"Virtual PC costs a couple hundred bucks, Boot Camp doesn't;"
And unless Apple starts selling OEM compies of Windows with their machines, Apple users will be forced to pay full retail price for Windows, which is...a couple hundred bucks.
What the heck. Virtual PC with Windows XP Pro costs less than Windows XP Pro itself.
Let me see if I can phrase this in computer terms...
What most companies hang on the walls is the Windows default wallpaper ("Bliss"). What people consider "art" suitable for hanging on the walls is Digital Blasphemy. If you can't afford reproductions of Digital Blasphemy desktops, don't waste money on copying Bilss.
What is this "special relativity"? I hate buzzwords. Just call it the ether like everyone else. I mean they're close enough...and nobody's gonna need to use "special relativity" in calculations anyway, it's just hypothetical.
The British did the same thing to Hitler. They had a plan to assassinate him that probably would've worked (in short, he visited his summer home, and he was known to take a morning walk regularly, where they could aim a sniper), but they decided against it "because there was some controversy over whether it was such a good idea. Hitler was such a bad strategist that it was believed whoever might follow him up might make a better war-effort."
It's on facebook.com today. A while back it used to be on thefacebook.com because someone else had facebook.com. I suppose it took considerable money to pay off the domain squatter.
This week they introduced Facebook Mobile, which lets you get some features (messaging, poking, basic profile info) via a shortcode. A US shortcode costs $1000/month. There's plenty of random features like that that costs money.
And then you have to realize how many effin' servers they must be running. Obviously the domains are virtual hosts, but they're providing space for most college students in the US. That's quite a number of people. According to the Seattle P-I, as of August 2005, Facebook had over 3.4 million accounts, and on any given day 65% of them were active. Facebook had a growth rate of eight thousand accounts per day, which comes to over 2 million additional accounts - assuming only linear growth. If Facebook is still on the exponential part of its logistic growth, I'm estimating that its size doubled this academic year.
This whole argument is stupid. People do flame each other, it's just a fact. We could just as well sit around and wring our hands that the Internet would be more popular if the "online community" would just be more friendly and all the pedophiles and spammers would mend their ways. It's true, but it's also a rather pointless discussion.
Here's the catch. The online community doesn't have a vested interest in making the Internet more popular. But the very goal of the Linux community is making Linux more popular.
It is pure hypocrisy to flame n00bs -- or even stand idly while a n00b is being flamed -- and then complain that there's no widespread adoption of Linux and ask when it will be "ready for the desktop." It's not the desktop we're struggling with; there's plenty of stable desktop OSes. It's the newbie. When will the Linux community be ready for the newbies?
However, to universally blame the help provider is completely wrong.
That only works so long as we're not trying to encourage people to use Linux. How will Linux take the remaining 95% of computers if we won't listen to the 95% of people who don't think like us?
Most people want everything handed to them, and if you do not have a self started attitude UNIX is fairly intimidating.
Well in that case...Linux will never be ready for the desktop until we breed a race of humans that are entirely self-started. And the only way to tell that people will finally do things on their own is when the last fast-food chain closes.
Linux should stand on its technical merits. Why restrict it to those who have the "right" learning style?
Yep. In internet forums some Linuxers will tell you to RTFM, and some Windowsers will tell you they don't consult for free. I don't see a heck of a lot of difference in the net effect.
Unlike a good chunk of Linux users (presumably including you), the non-Linux market has plenty of people who are more than willing to give a hundred or so bucks to get the consulting they need. Whereas with Linux, not only do they not get the answer, they leave with an impression that the community is arrogant.
This is a capitalist society. People understand when they say you won't do something for free. People don't understand when you say "the information is freely available, go find it." Why shouldn't they get you to tell them, paying if necessary?
Apple's usability comes from their software. Nobody buys Mac because of the hardware no matter what they say.
People buy Mac because the hardware works, perfectly, the first time, with the software. No fiddling with downloading drivers or certain functions not working. You want WiFi? The software expects one brand of Airport, and there it is. Display? The drivers are optimized for Apple displays and know how to calibrate them and what resolutions to use. And so forth.
OS X on commodity PC hardware would not Just Work. Neither does Windows on a Mac.
Nope, I'm not trolling Microsoft. Madge does (did) have a monopoly on token ring networking gear, or if not a complete monopoly, at least as much market share as Microsoft has, right?
What about Microsoft? They've had a slew of failures (Microsoft Bob comes to mind, as does Windows ME) but they've got a practical monopoly on the PC OS market, so there's no chance of Microsoft going bankrupt.
This is a facet of the WP:OFFICE policy. I think it's just something where you have to trust Wikimedia. Obviously they're getting a lot of legal threats, so they have to make some controls on the encyclopedia so that the whole thing doesn't get shut down due to a slashdotting of lawsuits. It's not transparent, and I wish they would say exactly what's happening, but they say that they can't say, so...oh well.
Good luck to Wikitruth. Keep these pages up for as long as you can without being sued. (I'm not being sarcastic. There needs to be a refuge for these banished pages. But Wikitruth shouldn't expect not to get sued.)
Spotting the pirated copies of Windows will be easy.
Instead of "Start," the button will say "Very Much Go."
And spotting the legit copies of Windows will be as easy. Thanks to the Cultural Revolution, the Start button is now bright red. Windows can be closed by clicking the little green X in the corner.
The "GOTO" statement is now called "GREAT LEAP FORWARD TO". And after compiling parts of a program, you run the linker by shouting, "Object files of the world, unite!"
From [[Token ring]]: Madge Networks, a one time competitor to IBM, is now considered to be the market leader in Token Ring.
From [[Madge Networks]]: Madge Networks NV. was a global leader and pioneer of high speed networking solutions in the mid 1990s. The company was founded by Robert Madge.
The company filed for bankruptcy in April 2003.
Granted, they still exist, and sell stuff, but for a market monopoly to file for bankruptcy...can't be too many customers left, can there?
having a FAT32 data partition is ok (for a single-user computer, anyway). Having a FAT32 system partition is bad, as in "back to Win9x days with everyone having write access to system files" bad. It's like writing Pwn me, I'm clueless on your digital forehead for all malware out there to see.
NTFS security is just security via obscurity. If it's an unencrypted file format, the only reason malware can't get to your raw NTFS partitions is that they don't have drivers. Same for ext3 and all your other fun filesystems: if the kernel can get to it, a boot sector virus can get to it. FAT32 would be equally secure if the OS enforced file ownership via metadata.
And why exactly did you format your Windows partition as NTFS and not FAT?
Are you seriously asking this in 2006? Wow.
Yes, I am seriously asking this in 2006. I know that FAT is a sucky file system, but at least it can be read by Mac OS X. Maybe in 2010 when there's a reliable Free driver for NTFS, I won't ask this. I'm not suggesting you install the operating system and applications on FAT; I'm just suggesting you map your home folder, in Windows and in Mac OS, to something on a FAT partition.
Do you have a USB stick? It's formatted FAT, not NTFS, right?
What about a CD-RW? Can you even put NTFS on a CD-RW?
So what's the harm in FAT for documents? Just set up 3 partitions.
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WTF is a "home page" and who decides what page is the "home page"? Heres my 1000 pages of whatever and one page that says "click here to enter".
Set a cookie. If the cookie isn't there, replace the image with "You're about to see pr0n, are you sure? (By clicking OK you certify you're over 18)".
"Virtual PC costs a couple hundred bucks, Boot Camp doesn't;"
And unless Apple starts selling OEM compies of Windows with their machines, Apple users will be forced to pay full retail price for Windows, which is...a couple hundred bucks.
What the heck. Virtual PC with Windows XP Pro costs less than Windows XP Pro itself.
Virtual PC + XP Pro: $249
Windows XP Pro by itself: $299
Let me see if I can phrase this in computer terms...
What most companies hang on the walls is the Windows default wallpaper ("Bliss"). What people consider "art" suitable for hanging on the walls is Digital Blasphemy. If you can't afford reproductions of Digital Blasphemy desktops, don't waste money on copying Bilss.
What is this "special relativity"? I hate buzzwords. Just call it the ether like everyone else. I mean they're close enough...and nobody's gonna need to use "special relativity" in calculations anyway, it's just hypothetical.
The British did the same thing to Hitler. They had a plan to assassinate him that probably would've worked (in short, he visited his summer home, and he was known to take a morning walk regularly, where they could aim a sniper), but they decided against it "because there was some controversy over whether it was such a good idea. Hitler was such a bad strategist that it was believed whoever might follow him up might make a better war-effort."
It's on facebook.com today. A while back it used to be on thefacebook.com because someone else had facebook.com. I suppose it took considerable money to pay off the domain squatter.
This week they introduced Facebook Mobile, which lets you get some features (messaging, poking, basic profile info) via a shortcode. A US shortcode costs $1000/month. There's plenty of random features like that that costs money.
And then you have to realize how many effin' servers they must be running. Obviously the domains are virtual hosts, but they're providing space for most college students in the US. That's quite a number of people. According to the Seattle P-I, as of August 2005, Facebook had over 3.4 million accounts, and on any given day 65% of them were active. Facebook had a growth rate of eight thousand accounts per day, which comes to over 2 million additional accounts - assuming only linear growth. If Facebook is still on the exponential part of its logistic growth, I'm estimating that its size doubled this academic year.
Chuck Norris knows who John Galt is.
Dagny Taggart knows John Galt quite well, if you catch my drift....
This whole argument is stupid. People do flame each other, it's just a fact. We could just as well sit around and wring our hands that the Internet would be more popular if the "online community" would just be more friendly and all the pedophiles and spammers would mend their ways. It's true, but it's also a rather pointless discussion.
Here's the catch. The online community doesn't have a vested interest in making the Internet more popular. But the very goal of the Linux community is making Linux more popular.
It is pure hypocrisy to flame n00bs -- or even stand idly while a n00b is being flamed -- and then complain that there's no widespread adoption of Linux and ask when it will be "ready for the desktop." It's not the desktop we're struggling with; there's plenty of stable desktop OSes. It's the newbie. When will the Linux community be ready for the newbies?
However, to universally blame the help provider is completely wrong.
That only works so long as we're not trying to encourage people to use Linux. How will Linux take the remaining 95% of computers if we won't listen to the 95% of people who don't think like us?
Most people want everything handed to them, and if you do not have a self started attitude UNIX is fairly intimidating.
Well in that case...Linux will never be ready for the desktop until we breed a race of humans that are entirely self-started. And the only way to tell that people will finally do things on their own is when the last fast-food chain closes.
Linux should stand on its technical merits. Why restrict it to those who have the "right" learning style?
Yep. In internet forums some Linuxers will tell you to RTFM, and some Windowsers will tell you they don't consult for free. I don't see a heck of a lot of difference in the net effect.
Unlike a good chunk of Linux users (presumably including you), the non-Linux market has plenty of people who are more than willing to give a hundred or so bucks to get the consulting they need. Whereas with Linux, not only do they not get the answer, they leave with an impression that the community is arrogant.
This is a capitalist society. People understand when they say you won't do something for free. People don't understand when you say "the information is freely available, go find it." Why shouldn't they get you to tell them, paying if necessary?
Microsoft's history as the provider of all things crass, square, and ugly?
Nope, that was Sony. The character design in FFX2 was crass and Square...though I'm not sure if "ugly" applies.
Apple's usability comes from their software. Nobody buys Mac because of the hardware no matter what they say.
People buy Mac because the hardware works, perfectly, the first time, with the software. No fiddling with downloading drivers or certain functions not working. You want WiFi? The software expects one brand of Airport, and there it is. Display? The drivers are optimized for Apple displays and know how to calibrate them and what resolutions to use. And so forth.
OS X on commodity PC hardware would not Just Work. Neither does Windows on a Mac.
Nope, I'm not trolling Microsoft. Madge does (did) have a monopoly on token ring networking gear, or if not a complete monopoly, at least as much market share as Microsoft has, right?
What about Microsoft? They've had a slew of failures (Microsoft Bob comes to mind, as does Windows ME) but they've got a practical monopoly on the PC OS market, so there's no chance of Microsoft going bankrupt.
I really have no idea why this thing made Slashdot...
from the running-articles-i-disagree-with-is-good-for-me dept.
When is everyone going to stop assuming that issuing new TLDs is going to solve all their problems?
"When I issued the first few TLDs, things were good...then I issued a couple more...but now I'm just issuing more TLDs to take my problems away.
"Hi, my name is ICANN, and I'm a TLDaholic."
This is a facet of the WP:OFFICE policy. I think it's just something where you have to trust Wikimedia. Obviously they're getting a lot of legal threats, so they have to make some controls on the encyclopedia so that the whole thing doesn't get shut down due to a slashdotting of lawsuits. It's not transparent, and I wish they would say exactly what's happening, but they say that they can't say, so...oh well.
Good luck to Wikitruth. Keep these pages up for as long as you can without being sued. (I'm not being sarcastic. There needs to be a refuge for these banished pages. But Wikitruth shouldn't expect not to get sued.)
Spotting the pirated copies of Windows will be easy.
Instead of "Start," the button will say "Very Much Go."
And spotting the legit copies of Windows will be as easy. Thanks to the Cultural Revolution, the Start button is now bright red. Windows can be closed by clicking the little green X in the corner.
The "GOTO" statement is now called "GREAT LEAP FORWARD TO". And after compiling parts of a program, you run the linker by shouting, "Object files of the world, unite!"
So is his name Goodfellow or Goodnight?
We need more Goodeditors.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
How would a Middle Eastern dip made with chickpeas and sesame help my posts?
From [[Token ring]]:
Madge Networks, a one time competitor to IBM, is now considered to be the market leader in Token Ring.
From [[Madge Networks]]:
Madge Networks NV. was a global leader and pioneer of high speed networking solutions in the mid 1990s. The company was founded by Robert Madge.
The company filed for bankruptcy in April 2003.
Granted, they still exist, and sell stuff, but for a market monopoly to file for bankruptcy...can't be too many customers left, can there?
having a FAT32 data partition is ok (for a single-user computer, anyway). Having a FAT32 system partition is bad, as in "back to Win9x days with everyone having write access to system files" bad. It's like writing Pwn me, I'm clueless on your digital forehead for all malware out there to see.
NTFS security is just security via obscurity. If it's an unencrypted file format, the only reason malware can't get to your raw NTFS partitions is that they don't have drivers. Same for ext3 and all your other fun filesystems: if the kernel can get to it, a boot sector virus can get to it. FAT32 would be equally secure if the OS enforced file ownership via metadata.
And why exactly did you format your Windows partition as NTFS and not FAT?
Are you seriously asking this in 2006? Wow.
Yes, I am seriously asking this in 2006. I know that FAT is a sucky file system, but at least it can be read by Mac OS X. Maybe in 2010 when there's a reliable Free driver for NTFS, I won't ask this. I'm not suggesting you install the operating system and applications on FAT; I'm just suggesting you map your home folder, in Windows and in Mac OS, to something on a FAT partition.
Do you have a USB stick? It's formatted FAT, not NTFS, right?
What about a CD-RW? Can you even put NTFS on a CD-RW?
So what's the harm in FAT for documents? Just set up 3 partitions.