Is the article's author retarded? And no, I am no trying to be a troll...
How does it come that after comparing pretty equal WiFi support, bloody Internet Explorer with good Mozilla Firefox, useless Outlook Express and complete PIM solution Evolution is Windows Vista the better system?
How is it possible that Multimedia support is a tie, when Windows supports only Windows Media and MP3 by default?
Why is Windows rated as OS with better hardware support, when Windows without external drivers (note that we are talking about out-of-box support!) does support only a tiny bit of HW supported on Linux?
I suggest the tag "fud" for this Slashdot article.
What's your computer's configuration? Not even my crazy MultiGPU system with dual-core AMD processor can reach 240W... And that LCD monitor is extremely power-hunry too.
I would refuse loading non-GPL modules not because of the license itself but because of the horrible instability that most of them cause. But on the other hand we can only wonder whether it would force NVIDIA & co. open source their drivers or not.
I can't also imagine how could Novell just take a piece of code from a completely separate software (MS Office) that is even Windows-only and put it into OpenOffice. That wouldn't work.
For Czech Rep. I'd agree with the most of them except for ID cards and Biometrics (rated 2). I don't understand what is it based on: our country doesn't gather any biometric data (eye color at max, but I'm not even sure about that) and our ID cards don't contain more information that German ones (rated 4).
The table is also quite incomplete. I think that most countries with '-' in the Data sharing column would get 4 or 5.
Germany may be on the top just because it has *all* information filled in with *real* data...
Those that Opera has identifies as fraudulent will be automatically blocked by the browser.
If they dare to do this, all packets directing to Opera servers will be automatically blocked by my iptables rules:-) Eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth.
Sorry, my previous answer wasn't exact. I meant 100% to the "normal" extent = free speech is not limited at schools more than anywhere else.
The same thing applies to the clothing - it must not violate laws. When it doesn't violate laws, it's OK. I've read about several US high schools finding some clothing too "provoking" and therefore applying special "dress codes".
US Supreme Court is nothing here (I am European) - but anyway: isn't freedom of speech guaranteed by constitution?
Here we have 100% free speech wherever we go (teachers even encourage us to express our opinions and insist on them), we also don't have any "clothing codes" (or how do you call it) - but yet everything is fine here.
Maybe more freedom for youth is better than constant care.
I think that most of ISPs will just update their spam filters to automatically delete e-mails from organizations like BPI.
Who pays your ISP? You do, not BPI. So I think that most ISPs will protect their customers and ignore BPI-like organizations (that's current situation in my country).
I agree. How many people use Sparc version for Linux? Very little, yet Opera for Linux Sparc exists. How many people would use an AMD64 version? A lot...
BTW check out NSpluginwrapper - 32bit plugins in 64bit browser.
I use my cellphone at school for sending SMS and web surfing (Opera for S60 is great). Most of teachers don't mind until the phone (or you) makes some noise.
No, I am not joking... I think that this cellphone freedom is quite usual in Czech Rep. - there are more cellphone numbers than people in this country:-)
- much worse responsiveness - lower performance in games (without any spyware or whatever...just after clean reinstall) - up to 10% loss
Experience with video/audio playback: higher CPU utilization under Windows (no explanation though...)
Firefox and Thunderbird (but not Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey) are good examples of apps that just don't work that well under Linux. I don't know any real reason for this, but while natively running Firefox on Linux is quite slow, Win32 Firefox (even under VMware!) seems to be faster in some situations.
No, this law is still valid. This law doesn't distinguish between legal source (shop) and illegal source (whatever). License for music/movie distribution is problem of the "source" not yours as long as you don't share the downloaded data.
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I have never experienced this on Linux - and this article is about Linux. Moreover, nVidia's Linux team does always respond to received bug reports.
Is the article's author retarded? And no, I am no trying to be a troll...
How does it come that after comparing pretty equal WiFi support, bloody Internet Explorer with good Mozilla Firefox, useless Outlook Express and complete PIM solution Evolution is Windows Vista the better system?
How is it possible that Multimedia support is a tie, when Windows supports only Windows Media and MP3 by default?
Why is Windows rated as OS with better hardware support, when Windows without external drivers (note that we are talking about out-of-box support!) does support only a tiny bit of HW supported on Linux?
I suggest the tag "fud" for this Slashdot article.
Just use ext2. It's simple, yet powerful enough.
What is so great about .NET? Reliably works only on a single platform, Qt seems to be way ahead (although its cost for commercial apps is substantial).
Software doesn't suck, users do ;-) Let's replace the users... oh, wait...
What's your computer's configuration? Not even my crazy MultiGPU system with dual-core AMD processor can reach 240W... And that LCD monitor is extremely power-hunry too.
I would refuse loading non-GPL modules not because of the license itself but because of the horrible instability that most of them cause. But on the other hand we can only wonder whether it would force NVIDIA & co. open source their drivers or not.
May I know why do you call KDE/GNOME a nonsense?
I can't also imagine how could Novell just take a piece of code from a completely separate software (MS Office) that is even Windows-only and put it into OpenOffice. That wouldn't work.
The list is very interesting.
For Czech Rep. I'd agree with the most of them except for ID cards and Biometrics (rated 2). I don't understand what is it based on: our country doesn't gather any biometric data (eye color at max, but I'm not even sure about that) and our ID cards don't contain more information that German ones (rated 4).
The table is also quite incomplete. I think that most countries with '-' in the Data sharing column would get 4 or 5.
Germany may be on the top just because it has *all* information filled in with *real* data...
Sorry, my previous answer wasn't exact. I meant 100% to the "normal" extent = free speech is not limited at schools more than anywhere else.
The same thing applies to the clothing - it must not violate laws. When it doesn't violate laws, it's OK. I've read about several US high schools finding some clothing too "provoking" and therefore applying special "dress codes".
US Supreme Court is nothing here (I am European) - but anyway: isn't freedom of speech guaranteed by constitution?
Here we have 100% free speech wherever we go (teachers even encourage us to express our opinions and insist on them), we also don't have any "clothing codes" (or how do you call it) - but yet everything is fine here.
Maybe more freedom for youth is better than constant care.
I am a high school student and I am nor limited in expressing my opinions, neither in my clothing. Where did you get that from?
I think that most of ISPs will just update their spam filters to automatically delete e-mails from organizations like BPI.
Who pays your ISP? You do, not BPI. So I think that most ISPs will protect their customers and ignore BPI-like organizations (that's current situation in my country).
Opera 9 has integrated content blocking - it is quite good. You don't have to edit filter.ini any more...
I agree. How many people use Sparc version for Linux? Very little, yet Opera for Linux Sparc exists.
How many people would use an AMD64 version? A lot...
BTW check out NSpluginwrapper - 32bit plugins in 64bit browser.
Our teachers don't care about students - parents are supposed to take care of them.
I use my cellphone at school for sending SMS and web surfing (Opera for S60 is great). Most of teachers don't mind until the phone (or you) makes some noise. No, I am not joking... I think that this cellphone freedom is quite usual in Czech Rep. - there are more cellphone numbers than people in this country :-)
Under Windows I experience the opposite:
- much worse responsiveness
- lower performance in games (without any spyware or whatever...just after clean reinstall) - up to 10% loss
Experience with video/audio playback: higher CPU utilization under Windows (no explanation though...)
Firefox and Thunderbird (but not Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey) are good examples of apps that just don't work that well under Linux. I don't know any real reason for this, but while natively running Firefox on Linux is quite slow, Win32 Firefox (even under VMware!) seems to be faster in some situations.
Use some better filesystem then. ReiserFS can group small files so they won't take that much space.
No, this law is still valid. This law doesn't distinguish between legal source (shop) and illegal source (whatever). License for music/movie distribution is problem of the "source" not yours as long as you don't share the downloaded data.