She's a single mother of 4, that means not only did she not have the sense to not get knocked up without proper support, she did it 4 times. There isn't a lot of common sense in that family so its highly unlikely any of her rugrats are going to do anything more than Janitorial service. Its possible, but its just not a realistic expectation.
Sorry, but whats the joke here? (I really just don't get it)
Is there something to the $699 number that I'm missing or is it just some random number you made up to imply that you are paying for something thats free and you should have never paid for?
I've got a cold so I'm slow today, to the point of being stupid actually so I feel like I'm missing something that should be obvious since you're rated +5. Its of course entirely likely that being sick has infected my funny bone as well...
even if they do not derive any value from the sale of that code.
Thats where you are wrong, and where most people get it wrong in businesses that don't like OSS.
Businesses that work on OSS realize they ARE getting value from the code they are selling. Just because the code is used as part of something else. The businesses that hire Linux kernel devs are the ones that realize they are making money by selling the code as part of the product. Just because they don't sell you a copy of the Linux kernel specifically doesn't mean they aren't selling you the code.
Every website that runs Linux for its shopping cart, every Linksys or Dlink router that runs Linux is a copy of code sold. Every ad that gets clicked on Googles website, is a sell of the Linux kernel. Businesses that support Linux kernel devs realize this, which is why they are willing to pay for it, because paying for one guys time to add your features or bug fixes is a more sane way of paying for what you get than licensing from someone else.
They are also buying Linux code when they hire these developers, not just in the obvious code that the developers produce directly, but also from the shared 'community' that puts the code back into the main package, so the business using Linux doesn't have to maintain everything, everybody just works together to support what they need for their business because someone else is handling their own world.
When ATI and intel higher kernel developers they aren't contributing to anyone but themselves, because they are writing drivers for their own hardware, which means the people using those drivers bought their hardware, which is EXACTLY what they want. Okay, its not strictly true, those devs work on other stuff like the frameworks for the drivers and X and various other bits, but thats still so they can sell more of their own hardware.
They may not derive value from the kernel development directly, but they do indirectly. They aren't doing it out of good will alone, its business and its in there interest to do it to sell more of their primary product, the good will on the side is just another benefit to them, and us.
You tend to be far more forgiving when something is both free (beer) and, feels like it belongs to you instead of some distant oligarchy.
Only if what your doing is of little to no value. The Windows tax is trivial compared to what I use my Windows machines for. The genuine advantage thing used to bother me, but then I grew up and just realized that I got so much use out of the OS that the price wasn't really that bad. I'd spend more in 2 days getting drunk off my ass on the weekend when I lived in Orlando than the cost of Windows XP Pro, which I've used for everyday for the past 9 years, on most days for more than 8 hours a day.
The genuine advantage thing has only been a problem for me once, on a work PC, where the previous guy had used a stolen volume license ISO to make an image. The volume license was revoked, GA bitched about it, and I had to enter the key on the side of the machine and give MS a call. The only people this really bothers are pirates (which of course it doesn't bother much) and others who did something they shouldn't. Its really not that big of a deal and MS isn't the first to do it, its just a battle cry for those that don't have a real battle cry.
Free (as in no $$$) doesn't make me any less pissed off when it breaks. Being free doesn't do me any good when the time that it breaks is near a deadline that I'm struggling to meet in the first place, or when it breaks and I have to go to the data center with 3 hours of sleep after a long day. I am JUST as pissed off at the 'Free' software and OS as I am at the one I pay for.
You may not care, but my time is worth money and when you realize the cost of the Windows tax counts for a few hours of my time if I'm buying a new copy of Win7 ultimate, no upgrade... well, I just have more important things to do than whine about the tax. Especially considering the lack of support (software/hardware) for the free software.
I still use the free software as my BSD web servers have uptimes going on 3 years now and I'd never get that out of Windows, but it has nothing to do with the cost of the software and everything to do with how much time I waste dealing with 'issues' with that platform.
I don't think anyone would complain about the artist being compensated, the problem is that A) they dont' get compensated, record execs do and B) making millions and millions of dollars for a few months in a studio isn't exactly fair compensation.
In 200 years its highly unlikely that any music made in the last 100 years will ever be heard again, so its hard for most people to think that the money that the popular artists make is fair.
Considering the compensation that the people who made music that has lasted centuries from a relative point of view was nothing, its hard for me personally to think that the compensation (as it currently is) is fair.
In reality, the little no name bands that work their asses off in bars and local venues daily or weekly make about what people like miley cyrus, britney spears and the back door boys SHOULD make.
You could of course compensate them in other ways. People would feel different about paying a dollar for a song if that meant that dollar bought them the song, not one particular copy of a song that they can't duplicate themselves. People might be less likely to bitch if a copy of a song cost $0.01, in which case, good artists are STILL going to make PLENTY of money for the work they put in, and no one is going to bitch about buying another 'copy'.
The problem is, there is no tangible value to their work yet the industry is trying to create tangible value from a (for all intents and purposes) no cost copy.
I'd be fine with paying $0.10 song for the rights to the song, and then some reasonable amount to download it again based on the cost of the bandwidth and services provided. Hell, I'd be happy to pay Apple or anyone else $0.05-$0.10 per song and $10/year for them to act as my online storage vault to protect my copies incase something happens on my end.
Since google can give away the better part of 10 gigs of space to me for free based on the fact that in theory I click a link once in a while for them, I can't really fathom how this wouldn't be a viable business. The music and movie industry doesn't get to define viable or the accounting methods used however, I do. And my definition translates to a marginal overall profit so everyone involved and live comfortably. It doesn't include paying for the guy who runs auto-tune for them though.
Its a shitty path since you can already do it with the right configuration settings and an extension. I've been doing it since 2.0 while working on overlays for my extension.
It does on certain OSes. Cairo for instance will use hardware acceleration in Windows. Not sure if FF for windows takes advantage of it, but it certainly could.
As a general rule however, browsers don't really need this sort of thing, thats changed recently though.
Its not really going to give Firefox an edge however, IE already does it in Windows.
No, but you can make it so each one looks like other apps on the OS.
Unix doesn't count, not until everyone realizes that they need to settle on one look and feel for an OS and stick to it. Until either GTK or Qt dies, Linux is never going to have a UI that doesn't suck. Until UNIX GUI apps feel consistent across applications theres no point in worrying about your theme. They'd be just as well off just using the OSX or Windows theme, it'd fit in just as well.
But but but but... what would we ever do with out 14,000 'theme's that consist of nothing more than some woman in a swim suit for all of our borders and boobies for buttons?
Heres a hint: If you add 'skinning' or 'themeing' to your app, you don't know how to make a GUI that doesn't suck ass. Stop there, go do something else and find someone who has a clue about how to make a GUI or someone who at least understands consistency across applications is important.
Congratulations, you now no what happens when you break RFC. You could follow RFCs and not drop packets and it wouldn't be a problem.
Or... you can not follow RFCs and deal with the consequences, its not hard really. Follow protocol, things are likely to work, don't and you get unexpected and sometimes bad results. Welcome to the reason we have open documented protocols.
You'll also find that the scan is much quicker if your firewall is doing its job properly.
Silently dropping all packets that you don't allow is for cluebies who don't know what they are doing. Any decent firewall can drop on flooding triggers rather than all packets and accomplish the same thing effectively preventing flooding via the response packets and still work with the protocol properly.
In short, don't try to do things you don't understand and then bitch when it breaks things.
This is essentially an unremovable addon like that MS.NET addon that MS shoved down our throats.
Right, because deleting a registry key is something that can't be done. It was hardly unremovable, and could be done by anyone who would want to remove it. Grandma doesn't give a shit that its there, and probably would rather it be there so websites 'just work'.
Its clear that you've never had any involvement in usability studies for software.
Yes, the government created it, this is well known. They created it so they could securely communicate by bouncing signals off of unsecured ships, like your random cruise ship or an allied warship.
They were involved with its creation, of course the watch it. So do lots of other people.
As a general rule, people hiding their activities DO HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE. The minority use something like this for legitimate uses. However, our founding fathers had the opinion that until we know you're hiding something bad, you can hide it so no one can come after your for something you do in private that doesn't bother anyone else. This helps to prevent people from having a bad opinion of you, prejudice and hate.
It doesn't however change the fact that it will be used, primarily by people using it to hide illegal activities. It would be retarded if they DIDN'T watch it and as a tax payer I'd be pissed if they didn't.
Reality says that most people have no need to use this sort of protection and that its of very little use to the majority of the people on the planet, even those doing minor illegal activities.
I've talked about plenty of things over the phone, email and hell, even posted on bulletin boards (the real ones, cork board and paper with pushpins) at grocery stores about illegal activities. None of it was anything major of course, minor little crap, all of which were misdemeanors. There are 2 reasons why nothing ever came of it.
A. It was minor crap, no one actually cares about what I did unless I was stupid enough to do it in front of an ON DUTY cop.
B. Hiding in plain site and blending in with the crowd makes you a lot less obviously a target than the person hiding things, regardless of what you are hiding.
So yes, when you make it obvious you're trying to hide something people are going to pay attention to try and figure out what you're hiding, thats being a good detective and what I expect from people who's job is to detect stuff.
Do you have any idea at all what you are talking about?
Please compare a kernel from Dec 31st, 1999 to a kernel today. I think you'll find that there isn't much left from the 90s. Fragments here and there sure, but if Linux was anything at all like what it was around the year 2k, no one would use it on a production system now days.
Removing IE is easy, its a wrapper GUI around a browser engine. Delete iexplore.exe, there you deleted IE.
The rendering engine is in a shared DLL thats used by just about everything now days, even if the app doesn't use the renderer directly, the built in help system is HTML based and uses the shared library for its renderer.
Its also used by HTML style dialogs, which are basically dialogs that use HTML to define the layout rather than the old style dialog resources.
This isn't really different from any other modern OS which uses HTML all over the place. I can't think of any modern desktop OS that doesn't have massive dependancies on an HTML renderer.
The problem is that people pretend that it matters.
Facebook is for attention whores who want other people to know details about their lives. Its fucking retarded to talk about privacy when the whole point is giving out your information.
I know of 1 person with a facebook profile who isn't an attention whore, and they use it just so they can spy on others.
No one with a facebook account has any room to bitch about privacy, those that do are just using a different method of attention whoring, either way the result is the same.
The solution is relatively simple. Population control. I've also yet to meet anyone with a Facebook account that is actually useful to the world, so the next step would be to use the facebook account list to terminate a large number of morons.
The MS test crap in the latest versions of VisualStudio do it as well, and they'll be happy to find a button (if its a standard control) to click on using other data rather than mouse coordinates as well.
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I know a lot of people who use Linux in production environments and I've not come across a single person who pays anyone for support.
You do realize that, being married, they'll take it from her husbands paycheck then, right?
Those kids were never going to college.
She's a single mother of 4, that means not only did she not have the sense to not get knocked up without proper support, she did it 4 times. There isn't a lot of common sense in that family so its highly unlikely any of her rugrats are going to do anything more than Janitorial service. Its possible, but its just not a realistic expectation.
Who?
Sorry, but whats the joke here? (I really just don't get it)
Is there something to the $699 number that I'm missing or is it just some random number you made up to imply that you are paying for something thats free and you should have never paid for?
I've got a cold so I'm slow today, to the point of being stupid actually so I feel like I'm missing something that should be obvious since you're rated +5. Its of course entirely likely that being sick has infected my funny bone as well ...
Thats where you are wrong, and where most people get it wrong in businesses that don't like OSS.
Businesses that work on OSS realize they ARE getting value from the code they are selling. Just because the code is used as part of something else. The businesses that hire Linux kernel devs are the ones that realize they are making money by selling the code as part of the product. Just because they don't sell you a copy of the Linux kernel specifically doesn't mean they aren't selling you the code.
Every website that runs Linux for its shopping cart, every Linksys or Dlink router that runs Linux is a copy of code sold. Every ad that gets clicked on Googles website, is a sell of the Linux kernel. Businesses that support Linux kernel devs realize this, which is why they are willing to pay for it, because paying for one guys time to add your features or bug fixes is a more sane way of paying for what you get than licensing from someone else.
They are also buying Linux code when they hire these developers, not just in the obvious code that the developers produce directly, but also from the shared 'community' that puts the code back into the main package, so the business using Linux doesn't have to maintain everything, everybody just works together to support what they need for their business because someone else is handling their own world.
When ATI and intel higher kernel developers they aren't contributing to anyone but themselves, because they are writing drivers for their own hardware, which means the people using those drivers bought their hardware, which is EXACTLY what they want. Okay, its not strictly true, those devs work on other stuff like the frameworks for the drivers and X and various other bits, but thats still so they can sell more of their own hardware.
They may not derive value from the kernel development directly, but they do indirectly. They aren't doing it out of good will alone, its business and its in there interest to do it to sell more of their primary product, the good will on the side is just another benefit to them, and us.
Only if what your doing is of little to no value. The Windows tax is trivial compared to what I use my Windows machines for. The genuine advantage thing used to bother me, but then I grew up and just realized that I got so much use out of the OS that the price wasn't really that bad. I'd spend more in 2 days getting drunk off my ass on the weekend when I lived in Orlando than the cost of Windows XP Pro, which I've used for everyday for the past 9 years, on most days for more than 8 hours a day.
The genuine advantage thing has only been a problem for me once, on a work PC, where the previous guy had used a stolen volume license ISO to make an image. The volume license was revoked, GA bitched about it, and I had to enter the key on the side of the machine and give MS a call. The only people this really bothers are pirates (which of course it doesn't bother much) and others who did something they shouldn't. Its really not that big of a deal and MS isn't the first to do it, its just a battle cry for those that don't have a real battle cry.
Free (as in no $$$) doesn't make me any less pissed off when it breaks. Being free doesn't do me any good when the time that it breaks is near a deadline that I'm struggling to meet in the first place, or when it breaks and I have to go to the data center with 3 hours of sleep after a long day. I am JUST as pissed off at the 'Free' software and OS as I am at the one I pay for.
You may not care, but my time is worth money and when you realize the cost of the Windows tax counts for a few hours of my time if I'm buying a new copy of Win7 ultimate, no upgrade ... well, I just have more important things to do than whine about the tax. Especially considering the lack of support (software/hardware) for the free software.
I still use the free software as my BSD web servers have uptimes going on 3 years now and I'd never get that out of Windows, but it has nothing to do with the cost of the software and everything to do with how much time I waste dealing with 'issues' with that platform.
I don't think anyone would complain about the artist being compensated, the problem is that A) they dont' get compensated, record execs do and B) making millions and millions of dollars for a few months in a studio isn't exactly fair compensation.
In 200 years its highly unlikely that any music made in the last 100 years will ever be heard again, so its hard for most people to think that the money that the popular artists make is fair.
Considering the compensation that the people who made music that has lasted centuries from a relative point of view was nothing, its hard for me personally to think that the compensation (as it currently is) is fair.
In reality, the little no name bands that work their asses off in bars and local venues daily or weekly make about what people like miley cyrus, britney spears and the back door boys SHOULD make.
You could of course compensate them in other ways. People would feel different about paying a dollar for a song if that meant that dollar bought them the song, not one particular copy of a song that they can't duplicate themselves. People might be less likely to bitch if a copy of a song cost $0.01, in which case, good artists are STILL going to make PLENTY of money for the work they put in, and no one is going to bitch about buying another 'copy'.
The problem is, there is no tangible value to their work yet the industry is trying to create tangible value from a (for all intents and purposes) no cost copy.
I'd be fine with paying $0.10 song for the rights to the song, and then some reasonable amount to download it again based on the cost of the bandwidth and services provided. Hell, I'd be happy to pay Apple or anyone else $0.05-$0.10 per song and $10/year for them to act as my online storage vault to protect my copies incase something happens on my end.
Since google can give away the better part of 10 gigs of space to me for free based on the fact that in theory I click a link once in a while for them, I can't really fathom how this wouldn't be a viable business. The music and movie industry doesn't get to define viable or the accounting methods used however, I do. And my definition translates to a marginal overall profit so everyone involved and live comfortably. It doesn't include paying for the guy who runs auto-tune for them though.
Microwave seems like it would take a hell of a loss from the moisture in the air being heated.
Yea, everyone that installed it as a normal user so they had full permissions over it. Of course, we were able to do it all along.
Its a shitty path since you can already do it with the right configuration settings and an extension. I've been doing it since 2.0 while working on overlays for my extension.
So it finally works like everything else, and how you expect it to work anyway eh? Good to see they finally fix simple UI issues after several years.
Maybe you should not install it then? Its not your computer, its theres, perhaps you should not go out of your way to break the rules?
It does on certain OSes. Cairo for instance will use hardware acceleration in Windows. Not sure if FF for windows takes advantage of it, but it certainly could.
As a general rule however, browsers don't really need this sort of thing, thats changed recently though.
Its not really going to give Firefox an edge however, IE already does it in Windows.
No, but you can make it so each one looks like other apps on the OS.
Unix doesn't count, not until everyone realizes that they need to settle on one look and feel for an OS and stick to it. Until either GTK or Qt dies, Linux is never going to have a UI that doesn't suck. Until UNIX GUI apps feel consistent across applications theres no point in worrying about your theme. They'd be just as well off just using the OSX or Windows theme, it'd fit in just as well.
But but but but ... what would we ever do with out 14,000 'theme's that consist of nothing more than some woman in a swim suit for all of our borders and boobies for buttons?
Heres a hint: If you add 'skinning' or 'themeing' to your app, you don't know how to make a GUI that doesn't suck ass. Stop there, go do something else and find someone who has a clue about how to make a GUI or someone who at least understands consistency across applications is important.
Fixed that for you.
Congratulations, you now no what happens when you break RFC. You could follow RFCs and not drop packets and it wouldn't be a problem.
Or ... you can not follow RFCs and deal with the consequences, its not hard really. Follow protocol, things are likely to work, don't and you get unexpected and sometimes bad results. Welcome to the reason we have open documented protocols.
You'll also find that the scan is much quicker if your firewall is doing its job properly.
Silently dropping all packets that you don't allow is for cluebies who don't know what they are doing. Any decent firewall can drop on flooding triggers rather than all packets and accomplish the same thing effectively preventing flooding via the response packets and still work with the protocol properly.
In short, don't try to do things you don't understand and then bitch when it breaks things.
Right, because deleting a registry key is something that can't be done. It was hardly unremovable, and could be done by anyone who would want to remove it. Grandma doesn't give a shit that its there, and probably would rather it be there so websites 'just work'.
Its clear that you've never had any involvement in usability studies for software.
Yes, the government created it, this is well known. They created it so they could securely communicate by bouncing signals off of unsecured ships, like your random cruise ship or an allied warship.
They were involved with its creation, of course the watch it. So do lots of other people.
As a general rule, people hiding their activities DO HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE. The minority use something like this for legitimate uses. However, our founding fathers had the opinion that until we know you're hiding something bad, you can hide it so no one can come after your for something you do in private that doesn't bother anyone else. This helps to prevent people from having a bad opinion of you, prejudice and hate.
It doesn't however change the fact that it will be used, primarily by people using it to hide illegal activities. It would be retarded if they DIDN'T watch it and as a tax payer I'd be pissed if they didn't.
Reality says that most people have no need to use this sort of protection and that its of very little use to the majority of the people on the planet, even those doing minor illegal activities.
I've talked about plenty of things over the phone, email and hell, even posted on bulletin boards (the real ones, cork board and paper with pushpins) at grocery stores about illegal activities. None of it was anything major of course, minor little crap, all of which were misdemeanors. There are 2 reasons why nothing ever came of it.
A. It was minor crap, no one actually cares about what I did unless I was stupid enough to do it in front of an ON DUTY cop.
B. Hiding in plain site and blending in with the crowd makes you a lot less obviously a target than the person hiding things, regardless of what you are hiding.
So yes, when you make it obvious you're trying to hide something people are going to pay attention to try and figure out what you're hiding, thats being a good detective and what I expect from people who's job is to detect stuff.
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Do you have any idea at all what you are talking about?
Please compare a kernel from Dec 31st, 1999 to a kernel today. I think you'll find that there isn't much left from the 90s. Fragments here and there sure, but if Linux was anything at all like what it was around the year 2k, no one would use it on a production system now days.
Removing IE is easy, its a wrapper GUI around a browser engine. Delete iexplore.exe, there you deleted IE.
The rendering engine is in a shared DLL thats used by just about everything now days, even if the app doesn't use the renderer directly, the built in help system is HTML based and uses the shared library for its renderer.
Its also used by HTML style dialogs, which are basically dialogs that use HTML to define the layout rather than the old style dialog resources.
This isn't really different from any other modern OS which uses HTML all over the place. I can't think of any modern desktop OS that doesn't have massive dependancies on an HTML renderer.
It grew, he didn't. He's still a douche bag acting like a teenager.
The problem is that people pretend that it matters.
Facebook is for attention whores who want other people to know details about their lives. Its fucking retarded to talk about privacy when the whole point is giving out your information.
I know of 1 person with a facebook profile who isn't an attention whore, and they use it just so they can spy on others.
No one with a facebook account has any room to bitch about privacy, those that do are just using a different method of attention whoring, either way the result is the same.
The solution is relatively simple. Population control. I've also yet to meet anyone with a Facebook account that is actually useful to the world, so the next step would be to use the facebook account list to terminate a large number of morons.
The MS test crap in the latest versions of VisualStudio do it as well, and they'll be happy to find a button (if its a standard control) to click on using other data rather than mouse coordinates as well.