Oh, I wouldn't have minded, but I got the humor anyway:).
I was genuinely surprised to see the Java download manager. When I followed the link in the source I saw some ActiveX stuff mentioned and assumed it was going to be IE only, but then the Java stuff popped up. I'd have to do more research, but I think the problem I had was more of a javascript problem where clicking on the download button did not change the current page as MS's web developer had intended it to, than an intentional IE lock-in.
You also have to be downloading on a windows machine. You can't do it on a Mac. Apparently Microsoft thinks Macs still can't burn DVDs.
Actually, I downloaded it on a Linux machine. The download button did not work, but I was able to look at the page source to figure out the link to go to, which then brings up a Java download manager through which the ISO downloads (which, incidentally, looks a lot like a bittorrent client, even telling me how many connections I was downloading through).
It could be made like the surgeon general's warning on tobacco products: Warning, buying this product and expecting it to work properly without intrusive copyright protection may be hazardous to your sanity.
I think GP was implying more that it's a bad policy to settle for less than what we should have. Yes, getting exception for Youtube mashups and iPhone jailbreaking would be better than what we have now, but if we give the impression that we're willing to settle for less than full fair use rights, we may be doing more harm in the long run. It would be like giving Hitler some of the land he wanted in order to appease him and stop the violence. In reality, he would just want more, and you be right back to the same problem.
However, the worst part of Linux is tha parlous state of the documentation.
In my experience, Microsoft documentation is several orders of magnitude worse than the average FOSS project documentation. Furthermore, I find FOSS to be much more intuitive in general. I have to revert to documentation less with FOSS, and when I do, it goes better.
Suppose you have some rare disease which requires you to live in a Big Hospital which provides you with some special service (maybe an IV drip) required to keep you from dying. The hospital has a special IV delivery system which takes a special type of proprietary IV cartridge, and your special IV drip only comes in that special cartridge type.
There are half-a-dozen other hospitals in the city, which have all either standardized on some single IV cartridge standard, or have published the cartridge structure they're using, so that drug companies can package their drugs in any of these cartridge formats. In fact, most of these other hospitals have volunteered to package the drugs for the drug companies, or have invested in adapters so they can take any of the other cartridge types. The hospitals even went so far as to create an adapter for the Big Hospital cartridge format, but they gave that up when the Big Hospital threatened to sue them into oblivion.
The other hospitals have better, more knowledgeable staff, better services, less problems, lower fees, and nicer accommodations. You spend less time waiting to see a doctor, less time waiting to book appointments, and don't get passed off to three or four different operators when you try to call your doctor.
You would move to one of the alternative hospitals, but because of the IV cartridge format, you're stuck at the crappy one.
Technically you can leave anytime you want, but effectively you can't. Your hospital is now a prison.
No, it is fully possible to get roaming profiles to load quickly. Using the Group Policy and settings in the user's registry, you can relocate certain folders (e.g. the desktop, which tends to get rather large) to be read directly from the server rather than copying to the workstation on login and back to the server on logout.
Out of interest, what do you consider the smallest possible user base that any concession should be made with regard to support?
1 user.
Release the source, or at least an open API/documentation/something, and then let us do the work. I don't expect companies to spend their money supporting every random OS, but I would like them to at least make it possible for us to do the work ourselves for whatever OS we want to use.
If a software company handed you a $2,000 computer, wouldn't you have a few nice things to say about the operating system preloaded on it?
No.
If they told me that receiving the laptop was conditioned on my writing a favorable review, then I would do the review honestly and refuse the laptop. If the laptop were handed to me no-strings-attached, I would accept the laptop and do the honest review. If my resulting honest review was generally negative, I would probably keep the laptop, or sell it, or give it to charity, as there wouldn't be a reasonable doubt about bias if I were giving a negative review anyway. If my honest review ended up being positive, I would return the laptop before publishing the review, because in that case there could have been a reasonable doubt about bias had I kept the laptop, even if I only kept it to then go donate it.
Oh, I'm not in any way advocating listening to him on a general scale. I was just providing reasoning why people say GNU/Linux. I didn't actually mention RMS in my previous post.
It's because it uses GNU coreutils. Linux is a kernel, not a full OS distribution. You need other tools to actually use it. Those tools are (almost always) GNU coreutils.
It's pedantic, but credit should be given where credit is due. It used to piss me off too until I realized this.
Actually openoffice and openoffice-bin ebuilds for 3.0 went stable several days ago. That said, the source ebuild has some memory allocation troubles ATM. I'm using the binary ebuild right now for a physics report and it's working great.
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and pooped up a message on their screen
Really? What is the system call for that? Is it in the Win32 API?
I believe what you are proposing is a method which involves actual consequences to having your computer 0wned. As such, it will go down in flames.
Welche sprachen sprechen sie?
Oh, I wouldn't have minded, but I got the humor anyway :).
I was genuinely surprised to see the Java download manager. When I followed the link in the source I saw some ActiveX stuff mentioned and assumed it was going to be IE only, but then the Java stuff popped up. I'd have to do more research, but I think the problem I had was more of a javascript problem where clicking on the download button did not change the current page as MS's web developer had intended it to, than an intentional IE lock-in.
You also have to be downloading on a windows machine. You can't do it on a Mac. Apparently Microsoft thinks Macs still can't burn DVDs.
Actually, I downloaded it on a Linux machine. The download button did not work, but I was able to look at the page source to figure out the link to go to, which then brings up a Java download manager through which the ISO downloads (which, incidentally, looks a lot like a bittorrent client, even telling me how many connections I was downloading through).
It could be made like the surgeon general's warning on tobacco products: Warning, buying this product and expecting it to work properly without intrusive copyright protection may be hazardous to your sanity.
Windows 7 will be Vista SP3, re-branded.
Is that a good thing?
Will that be pre-order, in-order, or post-order traversal?
I think GP was implying more that it's a bad policy to settle for less than what we should have. Yes, getting exception for Youtube mashups and iPhone jailbreaking would be better than what we have now, but if we give the impression that we're willing to settle for less than full fair use rights, we may be doing more harm in the long run. It would be like giving Hitler some of the land he wanted in order to appease him and stop the violence. In reality, he would just want more, and you be right back to the same problem.
However, the worst part of Linux is tha parlous state of the documentation.
In my experience, Microsoft documentation is several orders of magnitude worse than the average FOSS project documentation. Furthermore, I find FOSS to be much more intuitive in general. I have to revert to documentation less with FOSS, and when I do, it goes better.
Suppose you have some rare disease which requires you to live in a Big Hospital which provides you with some special service (maybe an IV drip) required to keep you from dying. The hospital has a special IV delivery system which takes a special type of proprietary IV cartridge, and your special IV drip only comes in that special cartridge type.
There are half-a-dozen other hospitals in the city, which have all either standardized on some single IV cartridge standard, or have published the cartridge structure they're using, so that drug companies can package their drugs in any of these cartridge formats. In fact, most of these other hospitals have volunteered to package the drugs for the drug companies, or have invested in adapters so they can take any of the other cartridge types. The hospitals even went so far as to create an adapter for the Big Hospital cartridge format, but they gave that up when the Big Hospital threatened to sue them into oblivion.
The other hospitals have better, more knowledgeable staff, better services, less problems, lower fees, and nicer accommodations. You spend less time waiting to see a doctor, less time waiting to book appointments, and don't get passed off to three or four different operators when you try to call your doctor.
You would move to one of the alternative hospitals, but because of the IV cartridge format, you're stuck at the crappy one.
Technically you can leave anytime you want, but effectively you can't. Your hospital is now a prison.
No, it is fully possible to get roaming profiles to load quickly. Using the Group Policy and settings in the user's registry, you can relocate certain folders (e.g. the desktop, which tends to get rather large) to be read directly from the server rather than copying to the workstation on login and back to the server on logout.
Out of interest, what do you consider the smallest possible user base that any concession should be made with regard to support?
1 user.
Release the source, or at least an open API/documentation/something, and then let us do the work. I don't expect companies to spend their money supporting every random OS, but I would like them to at least make it possible for us to do the work ourselves for whatever OS we want to use.
Well, it's not really that bad. It went from being a good product to being just avg.
If a software company handed you a $2,000 computer, wouldn't you have a few nice things to say about the operating system preloaded on it?
No.
If they told me that receiving the laptop was conditioned on my writing a favorable review, then I would do the review honestly and refuse the laptop. If the laptop were handed to me no-strings-attached, I would accept the laptop and do the honest review. If my resulting honest review was generally negative, I would probably keep the laptop, or sell it, or give it to charity, as there wouldn't be a reasonable doubt about bias if I were giving a negative review anyway. If my honest review ended up being positive, I would return the laptop before publishing the review, because in that case there could have been a reasonable doubt about bias had I kept the laptop, even if I only kept it to then go donate it.
Oh man I remember that, that maze was awesome. My dad and I spent hours on it, mapping the mazes to figure out where we were going.
Oh, I'm not in any way advocating listening to him on a general scale. I was just providing reasoning why people say GNU/Linux. I didn't actually mention RMS in my previous post.
It's because it uses GNU coreutils. Linux is a kernel, not a full OS distribution. You need other tools to actually use it. Those tools are (almost always) GNU coreutils.
It's pedantic, but credit should be given where credit is due. It used to piss me off too until I realized this.
Deep down in your heart you know there won't be. Doing anything custom seems to be the bane of Microsoft's existence.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Fixed that for myself
If they don't put a proper effort into the UI design, then Ubuntu is going to stay the better OS.
Fixed that for you.
Sorry, I could resist.
Actually openoffice and openoffice-bin ebuilds for 3.0 went stable several days ago. That said, the source ebuild has some memory allocation troubles ATM. I'm using the binary ebuild right now for a physics report and it's working great.
I think the command you're looking for is "rm -rf ~" and yeah, a menu to do that would kill someone['s files].
Did you come up with this on your own or did you find it somewhere? I think it's:
(X) Funny (X) Unfortunately true
downloaded != pirated
Open source software is free to download and not pirated.