I don't think it's reasonable to expect a less-technical user like my wife to figure out that a video codec is unsupported
Lots of videos don't work out of the box on Windows either. People either chase down the codecs themselves or get their resident geeks to get them. Many also end up with trojans or viruses like Zlob as a result.
Clicking the Automatix link in Ubuntu doesn't seem that difficult to me, and it's certainly much safer than playing codec roulette on Windows.
they must be banking that the new features (ttf, WMP10, DRM) are enough to tempt in people who do not know better.
DRM as a feature?
You're right though - it will be interesting how the buying public reacts to this. The market will decide between truly free software like Ubuntu, which requires users to jump some admittedly easy hoops before playing restricted media, or Linspire, which makes media playing immediate, at the expense of giving up freedoms.
Yea but unfortunately over the years it has been getting quite bulky.
This whole article is a troll.
Firefox 1.0 was 4.7MB
The latest version is a 5.7MB download.
Opera is 4.7MB.
IE7 is 17MB.
Safari is a 7MB download.
Firefox is at the compact end of current web browsers. It has grown by 1MB in the past three years. To put that in perspective, Adobe Acrobat reader has grown from 8.7MB to 30.7 in the same period.
There's an agenda here, and it's not to promote the idea of a slim Firefox. Somebody wants to plant the meme that Firefox is bloated when it is clearly not. The whole thing stinks of a smear campaign from somebody's marketing department.
Drivers are very OS-centric; they tell the OS how to interact with the hardware and, of course, Linux and Windows have very different ways of interacting with hardware.
That still doesn't preclude universal drivers.
In fact, Linux can already use some Windows drivers via ndiswrapper.
I agree with the GP poster, it would be a wonderful thing for computer users, but suspect Microsoft would put VERY heavy pressure on any hardware maker who looked like participating in that sort of development.
It's probably a troll - but there are plenty of AIDS denialists around.
About the only vaguely credible source for the non-HIV origin of AIDS is Prof Peter Duesberg, and his theory has been debunked multiple times. Google his name for links.
It's one thing to come up with a vaccine, but it also claims to be a cure for HIV infections that have already taken place.
You've explained why yourself.
Once the immune system can recognise the HIV markers, it will kill any HIV infected cells which match those markers. That means it will kill existing infections as well as any new virions entering the body.
The key claim is that the eighty proteins matching HIV's structure are unique enough that the virus won't be able to evolve resistance. The only other problem might be that this vaccine will be too complex to be mass produced.
Ambitious? The "innovations" that were abandoned when Longhorn morphed into Vista were WinFS, an object oriented filesystem which layers SQL Server onto NTFS, and has been dropped more times than Michael J. Fox's pen, and an upgrade to.NET which replaced GDI with Avalon and COM+ with Indigo.
These changes were essentially architectural bugfixes to repair design flaws inherited from the NT/2000 line, and wouldn't have significantly changed the user experience. Even WinFS, which had the most potential, was more for locking file attributes to Microsoft's filesystem than a way of achieving anything that couldn't be done with a less tightly coupled database layer.
I agree, as far as functionality Windows Mobile beats iPhone.
Features aren't the same as functionality.
Windows Mobile has a checklist of features randomly scattered around an interface that was clunky even on a big screen. I haven't used an iPhone, and maybe never will, but I hope it wakes up the phone makers to the fact that there's a market for PDA phones that are DESIGNED for little screens, not ripped wholesale from a desktop OS.
I've been stuck with Windows Mobile on my PDA phones for far too long. Bring on the competition.
Pakistan is the country with the greatest number of honour killings with about 1,200/year, despite it being illegal there. In the provinces where the killing occurred, men are killed as well as women, though at a lesser frequency. In Sindh, 2002, 382 were killed of which 245 were women, 137 men.
Your argument isn't supported by any facts, and suggests you have an agenda of your own.
Suicide missions are one thing, sometimes undertaken by decent people in desperate situations, mostly by lunatic fanatics.
Muslims are responsible for most suicide missions now that the US has invaded the middle east. When America was in Vietnam, it was the Viet Cong who were doing the suicide bombing.
I suspect a combination of an asymmetric force, desperation, and hopeless living conditions will always produce people who are willing to sacrifice themselves to destroy their oppressors.
Unfortunately, there is very little information on what that is and how it relates to clinical effects.
Caffeine's LD50 is 192mg per kg, so you'd need about 15g, or more than 200 shots, to have a reasonable chance of topping yourself with espresso. The metabolic half-life of caffeine is about 5 hours, so you'd need to be doing the shots fairly quickly too.
Why would Best Buy have any responsibility whatsoever for Apple's security update?
They don't, and neither does Apple. You bought your Macbook Pro, and as long as it is fit for the purpose at the time of purchase, your entitlement ends there.
Manufacturers and resellers often enter into support agreements, and software distributors often patch their products, but those are arrangements of convenience, not law.
In this case, Microsoft is explicitly reselling a support and update contract. More than 40,000 of those certificates have already been activated, so they will be distributing GPL3 code.
But Microsoft is distributing pieces of paper in case B), and Microsoft cannot be sued by any Free software authors for distributing (in the default legal sense) someone else's copyrighted software.
The piece of paper is a contract, and describes a transaction between Microsoft and their customer. If the contract is valid (and I don't believe anyone is questioning that), then the customer is entitled to the provision of the agreed service from Microsoft.
If Novell ceased to exist tomorrow, the customer would still be entitled to their support and updates, and if they weren't forthcoming, they could seek redress from Microsoft.
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Can you name any?
Lots of videos don't work out of the box on Windows either. People either chase down the codecs themselves or get their resident geeks to get them. Many also end up with trojans or viruses like Zlob as a result.
Clicking the Automatix link in Ubuntu doesn't seem that difficult to me, and it's certainly much safer than playing codec roulette on Windows.
It is if you use Automatix.
- Linux distributors choosing to distribute GPLv3 binaries will be able to do so without changing what they're doing now.
- You don't understand GPLv3 and think others might be confused too.
None of this addresses the question: How does releasing GCC amount to shoveling the license down our throats?How does making a license freely available for software authors to use translate into "shoveling [sic] GPL3 down our throats"?
DRM as a feature?
You're right though - it will be interesting how the buying public reacts to this. The market will decide between truly free software like Ubuntu, which requires users to jump some admittedly easy hoops before playing restricted media, or Linspire, which makes media playing immediate, at the expense of giving up freedoms.
May the best distro win...
Yep, Filehippo has all the old versions http://filehippo.com/download_firefox/?15.
So you're saying AMD is likely to go tits-up?
Would turning the crank on a generator terrify you? That's another way of harvesting energy from your body that places more stress on your heart.
This whole article is a troll.
Firefox 1.0 was 4.7MB
The latest version is a 5.7MB download.
Opera is 4.7MB.
IE7 is 17MB.
Safari is a 7MB download.
Firefox is at the compact end of current web browsers. It has grown by 1MB in the past three years. To put that in perspective, Adobe Acrobat reader has grown from 8.7MB to 30.7 in the same period.
There's an agenda here, and it's not to promote the idea of a slim Firefox. Somebody wants to plant the meme that Firefox is bloated when it is clearly not. The whole thing stinks of a smear campaign from somebody's marketing department.
That still doesn't preclude universal drivers. In fact, Linux can already use some Windows drivers via ndiswrapper.
I agree with the GP poster, it would be a wonderful thing for computer users, but suspect Microsoft would put VERY heavy pressure on any hardware maker who looked like participating in that sort of development.
It's probably a troll - but there are plenty of AIDS denialists around.
About the only vaguely credible source for the non-HIV origin of AIDS is Prof Peter Duesberg, and his theory has been debunked multiple times. Google his name for links.
You've explained why yourself.
Once the immune system can recognise the HIV markers, it will kill any HIV infected cells which match those markers. That means it will kill existing infections as well as any new virions entering the body.
The key claim is that the eighty proteins matching HIV's structure are unique enough that the virus won't be able to evolve resistance. The only other problem might be that this vaccine will be too complex to be mass produced.
Ambitious? The "innovations" that were abandoned when Longhorn morphed into Vista were WinFS, an object oriented filesystem which layers SQL Server onto NTFS, and has been dropped more times than Michael J. Fox's pen, and an upgrade to .NET which replaced GDI with Avalon and COM+ with Indigo.
These changes were essentially architectural bugfixes to repair design flaws inherited from the NT/2000 line, and wouldn't have significantly changed the user experience. Even WinFS, which had the most potential, was more for locking file attributes to Microsoft's filesystem than a way of achieving anything that couldn't be done with a less tightly coupled database layer.
Features aren't the same as functionality.
Windows Mobile has a checklist of features randomly scattered around an interface that was clunky even on a big screen. I haven't used an iPhone, and maybe never will, but I hope it wakes up the phone makers to the fact that there's a market for PDA phones that are DESIGNED for little screens, not ripped wholesale from a desktop OS.
I've been stuck with Windows Mobile on my PDA phones for far too long. Bring on the competition.
Don't worry, it'll be coming to you.
Pakistan is the country with the greatest number of honour killings with about 1,200/year, despite it being illegal there. In the provinces where the killing occurred, men are killed as well as women, though at a lesser frequency. In Sindh, 2002, 382 were killed of which 245 were women, 137 men.
Your argument isn't supported by any facts, and suggests you have an agenda of your own.
Muslims are responsible for most suicide missions now that the US has invaded the middle east. When America was in Vietnam, it was the Viet Cong who were doing the suicide bombing.
I suspect a combination of an asymmetric force, desperation, and hopeless living conditions will always produce people who are willing to sacrifice themselves to destroy their oppressors.
Finally! A testable string theory...
Caffeine's LD50 is 192mg per kg, so you'd need about 15g, or more than 200 shots, to have a reasonable chance of topping yourself with espresso. The metabolic half-life of caffeine is about 5 hours, so you'd need to be doing the shots fairly quickly too.
At least one person has survived ingesting 24g, so while you can kill youself, you'd be more likely to knock yourself unconscious bouncing off the walls..._ faq.shtml#WhatHappens
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/caffeine
Microsoft doesn't compete.
It extinguishes, like Chuck Norris.
They don't, and neither does Apple. You bought your Macbook Pro, and as long as it is fit for the purpose at the time of purchase, your entitlement ends there.
Manufacturers and resellers often enter into support agreements, and software distributors often patch their products, but those are arrangements of convenience, not law.
In this case, Microsoft is explicitly reselling a support and update contract. More than 40,000 of those certificates have already been activated, so they will be distributing GPL3 code.
That would make him a Graham cracker then.
Mmmm, smores.
The piece of paper is a contract, and describes a transaction between Microsoft and their customer. If the contract is valid (and I don't believe anyone is questioning that), then the customer is entitled to the provision of the agreed service from Microsoft.
If Novell ceased to exist tomorrow, the customer would still be entitled to their support and updates, and if they weren't forthcoming, they could seek redress from Microsoft.
The transaction is between Microsoft and their customer. Microsoft is just using a third-party (Novell) to provide the service. It's not uncommon.