I don't know anything about Trend, but I DO know something about Norton. The problem with it isn't that you have to pay, it's that it's not worth paying for. And I've heard McAfee is just as crappy. Trend might be good, but I'd have to pay to find out for myself, and if it's as crappy as the other two, I'm out that money.
With a free AV product, I can just DL it and run it without wondering if I'm getting gypped. And so far, I've been happy with Avast!
China was a great power once, but not lately. It doesn't matter what China did 4,000 years ago. For the last few centuries, it's been just another backwards country. Past glory doesn't mean squat.
There is one good reason to vote for the Dems in 2006: they'll spend their energy fighting Bush instead of screwing us. They're as bad as the Repubs, but with a divided government, they'll be fighting among themselves about which way to screw us and hopefully less actual screwing will get done.
Since when has "freedom of speech" been a "nearly absolute right"? We limit free speech all the time in this country. For instance, you can't: Yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Commit libel or slander Say something that creates a "hostile work environment" for others Criticize a political candidate on television 60 days before an elections. (Thanks to the new Alien and Sedition Acts - AKA McCain-Feingold)
IMHO, the last two are violations of the First Amendment! I do agree that libel and slander should be illegal. As for the often mentioned "fire in a theater", if there really IS a fire in the movie theater, I for one, want to know about it!
You need to understand that governments do NOT work on the principle of monetary equity: if they saved 500 Million dollars here, NO ONE says "OH, that means we can send 500 Million to the staving people in _________ (place country name here)!"
Not only that, but if we DID send 500 Million to the staving people in _________ (place country name here), the starving people wouldn't get 500 million. You'd be lucky if they got 5 million! The rest would go into some 2-bit dictator's pocket.
41 MILES is a very long distance if I'm walking. But I travel farther than that without even thinking about it in my car. 41 lightyears is certainly a long way with our current technology, but if we ever develop spaceships that can approach the speed of light, that will shrink to maybe half a century. Not exactly a weekend trip, but not impossible, at least for an unmanned ship.
1. Get distro CD 2. Repartition HD 3. Lose 90% of your base because the whole idea of repartioning your HD scares them to death! 4. Lose another 5% of users when Linux chokes on your brand new hardware. 5a. Your hardware is supported, and Linux installs without a hitch. 5b. Your hardware requires extra configuration but you're an uber-geek and know how to configure it. This describes less than 1% of the market.
The fact is, until you can walk into a typical CompUSA or WorstBuy and get a PC with Linux already on it, most people won't bother.
Yes! I am surprised that more people haven't bitched about this - and even then, it's always because of how he appears (small, mobile, making goofy facial expressions, etc, etc) and never that the conversation with him is damn near the same conversation Han had with Greedo just a minute before
Here's what bothered me about that scene. Imagine you're the biggest crime boss in the galaxy. You're chewing out some underling that just cost you a lot of money. And he steps on your tail! Don't you think you'd do a little more than give a quick squeal?
I second that! Every so often, my boss's boss calls a meeting of all the branches under him, and I always leave those meetings with respect for my boss's ability to deal with that bozo on a regular basis without losing his cool.
If you want to push this argument, I have to tell you that Google is very close to being a monopoly, and that is exactly how they got Firefox to default to them
At most, Google has ONE monopoly. Last time I checked, I didn't find GoogOS, GoogOffice, GoogBrowser, AND Google search engine on my PC.
Unfortunately, doctors used to give patients anti-biotics for colds & flu because it was easier than trying to explain the difference between bateria and viruses. You can't neccesarily trust them any more than the guy on the street, who at least has the excuse of ignorance.
One of the benefits of cable television used to be that it was ad-free. Then they stuck ads in anyway and learnt that people were perfectly willing to put up with ads if they got to see their precious soaps.
By the time I got cable, most of it had ads. The benifit to me was that it expanded the number of shows to watch. Adwise, it was no better or worse than before.
It used to be that when you went to the cinema, you paid money for a ticket, sat down, and watched the film. Then they stuck ads in at the beginning, and learnt that people were perfectly willing to put up with ads if they got to see their precious film stars.
And yet, the movie theaters are losing customers. Personally, I haven't been to a theater for years, and though the ads weren't my only problem with them, they were the last straw.
When DVDs were first launched, a benefit was that you could skip to any part of the film without fast-forwarding, rewinding, etc. Now they've started putting in unskippable ads and are learning that people are perfectly willing to put up with unskippable ads if they get to see their precious film stars.
My DVD collection is quite small, in part because of bullshit like that.
I realize that I'm not representative of the "average person", but frankly, I think more people ARE getting sick of the Big Media's crap. They won't just stop watching their favorite shows, but they'll gradually notice that their viewing is becoming less and less enjoyable and watch less and less. Like the boiling frog in reverse.
That's not neccesarily a good thing. Awhile back, some unnamed car insurance company put numerous stupid ads on both the TV and the radio that left me a psychotic wreck! Soon after that, I got some junk mail from that company wanting me to switch. I yelled "Not THEM again!", chewed up the letter, spit it out in pieces into the toilet, shit over the pieces, and flushed them away.
Nothing wrong with RTFM, assuming there is a decent and accessible FM. On one occasion, I asked a question and some jerk told me to search the mailing list archives. Problem is, their archives had been down for over a week.
Sometimes, Windows "help" really sux. When I got a new computer, I had a hell of a time getting it to work with my static IP DSL. There was nothing obvious to get it to work right. Obviously B. Gates assumed everyone would use DHCP. In my situation, the Windows help was every bit as crappy and obscure as any Linux man page.
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I don't know anything about Trend, but I DO know something about Norton. The problem with it isn't that you have to pay, it's that it's not worth paying for. And I've heard McAfee is just as crappy. Trend might be good, but I'd have to pay to find out for myself, and if it's as crappy as the other two, I'm out that money.
With a free AV product, I can just DL it and run it without wondering if I'm getting gypped. And so far, I've been happy with Avast!
China was a great power once, but not lately. It doesn't matter what China did 4,000 years ago. For the last few centuries, it's been just another backwards country. Past glory doesn't mean squat.
There is one good reason to vote for the Dems in 2006: they'll spend their energy fighting Bush instead of screwing us. They're as bad as the Repubs, but with a divided government, they'll be fighting among themselves about which way to screw us and hopefully less actual screwing will get done.
IMHO, the last two are violations of the First Amendment! I do agree that libel and slander should be illegal. As for the often mentioned "fire in a theater", if there really IS a fire in the movie theater, I for one, want to know about it!
Unproven hypothesis!
Not only that, but if we DID send 500 Million to the staving people in _________ (place country name here), the starving people wouldn't get 500 million. You'd be lucky if they got 5 million! The rest would go into some 2-bit dictator's pocket.
41 MILES is a very long distance if I'm walking. But I travel farther than that without even thinking about it in my car. 41 lightyears is certainly a long way with our current technology, but if we ever develop spaceships that can approach the speed of light, that will shrink to maybe half a century. Not exactly a weekend trip, but not impossible, at least for an unmanned ship.
Um, if the space aliens are looking for intellegent life and find American Idol, what makes you think they'd bother to investigate further?
1. Get distro CD
2. Repartition HD
3. Lose 90% of your base because the whole idea of repartioning your HD scares them to death!
4. Lose another 5% of users when Linux chokes on your brand new hardware.
5a. Your hardware is supported, and Linux installs without a hitch.
5b. Your hardware requires extra configuration but you're an uber-geek and know how to configure it. This describes less than 1% of the market.
The fact is, until you can walk into a typical CompUSA or WorstBuy and get a PC with Linux already on it, most people won't bother.
Here's what bothered me about that scene. Imagine you're the biggest crime boss in the galaxy. You're chewing out some underling that just cost you a lot of money. And he steps on your tail! Don't you think you'd do a little more than give a quick squeal?
I never anthropomorphize my computer. She hates it when I do that.
I second that! Every so often, my boss's boss calls a meeting of all the branches under him, and I always leave those meetings with respect for my boss's ability to deal with that bozo on a regular basis without losing his cool.
At most, Google has ONE monopoly. Last time I checked, I didn't find GoogOS, GoogOffice, GoogBrowser, AND Google search engine on my PC.
New prediction: Vista's release date will be November 13, 2007.
Actually, some people HAVE gone blind after taking Viagra!
Unfortunately, doctors used to give patients anti-biotics for colds & flu because it was easier than trying to explain the difference between bateria and viruses. You can't neccesarily trust them any more than the guy on the street, who at least has the excuse of ignorance.
Lucky for Spock, Kirk didn't share that belief. :-P
Sounds good, but how do you take a 30 second crap?
By the time I got cable, most of it had ads. The benifit to me was that it expanded the number of shows to watch. Adwise, it was no better or worse than before.
And yet, the movie theaters are losing customers. Personally, I haven't been to a theater for years, and though the ads weren't my only problem with them, they were the last straw.
My DVD collection is quite small, in part because of bullshit like that.
I realize that I'm not representative of the "average person", but frankly, I think more people ARE getting sick of the Big Media's crap. They won't just stop watching their favorite shows, but they'll gradually notice that their viewing is becoming less and less enjoyable and watch less and less. Like the boiling frog in reverse.
That's not neccesarily a good thing. Awhile back, some unnamed car insurance company put numerous stupid ads on both the TV and the radio that left me a psychotic wreck! Soon after that, I got some junk mail from that company wanting me to switch. I yelled "Not THEM again!", chewed up the letter, spit it out in pieces into the toilet, shit over the pieces, and flushed them away.
I don't think that's the reaction they wanted.
Haven't you heard? They're burning all books and replacing them with eBooks. Of course, they will be DRMd like crazy, and they will have enforced ads.
Maybe it says that nobody gives a fsck about the UN.
Nothing wrong with RTFM, assuming there is a decent and accessible FM. On one occasion, I asked a question and some jerk told me to search the mailing list archives. Problem is, their archives had been down for over a week.
Sometimes, Windows "help" really sux. When I got a new computer, I had a hell of a time getting it to work with my static IP DSL. There was nothing obvious to get it to work right. Obviously B. Gates assumed everyone would use DHCP. In my situation, the Windows help was every bit as crappy and obscure as any Linux man page.
Yeah, but the logger doesn't poop on my car! The owl does.