Communism (n) - an unattainable standard that is constantly held up as a model of perfection despite having no functional real world example past or present.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. All you need to do to create perfect communism is kill everyone else so no-one can disagree with you (you can't just kill the ones who disagree, because the others might only be pretending to agree).
Stalin made a pretty good attempt, but didn't quite succeed.
It is the default mechanism for bypassing firewalls. It is becoming a replacement for tcp/ip. Historically you would simply have opened connections on other ports but that's obviously excruciatingly painful in a firewalled environment.
So, pretty soon firewalls will be either blocking port 80, or performing packet inspection and ripping out streams they don't like.
Maybe if the average web page didn't contain 16MB of Javascript these days, you wouldn't need to worry so much about how much data you can send over one connection.
Linux support on laptops is ABYSMAL from my point of view.
I believe you mean 'laptop support for Linux', mostly due to the GPU-switching hardware which Nvidia and ATI don't release full support for, and other obscure laptop-specific kludges.
I'm typing this on a Toshiba laptop which just works with Linux. I've got a netbook that just works with Linux. The old Dell laptops at work just work with Linux.
You could pirate SunOS, but it wasn't much use without a Sun to run it on. You could pirate MacOS, but it wasn't much use without a Mac to run it on. You could pirate OS/2, but it needed more powerful hardware than Windows.
Windows won because it was cheap (usually free, since it was trivial to pirate) and good enough. A Mac made it look second-rate, but cost twice as much. A Sun made it look like a toy, but cost ten times as much.
The problem is Desktop Linux is a bigger change for many of them.
MATE is much closer to XP/Windows 7 than Windows 8 will ever be. Just because Gnome and Canonical have gone full metal retard, that doesn't mean everyone has.
In that the end user can remove the microsoft key? Yes, it can do that.
Unless the hardware manufacturer won't let you.
In that the end user can install their own key, sign their own software, and boot from that? Yes, it can do that too.
Unless the hardware manufacturer won't let you.
What exactly is your gripe?
That the hardware manufacturer is telling me what I can and can't run on hardware I own?
In any case, Windows Boot has an insignificant security impact on servers. If my server reboots unexpectedly to load malware, I'm sure as hell going to find out why.
Secure boot does nothing to prevent the end user from being in control, and it does not require anything from Microsoft. If your vendor does not allow you to install your own keys, get a better vendor.
So first you say that Windows Boot doesn't prevent the end user from being in control, then you admit that it puts the vendor in control. Vendor lock-in is the whole point of Windows Boot.
Actually it was $500. For the record this $500 device received six major OS upgrades (3.2 to 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.0 and 5.1), the $200 device received zero.
And in breaking news, a cheap device isn't supported as well as an expensive device. Full story at eleven.
So, does the lack of OS upgrades have any impact at all on its intended use for reading books downloaded from Amazon, listening to music downloaded from Amazon, or playing videos downloaded from Amazon?
Except most Android software runs happily on old versions, and my Asus tablet is still getting OS updates a couple of years after I bought it.
Google seem to be pushing for carriers to provide updates so they can get developers to develop for new Android versions, not because the old hardware can't run current software.
It would seem appropriate to pick the Kindle Fire, the best selling Android tablet. Tablet v tablet, 1st gen v 1st gen, best seller v best seller, etc.
I cant prevent Mint or Ubuntu from blanking the screen (shutting off the monitor) using the GUI. It requires several commands at the CLI for several programs and still doesn't work right.
How very odd. I just went to System/Preferences/Power Management and the monitor setting is right there.
...and it's impossible to know if a "book" is total shite, hyped by phony reviews.
You could, you know, try reading the first couple of pages. You know, like most people do when they spot a potentially interesting book on a book store shelf.
Editors have caused as much harm as help to trade-published authors, and, if you believe you need one, you can buy their services for a few hundred to a couple of thousand dollars. Only the big-selling authors get any kind of marketing and publicity beyond putting it in a catalog to send to book stores, so that's irrelevant to the majority of writers.
If publishers are really, actually, needed as middle-men between writers and readers, they'll continue to exist. If they're not, they'll vanish. So what's the problem?
Bugs get prioritised, and when you have to launch this year or wait three years for the next launch window, non-critical bugs aren't going to delay a launch. A bug that causes the computer to reset and return to operation is not a critical bug for a system that's rolling over the surface of Mars at a few feet per minute.
I remember reading that the Apollo Guidance Computer developers would randomly press the reset button while testing their software just to ensure that, if it did reset, that wouldn't cause problems during a lunar landing.
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Communism (n) - an unattainable standard that is constantly held up as a model of perfection despite having no functional real world example past or present.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. All you need to do to create perfect communism is kill everyone else so no-one can disagree with you (you can't just kill the ones who disagree, because the others might only be pretending to agree).
Stalin made a pretty good attempt, but didn't quite succeed.
Simulations and training are more realistic---the side which can get off targeted missiles before being targeted wins.
And then, in the real world, you get rules of engagement requiring you to positively identify the other guy before you can fire...
It is the default mechanism for bypassing firewalls. It is becoming a replacement for tcp/ip. Historically you would simply have opened connections on other ports but that's obviously excruciatingly painful in a firewalled environment.
So, pretty soon firewalls will be either blocking port 80, or performing packet inspection and ripping out streams they don't like.
Guess it will keep the firewall developers busy.
Maybe if the average web page didn't contain 16MB of Javascript these days, you wouldn't need to worry so much about how much data you can send over one connection.
"RETARD" is my favorite.
Err...Cars in India drive on the left, same as in the UK.
According to my Indian friends, when they go home to visit relatives the traffic drives on whatever side of the road they happen to feel like today.
Getting lots of conflicting advice and no actual solution.
The solution is easy. If you want something that works almost like Windows XP or Windows 7, download Mint MATE edition and install it.
And since Mint is supposedly now the most popular Linux distro, they should be getting that advice from most people they ask.
Linux support on laptops is ABYSMAL from my point of view.
I believe you mean 'laptop support for Linux', mostly due to the GPU-switching hardware which Nvidia and ATI don't release full support for, and other obscure laptop-specific kludges.
I'm typing this on a Toshiba laptop which just works with Linux. I've got a netbook that just works with Linux. The old Dell laptops at work just work with Linux.
most people use windows because every program works on windows.
No, they don't.
Look at forums around the web at the number of people asking 'Why doesn't program X run on Windows 8? It runs fine on XP and Windows 7'.
You could pirate SunOS, but it wasn't much use without a Sun to run it on. You could pirate MacOS, but it wasn't much use without a Mac to run it on. You could pirate OS/2, but it needed more powerful hardware than Windows.
Windows won because it was cheap (usually free, since it was trivial to pirate) and good enough. A Mac made it look second-rate, but cost twice as much. A Sun made it look like a toy, but cost ten times as much.
Until it's an OS on par with Windows and OS X, there will be no mass migration to it.
Since Window 8 is now a tablet OS, Microsoft have already made Android an OS on par with Window.
And if you're going to have to run a tablet OS on your desktop, you might as well pick the one that's much more popular.
The problem is Desktop Linux is a bigger change for many of them.
MATE is much closer to XP/Windows 7 than Windows 8 will ever be. Just because Gnome and Canonical have gone full metal retard, that doesn't mean everyone has.
In that the end user can remove the microsoft key? Yes, it can do that.
Unless the hardware manufacturer won't let you.
In that the end user can install their own key, sign their own software, and boot from that? Yes, it can do that too.
Unless the hardware manufacturer won't let you.
What exactly is your gripe?
That the hardware manufacturer is telling me what I can and can't run on hardware I own?
In any case, Windows Boot has an insignificant security impact on servers. If my server reboots unexpectedly to load malware, I'm sure as hell going to find out why.
Secure boot does nothing to prevent the end user from being in control, and it does not require anything from Microsoft. If your vendor does not allow you to install your own keys, get a better vendor.
So first you say that Windows Boot doesn't prevent the end user from being in control, then you admit that it puts the vendor in control. Vendor lock-in is the whole point of Windows Boot.
Actually it was $500. For the record this $500 device received six major OS upgrades (3.2 to 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.0 and 5.1), the $200 device received zero.
And in breaking news, a cheap device isn't supported as well as an expensive device. Full story at eleven.
So, does the lack of OS upgrades have any impact at all on its intended use for reading books downloaded from Amazon, listening to music downloaded from Amazon, or playing videos downloaded from Amazon?
Doesn't look like the iPad is expensive to me.
Except most Android software runs happily on old versions, and my Asus tablet is still getting OS updates a couple of years after I bought it.
Google seem to be pushing for carriers to provide updates so they can get developers to develop for new Android versions, not because the old hardware can't run current software.
Presumably the NSA wanted it added so they could tie fingerprints to call data.
It would seem appropriate to pick the Kindle Fire, the best selling Android tablet. Tablet v tablet, 1st gen v 1st gen, best seller v best seller, etc.
$200 vs $600, etc.
I raise the analogy of the US military dropping bombs on US citizens; they don't do it because they're not supposed to.
I take it you haven't been following the news lately?
Is there anything that hasn't 'been shown to cause cancer in animals'?
I cant prevent Mint or Ubuntu from blanking the screen (shutting off the monitor) using the GUI. It requires several commands at the CLI for several programs and still doesn't work right.
How very odd. I just went to System/Preferences/Power Management and the monitor setting is right there.
...and it's impossible to know if a "book" is total shite, hyped by phony reviews.
You could, you know, try reading the first couple of pages. You know, like most people do when they spot a potentially interesting book on a book store shelf.
Editors have caused as much harm as help to trade-published authors, and, if you believe you need one, you can buy their services for a few hundred to a couple of thousand dollars. Only the big-selling authors get any kind of marketing and publicity beyond putting it in a catalog to send to book stores, so that's irrelevant to the majority of writers.
If publishers are really, actually, needed as middle-men between writers and readers, they'll continue to exist. If they're not, they'll vanish. So what's the problem?
Bugs get prioritised, and when you have to launch this year or wait three years for the next launch window, non-critical bugs aren't going to delay a launch. A bug that causes the computer to reset and return to operation is not a critical bug for a system that's rolling over the surface of Mars at a few feet per minute.
I remember reading that the Apollo Guidance Computer developers would randomly press the reset button while testing their software just to ensure that, if it did reset, that wouldn't cause problems during a lunar landing.
Not if you want things like menus and buttons, which I've heard Firefox has.
I heard the next version will be removing the last of them, since they confuse users.