Considering that the $20 computer already has a windows license, why? But sure, they can try. Except that, to make the application, they already need access to such a system, so no.
Let them just borrow a computer for a bit - are they really that incapable? If so, their application should never be made in the first place - self-selection process.
We just opened up a new hospital with 500 beds - all single room, with larger rooms and picture windows in each room, soundproofed, state of the art equipment, The idea is that by treating people more effectively in comfortable rooms that are large enough to accommodate family and friends, patient treatment will be more effective. And yes, we have single-payer universal healthcare.
This is SO full of sh*t. Yes, during an outbreak of c. difficile or flu, the hospital is running over capacity. So you end up on a gurney in the hallway in ER. But you still get the treatment you need, and when a room opens up, it's not left empty.
Your grandmother could have asked to be transferred to another hospital. Problem solved.
If more people didn't go directly to an ER for minor things, but went to one of the clinics, that would go a long way to solving the problem of waiting times.
Oh, btw, if you don't have either $300,000 or some form of insurance to cover your cost in the US, you will not get the equivalent treatment that you would havel with the money or coverage available. Minimal treatment, and out you go.
Health is the responsibility of the person, not the community. Since the community has no say in how a person lives their life, whether that person smokes, gets drunk, uses drugs or is obese, why should the community be responsible to pay the medical bills for that person? Obviously the person doesn't care about their health or they wouldn't have chosen the lifestyle they lead.
A civilized society wouldn't force its citizens to hand over their money to protect those who choose to kill themselves through their own bad choices, especially when that society has endlessly informed its citizens about the dangers of such lifestyles choices.
Really - society bears no responsibility? Tell that to the people of Flint who have been poisoned by lead. Or the person walking down the street who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and gets shot/hit and run/raped?
17 were Seagates made in the now-infamous Maxtor factory once they rebranded it. It's not like they were heavily loaded. One drive for/boot and/root, one drive for/home, one drive for/var, and I forget what I hung on the last drive. No swap space because it never got close to needing it. 4 (in a pair of laptops) were Western Digital. Hard drives fail.
So comply with the EULA. It's not like you're required to continue compliance once you've stopped the VM. And let it phone home - who cares? It's not like it will be able to do an inventory of all the other software on the host machine or anything.
"Jaguar v12 - usually replaced with a north american v8."- BarbaraHudson is a Cretinous Whore. She probably is a dicksucker for the guy who owns "Johns Cars" in Texas, which is entirely logical.
When the boys in the back did a v12-to-v8 swap, NOBODY wanted to buy the V12 engine, even though it was in working order - just not enough oomph. A small-block Chevy and some home-made engine mounts fixed that.
First, it's not GNU/Linux. GNU is not the kernel, and the GNU utilities are easily replaced to make a completely GNU-free system. Referring to it by non-core software is only for zealots - in that case it should be called by a number of different names, depending on what software is used on any system. Firefox/Linux? Chrome/Linux? Wine/Linux? Why not give credit to the hardware? Acer/Linux, Lenovo/Linux? Or all those dual-boot systems - Windows/Linux?
Linux can easily be replaced by FreeBSD in Android, it's just that Google wanted to make their system appear open for marketing purposes. And everyone I know who bought a linux tablet gave them away because they were cheap pieces of crap. Something that sits unused is not "widespread."
But back to the story - almost nobody in the grant-applying public hasn't got access to a Windows computer, or, failing that, can't pick one up off the streets on garbage day or at a garage sale dirt cheap. So, in that particular area, Linux is not just insignificant - it doesn't exist. (If it did the OP wouldn't be such a whiner).
The PCs sitting on the side of the road on garbage day beat the minimum specs for Windows 7. So do the $20 computers at Goodwill.
The minimum requirements for Windows 7 are modest by today's standards: 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor. 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) -- just for the OS, not applications or data files.
If you want to be in the game, you have to go by the rules of the people handing out the money. They're not going to remake every process to cater to the 0.0001%or less who want to be assholes and cost taxpayers a lot more, both to create, and to administer, just to please them.
Yes, Marty. But you see, when they posted the story about the DeLorean, it created a warp in the time-space continuum. Since Mr. Fusion hasn't been invented yet, we can't go back in the past, and until we do, these things are going to continue to happen, putting more and more strain on the time-space continuum until it all ENDS WITH A BANG!
Even working on-site is no guarantee that code won't leak out. Thinking otherwise is foolish. You balance the risks vs the rewards, and make your decision accordingly. Anyone who doesn't understand that there's risk in everything should be sent back to the nursery.
Probably a bad hard disk. Not every OS puts critical files in the same place.
By heavy use, I was referring to databases, log files that are constantly updated, a web server (even for local development), and logging file systems.
I've had 17 hard drives die in one desktop (to be fair, some were DOA), and 4 hard drives in 2 laptops. Hard drives, pushed hard, fail.
No, he didn't pay ANY money for Microsoft to "fix Adobe Reader." It already ran just fine under Windows. That he didn't use Windows was his choice, not Microsoft's. Microsoft has zero liability for either wine or linux.
His complaint is the same as with any other software - buy a game that works under windows, if it doesn't work on wine you have zero grounds for complaining. Ditto hardware - unless (and even when) it says that it works under linux, it probably won't.
Why should the taxpayers pay extra to support an insignificant platform because you're too lazy to be arsed to borrow someone else's computer or go down to the library? Those are both free solutions.
Want to boycott every company that has ever run afoul of the law? Good luck with that. Safety inspections, health inspections, labeling requirements, accidental and intentional misreporting, out-of-spec, etc... you wouldn't even be able to eat a cheeseburger.
Plenty of laptops take 2 hard drives. Installing an alternate OS on the second and making it the default slows down Windows bitrot to the point where it should last the life of the laptop and then some.
The linux drives, on the other hand, will probably fail every 3 years (or less - much less in my experience) because of the load a fully-pimped-out linux install puts on the drive.
If you paid for the OS, might as well keep it for those times when you might need it.
Sure there are - in the transmission of the information back to the server, as well as to help prevent someone else from creating a malicious document that crashes everything or contains a malware payload.
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Considering that the $20 computer already has a windows license, why? But sure, they can try. Except that, to make the application, they already need access to such a system, so no.
Let them just borrow a computer for a bit - are they really that incapable? If so, their application should never be made in the first place - self-selection process.
No, it's not. Stallman was doing the whole GNU/linux thing well before android ever existed.
We just opened up a new hospital with 500 beds - all single room, with larger rooms and picture windows in each room, soundproofed, state of the art equipment, The idea is that by treating people more effectively in comfortable rooms that are large enough to accommodate family and friends, patient treatment will be more effective. And yes, we have single-payer universal healthcare.
This is SO full of sh*t. Yes, during an outbreak of c. difficile or flu, the hospital is running over capacity. So you end up on a gurney in the hallway in ER. But you still get the treatment you need, and when a room opens up, it's not left empty.
Your grandmother could have asked to be transferred to another hospital. Problem solved.
If more people didn't go directly to an ER for minor things, but went to one of the clinics, that would go a long way to solving the problem of waiting times.
Oh, btw, if you don't have either $300,000 or some form of insurance to cover your cost in the US, you will not get the equivalent treatment that you would havel with the money or coverage available. Minimal treatment, and out you go.
Health is the responsibility of the person, not the community. Since the community has no say in how a person lives their life, whether that person smokes, gets drunk, uses drugs or is obese, why should the community be responsible to pay the medical bills for that person? Obviously the person doesn't care about their health or they wouldn't have chosen the lifestyle they lead.
A civilized society wouldn't force its citizens to hand over their money to protect those who choose to kill themselves through their own bad choices, especially when that society has endlessly informed its citizens about the dangers of such lifestyles choices.
Really - society bears no responsibility? Tell that to the people of Flint who have been poisoned by lead. Or the person walking down the street who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and gets shot/hit and run/raped?
These are not lifestyle choices.
17 were Seagates made in the now-infamous Maxtor factory once they rebranded it. It's not like they were heavily loaded. One drive for /boot and /root, one drive for /home, one drive for /var, and I forget what I hung on the last drive. No swap space because it never got close to needing it. 4 (in a pair of laptops) were Western Digital. Hard drives fail.
So comply with the EULA. It's not like you're required to continue compliance once you've stopped the VM. And let it phone home - who cares? It's not like it will be able to do an inventory of all the other software on the host machine or anything.
"Jaguar v12 - usually replaced with a north american v8."- BarbaraHudson is a Cretinous Whore. She probably is a dicksucker for the guy who owns "Johns Cars" in Texas, which is entirely logical.
A cretin? Hardly. As for the rest ...
When the boys in the back did a v12-to-v8 swap, NOBODY wanted to buy the V12 engine, even though it was in working order - just not enough oomph. A small-block Chevy and some home-made engine mounts fixed that.
First, it's not GNU/Linux. GNU is not the kernel, and the GNU utilities are easily replaced to make a completely GNU-free system. Referring to it by non-core software is only for zealots - in that case it should be called by a number of different names, depending on what software is used on any system. Firefox/Linux? Chrome/Linux? Wine/Linux? Why not give credit to the hardware? Acer/Linux, Lenovo/Linux? Or all those dual-boot systems - Windows/Linux?
Linux can easily be replaced by FreeBSD in Android, it's just that Google wanted to make their system appear open for marketing purposes. And everyone I know who bought a linux tablet gave them away because they were cheap pieces of crap. Something that sits unused is not "widespread."
But back to the story - almost nobody in the grant-applying public hasn't got access to a Windows computer, or, failing that, can't pick one up off the streets on garbage day or at a garage sale dirt cheap. So, in that particular area, Linux is not just insignificant - it doesn't exist. (If it did the OP wouldn't be such a whiner).
The PCs sitting on the side of the road on garbage day beat the minimum specs for Windows 7. So do the $20 computers at Goodwill.
The minimum requirements for Windows 7 are modest by today's standards: 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor. 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) -- just for the OS, not applications or data files.
If you want to be in the game, you have to go by the rules of the people handing out the money. They're not going to remake every process to cater to the 0.0001%or less who want to be assholes and cost taxpayers a lot more, both to create, and to administer, just to please them.
Wasn't this here like yesterday?
Yes, Marty. But you see, when they posted the story about the DeLorean, it created a warp in the time-space continuum. Since Mr. Fusion hasn't been invented yet, we can't go back in the past, and until we do, these things are going to continue to happen, putting more and more strain on the time-space continuum until it all ENDS WITH A BANG!
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I have an hp 9800 wide format printer, but it's sitting on a shelf. Color and b/w laser is so much better, whether for pictures or docs.
Or slashdot could allow someone to add to, but not delete from, the comment, with a clear indication that it's been edited.
Example: I fart when I'm horny.
EDIT: Teach me not to leave my phone unlocked around family.
Hopefully my daughter WILL lock her phone when her sister is around :-)
So run it in a vm.
I have heard they were built so poorly that they are infamous as the only collectable car that you do not want to have original internals.
Jaguar v12 - usually replaced with a north american v8.
Even working on-site is no guarantee that code won't leak out. Thinking otherwise is foolish. You balance the risks vs the rewards, and make your decision accordingly. Anyone who doesn't understand that there's risk in everything should be sent back to the nursery.
Probably a bad hard disk. Not every OS puts critical files in the same place.
By heavy use, I was referring to databases, log files that are constantly updated, a web server (even for local development), and logging file systems.
I've had 17 hard drives die in one desktop (to be fair, some were DOA), and 4 hard drives in 2 laptops. Hard drives, pushed hard, fail.
No, he didn't pay ANY money for Microsoft to "fix Adobe Reader." It already ran just fine under Windows. That he didn't use Windows was his choice, not Microsoft's. Microsoft has zero liability for either wine or linux.
His complaint is the same as with any other software - buy a game that works under windows, if it doesn't work on wine you have zero grounds for complaining. Ditto hardware - unless (and even when) it says that it works under linux, it probably won't.
You didn't HAVE to use yor work laptop. You even admitted it - " because I refused to install Adobe software on it." PEBCAK ID-10-T error.
Why should the taxpayers pay extra to support an insignificant platform because you're too lazy to be arsed to borrow someone else's computer or go down to the library? Those are both free solutions.
Government ignored insignificant platforms. Linux, Amiga, Plan9, Commodore64, Trash-80 ...
Want to boycott every company that has ever run afoul of the law? Good luck with that. Safety inspections, health inspections, labeling requirements, accidental and intentional misreporting, out-of-spec, etc ... you wouldn't even be able to eat a cheeseburger.
Plenty of laptops take 2 hard drives. Installing an alternate OS on the second and making it the default slows down Windows bitrot to the point where it should last the life of the laptop and then some.
The linux drives, on the other hand, will probably fail every 3 years (or less - much less in my experience) because of the load a fully-pimped-out linux install puts on the drive.
If you paid for the OS, might as well keep it for those times when you might need it.
What, computer operating systems can't be upgraded? This isn't the early 80s, when the OS was burned into ROM.
Sure there are - in the transmission of the information back to the server, as well as to help prevent someone else from creating a malicious document that crashes everything or contains a malware payload.