With hoards of unlicensed cabbies around, women get raped
Which is precisely the point a (fairly disturbing) Transport for London cinema ad made a few months back. Bit OTT, sure, but I guess in one way or another entirely necessary.
That level of caution is stupid. It's like meeting a girl in a bar (hard for Slashdotters to imagine, I know;) and not buying her a drink because you might end up having a horrible acrimonious divorce 5 years down the line.
And it's not even over something as damaging as the possibility of a horrible acrimonious divorce, it's over DRIVER SIGNING.
I've read claims like yours, but have never seen a real machine do as you say.
You've also never used iTunes or an iPod, but still shout off about how shit they are. And you've never had any real experience with Windows XP, by your own admission.
Er, bullshit. I close my Windows laptop; I open it again, and everything is fine. Network comes back up, applications come back up, music carries on playing from where it was before I shut the lid...all works. In the interests of fairness, Ubuntu worked just as well.
I could, easily, read my chosen paper online, but I choose not to. The typography is better and easier on my eyes. The viewing area is bigger, and can fit more information in it without having to scroll down (reading from paper feels far more natural than reading from a screen). It's more convenient (I can read a paper on my couch, in the canteen at work, in bed, on the can, just about anywhere really...). Papers aren't going to die any time soon.
My company has a strict policy against using any open source, not just GNU. They are terrified of the whole SCO thing.
tbh if I was in the business of making things expressly designed to cause many deaths, I wouldn't be scared of a bunch of programmers and their lawyers...
Just, no. Greedy fuckers. If anything the royalty rates need raising to apply to new technologies, considering how much revenue the industry and artists are losing from people downloading instead of buying.
No, I'm not countering that "argument" because it isn't an argument, it's an assumption that DRM is evil and malware and nasty. Not a reason that Vista infects things with DRM.
Of course. Matter of fact, every single OS that can be installed from some form of storage media suffers this sort of problem...little harsh to blame Vista alone...
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Virtual desktops, at least for me, are a pain in the ass. I have tried using them (on Linux and Windows) and every time they have pissed me off.
Just my opinion, obviously.
With hoards of unlicensed cabbies around, women get raped
Which is precisely the point a (fairly disturbing) Transport for London cinema ad made a few months back. Bit OTT, sure, but I guess in one way or another entirely necessary.
That level of caution is stupid. It's like meeting a girl in a bar (hard for Slashdotters to imagine, I know ;) and not buying her a drink because you might end up having a horrible acrimonious divorce 5 years down the line.
And it's not even over something as damaging as the possibility of a horrible acrimonious divorce, it's over DRIVER SIGNING.
a drunken frat boy fumbling with the difficult bra-fasteners of conversational English
:) Ta.
HAHA, coffee met screen for that
Fairly sure. Not 100%, maybe 99.
Who said anything about the Zune? This is about Vista...
However, he/she can elevate privileges through password prompts if necessary.
Even though there exist heterosexual men and women in the world, they don't all want to fuck each other all the time
;)
We're on Slashdot. We're already fully aware of that.
You're hardly likely to guess that someone called "Ilovejesus" has swearing in their password, are you?
ME WAS marginally better than Win98.
It was also monumentally worse in many different ways.
I've read claims like yours, but have never seen a real machine do as you say.
You've also never used iTunes or an iPod, but still shout off about how shit they are. And you've never had any real experience with Windows XP, by your own admission.
What's your Office Suite + Collaboration environment, "twitter"?
;)
Why, CVS and KMail, of course!
Er, bullshit. I close my Windows laptop; I open it again, and everything is fine. Network comes back up, applications come back up, music carries on playing from where it was before I shut the lid...all works. In the interests of fairness, Ubuntu worked just as well.
I could, easily, read my chosen paper online, but I choose not to. The typography is better and easier on my eyes. The viewing area is bigger, and can fit more information in it without having to scroll down (reading from paper feels far more natural than reading from a screen). It's more convenient (I can read a paper on my couch, in the canteen at work, in bed, on the can, just about anywhere really...). Papers aren't going to die any time soon.
Because downloading MP3s is explicitly against federal law, whereas (IIRC) spyware is only legislated against by state law?
My company has a strict policy against using any open source, not just GNU. They are terrified of the whole SCO thing.
tbh if I was in the business of making things expressly designed to cause many deaths, I wouldn't be scared of a bunch of programmers and their lawyers...
$10 for the first person to include a buffer overflow error in a hello world program.
Not to my knowledge. I looked, briefly, at Digg, but the commenting is just horrible in every respect.
Slashdot's editors think Vista will fail and is shit. WE GET IT.
Now, please, find some worthwhile articles to post. This obsession with Vista-bashing is getting very very tiring.
Just, no. Greedy fuckers. If anything the royalty rates need raising to apply to new technologies, considering how much revenue the industry and artists are losing from people downloading instead of buying.
Absolutely fucking disgusting.
Think Ned Flanders with a guitar.
You're a bit late for that boycott. I've been doing that for fucking years.
I'm more than happy to incentivise Cliff to go choke on a dick, however.
No, I'm not countering that "argument" because it isn't an argument, it's an assumption that DRM is evil and malware and nasty. Not a reason that Vista infects things with DRM.
Of course. Matter of fact, every single OS that can be installed from some form of storage media suffers this sort of problem...little harsh to blame Vista alone...
Knew I wouldn't get a sensible, rational answer around here...