Sometimes certain elements of the process need to STFU. Sometimes it's publishers, who refuse to sell their DRM-laden content in some countries, but are incensed that people would steal said content to get it after being refused at the gates. Sometimes it's the authors, who want to rape the only future their medium really has by charging 60 bucks for a text file.
As their nerd friend, I can't get the damn thing working right. That Windows Advantage crap has locked me out of updating legit copies of Windows, forget pirated ones.
My eyes GOT TIRED because you kept on CAPITALIZING all your words LIKE THIS. Plus, you're FACTUALLY INCORRECT in that Dell will SELL YOU a mini9 with 2GB of ram, so sayeth PREVIOUS POSTERS.
I DIDN'T buy a mini9, because I got an Aspire One INSTEAD. The latter was MUCH CHEAPER and I didn't have to WORRY about shipping.
If you consider the numbers, market statistics cited by most companies are blatantly wrong.
Netbooks made up about 5% of new PC sales last year, and linux is installed on about a third of those. This strongly suggests that ignoring all other segments of the market, linux has more than 1% of the PC market.
Intel GMA 945 drivers are much less sophisticated on XFree86 than Windows. Video performance is substantially degraded, which means watching videos, and youtube-like videos in particular, will be barely watchable.
It does take away your ability to perceive what is or is not bloat.
I've got an Intel 945 and the equivalent to a 1Ghz Celeron in my machine. It simply wouldn't run Vista with Aero. Windows 7 runs just as quickly as Windows XP -- that is to say, so fast I stop caring about speed. Besides the space set aside for swap and hibernation, the size of the OS is nearly the same as Windows XP. Where's the bloat?
RTFA. If you wanted to install a movie maker in most linux distributions, you open the package manager and search for "movie maker". Check the box, hit install, 10 minutes later you're making movies.
I'm on the Internet, thus I can easily steal any movie, music, or software. There's next to nothing to it. I simply need to recall the name, and within seconds it's downloading.
There is value, however, in paying for something. First, it helps ensure another work will be done by the same company. Second, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Third, human beings value things based on the cost.
I used to download The Daily Show through bittorrent every day. I wanted to support the show and buy it on iTunes. Problem? They refused to sell it to me. "Sorry, you're Canadian, we don't want your money".
This is a huge problem. Companies still refuse my money, but complain about piracy.
It's unintuitive, but controlling something tightly then letting go completely will result in a temporary upset, even if the natural state of something is within acceptable parameters.
Empirical data shows this, making it a statement of fact, not a statement of conjecture. When private ownership of gold was legalized in the 70s, after decades of making private gold ownership illegal, the price skyrocketed to highs that have never been touched since. After the bubble burst, the price of gold has been relatively consistent (accounting for inflation) ever since.
The Great Depression is a poor example of a free market failure. It was caused by the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909, which gave 320 acres (1.3 km2) to farmers who accepted lands which could not be irrigated, leading directly to the dust bowl, which was a major factor in the depression. The fact that credit had just been destabilized by the creation of the central federal reserve bank created a short era where easy credit and easy speculative gambles turned a simple deregulatory bubble into a great depression, just like today a number of simple deregulatory bubbles have been made infinitely worse by a federal reserve which thinks lower interest rates will solve the problem, rather than simply decrease the pain back then so we can experience it today(Debt must be paid back, and people don't spend during those periods).
There's plenty of stuff on-line that I wish wasn't there. There's posts I wrote when I was 12 that made perfect sense at the time, but a decade later aren't so intelligent sounding. There's flame-wars I was in at 15 where I was obviously immature and refused to relinquish the point. There's stuff when I was 17 where I talk about using file sharing services like napster. Even just a few years ago, when I was in school and I got depressed and philosophical watching people who weren't making sacrifices seeming happy while I suffered through one of the hardest programs you can take, I wrote some terrible things about people that are there for everyone to see.
If you don't like that your public house purchase, and the public law firm profile you have online in public is public, then change the system -- pull your profile offline, and have a broker hold the deed to your house. Don't file SLAPP lawsuits.
Not American federal liberterians. They think that the police should be a state matter the federal government isn't involved in. Imagine how much better your police force could be if the state got all those tax dollars instead of the federal government?
As for paying tax, if we eliminated the income tax and replaced it with nothing, we'd have the same amount of money coming in as we did under President Clinton. Surely we can run a smaller government on that?
If I push you back, and push you back, and push you back, and one day I let go and you trip and faceplant, is it because of the lack of me pushing you back that you fell, or because I was pushing you back in the first place? Does it mean that you want me to push you back forever because if I don't push you back you'll fall on your face every time?
Deregulation causes bubbles, directly analogous to you stumbling forward when I stop pushing you. That's a simple truth of the matter. The government destabilizes the market forming a bubble, then the bubble bursts, the malinvestment is liquidated, and a new market price is found.
This doesn't mean that regulation would have prevented it. It means regulation caused it by destabilizing the market. If the government hadn't meddled in the free market, the banks would already know what they can and can't do from experience.
It's breaking the contract unless you decide in advance that "a bank" means "a modern bank".
The problem with banks has always been that they lend more than they have, leading to "bank runs". This was a major cause of the 1908 panic, as well as the great depression. If banks were forced to hang onto money that was actually theirs, then bank runs would be impossible. Originally, banks were meant to simply be a 'bank', where you'd store gold. The problem is, at one point they started lending out things they were supposed to be storing -- imagine if a storage company was charging rent to lend out your posessions after you put them into their locker! Instead of fessing up, they made that the legal standard.
When the dollar went off the gold standard under Nixon, that was literal legalized theft. In this case, we went from "Ok, banks can lend more gold than they actually have" to "Ok, banks don't need to ever give back the gold".
Until that point, every bank run was caused by people losing confidence and taking the money that was supposed to be in the banks out. If they were honest companies, only lending their excess capital, then they'd be perfectly fine. They might have to close their doors if they didn't get any customers back, but everyone would have their money. Instead, only the quick ones got their money back, because the banks had lent out the money that wasn't theirs to lend, leading to bank closures and people losing their money.
Today, we've got all sorts of insane rules, so the banks don't even need to maintain a balance sheet. They can lend out 3 dollars for every dollar they get from depositors. There's nothing even remotely real about banking. So when there's a crisis, it means that they've created so much fake money, that they can't even justify creating more out of thin air!
Since when have politicians actually cared about children? Let me remind you we spent 5 trillion dollars of their money over the past 8 years, and we're looking at spending trillions more.
We fucking hate our children. We want them to suffer. We feel entitled to their unearned money. We feel entitled to fuck with their freedom and rape their minds.
They're a great excuse to pass legislation, but we truly hate them and want them to suffer.
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Sometimes certain elements of the process need to STFU. Sometimes it's publishers, who refuse to sell their DRM-laden content in some countries, but are incensed that people would steal said content to get it after being refused at the gates. Sometimes it's the authors, who want to rape the only future their medium really has by charging 60 bucks for a text file.
Both need to give their heads a shake.
Once you liquefy a gas, it stops being compressible.
As their nerd friend, I can't get the damn thing working right. That Windows Advantage crap has locked me out of updating legit copies of Windows, forget pirated ones.
My eyes GOT TIRED because you kept on CAPITALIZING all your words LIKE THIS. Plus, you're FACTUALLY INCORRECT in that Dell will SELL YOU a mini9 with 2GB of ram, so sayeth PREVIOUS POSTERS.
I DIDN'T buy a mini9, because I got an Aspire One INSTEAD. The latter was MUCH CHEAPER and I didn't have to WORRY about shipping.
You'll be so plastered you stop caring. "Yee-haw! fbdev video support roxorz my soxorz!"
If you consider the numbers, market statistics cited by most companies are blatantly wrong.
Netbooks made up about 5% of new PC sales last year, and linux is installed on about a third of those. This strongly suggests that ignoring all other segments of the market, linux has more than 1% of the PC market.
Intel GMA 945 drivers are much less sophisticated on XFree86 than Windows. Video performance is substantially degraded, which means watching videos, and youtube-like videos in particular, will be barely watchable.
I dunno. I'm a fairly technical person, and when the XP install on my netbook croaked, I went with Ubuntu until I bought a USB dvd-drive.
It does take away your ability to perceive what is or is not bloat.
I've got an Intel 945 and the equivalent to a 1Ghz Celeron in my machine. It simply wouldn't run Vista with Aero. Windows 7 runs just as quickly as Windows XP -- that is to say, so fast I stop caring about speed. Besides the space set aside for swap and hibernation, the size of the OS is nearly the same as Windows XP. Where's the bloat?
If you've got a PC so powerful you can run Vista Ultimate 64, I don't think you're in any position to be talking about bloat.
I'd never think of installing Vista on my netbook, but Windows 7 runs quite happily with the Aero theme.
Who cares that it wastes a few precious milimeters of space with an icon, since the entire system is so unbelievably space efficient and usable?
There are lots of problems with Windows, but the new taskbar is pretty nifty.
RTFA. If you wanted to install a movie maker in most linux distributions, you open the package manager and search for "movie maker". Check the box, hit install, 10 minutes later you're making movies.
More countries than the US.
I don't see how it's not free. I turn on my TV, I get content. No fee.
I don't have cable TV, but when I turn on my television with my rabbit ears, I see local news from the local stations.
It's been sustaining itself quite well elsewhere.
You're wrong. Period.
I'm on the Internet, thus I can easily steal any movie, music, or software. There's next to nothing to it. I simply need to recall the name, and within seconds it's downloading.
There is value, however, in paying for something. First, it helps ensure another work will be done by the same company. Second, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Third, human beings value things based on the cost.
I used to download The Daily Show through bittorrent every day. I wanted to support the show and buy it on iTunes. Problem? They refused to sell it to me. "Sorry, you're Canadian, we don't want your money".
This is a huge problem. Companies still refuse my money, but complain about piracy.
Wait....Your message seems sincere, but all those 'o's make me think you're being sarcastic...
I'm so confused...
It's not like "mainstream media" bothers to fact check.
It's pretty hard to take your point of view seriously when people can "manufacture truth" by simply telling unsubstantiated peripheral lies enough.
It's unintuitive, but controlling something tightly then letting go completely will result in a temporary upset, even if the natural state of something is within acceptable parameters.
Empirical data shows this, making it a statement of fact, not a statement of conjecture. When private ownership of gold was legalized in the 70s, after decades of making private gold ownership illegal, the price skyrocketed to highs that have never been touched since. After the bubble burst, the price of gold has been relatively consistent (accounting for inflation) ever since.
The Great Depression is a poor example of a free market failure. It was caused by the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909, which gave 320 acres (1.3 km2) to farmers who accepted lands which could not be irrigated, leading directly to the dust bowl, which was a major factor in the depression. The fact that credit had just been destabilized by the creation of the central federal reserve bank created a short era where easy credit and easy speculative gambles turned a simple deregulatory bubble into a great depression, just like today a number of simple deregulatory bubbles have been made infinitely worse by a federal reserve which thinks lower interest rates will solve the problem, rather than simply decrease the pain back then so we can experience it today(Debt must be paid back, and people don't spend during those periods).
There's plenty of stuff on-line that I wish wasn't there. There's posts I wrote when I was 12 that made perfect sense at the time, but a decade later aren't so intelligent sounding. There's flame-wars I was in at 15 where I was obviously immature and refused to relinquish the point. There's stuff when I was 17 where I talk about using file sharing services like napster. Even just a few years ago, when I was in school and I got depressed and philosophical watching people who weren't making sacrifices seeming happy while I suffered through one of the hardest programs you can take, I wrote some terrible things about people that are there for everyone to see.
I haven't sued a single one of them.
If you don't like that your public house purchase, and the public law firm profile you have online in public is public, then change the system -- pull your profile offline, and have a broker hold the deed to your house. Don't file SLAPP lawsuits.
...Then you're boned, because the national housing market has collapsed, so you'd better find something to do to look busy.
Not American federal liberterians. They think that the police should be a state matter the federal government isn't involved in. Imagine how much better your police force could be if the state got all those tax dollars instead of the federal government?
As for paying tax, if we eliminated the income tax and replaced it with nothing, we'd have the same amount of money coming in as we did under President Clinton. Surely we can run a smaller government on that?
If I push you back, and push you back, and push you back, and one day I let go and you trip and faceplant, is it because of the lack of me pushing you back that you fell, or because I was pushing you back in the first place? Does it mean that you want me to push you back forever because if I don't push you back you'll fall on your face every time?
Deregulation causes bubbles, directly analogous to you stumbling forward when I stop pushing you. That's a simple truth of the matter. The government destabilizes the market forming a bubble, then the bubble bursts, the malinvestment is liquidated, and a new market price is found.
This doesn't mean that regulation would have prevented it. It means regulation caused it by destabilizing the market. If the government hadn't meddled in the free market, the banks would already know what they can and can't do from experience.
It's breaking the contract unless you decide in advance that "a bank" means "a modern bank".
The problem with banks has always been that they lend more than they have, leading to "bank runs". This was a major cause of the 1908 panic, as well as the great depression. If banks were forced to hang onto money that was actually theirs, then bank runs would be impossible. Originally, banks were meant to simply be a 'bank', where you'd store gold. The problem is, at one point they started lending out things they were supposed to be storing -- imagine if a storage company was charging rent to lend out your posessions after you put them into their locker! Instead of fessing up, they made that the legal standard.
When the dollar went off the gold standard under Nixon, that was literal legalized theft. In this case, we went from "Ok, banks can lend more gold than they actually have" to "Ok, banks don't need to ever give back the gold".
Until that point, every bank run was caused by people losing confidence and taking the money that was supposed to be in the banks out. If they were honest companies, only lending their excess capital, then they'd be perfectly fine. They might have to close their doors if they didn't get any customers back, but everyone would have their money. Instead, only the quick ones got their money back, because the banks had lent out the money that wasn't theirs to lend, leading to bank closures and people losing their money.
Today, we've got all sorts of insane rules, so the banks don't even need to maintain a balance sheet. They can lend out 3 dollars for every dollar they get from depositors. There's nothing even remotely real about banking. So when there's a crisis, it means that they've created so much fake money, that they can't even justify creating more out of thin air!
Since when have politicians actually cared about children? Let me remind you we spent 5 trillion dollars of their money over the past 8 years, and we're looking at spending trillions more.
Plus, now instead of schools dealing with kids, they just call in the police every time there's anything even remotely out of their field going on. PLUS, when kids are charged of crimes, they have a de facto separate legal system with much lower standards of rights or scrutiny, so we get thing children being sent to naziesque reprogramming camps where children are exposed to discredited techniques to 'cure' homosexuals developed in the 30s
We fucking hate our children. We want them to suffer. We feel entitled to their unearned money. We feel entitled to fuck with their freedom and rape their minds.
They're a great excuse to pass legislation, but we truly hate them and want them to suffer.