You tied yourself and the cow ran away happily ever after.
What some of these companies do more often than not is also illegal in the countries where they work, bue due to different factors (corruption, weak goverments, geographical isolation) the local law is not enforced.
But legalities aside, there is something called morals. How an executive of any kind can rationalize some of the stuff done to gain a few bucks and still claim to be making an hojnest living is beyond me. If it was not for public pressure of their customers back home (in the form of lobby groups) they would not change their immoral ways.
Heck, they are always trying to get away with lying. Think tobacco companies, or choose your example, I am sure that will you untie yourself you can think of many.
So if a thief breaks into my home (that may not be secured properly due to my own negligence) steals a gun or a knife and kills somebody with the stolen weapon, then I should be responsible for the murder?
What is next? To held people without trial in remote places without clear jurisdiction? Oh, wait... Mr Bush! Nice to talk to you.
I should know, I can administer dozens of Solaris machine in the office but I struggle with only 2 Linux boxes at home (disclaimer: I have been working with Linux for 7 years. I mean working, not playing).
If your data is not valuable or completely forgettable, then yes, get some more reliance mirroring or copying to another disk.
Otherwise you'll have to pay for backups (which should be duplicated, stored in different physical locations and tested regularly with a "dont use after..." label attached to each tape).
For the home users the only alternative is to buy the most inexpensive medium (CDRs, or a cheap tape technology) and be extremely selective. Backup your important, irreplaceable data with incremental schemes (i.e. don't backup the same file you need but never change too often) to ensure you don't back up more then what is needed.
3 "new" disks dead in 4 years at my home. IN spite of having backups it is an absolute pain. Yes, I know, RAID. But Raid in multiOS machines is not yet perfected (unfortunately Linux does not support the cheap IDE hardware RAID cards out there in the wild).
Older disks (a 5 year old 1 GB disk in an old Pentium 166 used as firewall, 2 GB one in a Toshiba Libretto) keep working fine.
In your hypotetical CompUSA aisle you walked only where the printers are but you glaringly ommited to walk the cartridge section.
Would that $1500 printer use a $10 cartridge that lasts a couple of years as opossed to who knows how many $50 cartridges used by the $100 printer during the same period?
... I dare you to put your hands in these nasty flames if you can swear there is no discrimination and that people will be always judged based on merit an not in other unfortunate considerations.
"Racial quotas" as you disingeniously called them have a reason, which should be evident to anybody that knows a bit of history which reminds us how there used to be some people more equal than others in the land of the free.
Dear CEO, who is going to buy your indispensable products once you and your ilk achieve that holly Grial of full automatization without any employees?
In case you are serious (and being an AC I doubt it) your mentallity shows what is wrong with modern entrepreneurs: they understand shit about their social role and rsponsibilities. And we allow people like you to buy our politicians.
Scary, enjoy the ride, I assure you it will not last forever.
The abhorrent behaviour of Mozilla regarding this is to play to the lowest denominator (i.e. clueless name completion).
There is quite a liveley debate in bugzilla regarding this "feature".
In the one hand are the clueless-lets-help-the stoopid-newbies crowd that believe such a thing is desirable.
In the other hand are the technically competent that wish Mozilla will just follow common sense and used the name resolver libraries every other single program in your computer uses. No auto-completion.
You think this is trivial?
Let say you type bobby in your browser, then Mozilla dutifully will try to contact who knows what machines, one them perhaps www.bobby.com.
If admin at www.bobby.com is a malicious person he can build a pretty accurate picture of your bobby's file structure checking his logs of what you are trying to access.
A couple of poeple in bugzilla had made that point but the lets-be-nice-to-the stoopid-newbie guys don't let this thing die the painful death it deserves.
They are offering in a document that they pretend has legal validity (questionable in the first place) that you are entitled to a refund if you don't agree to their terms. You decide you don't, so where is the money?
Are you dense, have no education, can't read or is that the way things happen in your place (where do you live? Iraq?). How much simpler a concept do you need before you (and countless others) finally get it.
You may have decided you are in agreement with the EULA (really? did you read it?) but obviously your miopic pseudo-logic does not allow you to understand that other people don't and are only demanding what they have been offered in the first place.
If the entity selling PCs would tell you that you are entitled to a refund if you don't like the hard disk, screen, mouse or graphics card, then they would be obliged to accept the bits and pieces that they themselves have agreed to take back.
Is that clear enough or should I digest it, regurgitate it and.... forget it...
Those passive sheeple that prefer to bear unfair treatment if that means not to be inconvinienced.
Look wise guy, there are many reasons why you may need a certain computer without Windows. I let you to figure those ones out since I am sure your IQ comprises at least double figures.
If the companies involved in the deal did not offer you any possibility whatsoever to return the OS, well and dandy, but they are binding themselves to give you your money back if you don't accept their terms.
It is not all or nothing, they are offering you a choice that then by pure laziness they are deciding to ignore. They could say though luck, if youy buy the bundle you can't give back any part of it (with licenses prominently displayed in the conputer's packaging just in case).
Anyway. Why to continue. Some people are uncapable to fathom thye most basic concepts of fairness in a commercial transaction...
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The only way to probe a claim is to test it.
Unless somebody offers usability tests properly controlled any claims regarding what is easier to use sould be considered a wild speculation.
The context, the machine, the applications, all these and many other factors can influence what is easier to use.
Try writing without looking at the screen. With Graffiti you can do that very easily.
You tied yourself and the cow ran away happily ever after.
What some of these companies do more often than not is also illegal in the countries where they work, bue due to different factors (corruption, weak goverments, geographical isolation) the local law is not enforced.
But legalities aside, there is something called morals. How an executive of any kind can rationalize some of the stuff done to gain a few bucks and still claim to be making an hojnest living is beyond me. If it was not for public pressure of their customers back home (in the form of lobby groups) they would not change their immoral ways.
Heck, they are always trying to get away with lying. Think tobacco companies, or choose your example, I am sure that will you untie yourself you can think of many.
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Muse over it, you may learn something.
So if a thief breaks into my home (that may not be secured properly due to my own negligence) steals a gun or a knife and kills somebody with the stolen weapon, then I should be responsible for the murder?
What is next? To held people without trial in remote places without clear jurisdiction? Oh, wait... Mr Bush! Nice to talk to you.
I should know, I can administer dozens of Solaris machine in the office but I struggle with only 2 Linux boxes at home (disclaimer: I have been working with Linux for 7 years. I mean working, not playing).
Make it painful.
If your data is not valuable or completely forgettable, then yes, get some more reliance mirroring or copying to another disk.
Otherwise you'll have to pay for backups (which should be duplicated, stored in different physical locations and tested regularly with a "dont use after..." label attached to each tape).
For the home users the only alternative is to buy the most inexpensive medium (CDRs, or a cheap tape technology) and be extremely selective. Backup your important, irreplaceable data with incremental schemes (i.e. don't backup the same file you need but never change too often) to ensure you don't back up more then what is needed.
3 "new" disks dead in 4 years at my home. IN spite of having backups it is an absolute pain. Yes, I know, RAID. But Raid in multiOS machines is not yet perfected (unfortunately Linux does not support the cheap IDE hardware RAID cards out there in the wild).
Older disks (a 5 year old 1 GB disk in an old Pentium 166 used as firewall, 2 GB one in a Toshiba Libretto) keep working fine.
How old is the sentence "I only know I know nothing"?
That is the creed of decent scientists ever since.
... in many temples menstruating women are not allowed to enter temples.
My point? I don't know. That religion in all its forms is bunk perhaps.
How do you know some people are dead weight?
How do you know who are good or bad employees?
If you knew you would be the manager.
... lead to half answers.
In your hypotetical CompUSA aisle you walked only where the printers are but you glaringly ommited to walk the cartridge section.
Would that $1500 printer use a $10 cartridge that lasts a couple of years as opossed to who knows how many $50 cartridges used by the $100 printer during the same period?
What a load of rubish....
Tell Skylarov {sp?) that.
Great company indeed.
... I dare you to put your hands in these nasty flames if you can swear there is no discrimination and that people will be always judged based on merit an not in other unfortunate considerations.
"Racial quotas" as you disingeniously called them have a reason, which should be evident to anybody that knows a bit of history which reminds us how there used to be some people more equal than others in the land of the free.
Obviously you have not been a teacher, a policeman or a firefighter.
Then move somewhere else cheaper to live....
To sell something does not mean that you are making a profit (did not you learn something during the last couple of years?).
Dear CEO, who is going to buy your indispensable products once you and your ilk achieve that holly Grial of full automatization without any employees?
In case you are serious (and being an AC I doubt it) your mentallity shows what is wrong with modern entrepreneurs: they understand shit about their social role and rsponsibilities. And we allow people like you to buy our politicians.
Scary, enjoy the ride, I assure you it will not last forever.
The abhorrent behaviour of Mozilla regarding this is to play to the lowest denominator (i.e. clueless name completion).
There is quite a liveley debate in bugzilla regarding this "feature".
In the one hand are the clueless-lets-help-the stoopid-newbies crowd that believe such a thing is desirable.
In the other hand are the technically competent that wish Mozilla will just follow common sense and used the name resolver libraries every other single program in your computer uses. No auto-completion.
You think this is trivial?
Let say you type bobby in your browser, then Mozilla dutifully will try to contact who knows what machines, one them perhaps www.bobby.com.
If admin at www.bobby.com is a malicious person he can build a pretty accurate picture of your bobby's file structure checking his logs of what you are trying to access.
A couple of poeple in bugzilla had made that point but the lets-be-nice-to-the stoopid-newbie guys don't let this thing die the painful death it deserves.
They are offering in a document that they pretend has legal validity (questionable in the first place) that you are entitled to a refund if you don't agree to their terms. You decide you don't, so where is the money?
Are you dense, have no education, can't read or is that the way things happen in your place (where do you live? Iraq?). How much simpler a concept do you need before you (and countless others) finally get it.
You may have decided you are in agreement with the EULA (really? did you read it?) but obviously your miopic pseudo-logic does not allow you to understand that other people don't and are only demanding what they have been offered in the first place.
Show me the legal document that entitles you to return all those items.
I can show you my entitlement to return Windows.
Now go back to your cave you.... vampire.
Next time I will read the EULA plastered in the packaging of my next computer.
Silly me really. I should be beaten for being so stoopid.
If the entity selling PCs would tell you that you are entitled to a refund if you don't like the hard disk, screen, mouse or graphics card, then they would be obliged to accept the bits and pieces that they themselves have agreed to take back.
.... forget it...
Is that clear enough or should I digest it, regurgitate it and
Those passive sheeple that prefer to bear unfair treatment if that means not to be inconvinienced.
Look wise guy, there are many reasons why you may need a certain computer without Windows. I let you to figure those ones out since I am sure your IQ comprises at least double figures.
If the companies involved in the deal did not offer you any possibility whatsoever to return the OS, well and dandy, but they are binding themselves to give you your money back if you don't accept their terms.
It is not all or nothing, they are offering you a choice that then by pure laziness they are deciding to ignore. They could say though luck, if youy buy the bundle you can't give back any part of it (with licenses prominently displayed in the conputer's packaging just in case).
Anyway. Why to continue. Some people are uncapable to fathom thye most basic concepts of fairness in a commercial transaction...