You not only have to memorise more units, but their relation to other units. With metric, it's all the same thing. Distance, weight, volume, whatever. All intrinsically tied together.
And what about when you want to divide a foot by 5? Your argument is a bit thin:) This is not an attack, but when you use the metric system every day, the imperial system really shows its age.
I've installed plenty of both, and windows is far easier. Network-based automatic installation? You don't even have to touch the keyboard.
Also, windows has a "sysprep" utility which you can use before ghosting the hard disk. Install your windows (including office suite, firewall, whatever), run sysprep, then take an image off the computer. I single-handedly installed windows on 10 PCs one afternoon. It only took me about an hour, and no CDs.
You're confusing unsigned, web-based applications with "windows update". Windows update gets drivers solely from microsoft, and are digitally signed. A system that works very well, funnily enough.
I love it when people have opinions differing from me, I just hate it when those opinions are based on nothing.
Linux should first get a marketshare large enough to warrant that approach.
Hardware mfrs create hardware. They then spend 95% of their time working on drivers that run on 95% of desktop computers (windows). Why should they have to spend more than 5% of their time to support 5% of users?
When linux is large enough, and on enough machines, hardware mfrs will sit up and take notice. After all, if your latest graphics card doesn't work on linux, and linux is 50% of the market, they'll make linux drivers.
I don't think the community needs two competing sources for drivers. In fact, that would be horrible. They just want one that does it well, not two that are trying to compete.
CDDB is one thing, but it's not tied into someone's OS, and stops their computer booting if it mis-recognises a celine dion CD.:)
Like having to pay money to get conexant drivers for your soft-modem. Things like that, while not huge, do cause users to stay away.
It's one of the biggest issues with linux. I know this sounds pro-ms, but drivers just aren't an issue with windows. you swap out drivers whenever you want, and you can always get the ones you want (for free). Windows can even get drivers for you off the net automatically. Custom drivers are available, as well as microsoft-certified ones. I think linux needs to head in this direction to get more of a hold on the userbase. Things like this reassure end users, who don't want to deal with a broken computer.
run an ssh server on port 80 on a machine somewhere on the net, then just tunnel all your http traffic (or whatever) out the other end, via a proxy. it seems to fool most (all?) firewalls I've come across.
Your argument is based on the idea that artists are actually compensated from CD sales. We all know that artists get stung by record labels, and make the majority of their income from touring. Their point is tenuous at best. Only if they were actually acting in the best interests of their clients, as opposed to the best interests of their directors.
We have to be careful when talking about the RIAA, as they espouse the benefits of capitalism and free market, yet rope thousands of artists into their monopoly DAILY, just to financially abuse them. Almost everything out of RIAA HQ has to be taken with a huge pinch of salt. After all, they came up with colourful, emotive, media-friendly terms like "piracy" for "copyright infringement".
They used phones to detonate the madrid train bombs in March. Al'Qaida also didn't use suicide bombers in 9/11, but that doesn't stop them being a terrorist mainstay. Terrorism != 9/11 != Al'Qaida
I'm with you on this one though. There are better ways to defeat terrorism, like not giving people the desire to blow themselves up near other people. Attack the source of the problem, as opposed to the physical manifestations. If the US started actually helping people instead of constantly taking, there'd be less violence everywhere in the world.
You seem to think that the population has military training. Owning a gun doesn't turn you into rambo. You need training and radios for that, which most people don't have. If the military wanted to take out the US people, it would. If it didn't get them all, it would make the rest so freakin scared they'd give up. It's not defeatist, it's real. That's what happens when a soft country, such as the US, is plunged into violence. Most people give up, and resign themselves to their fate. People don't suddenly rip off their shirts, grab the nearest american flag and charge down the nearest tank, destroying it with one swift salute. You watch too many movies.
I take it you haven't read much history. Most of the British empire was given back to the countries under peaceful terms. Guns didn't play a part.
Heck, your argument was so flimsy I've even forgotten what it was.
And what about the innocent people just trying to live? Do they deserve to die, shot by attack helicopters? No.
It is the US forces who need to get a clue. How can they convince the iraqi people they're there to help if they sick their arsenal on a bunch of guys in a town?
Again, that's its top speed. It doesn't fire for a minute, and holds only a few hundred rounds. That means it's smaller and more practical than your measurements. It's like saying an abrams doesn't work, as if it fired for a year, it would weigh several million tons and couldn't drive anywhere:)
The US soldiers don't have the best training, though. Not by a long shot, and that's what wins a war.
Train the US military to protect a population, instead of blowing it up. Then it can take on these sorts of actions knowing they can actually do good. Instead, they wade into a country, and end up reaming the whole country. Great. Thanks.
It can't fire for a whole minute at 1,000,000rpm. In fact, it empties itself after a couple of milliseconds. When it goes off, it sounds like a quick fart, and what ever it was pointed at is a small cloud of dust.
Well, the US is using attack helicopters to POLICE A TOWN. I mean, any time an authority has to use attack helicopters to police an area - they're doing something horribly wrong.
The US armed forces has too much technology and not enough brains or tact. If you give a redneck a tank, he's still a redneck. Just a lot more dangerous.
The iraqi resistance were, until recently, members of a trained armed force. They have AK-47s and lots of access to more. They have an influx of people with "terrorist" and guerrilla warfare experience heading to them, helping them. They know their country, the invaders do not. How on earth you can compare an iraqi upriser to some financial advisor from cleveland who shoots his revolver at weekends and gets his NRA newsletter is beyond me. A gun a soldier does not make.
If the US military turned on the US populace, the military would win. In days. You simply can't compare hand guns to attack helicopters. I hardly think a souped-up '89 toyota camry is going to be much of a weapon against a harrier jump-jet, no matter how many charlton heston-loving NRA-card-carrying people you fit in it. From their cold, dead red puddles on the highway, more like.
Wake up!
Afghanistan and Chechnya are different kettles of fish. You're talking about places that fought for sovreignty against the USSR/Russia when there were limited russian troops on their soil. In the US, you have the US military EVERYWHERE, ALREADY. The American people don't have to "repel the invaders", because the invaders are already there. They're in their town centers. They're in their suburbs. In the desert. In the mountains. Everywhere. Saying a few poorly-trained office workers with john wayne fantasies are going to stop a regular army is one of the funniest things I thihk I've ever heard. Unfortunately, if the time came for your irregular A-Team to stand up to the man, you'd realise what a silly argument you're putting forward.
How on earth can you call bull when your only piece of evidence is a loose, flimsy analogy? We're talking about one of the most high-tech armies in the world against a bunch of loosly-knit gun enthusiasts with little more than handguns, hunting rifles, inferiority complexes and shotguns. No tanks. No armor. Few assault rifles. No training. Nothin'.
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Damn that's pretty tight thinkin' over there at the ISO dens. Wow. They thought of pretty much everything :) I'm truly impressed with that one.
And what about when you want to divide a foot by 5? Your argument is a bit thin :) This is not an attack, but when you use the metric system every day, the imperial system really shows its age.
The new Hummer is out?
Also, windows has a "sysprep" utility which you can use before ghosting the hard disk. Install your windows (including office suite, firewall, whatever), run sysprep, then take an image off the computer. I single-handedly installed windows on 10 PCs one afternoon. It only took me about an hour, and no CDs.
I love it when people have opinions differing from me, I just hate it when those opinions are based on nothing.
Hardware mfrs create hardware. They then spend 95% of their time working on drivers that run on 95% of desktop computers (windows). Why should they have to spend more than 5% of their time to support 5% of users?
When linux is large enough, and on enough machines, hardware mfrs will sit up and take notice. After all, if your latest graphics card doesn't work on linux, and linux is 50% of the market, they'll make linux drivers.
CDDB is one thing, but it's not tied into someone's OS, and stops their computer booting if it mis-recognises a celine dion CD. :)
It's one of the biggest issues with linux. I know this sounds pro-ms, but drivers just aren't an issue with windows. you swap out drivers whenever you want, and you can always get the ones you want (for free). Windows can even get drivers for you off the net automatically. Custom drivers are available, as well as microsoft-certified ones. I think linux needs to head in this direction to get more of a hold on the userbase. Things like this reassure end users, who don't want to deal with a broken computer.
run an ssh server on port 80 on a machine somewhere on the net, then just tunnel all your http traffic (or whatever) out the other end, via a proxy. it seems to fool most (all?) firewalls I've come across.
damn that must be embarassing! "chicago"! hehehe
It's from the same statistical labs that did the research on "65% reduced frizziness using new pantene shampoos". top-notch stuff.
We have to be careful when talking about the RIAA, as they espouse the benefits of capitalism and free market, yet rope thousands of artists into their monopoly DAILY, just to financially abuse them. Almost everything out of RIAA HQ has to be taken with a huge pinch of salt. After all, they came up with colourful, emotive, media-friendly terms like "piracy" for "copyright infringement".
I'm with you on this one though. There are better ways to defeat terrorism, like not giving people the desire to blow themselves up near other people. Attack the source of the problem, as opposed to the physical manifestations. If the US started actually helping people instead of constantly taking, there'd be less violence everywhere in the world.
Happy people have no thought of terrorism.
Was there every any proof of any of that? I'm just wondering... it sounds like a pile of spin...
You don't need help, but apparently others do. Not everyone is as courteous as you.
I take it you haven't read much history. Most of the British empire was given back to the countries under peaceful terms. Guns didn't play a part.
Heck, your argument was so flimsy I've even forgotten what it was.
It is the US forces who need to get a clue. How can they convince the iraqi people they're there to help if they sick their arsenal on a bunch of guys in a town?
Again, that's its top speed. It doesn't fire for a minute, and holds only a few hundred rounds. That means it's smaller and more practical than your measurements. It's like saying an abrams doesn't work, as if it fired for a year, it would weigh several million tons and couldn't drive anywhere :)
Train the US military to protect a population, instead of blowing it up. Then it can take on these sorts of actions knowing they can actually do good. Instead, they wade into a country, and end up reaming the whole country. Great. Thanks.
It can't fire for a whole minute at 1,000,000rpm. In fact, it empties itself after a couple of milliseconds. When it goes off, it sounds like a quick fart, and what ever it was pointed at is a small cloud of dust.
The US armed forces has too much technology and not enough brains or tact. If you give a redneck a tank, he's still a redneck. Just a lot more dangerous.
If the US military turned on the US populace, the military would win. In days. You simply can't compare hand guns to attack helicopters. I hardly think a souped-up '89 toyota camry is going to be much of a weapon against a harrier jump-jet, no matter how many charlton heston-loving NRA-card-carrying people you fit in it. From their cold, dead red puddles on the highway, more like.
Wake up!
Afghanistan and Chechnya are different kettles of fish. You're talking about places that fought for sovreignty against the USSR/Russia when there were limited russian troops on their soil. In the US, you have the US military EVERYWHERE, ALREADY. The American people don't have to "repel the invaders", because the invaders are already there. They're in their town centers. They're in their suburbs. In the desert. In the mountains. Everywhere. Saying a few poorly-trained office workers with john wayne fantasies are going to stop a regular army is one of the funniest things I thihk I've ever heard. Unfortunately, if the time came for your irregular A-Team to stand up to the man, you'd realise what a silly argument you're putting forward.
How on earth can you call bull when your only piece of evidence is a loose, flimsy analogy? We're talking about one of the most high-tech armies in the world against a bunch of loosly-knit gun enthusiasts with little more than handguns, hunting rifles, inferiority complexes and shotguns. No tanks. No armor. Few assault rifles. No training. Nothin'.
You're funny.
American + gun = john wayne wannabe
I'd put my money on the "evil bastards" bet.