You get a textual interface that does the same thing as Synaptic! Works over SSH and everything. Synaptic is a nice program and all, but if you like ncurses-style programs better, aptitude is the shiznit.
I don't think Windows is ready for the desktop (not even close), but it continues to have at least 85% marketshare around the world.
Desktop computers (and workstations) are not "ready for the desktop", nor will they ever be "ready for the desktop". Computers are a huge advancement from the literal desktop mentality where everything actually is a physical item that doesn't need to be abstracted so the poor user can use it.
Face it; [desktop] computers are a bitch to use, and that's thanks to software patents, greed, and the fact that not everyone can use something as abstract as a computer, they always will be. Until we can interact with them in 3d, forget the desktop metaphor, and not even really care that we're using a computer (it would work almost like a real person responding to you would), there will always be something about them to bitch about.
For instance, why do I have to type on a keyboard to write this? Why can't I just use some sort of pad to write the words on (handwriting recognition sucks in all forms currently), or perhaps even just say out loud what I want to write? Why can't I just think what I want to do and have the computer do it for me? Why must I use a mouse when just pointing at the object on screen in question with a stylus (tablet notebooks didn't take off too well) or with my finger? Why can't I just look at what I want to focus on and have the computer recognise that?
Face it; computers aren't ready for the desktop. I give up; I'm going back to having a [hot] secretary do all the work for me.
Actually, it's called HDCP, and it also works in DVI-D. Both HDMI and DVI can be used unencrypted, but HDCP is the anti-consumer crap that's forced in all HDMI devices and many (but not all) DVI devices.
It might actually be a brilliant idea, but it is also defective by design. Just like how DRM tries to use encryption in a way that doesn't work (where B and C are the same person as mentioned above), communism fails to take into account that humans are greedy by nature.
I guess you're one of the 10 people left in this world who doesn't own an iPod or some other portable audio/video player. Or maybe you don't have kids who are very likely to scratch the DVDs you bought for them. Or perhaps you don't like the concept of having a digital media library that you can access from your expensive home theatre setup, choose a movie from the couch, and watch.
BitTorrent is oftentimes the fastest way to download Linux et al. distributions, especially the popular ones. For as many mirrors that Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, etc., have, it's always faster to get a newly released ISO via BitTorrent than it is to try and download from a maxed-out HTTP, FTP, or rsync server.
Overselling is inevitable when making an affordable ISP (i.e., not dedicated 42 9's uptime quadruple redundancy), but the ISPs here are now getting bit in the ass over the massive overselling they used, so they need to oversell less and upgrade their networks. Instead, they ran crying to Mama Government to buy new laws that make the mean old users stop using what the ISP sells them.
You're right; ISPs should have to do what airlines do when overselling leads to not having enough resources for their customers: refund them or upgrade them to something better in the near future to make up for their own incompetence.
Well, IPv6 is a massive overhaul in some situations. Some large routers (that can support millions of connections per second; we're talking large ISP routers here) don't have the processing power to route IPv6 addresses. I'd assume that at this point most of these routers have been upgraded or replaced, and since we also have programs like 6tunnel, the remaining IPv4 routers can safely continue to connect to people in IPv6 and vice-versa. With IPv6 support across the board in all major OS's, there's no reason we haven't leaped to IPv6 yet.
Even then the analogy is bollocks because you can choose your ISP. If one is crap, then there are plenty of others. O RLY? Mayber there are plenty of others for very large values of 1 or 2, but the vast majority of people only have the choice between the local cable monopoly and the local telco monopoly. Hmm, great choices, especially when it's an oligopoly and they both end up fucking net neutrality. Oh sure, maybe I could choose to live in the 80's again and get a dial-up ISP. Or maybe I could spend $300+ a month for a T1 line (unless there's some local law that bans homes from getting a T1 line). Hmm, great choices...
If it makes you feel any better, Firefox doesn't integrate with anything on any of its platforms. On Windows, it does its own thing usually (although it follows the UI guidelines for Windows pretty well). On Mac OS X, it doesn't integrate at all with the dozens of services that would be very useful for a web browser. On Linux/BSD/etc., it hardly integrates with GNOME (similar to how it "integrates" with Windows, just using the graphical toolkit and UI guidelines doesn't count as integration), and when it comes to KDE, you might as well use Konqueror because Firefox is Peter Griffin in the Million Man March.
There have already been articles on/. that point out that the CS requirements in India and BA requirements in general are analogous to a high school education in the US, and as any person who has gone through the US education system would know, is still completely awful and often leaves its graduates dumber than when they started high school.
Also, collaboration with people from India is still lacking. It'd be easier to do it via the methods used in many open source projects, but Microsoft won't use them (NIH syndrome).
Although, I'd expect that Indian developers who contribute to open source projects in their spare time are probably more qualified since they obviously have some sort of passion for computer science.
I was under the impression that fruit juice had to be 100% fruit juice while fruit drink didn't have that requirement. Wikipedia seems to agree, although the possibility of adding sugar to fruit juice is still a problem.
Actually, it seems as though the people who wouldn't upgrade to XP didn't; they either stuck with 2k or upgraded to Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.
But corporations aren't individuals, so I don't see why you'd be upset with regulating them. If corporations were individuals, they'd be diagnosed with several psychological disorders (e.g., sociopathism) and would be deemed unfit for society.
You can't trust a corporation to do anything but maximise its profit. Some corps will have responsible owners/shareholders that also want the corp to be a productive member of society, but most corps are controlled by shareholders whose only interest is seeing quarterly profits. This is why regulations are absolutely required on corporations while individuals can retain many more freedoms.
Have ATI or Intel implemented said OpenGL extensions yet? If not, that could be a reason since DX is supposed to work the same on anything that implements it (i.e., monoculture; OpenGL wasn't designed to be like that; instead, OpenGL was designed so that the GPU manufacturers could design new extensions to further the development of OpenGL whose official standard would be revised with these extensions that worked out well).
Halo 2 is a perfect example of Microsoft making something Vista-only with no technical reason whatsoever. Halo 2 Vista uses DX9 for its graphics, sound, etc., and is artificially restricted to Windows Vista only because it is published by Microsoft Games and Halo 2 is a popular game in the console world.
I've read that there actually are technical reasons why DX10 can't be trivially ported to Windows XP due to how it interacts with new driver models and other kernel-related things, but if Microsoft had separated the GUI from the kernel in the first place, this wouldn't be such a problem.
Wasn't that more of an issue with the terms of service given by Battle.net? A ToS is enforceable because you need to agree to it in order to use a service, but an EULA probably isn't because you don't need to agree to it to use a program that you bought before agreeing to the "license" anyhow (and plenty of other reasons).
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I don't think Windows is ready for the desktop (not even close), but it continues to have at least 85% marketshare around the world.
Desktop computers (and workstations) are not "ready for the desktop", nor will they ever be "ready for the desktop". Computers are a huge advancement from the literal desktop mentality where everything actually is a physical item that doesn't need to be abstracted so the poor user can use it.
Face it; [desktop] computers are a bitch to use, and that's thanks to software patents, greed, and the fact that not everyone can use something as abstract as a computer, they always will be. Until we can interact with them in 3d, forget the desktop metaphor, and not even really care that we're using a computer (it would work almost like a real person responding to you would), there will always be something about them to bitch about.
For instance, why do I have to type on a keyboard to write this? Why can't I just use some sort of pad to write the words on (handwriting recognition sucks in all forms currently), or perhaps even just say out loud what I want to write? Why can't I just think what I want to do and have the computer do it for me? Why must I use a mouse when just pointing at the object on screen in question with a stylus (tablet notebooks didn't take off too well) or with my finger? Why can't I just look at what I want to focus on and have the computer recognise that?
Face it; computers aren't ready for the desktop. I give up; I'm going back to having a [hot] secretary do all the work for me.
Maybe the Grammar Police arrested him. :D
Actually, it's called HDCP, and it also works in DVI-D. Both HDMI and DVI can be used unencrypted, but HDCP is the anti-consumer crap that's forced in all HDMI devices and many (but not all) DVI devices.
It might actually be a brilliant idea, but it is also defective by design. Just like how DRM tries to use encryption in a way that doesn't work (where B and C are the same person as mentioned above), communism fails to take into account that humans are greedy by nature.
I guess you're one of the 10 people left in this world who doesn't own an iPod or some other portable audio/video player. Or maybe you don't have kids who are very likely to scratch the DVDs you bought for them. Or perhaps you don't like the concept of having a digital media library that you can access from your expensive home theatre setup, choose a movie from the couch, and watch.
They would sue you obviously for stealing banana property.
You forgot the tag.
More like 6.2 or 6.3 billion at this point.
IANAL, but wouldn't ignoring a C&D or subpoena get you in legal trouble of some sort?
BitTorrent is oftentimes the fastest way to download Linux et al. distributions, especially the popular ones. For as many mirrors that Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, etc., have, it's always faster to get a newly released ISO via BitTorrent than it is to try and download from a maxed-out HTTP, FTP, or rsync server.
Overselling is inevitable when making an affordable ISP (i.e., not dedicated 42 9's uptime quadruple redundancy), but the ISPs here are now getting bit in the ass over the massive overselling they used, so they need to oversell less and upgrade their networks. Instead, they ran crying to Mama Government to buy new laws that make the mean old users stop using what the ISP sells them.
You're right; ISPs should have to do what airlines do when overselling leads to not having enough resources for their customers: refund them or upgrade them to something better in the near future to make up for their own incompetence.
Well, IPv6 is a massive overhaul in some situations. Some large routers (that can support millions of connections per second; we're talking large ISP routers here) don't have the processing power to route IPv6 addresses. I'd assume that at this point most of these routers have been upgraded or replaced, and since we also have programs like 6tunnel, the remaining IPv4 routers can safely continue to connect to people in IPv6 and vice-versa. With IPv6 support across the board in all major OS's, there's no reason we haven't leaped to IPv6 yet.
If it makes you feel any better, Firefox doesn't integrate with anything on any of its platforms. On Windows, it does its own thing usually (although it follows the UI guidelines for Windows pretty well). On Mac OS X, it doesn't integrate at all with the dozens of services that would be very useful for a web browser. On Linux/BSD/etc., it hardly integrates with GNOME (similar to how it "integrates" with Windows, just using the graphical toolkit and UI guidelines doesn't count as integration), and when it comes to KDE, you might as well use Konqueror because Firefox is Peter Griffin in the Million Man March.
There have already been articles on /. that point out that the CS requirements in India and BA requirements in general are analogous to a high school education in the US, and as any person who has gone through the US education system would know, is still completely awful and often leaves its graduates dumber than when they started high school.
Also, collaboration with people from India is still lacking. It'd be easier to do it via the methods used in many open source projects, but Microsoft won't use them (NIH syndrome).
Although, I'd expect that Indian developers who contribute to open source projects in their spare time are probably more qualified since they obviously have some sort of passion for computer science.
I was under the impression that fruit juice had to be 100% fruit juice while fruit drink didn't have that requirement. Wikipedia seems to agree, although the possibility of adding sugar to fruit juice is still a problem.
The combination of pink and orange kryptonite turns people metrosexual!
I for one welcome our well-dressed supermen.
Perhaps he's related to Martin Luther?
Actually, it seems as though the people who wouldn't upgrade to XP didn't; they either stuck with 2k or upgraded to Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.
But corporations aren't individuals, so I don't see why you'd be upset with regulating them. If corporations were individuals, they'd be diagnosed with several psychological disorders (e.g., sociopathism) and would be deemed unfit for society.
You can't trust a corporation to do anything but maximise its profit. Some corps will have responsible owners/shareholders that also want the corp to be a productive member of society, but most corps are controlled by shareholders whose only interest is seeing quarterly profits. This is why regulations are absolutely required on corporations while individuals can retain many more freedoms.
Have ATI or Intel implemented said OpenGL extensions yet? If not, that could be a reason since DX is supposed to work the same on anything that implements it (i.e., monoculture; OpenGL wasn't designed to be like that; instead, OpenGL was designed so that the GPU manufacturers could design new extensions to further the development of OpenGL whose official standard would be revised with these extensions that worked out well).
Halo 2 is a perfect example of Microsoft making something Vista-only with no technical reason whatsoever. Halo 2 Vista uses DX9 for its graphics, sound, etc., and is artificially restricted to Windows Vista only because it is published by Microsoft Games and Halo 2 is a popular game in the console world.
I've read that there actually are technical reasons why DX10 can't be trivially ported to Windows XP due to how it interacts with new driver models and other kernel-related things, but if Microsoft had separated the GUI from the kernel in the first place, this wouldn't be such a problem.
Wasn't that more of an issue with the terms of service given by Battle.net? A ToS is enforceable because you need to agree to it in order to use a service, but an EULA probably isn't because you don't need to agree to it to use a program that you bought before agreeing to the "license" anyhow (and plenty of other reasons).