RE: 1) iTunes doesn't work. Please spare me the whine about how there are alternatives. Nobody cares about them. iTunes has to work.no thanks, i do not care to support the RIAA
RE:OpenOffice 2.0 is okaygood enough for me
RE:All those cool utilities that come with people's camera won't work.ever hear of gphoto2? it runs my digital camera just fine, and a few guests that visited brought cameras & they worked too all with gphoto2
RE:No consumer level photo editing software. And if you say "gimp"i said GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) damn it!
RE:None of the millions of little special interest applications won't work.i have no special interest and i dont run down to walmart to plunk down 50 bucks on the latest game every month either...
vote with their wallets, if they are unsatisfied with microsoft's product just quit buying it & switch to a viable alternative = GNU/Linux --works-for-me, i dont even have Windows installed on any of the four computers on my LAN, 2 have Slackware & KDE and 2 have Ubuntu & Gnome, i even took all my Windows CDs (Win98&2k & Office97/2k) packed em in a shoebox and put em up in the attic...
once enough people do what i did microsoft will get the picture...
i like to wear khaki slacks & spotless/new plain white T-shirt & loafers in the summer, and Roundhouse brand overalls & khaki longsleeve shirt & leather boots in the cold winter.
i have a Kodak Digital Camera, i was reading the specs for the Kodak Easyshare Printer Dock, i never owned this dock but it says system requirements:
System Requirements
Operating System Apple MacOS X Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 98 SE Microsoft Windows ME Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Professional
i wont bother to buy one of these if it must be attached to a computer via a USB umbilical cord with Windows installed, i would much rather have a printer dock that is independent of any computer and only requiring electricity and ink & paper...
fsck em & feed em fishheads, their product is easily used for malicious purposes such as stealing creditcard numbers & identity theft, and i would imagine anyone clever enough could take their product and make it even worse in any number of ways & methods...
if FOSS is socialism, then Microsoft & others of the same business model are tyrant dictators wanting to userp absolute power, and we all know what absolute power leads to...
remember that old TV series? and others from the late 1950's & early 1960's like Mayberry RFD & Leave it to Beaver etc..., that is what most of Kansas is still like, they think it is still the 1950's and they got to keep the hood safe for little Opie Taylor and the Beaver...
more hardware MFGers should make a downloadable shell script for GNU/Linux and as long as users have their kernel source installed it will compile a kernel driver for whatever hardware they have purchased:^)
why would anyone choose to watch movies and video on a screen about the size of a saltine cracker?, when there is a full size TV in the living room and atleast a 17 inch computer monitor in the HomeOffice?
RE:[It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.]
thats all i needed to read to not take it serously, until they have an actual product to put on the market that proves beyond any doubt...
make CD #1 mostly a base system with xorg and the basic x apps, similar to Slackware's #1 CD, and make a #2 CD with Gnome & KDE letting the user decide to install either Gnome and/or KDE, or users can just download the #1 CD install and get a basic OS booting, and download & install either gnome or kde via ftp after installing CD #1
i will never buy any new music or videos from retail stores, for now on i will shop at yard sales & flea markets & pawn shops for music & video, then i will make lots of copies for friends & family...
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ditto!
the last mobo i owned had a VIA chipset, and it was nothing but trouble, i have since bought a new board with Nvidia for my AMD
RE: 1) iTunes doesn't work. Please spare me the whine about how there are alternatives. Nobody cares about them. iTunes has to work. no thanks, i do not care to support the RIAA
RE:OpenOffice 2.0 is okay good enough for me
RE:All those cool utilities that come with people's camera won't work. ever hear of gphoto2? it runs my digital camera just fine, and a few guests that visited brought cameras & they worked too all with gphoto2
RE:No consumer level photo editing software. And if you say "gimp" i said GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) damn it!
RE:None of the millions of little special interest applications won't work. i have no special interest and i dont run down to walmart to plunk down 50 bucks on the latest game every month either...
vote with their wallets, if they are unsatisfied with microsoft's product just quit buying it & switch to a viable alternative = GNU/Linux --works-for-me, i dont even have Windows installed on any of the four computers on my LAN, 2 have Slackware & KDE and 2 have Ubuntu & Gnome, i even took all my Windows CDs (Win98&2k & Office97/2k) packed em in a shoebox and put em up in the attic...
once enough people do what i did microsoft will get the picture...
not just no, but hell no!
i like to wear khaki slacks & spotless/new plain white T-shirt & loafers in the summer, and Roundhouse brand overalls & khaki longsleeve shirt & leather boots in the cold winter.
i have a Kodak Digital Camera, i was reading the specs for the Kodak Easyshare Printer Dock, i never owned this dock but it says system requirements:
System Requirements Operating System Apple MacOS X Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 98 SE Microsoft Windows ME Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Professional
i wont bother to buy one of these if it must be attached to a computer via a USB umbilical cord with Windows installed, i would much rather have a printer dock that is independent of any computer and only requiring electricity and ink & paper...
and just in time for Christmas!
i am getting one, maybe two more if i really like the first one i just ordered!
fsck em & feed em fishheads, their product is easily used for malicious purposes such as stealing creditcard numbers & identity theft, and i would imagine anyone clever enough could take their product and make it even worse in any number of ways & methods...
after the two stories - one about the rootkit and two about Sony's EULA i think i will not buy a Sony product when it comes to an mp3 player...
tell me why is Linux & FreeBSD much more stable on the same hardware that MS-Windoze craps & crashes on daily???
if FOSS is socialism, then Microsoft & others of the same business model are tyrant dictators wanting to userp absolute power, and we all know what absolute power leads to...
this definitly made my next purchase of a DVD Burner change i was thinking of getting Sony's but that has changed now i will buy one from another mfg
remember that old TV series? and others from the late 1950's & early 1960's like Mayberry RFD & Leave it to Beaver etc..., that is what most of Kansas is still like, they think it is still the 1950's and they got to keep the hood safe for little Opie Taylor and the Beaver...
more hardware MFGers should make a downloadable shell script for GNU/Linux and as long as users have their kernel source installed it will compile a kernel driver for whatever hardware they have purchased :^)
if this worm does not include the sourcecode with every computer it infects it is violating the terms and conditions of the GNU/GPL
why would anyone choose to watch movies and video on a screen about the size of a saltine cracker?, when there is a full size TV in the living room and atleast a 17 inch computer monitor in the HomeOffice?
RE:[It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.]
thats all i needed to read to not take it serously, until they have an actual product to put on the market that proves beyond any doubt...
enough said...
make CD #1 mostly a base system with xorg and the basic x apps, similar to Slackware's #1 CD, and make a #2 CD with Gnome & KDE letting the user decide to install either Gnome and/or KDE, or users can just download the #1 CD install and get a basic OS booting, and download & install either gnome or kde via ftp after installing CD #1
RE:[so what's the best KDE-centric desktop distro now]
Slackware
RE:[when Microsoft does something beneficial to consumers, someone HAS to nitpick about the motives]
considering Microsoft's track record i would be concerned about Microsoft's motives too...
i would reccomend this be read very carefully looking for loopholes & caveats...
i would get a Knoppix Live CD :^P
i will never buy any new music or videos from retail stores, for now on i will shop at yard sales & flea markets & pawn shops for music & video, then i will make lots of copies for friends & family...
in Microsoft's case that would be equivelent to suiscide.
except in Nebraska and Korea