You can talk about an idealistic crusade to show your disdain for products from companies like Microsoft pretty easily. In fact, I've done the same at various times over the last few years. But the truth is, my work requires me to provide builds of our software for Windows (it comprising the majority of OS installs for the majority of our clients). With the realities of the market, regardless of how I feel about them, I have to use Windows for my livelihood and to support my "gaming habit". No one's going to be able to inspire a mass exodus from Windows/other closed-source OSs/apps via individual boycotts. Your comments just make you sound like a noisy braggart.
From my own experience, the point of a university may be to learn, but passing courses is the measure of success. There's correlation between learning and doing well in the course, but they aren't the same. I could learn all the material in a class, but I'm screwed if I only finish learning after the test is done.
Does it actually matter if the story is true or not, as long as it gives a topic for discussion? It is claimed to have actually happened, and it provides a good topic for exploring the community's beliefs about personal rights.
Several hundred? A couple years ago, I bought a PowerMac G3 that runs Ubuntu just fine for about $25. Sure, new hardware costs a lot (comparatively), but that's one of the most-trumpeted benefits of Linux: It's so customizable that you can almost always cut down on the system to run it on an older piece of hardware, but still have a useful system.
Hey, Jed. Calm down, man. Two posts in a row, you've yelled at the person to whom you were replying.
I think Jurily's point was that an economic downturn wouldn't necessarily make people switch to Linux, but rather would increase the volume of Windows piracy instead. It's correct that in the United States, commercial software piracy has been elevated to felony level, but "copying Vista" doesn't necessarily mean "copying and selling Vista".
I don't care if it's a *problem*. What I care about is that no one has any business looking into my business unless I specifically have been doing something suspicion-worthy.
It'll be just like a Pokemon game: RIAA has used legal explosion attack! *Professor loses a little health RIAA has fainted. Music industry is out of organizations. You win 500 experience points!
I'm sure the AC can't, on either of those counts, and I'm sure that was your point. With consumer products, I (personally) consider it to be enough that it *works*. If I want something hackable, I'll run an open-source OS, etc. As far as "Media Center" and "Xbox" go, you could wither connect your computer directly to the television, or set up a Linux HTPC machine to perform the same functions. So, stop being an asshat, you know what the AC meant.
Scientific accuracy? It may take place in outer space, but it's a character drama. It's not like it's presented as an educational program. Anyhow, they at least make somewhat of an effort to follow physical rules (momentum, silence in a vacuum, etc)
The greatest number of analog channels I've ever had that have been watchable has been 5-6. Using a digital converter, that number has jumped to about 20 or 30, all with perfect video. I think I can put up with that many perfect channels, rather than 5-6 staticy analog channels, thanks.
Well, I registered 4 or 5 years ago, and my id is nearly 1000 times yours. I think it was about 2 years ago that we hit over a million (not sure on that number)
I am a software engineer; I find inefficiency annoying. Vista does all sorts of anonymous crap in the background. I don't know what it's doing, and there's no easy way to find out. I don't see any concrete benefit to whatever it's doing, and it seems to do it all the time. I'm accustomed to a little more transparency in the operation of my computer. I guess that's part of the reason that Vista seems like nothing more than a big ball of annoyance to me. It's unnecessary; I can't seem to figure out what it does so much better than XP, except get money for Microsoft.
Because it doesn't give it up when I want to use it for something else? I'd rather that the operating system be leaner, so I can run my heavy duty stuff on top of it. A game can't use the resources that the OS has allowed itself to expand into.
I had 4 problems with Vista. 1. Aero is pretty, but not useful 2. The performance sucks; it uses clock cycles and memory to automate things I don't care about 3. Massive intrusive support for DRM and content protection (HDCP, etc) 4. Windows Genuine Advantage is mandatory.
They cleaned up the UI. It's sleeker, while maintaining some of Aero's glitz. The performance has improved, although not as much as I'd like. The DRM and WGA are still there. Half of the things I disliked about Vista were improved.
I still dislike Vista, and find Windows 7 to be a slight, but nice, improvement. I'm still not leaving XP. Like with Vista, I don't see enough improvement to make it worthwhile.
I think you've missed the meaning of the word "evolutionary". It *is* a set of incremental improvements from some baseline.
I would consider XP similar to a "service pack" to 2000. They're almost the same OS, in much the same way that Vista and 7 are almost the same. If 2 operating systems are designed to use the exact same drivers, they may as well be the same OS.
The eyes themselves wouldn't be invisible, but the cloak would redirect light around them, making them useless unless there were eye holes (or camera holes) cut in the cloak.
Plato had a thought experiment, to which the previous poster was referring. Imagine prisoners chained to a wall. They've been there their entire lives, and all they can see is the shifting shadows on the wall as people move across the light leading into their dungeon. Those shadows are a reflection of reality, but they themselves aren't reality. One day, one of the prisoners gets free and is able to go outside. He comes back in, describing the world outside to his brethren, but they consider his story to be fictional. After all, everyone can see that reality is made up of shadows shifting on the wall.
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You can talk about an idealistic crusade to show your disdain for products from companies like Microsoft pretty easily. In fact, I've done the same at various times over the last few years. But the truth is, my work requires me to provide builds of our software for Windows (it comprising the majority of OS installs for the majority of our clients). With the realities of the market, regardless of how I feel about them, I have to use Windows for my livelihood and to support my "gaming habit". No one's going to be able to inspire a mass exodus from Windows/other closed-source OSs/apps via individual boycotts. Your comments just make you sound like a noisy braggart.
Nationalism is an oxymoron in a truly globalized world, but not patriotism.
From my own experience, the point of a university may be to learn, but passing courses is the measure of success. There's correlation between learning and doing well in the course, but they aren't the same. I could learn all the material in a class, but I'm screwed if I only finish learning after the test is done.
Does it actually matter if the story is true or not, as long as it gives a topic for discussion? It is claimed to have actually happened, and it provides a good topic for exploring the community's beliefs about personal rights.
It's a high school, not a college. No frats, no dean, etc.
This is in a high school. The student didn't pay...but they're still that student's property.
Several hundred? A couple years ago, I bought a PowerMac G3 that runs Ubuntu just fine for about $25. Sure, new hardware costs a lot (comparatively), but that's one of the most-trumpeted benefits of Linux: It's so customizable that you can almost always cut down on the system to run it on an older piece of hardware, but still have a useful system.
Hey, Jed. Calm down, man. Two posts in a row, you've yelled at the person to whom you were replying.
I think Jurily's point was that an economic downturn wouldn't necessarily make people switch to Linux, but rather would increase the volume of Windows piracy instead. It's correct that in the United States, commercial software piracy has been elevated to felony level, but "copying Vista" doesn't necessarily mean "copying and selling Vista".
I don't care if it's a *problem*. What I care about is that no one has any business looking into my business unless I specifically have been doing something suspicion-worthy.
It'll be just like a Pokemon game:
RIAA has used legal explosion attack!
*Professor loses a little health
RIAA has fainted. Music industry is out of organizations. You win 500 experience points!
Super Bar....Awesome Bar... can't they come up with they're own names?
Interviewer: If I buy these songs on your service - and they're locked to my phone - what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months' time?
Hugh Griffiths: Well, I think you know the answer to that.
In my mind, it seems to be worse than "you're boned". This is how I would translate his answer.
Griffiths: I'm sorry, I've forgotten the lube. This will be uncomfortable for you.
I'm sure the AC can't, on either of those counts, and I'm sure that was your point. With consumer products, I (personally) consider it to be enough that it *works*. If I want something hackable, I'll run an open-source OS, etc. As far as "Media Center" and "Xbox" go, you could wither connect your computer directly to the television, or set up a Linux HTPC machine to perform the same functions. So, stop being an asshat, you know what the AC meant.
I've got a PCI card with about a 2 second channel change. That's as close to "quickly" as they get, in my experience.
Scientific accuracy? It may take place in outer space, but it's a character drama. It's not like it's presented as an educational program. Anyhow, they at least make somewhat of an effort to follow physical rules (momentum, silence in a vacuum, etc)
The greatest number of analog channels I've ever had that have been watchable has been 5-6. Using a digital converter, that number has jumped to about 20 or 30, all with perfect video. I think I can put up with that many perfect channels, rather than 5-6 staticy analog channels, thanks.
Well, I registered 4 or 5 years ago, and my id is nearly 1000 times yours. I think it was about 2 years ago that we hit over a million (not sure on that number)
I am a software engineer; I find inefficiency annoying. Vista does all sorts of anonymous crap in the background. I don't know what it's doing, and there's no easy way to find out. I don't see any concrete benefit to whatever it's doing, and it seems to do it all the time. I'm accustomed to a little more transparency in the operation of my computer. I guess that's part of the reason that Vista seems like nothing more than a big ball of annoyance to me. It's unnecessary; I can't seem to figure out what it does so much better than XP, except get money for Microsoft.
Not a Debian bootstrap?
Because it doesn't give it up when I want to use it for something else? I'd rather that the operating system be leaner, so I can run my heavy duty stuff on top of it. A game can't use the resources that the OS has allowed itself to expand into.
I had 4 problems with Vista.
1. Aero is pretty, but not useful
2. The performance sucks; it uses clock cycles and memory to automate things I don't care about
3. Massive intrusive support for DRM and content protection (HDCP, etc)
4. Windows Genuine Advantage is mandatory.
They cleaned up the UI. It's sleeker, while maintaining some of Aero's glitz. The performance has improved, although not as much as I'd like. The DRM and WGA are still there. Half of the things I disliked about Vista were improved.
I still dislike Vista, and find Windows 7 to be a slight, but nice, improvement. I'm still not leaving XP. Like with Vista, I don't see enough improvement to make it worthwhile.
I think you've missed the meaning of the word "evolutionary". It *is* a set of incremental improvements from some baseline.
I would consider XP similar to a "service pack" to 2000. They're almost the same OS, in much the same way that Vista and 7 are almost the same. If 2 operating systems are designed to use the exact same drivers, they may as well be the same OS.
The eyes themselves wouldn't be invisible, but the cloak would redirect light around them, making them useless unless there were eye holes (or camera holes) cut in the cloak.
Well, if children are accessing inappropriate material, and killing parents, then I have a better solution. We'll ban kids. Get to it, people! =p
Plato had a thought experiment, to which the previous poster was referring. Imagine prisoners chained to a wall. They've been there their entire lives, and all they can see is the shifting shadows on the wall as people move across the light leading into their dungeon. Those shadows are a reflection of reality, but they themselves aren't reality. One day, one of the prisoners gets free and is able to go outside. He comes back in, describing the world outside to his brethren, but they consider his story to be fictional. After all, everyone can see that reality is made up of shadows shifting on the wall.