Maybe "50,000" could be deemed as "a lot of phones" whereas "260,000" could be deemed as "a fuck of a lot of phones" but otherwise I fail to see the significance.
Why do they always come up with a "nice" sounding phrase for something that negatively affects the consumer? Think of "walled garden" and everyone thinks of a beautiful green lawn surrounded by flowers & shrubs, surrounded by a nice wall with ivy grown up it & bees buzzing around busily.
"Barred cell" would be far more appropriate - the only other occupant being Bubba Jobs who wants you to be his friend...
Because OS X is basically BSD with some pretty CPU-cycle wasting eye-candy sitting on top. (No, I'm not an command line loony, but a GUI needs to be functional, not necessarily pretty). It is also owned by another monopolistic company who make Microsoft seem tame in comparison when it comes to limiting user choice to just stuff that makes them money.
There's still room for commercial software - just because you use an Open Source OS doesn't mean you wouldn't pay to use MS Office, Photoshop or games.
Sorry, where is this patent war of which you speak? Microsoft has not launched any patents against Linux so far.
No, I'm not saying trust Microsoft implicitly and if they start firing patents against Linux then I'll eat my words. But the fact is that at this moment in time, Microsoft owns the desktop, Windows is supposedly an easy OS for most users, yet there are more virus-ridden PCs and botnets than there ever have been. And not just because of security issues in Windows, more because of silly marketing by Microsoft convincing inexperienced users that they don't need to know anything about how an OS works before using Windows, and they end up downloading all manner of cracked software and warez because of being clueless. And do you really want those people migrating en masse to Linux?
I use Linux almost exclusively now because it does most of what I need an OS to do, it's customisable to the extreme so I can use it across multiple machines, and I don't plan on handing over my responsibility of my computing environment and my data to any corporation to deal with. For me, the only thing missing now is the ability for it to support all hardware and all file formats - therefore it needs hardware vendors to disclose hardware details for better drivers to be created, and proprietary file formats to be opened up so Linux applications can fully handle them - and it may just be the case that closer working with Microsoft may mean that they open up their proprietary formats.
I'm really not interested in preaching Linux and trying to convert the world to it - when my nephew trashes his Windows PC because of downloading crappy files, his uncle rebuilds it and puts Windows back on it, not Linux. Yep, he gets a few bits of advice about being more careful, but other than that, if he wants to move to Linux he can come and ask me and I'll give him the pros and cons of doing so.
And let me ask you one final thing - let's say Microsoft did lauch patent attacks on Linux. Do you really believe users like you and me will stand there and do nothing? No, of course not. The first thing that will happen is a "call to arms" and millions of people contributing a few pounds/dollars/euros each to a fighting fund to get the lawyers or whatever else is needed to fight back. Do you not think Microsoft *knows* that? And what would that do to their reputation that is already suffering because of worse evils like Apple?
Too many doomsayers are painting too dark a future and they need to lighten up...
More fool the people who paid that much for a dented laptop...
Plus you probably have too much spare time if everything you buy has to take resale value into account - I have a fantastic 8 year old IBM T40 laptop that runs Gentoo Linux beautifully, goes everywhere with me and wouldn't be a great wrench if it was stolen. Resale it's probably worth £20 and more than one Apple snob has snickered at me digging it out in a coffee shop - but it does the job I need it to and it's a tool, not a fashion accessory.
As a non-zealot Linux guy, I say give Microsoft a chance and those of us who believe there is some "Windows vs Linux" desktop battle to be won need to get over themselves.
Linux has been incredibly successful in the embedded and server space, it's damn good on the desktop now but users should decide for themselves their OS of choice - yes, even the overpaid & totally misguided OS X users who crow about their BSD roots but wouldn't know a UNIX command line if it punched them in the face... but I digress...
As far as I'm concerned, if the world ends up as a place where people are interchanging information on PCs that's in an open format, then that's good enough and they can use what they like on the desktop.
If Microsoft observe open source licenses and open up their proprietary formats then they've every right to get involved - and let's face it, they've not yet started a patent war with Linux that everyone has been expecting.
I'd heard it was a tattoo... back of the head, just beneath the hairline... three little Apples in a triangular shape... look at it from the correct angle and it looks like "666".
Yes, but you are a fanboi, that's what you're *supposed* to do, for God's sake - in fact, how you escaped the hypnotic clutches of Steve's Charisma Beam and lasted two years without an upgrade is probably worthy of some deeper investigation by the clerics of the Holy Church of Apple.
Look at it from my perspective - if I proudly crowed about standing outside queuing in the rain the day before a new Dell Laptop or Ubuntu Linux 11.04 was released, you'd call me a sad loony!
Nope, but the OP sold his after 4 years, presumably because he needed a new machine.
Actually, my M1710 is nearer 5 years old, I put in a new hard disk and upgraded the memory from 2GB to 4GB but it still runs beautifully (64-bit Gentoo Linux and 32-bit XP), does all I need it to and won't be being upgraded any time soon.
As I understand it, some Microsoft applications have deep hooks into the core OS or libraries that give them higher privileges that what the user running them has - the best analogy I can give is "sudo" in Linux. It is those elevated permissions that allow some scripts or malware to exploit.
As I also understand it, Outlook and IE can run scripts without too much intervention that can use those elevated permissions also.
Other than that, I can only speak from years of experience fixing my own Windows PCs and those of friends and relatives. Having told them, over many years, to steer away from Outlook and IE and switch to apps that "sit on" rather than "sit within" Windows, they tell me they get less problems with viruses. I also explain to them how to avoid dodgy email attachments and nasty web sites, that also probably helps.
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This is relevant how?
Maybe "50,000" could be deemed as "a lot of phones" whereas "260,000" could be deemed as "a fuck of a lot of phones" but otherwise I fail to see the significance.
Why do they always come up with a "nice" sounding phrase for something that negatively affects the consumer? Think of "walled garden" and everyone thinks of a beautiful green lawn surrounded by flowers & shrubs, surrounded by a nice wall with ivy grown up it & bees buzzing around busily.
"Barred cell" would be far more appropriate - the only other occupant being Bubba Jobs who wants you to be his friend...
Yes, and what's he doing on Slashdot today anyway - presumably Apple release something new tomorrow that he should be starting to queue overnight for.
...and emulator software.
For people like me that means that Apple is fading away as not being interesting anymore.
I think instead of "interesting" you meant "exclusive".
Aren't they all out sleeping outside of consumer electronics stores across the world due to it supposedly being iPad II release day?
This actually shows the hypocrisy of the Business Software Alliance who also "police" software licensing in UK businesses also.
Surely they should be *supporting* and *publicising* Open Source software as a legal alternative to software piracy?
Because OS X is basically BSD with some pretty CPU-cycle wasting eye-candy sitting on top. (No, I'm not an command line loony, but a GUI needs to be functional, not necessarily pretty). It is also owned by another monopolistic company who make Microsoft seem tame in comparison when it comes to limiting user choice to just stuff that makes them money.
Next?
There's still room for commercial software - just because you use an Open Source OS doesn't mean you wouldn't pay to use MS Office, Photoshop or games.
Sorry, where is this patent war of which you speak? Microsoft has not launched any patents against Linux so far.
No, I'm not saying trust Microsoft implicitly and if they start firing patents against Linux then I'll eat my words. But the fact is that at this moment in time, Microsoft owns the desktop, Windows is supposedly an easy OS for most users, yet there are more virus-ridden PCs and botnets than there ever have been. And not just because of security issues in Windows, more because of silly marketing by Microsoft convincing inexperienced users that they don't need to know anything about how an OS works before using Windows, and they end up downloading all manner of cracked software and warez because of being clueless. And do you really want those people migrating en masse to Linux?
I use Linux almost exclusively now because it does most of what I need an OS to do, it's customisable to the extreme so I can use it across multiple machines, and I don't plan on handing over my responsibility of my computing environment and my data to any corporation to deal with. For me, the only thing missing now is the ability for it to support all hardware and all file formats - therefore it needs hardware vendors to disclose hardware details for better drivers to be created, and proprietary file formats to be opened up so Linux applications can fully handle them - and it may just be the case that closer working with Microsoft may mean that they open up their proprietary formats.
I'm really not interested in preaching Linux and trying to convert the world to it - when my nephew trashes his Windows PC because of downloading crappy files, his uncle rebuilds it and puts Windows back on it, not Linux. Yep, he gets a few bits of advice about being more careful, but other than that, if he wants to move to Linux he can come and ask me and I'll give him the pros and cons of doing so.
And let me ask you one final thing - let's say Microsoft did lauch patent attacks on Linux. Do you really believe users like you and me will stand there and do nothing? No, of course not. The first thing that will happen is a "call to arms" and millions of people contributing a few pounds/dollars/euros each to a fighting fund to get the lawyers or whatever else is needed to fight back. Do you not think Microsoft *knows* that? And what would that do to their reputation that is already suffering because of worse evils like Apple?
Too many doomsayers are painting too dark a future and they need to lighten up...
Surely "ad homo-men" would be more appropriate for attacks aimed at Apple users?
Karma to burn, who needs to quiver behind AC posts!
More fool the people who paid that much for a dented laptop...
Plus you probably have too much spare time if everything you buy has to take resale value into account - I have a fantastic 8 year old IBM T40 laptop that runs Gentoo Linux beautifully, goes everywhere with me and wouldn't be a great wrench if it was stolen. Resale it's probably worth £20 and more than one Apple snob has snickered at me digging it out in a coffee shop - but it does the job I need it to and it's a tool, not a fashion accessory.
...and of course, a web site with the name "ipodobserver.com" is going to be entirely unbiased in it's reporting.
Just bear in mind, they have patents (rightly or wrongly) and *could* use them against Linux - but so far have not done so.
As a non-zealot Linux guy, I say give Microsoft a chance and those of us who believe there is some "Windows vs Linux" desktop battle to be won need to get over themselves.
Linux has been incredibly successful in the embedded and server space, it's damn good on the desktop now but users should decide for themselves their OS of choice - yes, even the overpaid & totally misguided OS X users who crow about their BSD roots but wouldn't know a UNIX command line if it punched them in the face... but I digress...
As far as I'm concerned, if the world ends up as a place where people are interchanging information on PCs that's in an open format, then that's good enough and they can use what they like on the desktop.
If Microsoft observe open source licenses and open up their proprietary formats then they've every right to get involved - and let's face it, they've not yet started a patent war with Linux that everyone has been expecting.
Nope, that would make him a "fandad".
Stick with it, there's a logic to it, you'll get it eventually.
Badge???
I'd heard it was a tattoo... back of the head, just beneath the hairline... three little Apples in a triangular shape... look at it from the correct angle and it looks like "666".
Thanks. I do a pretty mean Lo Wang and Caleb also, for future reference.
I'm going to leave it there with this thread, I think.
This is beginning to feel too much like I'm talking to ELIZA.
Would he have got $920 for a broken one he'd dropped?
"My face, your ass. What's the difference?" ~ Duke Nukem.
Actually, it's "fanboi" not "fan-boy"... but there's nowt quite like casting a hook and reeling in a particularly rabid frothing one.
Yes, but you are a fanboi, that's what you're *supposed* to do, for God's sake - in fact, how you escaped the hypnotic clutches of Steve's Charisma Beam and lasted two years without an upgrade is probably worthy of some deeper investigation by the clerics of the Holy Church of Apple.
Look at it from my perspective - if I proudly crowed about standing outside queuing in the rain the day before a new Dell Laptop or Ubuntu Linux 11.04 was released, you'd call me a sad loony!
Nope, but the OP sold his after 4 years, presumably because he needed a new machine.
Actually, my M1710 is nearer 5 years old, I put in a new hard disk and upgraded the memory from 2GB to 4GB but it still runs beautifully (64-bit Gentoo Linux and 32-bit XP), does all I need it to and won't be being upgraded any time soon.
I still have my 4 year old Dell XPS M1710 17" notebook as my main machine.
I don't claim to be a Windows expert.
As I understand it, some Microsoft applications have deep hooks into the core OS or libraries that give them higher privileges that what the user running them has - the best analogy I can give is "sudo" in Linux. It is those elevated permissions that allow some scripts or malware to exploit.
As I also understand it, Outlook and IE can run scripts without too much intervention that can use those elevated permissions also.
Other than that, I can only speak from years of experience fixing my own Windows PCs and those of friends and relatives. Having told them, over many years, to steer away from Outlook and IE and switch to apps that "sit on" rather than "sit within" Windows, they tell me they get less problems with viruses. I also explain to them how to avoid dodgy email attachments and nasty web sites, that also probably helps.