I don't remember that Microsoft at all. I stuck with an outdated Amiga computer until 1999 because it operated better than anything else I saw until 99 when Linux actually started to be superior and I switched to SUSE linux. I actually bought a box set at Best Buy for somewhere around 70 dollars. I struggled with some problems occasionally but nowhere near what Windows users were suffering through. I used Windows at work and our IT section struggled to try and keep things working. Home users bought computers in the early 2000's and actually bought new computers because of software problems that were insurmountable without constant trips to computer stores that stripped their wallets. One friend of mine reloaded windows on his new Pentium 4 system over 100 times in a 9 month period and finally just gave up and bought a new computer with a special warranty to cover the system software as well as hardware. Hell, I've heard that lie about windows reliablility so many times and its pure shit.
I've looked at that macbook air he's talking about and it's a sexy little computer but damn that price tag. I don't need ultra-thin just small and light with some power and ram. No one makes that. The ultra-book things are all striving to be thin, not really small. It's making them expensive as hell too. It costs a lot to cram all that stuff in a wafer thin case.
The macbook air is right at 12 inches even though they call it 11 (11.8) and weighs 2.3 pounds. I really think of a netbook as no bigger than 10inches but the weight of the air is almost as low as the ZG5 I have now. I can't see spending that much on a netbook either, it should be under 500 dollars. I think a powerful little netbook with a fast cpu and plenty of ram would sell especially if they put some thought into the software. I run Peppermint on the wimpy ZG5 and it actually zips pretty good as long as I don't ask it to do any heavy lifting. That linux that came on it was about the shittiest distro I've ever seen. Hell, unity looked better.
The problem is that they don't know how to make a netbook. I think there is a valid market for a device the size of the original Acer ZG5 netbook. The problem is that the hardware companies allowed Microsoft to define what a netbook was and not the market. I'd love something the size of my Acer ZG5 that had a quad i7 and 8GB of ram and came with linux installed but that never happened. Underpowered Atom based machines with 2GB ram at nearly the price of a dual core equiped laptop. Who wants that? No one and I can't believe they could not figure that out.
I know. Us Ron Paul supporters live in a fantasy land where politicians actually care about the country and have some inkling of fiscal responsibility. So out of fashion we are when both parties care more about their party than the country. When will we ever wake up and join the rest of the fools playing the two party shuffle.
I didn't consider either of the other two viable. I did what little I could to try to avert the coming disaster but partisan politics won out as it always does. People vote their side even if they can't stand their candidate. It's sad and a recipe for a bankrupt nation.
You're an idiot and idiots like you are the problem. I asked many Romney and Obama voters why they voted as they did and every single one said that he didn't like the guy he voted for but liked the other one less. Now is that a recipe for failure or what? We've got to choose only between two bad choices because people like you think that voting for tweedle dee instead of tweedle dum is the only way to go. If I have only two choices and they are both lousy why in hell would I even bother wasting time to go to the polls? Frankly I think Romney was a marginally better choice than President Obama but I could be wrong and it doesn't matter because I don't want either of them as President.
That's one hardware vendor versus dozens. Restricted-Boot will cover all the other hardware vendors. Apple gets to cheat because they make the software for their hardware. All the people that buy Apple know this and in fact it's one of the reasons some of them buy Apple. I own a Mac computer but I bought an Android phone because I don't like the total lock down they have on the iOS devices. I pretty much run anything I want on my Mac so they haven't taken the process to the Computer side of the business yet. When they do I'm done with that too.
OS X 10.4 Tiger was released in 2005 and it was a great operating system. I wouldn't say it was crap before that but with Tiger it really shined and was far better in many ways than the competition at Microsoft.
Like I say, I can afford it but it pisses me off. I understand infrastructure but I also understand waste and corruption. Still, if they'd just fucking stop where it is I could live with it. No! The greedy fuckers want more and more and more. It's like a meth addict, they can't get enough money. The more they take the more they want.
Working people don't have kids anymore. That's why the birthrate is down. Almost no one I work with has more than two kids. A lot of them only one and many have none and want none. They don't really have the time and they don't get extra money for having them. Meanwhile the poor keep having children because...they're paid to. I don't discriminate, I have a white trash niece that spits one out every couple of years so she doesn't have to work. My sister raises them for her or they would have to raise themselves. At least she's kicked the Meth habit though. At least she seems like she has.
I don't dispute that the bankers and others have exploited and stolen. Still and all we can't afford a growing class of dependents that feel like some one owes them a living. It's going to stop though, I give it about another 10 years and then the money will dry up totally. China will finally wise up and quit loaning us enough to keep the welfare state going. We will strip the defense department to the bone to feed the growing poor segment which will increase as industry continues to fail until finally there is nothing left. They'd better collect all the guns before that happens or it'll be a bloody mess.
Well look down the road a ways. If the problem keeps growing at the current rate eventually the system will break. I don't know when it will happen but sooner or later the money wont be enough. What then? Will blood flow like a river?
While I agree somewhat with what you say I have to say that sometimes it is necessary to chew people out. I don't know what the situation is or the personality of the maintainer but people are different. What works with some doesn't with others. I have supervised people in a maintenance environment and while some just needed to be told what to do and let them run with it there were others that had to be kickstarted. Some people do actually benefit from a good ass chewing.
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For a limited time you can still install free software on Apple machines. Looking down the road I think this may cease to be.
I find that my NTFS formatted usb drives work fine on both my Mac and Linux machines and even on my Windows Virtual Systems.
I don't remember that Microsoft at all. I stuck with an outdated Amiga computer until 1999 because it operated better than anything else I saw until 99 when Linux actually started to be superior and I switched to SUSE linux. I actually bought a box set at Best Buy for somewhere around 70 dollars. I struggled with some problems occasionally but nowhere near what Windows users were suffering through. I used Windows at work and our IT section struggled to try and keep things working. Home users bought computers in the early 2000's and actually bought new computers because of software problems that were insurmountable without constant trips to computer stores that stripped their wallets. One friend of mine reloaded windows on his new Pentium 4 system over 100 times in a 9 month period and finally just gave up and bought a new computer with a special warranty to cover the system software as well as hardware. Hell, I've heard that lie about windows reliablility so many times and its pure shit.
I've looked at that macbook air he's talking about and it's a sexy little computer but damn that price tag. I don't need ultra-thin just small and light with some power and ram. No one makes that. The ultra-book things are all striving to be thin, not really small. It's making them expensive as hell too. It costs a lot to cram all that stuff in a wafer thin case.
The macbook air is right at 12 inches even though they call it 11 (11.8) and weighs 2.3 pounds. I really think of a netbook as no bigger than 10inches but the weight of the air is almost as low as the ZG5 I have now. I can't see spending that much on a netbook either, it should be under 500 dollars. I think a powerful little netbook with a fast cpu and plenty of ram would sell especially if they put some thought into the software. I run Peppermint on the wimpy ZG5 and it actually zips pretty good as long as I don't ask it to do any heavy lifting. That linux that came on it was about the shittiest distro I've ever seen. Hell, unity looked better.
The problem is that they don't know how to make a netbook. I think there is a valid market for a device the size of the original Acer ZG5 netbook. The problem is that the hardware companies allowed Microsoft to define what a netbook was and not the market. I'd love something the size of my Acer ZG5 that had a quad i7 and 8GB of ram and came with linux installed but that never happened. Underpowered Atom based machines with 2GB ram at nearly the price of a dual core equiped laptop. Who wants that? No one and I can't believe they could not figure that out.
Not yet...stay tuned.
I know. Us Ron Paul supporters live in a fantasy land where politicians actually care about the country and have some inkling of fiscal responsibility. So out of fashion we are when both parties care more about their party than the country. When will we ever wake up and join the rest of the fools playing the two party shuffle.
I didn't consider either of the other two viable. I did what little I could to try to avert the coming disaster but partisan politics won out as it always does. People vote their side even if they can't stand their candidate. It's sad and a recipe for a bankrupt nation.
You're an idiot and idiots like you are the problem. I asked many Romney and Obama voters why they voted as they did and every single one said that he didn't like the guy he voted for but liked the other one less. Now is that a recipe for failure or what? We've got to choose only between two bad choices because people like you think that voting for tweedle dee instead of tweedle dum is the only way to go. If I have only two choices and they are both lousy why in hell would I even bother wasting time to go to the polls? Frankly I think Romney was a marginally better choice than President Obama but I could be wrong and it doesn't matter because I don't want either of them as President.
As long as you don't consider rock throwing as speech. That's when things get ugly.
I declare jihad! on all lovers of integrated circuitry!
Hey! I voted for Ron Paul!
That's one hardware vendor versus dozens. Restricted-Boot will cover all the other hardware vendors. Apple gets to cheat because they make the software for their hardware. All the people that buy Apple know this and in fact it's one of the reasons some of them buy Apple. I own a Mac computer but I bought an Android phone because I don't like the total lock down they have on the iOS devices. I pretty much run anything I want on my Mac so they haven't taken the process to the Computer side of the business yet. When they do I'm done with that too.
If I buy a computer from Dell I don't want Microsoft telling me what I can use it for.
Those don't look like strawberry plants. No wonder you posted anon.
OS X 10.4 Tiger was released in 2005 and it was a great operating system. I wouldn't say it was crap before that but with Tiger it really shined and was far better in many ways than the competition at Microsoft.
I'm pretty sure Linus isn't human.
Like I say, I can afford it but it pisses me off. I understand infrastructure but I also understand waste and corruption. Still, if they'd just fucking stop where it is I could live with it. No! The greedy fuckers want more and more and more. It's like a meth addict, they can't get enough money. The more they take the more they want.
Working people don't have kids anymore. That's why the birthrate is down. Almost no one I work with has more than two kids. A lot of them only one and many have none and want none. They don't really have the time and they don't get extra money for having them. Meanwhile the poor keep having children because...they're paid to. I don't discriminate, I have a white trash niece that spits one out every couple of years so she doesn't have to work. My sister raises them for her or they would have to raise themselves. At least she's kicked the Meth habit though. At least she seems like she has.
I don't dispute that the bankers and others have exploited and stolen. Still and all we can't afford a growing class of dependents that feel like some one owes them a living. It's going to stop though, I give it about another 10 years and then the money will dry up totally. China will finally wise up and quit loaning us enough to keep the welfare state going. We will strip the defense department to the bone to feed the growing poor segment which will increase as industry continues to fail until finally there is nothing left. They'd better collect all the guns before that happens or it'll be a bloody mess.
Well look down the road a ways. If the problem keeps growing at the current rate eventually the system will break. I don't know when it will happen but sooner or later the money wont be enough. What then? Will blood flow like a river?
You seem to be enjoying yourself.
That's like saying gouging one eye out is better than gouging bother of them out.
It's Linus, he's god and whatever he does is okay. Didn't you get the memo?
While I agree somewhat with what you say I have to say that sometimes it is necessary to chew people out. I don't know what the situation is or the personality of the maintainer but people are different. What works with some doesn't with others. I have supervised people in a maintenance environment and while some just needed to be told what to do and let them run with it there were others that had to be kickstarted. Some people do actually benefit from a good ass chewing.