They took our local bartender here in Southern California on some stuff that he was involved in an IRA bombing that killed a police officer, I didn't get to see the article around here for some weird reason.
"Asperger's syndrome, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks" lol any other diseases you wanna throw in there to try to defend him, I remember it started out with Aspergers syndrome in the origianal article and there was a huge discussion about people lying about being diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome.
Got a funny itch? Aspergers syndrome You get tired? Aspergers syndrome Can't stand the outside world and make excuses for your incompetence? Aspergers syndrome
"This clearly breaks 'dur process' laws in the US" Oh look some hard hitting facts...
I remember it in Ultima Online, scripting was pretty easy back than. Although not logging into your account for almost a year and coming back to realize everything you had built up was expired and decayed(disappeared). That was the last time I invested so much time into a game and realized the outcome, but than I found out you could dupe items through the black hole bug and made millions on my comeback.
I believe we had those things called 'wardialers' back in the AOL kiddie days when progs were coming out left and right to do stupid mischievous behavior , I probably got them sitting on a floppy somewhere deep in a drawer and they probably are still compatible today.
Wait? You mean the like to exaggerate around here a little to make a point, sometimes I just have to shake my head at the stuff that gets modded up to make a point. It was probably.00001% of the market that had a forced preview on a DVD, but of course on/. the super small minority all of a sudden represents the majority as usual. How the hell do people make this up and swallow it.
They purposely do it and lie to themselves to make themselves feel better at what they are doing, but lets face it the most any DVD will force you is probably:30 seconds.
Personally I can go on with my life and not be such a whiny materialistic bitch if Hollywood doesn't deliver my movie, just gotta find bigger priorities in life than worrying about other peoples problems and why they shouldn't earn so much money.
Line was already drawn and it is under 'Privacy Settings/ Uncheck 'Use My Location' Oh yeah, and you weren't gonna really purchase a brand new car were you. You were just looking for mod points, it's cool though but at least be truthful.
Seriously... take a pice of tape and put it over the light; which should dim it to not give it that piercing light.
I know at night that even when I turn the cable box off there is the green LED lights that is very piercing to the eye, even when i shut my eyes I can still see it and I used to have to put a shirt over the front of the box. So even turning off the device these days will not solve the problem as they seem to have stuck a red bright LED OFF button. Also there is no turning off some devices like the cable box which will than require a full 3 minute reboot wait time, nobody wants to wait that long to view tv in the morning. Screens go to sleep anyways, so pointless to complain about the screen.
Parking Meter is dying... Cheaper operations and ones that produce more written tickets for violators are more productive. Being replaced by 'buy a ticket for half-day or full day' or more modern digital ones that detect when a car moves from the spot so the next person doesn't get free time.
Let us not forget the 'Parking Meter Fairy' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKTFCdpBsAA Although only to find out it is illegal to put coins in other peoples time slots, those things are nothing but a source for parking tickets and as we call the Ticket writers around here 'Vultures'.
It's called tourism and for comparing aspects, Middle Eastern people don't travel much. That's a fact and when people visit the Middle East they get a nice dose of Sharia Laws when they kiss their wife/husband in the open.
American people compared to Arabs\Persians\Middle Easterners are a lot more intelligent and Middle Eastern illiteracy rates are astonishing. Once had a great culture of mathematicians, but Islam blew that out the door and they have not progressed since.
Leaders are asshats is no excuse for the common people to get a green pass on not being criticized, cry me a river when all Americans were being called ignorant/stupid when Bush was in office. The apologist only seem to come out when somebody tries to criticize poor little Middle Eastern people.
Need to take off the mittens and talk these people like America was talked to over their misguided war and president. Oh believe me, we heard it right from the people on visiting Italy and other European countries. Something that Middle Eastern people don't get to do or have an incentive to travel to see history.
The Middle East has a policy policy of turning a blind eye to extremism and remaining silent does nothing for their cause. Nothing points that out more than the United Arab League which was formed on almost a racist agenda to wipe Israel off the map, thankfully their incompetence cost them the war and some land.
The people have been brainwashed into lusting for Jewish blood and celebrating martyrs, blah blah blah there are good people too. Yeah well unfortunately the 'world' is in this all together and the Middle Eastern people cannot seem to behave.
Israel is the only thing that unites a lot of these Arab countries, they would just be killing each other instead. The middle eastern people are totally disconnected with the rest of the world and have no idea what is going on in other countries or ever get to visit.
Anyways didn't we have some peace agreement at some camp and we watched as they became even more corrupt when Hamas took over and threw their opposition off the roof tops. Nothing will stop the propaganda over there, especially when you have such ridiculous illiteracy rates and the people cannot make a decision for themselves.
Hopefully rocket attacks stop now that the Israelis have a C-RAM system setup to shoot down the incoming rockets, thereby not needing to retaliate with artillery and air strikes. Than they will not have an excuse, oh wait no... they'll still hate them and keep trying to kill them till the end of time.
Build a big wall and seal it off, let Egypt take care of the problem. Oh wait.... Egypt doesn't want anything to do with them and have closed their border to them as well. Maybe Jordan will help them... oh wait no... they hate Hamas too. Hmmmm.... I think I am seeing a pattern here
Not to nit pick but you gotta look at the numbers also, for every one of your examples there are about 5,000 for the Muslims.
You guys are realist, I am sure somebody could always do a 'per capita' count on the extremist there and compare it to extremist Christians. The parrot response around here when talking about Muslim extremist always seems to be the Oklahoma City Bombing, come on really. I don't know if that is a sad statistic or that he was more efficient at killing more people in Oklahoma City Bombing than any other Muslim attack till 9/11. Also the silence by their majority doesn't help their cause also, it only creates a boiling environment of non stop hate and lies to gain popularity with the population.
The overall policy is.... 'They wrote the policy not him'
They can void the policy with a new policy and I don't think there is a policy in place that says a policy has to be written to void a older policy. What if he were to die in an accident or something else also before he was ever able to give out the passwords.
The city's policy probably predates all this and I am sure the cities legal team knows the rules better than this guy, it's San Fucking Francisco. Not some little town we are talking about here.
The whole thing seems to be revolving around this 'non-secure settings'; I dunno what that means but what the hell does this admin want to hand over the passwords in the Fort Knox gold vault.
I remember being stuck at a light where the red light wouldn't change late at night forever, a police officer pulled up and said "go ahead and go, it does this sometimes".
It was quite obvious when EA skipped Tigers Woods 2k9 for PC platform and several other sports games, they brought back MLB and NBA games this year though as they appear to be better ported. But last years list of games ported from console to PC were just horrible and bug ridden that were put out by EA. Menus were just chaos and incompatible with the keyboard/mouse as there is X/Y/Z's all over, best investment I made was a 360 controller for the PC and all the games work great, plus I like getting practice using the controller so that when I go over to friends houses I can understand it.
Consoles are fun but of all places Slashdot users to root for the console over the PC gets a bit irritating although I sense some of that bitterness comes from the fact that Linux gets no games, so they could care less and happily cheer the downfall of gaming. Consoles are the most locked down and DRM ridden things of all the stuff out there, hence the uncrackable PS3. By the time they get it figured out there will already be PS4 which will be dipped into an epoxy mold.
Wow I am sure they never thought of any of that. I love it I always come on here to find some guy who thinks he can outsmart the military and doesn't realize he was already dead long ago.
Seriously you don't think these scientist/engineers know what stuff is out there, that they cannot jam a signal and cannot track/triangulate a signals position.
There are many more systems than the patriot system for defense including the best of them all C-Ram which shoots explosive rounds into the air towards the target as it approaches, you're a little bit behind in times.
Also since when have UAV's been the size of spaceshuttle.
The UAV tool accessible now has been the greatest asset in this modern war, why face down this modern enemy when they are willing to blow themselves and everyone around them to get a hit at the target enemy.
So my point still stands that Windows 7 is not expensive and was a wise investment on this laptop.
I didn't end up spending on a laptop, so I don't know where you are going with that argument. I purchased Win7 not a laptop, just correcting your misinformation. Also that's the average price of a decent laptop bought new with state taxes. Laptop prices don't really fall below the sub $350 at retail places like FRY's and they have a 90 day return policy.
Netbooks are not laptops btw and just a short trend.
Yeah, because as soon as that laptop dies I will just shift it over to another laptop or desktop.
Just like when I ran the copy of Win7 on my desktop for a couple weeks before deciding to switch it over to the laptop.
Oh yeah and between us OEM copies are perfectly transferable between computers as long as you don't use it on two at the same time, don't believe all the fear mongering around here because Activation is working perfectly.
$90 pre order at fry's for Win7 Ultimate version, you must feel like a sucker to pay $199 for it. You know for a tech site I always find it hilarious everyone always runs to the highest price version of Windows when using it in their argument, nevermind that Google and a simple search would turn up hundreds of deals.
Sorry we were too busy being productive with our software while Linux was all but non-existant back in the days. I'll take insecure over non-existent any day.
Vista is actually great to use after last SP patch, but by than I had already thrown the beta of Win7 on my computer and Vista was history. Slashdot had thoroughly bashed Vista to death and didn't bother trolling anymore articles on it or even bother with corrections.
I don't think laptops that have a maximum memory usage of only 1GB have a lot of life left in them or marketplace, you can replace the hard drive but the rest of the components like the screen are not something you can replace easily or cheaply.
Only reason I might have failed to answer your question in I think that there 'is no answer' to your question. You are asking a pointless question on a pointless piece of hardware.
Personally laptops with an age like that are not like the old pieces of hardware (Commodores, Nintendo) that will run forever. Not everyone like me who has an old broken laptop is capable of ordering a $5 keyboard off Ebay and fixing it, most would give it salvation army or let it collect dust in the closet, they couldn't bother salvaging a laptop by only removing a simple 4 screws.
That's fair and why I said "albeit gamers" and also used my example of FRY's, only the biggest nerd land in the world as a real world example. Hard to find good solid statistics that don't come from a source who has an 'agenda' and have a lot of users. Although I would bet my money on that a great number of Steam users are running Counter Strike one of the most popular and low hardware requirements. I mean that game would run on the schools library computers.
Laptops are basically becoming desktops now that they have caught up in power(CPU/Video).
If I was a wagering man I would not put my money on the low memory machines, I mean even the trendy short lived netbook style showed that market is not viable.
To each their own though and whatever makes you feel comfortable than use it.
Or maybe it's the environment in which Linux desktop has grown into or set itself up for, Windows works fine with Itunes FYI.
I really think Apple would trust Google's Linux OS desktop, but constantly telling companies that they are wrong is not the way to go even though morally it might not be easy to swallow.
I don't recall what Apple's official quote is on why they will not release it on Linux but I could imagine it has to do with the many different distros and not standardizing on many things.
Don't jump the shark yet on Linux Desktop, it's a little premature as it may turn out to be something completely different than what is today the vast open source community and 'free' mentality.
Not lazy developers, but arrogant/selfish to be a little harsh(sorry).
Uhhh last I check in 2007 Apple had sold its 100millionth Ipod
100 million customers is not something you can work around, eventually they might end up buying an Ipod/Iphone and try to connect it to Ubuntu. Uh oh....
Hopefully Google does something right with the Linux Desktop and takes charge, so hold off on trying to switch Windows users because you are digging your grave.
I don't even think they manufacture 512MB stick of Ram anymore, when I went to FRY's the other day their selection of 512MB sticks were all but non-existent. XP sucks and is so vulnerable it is not even funny, seriously this trend of loving XP when Vista/Win7 came out has to stop. I know Linux advocates are trying to spin it somehow and trying to get people to hold off upgrading, but for sake of coming back to reality please stop this nonsense argument.
Why would a developer try to appeal to a very small sect minority.
January 2010 Steam Survey, albeit gamers this is still a relevant survey.
Less than 512 MB (+0.02%) 0.67% 512 Mb to 999 MB (+0.11%) 4.18% 1 GB (-0.10%) 11.62% 2 GB (-0.89%) 30.05% 3 GB (-0.99%) 29.00% 4 GB (+1.47%) 16.51% 5 GB and higher (+0.38%) 7.97%
I agree completely because I threw Win7 on an old Dell 1150 and invested $25 in 2 GB of memory from FRY's turned this laptop into a perfect gift for my little sister. Parents were relieved because I saved them from spending $500 on a new laptop. The hardware support in Win7 is superb and didn't have any problem installing everything unlike Ubuntu that kept giving me little hiccups here and there on the old Dell 1150 laptop.
To put it bluntly, the Linux Desktop missed the entire mass adoption of Personal Computers at home. Most of the desktop learning environment was done in the 90's and they have passed that skill on down to their children, so everything is just 'too big' and standardized the desktop. Plus I remember asking about a Linux desktop back in the days and the priorities were not there to develop it, more lines of whining about Windows were written than Desktop Linux code.
You can believe whatever encounters you have had and try to make them an example, but the point remains that Linux is a very chaotic environment and nobody wants to stand up to be liable if something goes wrong. That or they get really offended when you tell them you do not like what they developed and no people do not want to switch between 5 different varities of a certain App with names that do not even compare to the task they are doing.
Personally, I say just wait it out and let a big corporation like Google do something right with Linux to make it a truly great Desktop OS. Ubuntu is barely gimping along and nothing too exciting about makes it a 'must have'. Plus Windows 7 is here and all the excuses of "Vista is bloat" have kind of gone out the door, MS seems to finally have figured out stability/security with Vista/Win7.
Linux Desktop missed the biggest opportunity to seize on MS's blunder with Vista, missed opportunity in that Win7 will last another 15+ years sitting on Businesses/home users computers. Sorry I am more of a realist than an hopeful opportunist.
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They extradite people all the time to the UK.
They took our local bartender here in Southern California on some stuff that he was involved in an IRA bombing that killed a police officer, I didn't get to see the article around here for some weird reason.
"Asperger's syndrome, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks"
lol any other diseases you wanna throw in there to try to defend him, I remember it started out with Aspergers syndrome in the origianal article and there was a huge discussion about people lying about being diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome.
Got a funny itch? Aspergers syndrome
You get tired? Aspergers syndrome
Can't stand the outside world and make excuses for your incompetence? Aspergers syndrome
"This clearly breaks 'dur process' laws in the US"
Oh look some hard hitting facts...
I remember it in Ultima Online, scripting was pretty easy back than.
Although not logging into your account for almost a year and coming back to realize everything you had built up was expired and decayed(disappeared). That was the last time I invested so much time into a game and realized the outcome, but than I found out you could dupe items through the black hole bug and made millions on my comeback.
I believe we had those things called 'wardialers' back in the AOL kiddie days when progs were coming out left and right to do stupid mischievous behavior , I probably got them sitting on a floppy somewhere deep in a drawer and they probably are still compatible today.
You mean like the EU/UK....
Wait? .00001% of the market that had a forced preview on a DVD, but of course on /. the super small minority all of a sudden represents the majority as usual. How the hell do people make this up and swallow it.
You mean the like to exaggerate around here a little to make a point, sometimes I just have to shake my head at the stuff that gets modded up to make a point. It was probably
They purposely do it and lie to themselves to make themselves feel better at what they are doing, but lets face it the most any DVD will force you is probably :30 seconds.
Personally I can go on with my life and not be such a whiny materialistic bitch if Hollywood doesn't deliver my movie, just gotta find bigger priorities in life than worrying about other peoples problems and why they shouldn't earn so much money.
Line was already drawn and it is under 'Privacy Settings/ Uncheck 'Use My Location'
Oh yeah, and you weren't gonna really purchase a brand new car were you. You were just looking for mod points, it's cool though but at least be truthful.
Seriously... take a pice of tape and put it over the light; which should dim it to not give it that piercing light.
I know at night that even when I turn the cable box off there is the green LED lights that is very piercing to the eye, even when i shut my eyes I can still see it and I used to have to put a shirt over the front of the box. So even turning off the device these days will not solve the problem as they seem to have stuck a red bright LED OFF button.
Also there is no turning off some devices like the cable box which will than require a full 3 minute reboot wait time, nobody wants to wait that long to view tv in the morning.
Screens go to sleep anyways, so pointless to complain about the screen.
Parking Meter is dying...
Cheaper operations and ones that produce more written tickets for violators are more productive.
Being replaced by 'buy a ticket for half-day or full day' or more modern digital ones that detect when a car moves from the spot so the next person doesn't get free time.
Let us not forget the 'Parking Meter Fairy' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKTFCdpBsAA
Although only to find out it is illegal to put coins in other peoples time slots, those things are nothing but a source for parking tickets and as we call the Ticket writers around here 'Vultures'.
Oklahoma City site of first parking meter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZQgPRFgkOA
How to Hack a Parking Meter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2CZ6yHJdBs
How to hack electronic parking gates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BA37BmMgBc
How to Rip-off a Parking meter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOz7cdNaQ3c
Hi Tech Parking Meter, Los Angeles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y76VFJ0LoOU
It's called tourism and for comparing aspects, Middle Eastern people don't travel much. That's a fact and when people visit the Middle East they get a nice dose of Sharia Laws when they kiss their wife/husband in the open.
American people compared to Arabs\Persians\Middle Easterners are a lot more intelligent and Middle Eastern illiteracy rates are astonishing. Once had a great culture of mathematicians, but Islam blew that out the door and they have not progressed since.
Leaders are asshats is no excuse for the common people to get a green pass on not being criticized, cry me a river when all Americans were being called ignorant/stupid when Bush was in office. The apologist only seem to come out when somebody tries to criticize poor little Middle Eastern people.
Need to take off the mittens and talk these people like America was talked to over their misguided war and president. Oh believe me, we heard it right from the people on visiting Italy and other European countries. Something that Middle Eastern people don't get to do or have an incentive to travel to see history.
The Middle East has a policy policy of turning a blind eye to extremism and remaining silent does nothing for their cause.
Nothing points that out more than the United Arab League which was formed on almost a racist agenda to wipe Israel off the map, thankfully their incompetence cost them the war and some land.
The people have been brainwashed into lusting for Jewish blood and celebrating martyrs, blah blah blah there are good people too. Yeah well unfortunately the 'world' is in this all together and the Middle Eastern people cannot seem to behave.
Israel is the only thing that unites a lot of these Arab countries, they would just be killing each other instead. The middle eastern people are totally disconnected with the rest of the world and have no idea what is going on in other countries or ever get to visit.
Anyways didn't we have some peace agreement at some camp and we watched as they became even more corrupt when Hamas took over and threw their opposition off the roof tops.
Nothing will stop the propaganda over there, especially when you have such ridiculous illiteracy rates and the people cannot make a decision for themselves.
Hopefully rocket attacks stop now that the Israelis have a C-RAM system setup to shoot down the incoming rockets, thereby not needing to retaliate with artillery and air strikes. Than they will not have an excuse, oh wait no... they'll still hate them and keep trying to kill them till the end of time.
Build a big wall and seal it off, let Egypt take care of the problem. Oh wait.... Egypt doesn't want anything to do with them and have closed their border to them as well. Maybe Jordan will help them... oh wait no... they hate Hamas too. Hmmmm.... I think I am seeing a pattern here
Not to nit pick but you gotta look at the numbers also, for every one of your examples there are about 5,000 for the Muslims.
You guys are realist, I am sure somebody could always do a 'per capita' count on the extremist there and compare it to extremist Christians.
The parrot response around here when talking about Muslim extremist always seems to be the Oklahoma City Bombing, come on really. I don't know if that is a sad statistic or that he was more efficient at killing more people in Oklahoma City Bombing than any other Muslim attack till 9/11.
Also the silence by their majority doesn't help their cause also, it only creates a boiling environment of non stop hate and lies to gain popularity with the population.
The overall policy is.... 'They wrote the policy not him'
They can void the policy with a new policy and I don't think there is a policy in place that says a policy has to be written to void a older policy.
What if he were to die in an accident or something else also before he was ever able to give out the passwords.
The city's policy probably predates all this and I am sure the cities legal team knows the rules better than this guy, it's San Fucking Francisco. Not some little town we are talking about here.
The whole thing seems to be revolving around this 'non-secure settings'; I dunno what that means but what the hell does this admin want to hand over the passwords in the Fort Knox gold vault.
I remember being stuck at a light where the red light wouldn't change late at night forever, a police officer pulled up and said "go ahead and go, it does this sometimes".
Invest in these smaller airline companies down South asap....
It was quite obvious when EA skipped Tigers Woods 2k9 for PC platform and several other sports games, they brought back MLB and NBA games this year though as they appear to be better ported. But last years list of games ported from console to PC were just horrible and bug ridden that were put out by EA. Menus were just chaos and incompatible with the keyboard/mouse as there is X/Y/Z's all over, best investment I made was a 360 controller for the PC and all the games work great, plus I like getting practice using the controller so that when I go over to friends houses I can understand it.
Consoles are fun but of all places Slashdot users to root for the console over the PC gets a bit irritating although I sense some of that bitterness comes from the fact that Linux gets no games, so they could care less and happily cheer the downfall of gaming. Consoles are the most locked down and DRM ridden things of all the stuff out there, hence the uncrackable PS3. By the time they get it figured out there will already be PS4 which will be dipped into an epoxy mold.
Wow I am sure they never thought of any of that. I love it I always come on here to find some guy who thinks he can outsmart the military and doesn't realize he was already dead long ago.
Seriously you don't think these scientist/engineers know what stuff is out there, that they cannot jam a signal and cannot track/triangulate a signals position.
There are many more systems than the patriot system for defense including the best of them all C-Ram which shoots explosive rounds into the air towards the target as it approaches, you're a little bit behind in times.
C-Ram(Counter Rocket and Mortar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjA5fkPtb58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqfOCt7EdI
Also since when have UAV's been the size of spaceshuttle.
The UAV tool accessible now has been the greatest asset in this modern war, why face down this modern enemy when they are willing to blow themselves and everyone around them to get a hit at the target enemy.
So my point still stands that Windows 7 is not expensive and was a wise investment on this laptop.
I didn't end up spending on a laptop, so I don't know where you are going with that argument. I purchased Win7 not a laptop, just correcting your misinformation.
Also that's the average price of a decent laptop bought new with state taxes. Laptop prices don't really fall below the sub $350 at retail places like FRY's and they have a 90 day return policy.
Netbooks are not laptops btw and just a short trend.
Yeah, because as soon as that laptop dies I will just shift it over to another laptop or desktop.
Just like when I ran the copy of Win7 on my desktop for a couple weeks before deciding to switch it over to the laptop.
Oh yeah and between us OEM copies are perfectly transferable between computers as long as you don't use it on two at the same time, don't believe all the fear mongering around here because Activation is working perfectly.
$90 pre order at fry's for Win7 Ultimate version, you must feel like a sucker to pay $199 for it. You know for a tech site I always find it hilarious everyone always runs to the highest price version of Windows when using it in their argument, nevermind that Google and a simple search would turn up hundreds of deals.
Sorry we were too busy being productive with our software while Linux was all but non-existant back in the days.
I'll take insecure over non-existent any day.
Let me know when you can get AutoCAD...
Vista is actually great to use after last SP patch, but by than I had already thrown the beta of Win7 on my computer and Vista was history. Slashdot had thoroughly bashed Vista to death and didn't bother trolling anymore articles on it or even bother with corrections.
I don't think laptops that have a maximum memory usage of only 1GB have a lot of life left in them or marketplace, you can replace the hard drive but the rest of the components like the screen are not something you can replace easily or cheaply.
Only reason I might have failed to answer your question in I think that there 'is no answer' to your question. You are asking a pointless question on a pointless piece of hardware.
Personally laptops with an age like that are not like the old pieces of hardware (Commodores, Nintendo) that will run forever.
Not everyone like me who has an old broken laptop is capable of ordering a $5 keyboard off Ebay and fixing it, most would give it salvation army or let it collect dust in the closet, they couldn't bother salvaging a laptop by only removing a simple 4 screws.
That's fair and why I said "albeit gamers" and also used my example of FRY's, only the biggest nerd land in the world as a real world example.
Hard to find good solid statistics that don't come from a source who has an 'agenda' and have a lot of users.
Although I would bet my money on that a great number of Steam users are running Counter Strike one of the most popular and low hardware requirements. I mean that game would run on the schools library computers.
Laptops are basically becoming desktops now that they have caught up in power(CPU/Video).
If I was a wagering man I would not put my money on the low memory machines, I mean even the trendy short lived netbook style showed that market is not viable.
To each their own though and whatever makes you feel comfortable than use it.
Or maybe it's the environment in which Linux desktop has grown into or set itself up for, Windows works fine with Itunes FYI.
I really think Apple would trust Google's Linux OS desktop, but constantly telling companies that they are wrong is not the way to go even though morally it might not be easy to swallow.
I don't recall what Apple's official quote is on why they will not release it on Linux but I could imagine it has to do with the many different distros and not standardizing on many things.
Don't jump the shark yet on Linux Desktop, it's a little premature as it may turn out to be something completely different than what is today the vast open source community and 'free' mentality.
Not lazy developers, but arrogant/selfish to be a little harsh(sorry).
Uhhh last I check in 2007 Apple had sold its 100millionth Ipod
100 million customers is not something you can work around, eventually they might end up buying an Ipod/Iphone and try to connect it to Ubuntu. Uh oh....
Hopefully Google does something right with the Linux Desktop and takes charge, so hold off on trying to switch Windows users because you are digging your grave.
I don't even think they manufacture 512MB stick of Ram anymore, when I went to FRY's the other day their selection of 512MB sticks were all but non-existent.
XP sucks and is so vulnerable it is not even funny, seriously this trend of loving XP when Vista/Win7 came out has to stop. I know Linux advocates are trying to spin it somehow and trying to get people to hold off upgrading, but for sake of coming back to reality please stop this nonsense argument.
Why would a developer try to appeal to a very small sect minority.
January 2010 Steam Survey, albeit gamers this is still a relevant survey.
Less than 512 MB (+0.02%) 0.67%
512 Mb to 999 MB (+0.11%) 4.18%
1 GB (-0.10%) 11.62%
2 GB (-0.89%) 30.05%
3 GB (-0.99%) 29.00%
4 GB (+1.47%) 16.51%
5 GB and higher (+0.38%) 7.97%
I agree completely because I threw Win7 on an old Dell 1150 and invested $25 in 2 GB of memory from FRY's turned this laptop into a perfect gift for my little sister. Parents were relieved because I saved them from spending $500 on a new laptop.
The hardware support in Win7 is superb and didn't have any problem installing everything unlike Ubuntu that kept giving me little hiccups here and there on the old Dell 1150 laptop.
Time is money if you haven't figured it out.
To put it bluntly, the Linux Desktop missed the entire mass adoption of Personal Computers at home. Most of the desktop learning environment was done in the 90's and they have passed that skill on down to their children, so everything is just 'too big' and standardized the desktop. Plus I remember asking about a Linux desktop back in the days and the priorities were not there to develop it, more lines of whining about Windows were written than Desktop Linux code.
You can believe whatever encounters you have had and try to make them an example, but the point remains that Linux is a very chaotic environment and nobody wants to stand up to be liable if something goes wrong. That or they get really offended when you tell them you do not like what they developed and no people do not want to switch between 5 different varities of a certain App with names that do not even compare to the task they are doing.
Personally, I say just wait it out and let a big corporation like Google do something right with Linux to make it a truly great Desktop OS. Ubuntu is barely gimping along and nothing too exciting about makes it a 'must have'.
Plus Windows 7 is here and all the excuses of "Vista is bloat" have kind of gone out the door, MS seems to finally have figured out stability/security with Vista/Win7.
Linux Desktop missed the biggest opportunity to seize on MS's blunder with Vista, missed opportunity in that Win7 will last another 15+ years sitting on Businesses/home users computers.
Sorry I am more of a realist than an hopeful opportunist.