What are the three best reasons that I, as a technically capable user with a reasonable interest in computing, should choose Windows for my own personal use?
...if someone did it with floppy drives OF COURSE they would try it with iPods. How could steve be proved wrong about the inferiority of the floppy drive as a mass storage device? <br><br> <a href="http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm">Link. </a>
...but when my mother comes over I thank god that my machine sets up passwords and partitions off users pretty well.
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You aren't joking. I have a powerbook (duh, see sig) and whilst OS X is pretty tolerable the thing that makes it useless to me is the fact that you have to buy every little damn thing for it. $20 for focus follows mouse, $15 for a decent trackpd driver, $10 for that, $25 for something else. It's a never ending trail of money.
After a long time using Linux it's amazing to go back into the commerical world. You get so used to being able to get so much amazing quality software in return for being part of the community that anything else seems just odd.
The biggest advantage is of course the time saved - want a app to do Y? apt-get Y-app. No hunting around, deciding f you trust them with your credit card details, or even having to walk to a store. You can try different apps - all for free and not crippled. You can add and remove at will, upgrade at will and you never have to worry about losing your license. That level of flexibility and freedom is only possible on a non-commercial platform and it's just an amazing argument for it.
Walkman. PS. PS One PS 2. Clie (which was a present for my brother). Surround amp.
None of which was abused. I'll reconsider buying things from them when the stop making cheap shit that doesn't work. They have had, and squandered, plenty of chances from me.
Do you really want to be running Skype or let it onto your network? At my university Skype has been banned. Here is the reasoning:
Skype Peer to Peer Telephony software is now also prohibited. Skype is a free application that facilitates free telephone calls through the use of an internet connection.
Calls made using the system are directed through 'Supernodes', which can be ordinary PC's with Skype installed. Machines on fast and well connected Internet feeds like the $Network are likely to automatically become 'Supernodes' and forward a considerable amount of traffic.
This allows Skype to route other peoples Voice over IP calls using your machine and the university internet connection. This is in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy and could potentially put the university's network and core business at risk.
Finally, the Skype End User License Agreement (EULA) grants Skype permission to install and use 3rd party software on computers running Skype. This could include an array of spyware and adware that is likely to threaten the privacy of anyone installing this software.
Some of us have had hotmail accounts since long before the beast brought it out:( You can't just throw away a decade old address even if you get new ones because of the things going there that cannot be changed.
Back in the day it was revolutionary and a good product, much like Gmail is now. In 10 years time it could well be Gmail that is the lumbering crap filled old beast.
...doesnt the takedown happen after it's been posted to the P2P networks? Isn't this a bit preemptive actually putting it in the title? Do you get one free lawsuit with every copy?
The Zaurus is a fantastic product. It's best use for me is on economy flights (no one has enough air miles to fly decently all the time) where the seat pitch is just too damn small for my powerbook.
It's got enough power and battery life for me to do a bit of coding (well code review, the keyboard is ok for edits but not writing huge chunks) and with a 4gb CF disk in it (I currently have one ripped from another device - but the new solution is nicer) more than enough movies to keep you going.
Mine manages ~10 hours or ~5 watching films, but spare batteries are pretty cheap at ~$100 each, and higher capacity than the default one on my model too.
If you do get one INSTALL VIM FOLDNIG EXTENSIONS! Or the same for emacs if you prefer. Folding editors make life easy on big screens, on a small screen they are invaluable.
They involve breaking the unjust parts of laws that are clearly unjust to begin with.
For example, using the image of Micky mouse without permission to plaster the city with posters about how long copyright law should be, or handing out DVDs of 20+ year old films in a public place that should bt freely redistributable were the law fair.
Downloading the latest hollywood crap doesn't cut it I'm afraid.
Crashing KDE won't kill your system. System services will keep on rolling just fine.
Crashing the Windows shell will nuke the whole box, web servers, ftp servers, application servers and all.
Obviously the distinction for a desktop user is minor, since your desktop is gone and your work with it, but if you are running servers the separation is VERY important. A KDE crash (unlike a hard lock from windows shell bringing down the system) doesnt lead to:
Service unavailability for customers. Possible disk corruption (disk writes not completed). Potentially having to rebuild a volume from raid or journal. Loss of state based data (eg from a web app).
And so on. Add to this that users for whom stability is critical won't even be running a desktop on a Linux system and you can see why this is a real world metric for users who aren't relying on all of the extra crap that they cannot disable in the NT kernel.
It's normalised by LoCs. So as long as the average for every part of the code is the same, then it's ok.
Since you can bring down the whole of windows by a crash in one of there 8x lines of code the error rate has the same significance as the error rate in the 1x lines of Linux code. (Ie 1 error in 1000 lines is still 1 potentially critical error in 1000 lines no matter which part of the code base it appears in).
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What are the three best reasons that I, as a technically capable user with a reasonable interest in computing, should choose Windows for my own personal use?
...that they remember to check the ice berg forcast before they ship.
...if someone did it with floppy drives OF COURSE they would try it with iPods. How could steve be proved wrong about the inferiority of the floppy drive as a mass storage device?. </a>
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<a href="http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm">Link
I don't know, Bill fits the profile quite well and he could easy afford to kick in the lose change from under his couch and pay for the whole thing.
That way *everyone in the world* would have donated $12 towards production!
This months browser stats:
Firefox No 1231 50.4 %
Mozilla No 953 39 %
MS Internet Explorer No 237 9.7 %
Safari No 10 0.4 %
Opera No 7 0.2 %
Unknown ? 2 0 %
Starting to look like a tempting target, no?
(FWIW the same month last year was 72% IE for rougly the same number of hits.)
1) Do not do calculations requiring a high degree of accuracy on a Pentium.
...but when my mother comes over I thank god that my machine sets up passwords and partitions off users pretty well.
You aren't joking. I have a powerbook (duh, see sig) and whilst OS X is pretty tolerable the thing that makes it useless to me is the fact that you have to buy every little damn thing for it. $20 for focus follows mouse, $15 for a decent trackpd driver, $10 for that, $25 for something else. It's a never ending trail of money.
After a long time using Linux it's amazing to go back into the commerical world. You get so used to being able to get so much amazing quality software in return for being part of the community that anything else seems just odd.
The biggest advantage is of course the time saved - want a app to do Y? apt-get Y-app. No hunting around, deciding f you trust them with your credit card details, or even having to walk to a store. You can try different apps - all for free and not crippled. You can add and remove at will, upgrade at will and you never have to worry about losing your license. That level of flexibility and freedom is only possible on a non-commercial platform and it's just an amazing argument for it.
Broken Sony junk:
Walkman.
PS.
PS One
PS 2.
Clie (which was a present for my brother).
Surround amp.
None of which was abused. I'll reconsider buying things from them when the stop making cheap shit that doesn't work. They have had, and squandered, plenty of chances from me.
Do you have a big desk?
Buy a CRT.
Spend the rest on booze and hookers.
Do you have limited space and/or need to move around.
Buy a LCD.
Pay for booze and hookers with a credit card.
Do you really want to be running Skype or let it onto your network? At my university Skype has been banned. Here is the reasoning:
Skype Peer to Peer Telephony software is now also prohibited. Skype is a
free application that facilitates free telephone calls through the use of
an internet connection.
Calls made using the system are directed through 'Supernodes', which can be
ordinary PC's with Skype installed. Machines on fast and well connected
Internet feeds like the $Network are likely to automatically become
'Supernodes' and forward a considerable amount of traffic.
This allows Skype to route other peoples Voice over IP calls using your
machine and the university internet connection. This is in breach of the
Acceptable Use Policy and could potentially put the university's network
and core business at risk.
Finally, the Skype End User License Agreement (EULA) grants Skype permission
to install and use 3rd party software on computers running Skype. This could
include an array of spyware and adware that is likely to threaten the
privacy of anyone installing this software.
Some of us have had hotmail accounts since long before the beast brought it out :( You can't just throw away a decade old address even if you get new ones because of the things going there that cannot be changed.
Back in the day it was revolutionary and a good product, much like Gmail is now. In 10 years time it could well be Gmail that is the lumbering crap filled old beast.
...doesnt the takedown happen after it's been posted to the P2P networks? Isn't this a bit preemptive actually putting it in the title? Do you get one free lawsuit with every copy?
The Zaurus is a fantastic product. It's best use for me is on economy flights (no one has enough air miles to fly decently all the time) where the seat pitch is just too damn small for my powerbook.
It's got enough power and battery life for me to do a bit of coding (well code review, the keyboard is ok for edits but not writing huge chunks) and with a 4gb CF disk in it (I currently have one ripped from another device - but the new solution is nicer) more than enough movies to keep you going.
Mine manages ~10 hours or ~5 watching films, but spare batteries are pretty cheap at ~$100 each, and higher capacity than the default one on my model too.
If you do get one INSTALL VIM FOLDNIG EXTENSIONS! Or the same for emacs if you prefer. Folding editors make life easy on big screens, on a small screen they are invaluable.
...and it solves both the food and the social security problem in one fel swoop.
...not just engineering rejects but industrial design rejects too.
[I'd quite like to see a stealth Airbus A380]
It's already stealthy - it's so fricking big no one will believe it's really floating around in the sky.
The military transport version will just be the same thing painted pink with a Somebody Elses Problem field.
Since turnabout is fair play we can now tag all the police cars and never get speeding fines again.
...another wireless standard significantly harmed by not-quite interoperable implimentations produced by ass-hat vendors.
But at least you wouldn't be able to see rapidly approaching tree, it's a feature not a bug!
They involve breaking the unjust parts of laws that are clearly unjust to begin with.
For example, using the image of Micky mouse without permission to plaster the city with posters about how long copyright law should be, or handing out DVDs of 20+ year old films in a public place that should bt freely redistributable were the law fair.
Downloading the latest hollywood crap doesn't cut it I'm afraid.
Note how the (/.) article does NOT state the number of bugs in WindowsXP code.
It overflowed a 32bit INT, they are having to wait for their new 64 bit machines to arrive to finish computing the exact number.
Crashing KDE won't kill your system. System services will keep on rolling just fine.
Crashing the Windows shell will nuke the whole box, web servers, ftp servers, application servers and all.
Obviously the distinction for a desktop user is minor, since your desktop is gone and your work with it, but if you are running servers the separation is VERY important. A KDE crash (unlike a hard lock from windows shell bringing down the system) doesnt lead to:
Service unavailability for customers.
Possible disk corruption (disk writes not completed).
Potentially having to rebuild a volume from raid or journal.
Loss of state based data (eg from a web app).
And so on. Add to this that users for whom stability is critical won't even be running a desktop on a Linux system and you can see why this is a real world metric for users who aren't relying on all of the extra crap that they cannot disable in the NT kernel.
It's normalised by LoCs. So as long as the average for every part of the code is the same, then it's ok.
Since you can bring down the whole of windows by a crash in one of there 8x lines of code the error rate has the same significance as the error rate in the 1x lines of Linux code. (Ie 1 error in 1000 lines is still 1 potentially critical error in 1000 lines no matter which part of the code base it appears in).
...that they will now be required to work 90 hours a week without overtime pay on game systems all over the country?