*sigh* yes, it makes perfect business sense to blind your customers and it's not like you there are 'courts' where you could sue for damages in such cases. Regulation is so awesome, there are NO alternatives! BTW, you still have not shown how regulating certain standards for a group of products has anything to do with making a SINGLE product mandatory...
I wonder if you realize that businesses are run by actual people, like you-and-me kind of people. Not robots, not slaves and not servants but actual real people with real human rights and so forth. This dung heap of an argument is EXACTLY the kind of slippery slope that people arguing against gov't regulation always warn about. You give an inch and pretty soon people will advocate that the government can and should regulate any aspect of life. If the government can tell businesses what operating systems to run you, me, everyone on the internet has already as good as lost the fight for freedom online because if it wishes it can dictate the same to individuals for the very same reasons.
why discuss the issue at hand when you can just handwave, generalize and misdirect? Using proprietary formats == mandating an operating system? Really?
the implications of your post are simply insane... and this comment with a +5? What the hell? Have any of you guys actually lived in a totalitarian state? China's first concern is *of course* what it's citizens are doing in the internet cafes...
... sure, we REALLY do need a massive government agency to babysit the internet. They'll guarantee security and do it for pennies. Right!? Right?? Even better, let the army do it. THEY really know efficiency... What a joke!
I'm glad you have an environment that works so well but if you connect your box to the net without a firewall and indiscriminately execute any code you download your OS will not save you. Sooner or later your box will get pwned regardless of what you are running...
the nice thing about capitalism is that it's not my job to worry about the health of the internet. I have a contract that clearly states what I can expect for the monthly service fees I'm paying and this means I get to download at 16Mbits ALL DAMN DAY. Should I have priority over VoIP and gaming? I don't know and that's really not my job either. Let the ISPs figure it out, they are the (sorry to use the word) stakeholders in this.
OR vista might still be more compatible and more of what people actually like then linux and nothing will change. I really hope that someday there will be real(tm) choice(tm) on the desktop but it's not going to happen if linux banks on MS driving linux adoptoion...
Why the hell do people always choose the most extreme examples? Couldn't you just have gone with smoking weed in Amsterdam or something? Anyways, in germany ALL laws 'carry' like this but the actual reason is that your government thinks it *owns* your ass. There is NO reason why a country should consider their laws worth squad outside their borders...
I don't think it's weird at all. Wireless sucks a donkey's ball, even apart from the security problems. Even if it works now and you happen to be one among a million who don't get regular disconnects / latency spikes / speed issues it doesn't take much to cause enough interference to screw it up. One rogue device or the wrong material in the walls can be enough. If at all possible I'd always go for a wired solution...
This answer was predictable... MY wireless works fine, I'VE got a year uptime, NO computer EVER crashed while I was around. Don't you see that you can't refute a general statement with an anecdote?
sure, there isn't a crack team but the municipalities are quite motivated because they get budget according to how many people life there. So actually it goes like this: your landlord tells the municipality about you ( he has to) and they bug you until you register. I wasn't taunting them, I was simply ignoring their requests until they threatened me with jail... Then I registered (for this I had to unregister in my old hometown 200km away... this was changed recently) and payed the fines, of course. It might make more sense to have this registration but it shackles me right from the get go.. I'm not a subject or a servant, I shouldn't have to tell anybody where I am...
* The police in germany ( and I'd think in netherlands as well) CAN and DO search you whenever it pleases them. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
* there is a huge difference! If I want something ( vote, drivers-license etc) I'll go someplace to make it happen, no problem but having a legal obligation to do so is something else entirely (mind you, 'public servants' work from 10 to 4 here, so you usually need to take a days leave...)
* "no people are punished for not doing"... I WAS punished with fines and even threatened with jail for refusing to register simply on principle, no fraud involved.
I find your post really funny but it's nothing personal. Europeans can get so snobbish about America (not saying you are) but often fail to comprehend how much their state/government actually owns them. What's it like to be just free? To not have to register every time you move? To have police that can't search or arrest you without probable cause? Have a look at your laws sometime, you'll be suprised how much of a subject you actually are..
Yes, more down moderation please: Wireless support in linux sucks! 3D graphics support sucks! Sound support on linux sucks! Those are facts and if you don't tell new users who are looking at linux for desktop use this you should be ashamed of yourself...
I think that the bit torrent protocol is great and reflects the nature of the internet quite well. On top it's very efficient so if you want to do a realistic speed test of your down link there is nothing better then grabbing a linux distro (or any other large free software package) as torrent download. Well, unless your provider uses p2p 'traffic shaping' but then you don't need a speed test;)
Anyways, the thing about MS and apple using P2P: The main problem would be publicity, I think. Blizzard distributes their patches via torrents (with HTTP fallback, best of both worlds!) and if I recall correctly people where really upset at first. Reasoning going along the lines of "I'm paying for this so you damn well pay for the bandwidth". Personally I think that's stupid. Yes, a company should not only rely on bit torrent distribution but they should definitely offer it. It's in the best interest of every one: http downloaders have to share the bandwidth with fewer people, torrent downloaders have vastly improved download speed and the company saves money.
You've got some good replies already but I'd like to stress the asynchronous nature of messaging. It's like email for applications without the stupid format:)... you push your payload to a queue and at that point can stop worrying about it: it'll either get delivered or stay on the queue. The API (in IBMs case) is very straight forward and easy to use and has bindings or implementation in most languages.
what you want is an embedded system (which the comodore arguably was) not a general purpose PC. Why don't you get one of a dozen ARM devices that boots in a second because it is specifically designed for this? Hell, my Java Phone even boots faster than my PC! You might not care for the configuration options open to you but that's only because everything is working already. Where does that come from then? Maybe the operating system querieing all PCI devices on start up and then loading the correct driver which in turn is used by the protocol stack (also configurable, also intialized at boot time) which then get's called by your webbrowser over your OS's API has something to do with it? Face it, your super boot comodore is BRICKware when compared to a PC and one of the reasons for this is that modern software is build on layers over layers over layers of abstraction with each one taking away from the complexity software development would otherwise entail. There is a price to be paid for it and that's performance but the choice between every application being implemented on and being specific to the bare metal of a machine and 2 minutes boot time is no choice at all.
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> Based on your posts, I'd probably want to dash your brains out with a rock
.. makes sense, too, since you really seem to like all other aspects of fascism as well.
Sounds like your style
*sigh* yes, it makes perfect business sense to blind your customers and it's not like you there are 'courts' where you could sue for damages in such cases. Regulation is so awesome, there are NO alternatives! BTW, you still have not shown how regulating certain standards for a group of products has anything to do with making a SINGLE product mandatory ...
I wonder if you realize that businesses are run by actual people, like you-and-me kind of people. Not robots, not slaves and not servants but actual real people with real human rights and so forth. This dung heap of an argument is EXACTLY the kind of slippery slope that people arguing against gov't regulation always warn about. You give an inch and pretty soon people will advocate that the government can and should regulate any aspect of life. If the government can tell businesses what operating systems to run you, me, everyone on the internet has already as good as lost the fight for freedom online because if it wishes it can dictate the same to individuals for the very same reasons.
why discuss the issue at hand when you can just handwave, generalize and misdirect? Using proprietary formats == mandating an operating system? Really?
Simply insane ... you are actually defending that the government dictates not only which flavor of OS you use but which specific distro.
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You'll have the state sanctioned operating system and YOU WILL LIKE IT, puny servant.
Your comment about safety standards is an utter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring_(logical_fallacy)#Red_herringred herring
the implications of your post are simply insane ... and this comment with a +5? What the hell? Have any of you guys actually lived in a totalitarian state? China's first concern is *of course* what it's citizens are doing in the internet cafes ...
... sure, we REALLY do need a massive government agency to babysit the internet. They'll guarantee security and do it for pennies. Right!? Right?? Even better, let the army do it. THEY really know efficiency ... What a joke!
Amazingly, WoW uses TCP ...
I'm glad you have an environment that works so well but if you connect your box to the net without a firewall and indiscriminately execute any code you download your OS will not save you. Sooner or later your box will get pwned regardless of what you are running ...
the nice thing about capitalism is that it's not my job to worry about the health of the internet. I have a contract that clearly states what I can expect for the monthly service fees I'm paying and this means I get to download at 16Mbits ALL DAMN DAY. Should I have priority over VoIP and gaming? I don't know and that's really not my job either. Let the ISPs figure it out, they are the (sorry to use the word) stakeholders in this.
OR vista might still be more compatible and more of what people actually like then linux and nothing will change. I really hope that someday there will be real(tm) choice(tm) on the desktop but it's not going to happen if linux banks on MS driving linux adoptoion ...
Why the hell do people always choose the most extreme examples? Couldn't you just have gone with smoking weed in Amsterdam or something? Anyways, in germany ALL laws 'carry' like this but the actual reason is that your government thinks it *owns* your ass. There is NO reason why a country should consider their laws worth squad outside their borders ...
I don't think it's weird at all. Wireless sucks a donkey's ball, even apart from the security problems. Even if it works now and you happen to be one among a million who don't get regular disconnects / latency spikes / speed issues it doesn't take much to cause enough interference to screw it up. One rogue device or the wrong material in the walls can be enough. If at all possible I'd always go for a wired solution ...
This answer was predictable ... MY wireless works fine, I'VE got a year uptime, NO computer EVER crashed while I was around. Don't you see that you can't refute a general statement with an anecdote?
sure, there isn't a crack team but the municipalities are quite motivated because they get budget according to how many people life there. So actually it goes like this: your landlord tells the municipality about you ( he has to) and they bug you until you register. I wasn't taunting them, I was simply ignoring their requests until they threatened me with jail ... Then I registered (for this I had to unregister in my old hometown 200km away ... this was changed recently) and payed the fines, of course. It might make more sense to have this registration but it shackles me right from the get go .. I'm not a subject or a servant, I shouldn't have to tell anybody where I am ...
* The police in germany ( and I'd think in netherlands as well) CAN and DO search you whenever it pleases them. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
* there is a huge difference! If I want something ( vote, drivers-license etc) I'll go someplace to make it happen, no problem but having a legal obligation to do so is something else entirely (mind you, 'public servants' work from 10 to 4 here, so you usually need to take a days leave ...)
* "no people are punished for not doing" ... I WAS punished with fines and even threatened with jail for refusing to register simply on principle, no fraud involved.
I find your post really funny but it's nothing personal. Europeans can get so snobbish about America (not saying you are) but often fail to comprehend how much their state/government actually owns them. What's it like to be just free? To not have to register every time you move? To have police that can't search or arrest you without probable cause? Have a look at your laws sometime, you'll be suprised how much of a subject you actually are ..
I don't understand what's so hard about N+1 cores ... well, with 256, the taskmanager would probably need a redesign :)
Yes, more down moderation please: Wireless support in linux sucks! 3D graphics support sucks! Sound support on linux sucks! Those are facts and if you don't tell new users who are looking at linux for desktop use this you should be ashamed of yourself ...
troll? Yeah, I'd be sad too if my fav operating system didn't support these basic functions :)
You got your ass so far up your as it's actually your head again. Amazing, a doctor of somekind should take a look at you ...
If you really want linux forget wireless, 3d graphics and most likely sound.
I think that the bit torrent protocol is great and reflects the nature of the internet quite well. On top it's very efficient so if you want to do a realistic speed test of your down link there is nothing better then grabbing a linux distro (or any other large free software package) as torrent download. Well, unless your provider uses p2p 'traffic shaping' but then you don't need a speed test ;)
Anyways, the thing about MS and apple using P2P: The main problem would be publicity, I think. Blizzard distributes their patches via torrents (with HTTP fallback, best of both worlds!) and if I recall correctly people where really upset at first. Reasoning going along the lines of "I'm paying for this so you damn well pay for the bandwidth". Personally I think that's stupid. Yes, a company should not only rely on bit torrent distribution but they should definitely offer it. It's in the best interest of every one: http downloaders have to share the bandwidth with fewer people, torrent downloaders have vastly improved download speed and the company saves money.
You've got some good replies already but I'd like to stress the asynchronous nature of messaging. It's like email for applications without the stupid format :) ... you push your payload to a queue and at that point can stop worrying about it: it'll either get delivered or stay on the queue. The API (in IBMs case) is very straight forward and easy to use and has bindings or implementation in most languages.
what you want is an embedded system (which the comodore arguably was) not a general purpose PC. Why don't you get one of a dozen ARM devices that boots in a second because it is specifically designed for this? Hell, my Java Phone even boots faster than my PC! You might not care for the configuration options open to you but that's only because everything is working already. Where does that come from then? Maybe the operating system querieing all PCI devices on start up and then loading the correct driver which in turn is used by the protocol stack (also configurable, also intialized at boot time) which then get's called by your webbrowser over your OS's API has something to do with it? Face it, your super boot comodore is BRICKware when compared to a PC and one of the reasons for this is that modern software is build on layers over layers over layers of abstraction with each one taking away from the complexity software development would otherwise entail. There is a price to be paid for it and that's performance but the choice between every application being implemented on and being specific to the bare metal of a machine and 2 minutes boot time is no choice at all.