I wish every version of X offered a large data base of monitors to pick from when it can not auto detect. Hopefully the new generation of LCD monitors that use DVI and HDMI will solve that issue. I am probably just a little too harsh on X.org by saying it is a mess. I just breaks all to often and it is usually not really X.org's fault. I give them a lot of credit but if any end user has to go and hand edit the xorg.conf it is a fail. But you are correct in that it is well documented.
And it does for Windows? Not that I have seen to be honest.
End user documentation for Windows == your buddy that knows windows or the rentageek. that will charge you $200 to run spybot. End user documentation for MacOS/X == the Genius bar or you local turtle neck wearing zealot. End user documentation for Linux == your local tee-shirt wearing zealot or RTFS the manual you newbe! End user documentation for BSD == if you are smart enough to know that BSD is the best then you don't need help or go back to Linux you idiot!
Same thing on most modern Linux distros. Okay on Windows Vista or XP how do you burn an ISO? WIndows 7 I hear fixed this one.
Actually for some things I find Linux a lot easier to do than Windows. Creating a DVD and burning it is really easy with Ubuntu. I installed a program called DeeVeeDee from the add software menu and that was it. I can just drag any video file that I have installed support for which is most and it trancodes and creates an ISO. I just right click on the ISO and say burn to DVD and it is done.
Linux has come a very long way in usability. The main problems I have with Linux are caused not by technical issues but by legal and religious issues. The legal issues are having to do with software patents and the DMCA causing stupid pet tricks to get multimedia support working. The religious issues come down to the lack of a stable binary driver interface.
The technical issues come down to just how fragile x.org and sound support is for Linux. Oh and printing is still a dark art on Linux. Some printers work just fine but a lot are messy at best.
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If it is a Trojan than yes it is the user fault. If you run an executable attached to email it is your fault.
Now if exploit happens because of a buffer overflow in a GIF file in an HTML email then you can blame the application or even the OS if the OS is providing the service to open the GIF file. Attachments are not a terrible thing at all. I use them all the time and it beats using uuencode.
HTML Email on the other hand I feel is a huge mistake. ActiveX was also a huge mistake.
Making it easy to use is not a mistake. Just stop click on attachments of nude tennis starts and you will be just fine.
A herd of Lamas have escaped a local zoo and nibbled on the Christmas lights at CERN. The short caused the cooling system to go off line and the LHC will be off line for five months.
For the most part I tend to agree. Any user installed Trojan is the users responsibly.
If the malware gets installed through an exploit then it is the OS/Applications fault.
In a good amount of cases it is no longer Microsoft's fault.
supersonic? Tell me that means above the range of human hearing.
I really doubt that older technology speakers give better quality than what is available today.
This entire post sounds like something from a company that sells a CD demagnatizer. Even with your statements I stand by mine that there is NO reason to go past a 96kHZ sampling rate since that is twice the sampling rate that a CD uses and twice the rate needed for human hearing!
The best part is that anybody that modded my message down where agreeing with me.
I wonder what you mean by harassed? Yes people have a right to not like you for what you believe. If someone says that they believe that it is alright for adults to have sex with children it is okay to not like them. Think about how many people on Slashdot say the hate people that watch Fox News or that are Republican or Demarcate. Is that okay. It is fine if you wish to keep your beliefs a secret because you want to be liked but it is up to you to do so and not anybody else. If you post something publicly then yes everybody has a right to judge you on it.
I have people get mad at me because the THINK they know who I voted for or because they think they know what I believe and sometimes because of what I believe.
Freedom of speech means freedom from fear. You shouldn't have to fear jail or violence for what you say. It doesn't and has never meant freedom from responsibility or judgment for what you say.
GPS, accelerometers, and a compass in a netbook? Maybe i tablet but that is over kill on a netbook. A gps maybe but even that is iffy. Knowing where you are is great for things like finding a restaurant or store but netbooks tend to be used indoors and getting a GPS lock can be iffy at best.
3G/4G maybe but the customer friendly solution is tethering. I don't want to buy a second account just for my netbook. Bundle it in for an extra $5 a month or let me tether.
Touch screen? On a netbook? Seems like a tablet smart phone thing again to me. Maybe but I really don't want to take my hands from the keyboard all that often. Maybe I would like it if I tried it but I don't think so.
Camera, mic, and speakers plus a headphone jack? Yes
This is what I think a killer Smartbook/Netbook needs.
1. Long battery life. I want to run all day on a charge.
2. Small and light. No it doesn't have to be super thin if it means I loose battery life or standard connectors. I want something that is easy to carry and use.
3. WiFi and 3/4G but only if the 3/4G is cheap enough.
4. A good screen. It doesn't have to be huge 9 or 10 is fine but make it clear and I would like it to be high resolution. Let's get that DPI up.
5. Must handle HD video playback including FLASH.
6. A good UI for a Netbook/Smartbook.
7. An App store. Yes I know the internet is your app store except a lot of users don't want to hunt all over the Internet for an App. A lot of developers don't want to run an online store or advertise their apps.
An App store gives the user the convenience of just one place to look for apps and one interface to install, uninstall, and update apps. I know this will inflame the FOSS zealots but making it easy to sell apps gives the users more choice not less. And it gives the developers more choice not less. It can even help FOSS developers. I can release my app as FOSS but charge a small amount for the compiled version. If an end user really wants to see the source or modify it they can then download it from my website and do their own build. That way a FOSS developer can have an income stream/ BTW there is NOTHING in the GPL that makes selling FOSS illegal or even immoral. It is even encouraged by RMS. An App store would also help with preventing malware and other infections. If most end users only used the app store and didn't "side load" applications the OS would face fewer issues with trojans and other malware. Of course it would do nothing to prevent Worms or other exploits except hopefully prevent vectors through apps.
8. USB client as well as host. I would be very handy to use my netbook/smartbook as a mass storage device for my Laptop, Desktop, or Car stereo.
9. IR reciver and HDMI. If it can play HD video let me hook to my TV and use a remote with it.
10. Price point at around $299 or less
And here is one that is really a fantasy idea. I want a standard dock connector for Smartbooks and smartphones. I don't think USB will do for what I really want but it might if there was a standard interface.
I want to hook up my smartphone/book to my car and have it integrate with it. The connector would need to supply a GPS antenna feed or data, all engine and other data and a video connection from the screen to the smart device as well as a multitouch screen and buttons. I could use any navigation software I want and any entertainment software I want in my car. I would no longer be stuck with the GPS system maps they provide or entertainment choices they make.
I don't see that happening but it would be really nice.I
Frankly Apple could pretty much do it tomorrow with an iPhone with a keyboard, a bigger screen and multi-tasking. But would Apple want to lose Notebook sales? Apple is making money hand over fist as is so they lack a reason.
Other companies all have issues that would make it harder.
Intel could do it except that I don't think the Atom is the right way to go. Maybe if they bought nVidia.
HP doesn't do consumer software.
Google doesn't do hardware.
The c
Is IEE754r a superset of 754? If couldn't it be used on hardware that supports it as an option?
Also what does ARM support? Some Arm cores now have FPUs and that is an important architecture for Mobile and is going to be a big percentage of the systems running ECMAScript in the future.
I will bite.
Not every German was a Nazi, the US was at that time at peace with Germany so exactly what was the problem with selling say soda pop to Germany? Also some of those deals where done before anybody really knew just how evil Hitler was. The same can be said of dealing with China today. We are not at war with them. I do think we do too much business with China but I have a lot less of an issue with Google doing search in China than with Apple building all their stuff their. I will throw in HP, and Dell into that mix of building too much stuff in China as well to spread the love around.
Selling stuff to China for the most part isn't an issue. Building stuff in and buying stuff from is an issue.
You do understand that China will intercept that before it gets to Google right?
In that case it is really poor judgment. If you live under a totalitarian dictatorship you are in big trouble to start with. Google doesn't have to provide info to them for you to get busted.
No actually it was a warning. Don't do evil or else we will publish it.
All kidding aside way to many people seem to not know the difference between public and private anymore.
Anything you do in public is public. If you take a hit off a bong at a party that is in public. Even if it is a private party if there are other people there you are in public.
If somebody posts it on Facebook then it is really public.
It is silly to expect people to not judge you for how you act and what you do. The internet has made the planet into one small town. If you act like a fool in public everybody will find out about it.
"That's true, and I doubt 96 kHz sampling would come close to LPs. Make it 440 kHz and digital would blow analog away. But you're right, the "engineers" would screw it up."
Your nuts.Humans have a range of 20Hz to 20kHz Even at 96Khz sampling would take you to 48 kHz which is twice human hearing. Anybody that claims they need more than just let me know. I have some LP and CD demagnetizes that I can sell them for a low $800. I can also sell them a virgin granite table for their turntable that has also be demagnetized and de stressed for that perfect sound that only a true audiophile can hear.
Why do you trust your ISP less than Google?
A better question would be why is Google offering this service? What does it have to gain by doing it.
Most users will never switch to Google's DNS they get their DNS through DHCP and never worry about it.
My guess is that Google is hoping that ISPs and big companies will start to use Google's DNS. Hey why bother maintaining a DNS if you don't have too.
You are still left with what does Google gain.
Well without going into the land of evil I can think of a few things.
1. Data. Google can see just how many hits each site really gets for the entire Internet. This should give Google some great metrics.
2. Good will with the ISPs. With the stupid "Google is getting a free ride crap" this is a way that Google can "give" back to the ISPs.
3 Well if Google is running the DNS it is a little harder for the DNS to used to block Google sites.
Under the evil list the mind goes nuts with privacy abuses and redirects but I will let others go there.
I would have to agree. Since this is an international treaty the only people that you can keep it secret from is the people. Wow that is just a terrible selling out to big business. Yes the media companies are big business folks.
So much for the idea of open government this time around. Will the next round of wanabee elected officials please stand up and start telling lies to me now.
What I would like is if some windows would start to scale the data. For some windows it just doesn't make sense to scroll the window at all.
It would probably be difficult to do and not be confusing but I know that there are times when I would find it very useful.
BTW I really hate most fixed width sites. It just makes me crazy.
I am a Linux user but for a NAS ZFS is a HUGE advantage and btrfs isn't here yet so that doesn't matter right now.
Linux is faster? For NAS all you really need to worry about is IO. To be anywhere close to fair you would want to benchmark two FreeNAS and say OpenFiler.
Feature rich? What features do you need outside of a filesystem and networking?
Stability and security are all that matters for a NAS.
The one benefit I see with going to Linux is that it will be easier to integrate into a Linux shop than BSD is.
I see this as more of a marketing move than anything. FreeNAS will now perfectly integrate into an IT shop that is using Ubuntu server.
"Looks like U.S. military is already at least 1, if not 2 generations ahead of its allies.
Besides, its enemies still have WWII-level technologies."
Really? The latest Russian SAMS and fighters seem to be well in advance of The ME-262 and FLAK 88.
Maybe you don't know it but Drones tend to be pretty cheap for what they do so they are super expensive.
"Forced air will dry you into a raisin. It is December — do you notice, how dry your lips are in the morning? "
Nope but then I live in Florida.
There is money to be made.
The news corps get money because people tune in to see "Is your cell phone killing you?"
Other make money with their book. The Cell Phone Death Sentence?
Other make money by their speaking gigs. How the Cell Phone companies are kill your children.
While other make money ding studies about cell phones. "The government is caving into the Cell phone companies by not funding this 30 year study!"
Radio waves are part of the EM spectrum just like light, X-Rays, and Gamma rays the only difference is the color/frequency of the EM.
That being said the frequencies used in cell phones are not ionizing. At a high enough energy level they will cause harm but that level is really high. Will it cause cancer? Not that I know of.
It doesn't matter people will still fear cell phones and other things because there is money to be made scaring people.
Just as limited?
100,000 apps vs 0 is just a limited?
I find the iPhone to be the limit of what I will put up with in a device as far as locked down and vendor control.
Google goes past that and to me that is just too far.
I don't hate google and I do use them. I just know where I stand with them. Heck I am even a customer of theirs since I pay for ads.
But I feel Chrome is that step to far into making a computer nothing more than a terminal.
What about support for more than one monitor? And or projectors? :)
HD video?
The big thing and I think that the x.org might have gotten this one is a fail safe mode.
No matter how bad xorg.conf is messed up xorg should come up in some safe default mode.
I think the last few versions did that which is a big help but I have been using x for so long that I forget when things really borked on me last.
I think things are improving but that is proof that they where a mess to begin with
I said that X is well documented but it is too fragile.
It fails all to easy and once it fails it is a pain to fix.
A good amount of the problem isn't x.orgs fault at all.
The lack of a stable binary driver interface in Linux is one big issue. You update the kernel and the driver then needs to be updated and it may or may not work correctly.
Not x.orgs fault but still a pain for the end user.
The configuration of monitors is another issue. It is just a pain and to fix it is a HUGE project. SAX actually has a very good database of monitors and it works well. I wish every version of X offered a large data base of monitors to pick from when it can not auto detect. Hopefully the new generation of LCD monitors that use DVI and HDMI will solve that issue.
I am probably just a little too harsh on X.org by saying it is a mess. I just breaks all to often and it is usually not really X.org's fault. I give them a lot of credit but if any end user has to go and hand edit the xorg.conf it is a fail.
But you are correct in that it is well documented.
And it does for Windows?
Not that I have seen to be honest.
End user documentation for Windows == your buddy that knows windows or the rentageek. that will charge you $200 to run spybot.
End user documentation for MacOS/X == the Genius bar or you local turtle neck wearing zealot.
End user documentation for Linux == your local tee-shirt wearing zealot or RTFS the manual you newbe!
End user documentation for BSD == if you are smart enough to know that BSD is the best then you don't need help or go back to Linux you idiot!
All in all a universally bad state of affairs.
Same thing on most modern Linux distros.
Okay on Windows Vista or XP how do you burn an ISO? WIndows 7 I hear fixed this one.
Actually for some things I find Linux a lot easier to do than Windows. Creating a DVD and burning it is really easy with Ubuntu. I installed a program called DeeVeeDee from the add software menu and that was it. I can just drag any video file that I have installed support for which is most and it trancodes and creates an ISO.
I just right click on the ISO and say burn to DVD and it is done.
Linux has come a very long way in usability. The main problems I have with Linux are caused not by technical issues but by legal and religious issues.
The legal issues are having to do with software patents and the DMCA causing stupid pet tricks to get multimedia support working.
The religious issues come down to the lack of a stable binary driver interface.
The technical issues come down to just how fragile x.org and sound support is for Linux. Oh and printing is still a dark art on Linux. Some printers work just fine but a lot are messy at best.