And the point that I'm making is that if I want to make a website that is readable by the majority of people, I am forced to work around Microsoft bugs. Thus I hate Microsoft for forcing me to do that.
You can argue that it's my choice to support IE users, but it's no more a choice than it is for you to simply stop doing business if you don't want to pay for the certification.
In the UK, there was one region where a group of families all decided to not get their children immunised. There was an outbreak of measels in the region and 13 children died - 12 of them from this group of families that didn't get immunised.
It's a shame that the children had to pay for the parents stupidity.
You are being protected by herd immunity - the fact that everyone else got immunised.
Basically you are selfish and being a dick. You want everyone else to take the risk so that you are protected. I'm so annoyed by people like you, I can't even think of a decent insult.
I get your point, but according to Richard Stallman, the GPL exists only because copyright exists. In Stallman's eyes, the best situation would be one where there was no copyright. The GPL is basically just making the best of the situation.
That happened in Debian when they tried to pay some people in an effort to try to get Debian into a state good enough for release. It made other jealous and they slowed down.
Well personally I want to microsoft to restrict piracy as much as possible. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if people could not pirate the latest version.
In linux, wine is now able to play an awful lot of games now. In particular most of the games in steam.
Imagine if Wine got DirectX 10 support. It would be very delicious if a lot of people were unable to play the latest directx 10 games in Windows because they couldn't manage to pirate Vista, and so have to reboot into linux in order to play their games..
The "MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine" alone is $1000 when discounted. Octave and Maxima are free (Math programs). And that's not counting the dozens of end seat licenses required for each user.
I maintain a university physics 'sun grid engine' cluster with 20 connected machines that use maxima and octave. Nothing fancy, but not too shabby.
It's windows that is simply out of touch. In linux I can just browse through an application list, click the apps that I want, and click install.
The other day I installed maxima and octave, along with the extra plugins, documentation, etc. I took a few seconds of clicking to chose it. It automatically fetched gnuplot etc for me. It took 10 seconds between choosing and clicking install. I go away for a 20 minutes or so (crappy internet connection) and come back and its installed.
Windows doesn't even come close to that. Not even look-through-a-telescope close.
There's quite a few authors of kde3 applications who won't start porting their app until kde 4.0 is out and people are using it. After all, why port your app if nobody is using it?
So it makes sense to release 4.0 as a sort of 'release candidate', have people port their applications, and then have 4.1 as the usable release.
Meh, then you look at my computer with sata drives that XP refused to install on. Or the budget athereos card that just worked straight away in linux, but crashes in windows.
The machine I'm tying this on has a CMedia AC97 that was not supported out of the box by even XP sp 2. Yet just worked in linux. AC97 chipset was around for years before XP was released.
In Linux, you get a single driver for the chipset - the AC97 driver. But in Wnidows there are thousands of drivers (google for it).
I went to the cmedia website to download the driver and their frigging ftp servers were done.
This isn't an odd case. Just look at the existance of all the driver websites that exist for windows.
Not to mention the Mitsubishi touch screen tablet I have that only has drivers for Windows 98 and nothing newer.
Please give an actual example of where a high profile darwinist copied and modified something from a creationist, modified it, and tried to pass it off as their own.
Germany didn't want to 'make war' either, they also wanted to nation build. They wanted to own the countries around, and increase the German empire. The goal is very much the same.
> open their own agricultural markets to competition.
Effectively destroying the american farmers. People will get cheaper prices for a while, but the US will be totally unable to provide food for its own people. No country wants to be in such an exposed position
You can imagine some meta format which is like a pdf file. All programs then implement this 'pdf'.
But then you have another standard on top which defines all the semantics - so instead of just a bunch of glyphs, it knows that that is a letter, and knows sentences etc etc.
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> Please type password so I can automatically insert your password on this line? [ok]? I think not.
That is exactly what happens!
The first time that konqueror or kopete etc etc tries to access your passwords, kwallet pops up a dialog box and asks for the kwallet password. That password is then used to decrypt the password file.
You seem to understand kwallet from the last sentence though.
Konqueror certainly does not keep passwords in plain text. It encrypts the passwords using kwallet - that's why the kwallet thing pops up asking for a password.
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And the point that I'm making is that if I want to make a website that is readable by the majority of people, I am forced to work around Microsoft bugs. Thus I hate Microsoft for forcing me to do that.
You can argue that it's my choice to support IE users, but it's no more a choice than it is for you to simply stop doing business if you don't want to pay for the certification.
> That's being forced to do something.
You could always not run a business. That's your choice to run a business, but if you want to then you have to pay that money.
It's called herd immunity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Vaccinations do not work unless more than about 80% of the population is vaccinated.
In the UK, there was one region where a group of families all decided to not get their children immunised. There was an outbreak of measels in the region and 13 children died - 12 of them from this group of families that didn't get immunised.
It's a shame that the children had to pay for the parents stupidity.
Um that's stupid. You should simply require that the risks from being immunised are lower than the risks from not being immunised.
You are being protected by herd immunity - the fact that everyone else got immunised.
Basically you are selfish and being a dick. You want everyone else to take the risk so that you are protected. I'm so annoyed by people like you, I can't even think of a decent insult.
They put something heavy on top to weigh it down, no?
I get your point, but according to Richard Stallman, the GPL exists only because copyright exists. In Stallman's eyes, the best situation would be one where there was no copyright. The GPL is basically just making the best of the situation.
That happened in Debian when they tried to pay some people in an effort to try to get Debian into a state good enough for release. It made other jealous and they slowed down.
Doesn't gnumeric, abiword etc come under the umbrella term 'Gnome'? If so, then it is important to work out whether to support OOXML or not.
Well personally I want to microsoft to restrict piracy as much as possible. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if people could not pirate the latest version.
In linux, wine is now able to play an awful lot of games now. In particular most of the games in steam.
Imagine if Wine got DirectX 10 support. It would be very delicious if a lot of people were unable to play the latest directx 10 games in Windows because they couldn't manage to pirate Vista, and so have to reboot into linux in order to play their games..
And you're an idiot for thinking everyone lives in the US.
A quick froogle search:
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=windows+vista+ultimate+-upgrade&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
All around 350 pounds - which is $700
The "MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine" alone is $1000 when discounted. Octave and Maxima are free (Math programs). And that's not counting the dozens of end seat licenses required for each user.
I maintain a university physics 'sun grid engine' cluster with 20 connected machines that use maxima and octave. Nothing fancy, but not too shabby.
It's windows that is simply out of touch. In linux I can just browse through an application list, click the apps that I want, and click install.
The other day I installed maxima and octave, along with the extra plugins, documentation, etc. I took a few seconds of clicking to chose it. It automatically fetched gnuplot etc for me. It took 10 seconds between choosing and clicking install. I go away for a 20 minutes or so (crappy internet connection) and come back and its installed.
Windows doesn't even come close to that. Not even look-through-a-telescope close.
Actually there is one reason.. applications.
There's quite a few authors of kde3 applications who won't start porting their app until kde 4.0 is out and people are using it. After all, why port your app if nobody is using it?
So it makes sense to release 4.0 as a sort of 'release candidate', have people port their applications, and then have 4.1 as the usable release.
Meh, then you look at my computer with sata drives that XP refused to install on. Or the budget athereos card that just worked straight away in linux, but crashes in windows.
The machine I'm tying this on has a CMedia AC97 that was not supported out of the box by even XP sp 2. Yet just worked in linux. AC97 chipset was around for years before XP was released.
In Linux, you get a single driver for the chipset - the AC97 driver. But in Wnidows there are thousands of drivers (google for it).
I went to the cmedia website to download the driver and their frigging ftp servers were done.
This isn't an odd case. Just look at the existance of all the driver websites that exist for windows.
Not to mention the Mitsubishi touch screen tablet I have that only has drivers for Windows 98 and nothing newer.
Please give an actual example of where a high profile darwinist copied and modified something from a creationist, modified it, and tried to pass it off as their own.
Germany didn't want to 'make war' either, they also wanted to nation build. They wanted to own the countries around, and increase the German empire. The goal is very much the same.
> open their own agricultural markets to competition.
Effectively destroying the american farmers. People will get cheaper prices for a while, but the US will be totally unable to provide food for its own people. No country wants to be in such an exposed position
You can imagine some meta format which is like a pdf file. All programs then implement this 'pdf'.
But then you have another standard on top which defines all the semantics - so instead of just a bunch of glyphs, it knows that that is a letter, and knows sentences etc etc.
> Kand Kwhy Kmust Kevery Kapp Kbe Knamed Klike Kthis?
Like? The filemanager is called Dolphin, the taskbar thing at the bottom is plasma, and so on etc etc.
Hmm, I was going to reply to your post, and then I saw the spoiler in your sig. *sigh*. Now I just have to add you to my foe list instead.
You can't quickly peruse.
Peruse means to study it in detail, carefully, thoroughly.
> Please type password so I can automatically insert your password on this line? [ok]? I think not.
That is exactly what happens!
The first time that konqueror or kopete etc etc tries to access your passwords, kwallet pops up a dialog box and asks for the kwallet password. That password is then used to decrypt the password file.
You seem to understand kwallet from the last sentence though.
Konqueror certainly does not keep passwords in plain text. It encrypts the passwords using kwallet - that's why the kwallet thing pops up asking for a password.