I already have all I need from XP, Ubuntu has a loOOoooooooong way to go to even reach that humble benchmark
You forgot to describe what that 'humble benchmark' is, but in any case it depends on what your needs are. What do you feel is lacking?
You may need Photoshop, DRM or games, so you use XP.
I need 100% legal software on a low budget; a rock solid, cross-platform programming environment; audio routing across almost any 2 audio applications. I don't want to wait for minutes and minutes when searching for a file- I want it NOW. XP just doesn't cut it for me.
Interesting enough, more and more software that started out as Open Source software for Linux only is becoming available for XP. Do you use Firefox? Thunderbird? Gaim? Gimp? Audacity? Open office? Free software is becoming an increasingly realistic alternative to closed software.
If you like that philosophy, you may want to order in a free live CD and take it for a spin. It won't cost you anything- you won't even have to install anything.
I guess it would be pretty simple to have someone doing liposuction sign away their rights to the fat. One persons waste is another persons gold mine.
Doctor: "Do you want to bring home the fat in a kitty bag?"
Patient: "No, why would I want to do that?"
Doctor: "Well I guess you won't mind terribly much then if we use some of the fat for stem cell research and making soap?"
I think the real/. has been turned to stone by Natalie Portman's hot grits. This is just an imitation from Soviet Russia. What- does that mean.... Soviet Russia imitates YOU?
and put all of the energy and cost savings into developing encrypted telepathy It will never work. Considering the trash in my brain, I must conclude that it has already been done, and it has already been compromised.
32h07m divided by 31,000 highway cops means driving past one patrol officer on average every 3.7 seconds. How can the gadgets help under such circumstances?
Go-go gadget donut-thrower!
"We will continue to defend our rights." Hello spokesman. Please define 'defend', 'our' and 'rights'. Attacking people is not defense, it is offense. Also, it looks more and more as though you are acting in the interest of the RIAA itself rather than the artists that it represents. As for 'rights', you have the right to exist as long as you add value.
"All Americans need to research the Presidential candidates *now*"
Actually all they should have done that before RE-electing the current one. The world, not just the US. is a worse place because of it.
And for everyday use... "You seem stressed - I'll delay all your incoming mails (including the one you are stressed over not having arrived yet)"... Clippy, is that you?
Let me get this straight. What Balmer is saying is "People who use [Linux] [...] have an obligation to compensate [Microsoft]". Yes, I deliberately left out the intellectual property bits to show how ridiculous it sounds. It's like saying people who eat at Burger King have an obligation to compensate McDonalds. No, they don't. Just because you think you invented the One and Only Burger and some people made a choice for the competition, that doesn't mean that those people owe you ANYTHING.
Users generally don't help out, but post a lot of "Help me, please!" requests, soaking up even more of your time. True. That's why I've included a pdf manual with my project. This has reduced the cries for help, *and* I get to say RTFM once in a while, which makes it all worthwhile:)
What about Fine Arts? Watching a nice concert performed by actual humans? Not *everything* is material, after all. Those humans are going to need to invest their time in practice, and it better be worth it.
The presence of currency is not a sign of poverty/scarcity alone. Above all it is a sign of mortality and decay.
Time is money- If I work one hour, I get one hour worth of pay. My time is worth something to me because I am mortal- if I would be immortal, I could invest huge amounts of time in learning how to grow all my own vegetables, how to build my own car, how to refine my own fuel etc. But like most people, I don't have enough time in my life to learn all of that, so I take the shortcut: I exchange my time for money, which I then exchange (directly or indirectly) for other people's time again.
Another had a custom listening room built as an annex to his house....the acoustics of which were instantly deformed as soon as he would actually *enter* the room to listen to some music in there. You can buy the greatest and latest cables, but if you're gonna be in the room where the audio is being played, you're going to distort it. So better not be present while the music is being reproduced. That way you'll know for sure that there will be as little audio distortion as possible.
If I own the CD, I can do with it whatever I damn well please, including copying it. I can copy anything to which I have ownership, after all. This is why record companies like to say you own the CD but you license the content. Well now, if I licensed the song, then I can copy it for my own (fair) use, because I already licensed it. By the way, I never copy CDs or DVDs, I just make 'back ups', of course;)
Okay, enough. At that point, they've more than lost me. All I want to know is, How do I use it? A simple example gives much more 'instant gratification' style information:
user@host:~$ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.183.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from nf-in-f104.google.com (64.233.183.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=11.3 ms 64 bytes from nf-in-f104.google.com (64.233.183.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=69.3 ms...
This is enough for everyday use. No need to bother with the gritty details at first. Once the users get to that point, they won't mind the schemas and full help descriptions.
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I already have all I need from XP, Ubuntu has a loOOoooooooong way to go to even reach that humble benchmark
You forgot to describe what that 'humble benchmark' is, but in any case it depends on what your needs are. What do you feel is lacking?
You may need Photoshop, DRM or games, so you use XP.
I need 100% legal software on a low budget; a rock solid, cross-platform programming environment; audio routing across almost any 2 audio applications. I don't want to wait for minutes and minutes when searching for a file- I want it NOW. XP just doesn't cut it for me.
Interesting enough, more and more software that started out as Open Source software for Linux only is becoming available for XP. Do you use Firefox? Thunderbird? Gaim? Gimp? Audacity? Open office? Free software is becoming an increasingly realistic alternative to closed software.
If you like that philosophy, you may want to order in a free live CD and take it for a spin. It won't cost you anything- you won't even have to install anything.
I guess it would be pretty simple to have someone doing liposuction sign away their rights to the fat. One persons waste is another persons gold mine. Doctor: "Do you want to bring home the fat in a kitty bag?" Patient: "No, why would I want to do that?" Doctor: "Well I guess you won't mind terribly much then if we use some of the fat for stem cell research and making soap?"
I think the real /. has been turned to stone by Natalie Portman's hot grits. This is just an imitation from Soviet Russia.
What- does that mean.... Soviet Russia imitates YOU?
and put all of the energy and cost savings into developing encrypted telepathy
It will never work. Considering the trash in my brain, I must conclude that it has already been done, and it has already been compromised.
32h07m divided by 31,000 highway cops means driving past one patrol officer on average every 3.7 seconds. How can the gadgets help under such circumstances? Go-go gadget donut-thrower!
"We will continue to defend our rights." Hello spokesman. Please define 'defend', 'our' and 'rights'. Attacking people is not defense, it is offense. Also, it looks more and more as though you are acting in the interest of the RIAA itself rather than the artists that it represents. As for 'rights', you have the right to exist as long as you add value.
"Are they actually running Linux?" You must be new here. The correct wording is, "But do they run Linux?"
Show that the project has some military application. If you manage to divert away the money from the army like that, kudos to you.
"All Americans need to research the Presidential candidates *now*" Actually all they should have done that before RE-electing the current one. The world, not just the US. is a worse place because of it.
...they better have deep pockets.
Because in Soviet Russia, ...
That will take at least half an hour to break! *sigh* How I wish I had never seen that movie.
...and a mechanical spy-bird cra*ped on my tinfoil hat.... and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
The difference is- an image handling vulnerability is in IE or Firefox is a bug. In the iPhone, it happened to be a feature.
And for everyday use... "You seem stressed - I'll delay all your incoming mails (including the one you are stressed over not having arrived yet)" ... Clippy, is that you?
Let me get this straight. What Balmer is saying is "People who use [Linux] [...] have an obligation to compensate [Microsoft]". Yes, I deliberately left out the intellectual property bits to show how ridiculous it sounds. It's like saying people who eat at Burger King have an obligation to compensate McDonalds. No, they don't. Just because you think you invented the One and Only Burger and some people made a choice for the competition, that doesn't mean that those people owe you ANYTHING.
Users generally don't help out, but post a lot of "Help me, please!" requests, soaking up even more of your time. True. That's why I've included a pdf manual with my project. This has reduced the cries for help, *and* I get to say RTFM once in a while, which makes it all worthwhile :)
Extending on this, there will always be stuff that doesn't exist. Doing anything creative/new will always cost precious time.
What about Fine Arts? Watching a nice concert performed by actual humans? Not *everything* is material, after all. Those humans are going to need to invest their time in practice, and it better be worth it.
The presence of currency is not a sign of poverty/scarcity alone. Above all it is a sign of mortality and decay. Time is money- If I work one hour, I get one hour worth of pay. My time is worth something to me because I am mortal- if I would be immortal, I could invest huge amounts of time in learning how to grow all my own vegetables, how to build my own car, how to refine my own fuel etc. But like most people, I don't have enough time in my life to learn all of that, so I take the shortcut: I exchange my time for money, which I then exchange (directly or indirectly) for other people's time again.
Another had a custom listening room built as an annex to his house. ...the acoustics of which were instantly deformed as soon as he would actually *enter* the room to listen to some music in there. You can buy the greatest and latest cables, but if you're gonna be in the room where the audio is being played, you're going to distort it. So better not be present while the music is being reproduced. That way you'll know for sure that there will be as little audio distortion as possible.
If I own the CD, I can do with it whatever I damn well please, including copying it. I can copy anything to which I have ownership, after all. This is why record companies like to say you own the CD but you license the content. Well now, if I licensed the song, then I can copy it for my own (fair) use, because I already licensed it. By the way, I never copy CDs or DVDs, I just make 'back ups', of course ;)
"If what you make can be copied so easily and cheaply, then it's not so special." You just stepped on my soul. I write software for a living. *sob*
No trolling intended, but just having the schemas is like just having the UNIX man pages without examples.
...
Let me clarify, bear with me- The man page for 'ping', for instance, is all-encompassing but rather intimidating when it comes to every-day use:
NAME
ping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
SYNOPSIS
ping [-dfnqrvR] [-c count] [-i wait] [-l preload] [-p pattern]
[-s packetsize]
DESCRIPTION
Ping uses the ICM... etc
Okay, enough. At that point, they've more than lost me. All I want to know is, How do I use it?
A simple example gives much more 'instant gratification' style information:
user@host:~$ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.183.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from nf-in-f104.google.com (64.233.183.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=11.3 ms
64 bytes from nf-in-f104.google.com (64.233.183.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=69.3 ms
This is enough for everyday use. No need to bother with the gritty details at first. Once the users get to that point, they won't mind the schemas and full help descriptions.
Is that even legal?