here's no operating system that end users want preinstalled at the moment because Windows is all they know.
That's why they want Windows. They don't want to learn to use a new operating system, they want to browse the web and type documents. They don't care that Ubuntu is faster for most tasks, and why should they? It's not faster for them because they don't know where the options are yet.
Re-training is not much of an issue, as its the applications that users use, and 95% of them don't know how to use anyway, so not knowing how to use linux will make very little difference in any case.
I added a new graphics card today. As part of setting it up I had to update my configuration:
sudo gedit/etc/X11/xorg.conf
On the other side of the coin, I wanted to install VLC. System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. This is much easier than Windows, but that's not what's important. It's different, and different is expensive.
Also, applications are the only part of Windows users really do get to grips with. My parents can use them. My friends can use them. Why? Because their companies have sent them on training courses, which would have to be repeated if MS went away.
A lot of people/corporations are sticking their heads in teh sand making excuses because they're too lazy/scared to take the risk.
I'm in Uni at the moment, sharing a flat with 2 computer science students. Neither of them use Ubuntu. They've tried it, but the learning curve, at the start, was too steep for them. These are people with an interest in computers and knowledge to back it up. Most people never use a CLI on Windows, and so we need to stop forcing it on people in Linux. I use it regularly because it's the more efficient way of completing a lot of tasks, but if you've just switched you're not ready for 'more efficient', you need simple.
Vista can't be the beginning of the end for Microsoft - there's nowhere else for customers to go. There is no OS that offers the same level of hardware support, software support or technical support. There's no other operating system that companies can go to without retraining their staff. There's no other operating system that customers want pre-installed on their desktops and laptops, and there's no other operating system for software and hardware companies to design for.
I'm not a Windows fan. I gave up Windows a year ago and switched to Breezy, and I've now got Dapper on my desktop and my laptop, and I don't look back; XP simply can't compete with Ubuntu on stability, speed or eye candy. But Microsoft is the centre of an entire section of the economy. If they announced bankruptcy, there'd be a line of companies from here to Turkmenistan willing to help them out.
If you're not sure if the username/password you're entering is correct; you want it to remember the combination, but you don't want it to remember it wrong and get in the way
You have multiple accounts, e.g. an admin account and a member account. If you only log in with the admin account periodically, you want it to save member passwords but not the admin one.
If you're coding and are creating throwaway accounts until you get it working perfectly, at which point you want it to remember the password
If someone else is using the computer; they don't want to change anything, either by saving a password or by telling it not to save the owner's.
There will certainly be more; those are just uses I've had recently.
e.g.: google could get a meaningful compulsory license deal imposed.
There's no way Google could get a compulsory license deal. They have deep pockets, but the RIAA/MPIAA have deeper ones, as well as an established lobby. What Google might be able to get, though, is a voluntary licence.
That's not true. We still receive support on an old version. But you shouldn't just take my word for it - they say themselves "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux product lifecycle provides seven years of support for every release."
And I think the consumer would be wise to do this. But e360insight isn't being blocked by Comcast, they're being blocked by Comcast using a list made by Spamhaus. It's important to note that they aren't complaining just that their mail didn't get through - that would certainly be a matter to take to Comcast. They're alleging that their inclusion on the Spamhaus blocklist caused damage to their reputation and caused them to lose business, both because of the defamation and because of the actual blocking. It is Spamhaus certainly that caused the defamation.
No one is forcing me to use Comcast. But if Comcast are filtering mail without telling me, that's still not right. You can't argue that companies should be able to do whatever they want because I can always change provider; some things are just wrong.
That wouldn't work - that way anyone could do it! There is tactile feedback for every square - you have to identify the particular pattern of pins that represents each 'digit' of your PIN.
I dunno, I've lived in Britain my whole life, and I feel like over the last few years it's moved from 18-25 year olds that I feel in the most danger from to the gangs of 13-16 year olds. Sure, most of them are nice, but there are a lot of 'bad eggs'.
As for your other comments: Hey, even if you actually feel offended, and are not just faking it out of misplaced political correctness, don't be so gay about it! OK?
I believe that homophobia is one of the most pressing problems among young people today, so no, not just misplaced political correctness. That said, that was actually very funny...
go for the exclusive "mac" experience where you pay to use the same OS and computer as gay people do
Do gay people use Macs more than straight people? Are all design professionals gay? If you've got any hard proof, show it, otherwise I won't believe it. But that's not the point.
What's wrong with using the same type of computer as gay people? Why would that be a bad point of using a Mac? This is an example of the most damaging form of homophobia. You probably don't think of yourself as homophobic, you'll probably reply to this comment by saying you have lots of gay friends and they're great people. But everytime you say that 'Macs are for gays', or call something 'gay' when you mean bad, you're helping to create a climate where people think of homosexuality as an affliction rather than just a different way of living.
In this day, when we finally have started to conquer racism and sexism in the hearts and minds of our children, we are leaving them a legacy of homophobia that is equally damaging, both to civil rights and to the children themselves. It may seem trivial now, but the cumulative effect of thousands of casual comments is more damaging than anything one group could do. So just think before you say something like that; I'm sure you didn't mean any harm.
I used to run XP, firewalled, NATed, firefox as my default browser, without admin privileges. I still needed to reinstall many times. Why? Because I upgraded my motherboard, processor, hard disk etc bit by bit to keep my computer from going obsolete and XP needs a reinstall after any 'major' upgrade. I've had to phone the hotline a few times, and while they were helpful and polite it's still a 10 minute hold and a 10 minute conversation that I shouldn't have had to have.
But if the speed at which data is being received exceeds the hard drive speed, it doesn't matter whether you cache it in the RAM first, the HD can't catch up. An hour-long program at 10Gbps would use 4500GB of space, far more than you could write to disk in that time, even with a RAID. (Except a very large one of course).
The problem with this is that the moment she gets her statement she can repudiate the charge, which will be refunded to her within 24 hours. Any fees from this will be passed on to you. All companies in the UK that are allowed to set up direct debits - and it's open only to companies here - have to be vetted and granted permission, and if more than a few people protest the charges they lose this permission. If you want to steal money, direct debit doesn't give you much scope to do that - you want them to initiate the transfers, or send you cheques. If you want to do it yourself, you want them to sign a power of attorney document, or similiar, to avoid the restrictions on direct debit.
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On the other side of the coin, I wanted to install VLC. System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. This is much easier than Windows, but that's not what's important. It's different, and different is expensive.
Also, applications are the only part of Windows users really do get to grips with. My parents can use them. My friends can use them. Why? Because their companies have sent them on training courses, which would have to be repeated if MS went away. I'm in Uni at the moment, sharing a flat with 2 computer science students. Neither of them use Ubuntu. They've tried it, but the learning curve, at the start, was too steep for them. These are people with an interest in computers and knowledge to back it up. Most people never use a CLI on Windows, and so we need to stop forcing it on people in Linux. I use it regularly because it's the more efficient way of completing a lot of tasks, but if you've just switched you're not ready for 'more efficient', you need simple.
Vista can't be the beginning of the end for Microsoft - there's nowhere else for customers to go. There is no OS that offers the same level of hardware support, software support or technical support. There's no other operating system that companies can go to without retraining their staff. There's no other operating system that customers want pre-installed on their desktops and laptops, and there's no other operating system for software and hardware companies to design for.
I'm not a Windows fan. I gave up Windows a year ago and switched to Breezy, and I've now got Dapper on my desktop and my laptop, and I don't look back; XP simply can't compete with Ubuntu on stability, speed or eye candy. But Microsoft is the centre of an entire section of the economy. If they announced bankruptcy, there'd be a line of companies from here to Turkmenistan willing to help them out.
- If you're not sure if the username/password you're entering is correct; you want it to remember the combination, but you don't want it to remember it wrong and get in the way
- You have multiple accounts, e.g. an admin account and a member account. If you only log in with the admin account periodically, you want it to save member passwords but not the admin one.
- If you're coding and are creating throwaway accounts until you get it working perfectly, at which point you want it to remember the password
- If someone else is using the computer; they don't want to change anything, either by saving a password or by telling it not to save the owner's.
There will certainly be more; those are just uses I've had recently.You could always use hemp paper. It's much more environmentally friendly.
I'd guess Amazon pays more, since no-one ever follows the B&N link - there's always a cheaper link as a first post.
There's no way Google could get a compulsory license deal. They have deep pockets, but the RIAA/MPIAA have deeper ones, as well as an established lobby. What Google might be able to get, though, is a voluntary licence.
I think you chose a bad example. Everyone knows red ones go faster!
Although if it's the YIM client that does the check this wouldn't lead to any decisive conclusions, just your friend accessing it.
There are no legal implications with providing an email service and then silently filtering out mail? Where do you live?!?
That's not true. We still receive support on an old version. But you shouldn't just take my word for it - they say themselves "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux product lifecycle provides seven years of support for every release."
Red Hat Enterprise Linux support their releases for 7 years. So RHL 6.2E, released in 2000, is now 6 years old and is still supported.
And I think the consumer would be wise to do this. But e360insight isn't being blocked by Comcast, they're being blocked by Comcast using a list made by Spamhaus. It's important to note that they aren't complaining just that their mail didn't get through - that would certainly be a matter to take to Comcast. They're alleging that their inclusion on the Spamhaus blocklist caused damage to their reputation and caused them to lose business, both because of the defamation and because of the actual blocking. It is Spamhaus certainly that caused the defamation.
No one is forcing me to use Comcast. But if Comcast are filtering mail without telling me, that's still not right. You can't argue that companies should be able to do whatever they want because I can always change provider; some things are just wrong.
Can you cite a source? I can't find anything on Comcast's terms of service, or on Google.
Yeah, I had the year in it. Suppose that would be kinda irrelevant.
That wouldn't work - that way anyone could do it! There is tactile feedback for every square - you have to identify the particular pattern of pins that represents each 'digit' of your PIN.
I dunno, I've lived in Britain my whole life, and I feel like over the last few years it's moved from 18-25 year olds that I feel in the most danger from to the gangs of 13-16 year olds. Sure, most of them are nice, but there are a lot of 'bad eggs'.
I believe that homophobia is one of the most pressing problems among young people today, so no, not just misplaced political correctness.
That said, that was actually very funny...
Do gay people use Macs more than straight people? Are all design professionals gay? If you've got any hard proof, show it, otherwise I won't believe it. But that's not the point.
What's wrong with using the same type of computer as gay people? Why would that be a bad point of using a Mac? This is an example of the most damaging form of homophobia. You probably don't think of yourself as homophobic, you'll probably reply to this comment by saying you have lots of gay friends and they're great people. But everytime you say that 'Macs are for gays', or call something 'gay' when you mean bad, you're helping to create a climate where people think of homosexuality as an affliction rather than just a different way of living.
In this day, when we finally have started to conquer racism and sexism in the hearts and minds of our children, we are leaving them a legacy of homophobia that is equally damaging, both to civil rights and to the children themselves. It may seem trivial now, but the cumulative effect of thousands of casual comments is more damaging than anything one group could do. So just think before you say something like that; I'm sure you didn't mean any harm.
I wasn't aware that Monopoly was such a problem!
Microsoft on the other hand...
Aww, he won't be able to remember mine. Not until 170,000...
I used to run XP, firewalled, NATed, firefox as my default browser, without admin privileges. I still needed to reinstall many times. Why? Because I upgraded my motherboard, processor, hard disk etc bit by bit to keep my computer from going obsolete and XP needs a reinstall after any 'major' upgrade. I've had to phone the hotline a few times, and while they were helpful and polite it's still a 10 minute hold and a 10 minute conversation that I shouldn't have had to have.
Money from the EU coffers does go towards some member states though, for example through the Common Agricultural Policy.
But if the speed at which data is being received exceeds the hard drive speed, it doesn't matter whether you cache it in the RAM first, the HD can't catch up. An hour-long program at 10Gbps would use 4500GB of space, far more than you could write to disk in that time, even with a RAID. (Except a very large one of course).
The problem with this is that the moment she gets her statement she can repudiate the charge, which will be refunded to her within 24 hours. Any fees from this will be passed on to you. All companies in the UK that are allowed to set up direct debits - and it's open only to companies here - have to be vetted and granted permission, and if more than a few people protest the charges they lose this permission. If you want to steal money, direct debit doesn't give you much scope to do that - you want them to initiate the transfers, or send you cheques. If you want to do it yourself, you want them to sign a power of attorney document, or similiar, to avoid the restrictions on direct debit.