You are the one missing something - the monopolies were the ones paid years ago to provide the country with fiber (by congress) and they haven't built anything yet.
It seems to me, they haven't fulfilled their part of the contract and thus forfeit their monopoly status by not providing service. By now, no one should have be using dial-up service anymore.
Bullshit. You must be a retard if you trust anything your kids say. They may be surfing the same sites, but they're downloading and executing ZOMG U MUST SEE THIS!!1 shit on the PC which isn't compatible with any other OS.
I haven't seen a virus on my PCs since my 286, which came preloaded with them, and my own deliberate HPAVC collection from the BBS days.
He's not trusting what his kids say, he's seeing the results for himself. And who cares what his kids download? They had limited user accounts, it SHOULD NOT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE what they downloaded.
Some windows users love closing their eyes to the results and stammer and sputter about marketshare and all that crap - but the fact is that Windows has more attack vectors for whatever reason. Like your parent said, security is a bandaid on windows, not built in. I don't know the entire reasons for that, I heard that in unix, services run as a normal user account, sandboxed away from causing damage while in Windows many services run as root - meaning only one has to be compromised for something malicious to gain control.
There are probably other reasons and the OP may have well talked about Ubuntu instead of a Mac -- but your sample size of one is unconvincing from every angle. You're obviously not the average computer user, nor do you anticipate the truly stupid shit some people do and how kids play with their computers.
Running as root would be just as stupid (something Ubuntu does not have one do by default but I believe Mac does?) but having extensive contact with the administrators in my old school - they let the macs be while the Windows based systems are set to be reimaged every night simply because it's too much of a pain to keep Windows clean for more than a week among groups of students. Default UAC in Vista might have finally changed that, but their machines still run the cheapest form of XP (without UAC) and it also does not get rid of the services issue.
I just wish music executives would STFU. Music is not that important, I can and do live without it. I haven't bought a new CD in ages. I just don't care that much anymore.
I see pictures strewn across the web the entire time, most of it probably not licensed - and I have yet to hear the constant f-ing bitching of artists whining how everyone is illegally downloading their art. There are enough original contributions to deviant art and other sites, etc. And jpegs are not villified as illegal like mp3s were.
Seriously, music cartel of executives, just STFU and die already. We'll survive without you. So will musicians. I'm so tired of the whining of this specific group.
You are incorrect about the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. They are not separate SKUs. There is no such thing as an upgrade from Vista Business 32-bit to Vista Business 64-bit. If you own a license of Vista Business than you can install and use either.
How come is it that I can only order alternative media if it's retail package and not an OEM license then? (I ordered Vista Business though). But OEM licenses for some reason cannot get alternative media...
It takes way too many resources. Maybe 3 years down the line, but Microsoft really dropped the ball by ignoring the reality of the fastest growing segment in computer sales.
Because of this, Apple is having great sales on the high/upper-mid-end with it's very nice line notebooks and Linux is getting a start on the lower end.
Without Vista, I don't think it would have been possible for Linux to get a foothold.
The year of Linux on the Desktop is distant, but thanks to Microsoft, the Year of Linux on the notebook looks like it's becoming reality sooner rather than later.
And the way a distro like Ubuntu evolves so quickly from year to year, I think it's a mistake that MS can't afford to do again.
In a few years, we'll see that MS was the one who dropped the ball to allow the competition the elbow room to come in.
It's also making things worse by having so many different versions and while it's debatable that Vista should have been wholly 64bit (definitely by Windows 7), MS doesn't even have the decency to provide 32/64bit on the same disc but is trying to grab every nickel it can from it's customers who chose one or the other (many discs don't qualify from alternative media).
I'm not a Vista hater. I actually like it better - it's UI for explorer (folders) is much better and I like that, unlike XP Home, UAC is in every release of Vista. I think the security is also better but not great yet -- services shouldn't run in administrator level but just be sandboxed to their own account.
But it is dog slow out of the box for many computers with integrated video chipsets (why some manufacturers don't set the Aero level appropriately for their models is beyond me). It takes up too many resources of low-end computers. And Microsoft has gotten way too version happy - 12 versions IIRC (counting 32 and 64 bit seperately). Microsoft is also squeezing wallets for truly inane things - I can't even get 64bit business upgrade easily when I have 32 bit business even though such an upgrade should be minimal costs (somehow my disc doesn't count for alternative media...).
Why is this? I don't know if it's peculiar to Vista, but it really pisses me off when the computer decides that it will restart in T - 10 minutes just for a security upgrade and there is nothing I can do about it -- which pretty much summarizes how Microsoft is treating the customer base in a lot of decisions.
No wonder Macs are starting to get popular on the high end and Linux is starting to get popular on the low end mini notebooks. XP sucks in a lot of regards security-wise, but at least it's small and fast and there were only 2 versions of it for a desktop and all the Apps work on it (Endicia Dazzle still isn't 100% Vista ready...)
I don't know. I think it depends on the implementation. UPC codes are okay and were a good leap forward but it seems to have been stationary since then, except for self-checkout lanes which have been a boon if you buy a small amount of items.
It would think the next leap forward if just RFIDing everything and once the cart gets pushed through those narrow checkout aisles, it would total up everything within seconds and the few items that can't due to weight (would notify the cashier). It's probably doable today, but to get all the manufacturers on board as well as supermarkets adopting it.
Those want a limited government (which itself is a more correct term, a smaller government is the natural effect byproduct of a limited government but a smaller government isn't always more limited - i.e. outsourcing everything)
"Conservative" means nothing anymore, it's been so diluted. The biggest "conservatives" are nothing more but against taxes (passing staggering debt onto future generations while still paying for massive entitlements/porkbarrel is not more conservative than tax and spend), embrace war against drugs/crime/poverty/nations (war is the health of the state, thus anti-conservative) and lastly, wear their religion on their sleeve yet none of it in their hearts except when convenient.
Plus the term liberal drives many of the unreasonable ones on edge. People like Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh types that want to pidgeonhole everyone in their arguments.
Holocaust denial? Must both sides be given a equal voice by mandate? How about flat-earth theory? Or moon hoax hypothesis? Or is this where the government suddenly decides what is "mainstream" and what is kooky. If they decide that, where will the boundary be for other, much more legitimate ideas that Government may not like. Will it be that they suddenly decide what the bounds of fair discourse is by controlling the parameters?
Why is it that so many people think that the government, a large force with its own agenda, will do a much better job than many individuals not geared around a singular goal/entity? The Patriot Act was not patriotic, and the Fairness doctrine will not be fair.
Although ofcourse no other Indiana Jones could ever compare to Harrison Ford.
Yeah, I used to think that about Jack Nicholson's Joker... then Heath Ledger came along. We all love movies from our youth, but remember things as much better than they were when a new interpretation comes along.
It's a perfectly reasonable request, which Verizon denied solely because some arbitrary filter detected a naughty word buried in the address, a word that would only be noticed by someone with a juvenile mindset.
Well, I would think everybody would notice the bad word. It's in the cultural mindset now. Have you ever noticed that kids love bad words so much because it's forbidden, and it's forbidden only because of the reactions it gets out of adults? If they wouldn't garner such a overreaction most of the time, I'd think they'd be as bland as any other word. Funny, the sway a word can have over people while the synonyms are accepted (which I think was Carlin's point with his famous 11 words routine).
Or you could a bigger used one. What's nice about the rebel/night is the small engine size though, it only goes 80, but gets about 65-70mpg and depending on your driving style you could easily hit 80mpg. What more could you want in a mostly city environment?
Of course, if he's happy with the segway -- I ain't going to question it.
They gladly gave him DSL. What they didn't do was allow a username/email address with 'shit' in it and he insisted since that was part of his name. I'm glad he got his way in the end, but he wasn't being denied the service itself.
As early as 2002, a court rejected Microsoft's claims, stating that Microsoft had used the term "windows" to describe graphical user interfaces before the product, Windows, was ever released, and that the windowing technique had already been implemented by Xerox and Apple many years before[1]. Microsoft kept seeking retrial, but in February 2004, a judge rejected two of Microsoft's central claims[2]. The judge denied Microsoft's request for a preliminary injunction and raised "serious questions" about Microsoft's trademark. Microsoft feared that a court may define "Windows" as generic and result in the loss of its status as a trademark. In July 2004, Microsoft offered to settle with Lindows.[3] As part of this licensing settlement, Microsoft paid an estimated $24 million cash (for a case that Microsoft itself brought), and Lindows transferred the Lindows trademark to Microsoft and changed their name to Linspire.
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What's the difference between a functional language like Lisp and a lazy functional language?
Just asking.
to stop the attacks in the first place. Lots of other ways to claim responsibility for attacks. As usual, it just makes the common man a criminal...
You are the one missing something - the monopolies were the ones paid years ago to provide the country with fiber (by congress) and they haven't built anything yet.
It seems to me, they haven't fulfilled their part of the contract and thus forfeit their monopoly status by not providing service. By now, no one should have be using dial-up service anymore.
He's not trusting what his kids say, he's seeing the results for himself. And who cares what his kids download? They had limited user accounts, it SHOULD NOT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE what they downloaded.
Some windows users love closing their eyes to the results and stammer and sputter about marketshare and all that crap - but the fact is that Windows has more attack vectors for whatever reason. Like your parent said, security is a bandaid on windows, not built in. I don't know the entire reasons for that, I heard that in unix, services run as a normal user account, sandboxed away from causing damage while in Windows many services run as root - meaning only one has to be compromised for something malicious to gain control.
There are probably other reasons and the OP may have well talked about Ubuntu instead of a Mac -- but your sample size of one is unconvincing from every angle. You're obviously not the average computer user, nor do you anticipate the truly stupid shit some people do and how kids play with their computers.
Running as root would be just as stupid (something Ubuntu does not have one do by default but I believe Mac does?) but having extensive contact with the administrators in my old school - they let the macs be while the Windows based systems are set to be reimaged every night simply because it's too much of a pain to keep Windows clean for more than a week among groups of students. Default UAC in Vista might have finally changed that, but their machines still run the cheapest form of XP (without UAC) and it also does not get rid of the services issue.
One word: robots. They're coming. And it's better than "domestic reproduction".
Why? Because what you suggest is a pyramid scheme and planet earth can't support that in the long run.
(And by looking at our debt looking forward it is clear we as a nation are not wealthy. We just borrowed on our children's backs.)
You can man the pumps, I'll man the liferaft!
with the emails.
There aren't really enough, and I guess I don't have enough of a sense of humor to really get this non-sequitur summary and emails.
I just wish music executives would STFU. Music is not that important, I can and do live without it. I haven't bought a new CD in ages. I just don't care that much anymore.
I see pictures strewn across the web the entire time, most of it probably not licensed - and I have yet to hear the constant f-ing bitching of artists whining how everyone is illegally downloading their art. There are enough original contributions to deviant art and other sites, etc. And jpegs are not villified as illegal like mp3s were.
Seriously, music cartel of executives, just STFU and die already. We'll survive without you. So will musicians. I'm so tired of the whining of this specific group.
Pictures and stuffed animals are generally not animated...
It's hard to feel revulsion from a still. When something tries to be alive (animated), that's when it kicks in.
How come is it that I can only order alternative media if it's retail package and not an OEM license then? (I ordered Vista Business though). But OEM licenses for some reason cannot get alternative media...
It takes way too many resources. Maybe 3 years down the line, but Microsoft really dropped the ball by ignoring the reality of the fastest growing segment in computer sales.
Because of this, Apple is having great sales on the high/upper-mid-end with it's very nice line notebooks and Linux is getting a start on the lower end.
Without Vista, I don't think it would have been possible for Linux to get a foothold.
The year of Linux on the Desktop is distant, but thanks to Microsoft, the Year of Linux on the notebook looks like it's becoming reality sooner rather than later.
And the way a distro like Ubuntu evolves so quickly from year to year, I think it's a mistake that MS can't afford to do again.
In a few years, we'll see that MS was the one who dropped the ball to allow the competition the elbow room to come in.
It's also making things worse by having so many different versions and while it's debatable that Vista should have been wholly 64bit (definitely by Windows 7), MS doesn't even have the decency to provide 32/64bit on the same disc but is trying to grab every nickel it can from it's customers who chose one or the other (many discs don't qualify from alternative media).
How is XP a downgrade?
I'm not a Vista hater. I actually like it better - it's UI for explorer (folders) is much better and I like that, unlike XP Home, UAC is in every release of Vista. I think the security is also better but not great yet -- services shouldn't run in administrator level but just be sandboxed to their own account.
But it is dog slow out of the box for many computers with integrated video chipsets (why some manufacturers don't set the Aero level appropriately for their models is beyond me). It takes up too many resources of low-end computers. And Microsoft has gotten way too version happy - 12 versions IIRC (counting 32 and 64 bit seperately). Microsoft is also squeezing wallets for truly inane things - I can't even get 64bit business upgrade easily when I have 32 bit business even though such an upgrade should be minimal costs (somehow my disc doesn't count for alternative media...).
Why is this? I don't know if it's peculiar to Vista, but it really pisses me off when the computer decides that it will restart in T - 10 minutes just for a security upgrade and there is nothing I can do about it -- which pretty much summarizes how Microsoft is treating the customer base in a lot of decisions.
No wonder Macs are starting to get popular on the high end and Linux is starting to get popular on the low end mini notebooks. XP sucks in a lot of regards security-wise, but at least it's small and fast and there were only 2 versions of it for a desktop and all the Apps work on it (Endicia Dazzle still isn't 100% Vista ready...)
I don't know. I think it depends on the implementation. UPC codes are okay and were a good leap forward but it seems to have been stationary since then, except for self-checkout lanes which have been a boon if you buy a small amount of items.
It would think the next leap forward if just RFIDing everything and once the cart gets pushed through those narrow checkout aisles, it would total up everything within seconds and the few items that can't due to weight (would notify the cashier). It's probably doable today, but to get all the manufacturers on board as well as supermarkets adopting it.
I like Spongebob as a person/thing/whatever, but I do not agree with his politics.
Too much indoctrination by the media, especially Fox News which I had to listen to at work lately:) You are correct.
Go by the term Classical Liberal then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Those want a limited government (which itself is a more correct term, a smaller government is the natural effect byproduct of a limited government but a smaller government isn't always more limited - i.e. outsourcing everything)
"Conservative" means nothing anymore, it's been so diluted. The biggest "conservatives" are nothing more but against taxes (passing staggering debt onto future generations while still paying for massive entitlements/porkbarrel is not more conservative than tax and spend), embrace war against drugs/crime/poverty/nations (war is the health of the state, thus anti-conservative) and lastly, wear their religion on their sleeve yet none of it in their hearts except when convenient.
Plus the term liberal drives many of the unreasonable ones on edge. People like Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh types that want to pidgeonhole everyone in their arguments.
Holocaust denial? Must both sides be given a equal voice by mandate? How about flat-earth theory? Or moon hoax hypothesis? Or is this where the government suddenly decides what is "mainstream" and what is kooky. If they decide that, where will the boundary be for other, much more legitimate ideas that Government may not like. Will it be that they suddenly decide what the bounds of fair discourse is by controlling the parameters?
Why is it that so many people think that the government, a large force with its own agenda, will do a much better job than many individuals not geared around a singular goal/entity? The Patriot Act was not patriotic, and the Fairness doctrine will not be fair.
There are only 10 types of people in the world --
those who understand binary, and those who get laid.
Your point is backed by African economist James Shikwati in the article "Stop the Aid!"
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html
Yeah, I used to think that about Jack Nicholson's Joker... then Heath Ledger came along. We all love movies from our youth, but remember things as much better than they were when a new interpretation comes along.
Cultural habit, sorry:) Otherwise, I really don't give a shit.
Well, I would think everybody would notice the bad word. It's in the cultural mindset now. Have you ever noticed that kids love bad words so much because it's forbidden, and it's forbidden only because of the reactions it gets out of adults? If they wouldn't garner such a overreaction most of the time, I'd think they'd be as bland as any other word. Funny, the sway a word can have over people while the synonyms are accepted (which I think was Carlin's point with his famous 11 words routine).
Unlike a segway, a car requires considerable parking space, maintenance, gas, etc.
For the money and distance, depending on climate, for this person a motorcycle may be in order. Something small and cheap like the Honda Rebel retails only for 3K which is cheaper/comparable to a segway:
http://powersports.honda.com/motorcycles/cruiser_standard/model.asp?ModelName=Rebel&ModelYear=2008&ModelId=CMX250C8
Or you could a bigger used one. What's nice about the rebel/night is the small engine size though, it only goes 80, but gets about 65-70mpg and depending on your driving style you could easily hit 80mpg. What more could you want in a mostly city environment?
Of course, if he's happy with the segway -- I ain't going to question it.
They gladly gave him DSL. What they didn't do was allow a username/email address with 'shit' in it and he insisted since that was part of his name. I'm glad he got his way in the end, but he wasn't being denied the service itself.
ORLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._Lindows