One knows who absolutely has to hate this with ever fiber of their cold, hard, freedom-hating beings... the telcos and cablecos. I expect them to fight this to the death. The prospect of real competition in anything has to be their worst nightmare and must make them quake in their spy-friendly jackboots!
What else is new? I understand the next time I boot the Windows partition on this box, & it tries to get security updates, I will be challenged to prove that XP is genuine. Well, it came on the machine from HP. What the fork does MS want? Think I'll burn the FreeBSD 6.1 install DVD for AMD64, first. I think FreeBSD would be happy to be where the XP & recovery partitions are. Then I can upgrade the Breezy patition to Dapper. F' 'em. MS gives me the creeps.
Me too, I still have my copy of WP6.0c for DOS on floppies. Mostly I use WP 9 at work, more rarely at home as I seldom boot Windows here. Thanks for the tip about Joe, which I see is available as an Ubuntu package.
Interesting points. Where I work we have stuck with WordPerfect because those of us who write (my companiy's main product) find Word to be so alien and unfriendly as to be unusable.
why do we support people who are willfully helpless?
That's the kind of folks many businesses like to hire: semi-infantile. "I don't wanna learn/try nuthin new!! And you can/'t make me!!!" Is that not the mentality that MS had beem pandering to all these years?--at least since Windows 3.1?"
Giving up means that "professional" media creation will cease to exist and we will be left with "hobby" and "for the fun of it" media.
Promises, promises. Professional content? My ass! Mass-produced hack work is what 99.99% of the RIAA/MPAA crap is. They are more likely to hire hit men to kill file sharers than give up, or stop vomiting forth more rivers of crap.
The more I think ot it, songs or movies done for "the fun of it" sound like they might be fun to listen to or watch... as opposed to the ordeal of enduring RIAA/MPAA products... which I gave up on years ago.
Extra thanks for the thoughtful and sane answer to what was really a sarcastic question, which now embarrases me. WinFS was the most interesting part of Vista (née Longhorn) to me. This box came with XP and NTFS, it would be more trouble than I'd bother with to change it, at least for Windows. Everything I've ever read agrees with you that NTFS is the more reliable of the two, so it shocked me to see fat-32 as the restore partition. Shame on HP, to take the cheapo solution. While my files are are important to me (they are backed up), there's no need to encrypt them, as every bit on this box and $1 would be worth... a cup of coffee. Peace.
Thanks to Nasarius and TheNet Avenger for the answer(s) to my question. It really seemed odd to me that fat-32 would be chosen. Actually, I'm not that concerned as I immediately burned a recovery DVD for this box. (Hope I never have to use it, though, as the box came with a God-awful load of real crapware that I spent quite a while dumping.) However, I have spent all but a few hrs in Linux since then. Windows I boot for the security updates, and keep it around mainly till the warranty expires, as whoever has the service for my area may know nothing of Linux. Recently read a review of filesystems supported on Linux here, which suggested that XFS had the best overall performance depending on usage, etc. I may try XFS when "Dapper" is released. OTOH I've had no bad experiences with Reiser or ext3.
Your first paragraph is wickedly insightful. If I had mod points, I'd mod you up....
Where's your links proving him wrong?
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Seriously, he provides a link to an article which is anti-TC, and that links to another essay which links to both (or more) sides of the question(s) including very pro-TC perspectives. So, where are your links which prove beyond any possible doubt that TC is a wonderful and pro-consumer thing? I don't see them.
If MS made cars, they would probably cost 3-10 times what a Ford does, and would come with a EULA, instead of a warranty, because it would be as reliable as a Yugo.
My point? Microsoft can't add anything to Windows without somebody being able to accuse them of 'abusing their market dominance'.
Tough. "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." MS and its fans whine like... I don't know what. It's like the three time-loser felons complaining that their civil rights are being restricted by being sent to jail. So what? It's nothing compared to what they have done. Restrictions like WMP are trivial compared to the enormity of their actions.
They really killed Netscape to make a point, to show off how powerful they were/are. Point made. Any well they don't own they wish to poison: Java. Had justice been served properly after the last US anti-trust trial MS would have gotten the death sentence: breakup. They earned it. Listenting to MS and its slaves whimpering about how hard they have it--while sitting on and accumulating mountains of unencumbered cash--makes me want to puke.
You are so right. The dot-bomb fiasco seemed to me to be more based on lack of any realistic business plans in almost all cases. I had some money to invest & invested it--but not in any dot-bomb stuff. Bad business plans, no business plans, and business plans based on fantasies are the main causes of business failure. My 2 cents.
IIRC, the court's finding was that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly. The lower court's findings of fact were upheld by the appeals panel. Merely being a monopoly is not illegal, if it were, almost all electricity companies would be illegal. Being a predatory monopoly is illegal. Where the appeals court failed was in the remedies.
OTOH, the MS EULAs give MS the right to do whatever they damn well please to your system, your applications and your data. It also states if you wishe to take them to court, you have to do it on their home turf in Washinton State. Good luck, bud.
For X-billion dollars. Send a link to your "favorite" law-shark. I presume grotesque stupidity and wanton negligence bordering on malfeasance(?) is actionable. Any lawyers have an opinion on this crap?
After studying up on TPM & TC, I decided to buy a box last Dec, rather than risk having TPM/Treacherous Computing inflicted on me this year. Anybody care to guarantee that the TPM modulule & TC is impossible for HW & SW vendors to abuse? If not, I'm confident I made the right decision.
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One knows who absolutely has to hate this with ever fiber of their cold, hard, freedom-hating beings ... the telcos and cablecos. I expect them to fight this to the death. The prospect of real competition in anything has to be their worst nightmare and must make them quake in their spy-friendly jackboots!
What else is new? I understand the next time I boot the Windows partition on this box, & it tries to get security updates, I will be challenged to prove that XP is genuine. Well, it came on the machine from HP. What the fork does MS want? Think I'll burn the FreeBSD 6.1 install DVD for AMD64, first. I think FreeBSD would be happy to be where the XP & recovery partitions are. Then I can upgrade the Breezy patition to Dapper. F' 'em. MS gives me the creeps.
There are a lot of FreeBSD pre-compiled binary packages that be installed from the command line with the pkg_add command.
Yep, anti-consumer. F* 'em.
Interesting points. Where I work we have stuck with WordPerfect because those of us who write (my companiy's main product) find Word to be so alien and unfriendly as to be unusable.
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The more I think ot it, songs or movies done for "the fun of it" sound like they might be fun to listen to or watch... as opposed to the ordeal of enduring RIAA/MPAA products... which I gave up on years ago.
Well said!
Extra thanks for the thoughtful and sane answer to what was really a sarcastic question, which now embarrases me. WinFS was the most interesting part of Vista (née Longhorn) to me. This box came with XP and NTFS, it would be more trouble than I'd bother with to change it, at least for Windows. Everything I've ever read agrees with you that NTFS is the more reliable of the two, so it shocked me to see fat-32 as the restore partition. Shame on HP, to take the cheapo solution. While my files are are important to me (they are backed up), there's no need to encrypt them, as every bit on this box and $1 would be worth ... a cup of coffee. Peace.
Thanks to Nasarius and TheNet Avenger for the answer(s) to my question. It really seemed odd to me that fat-32 would be chosen. Actually, I'm not that concerned as I immediately burned a recovery DVD for this box. (Hope I never have to use it, though, as the box came with a God-awful load of real crapware that I spent quite a while dumping.) However, I have spent all but a few hrs in Linux since then. Windows I boot for the security updates, and keep it around mainly till the warranty expires, as whoever has the service for my area may know nothing of Linux. Recently read a review of filesystems supported on Linux here, which suggested that XFS had the best overall performance depending on usage, etc. I may try XFS when "Dapper" is released. OTOH I've had no bad experiences with Reiser or ext3.
Your first paragraph is wickedly insightful. If I had mod points, I'd mod you up....
Seriously, he provides a link to an article which is anti-TC, and that links to another essay which links to both (or more) sides of the question(s) including very pro-TC perspectives. So, where are your links which prove beyond any possible doubt that TC is a wonderful and pro-consumer thing? I don't see them.
If MS made cars, they would probably cost 3-10 times what a Ford does, and would come with a EULA, instead of a warranty, because it would be as reliable as a Yugo.
Tough. "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." MS and its fans whine like
They really killed Netscape to make a point, to show off how powerful they were/are. Point made. Any well they don't own they wish to poison: Java. Had justice been served properly after the last US anti-trust trial MS would have gotten the death sentence: breakup. They earned it. Listenting to MS and its slaves whimpering about how hard they have it--while sitting on and accumulating mountains of unencumbered cash--makes me want to puke.
If NTFS is so wonderful, so perfect, so infalible,why are the Windows restore partitions on many new PCs fat-32?
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You are so right. The dot-bomb fiasco seemed to me to be more based on lack of any realistic business plans in almost all cases. I had some money to invest & invested it--but not in any dot-bomb stuff. Bad business plans, no business plans, and business plans based on fantasies are the main causes of business failure. My 2 cents.
If I had mod points, you'd get modded up.
IIRC, the court's finding was that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly. The lower court's findings of fact were upheld by the appeals panel. Merely being a monopoly is not illegal, if it were, almost all electricity companies would be illegal. Being a predatory monopoly is illegal. Where the appeals court failed was in the remedies.
OTOH, the MS EULAs give MS the right to do whatever they damn well please to your system, your applications and your data. It also states if you wishe to take them to court, you have to do it on their home turf in Washinton State. Good luck, bud.
For X-billion dollars. Send a link to your "favorite" law-shark. I presume grotesque stupidity and wanton negligence bordering on malfeasance(?) is actionable. Any lawyers have an opinion on this crap?
After studying up on TPM & TC, I decided to buy a box last Dec, rather than risk having TPM/Treacherous Computing inflicted on me this year. Anybody care to guarantee that the TPM modulule & TC is impossible for HW & SW vendors to abuse? If not, I'm confident I made the right decision.