And yet, my ancient yet still high quality and functional, never supported in Linux (much less past Win98) by HP flatbed scanner works completely plug-and-play on the most recent version of Ubuntu. Do I take this as a "freebie", or a flaw in the Windows ecosystem? I generally attribute it to the latter.
I'm focused on the political issue because it's like someone taking the only road between points A and B, and then randomly applying a toll to it. I understand what you're saying is that it's easier, but it's also HARDER than the previous setups which required no management, or VLK management, etc. Artificial hurdles are not a welcome thing, whether or not they're easier than alternative artificial hurdles.
Aye, but it's communism that works because you aren't taking anything away from any contributor in the system. If you take my cow and give it to Yuri, I no longer have a cow. With Linux, as soon as I make a cow, both Yuri AND I can have a cow, and when he makes a horse, we both have horses.
But those programs you listed actually DO something tangible contributing to the business, rather than just being there to enable OTHER programs to work. If AutoCAD license were essentially forced on companies, then I'd be upset in the same way. But now to just get basic "turn my computer on and use it to run other programs" functionality, you now need yet another service (or perhaps entire server) eating up network bandwidth and administration resources, because they're the de-facto standard due to monopolistic tendencies?
I'll rise to the troll for the parent with a quote:
sound in my game suffers from a 1-second delay on some Vista systems
Perhaps you can try reading next time, eh? Moron. He almost certainly DID test it, it's just something that occurs on some configurations, not all of them. Even Microsoft can't afford to have an instance of EVERY system configuration possible.
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For every anecdote, there's a counter anecdote:
802.11 works fine for me. Try network-manager/knetworkmanager. All clicky-clicky, and even better than XP's network support IMHO
Volume controls? You mean like the Fn+F6/F7 on my laptop that actually change the volume of my machine? Automatically, with no configuration, in Linux, on my laptop?
Bluetooth seems to work fine for me, too.
Video drives, I just did apt-get install nvidia-glx, and they've worked since then. With Beryl, I get 3D screensavers, everything I could want.
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Hope you chose the right combination of video card and monitor, as well as drivers, if you ever wanted to watch that HD-DVD on your box. Oh, your hardware is completely capable of playing that movie at full resolution, it just doesn't have the artificial limitations on a special interface? Go pay more and upgrade your perfectly functioning hardware.
Some necessary things DO require WGA. I just installed a patch to make my work laptop hibernate correctly, because I recently upgraded it to 2GB of RAM. I had to go through the WGA check on their web page to download that patch. It's ONLY "security" related patches that are sent out regardless of WGA status.
So wait... Microsoft is requiring you to run a server just to run their fucking operating system? It adds NO value whatsoever to the company using it, yet takes their electricity, time and resources to maintain? Does that sound absolutely asinine to ANYONE else? Wouldn't a CTO/CIO be slightly annoyed at having to allocate extra resources just to run an operating system whose only real function is to allow the real work to get done?
That's almost certainly the answer. Try it again... you'll probably be surprised. KDE has gotten faster, cleaner and more responsive. Gnome (besides GTK just being a steaming pile of shit) has only shown contempt for it's users with their dumbed down dialogs that you can only access through the correct incantations (I should be able to just type a location, not somehow magically know ctrl+L allows that functionality)
Cue, n.
1. A signal, such as a word or action, used to prompt another event in a performance, such as an actor's speech or entrance, a change in lighting, or a sound effect.
Queue, n.
1. A line of waiting people or vehicles.
Just make sure that none of your music has the same riffs as other songs. Copyright has some justification, but not to the level it's been taken. All art is built on what came before it, on our perceptions of our world and other art. To have harsh copyright laws is to deny that truth. Imagine what would have happened to most Disney movies if copyright had existed on Cinderella and other stories they ripped off.
IANAL either, but I think that's called releasing your work to the public domain. It used to be quite common for most works to be public domain unless explicitly copyrighted, until copyright was amended to be automatically applied to everything.
And now we (hopefully) will have Linux/BSD, which you can legally and in perpetuity install onto as many servers as you want, and not have to worry about the cycle repeating.
If it's something anyone can do, why did your parents call you? He's saying that it's becoming more normal to just pay to fix your problems, rather than to figure out what's causing them and do it yourself.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Don't you know? Anon is only for cases where you say something trollingly controversial, not funny. Like "Windows Vista is the greatest thing since individually packaged pepper-jack flavor imitation cheese slices!"
...shit. Forgot to tick the "Post Anonymously" box...
Dude, this is MONEY we're talking about. They're gonna make SURE it's right. This isn't anything as trivial as votes for the leaders of our nation. How naive can you get?
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And yet, my ancient yet still high quality and functional, never supported in Linux (much less past Win98) by HP flatbed scanner works completely plug-and-play on the most recent version of Ubuntu. Do I take this as a "freebie", or a flaw in the Windows ecosystem? I generally attribute it to the latter.
I'm focused on the political issue because it's like someone taking the only road between points A and B, and then randomly applying a toll to it. I understand what you're saying is that it's easier, but it's also HARDER than the previous setups which required no management, or VLK management, etc. Artificial hurdles are not a welcome thing, whether or not they're easier than alternative artificial hurdles.
Aye, but it's communism that works because you aren't taking anything away from any contributor in the system. If you take my cow and give it to Yuri, I no longer have a cow. With Linux, as soon as I make a cow, both Yuri AND I can have a cow, and when he makes a horse, we both have horses.
But those programs you listed actually DO something tangible contributing to the business, rather than just being there to enable OTHER programs to work. If AutoCAD license were essentially forced on companies, then I'd be upset in the same way. But now to just get basic "turn my computer on and use it to run other programs" functionality, you now need yet another service (or perhaps entire server) eating up network bandwidth and administration resources, because they're the de-facto standard due to monopolistic tendencies?
For every anecdote, there's a counter anecdote:
802.11 works fine for me. Try network-manager/knetworkmanager. All clicky-clicky, and even better than XP's network support IMHO
Volume controls? You mean like the Fn+F6/F7 on my laptop that actually change the volume of my machine? Automatically, with no configuration, in Linux, on my laptop?
Bluetooth seems to work fine for me, too.
Video drives, I just did apt-get install nvidia-glx, and they've worked since then. With Beryl, I get 3D screensavers, everything I could want.
Hope you chose the right combination of video card and monitor, as well as drivers, if you ever wanted to watch that HD-DVD on your box. Oh, your hardware is completely capable of playing that movie at full resolution, it just doesn't have the artificial limitations on a special interface? Go pay more and upgrade your perfectly functioning hardware.
And you're aware that a 2GHz Pentium 4 didn't run 64bit code, right?
I'm up for a joke :) I'm too lazy to code it, though...
Some necessary things DO require WGA. I just installed a patch to make my work laptop hibernate correctly, because I recently upgraded it to 2GB of RAM. I had to go through the WGA check on their web page to download that patch. It's ONLY "security" related patches that are sent out regardless of WGA status.
So wait... Microsoft is requiring you to run a server just to run their fucking operating system? It adds NO value whatsoever to the company using it, yet takes their electricity, time and resources to maintain? Does that sound absolutely asinine to ANYONE else? Wouldn't a CTO/CIO be slightly annoyed at having to allocate extra resources just to run an operating system whose only real function is to allow the real work to get done?
But hardware requires much more of an upfront materials investment. They both require time, but only one is infinitely easy to replicate.
Just what we need, Autorun on Linux... that shit should be turned off in Windows by default, too.
That's almost certainly the answer. Try it again... you'll probably be surprised. KDE has gotten faster, cleaner and more responsive. Gnome (besides GTK just being a steaming pile of shit) has only shown contempt for it's users with their dumbed down dialogs that you can only access through the correct incantations (I should be able to just type a location, not somehow magically know ctrl+L allows that functionality)
Cue, n.
1. A signal, such as a word or action, used to prompt another event in a performance, such as an actor's speech or entrance, a change in lighting, or a sound effect.
Queue, n.
1. A line of waiting people or vehicles.
Just make sure that none of your music has the same riffs as other songs. Copyright has some justification, but not to the level it's been taken. All art is built on what came before it, on our perceptions of our world and other art. To have harsh copyright laws is to deny that truth. Imagine what would have happened to most Disney movies if copyright had existed on Cinderella and other stories they ripped off.
IANAL either, but I think that's called releasing your work to the public domain. It used to be quite common for most works to be public domain unless explicitly copyrighted, until copyright was amended to be automatically applied to everything.
And now we (hopefully) will have Linux/BSD, which you can legally and in perpetuity install onto as many servers as you want, and not have to worry about the cycle repeating.
Take off, you hoser. My friend is a cop, and he said you should give me free beer, or he'll press charges.
If it's something anyone can do, why did your parents call you? He's saying that it's becoming more normal to just pay to fix your problems, rather than to figure out what's causing them and do it yourself.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Yup. You've gotta keep your crap in order, from largest to smallest...
Don't you know? Anon is only for cases where you say something trollingly controversial, not funny. Like "Windows Vista is the greatest thing since individually packaged pepper-jack flavor imitation cheese slices!"
...shit. Forgot to tick the "Post Anonymously" box...
Dude, this is MONEY we're talking about. They're gonna make SURE it's right. This isn't anything as trivial as votes for the leaders of our nation. How naive can you get?
Hate to tell you, but it's already happening