I agree with you... I hate ads and ingame I want to be immersed in a different world and forget about reality as much as possible.
Battlefield 2 ever since a few patches ago has a in game ad. Its related to the game and not really in the way so I do not mind. Its only in the menu and not ingame. Once you close the window the ad does not come back until you start the game again. The ad is small too.
I have used KDE for a long time. Gnome never really cut it for me in regular every day to day use. Then since I started using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop I actually like it. It works out very nice for me. I also am a fan of lightweight desktop managers such as fluxbox and icewm. KDE can sometimes be resource intensive on my machine. On older machines forget it... can't run at all.
Just my 2 cents.
--George
charts really that accurate anyway?
If IIS does get closer to the Apache market share personally I do not really care. I run 3 low traffic Apache servers on 3 of my machines. They work for me. They've been reliable too.
And do not tell me that I did not RTFA. I read it. Fuck off.
NO THIS IS NOT FUD. ITS ELMER FUD.
Well put. I agree with you on the part that you will learn from the mistakes you make. When my OS breaks its normally from what I did whether it be GNU/Linux or Windows. The machine I use is strictly used by me so there are no other users. This makes it much easier to figure out things when they go bad.
My school blocks programs from running on the computers also. I was running putty.exe or winscp.exe which was blocked. I renamed them to explorer.exe and notepad.exe and it ran fine.
I worked for a company for 2 weeks that used strictly M$ products. I showed them some alternatives and thought they would appreciate it. I think they were somewhat offended. Anyway, among other things I was laid off.
Your probably right. If thats why they brought the price down we need more piracy.
Going a bit offtopic...
I can't stand reading TFA because its flooded with moving advertisements. Its very distracting to me when there are a million moving advertisements invading the article. I'm sure I'm not alone on this.
M$: Looks like the Our M$ flagship is being flanked by free software torpedoes! Start pumping to keep her afloat!
Free Software: Add more features!
haha... I haven't bought Office ever. At most i've pirated it for my father or grandfather since they are very resistant to change.
I agree with you. Most jobs I look for accept only Word.doc format. I usually save my documents in ODF for personal use. When I need to send out a document I save it in Word.doc format.
In a perfect world I would send it out in ODF. But the fact is that many computers use MS Office and by default can't render ODF documents.
I worked with a small company for 2 weeks and they refused to switch to Vista or use IE7 because the apps they required for business did not function in Vista. The apps that ran in a browser did not work in IE7. I'm sure many other companies made this business decision. Also, everything they had setup was working just fine so why should they go through the trouble of setting up a different system? Finally they also would have to get new licenses for Vista. Lots of trouble to switch systems when its lots of computer equipment involved that needs to work together.
They will probably make their version proprietary. If lots of people start to use this (which I doubt) then we might have problems with the formatting that program uses and the people who do use it will deal with vendor lockins, fees, and DRM.
Personally I am not really worried about it. I hope it is a financial loss for them.
What a bunch of bullshit. Of course there are going to be more reported users with Windows because most of the vendor computers have Windows pre-installed. Right now only Dell is selling machines with Pre-installed GNU/Linux Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn. My distro does everything I need it to do except in the gaming department for which I need to have XP on my machine here.
TFA says:
"There have been just 12 serious vulnerabilities reported with Vista over the first 180 days versus 25 for Windows XP over the same period. This number is also lower than for Apple and other operating systems. We have also seen 21 percent fewer support calls for Vista versus XP over the same period."
Like its said before lots of times... Behind the curtain there are probably many more serious vulnerabilities.
Call me old fashioned but I love buttons and the click sounds they make when you press them. My keyboard is noisy when I type and I like that. Also, like others mentioned I can find the proper keys/buttons by feeling for them.
I love my Ubuntu GNU/Linux box. It does what I need it to do. Although I am knowledgeable enough to compile and configure my own system from scratch.
I agree that GNU/Linux is not good enough for many mainstream users because of the lack of ready to install software from stores. Its also too bad that many popular gaming titles are not available in GNU/Linux natively. I understand that lots of popular titles may work in Cedega or Wine but many people do not want to go through the trouble of using that. My brother just wants things to work and is not like me who is willing to spend time compiling a kernel or build a web site.. etc. I am glad that GNU/Linux is maturing at a good pace. I hope it does take get accepted by popular game vendors and other PC vendors like Dell.
Just my point of view on this matter...
--kc2keo
Why should it matter if its so difficult to track GNU/Linux users? I would rather stay anonymous in that fashion. I would hate for my distro once installed to transmit data anonymously to my distros HQ much like M$ does with its WGA crap. When using GNU/Linux I know I have full authority over my system. Using M$ I do not have that freedom. The only thing I dislike about using *nix is that its lacking in popular gaming titles. Not talking about using Cedega its lacking native popular titles and that makes me sad:-(
--kc2keo
I use Ubuntu GNU/Linux every day. But when I want to play games Cedega or Wine is not sufficient for me. To many issues with Battlefield 2 which I love to play. However, there are some games that run great on my system through Cedega. Steam games and GTASA runs real nice for me. Some others too but I can't remember right now.
When it comes down to it... I really can't fully use GNU/Linux for _Everything_ because I'm a gamer. Also, some of my projects I worked on for games (BF2 Map, HL2 mod, and some other stuff) along with some other binaries that I need to test in Windows.
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har har har! I am a troll with bad Karma.
I agree with you... I hate ads and ingame I want to be immersed in a different world and forget about reality as much as possible. Battlefield 2 ever since a few patches ago has a in game ad. Its related to the game and not really in the way so I do not mind. Its only in the menu and not ingame. Once you close the window the ad does not come back until you start the game again. The ad is small too.
I have used KDE for a long time. Gnome never really cut it for me in regular every day to day use. Then since I started using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop I actually like it. It works out very nice for me. I also am a fan of lightweight desktop managers such as fluxbox and icewm. KDE can sometimes be resource intensive on my machine. On older machines forget it... can't run at all. Just my 2 cents. --George
charts really that accurate anyway? If IIS does get closer to the Apache market share personally I do not really care. I run 3 low traffic Apache servers on 3 of my machines. They work for me. They've been reliable too. And do not tell me that I did not RTFA. I read it. Fuck off. NO THIS IS NOT FUD. ITS ELMER FUD.
Well put. I agree with you on the part that you will learn from the mistakes you make. When my OS breaks its normally from what I did whether it be GNU/Linux or Windows. The machine I use is strictly used by me so there are no other users. This makes it much easier to figure out things when they go bad.
My school blocks programs from running on the computers also. I was running putty.exe or winscp.exe which was blocked. I renamed them to explorer.exe and notepad.exe and it ran fine.
I worked for a company for 2 weeks that used strictly M$ products. I showed them some alternatives and thought they would appreciate it. I think they were somewhat offended. Anyway, among other things I was laid off.
Your probably right. If thats why they brought the price down we need more piracy. Going a bit offtopic... I can't stand reading TFA because its flooded with moving advertisements. Its very distracting to me when there are a million moving advertisements invading the article. I'm sure I'm not alone on this.
oh ok :P
I can't seem to get my facts straight today...
M$: Looks like the Our M$ flagship is being flanked by free software torpedoes! Start pumping to keep her afloat! Free Software: Add more features! haha... I haven't bought Office ever. At most i've pirated it for my father or grandfather since they are very resistant to change.
I agree with you. Most jobs I look for accept only Word .doc format. I usually save my documents in ODF for personal use. When I need to send out a document I save it in Word .doc format.
In a perfect world I would send it out in ODF. But the fact is that many computers use MS Office and by default can't render ODF documents.
I worked with a small company for 2 weeks and they refused to switch to Vista or use IE7 because the apps they required for business did not function in Vista. The apps that ran in a browser did not work in IE7. I'm sure many other companies made this business decision. Also, everything they had setup was working just fine so why should they go through the trouble of setting up a different system? Finally they also would have to get new licenses for Vista. Lots of trouble to switch systems when its lots of computer equipment involved that needs to work together.
I'll be printing the Gentoo handbook out now... har har.
They will probably make their version proprietary. If lots of people start to use this (which I doubt) then we might have problems with the formatting that program uses and the people who do use it will deal with vendor lockins, fees, and DRM.
Personally I am not really worried about it. I hope it is a financial loss for them.
--kc2keo
What a bunch of bullshit. Of course there are going to be more reported users with Windows because most of the vendor computers have Windows pre-installed. Right now only Dell is selling machines with Pre-installed GNU/Linux Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn. My distro does everything I need it to do except in the gaming department for which I need to have XP on my machine here. TFA says: "There have been just 12 serious vulnerabilities reported with Vista over the first 180 days versus 25 for Windows XP over the same period. This number is also lower than for Apple and other operating systems. We have also seen 21 percent fewer support calls for Vista versus XP over the same period." Like its said before lots of times... Behind the curtain there are probably many more serious vulnerabilities.
Call me old fashioned but I love buttons and the click sounds they make when you press them. My keyboard is noisy when I type and I like that. Also, like others mentioned I can find the proper keys/buttons by feeling for them.
--George
nope do not care.
I can't wait for this to get released either. I try not to think about it so time goes faster. But this game looks so awesome!
I love my Ubuntu GNU/Linux box. It does what I need it to do. Although I am knowledgeable enough to compile and configure my own system from scratch. I agree that GNU/Linux is not good enough for many mainstream users because of the lack of ready to install software from stores. Its also too bad that many popular gaming titles are not available in GNU/Linux natively. I understand that lots of popular titles may work in Cedega or Wine but many people do not want to go through the trouble of using that. My brother just wants things to work and is not like me who is willing to spend time compiling a kernel or build a web site.. etc. I am glad that GNU/Linux is maturing at a good pace. I hope it does take get accepted by popular game vendors and other PC vendors like Dell. Just my point of view on this matter... --kc2keo
Enhances the taste of bread. mmm
Why should it matter if its so difficult to track GNU/Linux users? I would rather stay anonymous in that fashion. I would hate for my distro once installed to transmit data anonymously to my distros HQ much like M$ does with its WGA crap. When using GNU/Linux I know I have full authority over my system. Using M$ I do not have that freedom. The only thing I dislike about using *nix is that its lacking in popular gaming titles. Not talking about using Cedega its lacking native popular titles and that makes me sad :-(
--kc2keo
I use Ubuntu GNU/Linux every day. But when I want to play games Cedega or Wine is not sufficient for me. To many issues with Battlefield 2 which I love to play. However, there are some games that run great on my system through Cedega. Steam games and GTASA runs real nice for me. Some others too but I can't remember right now.
When it comes down to it... I really can't fully use GNU/Linux for _Everything_ because I'm a gamer. Also, some of my projects I worked on for games (BF2 Map, HL2 mod, and some other stuff) along with some other binaries that I need to test in Windows.
--kc2keo
The article hyperlink is down.
I watched this movie and liked it a lot. His documentary is pretty accurate.
here here! I hate politics!