Well probably the biggest thing I didn't see was Explorer (the windows file manager). Sure, it's a dog but most Windows users won't switch to Linux without it. On the other hand, it should be easy to make Linux Explorer not blow up, take down the machine/desktop etc.. which will make anyone who does switch to Linux more than happy to claim it is "better".
Interesting, but where's the control panel? Where's the system tray? Users will notice these things are missing and feel they've lost something. It's a good start though.. Perhaps I can contribute.
It's porn, they're downloading. In traditional underpants gnomes style:
1. Search for porn bittorrent. 2. Set it downloading and Wait 4 hours. 3. Find out you've downloaded an exe but click on it anyway. 4. Get infected with a metric buttload of spyware. 5. ???? 6. Profit!
I'm gunna show your post to my girlfriend who has a tendancy not to slow down when the car in front of her appears to be slowing down for "only a few seconds". If it's someone like you she'll go straight into the back of them.
Where's the distro where everything is labelled like that? Where the Start menu has been duplicated, where the taskbar has a system tray, where the control panel looks the same and the window style is identical to Windows XP? If you really want people to switch over in droves, that's what you need.
Says who? Every time I've ever sat down at a Mac I've wiggled the mouse and said "ooohh pretty" and then quickly got up before I had to do any real work. I think most Windows users feel the same. It's just an alien environment. Now Mac, you can understand why it is like that, it's the feel good alternative. But Linux, you can configure it anyway you want, but no-one has bothered to sit down and make Linux look and feel 100% like XP.. including the control panel and the file explorer and the way disks are handled. If you gave a Linux system like that to users you would see a lot more people switching, and once there they would soon migrate to using the better tools that Linux has to offer.
The point I think you don't get is that the models we come up with today (read, the shit we're willing to accept) will not only be applied to music and software and other types of "media" in the future, it will also be applied to physical objects, when you have a desktop 3d printer next to your coffee maker. The fact that you have to supply the 3d "toner" really won't make much of a difference once matter is programmable. Just like if it viable right now to force users to use disappearing ink under DRM control in their printers they would.
It's one thing to suggest that libraries should carry a selection of books. It's quite another to suggest that libraries should be forced to convert all their media into a format that is only readable on Microsoft Windows.
Shock! Ya know Joe Schmoe probably seeks out and downloads more software than any of us tech geniuses because he doesn't know the dangers of running arbitary software on his computer and/or trusts his antispyware apps to keep him safe.
personally I'd prefer it if my government didn't use weapons on me at all. Ever heard of escalation? Oh wait, it was in that recent Batman movie, chances are you've heard the theory (at least the hollywoodized one liner version).
Which is what I just said. It's not a choice, it's an illness. They can't get themselves off the street because there's something wrong with them. We, as a society, should help these people reintegrate into society.
Which is what I just said. It's a strange system in the US that forces you to defend your trademark but thems the breaks. Maybe if we had similar things for copyright (or patents) there would be less tomfoolery in those areas of law too. But I guess that would mean you'd actually have to have people register their copyrights, and that would upset the apple cart.
Red Hat Linux for example has not obtained a license and freely uses the name "Linux" all over its documentation, web site, and marketing.
Wrong again. They have licensed it. As have just about every other company that uses it as a trademark. There's no "selective enforcement". If there was, the LMI would be opening themselves to a challenge of inadequately protecting the trademark.
I agree with the sentiment but you're not 100% correct. If you call your distro "Aussie Linux" and you sell it you're using it as a trademark. Trademarks cover both business names and product names (and logos).
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That's not spelling, it's grammar. Jesus.
Right. Media companies make up less than 1% of the GDP of the US and yet you think the US economy would tank if we got rid of them?
What? That's how the english spell favour. It's their freakin' language, you should learn it.
Well probably the biggest thing I didn't see was Explorer (the windows file manager). Sure, it's a dog but most Windows users won't switch to Linux without it. On the other hand, it should be easy to make Linux Explorer not blow up, take down the machine/desktop etc.. which will make anyone who does switch to Linux more than happy to claim it is "better".
Interesting, but where's the control panel? Where's the system tray? Users will notice these things are missing and feel they've lost something. It's a good start though.. Perhaps I can contribute.
How about platinum? It's a lot closer too. Might be a good target once something like America's Space Prize has been won.
"We thought New Orleans had always been this crappy."
"That's not looting, it's local color!"
"Home of pirates, drunks, and whores!"
It's porn, they're downloading. In traditional underpants gnomes style:
1. Search for porn bittorrent.
2. Set it downloading and Wait 4 hours.
3. Find out you've downloaded an exe but click on it anyway.
4. Get infected with a metric buttload of spyware.
5. ????
6. Profit!
I'm gunna show your post to my girlfriend who has a tendancy not to slow down when the car in front of her appears to be slowing down for "only a few seconds". If it's someone like you she'll go straight into the back of them.
which I've labelled "Add/Remove Programs"
Where's the distro where everything is labelled like that? Where the Start menu has been duplicated, where the taskbar has a system tray, where the control panel looks the same and the window style is identical to Windows XP? If you really want people to switch over in droves, that's what you need.
Says who? Every time I've ever sat down at a Mac I've wiggled the mouse and said "ooohh pretty" and then quickly got up before I had to do any real work. I think most Windows users feel the same. It's just an alien environment. Now Mac, you can understand why it is like that, it's the feel good alternative. But Linux, you can configure it anyway you want, but no-one has bothered to sit down and make Linux look and feel 100% like XP.. including the control panel and the file explorer and the way disks are handled. If you gave a Linux system like that to users you would see a lot more people switching, and once there they would soon migrate to using the better tools that Linux has to offer.
Wow. Really? I wonder what color it will be!
The point I think you don't get is that the models we come up with today (read, the shit we're willing to accept) will not only be applied to music and software and other types of "media" in the future, it will also be applied to physical objects, when you have a desktop 3d printer next to your coffee maker. The fact that you have to supply the 3d "toner" really won't make much of a difference once matter is programmable. Just like if it viable right now to force users to use disappearing ink under DRM control in their printers they would.
It's one thing to suggest that libraries should carry a selection of books. It's quite another to suggest that libraries should be forced to convert all their media into a format that is only readable on Microsoft Windows.
Shock! Ya know Joe Schmoe probably seeks out and downloads more software than any of us tech geniuses because he doesn't know the dangers of running arbitary software on his computer and/or trusts his antispyware apps to keep him safe.
personally I'd prefer it if my government didn't use weapons on me at all. Ever heard of escalation? Oh wait, it was in that recent Batman movie, chances are you've heard the theory (at least the hollywoodized one liner version).
But that's not the point. Firefox should load Acrobat in a different thread so you don't loose control over the window!!
A promise of a big fat payout, that's why.
Which is what I just said. It's not a choice, it's an illness. They can't get themselves off the street because there's something wrong with them. We, as a society, should help these people reintegrate into society.
Which is what I just said. It's a strange system in the US that forces you to defend your trademark but thems the breaks. Maybe if we had similar things for copyright (or patents) there would be less tomfoolery in those areas of law too. But I guess that would mean you'd actually have to have people register their copyrights, and that would upset the apple cart.
Arrest em. Find em guilty by a jury of their peers. Get a judge to order their rehabilitation. i.e., therapy.
Have to agree with you there.
Red Hat Linux for example has not obtained a license and freely uses the name "Linux" all over its documentation, web site, and marketing.
Wrong again. They have licensed it. As have just about every other company that uses it as a trademark. There's no "selective enforcement". If there was, the LMI would be opening themselves to a challenge of inadequately protecting the trademark.
Ok, what he actually said was
"What names you're allowed to call a program is a side issue."
But when he's talking about GNU/Linux vs Linux it's not a side issue, it's the issue. Clear double standard.
I agree with the sentiment but you're not 100% correct. If you call your distro "Aussie Linux" and you sell it you're using it as a trademark. Trademarks cover both business names and product names (and logos).