Except I just checked with Amazon and you still only get the first half of season 5 of Breaking Bad.
You have to order the "Final Season" of Breaking Bad to get the last 8 episodes. Also the price per episode for the last 8 episodes are now $2.99/ea where the "Season 5" episodes are $1.99/ea. Amazon is charging $1 more per episode for the last half of the season. If I ordered "Season 5" and expected to pay only $1.99/episode for the unaired episodes, I would be just as pissed.
Give me a specific example on why you believe that once you switch to Linux that you'll never return to Windows. Please I'm waiting for something actually substantial to come from you. Well not really... I don't expect much.
You spend a lot of energy dancing around the question, but you never actually say anything remotely intelligible about the actual topic at hand.
Linux on the desktop is already far superior to Windows on the desktop.
This is your personal opinion.
The point I made is that somebody who doesn't know this is ignorant, and they compound that ignorance with incompetence when they imply or state a position that is contrary to the facts. The phenomenal stupidity comes in when you post such ridiculous drivel on Slashdot in a thread where you already know a competent person is participating in the discussion.
So I am ignorant simply because I do not agree with your personal opinion? I not the one throwing insults at everyone on Slashdot, but then again I actually know my subject matter.
Anyway, what are these facts that you speak of? Which desktop environment of which Linux distribution do you attribute to being superior to Windows 7? Do you factor in the fact that a lot of commercial software that are common place in today's office environment can not run natively within any Linux environment? What about drivers for peripherals? Are you considering offices where the software most likely being used are specialized applications in niche markets and aren't the office suite or browser based office that some people associate with clerical work?
I agree that a Linux desktop is more powerful than Windows when used by an experience user but that is only one metric within many that makes up the total desktop experience.
That's true. However that doesn't explain the network's distribution. Personally I hate this trend of splitting seasons into Season 5.1 and Season 5.2 or Season 5 (Spring) or Season 5 (Fall). The BBC experimented with splitting series up for DVD sales or Schedule pigeonholing (make the season last despite the lack of episodes).
In AMC's case, they either didn't want to delay the Season 5 premiere by waiting on the second half of the season to finish production or (and) they wanted to milk the cash cow as long as possible by having the new episodes spread out into two half seasons.
To AMC's credit, they didn't label the second half of the distribution as "Season 6" but as "The final season". I think this has more to do with AMC's right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing than Apple or Amazon wanting to confuse or frustrate their customers.
I have yet to see a single person who switched to Linux decide to request a refund for their misery.
Good thing you used "request a refund" in your statement, otherwise I would find it really hard to believe. I like Linux, I use Linux, I evangelized Linux in the workplace, and I had people come to my office and request that Linux be removed and replaced with Windows 7.
I love how everyone here is basically hammering on the point that non-profit companies should by default be required to file taxes, even though they never have to pay them.
It's the cost of accepting donations. How will the government or even the donors know that everything is above board without regular filings of income statements and tax forms?
If that doesn't qualify as a 501(c)3 I don't know what would qualify.
I think you are misunderstanding what is going on here. X.org qualified as a 501(c)3 corporation. They lost the qualification because they didn't file the required income taxes. This is completely X.org's fault.
IDC Enterprise Server Group simply reported that revenue generated from the sale of commercial Unix is declining and IBM is overtaking HP in that segment of the market.
NetworkWorld took that little factoid and turned it into "The last days of Unix" article despite the fact that the actual article mentions Linux as being a competitor. I'm sure BSD is also taking a good chunk of market too.
Then there is the possibility of the "pieces of flair" (from Office Space) dilemma. As in your manager saying "I see you put the minimum number of hours of work here at Google. See Tommy over there? He puts in an extra 15% of work time on special projects. I can't tell you to work for free, but look how enthusiastic Tommy is about his job".
You become torn between working for free on something that could make Google money or going home at a decent hour. Your decision could cause you to suffer financially by being passed over for promotions by people who did innovative work for free.
the problem is keeping track of tax rates in 3000+ counties plus cities plus other 'special' economic zones.
This more than manageable and there are already services out there that provide an up-to-date database to their customers. Home Depot, Best Buy, Apple, and others seem to have little trouble calculating the correct sales tax when a customer orders online.
What if my IP says I'm in Sweden, what then?
They calculate tax from the shipping address not the IP address.
Seriously. Stop saying that playing with software somehow invalidates a warranty on the hardware. That is simply not how things work in the Unites States, so please just STOP SAYING THAT.
Synopsis so far: You are not entirely correct. Yes simply installing or playing with software does not invalidate a warranty. However if the hardware stops functioning correctly solely because you played with the software then remedies like replacement or repair are not covered by the warranty.
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Except I just checked with Amazon and you still only get the first half of season 5 of Breaking Bad.
You have to order the "Final Season" of Breaking Bad to get the last 8 episodes. Also the price per episode for the last 8 episodes are now $2.99 /ea where the "Season 5" episodes are $1.99/ea. Amazon is charging $1 more per episode for the last half of the season. If I ordered "Season 5" and expected to pay only $1.99/episode for the unaired episodes, I would be just as pissed.
Give me a specific example on why you believe that once you switch to Linux that you'll never return to Windows. Please I'm waiting for something actually substantial to come from you. Well not really... I don't expect much.
You spend a lot of energy dancing around the question, but you never actually say anything remotely intelligible about the actual topic at hand.
This is your personal opinion.
So I am ignorant simply because I do not agree with your personal opinion? I not the one throwing insults at everyone on Slashdot, but then again I actually know my subject matter.
Anyway, what are these facts that you speak of? Which desktop environment of which Linux distribution do you attribute to being superior to Windows 7? Do you factor in the fact that a lot of commercial software that are common place in today's office environment can not run natively within any Linux environment? What about drivers for peripherals? Are you considering offices where the software most likely being used are specialized applications in niche markets and aren't the office suite or browser based office that some people associate with clerical work?
I agree that a Linux desktop is more powerful than Windows when used by an experience user but that is only one metric within many that makes up the total desktop experience.
That's true. However that doesn't explain the network's distribution. Personally I hate this trend of splitting seasons into Season 5.1 and Season 5.2 or Season 5 (Spring) or Season 5 (Fall). The BBC experimented with splitting series up for DVD sales or Schedule pigeonholing (make the season last despite the lack of episodes).
In AMC's case, they either didn't want to delay the Season 5 premiere by waiting on the second half of the season to finish production or (and) they wanted to milk the cash cow as long as possible by having the new episodes spread out into two half seasons.
To AMC's credit, they didn't label the second half of the distribution as "Season 6" but as "The final season". I think this has more to do with AMC's right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing than Apple or Amazon wanting to confuse or frustrate their customers.
Doing an ad-hominem attack doesn't make Linux's current state of the desktop any better.
Where is this explicitly stated? If this is true then why is both Apple and Amazon show a "Season 5" and "The Final Season" as two separate seasons?
It has more to do with Linux is just not ready for the Desktop.
Good thing you used "request a refund" in your statement, otherwise I would find it really hard to believe. I like Linux, I use Linux, I evangelized Linux in the workplace, and I had people come to my office and request that Linux be removed and replaced with Windows 7.
Too bad your examples are poor and the last one is off-topic.
troll-in-training?
Because VirtualBox is slow and lacks features.
Bah! It still doesn't beat my Super8 and a bed sheet.
We already did this. It is called Congress and nothing good came out of the experiment.
That is funny, but has no relevance to the current topic.
It's the cost of accepting donations. How will the government or even the donors know that everything is above board without regular filings of income statements and tax forms?
"Trust us" isn't good enough.
I'm glad that Apache took over from Oracle. Why should the only active development be GPL licensed?
I think you are misunderstanding what is going on here. X.org qualified as a 501(c)3 corporation. They lost the qualification because they didn't file the required income taxes. This is completely X.org's fault.
RMS was worried that Linux was diverting too much attention from the FSF.
IDC Enterprise Server Group simply reported that revenue generated from the sale of commercial Unix is declining and IBM is overtaking HP in that segment of the market.
NetworkWorld took that little factoid and turned it into "The last days of Unix" article despite the fact that the actual article mentions Linux as being a competitor. I'm sure BSD is also taking a good chunk of market too.
Then there is the possibility of the "pieces of flair" (from Office Space) dilemma. As in your manager saying "I see you put the minimum number of hours of work here at Google. See Tommy over there? He puts in an extra 15% of work time on special projects. I can't tell you to work for free, but look how enthusiastic Tommy is about his job".
You become torn between working for free on something that could make Google money or going home at a decent hour. Your decision could cause you to suffer financially by being passed over for promotions by people who did innovative work for free.
This more than manageable and there are already services out there that provide an up-to-date database to their customers. Home Depot, Best Buy, Apple, and others seem to have little trouble calculating the correct sales tax when a customer orders online.
They calculate tax from the shipping address not the IP address.
I think BSD should be the default. It's close to public domain and has some boiler plate liability disclaimers.
QT is dual licensed as commercial and LGPL.
Agree. Good talk. Enjoy the weekend.
Sigh, Adolf.
Synopsis so far: You are not entirely correct. Yes simply installing or playing with software does not invalidate a warranty. However if the hardware stops functioning correctly solely because you played with the software then remedies like replacement or repair are not covered by the warranty.
You implied that there were no consequences from "playing with software". I just pointed out that was not entirely true.