The difference is your teenager does leave his/hers phone number lying around in a public place, or call the phone numbers of totally strange people "who seem to be cool"? Can you tell the difference now?
I have no idea why your post is rated as -1. Yes, open source options are great and all that, but for most people, it really comes down to the fact that Windows Just Works like you said. Sure, Apple works also, but is more expensive. Why would you want a more expensive option if the cheaper one also just works:)
Film caps are usually the name for polyester film capacitors, made off plastic basically. I have experience about building guitar pedals and polyester film caps are great for that purpose: Small, cheap, durable and resistant to heat when soldering. I don't really know if they sound better than ceramic or electrolytic caps though...
I think foil caps means paper capacitors.
Well of course they will say that, it's very good advertising. "Look we made our laptops better, they won't burst into flames!". And if a Toshiba laptop bursts into flames, they will say "Well, we were wrong about the design just like everyone else, let's just make a recall like the others". Toshiba has nothing to lose.
So how come Apple commercials and product packaging are a lot better than Microsoft's but Microsoft is in a clear lead? And product quality means different thing for different people. For most people, "getting the job done" is the best feature in an OS, along with the price of the system. In which case, Windows is the winner.
This is not really fair to Microsoft. They go to great lengths to keep old applications running with new Windows versions, and not just old versions of actual Windows OS. This is because 99% of people do not even know what "source code" is, and they do not need to know. Which means only about 1% of people are able to accept Linux onto their desktops the way you mention.
You know, while I am typing this I am also installing Ubuntu 6.10 Server Edition in another window in a Virtual PC environment... and Virtual PC is free software from Microsoft. So I guess Microsoft can and has been able to run Linux inside Windows for ages already.
Why can't you just include your precious alternative Firefox graphics in a separate distribution package? And then give the user an option to theme his/hers Firefox with the alternative graphics?
Yes I am sure your grandchildren will greatly appreciate your efforts to keep downloading illegal warez. Because it is your civil right after all, right? How can you even make those comparisons with a straight face?
Yes, they have no easy way to do that and no legal way either. They can huff and puff your brick house all day along, but they have no case against you, provided that you have not shared your music. Sure, they can try to scare you, but that't just normal big company tactics anyway. DRM has actually nothing to do with this for me; i personally always buy CDs, because at least here in Europe, virtually no cd has a copy protection at the moment.
Now I would use iTunes since I own a iPod Nano anyway, but it makes no sense to me: If I buy a song at home, why can't I download the same song at work from iTunes for free? This would make sense to me, because the song is clearly tied to a user account, and not to a physical machine... so I just buy the round thingies with nice rainbow colors.
But when you're buing the unprotected CDs, you are eligible to transfer the contents to your own hard disk or what ever, IF THERE IS NO COPY PROTECTION. And regular CDs do not have such protection these days. And I am guessing you are not buying any protected CDs. So you are not acting like a criminal, until you actually distribute the ripped MP3s. So you can burn and rip all you want, RIAA will not care. Just don't share.
As it has been pointed out numerous times, nVidia CANNOT just release the source code even if they wanted. There are a lot of algorithms and program code related to hardware 3d and video that they have licensed from other vendors (like Macrovision). They also probably don't want to give away their secrets when it comes to driver optimization.
As an example, nVidia and ATI both license s3tc texture compression from... you guessed it... VIA. So I guess VIA does not release everything to the public either. So you can thank also VIA on your behalf for nVidia and ATI not releasing open source drivers.
No, the market was right, because it was set out to make money. In doing so they screwed the people and companies who invested in the market, providing the money.
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The difference is your teenager does leave his/hers phone number lying around in a public place, or call the phone numbers of totally strange people "who seem to be cool"? Can you tell the difference now?
I have no idea why your post is rated as -1. Yes, open source options are great and all that, but for most people, it really comes down to the fact that Windows Just Works like you said. Sure, Apple works also, but is more expensive. Why would you want a more expensive option if the cheaper one also just works :)
It's all about the choice. And people choose the option that works.
That's easy. Come on over to Finland where the age of consent is 16.
I'll chip in: Public forums! Intelligence dead? Slashdot confirms!
Film caps are usually the name for polyester film capacitors, made off plastic basically. I have experience about building guitar pedals and polyester film caps are great for that purpose: Small, cheap, durable and resistant to heat when soldering. I don't really know if they sound better than ceramic or electrolytic caps though... I think foil caps means paper capacitors.
If this guy is an idiot, how stupid are the people buying these virtual items from him?
Well of course they will say that, it's very good advertising. "Look we made our laptops better, they won't burst into flames!". And if a Toshiba laptop bursts into flames, they will say "Well, we were wrong about the design just like everyone else, let's just make a recall like the others". Toshiba has nothing to lose.
So how come Apple commercials and product packaging are a lot better than Microsoft's but Microsoft is in a clear lead? And product quality means different thing for different people. For most people, "getting the job done" is the best feature in an OS, along with the price of the system. In which case, Windows is the winner.
Pull the article out. The last thing we need is more indexing bots.
This is not really fair to Microsoft. They go to great lengths to keep old applications running with new Windows versions, and not just old versions of actual Windows OS. This is because 99% of people do not even know what "source code" is, and they do not need to know. Which means only about 1% of people are able to accept Linux onto their desktops the way you mention.
You know, while I am typing this I am also installing Ubuntu 6.10 Server Edition in another window in a Virtual PC environment... and Virtual PC is free software from Microsoft. So I guess Microsoft can and has been able to run Linux inside Windows for ages already.
So you agree OGG playing portable players are a fad, because the format is hardly even supported ? :)
Listening to music is a fad?
Why can't you just include your precious alternative Firefox graphics in a separate distribution package? And then give the user an option to theme his/hers Firefox with the alternative graphics?
Yes I am sure your grandchildren will greatly appreciate your efforts to keep downloading illegal warez. Because it is your civil right after all, right? How can you even make those comparisons with a straight face?
Yes, they have no easy way to do that and no legal way either. They can huff and puff your brick house all day along, but they have no case against you, provided that you have not shared your music. Sure, they can try to scare you, but that't just normal big company tactics anyway. DRM has actually nothing to do with this for me; i personally always buy CDs, because at least here in Europe, virtually no cd has a copy protection at the moment.
Now I would use iTunes since I own a iPod Nano anyway, but it makes no sense to me: If I buy a song at home, why can't I download the same song at work from iTunes for free? This would make sense to me, because the song is clearly tied to a user account, and not to a physical machine... so I just buy the round thingies with nice rainbow colors.
But when you're buing the unprotected CDs, you are eligible to transfer the contents to your own hard disk or what ever, IF THERE IS NO COPY PROTECTION. And regular CDs do not have such protection these days. And I am guessing you are not buying any protected CDs. So you are not acting like a criminal, until you actually distribute the ripped MP3s.
So you can burn and rip all you want, RIAA will not care. Just don't share.
Yes! Bittorrent is the answer! Because you just know the proverbial entertainment industry will keep making those movies if noone buys them.
And maybe, by using the same logic, many Linux distributions that use IPv6 by default should learn the same thing?
Actually, there is no way to proof there is an encryption scheme that cannot be cracked.
As it has been pointed out numerous times, nVidia CANNOT just release the source code even if they wanted. There are a lot of algorithms and program code related to hardware 3d and video that they have licensed from other vendors (like Macrovision). They also probably don't want to give away their secrets when it comes to driver optimization.
As an example, nVidia and ATI both license s3tc texture compression from... you guessed it... VIA. So I guess VIA does not release everything to the public either. So you can thank also VIA on your behalf for nVidia and ATI not releasing open source drivers.
No, the market was right, because it was set out to make money. In doing so they screwed the people and companies who invested in the market, providing the money.
I guess they are not science FICTION weapons anymore, huh :)
Yes, what a great way to distribute copyrighted material without fear of the RIAA!