Speaking of the driver download issue, that was the point I stopped buying creative. I even emailed them and explained as much... and they insisted that wasn't the case. I pointed out that the drivers on their site simply are upgrades, and that you have to have the cd (which they will conveniently SELL to you), and the support people kept insisting I must be confused. That was when I knew they were a lost cause. I'm surprised it's taken everyone else this long to figure it out.
Would it be "VERY expensive"? If only we had the money to pay for it... I mean, it didn't cost NEARLY as much for a smaller country like Sweden to run fiber everywhere.
Then again, we could dip out of Iraq, have the government pay for fiber to every home with the savings in 6 months, and actually keep all that money in our own economy instead of shipping it around the world. Then they could lease access to providers, thus breaking the barrier to entry, and creating some real competition... NAAAAA, that would NEVER work. Instead, lets just continue letting the mega-corporations of America bleed our economy dry.
Guess what. When the car blows up right after the ford oil change because you installed your own Turbocharger and voided your warranty, ford will tell you to take a hike. Third party drivers breaking SP1 != Microsoft's fault, sorry.
Ford also expects money for their products. If you never change the oil and the engine blows up, that's ford's problem? That's pretty sad if that is the best reasoning you can come up with.
You also wouldn't run Oracle or PostgreSQL on them unless you wanted to lose your job. The test is a great test for linux vs. freebds, because it's the type of environment where they'd compete.
I'll be purchasing this just on principle. Even if I never listen to the music, the $5 to encourage other artists to give the finger to the MAFIAA, and release music in this direct to users style, is more than worth it.
I can tell you from first-hand experience that whatever the samba issues were, they've since been fixed. I've run ZFS with Samba as my home fileserver with 7.0RC1 and had no issues.
That is quite possibly the most asinine comment ever modded 5 on slashdot to date. MS is putting little energy into Vista and fixing it's problems? Every heard of this little thing called SP1?
Ya, you got me, they're only pushing north of 100 fixes in SP1, definitely not putting any energy into fixing any known issues with the OS. And you aren't simply digging for mod points by ragging on MS.
Not totally pointless at all. This was to set the stage. The author clearly wanted to remind you just how wonderful and "of the people" Apple. On the other hand, if this were Microsoft, who has about the same track record as Apple (but don't tell the fanbois!), they'd have let you know "Microsoft is late again. Someone should sue them, they're clearly trying to screw all the small-time developer houses who were anxiously awaiting an official SDK. Anti-trust, anti-trust!"
Great argument, except none of the above are essential to their operating system, which is why they picked them up with a gpl license. It doesn't really matter if the source to any of those are shared or not.
Oh, and captain hater, last time I checked, the fix would be shared.
Oh, and one more thing I forgot to mention. Hypocrite much? You can sit there with a straight face and whine about Vista not being *much better* than XP, but then go on to talk about how great apple is? Did you notice that whole tiger to leopard thing.
The whole time I've been writing this, my wife, who was a Windows user exclusively until 3 years ago when she bought a Mac (as an accessory for her iPod), has been complaining bitterly about having to use an XP box in her new job. The experience for her is horrible, the computer crashes daily (it's brand new), settings options are non-intuitive, and the computer is slow and unresponsive compared to her 3 year old iMac (did I mention the PC was brand new? Like, last week new?). Now, tell me, given all this, why would anyone voluntarily upgrade to Vista? Why is it so surprising that businesses want the option to "downgrade" to XP? Better the shit you know, at least you know how bad it's going to taste.
You almost had me going right up until your last paragraph. Sorry, the bullshit-o-meter just went off full blast. There is no way a 3 year old imac is faster than a *brand new* pc running XP. Period. Not happening.
I've got a brand new imac sitting on my desk at work, and a dell m4300 that I use for travel with a new install of vista. Any *brand new* desktop has 2GB ram to support vista, which is way more than enough for XP. OSX doesn't have magical fairy's inside that somehow make the hardware infinitely faster. The interface while nice, still thrashes around in swap when you have too many apps open, no different than XP. And if you aren't going to swap, there's absolutely no reason XP or OSX should be running slow.
Not to mention... 3 years ago the imac was still running the G5 chip. You honestly want me to believe a G5 is faster than a brand new core2duo? Now THAT is laughable. Maybe if you were running xfce... definitely not with a full blown OSX GUI.
I hate to break it to you, but given the absolute 0 work/commitment required for an online petition, no business worth their salt would bother basing critical decisions such as the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars MS would have to spend to continue supporting XP in the manner demanded. How many of these petitioners have bothered to write a letter, or make a phone call?
And finally... 75,000. Out of how many copies sold? That's not even 1% of their user base. Why would the EVER even consider such a request? I hate to break it to you vocal majority, but for most of us, Vista is as good, if not superior to XP. This is the same game that was played when XP was released. "OH NOES, 2000 IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!" It wasn't and XP isn't.
Linksys: It's called cisco. They'd be happy to offer you 6to4 capabilities, but that's a *business* need, so you'll need to pay for their *business* class hardware.
No, the passenger will probably be just as engrossed in the conversation as you, and not see the red light either. If you're referring to "something important" that you are aware of as well, such as an impending crash, I hope you'd be bright enough to drop the frigging phone and worry about avoiding the crash instead. If not, well... you fit darwin's profile quite nicely and I hope you've yet to reproduce.
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Speaking of the driver download issue, that was the point I stopped buying creative. I even emailed them and explained as much... and they insisted that wasn't the case. I pointed out that the drivers on their site simply are upgrades, and that you have to have the cd (which they will conveniently SELL to you), and the support people kept insisting I must be confused. That was when I knew they were a lost cause. I'm surprised it's taken everyone else this long to figure it out.
Would it be "VERY expensive"? If only we had the money to pay for it... I mean, it didn't cost NEARLY as much for a smaller country like Sweden to run fiber everywhere.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_gdp-economy-gdp-nominal
Then again, we could dip out of Iraq, have the government pay for fiber to every home with the savings in 6 months, and actually keep all that money in our own economy instead of shipping it around the world. Then they could lease access to providers, thus breaking the barrier to entry, and creating some real competition... NAAAAA, that would NEVER work. Instead, lets just continue letting the mega-corporations of America bleed our economy dry.
Guess what. When the car blows up right after the ford oil change because you installed your own Turbocharger and voided your warranty, ford will tell you to take a hike. Third party drivers breaking SP1 != Microsoft's fault, sorry.
Ford also expects money for their products. If you never change the oil and the engine blows up, that's ford's problem? That's pretty sad if that is the best reasoning you can come up with.
You also wouldn't run Oracle or PostgreSQL on them unless you wanted to lose your job. The test is a great test for linux vs. freebds, because it's the type of environment where they'd compete.
Right, because of the droves of people lining up to use linux on their laptop without a wireless driver, and willing to complain to mfg's about it.
close. "Fiscal retardation" also read as "neocon".
Nobody ever said you had to have common sense to be corrupt.
You're right. There's just NO SERVICE OUT THERE to provide temporary storage, cpu, and bandwidth. There's just NO MARKET for it. NONE.
I'll be purchasing this just on principle. Even if I never listen to the music, the $5 to encourage other artists to give the finger to the MAFIAA, and release music in this direct to users style, is more than worth it.
I can tell you from first-hand experience that whatever the samba issues were, they've since been fixed. I've run ZFS with Samba as my home fileserver with 7.0RC1 and had no issues.
That is quite possibly the most asinine comment ever modded 5 on slashdot to date. MS is putting little energy into Vista and fixing it's problems? Every heard of this little thing called SP1?
Ya, you got me, they're only pushing north of 100 fixes in SP1, definitely not putting any energy into fixing any known issues with the OS. And you aren't simply digging for mod points by ragging on MS.
Not totally pointless at all. This was to set the stage. The author clearly wanted to remind you just how wonderful and "of the people" Apple. On the other hand, if this were Microsoft, who has about the same track record as Apple (but don't tell the fanbois!), they'd have let you know "Microsoft is late again. Someone should sue them, they're clearly trying to screw all the small-time developer houses who were anxiously awaiting an official SDK. Anti-trust, anti-trust!"
Great argument, except none of the above are essential to their operating system, which is why they picked them up with a gpl license. It doesn't really matter if the source to any of those are shared or not.
Oh, and captain hater, last time I checked, the fix would be shared.
If the sites you trust have been compromised, no script isn't really going to help now is it? People tend to whitelist sites they trust...
Oh, and one more thing I forgot to mention. Hypocrite much? You can sit there with a straight face and whine about Vista not being *much better* than XP, but then go on to talk about how great apple is? Did you notice that whole tiger to leopard thing.
You almost had me going right up until your last paragraph. Sorry, the bullshit-o-meter just went off full blast. There is no way a 3 year old imac is faster than a *brand new* pc running XP. Period. Not happening.
I've got a brand new imac sitting on my desk at work, and a dell m4300 that I use for travel with a new install of vista. Any *brand new* desktop has 2GB ram to support vista, which is way more than enough for XP. OSX doesn't have magical fairy's inside that somehow make the hardware infinitely faster. The interface while nice, still thrashes around in swap when you have too many apps open, no different than XP. And if you aren't going to swap, there's absolutely no reason XP or OSX should be running slow.
Not to mention... 3 years ago the imac was still running the G5 chip. You honestly want me to believe a G5 is faster than a brand new core2duo? Now THAT is laughable. Maybe if you were running xfce... definitely not with a full blown OSX GUI.
I hate to break it to you, but given the absolute 0 work/commitment required for an online petition, no business worth their salt would bother basing critical decisions such as the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars MS would have to spend to continue supporting XP in the manner demanded. How many of these petitioners have bothered to write a letter, or make a phone call?
And finally... 75,000. Out of how many copies sold? That's not even 1% of their user base. Why would the EVER even consider such a request? I hate to break it to you vocal majority, but for most of us, Vista is as good, if not superior to XP. This is the same game that was played when XP was released. "OH NOES, 2000 IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!" It wasn't and XP isn't.
According to that, Minnesota doesn't even exist. Am I currently in a different dimension? :(
Netgear: your guess is as good as mine.
Linksys: It's called cisco. They'd be happy to offer you 6to4 capabilities, but that's a *business* need, so you'll need to pay for their *business* class hardware.
No kidding. And /. can't figure out why nobody answered their unsolicited questions. With questions like those, why bother?
So like one month in Iraq? Of course... I guess it doesn't sound so expensive when you put it that way, huh?
No, the passenger will probably be just as engrossed in the conversation as you, and not see the red light either. If you're referring to "something important" that you are aware of as well, such as an impending crash, I hope you'd be bright enough to drop the frigging phone and worry about avoiding the crash instead. If not, well... you fit darwin's profile quite nicely and I hope you've yet to reproduce.
Pshhh, just tell congress to think of the _insert_ children/terrorists/pedophiles/global warming, and they'll quickly sign the check.
Diesel pickups already have this :) Besides, it's called "plug in the engine block heater".