As I said before, the reason WHY Windows is malware ridden is immaterial. The thing that is important to end users is that it is THE platform for malware. The whole "90% market share" argument is simply an excuse for why Windows is so glutted with malware. There's no empirical evidence for it-- it's simply an assertion made by Windows apologists without any supporting data. If you were to look at this objectively, you would see what I am saying instead of making defensive arguments.
The comment "The fact that Windows is an unmaintainable, malware riddled, shambles with severe usability and performance problems" is someone ill informed.
So, you are saying that Windows is NOT malware riddled? Because if you are, there is no reason to read any further. You are in serious denial. Regardless of WHY Windows is so malware ridden, the fact remains that Windows is the prime malware platform.
As for your rambling about usability being "in the eye of the beholder" you make even less sense than the first part of your rant. I will quote the only factual bit of information in the last half of your rant:
yes Linux runs very good on hardware that would not even load Windows Vista
I think it's telling that the overwhelming majority of Linux users are like me: former Windows users. It's not that we don't know what Windows is like-- It's that we do know, used it for years, and found a way out. Maybe if some of the Windows evangelists on Slashdot would actually USE Linux for a little while, their rants would at least make more sense.
I have NEVER visited a site that required Silverlight. I don't know about your "average user", but most of the "average" users that I work with have never even heard of Silverlight, much less use it in day-to-day browsing.
You can also adjust the "swappiness" of a computer running linux. I've set my desktop to have a swappiness of 10 (in a scale of 0 to 100 where 0 means don't swap at all). In Ubuntu, you can do sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10 to set the swappiness until next boot or edit/etc/sysctl.conf and add vm.swappiness=10 to the bottom of the file to make it permanent.
If you are single and have no dependents, you'll pay $250 Less under Obama's plan. Under McCain's plan, you will pay the same amount. At least, that's what the calculator AlpineR mentioned says.
You said the machines were "completely unsuitable for any computing purpose". I was simply pointing out that you are incorrect. The machines are unsuitable for Vista. But, have another look at the posts in question if you're still confused.
The problem, as I see it, is not that Vista wants lots of memory, but that OEMs continue to sell computers which, unmodified, are completely unsuitable for any computing purpose.
The thing is, those machines are suitable for many computing purposes (WinXP, Linux), but not Vista. So, whose fault is that?
(I just went to Dell's site and looked at their cheapest regular laptop. (K)Ubuntu would fly on that thing, and XP would work very well too.)
Once they actually used it, (and btw, the whole "slimlined install" thing mentioned earlier? We have conspiracy theory fanbois now?) they liked it, thinking it was the new OS. They were then told that's the OS they won't use because they "heard it's bad". This is actually pretty common in the real world, considering half of the population that's *not* tech-savvy will listen to pretty much anyone when it comes to software advice. Sadly, I know quite a few people who *are* technically savvy that still speak about things they've not looked into.
But the thing is, they didn't use it. It was "demonstrated" to them. The "Mojave Experiment" just proved that salesmen are good at selling things.
The reason stop light cameras increase accidents is that municipalities that install them often decrease the length of time of the "caution" (amber) light in order to catch more violators and increase revenue. Studies have shown that the best way to decrease accidents at intersections is to slightly increase the length of the "caution" light.
The point being that stop light cameras typically aren't installed to improve public safety. They are there to provide revenue.
The Mojave experiment proved that salesmen are good at selling things. The participants didn't explore the OS, they were given a guided tour.
If Microsoft were honest about wanting to "prove" how great Vista is to Vista critics, it should have just let them explore "Mojave" on their own and discover the "wow". Instead, they chose to use a cheap marketing gimmick. Why would anyone think that "experiment" was anything other than marketing theatre?
Why a conventional dialysis machine couldn't be used:
During an operation to correct the problem, her kidneys started to fail, and her birthweight, at just over 6lb, meant existing NHS dialysis machines, even those designed for children, were too large to be used.
In addition, you have an interconnect between the two which is far faster than anything else available today. However, there is no code today that will use it explicitly, the whole paradigm of a GPU is that you do not read data back to the CPU.
I would probably cat/dev/urandom to a file and then edit that file with a text editor to something like:
#!/bin/bash mplayer $@
#(misc. garbage text here commented out)
Then name the file supermplayer or something similar. That way, you have plenty of entropy (from dev/urandom) and a file that appears to be just a media player to casual inspection
Oh grow up! Opening up drilling in protected areas for "insignificant" (according to the most GENEROUS DOE estimates) price decreases is simply retarded.
Instead of jumping in with your partisan "Translation:" douchebaggery, why don't you suggest to your representatives that we invest in a long term solution to our energy problems. (I'll cheer you on even if some corporations end up making money from the long term solution.)
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Do you not understand the meaning of the term "Flamebait"?
If you are like me and wanted to keep KDE3 but move to Intrepid, all is not lost. Use the KDE3-maintainers PPA:
http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/
There's this forum thread to help with issues:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963695
It's working for me with no issues.
As I said before, the reason WHY Windows is malware ridden is immaterial. The thing that is important to end users is that it is THE platform for malware. The whole "90% market share" argument is simply an excuse for why Windows is so glutted with malware. There's no empirical evidence for it-- it's simply an assertion made by Windows apologists without any supporting data. If you were to look at this objectively, you would see what I am saying instead of making defensive arguments.
The comment "The fact that Windows is an unmaintainable, malware riddled, shambles with severe usability and performance problems" is someone ill informed.
So, you are saying that Windows is NOT malware riddled? Because if you are, there is no reason to read any further. You are in serious denial. Regardless of WHY Windows is so malware ridden, the fact remains that Windows is the prime malware platform.
As for your rambling about usability being "in the eye of the beholder" you make even less sense than the first part of your rant. I will quote the only factual bit of information in the last half of your rant:
yes Linux runs very good on hardware that would not even load Windows Vista
I think it's telling that the overwhelming majority of Linux users are like me: former Windows users. It's not that we don't know what Windows is like-- It's that we do know, used it for years, and found a way out. Maybe if some of the Windows evangelists on Slashdot would actually USE Linux for a little while, their rants would at least make more sense.
For the "average users" that I know, the question is: Can I browse the web safely?
I have NEVER visited a site that required Silverlight. I don't know about your "average user", but most of the "average" users that I work with have never even heard of Silverlight, much less use it in day-to-day browsing.
You can also adjust the "swappiness" of a computer running linux. I've set my desktop to have a swappiness of 10 (in a scale of 0 to 100 where 0 means don't swap at all). In Ubuntu, you can do sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10 to set the swappiness until next boot or edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add vm.swappiness=10 to the bottom of the file to make it permanent.
The default swappiness level is 60.
If you are single and have no dependents, you'll pay $250 Less under Obama's plan. Under McCain's plan, you will pay the same amount. At least, that's what the calculator AlpineR mentioned says.
This chart shines a light on tax policy.
http://www.thenation.com/special/images/extreme_inequalitychart.jpg
It's from the June 30, 2008 edition of The Nation.
Wow, what a pithy, in-depth analysis of your disagreement with the parent poster. Stunning!
I actually chuckled out loud when I read your post. You just made my morning!
You said the machines were "completely unsuitable for any computing purpose". I was simply pointing out that you are incorrect. The machines are unsuitable for Vista. But, have another look at the posts in question if you're still confused.
The thing is, those machines are suitable for many computing purposes (WinXP, Linux), but not Vista. So, whose fault is that?
(I just went to Dell's site and looked at their cheapest regular laptop. (K)Ubuntu would fly on that thing, and XP would work very well too.)
But the thing is, they didn't use it. It was "demonstrated" to them. The "Mojave Experiment" just proved that salesmen are good at selling things.
That is exactly the right way to vote. It's funny, I don't have mod point to "vote" for your post, so I have to do so manually by replying.
Kyril, I actually laughed when I read your post. Well done!
The reason stop light cameras increase accidents is that municipalities that install them often decrease the length of time of the "caution" (amber) light in order to catch more violators and increase revenue. Studies have shown that the best way to decrease accidents at intersections is to slightly increase the length of the "caution" light.
The point being that stop light cameras typically aren't installed to improve public safety. They are there to provide revenue.
And, let's not forget NRL.
The Mojave experiment proved that salesmen are good at selling things. The participants didn't explore the OS, they were given a guided tour.
If Microsoft were honest about wanting to "prove" how great Vista is to Vista critics, it should have just let them explore "Mojave" on their own and discover the "wow". Instead, they chose to use a cheap marketing gimmick. Why would anyone think that "experiment" was anything other than marketing theatre?
Did you read TFA?
Why a conventional dialysis machine couldn't be used:
OUR TEAM?!? This is government, not a goddamn sporting event. It's attitudes like yours that are part of the problem.
In addition, you have an interconnect between the two which is far faster than anything else available today. However, there is no code today that will use it explicitly, the whole paradigm of a GPU is that you do not read data back to the CPU.
Can't this code be put in the driver?
Oops! Probably should use /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom.
I would probably cat /dev/urandom to a file and then edit that file with a text editor to something like:
#!/bin/bash
mplayer $@
#(misc. garbage text here commented out)
Then name the file supermplayer or something similar. That way, you have plenty of entropy (from dev/urandom) and a file that appears to be just a media player to casual inspection
Oh grow up! Opening up drilling in protected areas for "insignificant" (according to the most GENEROUS DOE estimates) price decreases is simply retarded.
Instead of jumping in with your partisan "Translation:" douchebaggery, why don't you suggest to your representatives that we invest in a long term solution to our energy problems. (I'll cheer you on even if some corporations end up making money from the long term solution.)