oh, well, maybe then... but this agreement more said that the distributors were now able to resell the copies of windows.. wouldn't that technically make it possible to sell all the computers at the same price and then make users buy the operating system later? which wouldnt effect me but wouldn't it be a pain to all of the people that need to buy windows later for 80$
I dont really think that stripping the computer of it's operating system is really a blessing. If you'll notice, it costs the same to get a computer from most places with linux as it does with windows.
maybe if all of these programmers and resourceful people speant time developing towards a common goal, humans would have a web browser that didnt crash all the time.. and then we could concentrate on parrots
I don't think that everyone should just on some 12 year old who can't figure out what a swap partition. Maybe the real threat is the administrators who can't configure a secure system or even the software companies that don't write secure products.
Maybe it's good that people who only end up doing stupid things in a system are the ones to break in because they are the ones that usually make the security holes really obvious and in turn drive the developers to write patches. Besides, the real threat doesn't lie within a high school kid from the suburbs. It lies within making sure that someone the operating system that confidential documents are held on are kept secure from terrorist groups and other sligtly more threatening individuals. Maybe you should thank these kids for finding expliots in the software companies bad coding or the admins bad config
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you dont suppose that the entire x86 design, operating system design and chip design are all.. past their time? noo.....
oh, and do you really need a yale prof to tell you that an os developed 10 years ago is old?
come on!
oh, well, maybe then... but this agreement more said that the distributors were now able to resell the copies of windows.. wouldn't that technically make it possible to sell all the computers at the same price and then make users buy the operating system later? which wouldnt effect me but wouldn't it be a pain to all of the people that need to buy windows later for 80$
I dont really think that stripping the computer of it's operating system is really a blessing. If you'll notice, it costs the same to get a computer from most places with linux as it does with windows.
maybe if all of these programmers and resourceful people speant time developing towards a common goal, humans would have a web browser that didnt crash all the time.. and then we could concentrate on parrots
-thinkpol
I don't think that everyone should just on some 12 year old who can't figure out what a swap partition. Maybe the real threat is the administrators who can't configure a secure system or even the software companies that don't write secure products.
Maybe it's good that people who only end up doing stupid things in a system are the ones to break in because they are the ones that usually make the security holes really obvious and in turn drive the developers to write patches. Besides, the real threat doesn't lie within a high school kid from the suburbs. It lies within making sure that someone the operating system that confidential documents are held on are kept secure from terrorist groups and other sligtly more threatening individuals. Maybe you should thank these kids for finding expliots in the software companies bad coding or the admins bad config
-thinkpol