How so? What I said is exactly that. On an unformatted disk you get three options, 1- use the whole disk, 2- custom partiton, and.. wait. there's only two.
I can't figure out what I mean by me over simplifying it because that's what it is, simple.
You word it so that the Windows partitioning step looks like it involves more steps than the Ubuntu stage, when both systems have a partition stage. You even have the user create a new partition for some reason when their disk is most likely already partitioned, and all they have to do is press Enter.
I did that because Ubuntu comes with Office software already on the disk.
You do realise that people use office software don't you?
Again (since you're being purposely obtuse), you cite Ubuntu's inclusion of OpenOffice as an advantage while pretending that versions of Office don't already come preinstalled on PCs or even on the OEM Windows recovery install disc included with the PC. Dell even has a CD with an app that lists all the bundled applications available, and you can just click their names. OpenOffice is also a free download for Windows.
This is nonsense, how can you do a fair comparrison of installing the operating system on a custom pc and come up with "the vendor disk".
Why wouldn't I? What is unfair about pointing out that Windows almost always comes with Office as well? And if it doesn't, OpenOffice is a free download for Windows too. I really don't see the point is of even bringing it up as an advantage.
It's totally irrelevant anyway because it's still not a click install even with the vendor disk. Which was my whole point in the first place.
There's no such thing as a "click install," especially with Linux.
Yes because it would be irresponsible not to download updates for Windows. It's so important that your box can get owned in less then 4 minutes.
Posts like yours are always fun because they're always wildly biased. First, you overstate the Windows partition step while over-simplifying the Ubuntu partition step. Second, I love how you include Microsoft Office in the Windows steps just to pad the list, as if most Windows PCs and their factory reinstall discs don't already include some form of Office. You also pad the list with things like "Windows installs more files," as if Ubuntu doesn't also, you know, install files. You even throw in Windows Update, as if Ubuntu doesn't pop up a red triangle on the Gnome menu telling you there are updates to download.
All in all, a biased post that will probably hit +5 instantly.
Remember the time when software updates added functionality and/or fixed bugs?
There wasn't some mythical time when updates only added functionality and fixed bugs. Besides, this update does include minor changes, such as renaming Wii Points to Nintendo Points since the DSi will be using the same currency. They had to make that change anyway, and they blocked homebrew piracy in the process. It's not a big deal.
My impression is that it's a freaking videogame and doesn't attempt to teach anything other than how to use sandbox editors to make spaceships and stuff. I'm surprised at all this discussion over what is merely a collection of clay editors.
If you have a financial institution running on an existing reliable mainframe, why would you disturb that? In the real world, updates don't happen all that often if something already works.
I don't really care much about theoretical programming paradigms. "Code" refers to the instruction statements written in a programming language for a compiler to interpret, not the comments written off to the side that the compiler ignores.
Source code is meant to be read by a compiler. Comments are not code; they're documentation ignored by the compiler. By your standards, anything that makes source code human-readable should be counted as source code, including white space or even external documentation files!
What happened is some bored tech author didn't have anything to write about, so they decided to do a Git checkout and count the lines of the Linux kernel, which would likely be over 10 million lines at this point if you include blank lines, comments, and text files. It's a completely meaningless story, especially because of the fact that actual code is almost 6.5 million lines, but it got them a Slashdot post and some ad views on their site.
While we're improving our technology, let's rid ourselves of the people exploiting public fears for financial gain. For example, Al Gore, who just so happened to start a carbon credit company before he released his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which encourages people to buy carbon credits. When people pointed out that Al Gore uses more electricity in his house than most Americans, he responded by saying he was offsetting it with carbon credits. The problem is that they're carbon credits from his own company, so he's merely paying himself.
Well, I wouldn't know what Christians are saying. As far as I can tell, they're not saying anything about adult stem cells. They were opposed to embryonic stem cells because of how they were harvested, and it wasn't just Christians who were opposed.
By the way, mocking Christianity on Slashdot for easy upmods is too easy.
If you're between 25 and 35, you've been around long enough to have played a countless amount of first person shooters, fighting games, racing games, MMOs, sidescrollers, and more. Honestly, there are very few new ideas, so it's harder to get into things. We're still playing the same core gameplay of those genres. They're well-established now.
Kids are into it all because, to them, it's new. Twilight Princess will seem pretty amazing and innovative if you never played Ocarina of Time ten years earlier. Halo multiplayer must seem revolutionary if you weren't around doing the same thing in a trash-talking Quake clan in 1996. StarCraft II will be totally awesome if you hadn't already played StarCraft 1, WarCraft 1 and 2, C&C, and so on.
Incidentally, I miss the old PC Gamer CDs where you could get about 20-30 shareware games, almost all of them coming from different genres. It was a cool time to be a gamer. I feel burned out every time I play yet another first person shooter. I've done all this before!
It gets worse. ACORN has been registering dead people, homeless people, Mickey Mouse, you name it. What was even more sickening is that Democrats on Huffington Post claimed Republicans were trying to "steal the election" by shutting down the "legitimate operations" of ACORN.
I can't trust either one of these fucking political parties.
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll still get a bunch of uninformed posts from people who didn't read the article, talking about how they're not surprised Firefox 3.1 outperforms IE8 when IE8 wasn't benchmarked.
Actually, I suspect the reason his videos aren't reported as much is that whenever Bin Laden shows his face, it energizes Americans and makes them more likely to vote Republican. The media is ridiculously pro-Obama this year and does not want a repeat of 2004 when Bin Laden released a video and threatened Americans a week before the election. We're in a media environment in which the New York Times will run an editorial by Obama but refuse to run one by McCain. Comedians mock Sarah Palin's apparent stupidity while ignoring that Joe Biden said Americans were huddled around television sets to see President Roosevelt. Palin is criticized for her religious views, yet Obama is a Christian who went to the church of reverend Wright for 20 years, and Joe Biden is a Catholic (amazingly, McCain is the least religious candidate).
So I wouldn't worry about any Bin Laden videos popping up to energize conservative voters this time.
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You word it so that the Windows partitioning step looks like it involves more steps than the Ubuntu stage, when both systems have a partition stage. You even have the user create a new partition for some reason when their disk is most likely already partitioned, and all they have to do is press Enter.
Again (since you're being purposely obtuse), you cite Ubuntu's inclusion of OpenOffice as an advantage while pretending that versions of Office don't already come preinstalled on PCs or even on the OEM Windows recovery install disc included with the PC. Dell even has a CD with an app that lists all the bundled applications available, and you can just click their names. OpenOffice is also a free download for Windows.
Why wouldn't I? What is unfair about pointing out that Windows almost always comes with Office as well? And if it doesn't, OpenOffice is a free download for Windows too. I really don't see the point is of even bringing it up as an advantage.
There's no such thing as a "click install," especially with Linux.
Ubuntu never has security problems. Ever.
Posts like yours are always fun because they're always wildly biased. First, you overstate the Windows partition step while over-simplifying the Ubuntu partition step. Second, I love how you include Microsoft Office in the Windows steps just to pad the list, as if most Windows PCs and their factory reinstall discs don't already include some form of Office. You also pad the list with things like "Windows installs more files," as if Ubuntu doesn't also, you know, install files. You even throw in Windows Update, as if Ubuntu doesn't pop up a red triangle on the Gnome menu telling you there are updates to download.
All in all, a biased post that will probably hit +5 instantly.
There wasn't some mythical time when updates only added functionality and fixed bugs. Besides, this update does include minor changes, such as renaming Wii Points to Nintendo Points since the DSi will be using the same currency. They had to make that change anyway, and they blocked homebrew piracy in the process. It's not a big deal.
Well, the other side does.
My impression is that it's a freaking videogame and doesn't attempt to teach anything other than how to use sandbox editors to make spaceships and stuff. I'm surprised at all this discussion over what is merely a collection of clay editors.
If you have a financial institution running on an existing reliable mainframe, why would you disturb that? In the real world, updates don't happen all that often if something already works.
If the source code is written in assembly, then sure.
I don't really care much about theoretical programming paradigms. "Code" refers to the instruction statements written in a programming language for a compiler to interpret, not the comments written off to the side that the compiler ignores.
Source code is meant to be read by a compiler. Comments are not code; they're documentation ignored by the compiler. By your standards, anything that makes source code human-readable should be counted as source code, including white space or even external documentation files!
What happened is some bored tech author didn't have anything to write about, so they decided to do a Git checkout and count the lines of the Linux kernel, which would likely be over 10 million lines at this point if you include blank lines, comments, and text files. It's a completely meaningless story, especially because of the fact that actual code is almost 6.5 million lines, but it got them a Slashdot post and some ad views on their site.
Basically, this story is "Linux kernel surpasses 10 million lines of code! Just kidding."
Of course.
While we're improving our technology, let's rid ourselves of the people exploiting public fears for financial gain. For example, Al Gore, who just so happened to start a carbon credit company before he released his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which encourages people to buy carbon credits. When people pointed out that Al Gore uses more electricity in his house than most Americans, he responded by saying he was offsetting it with carbon credits. The problem is that they're carbon credits from his own company, so he's merely paying himself.
Well, I wouldn't know what Christians are saying. As far as I can tell, they're not saying anything about adult stem cells. They were opposed to embryonic stem cells because of how they were harvested, and it wasn't just Christians who were opposed.
By the way, mocking Christianity on Slashdot for easy upmods is too easy.
Conservatives oppose embryonic stem cell research, not adult stem cell research.
If you're between 25 and 35, you've been around long enough to have played a countless amount of first person shooters, fighting games, racing games, MMOs, sidescrollers, and more. Honestly, there are very few new ideas, so it's harder to get into things. We're still playing the same core gameplay of those genres. They're well-established now.
Kids are into it all because, to them, it's new. Twilight Princess will seem pretty amazing and innovative if you never played Ocarina of Time ten years earlier. Halo multiplayer must seem revolutionary if you weren't around doing the same thing in a trash-talking Quake clan in 1996. StarCraft II will be totally awesome if you hadn't already played StarCraft 1, WarCraft 1 and 2, C&C, and so on.
Incidentally, I miss the old PC Gamer CDs where you could get about 20-30 shareware games, almost all of them coming from different genres. It was a cool time to be a gamer. I feel burned out every time I play yet another first person shooter. I've done all this before!
It gets worse. ACORN has been registering dead people, homeless people, Mickey Mouse, you name it. What was even more sickening is that Democrats on Huffington Post claimed Republicans were trying to "steal the election" by shutting down the "legitimate operations" of ACORN.
I can't trust either one of these fucking political parties.
Yeah, there are so many WPF apps...and Vista was a huge success, too. You heard it here first.
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll still get a bunch of uninformed posts from people who didn't read the article, talking about how they're not surprised Firefox 3.1 outperforms IE8 when IE8 wasn't benchmarked.
The article doesn't compare Firefox to IE8. It uses IE7.
This year will be the Year of Silverlight on the Desktop! Just you wait!
I was more excited to hear Garfield The Movie was getting a sequel.
Shouldn't this have been in Ask Slashdot instead of News?
Actually, I suspect the reason his videos aren't reported as much is that whenever Bin Laden shows his face, it energizes Americans and makes them more likely to vote Republican. The media is ridiculously pro-Obama this year and does not want a repeat of 2004 when Bin Laden released a video and threatened Americans a week before the election. We're in a media environment in which the New York Times will run an editorial by Obama but refuse to run one by McCain. Comedians mock Sarah Palin's apparent stupidity while ignoring that Joe Biden said Americans were huddled around television sets to see President Roosevelt. Palin is criticized for her religious views, yet Obama is a Christian who went to the church of reverend Wright for 20 years, and Joe Biden is a Catholic (amazingly, McCain is the least religious candidate).
So I wouldn't worry about any Bin Laden videos popping up to energize conservative voters this time.
Even though you're going to get modded down, I have to admit your post, of all the anonymous trolls flooding this article, made me laugh.