the problem I'm finding is that there's no "obvious to Grandma" way of creating a bootable USB stick. You have to dance around a burning bush with some random bit of software downloaded from the interweb and hope it doesn't download kiddie porn or fake rayban orders to your comp.
Why can't there just be an "Is Bootable" switch on USB Flash??
Linux will run just about anything you throw at it. With the possible exception of a-line games, but a-line games are what consoles were invented for.
People buy PCs with Windows BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY SEE ON THE SHELVES.
I do have some (albeit outdated) experience with this.
It's called "Obvious Choice". Stick your network effect up your arse, that's a load of bollocks. People will buy what they're familiar with, even if they hate it, if there is no OBVIOUS alternative. People want a TOASTER for a computer, not something they have to TWEAK. Customising is for those with a book of stickers.
In 2005 I did something very simple: I packaged Knoppix. Put it out in a shop window for £15 - the SAME PRICE as a Windows volume license key. People were asking me where the license key was. Nope, no license key. Just pop it in and boot it up. Now, putting the initial astonishment of not being "required" to register the software over the phone, on top of the slew of helpful links and content (including a one-click installer) I'd put on the DVD to help the new user get started, aside, people really took to a cartoon baby penguin drawn in Blender by a Frenchman and that DVD FLEW out. I actually made more in sales of that ONE DVD in a month than I did installing Windows images. Why? Because people saw an alternative and with the exponential climb in sales, word of mouth was clearly getting around that there was/is an alternative to Microsoft and there's this shop you can go get a DVD and not have to wait a week while your computer tried to download it. The best part being, even those people who had viable Windows images still running could try the platform out without having to install... but I'm preaching to the choir here, aren't I?
So anyone saying that Linux never made anyone any money: you're full of shit. Anyone claiming that Linux isn't ready for the desktop: I, personally, have 3,000+ converts as proof that you're full of shit. One of whom is now 86 years old. And she sent her great grandson in to ask me to install Linux for her after just one day running the DVD.
any civil lawsuit can be brought privately (and most still are); lately it's been made difficult with the introduction of obscene fee structure in England which basically prices most people right out of obtaining an equitable solution to a conflict. Criminal prosecutions don't/shouldn't cost anything to file.
I don't think they can legally force you to accept their disclaimer of liability for something they force on you. I'll have to check that, but I'm sure a coercive contract is ab initio null and void in its entirety.
in fact, I haven't updated any of my windows machines past 7SP1. First thing I do on a fresh install: turn automatic updates off. GWX PROBLEM SOLVED!
Funny story: I had a letter through from my internet carrier recently saying that one or more of the computers in my home have become infected with Conficker. Now this is weird, since last I checked Conficker was a Windows worm, and being as all my Windows boxen are airgapped and have no network access beyond temporary LAN connection for pulling from the local repository, the only systems I have which are connected to my broadband are Linux machines and well, I don't know if/how Conficker runs on Linux. Anyone? Or is Virgin Media just trying to sell me some overpriced, overstuffed and subutility Windows antivirus package that a: I don't really need and b: I can't use on my networked systems anyway?
diddums, they'll have to datamine elsewhere - after all, that's what they sell. YOUR data, to which by posting you have per their terms of use granted them a nonexclusive commercial licence to which no royalties or credit is due you. Ever.
What do you mean, you didn't read the terms and conditions??
that's simple, yet the people who run the models refuse to do it because it'll show the bias in their models: use older data. It's available, it might not be five-nines accurate or 100% there, but it's there to use.
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Have they even finished building the stadiums yet??
yet all I see in PC World, Curry's, Maplin and John Lewis are PCS RUNNING WINDOWS.
I think for most of the fucking high street it's still 1995.
I had a G4 Powerbook. Lift the keyboard, there's the HDD.
I also had a G3 Lombard. Lift the keyboard, there's the HDD.
I have an Asus Seashell EeePC (model 1008HA). Oh boy, the fun I'm gonna have with that when my new battery arrives.
Lift keyboard, undo 12 screws, lift out motherboard, lift out HDD, lift out battery.
the problem I'm finding is that there's no "obvious to Grandma" way of creating a bootable USB stick. You have to dance around a burning bush with some random bit of software downloaded from the interweb and hope it doesn't download kiddie porn or fake rayban orders to your comp.
Why can't there just be an "Is Bootable" switch on USB Flash??
No.
Linux will run just about anything you throw at it. With the possible exception of a-line games, but a-line games are what consoles were invented for.
People buy PCs with Windows BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY SEE ON THE SHELVES.
I do have some (albeit outdated) experience with this.
It's called "Obvious Choice". Stick your network effect up your arse, that's a load of bollocks. People will buy what they're familiar with, even if they hate it, if there is no OBVIOUS alternative. People want a TOASTER for a computer, not something they have to TWEAK. Customising is for those with a book of stickers.
In 2005 I did something very simple: I packaged Knoppix. Put it out in a shop window for £15 - the SAME PRICE as a Windows volume license key. People were asking me where the license key was. Nope, no license key. Just pop it in and boot it up. Now, putting the initial astonishment of not being "required" to register the software over the phone, on top of the slew of helpful links and content (including a one-click installer) I'd put on the DVD to help the new user get started, aside, people really took to a cartoon baby penguin drawn in Blender by a Frenchman and that DVD FLEW out. I actually made more in sales of that ONE DVD in a month than I did installing Windows images. Why? Because people saw an alternative and with the exponential climb in sales, word of mouth was clearly getting around that there was/is an alternative to Microsoft and there's this shop you can go get a DVD and not have to wait a week while your computer tried to download it. The best part being, even those people who had viable Windows images still running could try the platform out without having to install... but I'm preaching to the choir here, aren't I?
So anyone saying that Linux never made anyone any money: you're full of shit. Anyone claiming that Linux isn't ready for the desktop: I, personally, have 3,000+ converts as proof that you're full of shit. One of whom is now 86 years old. And she sent her great grandson in to ask me to install Linux for her after just one day running the DVD.
Because Zune is it. Who the fuck wants an eye pod?
(more to the point, what the fuck am I going to do with my drawer full of minidisc recorders now I can't get media for the fucking things!?)
I'll carry on watching content on demand on my LAPTOP.
That's all I got.
...because nobody ever heard of burn phones.
...such as this is in deep, deep trouble.
Whatever happened to the value of good honest labour?
The answer is "NO"!
Slow news day, is it?
KATE and a LAMP stack, what more could you possibly need??
any civil lawsuit can be brought privately (and most still are); lately it's been made difficult with the introduction of obscene fee structure in England which basically prices most people right out of obtaining an equitable solution to a conflict. Criminal prosecutions don't/shouldn't cost anything to file.
I don't think they can legally force you to accept their disclaimer of liability for something they force on you. I'll have to check that, but I'm sure a coercive contract is ab initio null and void in its entirety.
in fact, I haven't updated any of my windows machines past 7SP1. First thing I do on a fresh install: turn automatic updates off. GWX PROBLEM SOLVED!
Funny story: I had a letter through from my internet carrier recently saying that one or more of the computers in my home have become infected with Conficker. Now this is weird, since last I checked Conficker was a Windows worm, and being as all my Windows boxen are airgapped and have no network access beyond temporary LAN connection for pulling from the local repository, the only systems I have which are connected to my broadband are Linux machines and well, I don't know if/how Conficker runs on Linux. Anyone? Or is Virgin Media just trying to sell me some overpriced, overstuffed and subutility Windows antivirus package that a: I don't really need and b: I can't use on my networked systems anyway?
thanky :) considering the engines on the ME262A MK.I only generated 8.8kN apiece, that's mightily impressive.
so how do you charge the batteries?
Off the grid, maybe?
Which uses coal, oil, and gas?
so me not being arsed with firing up the calculator, what's that in Newtons?
diddums, they'll have to datamine elsewhere - after all, that's what they sell. YOUR data, to which by posting you have per their terms of use granted them a nonexclusive commercial licence to which no royalties or credit is due you. Ever.
What do you mean, you didn't read the terms and conditions??
Right, I'm calling Tim Cook.
if that were true, then why does the NOAA need some of the biggest iron in existence JUST TO RUN CLIMATE MODELS??
#2 at Oak Ridge! If you can do it on a fucking laptop WHY DO THEY NEED THAT??
YOU get YOUR head out of YOUR arse!
pay up, twat.
Sure. Send me US$170million in unmarked bills so I can buy the computer I'll need to run it.
that's simple, yet the people who run the models refuse to do it because it'll show the bias in their models: use older data. It's available, it might not be five-nines accurate or 100% there, but it's there to use.
well, Gore's documentary grossed half a billion (that's BILLION with a "B") Dollars in the US in its first eighteen weeks.
Propaganda makes a LOT of money.
Oh. Source
computer models that rely on dat athat stops prior to 1976 isn't evidence. That's a broken model.