Consumers want a unified experience that can only come form a corporate design. That is MS, Apple, Google. Users expect the hardware to be subsidized, and is not going to pay the full price up front for a sophisticated piece of hardware.
Canonical and Red Hat aren't corporations? Ubuntu pretty much installed itself on my laptop. Also, how is hardware subsidized?
Of course, if you fail to engage with your detractors who agree with Eratosthenes that the circumference of the earth is approximately 25,000 miles, you better have a continent between you and Asia.
If the Stuxnet guys had smashed the controller they had access to, they'd have done a far better job. Those Siemens controllers were irreplaceable, since Iran could no longer get them. Likewise if an insider wanted to attack a critical pump , they'd just go attack the critical pump, they would, install a virus that users an exploit to attack a control system that changes a setting that makes the pump wear out a bit quicker.
Yeah, because smashing a centrifuge is so less likely to be detected than planting malware.
Stuxnet attacked Windows systems using an unprecedented four zero-day attacks (plus the CPLINK vulnerability and a vulnerability used by the Conficker worm[33]). It is initially spread using infected removable drives such as USB flash drives,[8][34] and then uses other exploits and techniques such as peer-to-peer RPC to infect and update other computers inside private networks that are not directly connected to the Internet.
You made it up, its something we honest people call a lie. We honest people also know that dishonest fucks such as yourself never contribute positively to anything. Its in your nature to deceive, and are willing to do so even when there is ample amounts of truthful ammunition that you could have chosen to use to express those beliefs. You blew right past the truthful anti-MS stuff and went right for a lie. You arent much value to anyone that isnt intent on deceiving. Have you considered Romney's campaign?
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Consumers want a unified experience that can only come form a corporate design. That is MS, Apple, Google. Users expect the hardware to be subsidized, and is not going to pay the full price up front for a sophisticated piece of hardware.
Canonical and Red Hat aren't corporations? Ubuntu pretty much installed itself on my laptop. Also, how is hardware subsidized?
Sure, why not? They annoy me with their Windows stuff.
Way to spread the word!
And to think that Chitty was cooler than any car he (Desmond Llewellyn) turned over to 007.
(7.9/7)^2=1.27. . . So if the iPad mini has the same aspect ratio as a 7" tablet, that sounds about right.
Perhaps he believed that the story would get posted to slashdot, where car analogies are obligatory.
But isn't complimentary the complement of insulting?
That's a laugh; there is no canon left in Star Trek!
What kind of arm-twisting, exactly, is MS planning against Dell, HP, etc. to get them to stop shipping boring corporate boxes that don't support XP?
Refuse to sell/allow XP licenses? What are Dell and HP going to do? Install Linux?
Of course, if you fail to engage with your detractors who agree with Eratosthenes that the circumference of the earth is approximately 25,000 miles, you better have a continent between you and Asia.
Only if the CA is genuine!
If it runs "standard" Linux, then I presume I can run GNU emacs and LaTeX. Issue resolved
What would mean to be outside of the Universe, as opposed to being outside of our spacetime?
So no gay man has ever donated sperm?
Yeah, because smashing a centrifuge is so less likely to be detected than planting malware.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Windows_infection:
Wasn't Stuxnet installed locally via USB?
Perhaps the GP meant "good" calories in the sense that those foods have nutrients. Of course, it's then the food and not the calories that are good.
If I were the DEA or persons of similar persuasion, I would be shaking in my combat boots.
What's in it for the DEA to actually end the use of illegal drugs?
May as well use a laptop.
FTFY
But which individuals? And how do they decide? And if their decision to frack poisons people, should we just accept that?
Since intelligence (in all ethnic, racial, etc. groups) fits a bell curve, most people are on the left side of that curve
The normal curve is symmetric, so half of the people are on each side. Whether intelligence is distributed normally is a different question.
30% texing and driving
I never use TeX when I'm driving!
it's up to the markets to decide what money is, what interest rates should be, where the roads should go and how far they should extend.
What are markets? And how do they decide?
What Star Trek character was named "Dr. Spock"? Leonard Nimoy played Mr. Spock.