This is interesting because its done in Australia and no one cares. I've seen a print out of a street with a pile of info on each house including in most cases a photo.
For a minor hardware issue its fine. It is extremely unlikely that he'll lose any data from the problem as the symptoms arent consistent with hard drive problems (either the drive itsself or the controller).
As long as the computer is used for general surfing, typing up documents, gaming, etc... and not mission critical data then its fine.
I know someone who had a computer where the motherboard was nearly cracked in two. Sure it wasnt ideal but it ran fine. He naturally didnt use it for anything important.
Linux drivers are generally generic. They are designed to handle a wide range of similar hardware which means if the hardware misbehaves it can generally handle it correctly. More specific drivers wouldnt be expecting a certain response so they crash.
If they are happy with Linux and it runs fine then I dont really see why the hardware issue needs to be fixed.
You have no idea how completely ignorant and idiotic that statement is do you? You expect a computer to understand your personal ontology for concepts and terminology? How about its ability to understand what you consider the most important term of your query? Ever heard of personalised search?
You have no idea what kind of algorithms they use do you? Do you understand how Bayesian statistics work?
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Name one Linux virus which has spread through out the wild.
I rest my case.
This is interesting because its done in Australia and no one cares.
I've seen a print out of a street with a pile of info on each house including in most cases a photo.
There is always IPX/SPX you know.
For a minor hardware issue its fine.
It is extremely unlikely that he'll lose any data from the problem as the symptoms arent consistent with hard drive problems (either the drive itsself or the controller).
As long as the computer is used for general surfing, typing up documents, gaming, etc... and not mission critical data then its fine.
I know someone who had a computer where the motherboard was nearly cracked in two.
Sure it wasnt ideal but it ran fine. He naturally didnt use it for anything important.
Whats a kernel without stuff like Bash, X, etc...?
And any maintainance can be done over ssh!
Linux drivers are generally generic. They are designed to handle a wide range of similar hardware which means if the hardware misbehaves it can generally handle it correctly.
More specific drivers wouldnt be expecting a certain response so they crash.
If they are happy with Linux and it runs fine then I dont really see why the hardware issue needs to be fixed.
It cant be easy for nVidia. They have a lot more work to do now thanks to Microsoft.
IMHO I would *not* like to be working at nVidia at the moment. Would you agree?
I run Gentoo on my old P4 (my main pc) and my P 166 laptop just fine.
While FC may have bloat, its not Linux.
You have no idea what kind of algorithms they use do you?
Do you understand how Bayesian statistics work?
Throw a grenade in to water and watch it explode. :)
I know people who buy XP and then install a pirated version just because its far easier.
WHAT?! I'm going deaf?
I thought no one could understand those kinds of people.
Dude? Its light. Last time I checked thats killed roughly 0 people.
This isnt related to HD-DVD/Bluray DRM. Microsoft puts on their own DRM in addition to the disc's DRM.
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I should XP on a spare 166 laptop with 96mb ram. :)
It wouldnt be pretty.
Runs Gentoo fine however.
10,000 paying customers. 10 million installs. Seems pretty straight forward to me.
They do have a lot of non-paying customers you know.
The paying ones pay MySQL for support and a few goodies I think. Check their website for details.
I dont see why it wouldnt work. Its bluetooth and the platform is open.
Plus its the actual kernel devs doing it instead of random nerdy guys. ;)
Compared to our current deal of no support AND no drivers I think thats a fair compromise.
Eventually however they will start paying attention when a lot more people switch.
Then you'll start seeing support.
To put it in perspective: Most of Google is beta. ;)
that depends, does he travel to or through the US? Or does he ever want to set foot on US soil ever again?
Yeah its like saying, "Look here guys! There must be something really neat here"