I'd argue that if you spend a lot of time online with XP, you will have problems
I'd argue differently, after five years experience with XP at home.
I've found Ad-Aware useful.
Windows Defender, McAfee SiteAdvisor and my cable service's generic Internet Security package.
The mix changes a little from year to year. But I've seen no significant problems. I haven't spend a dime on repairs or technical support, or found a compelling reason to re-format a drive or re-install Windows.
It's a well known fact to any Slashdot reader that DRM is bad. Maybe this article should be posted on Apple's, the DMCA, and every other media monster's website.
Fully half of Apple's revenues are coming from the iPod and iTunes. The second and third tier providers are by no means doing badly. So long as there is money to made here, the Slashdot poster can safely be ignored.
To me, language like this always waves a red flag. Just how many "run-ins" with the cops are we talking about here? It's not a common experience for most of
us.
You'd be forgetting that the Apple II, the Atari 400/800/800XL/1200XL, and the TRS-80 were all 8-bit machines in both senses -- their bus width and their architecture. And none carried the name of IBM ("nobody ever got fired for buying IBM") -- a name which changed the game from "Apple II, TRS-80, and everyone else" to "Apple II, IBM PC, and everyone else" overnight.
---and you are forgetting that IBM was first and last an office machine company. 80 column displays. The IBM keyboard. The computer you are using now is almost cerainly a lineal descendent of that first IBM micro.
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I spent over $500US in the last seven months on Linux games. I think this is profitable for someone>
Download.com has logged 7.5 million downloads of the SolSuite Solitaire demo for Windows. It can be really, really, hard for a Linux Geek to admit that he counts for nothing in the home PC market.
But that doesn't apply to most people. People want to surf the internet, check their mails, chat with their friends and maybe write a letter a few times a year. You don't need Windows to do that. In fact, an Ubuntu or Mac box can do that just as well as a Windows box, and without all the security problems (because people don't install working anti virus apps, and if they do, they quickly grow tired of updating them).
This is the "network appliance" argument.
Which drowns in a flood of red ink everytime it is tested in the marketplace.
Fully half of Apple's revenues are to be found in sales of the iPod and iTunes. The second and third tier players in online media are by no means doing badly. There are reasons why Win MCE has become the default OEM consumer install even on the laptop.
It is not only teens and twens who play PC games. You might take a look at the PC sales chart at Amazon.com. RPGs Simulations. RTS. Adventures. Games for adults. Games that do not require a high performance system.
In fact, an Ubuntu or Mac box can do that just as well as a Windows box, and without all the security problems (because people don't install working anti virus apps, and if they do, they quickly grow tired of updating them)
My cable ISP provides spam filtering and a security bundle similiar to Norton NIS. The signatures are updated every few hours. I have other scanners on the system, all run live or on timers, all do the auto-update thing.
The government is in charge of pursuing the criminal kind, which is things like large DVD counterfeiting chains and can carry jail terms, and copyright holders sue people for civil violations, which is stuff like individual file sharers and is punishable by monetary damages and other civil remedies
The NET Act (ca 1997) removed the profit motive as an element of the offense. The feds aren't interested in prosecuting small timers. But an operation on the scale of The Pirate Bay would be nuts.
Ithink we may have peaked with the baby boomers. They got to ride the wave of new medical advances and didn't have the weight of fast food (har har) holding them back.
White Castle was selling burgers for a nickel in 1921.
But the american fast food menu would be recognizable to any working class kid born 1850-1890. He wouldn't know pizza or tex-mex, of course.
One simple reason -- to get your name, address, phone number and credit card number. What better way to get a few million high-quality mailing list additions?
I'll take the odds that the downloader has at least five to ten years experience with MS Office and is already on the MS contact lists.
For example, how does the computer know that Picard wants to call Riker and isn't just talking about him? Oh and keep in mind the computer never misinterpreted something. In other examples, people would carry on intelligent conversations with the computer - all those holodeck scenes, Troi ordering chocolate, etc.
The fleet's computers have "known" Picard since he entered the service. They should be pretty well trained.
The communicator badges in TNG could be transmitting supplementary biometric data and non-verbal commands, which by now have become almost automatic: "Watson. I need you!"
Instead they define a clause called "No Denying Users' Rights through Technical Measures" which is basically the new anti-DRM clause.
Fine. Now tell me who defines a user's rights. The WSJ would argue that it is within bounds to restrict content and services to its paying subscribers.
I can't speak to what developers need. But as a non technical end-user, simply looking for programs or add-ons of interest, I'd welcome any improvement on Sourceforge.
The academic in the university produces a theory and a textbook, a new way of teaching math, but engagement with parents and teachers is superficial at best.
Those statistics are essentially meaningless, because they are based on a verifiably bad samples.
w3schools belives the stats overstate the adoption of Firefox among the general population. But I don't you can simply ignore the trend lines which suggest that none of the alternative browsers have gained market share in 2006.
t's Summer. Nothing happening. What time would be better to draw this to the front line?
The Slashdot Geek's remoteness from what others know as the Real World is never more in evidence than in posts like these.
There is war in the Mideast, a killer heat wave in the U.S.
The social conservatives in Congress have new criminal legislation in the works re minors and abortion.
In L.A. the cops are trying to identify fifty victims of a serial killer...
I have been wondering how easy it is for a young child to keep the laptop batteries charged. This would seem to be at least an order of magnitude more demanding than a Lifeline radio.
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In traditional societies, crafts such as shoemaking are taught to apprentices willing to dedicate several years to the task.
Your shortcut assumes, in rough order:
That the man without shoes is in good health, with no relevant physical or mental disabilites.
That he has the free time to master a skilled trade. That he is computer-literate.
That the craft can be mastered without hands-on instruction. "They laughed when I sat down at the piano..."
That he can afford the necessary tools and materials.
Is this a trick question? To anyone but a Geek, migrating to the alternative OS has all the appeal of root canal.
Even Walmart has given up on the idea that OEM Linux could become mass-market.
I'd argue differently, after five years experience with XP at home.
I've found Ad-Aware useful.
Windows Defender, McAfee SiteAdvisor and my cable service's generic Internet Security package.
The mix changes a little from year to year. But I've seen no significant problems. I haven't spend a dime on repairs or technical support, or found a compelling reason to re-format a drive or re-install Windows.
Fully half of Apple's revenues are coming from the iPod and iTunes. The second and third tier providers are by no means doing badly. So long as there is money to made here, the Slashdot poster can safely be ignored.
To me, language like this always waves a red flag.
Just how many "run-ins" with the cops are we talking about here? It's not a common experience for most of us.
---and you are forgetting that IBM was first and last an office machine company. 80 column displays. The IBM keyboard. The computer you are using now is almost cerainly a lineal descendent of that first IBM micro.
Download.com has logged 7.5 million downloads of the SolSuite Solitaire demo for Windows. It can be really, really, hard for a Linux Geek to admit that he counts for nothing in the home PC market.
This is the "network appliance" argument.
Which drowns in a flood of red ink everytime it is tested in the marketplace.
Fully half of Apple's revenues are to be found in sales of the iPod and iTunes. The second and third tier players in online media are by no means doing badly. There are reasons why Win MCE has become the default OEM consumer install even on the laptop.
It is not only teens and twens who play PC games. You might take a look at the PC sales chart at Amazon.com. RPGs Simulations. RTS. Adventures. Games for adults. Games that do not require a high performance system.
In fact, an Ubuntu or Mac box can do that just as well as a Windows box, and without all the security problems (because people don't install working anti virus apps, and if they do, they quickly grow tired of updating them)
My cable ISP provides spam filtering and a security bundle similiar to Norton NIS. The signatures are updated every few hours. I have other scanners on the system, all run live or on timers, all do the auto-update thing.
Linspire CNR. Enthusiasts custom-build.
But for over twenty-five years the OEM system install, the PC as a plug and play home appliance, has been the gold standard in the home market.
Something for the dog days of summer when the mind goes blank, the boss needs filler, and it is too damn hot to think.
The piece writes itself, it draws the predictable response, and everyone goes home happy.
The NET Act (ca 1997) removed the profit motive as an element of the offense. The feds aren't interested in prosecuting small timers. But an operation on the scale of The Pirate Bay would be nuts.
White Castle was selling burgers for a nickel in 1921.
But the american fast food menu would be recognizable to any working class kid born 1850-1890. He wouldn't know pizza or tex-mex, of course.
First post. First joke. And in six words you sum up every stereotype of the Geek.
I'll take the odds that the downloader has at least five to ten years experience with MS Office and is already on the MS contact lists.
In Seattle they can hear you laughing all the way to the bank.
Now that you have that rant out of your system, let us know how your own pet project fares in its next live-on-stage public demo.
The fleet's computers have "known" Picard since he entered the service. They should be pretty well trained .
The communicator badges in TNG could be transmitting supplementary biometric data and non-verbal commands, which by now have become almost automatic: "Watson. I need you!"
Fine. Now tell me who defines a user's rights. The WSJ would argue that it is within bounds to restrict content and services to its paying subscribers.
I can't speak to what developers need.
But as a non technical end-user, simply looking for programs or add-ons of interest, I'd welcome any improvement on Sourceforge.
The academic in the university produces a theory and a textbook, a new way of teaching math, but engagement with parents and teachers is superficial at best.
w3schools belives the stats overstate the adoption of Firefox among the general population. But I don't you can simply ignore the trend lines which suggest that none of the alternative browsers have gained market share in 2006.
75% of those sufing the web. OS Platform Stats 100% of the home PCs aold since mid-summer of 2001. The only significant requiremet is SP2.
Obviously they fear that people wouldn't want to download it themselves.
The W3Schools stats suggest otherwise:
July IE 7 1.9% Opera 1.4% Browser Statistics
The only movement I see is from IE6 to IE7. The "alternative" browsers stand pretty much where they did last November.
The Slashdot Geek's remoteness from what others know as the Real World is never more in evidence than in posts like these.
There is war in the Mideast, a killer heat wave in the U.S. The social conservatives in Congress have new criminal legislation in the works re minors and abortion. In L.A. the cops are trying to identify fifty victims of a serial killer...
I have been wondering how easy it is for a young child to keep the laptop batteries charged. This would seem to be at least an order of magnitude more demanding than a Lifeline radio.