It's not that Bush does not understand; it's just that he does not care.
Or more accurately, he cares about how it benefits or does not benefit himself directly, regardless of how it impacts those he is elected to serve. This is true of most politicians, apparently.
I was running Windows exclusively at the time, but also did not buy movie DVDs until CSS was cracked to give me my protected-by-Copyright Law Fair Use rights.
1. Introduce Zune in the USA where we have fascist copyright laws and allow DRM to remove Fair Use 2. Watch Zune fail 3. Introduce Zune in Europe in the hopes it will succeed there, where DRM's blocking of Fair Use is illegal in some countries, resulting in Zune's ultimate failure and going the way of Microsoft Bob 4. ??? Profit ???
There are alternatives to Windows. Linux, OS X, BSD, and others. You don't have to tolerate the DRM-fest which is Vista. Or hell, buy Windows 2000 off of feeBay if you must run Windows.
I'll bet that years from now people will still be talking about iPhone, even as they use their pMacs or MacPhones.
I very much doubt that. *wipes nose with non-Kleenex-brand-kleenex while walking to the canon all-in-one printer to xerox a form, while listening to music on a non-Sony walkman*;)
Other free-desktop operating system projects which take different and innovative approaches like ReactOS(snip) remain comparatively starved of developers and interest.
It seems to me, in theory at least, that every Free/Open Source Software project developed for/ported to Windows is in effect developed for or ported to ReactOS - at least once ReactOS actually works.
Maybe the reason it is not well supported and tested is that the driver installation process is an absolute beast. Ever try to get an All in Wonder card set up in ReactOS? I got partway through and quit out of sheer boredom.
Why?
Here is the process:
- Install a clean Windows installation (Win2K for this situation)
- Dump the registry
- Capture a file listing of the entire system. Don't forget to include meta data such as file size, date, and version
- Install the All in Wonder drivers/software
- Dump the registry
- Capture a file listing of the entire system. Don't forget to include meta data such as file size, date, and version
- Diff the registry dumps, create a patch file (a properly-formatted.reg file)
- diff the file listing, figure out which files $vendor changed, note location
- Import the registry into ReactOS
- manually copy the files over
- watch it croak. Use depends or another dependency checker to figure out what else needs to be copied from Windows to ReactOS to make it work (and if you do not own a Windows license, at this point copyright law becomes an issue, especially if you want to offer a "free" and *cough*"100% compatible"*cough* Windows alternative to customers)
Why does ReactOS enjoy more support, including developer, tester, and user? Gee, I don't know. That's a tough question.
OS/2 is not around any more (and for all practical purposes, has been dead for ten years now)
Windows? Not a chance, unless you want to be "pwned" by every script kiddie who discovers 1337 IRC hacking channels. Oh sure, it's quick and easy to set up, and downtime is less if you use Microsoft-Brand Downtime as your definition of downtime, but maintenance is more of a bear. Sure, you can turn to ugly hacks like VBS and making calls to COM objects, but Windows Scripting Host is not exactly known for being the most secure scripting environment.
OS X? Uh, right. MAYBE if they license the OS to clone makers and allow users to run their own window manager/desktop environments. Oh, and don't forget the security updates which break samba on occasion, and the yearly upgrade which routinely forces you to upgrade many or all of your apps.
Given the alternatives, Linux still doesn't look bad even in that light.
But most importantly, we need to monetarily support vendors who give us working hardware with working linux drivers, or even vendors who simply give us enough information to write drivers. This is not ATI or nVidia. This apparently is intel. They're also just about the only vendor providing any useful wifi drivers.
Yeah, as soon as they offer accelerated graphics with dual DVI I will gladly buy from Intel. Until then, NVidia makes a great, if proprietary solution.
He uses said.45 to blow away terrorist (er, sorry, I mean "militant." Pardon my political incorrectness;))
So the.45 might go through the terrorist and perforate the fuselage. What does this mean? Will the plain explode? Tear? The chance of that is infinitessimal. You have a FAR higher chance of catching HIV from a toilet seat in a public restroom. It means that the cabin will slowly lose pressure, but not so quickly that anyone would pass out before the pilot can descend the plane to 13,000 or less.
1. Why the insult? 2. I qualified that statement, citing:
2a> based on majority (implication: of citizens)
2b> based on 19th century SCOTUS decisions (which may or may not be portrayed correctly, but the perception is certainly there)
Now, the rest of your post may or may not make valid points, but with the "you idiot" remark, you completely invalidated it. No need to stoop to personal attacks, especially in light of the fact that I qualified my statement by declaring that it is the perception of America. The common perception abroad is that The united States of America is a Christian nation. Get over it, that's how we are perceived.
and having parts spinning around a thousand times per second in your car may prove to be a safety issue
Not really. They are very lightweight, and therefore will have little inertia. Turbochargers spin between 60,000rpm and 100,000RPM and have a strong, long, proven track record (102 years) and the only time they become unreliable is when there is a lack of lubrication, usually from piss-poor maintenance (e.g., an owner gets an oil change once every 100,000 miles whether it's needed or not), or from running the car at FULL boost, then immediately shutting down (e.g., your average teenager pulling into a mall parking lot), without letting it idle down and cool off.
Turbine generators will be far less prone to the latter. There is no cure for poor maintenance, except that the turbine housings will be strong enough to protect against shattering during a catastrophic failure. Heck, even most turbines on jet aircraft are built to contain their massive, extremely high-speed turbines, and ditto for power plants with their even more massive gas turbine engines which are run at full speed at nearly 100% duty cycle.
And waste heat? They may run at a hotter temperature, but they use far less fuel than a conventional engine. There will probably less total heat output. The fix to lower the temperature of the exhaust? Mix the exhaust with ambient air (like the stealth bombers do to reduce their heat signatures), or reclaim the heat for other purposes, such as thermocouples or sterling engines to further increase efficiency, or during cold weather, heat exchangers for heating the vehicle, rather than relying on electric coils for heat.
Radical Muslims are not out to destroy the west, really. They're out to destroy the Jews, those who befriend them, and convert the entire world to Islam. There IS a difference, even as subtle as that distinction may be. If we were a Muslim nation rather than a Christian one (based on majority AND 19th century Supreme Court decisions) we would not be the target of radical Muslims.
No HDD manufacturer is going to want to advertise their 78.1GB HDD, competing against their competitors' 80GB HDDs, even though the 80GB HDDs do list the actual capacity in traditional, standard capacities in fine print. The current rating system is here to stay because convincing ALL of the hard drive manufacturers to make this change is next to impossible, and Hell will freeze over before ONE of them will adjust their rating systems without EVERY other manufacturer agreeing to immediately follow suit.
Really? So the trial versions of Symantec's products, the spyware they oh-so-kindly preinstall for you, and other trial programs cost them money rather than earn them money, allowing them to achieve their lower-than-cost $299 retail pricing?
Interesting. Maybe they make up for the loss through volume sales?;)
KDE is a support nightmare because there are so many ways to screw with it (GNOME unfortunately isn't great in this regard either). Everyone has their damned KDE desktop configured differently - it's always fun when I have to adjust to someone's desktop because they changed the focus behavior or the positions of the window controls.
But isn't that one of the major benefits to open source in general? You have choice and configurability and extensibility, along with all of the source code for the product?
One of the things I truly hate about Gnome (and I used to LOVE Gnome and abhor KDE) is it takes huge steps backwards; it removes power and flexibility from the users (gconf? Come on, this kind of thing is exactly what people hate about Windows). Sure, if you want to spend days reading incomplete documentation for Gnome (or asking what should be RTFM questions because there IS no FM to R) you'll discover that gnome has a lot of wonderful control panels/applets to control nearly every facet of the system, but once you find those apps, you're not done - oh no, not by a long shot! Now you also have to read up on text settings you need to type into those applications (gnome's session settings is a perfect example of this. Want to enable Compiz? Have fun! Thankfully some kinds folks involved in the project bothered to write up some documentation on how to make it work).
Not everyone has time or ambition to read through the source to discover how everything gets configured. KDE centralizes it all - and while some distros modify the control center and do a better job than others, KDE is never so crippled that one can't get up and running, desktop FULLY customized within a couple of hours, tops.
And then there is the craptacular gtk File dialog. Even the Windows file dialogs are vastly superior to that crippled widget.
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It's not that Bush does not understand; it's just that he does not care.
Or more accurately, he cares about how it benefits or does not benefit himself directly, regardless of how it impacts those he is elected to serve. This is true of most politicians, apparently.
I was running Windows exclusively at the time, but also did not buy movie DVDs until CSS was cracked to give me my protected-by-Copyright Law Fair Use rights.
I don't know. How many Intel motherboards ship with DVI connectors rather than VGA's DSUB? I haven't seen any.
But will they include DVI? Better yet, dual DVI for those who run either dual monitors or really large monitors which require dual link?
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THANK YOU ADOBE!
Now, can you please get to work on releasing CS2 (or CS3) for Linux? Please?
How about "Rabid Rodent"
1. Introduce Zune in the USA where we have fascist copyright laws and allow DRM to remove Fair Use
2. Watch Zune fail
3. Introduce Zune in Europe in the hopes it will succeed there, where DRM's blocking of Fair Use is illegal in some countries, resulting in Zune's ultimate failure and going the way of Microsoft Bob
4. ??? Profit ???
There are alternatives to Windows. Linux, OS X, BSD, and others. You don't have to tolerate the DRM-fest which is Vista. Or hell, buy Windows 2000 off of feeBay if you must run Windows.
Perhaps not for long. With Firefox, IE7 has matched its meat. It's going to really lick IE's ass.
(that demolition man bit is the first thing that came to mind when I read "has Microsoft finally met its match")
Didn't you hear? OS X is perfect; it does not have any bugs --- or so my graphic designer will claim.
(I'm kidding, Jerry, I'm kidding.)
What will pay for "free" services then, if not advertising?
no; as the copyright holders they are authorised to expressly approve of P2P distribution. :)
I very much doubt that. *wipes nose with non-Kleenex-brand-kleenex while walking to the canon all-in-one printer to xerox a form, while listening to music on a non-Sony walkman*
It seems to me, in theory at least, that every Free/Open Source Software project developed for/ported to Windows is in effect developed for or ported to ReactOS - at least once ReactOS actually works.
Maybe the reason it is not well supported and tested is that the driver installation process is an absolute beast. Ever try to get an All in Wonder card set up in ReactOS? I got partway through and quit out of sheer boredom.
Why?
Here is the process:
- Install a clean Windows installation (Win2K for this situation)
- Dump the registry
- Capture a file listing of the entire system. Don't forget to include meta data such as file size, date, and version
- Install the All in Wonder drivers/software
- Dump the registry
- Capture a file listing of the entire system. Don't forget to include meta data such as file size, date, and version
- Diff the registry dumps, create a patch file (a properly-formatted
- diff the file listing, figure out which files $vendor changed, note location
- Import the registry into ReactOS
- manually copy the files over
- watch it croak. Use depends or another dependency checker to figure out what else needs to be copied from Windows to ReactOS to make it work (and if you do not own a Windows license, at this point copyright law becomes an issue, especially if you want to offer a "free" and *cough*"100% compatible"*cough* Windows alternative to customers)
Why does ReactOS enjoy more support, including developer, tester, and user? Gee, I don't know. That's a tough question.
Well what are the alternatives?
BSD? Hardware support is even more lacking.
OS/2 is not around any more (and for all practical purposes, has been dead for ten years now)
Windows? Not a chance, unless you want to be "pwned" by every script kiddie who discovers 1337 IRC hacking channels. Oh sure, it's quick and easy to set up, and downtime is less if you use Microsoft-Brand Downtime as your definition of downtime, but maintenance is more of a bear. Sure, you can turn to ugly hacks like VBS and making calls to COM objects, but Windows Scripting Host is not exactly known for being the most secure scripting environment.
OS X? Uh, right. MAYBE if they license the OS to clone makers and allow users to run their own window manager/desktop environments. Oh, and don't forget the security updates which break samba on occasion, and the yearly upgrade which routinely forces you to upgrade many or all of your apps.
Given the alternatives, Linux still doesn't look bad even in that light.
Yeah, as soon as they offer accelerated graphics with dual DVI I will gladly buy from Intel. Until then, NVidia makes a great, if proprietary solution.
How is that a troll, exactly? He's right.
.45 to blow away terrorist (er, sorry, I mean "militant." Pardon my political incorrectness ;))
.45 might go through the terrorist and perforate the fuselage. What does this mean? Will the plain explode? Tear? The chance of that is infinitessimal. You have a FAR higher chance of catching HIV from a toilet seat in a public restroom. It means that the cabin will slowly lose pressure, but not so quickly that anyone would pass out before the pilot can descend the plane to 13,000 or less.
He uses said
So the
1. Why the insult?
2. I qualified that statement, citing:
2a> based on majority (implication: of citizens)
2b> based on 19th century SCOTUS decisions (which may or may not be portrayed correctly, but the perception is certainly there)
Now, the rest of your post may or may not make valid points, but with the "you idiot" remark, you completely invalidated it. No need to stoop to personal attacks, especially in light of the fact that I qualified my statement by declaring that it is the perception of America. The common perception abroad is that The united States of America is a Christian nation. Get over it, that's how we are perceived.
Give me at least 100 more. I need to shave 5 to 10 seconds off the grocery trip.
Not really. They are very lightweight, and therefore will have little inertia. Turbochargers spin between 60,000rpm and 100,000RPM and have a strong, long, proven track record (102 years) and the only time they become unreliable is when there is a lack of lubrication, usually from piss-poor maintenance (e.g., an owner gets an oil change once every 100,000 miles whether it's needed or not), or from running the car at FULL boost, then immediately shutting down (e.g., your average teenager pulling into a mall parking lot), without letting it idle down and cool off.
Turbine generators will be far less prone to the latter. There is no cure for poor maintenance, except that the turbine housings will be strong enough to protect against shattering during a catastrophic failure. Heck, even most turbines on jet aircraft are built to contain their massive, extremely high-speed turbines, and ditto for power plants with their even more massive gas turbine engines which are run at full speed at nearly 100% duty cycle.
And waste heat? They may run at a hotter temperature, but they use far less fuel than a conventional engine. There will probably less total heat output. The fix to lower the temperature of the exhaust? Mix the exhaust with ambient air (like the stealth bombers do to reduce their heat signatures), or reclaim the heat for other purposes, such as thermocouples or sterling engines to further increase efficiency, or during cold weather, heat exchangers for heating the vehicle, rather than relying on electric coils for heat.
Radical Muslims are not out to destroy the west, really. They're out to destroy the Jews, those who befriend them, and convert the entire world to Islam. There IS a difference, even as subtle as that distinction may be. If we were a Muslim nation rather than a Christian one (based on majority AND 19th century Supreme Court decisions) we would not be the target of radical Muslims.
Because of tradition and consistency.
No HDD manufacturer is going to want to advertise their 78.1GB HDD, competing against their competitors' 80GB HDDs, even though the 80GB HDDs do list the actual capacity in traditional, standard capacities in fine print. The current rating system is here to stay because convincing ALL of the hard drive manufacturers to make this change is next to impossible, and Hell will freeze over before ONE of them will adjust their rating systems without EVERY other manufacturer agreeing to immediately follow suit.
Really? So the trial versions of Symantec's products, the spyware they oh-so-kindly preinstall for you, and other trial programs cost them money rather than earn them money, allowing them to achieve their lower-than-cost $299 retail pricing?
Interesting. Maybe they make up for the loss through volume sales?
But isn't that one of the major benefits to open source in general? You have choice and configurability and extensibility, along with all of the source code for the product?
One of the things I truly hate about Gnome (and I used to LOVE Gnome and abhor KDE) is it takes huge steps backwards; it removes power and flexibility from the users (gconf? Come on, this kind of thing is exactly what people hate about Windows). Sure, if you want to spend days reading incomplete documentation for Gnome (or asking what should be RTFM questions because there IS no FM to R) you'll discover that gnome has a lot of wonderful control panels/applets to control nearly every facet of the system, but once you find those apps, you're not done - oh no, not by a long shot! Now you also have to read up on text settings you need to type into those applications (gnome's session settings is a perfect example of this. Want to enable Compiz? Have fun! Thankfully some kinds folks involved in the project bothered to write up some documentation on how to make it work).
Not everyone has time or ambition to read through the source to discover how everything gets configured. KDE centralizes it all - and while some distros modify the control center and do a better job than others, KDE is never so crippled that one can't get up and running, desktop FULLY customized within a couple of hours, tops.
And then there is the craptacular gtk File dialog. Even the Windows file dialogs are vastly superior to that crippled widget.