What a coward you are indeed, anonymous. Our betters are noble men and women acting at the most elevated standards of honesty, integrity and dedication to service and every single day they give all they have got each day for the betterment of our sustainable designated human habitation zones.. and you don't know any better than to poke fun at that. Shame on you!!
Power management of the kind described in the article belongs on a spacecraft or on a satellite. It has no place in front of a terrestial outlet and because the "nicer" household appliances are to the network, the more the power companies get away with letting their infrastructure rot.
And American power infrastructure is rotten as we have seen a single point of failure bring down the power on the entire east coast. Compare that to Europe. When have you last heard that all of western Europe was without power?
People buying applicances like this are doing themselves and the rest of us a disservice. On top of that it is the consumers that pay for a feature out of their own pockets to increase the profits of the power companies while allowing them to lower their service even further.
Doesn't sound like such a good deal now after you think about it, huh?
Nothing really like what you're showing me here. It kind of looked like they had melted, limbs bloated and contorted. I didn't poke any but I'm pretty sure they were dry as sticks more like mummies which was why I first thought some energy weapon got used on them. And would I really know? There have been reports of microwave weapon tests on the Iraqi population.
The footage was shown to the European parliament in Strasbourg. Two MPs attended, one guy was reading a newspaper the other working on his laptop.
I know, I know, we all tend to blow things out of proportion. You're right of course this is just a friendly neighborly knock on the door to check if everybody is okay, just like the Nazi humanitarian mission in Poland was.
"Why do people scream "war crimes", "genocide" and "holocaust" all the time since the war in the Balkans?"
Hmmm... maybe because of all the death and destruction? And ethnic cleansing that's going on? Who knows? I mean that's just my personal half-baked theory.
Yep I'm American too and I've seen the twisted burned bodies in Falluja. I've never seen what white phosphor does to peopl,e so first I thought they tested some new microwave weapon on them.. then somebody told me it's WP.
Given the Holocaust Israel is committing right now in Gaza how much care do you think they're going to take to cut the "right" cables when they want to cut off the Arabs? Do you really think someone who dumps white phosphor on women and children gives a damm about someone else's network outage?
Eugenics and Oncology ride in the same wagon for long stretches of the way and this has been pioneered by the eugenics field first by 'tainting' tetanus vaccine with progesterone and thus sensibilizing the immune system to react to releases of progesterone (a hormone absolutely needed for achieving and maintaing pregnancy).
I can only imagine that this will be used to target all kinds of key cells in the human body.
Hey I just took a shit. I parted with about what I would say looks like 200 grams of digested food and here's your fun science fact for the day: shit also contains a _lot_ of dead intestinal cells - no kidding.
I bring this up because again we're knee deep into the Man-made Global Warming / Carbon Tax LIE-complex. Just think about it. Earth has been around far far far longer than we've been poking a thermometer into its rear. From what we do know, the 1700s saw temperature significantly higher as far up as the WINEYARDS(!) of England(!) (yep, England was known for its fine wine back then). The average temperature was far higher than it is today and by that I mean the warm spell we had the years before. Now it's so cold they're changing their tune either to "Global Cooling" (man-made too of course) or they're now resorting to the more generic term "Climate Change". I'm sick of this crap and so should you be.
There's a whole world of deceit and outright lies out there spread mostly by the so-called "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" ("IPCC"). Isn't it interesting that scientists sue -- and have to sue -- to get their names taken off the "IPCC" reports and studies because same scientists either actually entirely disagree with the "findings" in those reports or just had their name listed without prior permission or any affiliation or relation with the "IPCC".
So back to the turd I flushed. 200g of organic matter, I'm guessing 74% H, 5% oxygen, nitrogen, 1% calcium, sulphur, phosphorus and various other minerals and of course 20% carbon. Why should I pay say an extra dollar for flushing my toiled to "offset" the fictitious "cost" of me being alive with a metabolism.. when it's ALL A SHITTY LIE?!?!
A Review Of 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' By S. Fred Singer, (Atmospheric Physicist) March 19, 2007
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has met its match: a devastating documentary recently shown on British television, which has now been viewed by millions of people on the Internet. Despite its flamboyant title, The Great Global Warming Swindle is based on sound science and interviews with real climate scientists, including me. An Inconvenient Truth, on the other hand, is mostly an emotional presentation from a single politician.
The scientific arguments presented in The Great Global Warming Swindle can be stated quite briefly:
1. There is no proof that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from human activity. Ice core records from the past 650,000 years show that temperature increases have preceded--not resulted from--increases in CO2 by hundreds of years, suggesting that the warming of the oceans is an important source of the rise in atmospheric CO2. As the dominant greenhouse gas, water vapour is far, far more important than CO2. Dire predictions of future warming are based almost entirely on computer climate models, yet these models do not accurately understand the role or water vapor--and, in any case, water vapor is not within our control. Plus, computer models cannot account for the observed cooling of much of the past century (1940-75), nor for the observed patterns of warming--what we call the "fingerprints." For example, the Antarctic is cooling while models predict warming. And where the models call for the middle atmosphere to warm faster than the surface, the observations show the exact opposite....
You got to differentiate between jews and zionists. _Orthodox_ jews are immersed in a curriculum of hatred for anyone non-jew from cradle to grave. But however much they hate and despise us, by themselves they amount to nothing more than a nuisance. Then there is the far more palatable class of _secular_ jews, i.e. the israeli middle class. These are every day people mostly caught up in propaganda just like the rest of us, and they too are waking up and getting wise to their own set of criminals in their government. If there's any hope it lies with this class of people. And in the end you have that third and final class of people and these are the Zionists. They leverage the orthodox, they leverage the Arabs and everyone else in between (Hamas btw was created by the Mossad). If you're going to pick up a stone and throw it into somebody's face who deserves it, don't pick the retard who was maliciously brought up that way and doesn't know better, or the middle class guy (just like you) who is most likely even strongly on your side. Go for the zionist scum that is responsible for the mess in the first place.
Well you know the thing was, that lady had been in that appartment for 18 years. There is NO WAY on earth you can get rid of 18 years of shit, piss and decomposing food saturating walls and ceilings with their stench. I was looking for a real cheap appartment at that time because I was strapped for cash, but tell you what my friend flatly refused to rent it to anyone after we got the place cleaned up... (cleaned up means we got rid of everything in the appartment including what we could SCRAPE OFF) and mainly because he was concerned for the health of whatever future tenants and that he might get sued over it if they got sick. And tell you what, I went into the place a month later again and that residual smell almost immediately made me throw up in the sink.
To be fair, I'm sure most jews don't live, eat and sleep in their own feces or urine. However the two individuals were jewish. The elderly lady that was renting from my friend was also a nuisance in other respects and the younger lady I went to look at her appartment had an Israeli flag and a Menora on top of her TV. Interestingly enough the flag was the only thing that looked half-ways clean.
It happens more often than people think. I know of a woman that died that way, she lived in a literal maze of old newspaper, clothing, spoiled food, absolutely spoiled food and what I thought were weird fungus growths. Under the food there was a layer of _SHIT_ because at some point she couldn't get to the toilet anymore... and isn't it interesting how piles of newspaper smell when you piss on it for months and years. My friend was her landlord. The other time I saw stuff like this was when I was looking for an appartment. She was in her early 30s, she looked and smelled like the shower she never used and the place was full of trash I had to make sure I wasn't stepping into anything. Both were jewish btw.
I'm disgusted. Thousands of innocent civilians are getting maimed and murdered as I'm typing this and you have the audacity to ask people to join a zionazi bot-net. I'm no Palestinian or Arab myself, but get this: FUCK ISRAEL.
You wouldn't happen to have instructions handy on how to do that? I'd love to have a wad of registry keys I can just let regedit eat and be done with it. Other than that I don't think I'm ever going to have the energy and the time to burn to look into this.
It's not that a high priority thing for me because I'm using OSX but still it would be neat for those few times I have to sit in front of a windows machine.
Seriously. I rarely use windows at all but the few times I do one thing really pisses me off completely You're typing text and all of the sudden some crap application (windows or 3rd party) decides it wants to popup either a splash screen or some alert dialog box.. and immediately the focus is taken away from the text window and given to the dialog box...
Tell you what Windows assholes: Nothing you can popup is more important than what I'm typing. I don't give a fuck whether Outlook wants to compact my inbox. Don't pop up when I'm typing. It's like slapping the keyboard out of my hand.
Here's how notification and popups need to be solved. Have a short queue of icons representing popups on the right upper corner of the screen. There can be a configurable message beep for each item (or one beep for multiple items should a lot of them popup at once). The icons can't blink or otherwise try to distract. If I click them the dialog box folds down Mac OSX style. I can configure it to expire dialog boxes if I chose to ignore them. In that case the application gets told the dialog has been cancelled. Optionally I can tell the application that I'm ignoring its popup and it is also then blacklisted for that dialog or for any dialog for that matter.
The only time I can actually envision an exception to the icons not blinking or being distracting is if the OS or an app is reporting a catastrophic event (about to lose power, disk errors etc.).
So I've been bitching about Windows but this is something I'd like anybody designing a desktop to think about.
First of all not everybody can write a device driver. Sure. I can't paint and I suck at ballet. As far as APIs not being available on OSX the same goes for Windows, see if you can wheedle the NTFS specs out of Microsoft. Apple's decision not to open up the Airport APIs is a bad choice and to be sure that's the same bad decision that' built the "Windows ecosystem". However you do have full access to OSX IOKit and that lets you build drivers for whatever hardware is out there.
Oh so Vista includes telnet as an "option". Well it's not installed by default so what use is that to me when all I want to do is telnet to a certain server's port and see if it's up. I don't really have the time to figure out how to install it from their dvd so I would probably just install cygwin if that still happens to work half-ways under 'Vista'.
Vista adoption btw is virtually non-existent in all the places I've been so far. The couple of Vista notebooks they have here are all in QA.... and tell you what I'll even go further. I just looked at our production database how many people are actually using Vista with our client. I wish I could talk about that:-)
Macintosh" is a computer built/branded/sold by Apple, and no-one else, this statement is nonsensical. It could say "Psystar is accusing Apple of bricking generic PCs that are attempting to illegally run OS X", but, like it or not, I would have thought they are entitled to do so."
We don't know yet if anybody who purchased an OSX license (and not necessarily directly from Apple) is using it illegally. It still remains to be seen if anyone can place such an unreasonable limitation on how their product is used. As of today there is no court decision on on whether Apple can require that OSX only be used on hardware they also happen to sell. The court will have to weigh between the interests of Apple to sell specific hardware at significantly higher cost and the interests of the public as consumers, hardware manufacturers and vendors. This of course doesn't bode well for Apple at all, so it will be interesting how exactly they will engage Psystar.
I can't find the coax cable to plug my 15 year old network card into. What makes you think people want their vintage hardware supported on their main OS they use for work and play everday? Why can't OSX deal with all the commodity hardware that is out there. Anybody can write a driver for OSX and did you know, the Xcode Development Environment is FREE as opposed to M$DN.
If whatever doesn't work with OSX that's a combination of whoever not seeing the need to sell to OSX users and the whatever being without merit that it doesn't attract opensource driver developers.
"The reason Microsoft got into trouble with Vista was largely in part due to pressure from system builders pressuring them to include hardware that wasn't actually capable of running Vista smoothly, or had inadequate driver support."
Actually speaking of inadequate to the point that it's a joke, I have rarely to do with other people's desktops but today helping a coworker I wanted to see if they could connect to a certain port from their machine... and I found out
Vista doesn't include telnet. What a piece of crap!! Telnet is the easiest way imaginable to see if a certain port is open, I use it all the time for that.
As far as your argument goes, nobody forced Microsoft to _cripple_ an already questionable system. Vista driver problems are only a small part of why Vista failed so miserably.
The only thing that I find hilarious about this is that the people behind groups like the "Internet Watch Foundation" are from the same social strata that regularly gives us child molestors of the likes such as Marc Dutroux in Belgium along with his cronies in the Belgian Government.
But of course the child pornography / pornography / minority rights etc. etc. debate is just the right orbital slot for the popular indignation needed to fuel the underlying agenda which is to monitor and restrict free thought and free speech, I think many of us not so profane anymores have already realized this.
Morals are society's position on what's right and wrong, ethics, that's your, the individual's internal compass to what's right and wrong. Ethics and morals obviously conflict.
So since computers don't have any capacity for compassion and fairness, both which are dimensions in any coordinate system within which to plot out right and wrong, how can they develop ethics?
Oh it was just stuff like having to figure out how to install a rc script the debian way, things like that. I just didn't see the benefit of figuring it all out when I could be learning the same things on an OS I'm certain I'm going to have to support at work in the near future. It's not like Debian/Ubuntu are making the huge inroads that I can see. One place I know of, they did use Ubuntu for a short while because they somehow read from the Zabbix manual that Ubuntu was somehow especially supported by Zabbix. Soon after they reinstalled CentOS on that server, which is their standard OS. It wasn't the issue that Zabbix performed any better or worse on either distro, it was just that i'ts a hell of a lot easier to get support and talent for Rhel/CentOS.
Echostar is Dish Network but maybe the journalist didn't want people to associate the brand "Dish Network" with what people could potentially perceive as evil. Most are not as sophisticated as you - and I'm not being sarcastic towards you here -, they might just read the article, lean back and turn on their TV (powered by Dish of course) and never make the connection nor would it occur to them to follow up and find out about Echostar.
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What a coward you are indeed, anonymous. Our betters are noble men and women acting at
the most elevated standards of honesty, integrity and dedication to service and every single day
they give all they have got each day for the betterment of our sustainable designated human
habitation zones.. and you don't know any better than to poke fun at that. Shame on you!!
Power management of the kind described in the article belongs on a spacecraft or on a satellite.
It has no place in front of a terrestial outlet and because the "nicer" household appliances are
to the network, the more the power companies get away with letting their infrastructure rot.
And American power infrastructure is rotten as we have seen a single point of failure bring down
the power on the entire east coast. Compare that to Europe. When have you last heard that
all of western Europe was without power?
People buying applicances like this are doing themselves and the rest of us a disservice.
On top of that it is the consumers that pay for a feature out of their own pockets to increase
the profits of the power companies while allowing them to lower their service even further.
Doesn't sound like such a good deal now after you think about it, huh?
Nothing really like what you're showing me here. It kind of looked like they had
melted, limbs bloated and contorted. I didn't poke any but I'm pretty sure
they were dry as sticks more like mummies which was why I first thought some energy
weapon got used on them. And would I really know? There have been reports of microwave
weapon tests on the Iraqi population.
The footage was shown to the European parliament in Strasbourg. Two MPs attended, one
guy was reading a newspaper the other working on his laptop.
I know, I know, we all tend to blow things out of proportion. You're right of course
this is just a friendly neighborly knock on the door to check if everybody is okay,
just like the Nazi humanitarian mission in Poland was.
"Why do people scream "war crimes", "genocide" and "holocaust" all the time since the war in the Balkans?"
Hmmm... maybe because of all the death and destruction? And ethnic cleansing that's going on?
Who knows? I mean that's just my personal half-baked theory.
Yep I'm American too and I've seen the twisted burned bodies in Falluja.
I've never seen what white phosphor does to peopl,e so first I thought they tested some
new microwave weapon on them.. then somebody told me it's WP.
Given the Holocaust Israel is committing right now in Gaza how much care do you think
they're going to take to cut the "right" cables when they want to cut off the Arabs?
Do you really think someone who dumps white phosphor on women and children gives a damm
about someone else's network outage?
Wow you have been watching your FOX and your CNN all right
and you're doing an awesome job repeating. I'll buy you guys
flu shots.
Eugenics and Oncology ride in the same wagon for long stretches of the way
and this has been pioneered by the eugenics field first by 'tainting' tetanus
vaccine with progesterone and thus sensibilizing the immune system to
react to releases of progesterone (a hormone absolutely needed for achieving and
maintaing pregnancy).
I can only imagine that this will be used to target all kinds of key cells in
the human body.
Hey I just took a shit. I parted with about what I would say looks like 200 grams of digested food and here's your fun science fact for the
day: shit also contains a _lot_ of dead intestinal cells - no kidding.
I bring this up because again we're knee deep into the Man-made Global Warming / Carbon Tax LIE-complex. Just think about it. Earth has
been around far far far longer than we've been poking a thermometer into its rear. From what we do know, the 1700s saw temperature
significantly higher as far up as the WINEYARDS(!) of England(!) (yep, England was known for its fine wine back then). The average temperature
was far higher than it is today and by that I mean the warm spell we had the years before. Now it's so cold they're changing their tune
either to "Global Cooling" (man-made too of course) or they're now resorting to the more generic term "Climate Change". I'm sick of this crap
and so should you be.
There's a whole world of deceit and outright lies out there spread mostly by the so-called "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" ("IPCC").
Isn't it interesting that scientists sue -- and have to sue -- to get their names taken off the "IPCC" reports and studies because same scientists
either actually entirely disagree with the "findings" in those reports or just had their name listed without prior permission or any affiliation or
relation with the "IPCC".
So back to the turd I flushed. 200g of organic matter, I'm guessing 74% H, 5% oxygen, nitrogen, 1% calcium, sulphur, phosphorus and various .. when it's ALL A SHITTY LIE?!?!
other minerals and of course 20% carbon. Why should I pay say an extra dollar for flushing my toiled to "offset" the fictitious "cost" of me being
alive with a metabolism
Take a look at this:
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/swindle.htm
A Review Of 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' By S. Fred Singer, (Atmospheric Physicist) March 19, 2007
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has met its match: a devastating documentary recently shown on British television, which has now been viewed by millions of people on the Internet. Despite its flamboyant title, The Great Global Warming Swindle is based on sound science and interviews with real climate scientists, including me. An Inconvenient Truth, on the other hand, is mostly an emotional presentation from a single politician.
The scientific arguments presented in The Great Global Warming Swindle can be stated quite briefly:
1. There is no proof that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from human activity. Ice core records from the past 650,000 years show that temperature increases have preceded--not resulted from--increases in CO2 by hundreds of years, suggesting that the warming of the oceans is an important source of the rise in atmospheric CO2. As the dominant greenhouse gas, water vapour is far, far more important than CO2. Dire predictions of future warming are based almost entirely on computer climate models, yet these models do not accurately understand the role or water vapor--and, in any case, water vapor is not within our control. Plus, computer models cannot account for the observed cooling of much of the past century (1940-75), nor for the observed patterns of warming--what we call the "fingerprints." For example, the Antarctic is cooling while models predict warming. And where the models call for the middle atmosphere to warm faster than the surface, the observations show the exact opposite. ...
You got to differentiate between jews and zionists. _Orthodox_ jews are immersed in a curriculum of hatred for
anyone non-jew from cradle to grave. But however much they hate and despise us, by themselves they amount to nothing more than
a nuisance. Then there is the far more palatable class of _secular_ jews, i.e. the israeli middle class. These are every
day people mostly caught up in propaganda just like the rest of us, and they too are waking up and getting wise to
their own set of criminals in their government. If there's any hope it lies with this class of people. And in the end
you have that third and final class of people and these are the Zionists. They leverage the orthodox, they leverage
the Arabs and everyone else in between (Hamas btw was created by the Mossad). If you're going to pick up a stone
and throw it into somebody's face who deserves it, don't pick the retard who was maliciously brought up that way and
doesn't know better, or the middle class guy (just like you) who is most likely even strongly on your side. Go for the
zionist scum that is responsible for the mess in the first place.
Well you know the thing was, that lady had been in that appartment for 18 years. There is NO WAY on earth you can get rid
of 18 years of shit, piss and decomposing food saturating walls and ceilings with their stench. I was looking for a real cheap
appartment at that time because I was strapped for cash, but tell you what my friend flatly refused to rent it to anyone after
we got the place cleaned up... (cleaned up means we got rid of everything in the appartment including what we could SCRAPE
OFF) and mainly because he was concerned for the health of whatever future tenants and that he might get sued over it if they
got sick. And tell you what, I went into the place a month later again and that residual smell almost immediately made me
throw up in the sink.
To be fair, I'm sure most jews don't live, eat and sleep in their own feces or urine. However the two individuals
were jewish. The elderly lady that was renting from my friend was also a nuisance in other respects and the
younger lady I went to look at her appartment had an Israeli flag and a Menora on top of her TV. Interestingly
enough the flag was the only thing that looked half-ways clean.
It happens more often than people think. I know of a woman that died that way, she lived in a literal maze of old newspaper, clothing, spoiled food, absolutely spoiled food and what I thought were weird fungus growths. Under the food there was a layer of _SHIT_ because at some point she couldn't get to the toilet anymore... and isn't it interesting how piles of newspaper smell when you piss on it for months and years. My friend was her landlord.
The other time I saw stuff like this was when I was looking for an appartment. She was in her early 30s, she looked and smelled like the shower she never used and the place was full of trash I had to make sure I wasn't stepping into anything. Both were jewish btw.
I'm disgusted. Thousands of innocent civilians are getting maimed and murdered as I'm typing this and you have the audacity to ask
people to join a zionazi bot-net. I'm no Palestinian or Arab myself, but get this: FUCK ISRAEL.
You're not the only guy who noticed this. Now get on your knees.
You wouldn't happen to have instructions handy on how to do that? I'd love to have a wad of registry keys I can just let
regedit eat and be done with it. Other than that I don't think I'm ever going to have the energy and the time to burn to
look into this.
It's not that a high priority thing for me because I'm using OSX but still it would be neat for those few times I have to
sit in front of a windows machine.
Thanks
Seriously. I rarely use windows at all but the few times I do one thing really pisses me off completely
You're typing text and all of the sudden some crap application (windows or 3rd party) decides it wants
to popup either a splash screen or some alert dialog box.. and immediately the focus is taken away from
the text window and given to the dialog box...
Tell you what Windows assholes: Nothing you can popup is more important than what I'm typing. I don't
give a fuck whether Outlook wants to compact my inbox. Don't pop up when I'm typing. It's like slapping
the keyboard out of my hand.
Here's how notification and popups need to be solved. Have a short queue of icons representing popups
on the right upper corner of the screen. There can be a configurable message beep for each item (or one
beep for multiple items should a lot of them popup at once). The icons can't blink or otherwise try to
distract. If I click them the dialog box folds down Mac OSX style. I can configure it to expire dialog boxes
if I chose to ignore them. In that case the application gets told the dialog has been cancelled. Optionally
I can tell the application that I'm ignoring its popup and it is also then blacklisted for that dialog or for
any dialog for that matter.
The only time I can actually envision an exception to the icons not blinking or being distracting is if
the OS or an app is reporting a catastrophic event (about to lose power, disk errors etc.).
So I've been bitching about Windows but this is something I'd like anybody designing a desktop to
think about.
First of all not everybody can write a device driver. Sure. I can't paint and I suck at ballet. As far as APIs not being available on OSX the same goes for
Windows, see if you can wheedle the NTFS specs out of Microsoft. Apple's decision not to open up the Airport APIs is a bad choice and to be sure that's
the same bad decision that' built the "Windows ecosystem". However you do have full access to OSX IOKit and that lets you build drivers for whatever
hardware is out there.
Oh so Vista includes telnet as an "option". Well it's not installed by default so what use is that to me when all I want to do is telnet to a certain server's port
and see if it's up. I don't really have the time to figure out how to install it from their dvd so I would probably just install cygwin if that still happens
to work half-ways under 'Vista'.
Vista adoption btw is virtually non-existent in all the places I've been so far. The couple of Vista notebooks they have here are all in QA.... and tell you :-)
what I'll even go further. I just looked at our production database how many people are actually using Vista with our client. I wish I could talk about that
Macintosh" is a computer built/branded/sold by Apple, and no-one else, this statement is nonsensical. It could say "Psystar is accusing Apple of bricking generic PCs that are attempting to illegally run OS X", but, like it or not, I would have thought they are entitled to do so."
We don't know yet if anybody who purchased an OSX license (and not necessarily directly from Apple) is using it illegally.
It still remains to be seen if anyone can place such an unreasonable limitation on how their product is used. As of today
there is no court decision on on whether Apple can require that OSX only be used on hardware they also happen to sell.
The court will have to weigh between the interests of Apple to sell specific hardware at significantly higher cost and the
interests of the public as consumers, hardware manufacturers and vendors. This of course doesn't bode well for Apple at all,
so it will be interesting how exactly they will engage Psystar.
I can't find the coax cable to plug my 15 year old network card into. What makes you think people want their
vintage hardware supported on their main OS they use for work and play everday? Why can't OSX deal with all the
commodity hardware that is out there. Anybody can write a driver for OSX and did you know, the Xcode Development
Environment is FREE as opposed to M$DN.
If whatever doesn't work with OSX that's a combination of whoever not seeing the need to sell to OSX users and
the whatever being without merit that it doesn't attract opensource driver developers.
"The reason Microsoft got into trouble with Vista was largely in part due to pressure from system builders pressuring them to include hardware that wasn't actually capable of running Vista smoothly, or had inadequate driver support."
Actually speaking of inadequate to the point that it's a joke, I have rarely to do with other people's desktops but today helping a
coworker I wanted to see if they could connect to a certain port from their machine... and I found out
Vista doesn't include telnet. What a piece of crap!! Telnet is the easiest way imaginable to see if a certain port is open,
I use it all the time for that.
As far as your argument goes, nobody forced Microsoft to _cripple_ an already questionable system. Vista driver problems are only
a small part of why Vista failed so miserably.
The only thing that I find hilarious about this is that the people behind groups like the "Internet Watch Foundation"
are from the same social strata that regularly gives us child molestors of the likes such as Marc Dutroux in Belgium
along with his cronies in the Belgian Government.
But of course the child pornography / pornography / minority rights etc. etc. debate is just the right orbital slot
for the popular indignation needed to fuel the underlying agenda which is to monitor and restrict free thought
and free speech, I think many of us not so profane anymores have already realized this.
"I don't understand why people don't want others have the freedom to install proprietary software on Linux system. "
That's a simple one. We want those people to pressure the manufacturer into opensourcing their product.
Morals are society's position on what's right and wrong, ethics, that's your, the individual's internal
compass to what's right and wrong. Ethics and morals obviously conflict.
So since computers don't have any capacity for compassion and fairness, both which are dimensions
in any coordinate system within which to plot out right and wrong, how can they develop ethics?
Oh it was just stuff like having to figure out how to install a rc script the debian way, things like that.
I just didn't see the benefit of figuring it all out when I could be learning the same things on an OS I'm certain
I'm going to have to support at work in the near future. It's not like Debian/Ubuntu are making the huge
inroads that I can see. One place I know of, they did use Ubuntu for a short while because they somehow read
from the Zabbix manual that Ubuntu was somehow especially supported by Zabbix. Soon after they reinstalled
CentOS on that server, which is their standard OS. It wasn't the issue that Zabbix performed any better or worse
on either distro, it was just that i'ts a hell of a lot easier to get support and talent for Rhel/CentOS.
Echostar is Dish Network but maybe the journalist didn't want people to associate the brand "Dish Network"
with what people could potentially perceive as evil. Most are not as sophisticated as you - and I'm not being
sarcastic towards you here -, they might just read the article, lean back and turn on their TV (powered by
Dish of course) and never make the connection nor would it occur to them to follow up and find out about
Echostar.