Wow, perhaps you would feel better on an island all alone and without any infrastructure like fire departments and police forces. No grocery stores, 7-11s or gas stations, just you and the island. Now that's freedom! Liberty has always consisted of a series of choices, American Liberty doubly so. It's confusing and yes it's work to figure out how to stay free. There are guidelines in several documents that are available to you for free however. But there's one or two things that always get in the way of Liberty and that's idiots that don't bother to educate themselves. Linux is very trivial and deserves to have jokes made about it, Liberty is great because you can make jokes about it.
Wow nice set of excuses and rationalizations. The Droid is a great phone, so is the iPhone they both have strengths and weaknesses, right now the greatest weakness the Droid has is Verizon.
That's what Verizon does and why even if they got the iPhone I wouldn't switch. They wanted an extra dime for every feature of my razr as well and I got tired of it.
What the hell good does that map do if it costs you 5 bucks every time you want to see it.
It would seem that both respecting copyrights and having products that you want to buy are a good thing. So where is the contention. Are you trying to get them to provide you with content that you want or are you scamming them as much as you think they are scamming you. It has long been known that consumers want the best products for free. The vendor wants to sell you the cheapest thing he can buy for as much as you can pay for it. The business model hasn't changed there, how exactly do you expect them to change the scarcity/profit formula to suit your needs? I'd really like to hear the people screaming about the bad business model to explain exactly how it should be changed, because I don't think they actually know what a business model is.
If you just want to track that stuff, get a magic jack. It does keep track of those things. Rather nicely too.
Of course you have to leave a computer on all the time but you expected that.
I just wished 'anti-trust' hammers to fall upon their heads.
I just wish people would educate themselves on what constitutes a "trust" worthy of having anti-trust applied to it.
Petty fiefdoms and not invented here syndrome will continue to torpedo any chance for a decent Linux on the desktop. Until Linux has a single binary and a universal installation strategy they will continue to be mostly harmless and largely irrelevant to the desktop market at large.
The only thing I have discovered about IQ is that someone ~3 standard deviations below yours will not be as curious about everything as you are and will not be able to hold a deep enough conversation about the things that you find interesting, objectively speaking of course. Now if someone is passionate about a subject IQ will make no difference at all but the subject range narrows a bit as IQ goes down. YMMV completely. This is an observation not an absolute statement.
So you pay with CPU cycles instead of cash, well that's true if you don't spend the cash, no FUD there is no Uncertainty about it. Happy to spread Fear and Doubt though.
Interesting personal anecdote, I have 4 ibooks that all work perfectly to this day but that is irrelevant too, what does it have to do with your current statement that you are happy with Debian. I'll take that you once had an interest in Apple to be your reason for making the anecdotal statement but what prompted your previous inexplicable outburst about Apple?
I stand corrected, it is 3rd party plug-ins. I believe you will find that there are indeed limitations to what you can do. Even in the full version of Visual Studio you are forbidden to write word processing applications. It's in the EULA you should read it sometime.
If you have a valid argument, then state it and let it be debated. Repeatedly calling parent posters morons is just childish.
I see, Ok you parse this text and tell me what argument you can make of it: Would you 'update' your car's tires to support fewer makes/models of tire?
Magnuson-Moss act:
The statute is remedial in nature and is intended to protect consumers from deceptive warranty practices. Consumer products are not required to have warranties, but if one is given, it must comply with the Magnuson-Moss Act.
I fail to see how it applies here.
Not a Mac user, nor a Hackintosh user. I'm fine with Debian, thank you very much.
Good go away, you obviously have no business here at all. Why stick your nose in where you don't have a stake and have no interest?
Try developing something with Visual Studio Express. In the license you are limited what you can develop and you can't use any 3rd party libraries. You also can't develop for Win Mobile with the express versions. There are free Dev environments for Windows but that Visual Studio Express isn't viable for professional development the FULL tool chain that comes with Mac OS X is.
Windows 7 Professional $149.99 + Free Shipping. is the cheapest I can find it?
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Wow, perhaps you would feel better on an island all alone and without any infrastructure like fire departments and police forces. No grocery stores, 7-11s or gas stations, just you and the island. Now that's freedom! Liberty has always consisted of a series of choices, American Liberty doubly so. It's confusing and yes it's work to figure out how to stay free. There are guidelines in several documents that are available to you for free however. But there's one or two things that always get in the way of Liberty and that's idiots that don't bother to educate themselves. Linux is very trivial and deserves to have jokes made about it, Liberty is great because you can make jokes about it.
Wow nice set of excuses and rationalizations. The Droid is a great phone, so is the iPhone they both have strengths and weaknesses, right now the greatest weakness the Droid has is Verizon.
That's what Verizon does and why even if they got the iPhone I wouldn't switch. They wanted an extra dime for every feature of my razr as well and I got tired of it. What the hell good does that map do if it costs you 5 bucks every time you want to see it.
This mouse is a good metaphor for Linux and OSS. Too many choices and very confusing interfaces. Good job guys!
It would seem that both respecting copyrights and having products that you want to buy are a good thing. So where is the contention. Are you trying to get them to provide you with content that you want or are you scamming them as much as you think they are scamming you. It has long been known that consumers want the best products for free. The vendor wants to sell you the cheapest thing he can buy for as much as you can pay for it. The business model hasn't changed there, how exactly do you expect them to change the scarcity/profit formula to suit your needs? I'd really like to hear the people screaming about the bad business model to explain exactly how it should be changed, because I don't think they actually know what a business model is.
Wow, I found a way to link sexual innuendo to quantum physics, and I'm not tellin' how!
Cool but not for sale apparently.
If you just want to track that stuff, get a magic jack. It does keep track of those things. Rather nicely too. Of course you have to leave a computer on all the time but you expected that.
I just wished 'anti-trust' hammers to fall upon their heads.
I just wish people would educate themselves on what constitutes a "trust" worthy of having anti-trust applied to it.
Never put down to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Or a bug in the code either works for me.
Petty fiefdoms and not invented here syndrome will continue to torpedo any chance for a decent Linux on the desktop. Until Linux has a single binary and a universal installation strategy they will continue to be mostly harmless and largely irrelevant to the desktop market at large.
The only thing I have discovered about IQ is that someone ~3 standard deviations below yours will not be as curious about everything as you are and will not be able to hold a deep enough conversation about the things that you find interesting, objectively speaking of course. Now if someone is passionate about a subject IQ will make no difference at all but the subject range narrows a bit as IQ goes down. YMMV completely. This is an observation not an absolute statement.
But if you want something comparable, Dell has allinones too.
Sorry neither of those allinones meets the criteria set out above. Their specs are way to low for either the iMac or the PC.
Sorry reality hasn't yet caught up with you there. Keep hoping though.
So you pay with CPU cycles instead of cash, well that's true if you don't spend the cash, no FUD there is no Uncertainty about it. Happy to spread Fear and Doubt though.
Interesting personal anecdote, I have 4 ibooks that all work perfectly to this day but that is irrelevant too, what does it have to do with your current statement that you are happy with Debian. I'll take that you once had an interest in Apple to be your reason for making the anecdotal statement but what prompted your previous inexplicable outburst about Apple?
That's what I said!
I stand corrected, it is 3rd party plug-ins. I believe you will find that there are indeed limitations to what you can do. Even in the full version of Visual Studio you are forbidden to write word processing applications. It's in the EULA you should read it sometime.
If you have a valid argument, then state it and let it be debated. Repeatedly calling parent posters morons is just childish.
I see, Ok you parse this text and tell me what argument you can make of it:
Would you 'update' your car's tires to support fewer makes/models of tire?
Magnuson-Moss act:
The statute is remedial in nature and is intended to protect consumers from deceptive warranty practices. Consumer products are not required to have warranties, but if one is given, it must comply with the Magnuson-Moss Act.
I fail to see how it applies here.
No but I have upgraded my CAR to support fewer makes of tire. Moron!
Did you read the docs and license that you went through to open the damn box idiot! I love Morons they make the world go round!
Not a Mac user, nor a Hackintosh user. I'm fine with Debian, thank you very much.
Good go away, you obviously have no business here at all. Why stick your nose in where you don't have a stake and have no interest?
Try developing something with Visual Studio Express. In the license you are limited what you can develop and you can't use any 3rd party libraries. You also can't develop for Win Mobile with the express versions. There are free Dev environments for Windows but that Visual Studio Express isn't viable for professional development the FULL tool chain that comes with Mac OS X is.
Windows 7 Professional $149.99 + Free Shipping. is the cheapest I can find it?
Uh yeah, same with Win 7! Gotta buy at least a minimum PC at about $600 bucks the same price as a Mac Mini genius!