I agree that Ubuntu is a great distribution but comparing it to Gentoo on the basis of speed and easiness of installation is unfair. If those were the most important issues for you, you should have stayed clear of Gentoo. There is a plethora of distributions with similar installation/configuration experience.
There is no need to officially support a second OS when users of said os are willing to pay a third party to help them run the Windows version on their OS.
Yeah, that really pissed me off when I bought a 6280! Apparently some new phones come with a convertor but my 6280 didn't and now I have 5 obsolete chargers lying around.
I had the same problem. There is a solution. It does cost more money though and I wish that they hadn't changed it.
It would be nice if all chargers become interchangeable though. I think that will lead to phones coming without chargers as you can either use you older ones or buy them seperately.
ok, let's not disect. Let's just say that since it's been done before with success (neverwinter nights) then it can be done. I've played NWN on 3 different districutions, kernels and guis without any problem.
I'm curious to how this will work. I mean the choice of heroes in Comics albeit big is limited. Add to that the fact that most player will want to play the top guns and you will end up with a world of Spideys and Wolverines.
Let's accept your analogy for the time being.
This means that the PS3 will become an elite system that is only bought by men in a mid-life crisis or very rich people.
It works for the lexus because they actually make loads of money on each car sold. The PS3 on the other hand is sold at a loss. The idea is to sell enough units to make developping for the console highly profitable and consequently make lots of money on licences and sold games.
How is that so? If you are allowed to change format then you are allowed to make copies from your CDs to $SUPERDOOPERNEWMEDIA. People with old vinyl were able to convert it to CDs, didn't they?
I don't know if such a law would pass at all. But if it does and it means that the music industry won't sell online anymore then be it. At least you can legally buy CDs and rip them to mp3s and play them on any music player.
The current setup may be flexible enough for you but not for everyone. You don't intend on ever buying any other music player than an iPod? What if in 5 years there is a amazing new player with an new file format that you fancy? Would you just bite the bullet and buy all your music collection again?
Oh, you would never fancy a music player not made by Apple? Ok, what if Apple decide to change their music format? I'm sure they'll look into that once the choice of new features to put in new iPods and get people to upgrade gets to a certain level, then they will want new reasons to make you upgrade. Behold the new format, better quality, smaller files, etc, but hey it doesn't work on your current iPod.
Have you ever tried installing something like vmware or intel's compilers on a distro other than Red Hat. No. It doesn't work out of box.
I heard this argument before and the one about having to support $LATEST_GADGET that the user bought. Do they do that for Windows? If I buy a Dell machine with Windows then can I call dell support when I have problems installing my latest game or usb gadget?
One thing that I would be interested to see is if they can make CNR work (for its target audience) without Linspire's terrible always-run-as-root misfeature.
It would require the user to enter their password (for sudo) when it's run. That's pretty much as any other admin tool.
because you are supposed to buy seperate versions of the same movie for you DVD player and for your mobile and you i-pod and your PSP and any future gadget capable of playing movies that you might buy in the future.
How true, you wouldn't believe the number of sleepless nights spent on Civilization. I can only imagine that version 4 would lead to more of the same as well!
If you think Microsoft rips off Apple's style now, just wait until they're actually a contender on the x86/x64 PC market
yes of course because people use windows now because they just have to have an x86/x64 processor! the reasons windows has 90% of the market are not related to which processor Apple uses and will remain there when they switch to intel. The only difference is that macos and windows might be able to live on the same computer (if apple wants that and I doubt it). Even if that happens, people will still be buying windows to install next to their macos.
there is a little difference though but my personal opinion is that it's an important one. under the GPL (for example) anybody can use the end result for whatever they feel like (commercial use mainly) while here only microsoft can do that. So you can use it at home but not at work for instance. I do not believe this is 'open source friendly' licence. It's an 'open source' licence but is it friendly to other licences?
Thanks for the explanation. I did understand what the ccomplaint was about. I wanted to point out that the way it was used is now accepted enough to appear in a dictionary. Hopefully, I will explain myself better in the future.
I just want to point out that a bug is not a security flaw. Now I don't know how many security related bugs haven't been fixed for over a year so your post might still be valid.
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I agree that Ubuntu is a great distribution but comparing it to Gentoo on the basis of speed and easiness of installation is unfair. If those were the most important issues for you, you should have stayed clear of Gentoo.
There is a plethora of distributions with similar installation/configuration experience.
There is no need to officially support a second OS when users of said os are willing to pay a third party to help them run the Windows version on their OS.
It would be nice if all chargers become interchangeable though. I think that will lead to phones coming without chargers as you can either use you older ones or buy them seperately.
ok, let's not disect. Let's just say that since it's been done before with success (neverwinter nights) then it can be done. I've played NWN on 3 different districutions, kernels and guis without any problem.
I'm curious to how this will work. I mean the choice of heroes in Comics albeit big is limited. Add to that the fact that most player will want to play the top guns and you will end up with a world of Spideys and Wolverines.
Let's accept your analogy for the time being.
This means that the PS3 will become an elite system that is only bought by men in a mid-life crisis or very rich people.
It works for the lexus because they actually make loads of money on each car sold. The PS3 on the other hand is sold at a loss. The idea is to sell enough units to make developping for the console highly profitable and consequently make lots of money on licences and sold games.
How is that so? If you are allowed to change format then you are allowed to make copies from your CDs to $SUPERDOOPERNEWMEDIA. People with old vinyl were able to convert it to CDs, didn't they?
I don't know if such a law would pass at all. But if it does and it means that the music industry won't sell online anymore then be it. At least you can legally buy CDs and rip them to mp3s and play them on any music player. The current setup may be flexible enough for you but not for everyone. You don't intend on ever buying any other music player than an iPod? What if in 5 years there is a amazing new player with an new file format that you fancy? Would you just bite the bullet and buy all your music collection again? Oh, you would never fancy a music player not made by Apple? Ok, what if Apple decide to change their music format? I'm sure they'll look into that once the choice of new features to put in new iPods and get people to upgrade gets to a certain level, then they will want new reasons to make you upgrade. Behold the new format, better quality, smaller files, etc, but hey it doesn't work on your current iPod.
What exactly makes you think that the hardware manufacturers want to make it easy for you to use some piece of hardware indefinitely?
because you are supposed to buy seperate versions of the same movie for you DVD player and for your mobile and you i-pod and your PSP and any future gadget capable of playing movies that you might buy in the future.
So you're going to buy a 500$ hardware to play a game that you will buy anyway for another hardware because it's better on it? (has mods)
How true, you wouldn't believe the number of sleepless nights spent on Civilization. I can only imagine that version 4 would lead to more of the same as well!
yes of course because people use windows now because they just have to have an x86/x64 processor! the reasons windows has 90% of the market are not related to which processor Apple uses and will remain there when they switch to intel. The only difference is that macos and windows might be able to live on the same computer (if apple wants that and I doubt it). Even if that happens, people will still be buying windows to install next to their macos.
I'm quite sure some did. As long as you can market something as trendy and cool there will be enough people with disposable income to throw at it.
there is a little difference though but my personal opinion is that it's an important one. under the GPL (for example) anybody can use the end result for whatever they feel like (commercial use mainly) while here only microsoft can do that. So you can use it at home but not at work for instance. I do not believe this is 'open source friendly' licence. It's an 'open source' licence but is it friendly to other licences?
Thanks for the explanation. I did understand what the ccomplaint was about. I wanted to point out that the way it was used is now accepted enough to appear in a dictionary. Hopefully, I will explain myself better in the future.
What was wrong with the way the GP and OP used it?
there you go again using logic and common-sense. Weren't you asked to uninstall them in the last memo?
maybe it'll be on its 3rd cigarette
I'm doing my best to ensure it does.
I just want to point out that a bug is not a security flaw. Now I don't know how many security related bugs haven't been fixed for over a year so your post might still be valid.