More like because the government is in voters' pockets, which is the way it should be.
Imagine what the political backlash would be if our government's foreign policy directly led to every manufactured good in every Wal*Mart worldwide quintupling in price? Corporations wouldn't even [i]have[/i] to buy legislators, they could just sit back and watch the show.
That's what's really going to decide this, of course. In the past, computers from Dell with no operating system (or FreeDOS, whatever, same thing) have cost more than their pre-loaded with Windows equivalents. Then Dell pulls them, saying that volumes are low. Well, no shit.
Sounds like whining to me. But hey, when your games aren't good enough to compete, hey, it's either start whining or start making better games, and whining's a hell of a lot easier.
I've found that Linux "just works" better on older hardware. I mean, I'd always heard that said, but now I'm starting to really feel it. Three years ago, I had to compile the drivers for my wireless card directly from source, and that was a couple months after I got the laptop. Before then the drivers just didn't exist. I had to install the closed-source fglrx drivers to get 3D support, and that was back when ATI's installer program did nothing but horribly corrupt your xorg.conf (or, wait, it was XFree86.conf or whatever back then, right?)
Now, everything, fucking everything works right on a fresh install. I even have open-source drivers with 3D support. I can use Beryl without fglrx causing my system to crash every day or so. I'm about ready to get rid of my Windows partition for good (as soon as I can kick this C&C habit). It's really nice. Now I just worry that when I inevitably get a new computer everything will break again.
At my college, they block it at the outgoing firewall. Internal P2P gets a wink and a nod, because that bandwidth isn't in short supply. Outgoing P2P had gotten so bad that you didn't have better-than-dial-up internet access most of the day before they started doing this.
I picked up an HP Deskjet D2345 when I went to college. Little did I know that the ink cartridges only held 5mL of ink and cost twenty fucking dollars. After looking online for a bit, I discovered that you could just peel the label off and the fill holes were literally right there. Staples sold me three bottles of black ink (total: 65mL) and a syringe for $10 total, and I'm sure I could get ink for less if I looked online.
"Democracy is a poor system; the only good thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times better than any other system we have. Its worst fault is that it's leaders reflect its constituents: a low level, but what do you expect?" - Robert Heinlein.
And those forks will have to be significantly better than the GPL3 originals if they are to last longer than a month or two. I can count the number of successful forks on one hand.
If there is a clause in an EULA, and you violate it, you lose your right to use the copyrighted software. If you continue to use the software, you are committing (you guessed it) copyright violation. This is true legally even if they don't immediately ban you.
If you don't like it, then stop playing. (or tell your "good friend" to stop playing; you know, whatever).
So you're saying that merely doing everything Windows does it not enough, it's got to be MUCH better.
Um. Yes? Why the fuck is Windows the baseline here? Linux has been better than Windows for about seven years now, stupid analysts notwithstanding.
I see this kind of attitude in a lot of OSS projects. "Windows's implementation is X, and hey, we've already got X, so why bother improving anything?" If I wanted "everything Windows does", I'd be using Windows and getting major updates every six years instead of six months. Of course it's got to be MUCH better. I mean, even that bar isn't very fucking high.
And doctors say that you shouldn't put the coffee in your mouth if it's above 150 or so. I dunno about you, but I trust doctors over the National Coffee Association. I mean, if the National Vehicle Fuckers Association went out and said that the front-end of a '68 Camaro is the best orgasm possible, and a group of doctors came forth and said "no, that is in fact bad for your wang," I'd trust the doctors.
In the US, anybody can be sued for anything, of course. The question is, "does the plaintiff have a case?" And there's no way in hell McCain would have a case.
Unless you're talking about the other direction (McCain as defendant for stealing bandwidth), which is currently a debated and unresolved issue, as far as I know.
Florida got around this little obstacle by taxing "use" instead of "sale", where the "use" tax was waived if you paid a sales tax. The end result, of course, was that out-of-state purchases were taxed as much as in-state purchases. A clever bit of legal work, I must say.
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is much nicer than any Linux theme I've seen
Taken a look at Beryl recently? It's quite stable now.
More like because the government is in voters' pockets, which is the way it should be.
Imagine what the political backlash would be if our government's foreign policy directly led to every manufactured good in every Wal*Mart worldwide quintupling in price? Corporations wouldn't even [i]have[/i] to buy legislators, they could just sit back and watch the show.
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which makes the menu bar so wide that that you can't shrink the window down to a reasonable size without cutting it off
Do you really actually use the Help menu? I mean, really. Don't bitch about it if it isn't a problem.
How the hell do these stories make it to the front page? Geez, at least Digg has a "bury" option.
Thing is, if you're going to hack it anyway, you might as well get a GP2X or something, which is unlocked to begin with.
That's what's really going to decide this, of course. In the past, computers from Dell with no operating system (or FreeDOS, whatever, same thing) have cost more than their pre-loaded with Windows equivalents. Then Dell pulls them, saying that volumes are low. Well, no shit.
I think the frequency of a Windows BSOD vs. the frequency of a Linux kernel panic is kind of telling, here.
Sounds like whining to me. But hey, when your games aren't good enough to compete, hey, it's either start whining or start making better games, and whining's a hell of a lot easier.
Depends on the station, really. I'd say that's true for anything owned by ClearChannel, though (so like 90% of non-public-radio stations out there).
I've found that Linux "just works" better on older hardware. I mean, I'd always heard that said, but now I'm starting to really feel it. Three years ago, I had to compile the drivers for my wireless card directly from source, and that was a couple months after I got the laptop. Before then the drivers just didn't exist. I had to install the closed-source fglrx drivers to get 3D support, and that was back when ATI's installer program did nothing but horribly corrupt your xorg.conf (or, wait, it was XFree86.conf or whatever back then, right?)
Now, everything, fucking everything works right on a fresh install. I even have open-source drivers with 3D support. I can use Beryl without fglrx causing my system to crash every day or so. I'm about ready to get rid of my Windows partition for good (as soon as I can kick this C&C habit). It's really nice. Now I just worry that when I inevitably get a new computer everything will break again.
That's what RAID 1 is for.
At my college, they block it at the outgoing firewall. Internal P2P gets a wink and a nod, because that bandwidth isn't in short supply. Outgoing P2P had gotten so bad that you didn't have better-than-dial-up internet access most of the day before they started doing this.
Refill the ink cartridges yourself.
I picked up an HP Deskjet D2345 when I went to college. Little did I know that the ink cartridges only held 5mL of ink and cost twenty fucking dollars. After looking online for a bit, I discovered that you could just peel the label off and the fill holes were literally right there. Staples sold me three bottles of black ink (total: 65mL) and a syringe for $10 total, and I'm sure I could get ink for less if I looked online.
Why pay more for something than it's worth?
"Democracy is a poor system; the only good thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times better than any other system we have. Its worst fault is that it's leaders reflect its constituents: a low level, but what do you expect?" - Robert Heinlein.
$1200 for a 32gig drive? Who the hell would buy that? There are 32GiB solid-state drives for $488 on Newegg.b mit=ENE&N=2010070068+1053325335&Subcategory=68&des cription=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
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Careful, now they'll yell at/ban/sue/murder all testers named Jon, too.
And those forks will have to be significantly better than the GPL3 originals if they are to last longer than a month or two. I can count the number of successful forks on one hand.
Um. You don't know how an EULA works, do you?
If there is a clause in an EULA, and you violate it, you lose your right to use the copyrighted software. If you continue to use the software, you are committing (you guessed it) copyright violation. This is true legally even if they don't immediately ban you.
If you don't like it, then stop playing. (or tell your "good friend" to stop playing; you know, whatever).
Such applications violate their EULA, it's as simple as that. If you don't like it, don't play WoW.
So you're saying that merely doing everything Windows does it not enough, it's got to be MUCH better.
Um. Yes? Why the fuck is Windows the baseline here? Linux has been better than Windows for about seven years now, stupid analysts notwithstanding.
I see this kind of attitude in a lot of OSS projects. "Windows's implementation is X, and hey, we've already got X, so why bother improving anything?" If I wanted "everything Windows does", I'd be using Windows and getting major updates every six years instead of six months. Of course it's got to be MUCH better. I mean, even that bar isn't very fucking high.
And doctors say that you shouldn't put the coffee in your mouth if it's above 150 or so. I dunno about you, but I trust doctors over the National Coffee Association. I mean, if the National Vehicle Fuckers Association went out and said that the front-end of a '68 Camaro is the best orgasm possible, and a group of doctors came forth and said "no, that is in fact bad for your wang," I'd trust the doctors.
In the US, anybody can be sued for anything, of course. The question is, "does the plaintiff have a case?" And there's no way in hell McCain would have a case.
Unless you're talking about the other direction (McCain as defendant for stealing bandwidth), which is currently a debated and unresolved issue, as far as I know.
(disclaimer: I am not a lawyer)
I thought that was right in line with the old-school Republican party platform?
Florida got around this little obstacle by taxing "use" instead of "sale", where the "use" tax was waived if you paid a sales tax. The end result, of course, was that out-of-state purchases were taxed as much as in-state purchases. A clever bit of legal work, I must say.