The linux-only killer app for me was apt. The idea that you could just type a single line into a terminal window and software would be found, downloaded, unpacked, installed, and ready to use right then, that's what really blew me away.
And that, by its very nature, can't exist on a Windows platform.
But that's just my experience.
The problem I consistently have is that the closed-source fglrx driver for my ATi card DOESN'T keep my card running on my computer, because it is a pile of shit that ATi barely supports. If they made it open-source (and, of course, released full documentation), then volunteers would step up and fill in the gaps, but as it is, I use the open-source driver that has no 3D support, but also doesn't crash X11 every couple hours.
If the drive stops failing, they might have fixed that bug, and if it starts failing again, revert to the older kernel. After all, if it ain't broke...
It also makes it virtually impossible to move a major application from one folder, partition, or drive to another without uninstalling and reinstalling.
Clerks was done on twenty thousand dollars, if I remember correctly. And Clerks was awesome.
In fact, you can go ahead and look at Kevin Smith's movies and see something interesting: as he gets more and more money in his budget, the movies get worse and worse. Clerks was awesome, Mallrats still pretty good, same with Dogma, Chasing Amy was okay at best, J&SB Strike Back was mediocre, and Jersey Girl was awful.
My first laptop I got for my senior year of high school. I didn't have parents who just went out and bought me expensive computer equipment, of course, and that's why I'm kind of laughing at this article.
The only way for the kid to really grasp the value of his new laptop is if he works his ass off all summer to earn the money to buy it himself.
It was IBM's decision to allow people to clone the IBM PC that led to the ubiquity of cheap PCs; it had nothing to do with Microsoft. MS was even IBM's second choice of OS vendor for the original PC. They origianlly wanted CPM/86 instead of QDOS.
Neither does my cordless landline phone, which is the only one in the house.
If you lose power and your house burns down at the same time, you're pretty fucked no matter how you slice it.
The discount is the OEM price instead of the retail price, which you can get anyway. However, if you really detail your source of the piracy (and it's someone who sold it to you and not, for instance, a couple dozen anonymous BitTorrent peers) the discount is $free.
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I don't think those have 3D support, though. It's the closed-source fglrx drivers that have that, and those drivers suck.
The linux-only killer app for me was apt. The idea that you could just type a single line into a terminal window and software would be found, downloaded, unpacked, installed, and ready to use right then, that's what really blew me away. And that, by its very nature, can't exist on a Windows platform. But that's just my experience.
The problem I consistently have is that the closed-source fglrx driver for my ATi card DOESN'T keep my card running on my computer, because it is a pile of shit that ATi barely supports. If they made it open-source (and, of course, released full documentation), then volunteers would step up and fill in the gaps, but as it is, I use the open-source driver that has no 3D support, but also doesn't crash X11 every couple hours.
If the drive stops failing, they might have fixed that bug, and if it starts failing again, revert to the older kernel. After all, if it ain't broke...
The serious rootkit stuff isn't done by the spamhausen for money, it's done by crackers who want to create zombies for DDoS attacks.
It also makes it virtually impossible to move a major application from one folder, partition, or drive to another without uninstalling and reinstalling.
Blech.
They didn't make KDE, but they did make GNOME.
But yeah, it's a meaningless issue, a distinction without a difference.
Wouldn't this easily be defeated by using encrypted connections all the time?
Of course it would. That's the whole point of encryptyion.
Clerks was done on twenty thousand dollars, if I remember correctly. And Clerks was awesome. In fact, you can go ahead and look at Kevin Smith's movies and see something interesting: as he gets more and more money in his budget, the movies get worse and worse. Clerks was awesome, Mallrats still pretty good, same with Dogma, Chasing Amy was okay at best, J&SB Strike Back was mediocre, and Jersey Girl was awful.
They'll measure in frames per second in Half-Life 2, of course. I mean, really. What other benchmarks matter?
Well, it's great to learn that bandwidth is free, then. I'm sure everyone will be happy about that.
The people behind Wikipedia are working on something like what you describe, but it's a long, long way from existing yet.
Or a USB sound card. It took hours of fucking with ALSA and ESD to get my Audigy 2NX working in Ubuntu, and even now, Flash crashes from time to time.
Of course, this is more Creative Labs's fault than Ubuntu's, but meh.
Isn't there already a warning in the manual of every game that says something to the effect of "take a break every hour"?
I mean, I know nobody pays attention to it, but it's there.
My first laptop I got for my senior year of high school. I didn't have parents who just went out and bought me expensive computer equipment, of course, and that's why I'm kind of laughing at this article.
The only way for the kid to really grasp the value of his new laptop is if he works his ass off all summer to earn the money to buy it himself.
The Babelonians. I am not making this up.
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It was IBM's decision to allow people to clone the IBM PC that led to the ubiquity of cheap PCs; it had nothing to do with Microsoft. MS was even IBM's second choice of OS vendor for the original PC. They origianlly wanted CPM/86 instead of QDOS.
Every review is a rave, and even the worst products have an average of three out of five stars (or golden eggs or whatever, it doesn't matter).
That said, Newegg is a great place, but just know what you're buying before you go there; don't pay too much attention to the reviews.
You know, you can run Linux on a Powerbook.
I don't know why you'd want to, as you can get the same hardware performance for half the money with an x86 laptop, but you can.
You're deluding yourself if you think that that bill will ever, ever, ever get passed.
Austrailia censors their internet for porn, too. They're like fucking China over there, I'm not even kidding.
Neither does my cordless landline phone, which is the only one in the house. If you lose power and your house burns down at the same time, you're pretty fucked no matter how you slice it.
but wasn't one of these kinds of things thrown out in some big court case five years ago?
*checks*
Interactive Digital Software Association v. St. Louis County, Missouri.
It's not porn, though, as they're clothed. So you lose.
The discount is the OEM price instead of the retail price, which you can get anyway. However, if you really detail your source of the piracy (and it's someone who sold it to you and not, for instance, a couple dozen anonymous BitTorrent peers) the discount is $free.