How exactly does Emporer Linux justify chargin $500 more for a computer without a licencsed OS?
Their Linux is lovingly hand-crafter, rolled between the thighs of Indonesian virgins and each package is sealed with a kiss from Linus Torvalds himself. And it's not "Emporer", but EMPEROR!!! EMPEROR, damn your illiterate bones. The finest of Linuxes.
On MacOSX, most (all?) network services such as ftp, sshd, httpd... are turned off by default.
Yes, but there are still vectors of e-mail attachments and ichy user fingers. Mac OS X is used by a lot of people who are just as clueless as some of those who do it on Windows. So, build a user base and the viruses will come.
From what experience I've had with Norton antivirus for the PC, it does more damage to performance (network latency and throughput, memory and processor usage) than most malware. I've never installed it myself, just seen it on other people's PCs. I might just have wrong/incomplete experiences, but I think that their software is bloated crap with a horribly confusing UI. If I had a Mac OS X, I would prefer to have a command-line controlled utility which I never have to see, which runs as a service, updates transparently and can be fully controlled using plaintext configuration files. NOT anything remotely like Norton for the PC. Virex might not be good, but unleashing the pestilence of Norton upon the Mac is... cruel. Isn't there something like a chkrootkit in Darwin ports or Fink?
It's a meme, which I think originated from the fact that Mac hardware used to be more expensive and thus bought by rich people for its stylishness. With Mac Mini and the advent of cheap Mac, I predict this meme is about to die.
I don't think it's really about samples - the man hardly needs his skinflakes or his hair bits back and he sheds it all around anyway. As for the data it represents? Why, "we" keep it forever, of course. He is just the first in line, I'm willing to bet that within 20 years "we" will have a database of DNA samples from all "our" citizens - or whoever accepts my bet wins my slightly weathered tinfoil hat.
Yahoo is damn well a stronger brand than Flickr is at the moment - and they are saying it is to be kept separate. And it's not as if Flickr's functions are patented or as if Yahoo didn't have the infrastructure to pull it off themselves. I fail to see what they gain by buying Flickr, instead of making their own YImages or something. Anyone?
I am using it exclusively for a few years now; it and Firefox have also eased my migration to Linux a few months back quite nicely. There are options missing (like separate Word Count in Writer 1.1.3), but you can download them as scripts. It does all I need to do and opens all my.doc,.rtf and.xls files adequately.
It's a shame, though, how you still cannot use OO formats exclusively, since compatibility with the fascist world of MS Office is pretty much why you use any Office suite to begin with.
More uphill? I disagree completely - while Firefox competes against MS's "freebeer" program already installed on most computers in the world today, this one competes against quite an expensive package. And guess what? It fulfills the needs of most users just fine, just as it handles most MS office documents just fine. YMMV, but it's freebeer.
Putting aside whether AFP has the right to control who aggregates their content, where and how it is displayed, this is just idiocy.
It's just another chapter in the constant war between the forces who would lock content down, draw users to their sites and than burn down all semantic bridges, against the very nature of the Internet. Connectedness, restructuring and copying information is here to stay. We can cry about companies who are losing money because they are selling information, but that does not mean that anyone can help them at this point. Their current business models are almost dead at this point.
So as long as a payment is going to someone, the moral slate is wiped clean?
But what is the purpose of said payment in this case? You pay it whether you use your medium to store your backup, original contents you published under a Creative Commons licence, backup of your Matrix DVD, or a downloaded copy of someone else's Matrix DVD.
And, BTW, we are talking about the money here. I'm would not be touching moral issues surrounding file sharing with a ten-foot pole. My views tend to be radical.
Although in this I can see (see me not judging, merely observing) the trend of French trying systematically to piss off America, there is one interesting point - the blank media tax. If people who pay for it are not allowed to download movies and burn them on taxed media, then what is its point?
Anti-virus software is a sign of platform's maturity... a sort of an OS Bar Mitzvah. There are probably Nokia engineers working on new worms, tightly collaborating with their anti-virus engineers.
They could probably make a psychological profile of you by now.
And it would really show my multiple personality disorder; a new face for each session.
Not only has it been said, also drawn:
http://www.geocities.com/msadscan/msad-1280x1024.j pg
(not linkified since it's a Geocities link and I took pity...)
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They are really rubbing everyone's nose in it, changing all their cinemas to digital twice in two weeks.
How exactly does Emporer Linux justify chargin $500 more for a computer without a licencsed OS?
Their Linux is lovingly hand-crafter, rolled between the thighs of Indonesian virgins and each package is sealed with a kiss from Linus Torvalds himself. And it's not "Emporer", but EMPEROR!!! EMPEROR, damn your illiterate bones. The finest of Linuxes.
On MacOSX, most (all?) network services such as ftp, sshd, httpd... are turned off by default.
Yes, but there are still vectors of e-mail attachments and ichy user fingers. Mac OS X is used by a lot of people who are just as clueless as some of those who do it on Windows. So, build a user base and the viruses will come.
From what experience I've had with Norton antivirus for the PC, it does more damage to performance (network latency and throughput, memory and processor usage) than most malware. I've never installed it myself, just seen it on other people's PCs. I might just have wrong/incomplete experiences, but I think that their software is bloated crap with a horribly confusing UI. If I had a Mac OS X, I would prefer to have a command-line controlled utility which I never have to see, which runs as a service, updates transparently and can be fully controlled using plaintext configuration files. NOT anything remotely like Norton for the PC. Virex might not be good, but unleashing the pestilence of Norton upon the Mac is... cruel. Isn't there something like a chkrootkit in Darwin ports or Fink?
It's a meme, which I think originated from the fact that Mac hardware used to be more expensive and thus bought by rich people for its stylishness. With Mac Mini and the advent of cheap Mac, I predict this meme is about to die.
I don't think it's really about samples - the man hardly needs his skinflakes or his hair bits back and he sheds it all around anyway. As for the data it represents? Why, "we" keep it forever, of course. He is just the first in line, I'm willing to bet that within 20 years "we" will have a database of DNA samples from all "our" citizens - or whoever accepts my bet wins my slightly weathered tinfoil hat.
I have hacked my girlfriend to accept me hacking all her stuff to accept iPod Shuffle.
Yahoo is damn well a stronger brand than Flickr is at the moment - and they are saying it is to be kept separate. And it's not as if Flickr's functions are patented or as if Yahoo didn't have the infrastructure to pull it off themselves. I fail to see what they gain by buying Flickr, instead of making their own YImages or something. Anyone?
Ach, I was some ten milliseconds too late in realizing that. Slashdot needs a bloody "edit post" function.
where the author notes that fifty percent of the time an IRS employee is on the computer they are playing games, shopping online or gambling
Would that mean the IRS employs 50% too many workers?
... and with this regulation fell the last obstacle to Linux acceptance in North Carolina.
There's a conflict of interests at work here, senator is just scared that everyone will download his awesome music for free.
It's nice that both Ubuntu and Kubuntu have meaning and that they both imply humanity.
Ubuntu = humanity towards others Kubuntu = towards humanity
I am using it exclusively for a few years now; it and Firefox have also eased my migration to Linux a few months back quite nicely. There are options missing (like separate Word Count in Writer 1.1.3), but you can download them as scripts. It does all I need to do and opens all my .doc, .rtf and .xls files adequately.
It's a shame, though, how you still cannot use OO formats exclusively, since compatibility with the fascist world of MS Office is pretty much why you use any Office suite to begin with.
More uphill? I disagree completely - while Firefox competes against MS's "freebeer" program already installed on most computers in the world today, this one competes against quite an expensive package. And guess what? It fulfills the needs of most users just fine, just as it handles most MS office documents just fine. YMMV, but it's freebeer.
Putting aside whether AFP has the right to control who aggregates their content, where and how it is displayed, this is just idiocy.
It's just another chapter in the constant war between the forces who would lock content down, draw users to their sites and than burn down all semantic bridges, against the very nature of the Internet. Connectedness, restructuring and copying information is here to stay. We can cry about companies who are losing money because they are selling information, but that does not mean that anyone can help them at this point. Their current business models are almost dead at this point.
So as long as a payment is going to someone, the moral slate is wiped clean?
But what is the purpose of said payment in this case? You pay it whether you use your medium to store your backup, original contents you published under a Creative Commons licence, backup of your Matrix DVD, or a downloaded copy of someone else's Matrix DVD.
And, BTW, we are talking about the money here. I'm would not be touching moral issues surrounding file sharing with a ten-foot pole. My views tend to be radical.
No, as I see it, uploading is distributing in this case. You pay tax per piece of media, how could it cover you disseminating it a hundred times?
Although in this I can see (see me not judging, merely observing) the trend of French trying systematically to piss off America, there is one interesting point - the blank media tax. If people who pay for it are not allowed to download movies and burn them on taxed media, then what is its point?
Anti-virus software is a sign of platform's maturity... a sort of an OS Bar Mitzvah. There are probably Nokia engineers working on new worms, tightly collaborating with their anti-virus engineers.
They could probably make a psychological profile of you by now. And it would really show my multiple personality disorder; a new face for each session.
Isn't that what the nanobots do?
...much useful knowledge!
Not only has it been said, also drawn: http://www.geocities.com/msadscan/msad-1280x1024.j pg
(not linkified since it's a Geocities link and I took pity...)
...as "Peeing at Netscape 8" and thought how, finally, here's an article that a geek could appreciate.