the MAJORITY??? what crack pipe are you smoking? people use their ipods or hard disk storage. i also take issue with this idea that it's more costly to pursue them than tax everyone for other peoples crimes, there is a 3rd option, don't do anything it's free. taxation to cover PRIVATE COMPANIES legal issues is NEVER right.
"As one of the few places where it is possible to express an opinion about the product that is ultimately technically based"
are you for real? Go back and read all the MS SCO consperacy posts or the MS exploytation of 3rd worlds posts, or the anti bill gates charity posts. this is NOT a forum of technical critques on MS's products. it's a rabid pit of anti corporate/globalisation hate, suedo science and fanboyism.
i'd also say this isn't one of the "few" places that rants against MS. some rants are valid, i'll grant that, but the vast majority are bullshit.
it's about the only clever thing to come out of telstra.
it's amusing to watch Obama atm, we had a very similar flurry of hope and dreams when Rudd was elected here. now look what we have, internet censorship, rolling back of benefits to seniors and families having babies and a string of empty promises.
give it just a little time and that shine will rub off revealing the politician underneth.
nice point you raise there. unfortunately a monoculture is the most efficent way to deliever compatiblity. it's also the only approch that makes sense from a managability perspective. so while it would be nice to be able to run any OS and communicate with alien technology like geoff goldblum in "independance day", it's unlikely.
yeah right because computers happen in nature. we did have a diversity of computers in the wild, they happily swung from the trees and shat in the woods, but then the windows computer was introduced and ate all their food and raped their babies.
or maybe not everything has an analogy based on nature, since it's 100% artifical to begin with, and fills an artifical reqirement (like all computers being compatible dictates a monoculture...)
yeah right, MS is going to buy us all a 1 gig stick of ram. ffs people use your brains, MS is at best going to refund the cost of vista from your PC or send you a copy of windows XP.
if this happens, it will be the year of the linux desktop with duke nukem forever being released simultanously by steve jobs while monkeys fly out his ass.
notes are definately your own work. this is like a dictionary publisher demanding you remove the word "the" because they own it. if was this was high school i'd play dumb and say i didn't take notes, and when she went for my bag i'd scream rape or something like that. if i knew it was comming i'd hide a 12" black dildo in there, maybe a steaming turd.
if it's university wouldn't let her near my bag, and accuse her of attempting to snatch my man purse. really what is she going to do, wrestle me to the ground and rip the notes from my steely clutches? failing that she might send me to the counselor, in which case you've got more gold in the form of faking emotional distress.
he knew exactly which servers to target, so he knows who they belong to. any sane person would know it's a bad idea. this isn't a gun left laying out for a child to find, this is an adult knowingly picking the lock on the gun safe then pointing it at people.
you can't prevent them. they come from legit clients that have been infected with a virus. you can block the traffic by dropping traffic that matches the attach pattern, that's about it.
it's not zero cost though. get involved in a project switching even a medium sized business to linux and then tell me it costs nothing.
if anything, people are going to be more conservative and stick with what works for them. under such a climate NO ONE is going to stick their neck out and recommend a redeployment to linux in case it goes bad on them.
your entire point number 1. is so untrue i hardly know where to start, that's why i said it was nonsense. for starters, exactly what is wrong with windows video backend that your so unhappy about? last i checked i spent 15 minutes installing my last video card, compared to HOURS under linux to get decent 3d working. are you really suggesting x windows is... good?? and which "major" player format has a limit of 2 gig? oh and you need to install extra's in linux to play mkv etc as well, so who cares? atleast the codec's for windows don't suffer the rediculous anti patent anti closed source bias some linux distro's force on you.
how many of those companys actually followed through with that threat? it doesn't point to a declining market share at all, merely a little competition and a hell of a long way from any kind of demise. honestly people wake up to yourselfs a bit.
that i do have one desktop under linux/freebsd that i like a LOT - XFCE4. it's fantasticly streamlined and fast kde and gnome could learn a lot from it.
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agreed, but this will most likely be connected to some *cough cloud* form on online computing. will it have backup abilities ?
don't think big trusted names can't fold. and if it happens, how will you get this data? i would advise extreme caution on what you use this for.
errm that's the same thing.
the MAJORITY??? what crack pipe are you smoking? people use their ipods or hard disk storage. i also take issue with this idea that it's more costly to pursue them than tax everyone for other peoples crimes, there is a 3rd option, don't do anything it's free. taxation to cover PRIVATE COMPANIES legal issues is NEVER right.
Thailand has oil - quickly over throw the vile tyranny!
you don't install them on use desktop one by one you retard, you use citrix, web start or a decently admined domain that pushes installs out for you.
i meet people like you who try to use fake safety concerns to further their own agenda's all the time. you can safely be ignored.
what are you base that on though in the case of the LHC? this isn't any kind of science at all, just spin mistering.
.. when your making millions of dollars and banging super models???
are you for real? Go back and read all the MS SCO consperacy posts or the MS exploytation of 3rd worlds posts, or the anti bill gates charity posts. this is NOT a forum of technical critques on MS's products. it's a rabid pit of anti corporate/globalisation hate, suedo science and fanboyism.
i'd also say this isn't one of the "few" places that rants against MS. some rants are valid, i'll grant that, but the vast majority are bullshit.
Then morons will stop citing it as primary source for their bad science and history.
they are just a distraction and add nothing of value that a pen and paper can't do for 1/10000000 the price.
it's amusing to watch Obama atm, we had a very similar flurry of hope and dreams when Rudd was elected here. now look what we have, internet censorship, rolling back of benefits to seniors and families having babies and a string of empty promises.
give it just a little time and that shine will rub off revealing the politician underneth.
no, it only works on 30% of machines.
nice point you raise there. unfortunately a monoculture is the most efficent way to deliever compatiblity. it's also the only approch that makes sense from a managability perspective. so while it would be nice to be able to run any OS and communicate with alien technology like geoff goldblum in "independance day", it's unlikely.
or maybe not everything has an analogy based on nature, since it's 100% artifical to begin with, and fills an artifical reqirement (like all computers being compatible dictates a monoculture...)
if this happens, it will be the year of the linux desktop with duke nukem forever being released simultanously by steve jobs while monkeys fly out his ass.
if it's university wouldn't let her near my bag, and accuse her of attempting to snatch my man purse. really what is she going to do, wrestle me to the ground and rip the notes from my steely clutches? failing that she might send me to the counselor, in which case you've got more gold in the form of faking emotional distress.
god i can't stand people who try run your life.
he knew exactly which servers to target, so he knows who they belong to. any sane person would know it's a bad idea. this isn't a gun left laying out for a child to find, this is an adult knowingly picking the lock on the gun safe then pointing it at people.
you can't prevent them. they come from legit clients that have been infected with a virus. you can block the traffic by dropping traffic that matches the attach pattern, that's about it.
if anything, people are going to be more conservative and stick with what works for them. under such a climate NO ONE is going to stick their neck out and recommend a redeployment to linux in case it goes bad on them.
your entire point number 1. is so untrue i hardly know where to start, that's why i said it was nonsense. for starters, exactly what is wrong with windows video backend that your so unhappy about? last i checked i spent 15 minutes installing my last video card, compared to HOURS under linux to get decent 3d working. are you really suggesting x windows is... good?? and which "major" player format has a limit of 2 gig? oh and you need to install extra's in linux to play mkv etc as well, so who cares? atleast the codec's for windows don't suffer the rediculous anti patent anti closed source bias some linux distro's force on you.
how many of those companys actually followed through with that threat? it doesn't point to a declining market share at all, merely a little competition and a hell of a long way from any kind of demise. honestly people wake up to yourselfs a bit.
you can tell it's run by well to do individuals who use phrases like "more better"
that i do have one desktop under linux/freebsd that i like a LOT - XFCE4. it's fantasticly streamlined and fast kde and gnome could learn a lot from it.