So what do you do, as an artist, when you think that the 15-year-old with a $20 weekly allowance should only have to pay you $5 for your CD whereas a DJ who makes his living playing the same CD at weddings should pay you $100.
I'd say you should see a shrink. That's like charging Hertz $500,000 for the very same car that a private person can buy for $10,000. It's insane, and so are you for thinking it's rational or reasonable.
It also says you're an idiot for not realising that hearing your CD is likely to result in more sales for you.
Nope, sorry, Linux still has major issues with driver, upgrades breaking shit, and with the DE wars and pulseaudio being flaky.
Why do you keep repeating shit that simply isn't true, hairy? I haven't had had any driver issues in over half a decade (I understand that two video card vendors are pretty hostile to Linux), the only upgrade I had that ever broke shit was the latest upgrade; Flash will no longer work because the box only has 750 meg of memory and Flash now needs a gig, but a newer box wouldn't have that issue. As to pulseaudio, Wikipedia says you're full of shit.
Issues Older versions of Pulseaudio sometimes started to distort the processed audio due to incorrect handling of buffer over-/underruns.
I know someone who absolutely positively believes that there is no such thing as God, yet she calls herself Catholic.
As to unknowable, yes, agnosticism is the only rational belief system until God reveals himself to you. Once you've seen an elephant, believing that elephants don't exist is highly irrational.
It's been my experience as well, complete novices have no more problem learning Linux than it is for them to learn Windows. However, going from any Windows OS to the next version is more of a learning curve than going from any version of Windows to KDE.
No, I don't think so. More likely the question in the survey was poorly worded, and TFA (which I haven't read) was probably as crappy as most non-scientist/statistician summaries of most research.
If the question was "do you believe God created man 10,000 years ago" 46% would be about right. Most people are pretty ignorant about paleontology, jusging from slashdot comments most people don't read enough to know the difference between their there and they're. Personally, I do believe God created it all, but 10k years is far too low; humans have been human for over 50K years and evolved form other apes.
You underestimate the abysmal state of public education in the US, and overestimate the ignorance of article writers. I'd like to see the actual research.
It won't work. There was a bar owner here in Springfield, IL who hired bands that played folk music; music that was no longer under copyright, and bands that played their own compositions. The organization that collects fees for songwriters (sorry, I can't remember the evil organization's name) from bars who hire cover bands and use jukeboxes refused to pay their extortion fees, and the cost of defennding his rights in court bankrupted him. His bar is no longer in business.
Not everyone here is a native speaker. I'd assume English is a second language to him, and he did a far better job than I would if I were writing in Spanish. Mi Espanol es meirde.
They did not like having to use a password at first.
Huh? I'm running the latest kubuntu, I haven't had to enter a password in YEARS unless I need to do something as root. There's even a checkbox on the install screen to let you do that.
How do you get Windows to boot without a password? I haven't seen Winodws not need a password since W95. I have W7 on my notebook and I'd love to be able to boot without PW like I do in Linux.
When I buy your CD I've already paid you, you greedy goddamned pig. I shouldn't have to pay you AGAIN to play the fucking CD I paid for! And like all pigs, your greed blinds you to the fact that if I play your CD at a wedding, there are people there who may hear it, like it, and buy their own copy. Fucking moron.
Damn it, slashdot, stop giving mod points to shills and astroturfers! charnov's comment was in no way a troll. This will indeed be good for the Linux community for the very reason he stated. And that's probably why they REALLY want "Secure Boot" -- to make it harder for their only desktop competetitor's free product to install, because there will be little else for people to wipe W8 and install KDE or Gnome (I don't like Gnome, BTW).
PS: I do disagree with his statement "taking a masterpiece of design like W7". IMO it's almost as unusable as XP, but just because I disagree with him about that doesn't make him a troll.
I don't think you've thought this through. How do you reconcile "the Linux community along with all the Black Hat Hackers out there will be looking for the key" and "it means that life is harder for malware writers in general"?
The key will be broken, malware writers will again be able to break in, but everybody and his dog will think malware is a thing of the past. This will mean the malware writers win.
Nothing stops you from running Linux on an x86 Windows 8 computer
Except for the fact that every non-Apple x86 computer sold has Windows preinstalled, and when W8 comes out, every non-Apple x86 computer sold will have W8 preinstalled, along with secure boot.
I think everyone hates those offal things; I know I do. But the worst design? Hardly. Clamshell packaging never killed anybody.
Ever drive a car from the late '80s-early '90s? Rather than a knob, the volume control was buttons! Unlike earlier and modern car radios, you couldn't change the volume without taking your eyes off the road!
Worse, your ac/heat controls used to have knobs, too. You could change the temp without taking your eyes off the road. Now they have BUTTONS! God damn it, listen up, idiot designers, buttons don't belong on a car's dash! If you need buttons, put them on the steering wheel like the radio controls on my car. That has the added benefit of not letting the fatassed passenger turn the AC all the way up and freezing me out.
Similarly, what idiot decided to put the winshield wiper on the turn signal? Probably one of the many idiots that never use their turn signals. Not as bad as clamshell packaging or buttons on a car's dash, but still frustrating and stupid.
I want something that performs and is stable, hence why I try not to use any version of MS Windows or MS products in general.
Performance and stability are no longer a probem, as least as far as I can tell with the notebook that came with W7 preloaded. My problems with Windows is their unuseable interfaces, the "Microsoft way or no way" as well as Windows' lack of features compared to KDE. Oh yeah, and needing to reboot the damned thing at least every two weeks to apply patches. Why in the hell should I have to boot the OS to apply a patch to an application?
I do NOT understand you hard-core anti-government dweebs. Your "right" to extract cash does NOT trump my right to privacy. Your "right" to pollute does NOT trump my right to be free of your foul emmissions. Your "right" to overcharge for your monopoly service does NOT trump government's responsibility to protect me from it.
The government should NOT be protecting me from myself, but it SHOULD be protecting me from predators. And that is exactly what the EU law does -- protect you from powerful corporations.
Thell the Koch brothers "hi" for me. Either you're very rich, or you're a damned fool.
Three keys for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. One key to rule them all, One key to find them, One key to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie.
Photosynthesis is more effective in diffuse light.
Great... "whiter skies." I absolutely HATE a white sky -- you know, when it's cloudy? If they do this there's going to be a hell of a lot more murders and suicides, because folks with clinical depression cheer up a bit when the sky is blue and become more depressed when it's gray ("whiter").
DO NOT WANT! I know far too many mentally disturbed people. I'd hate to see them get worse.
As long as I have the option to turn it off in the BIOS settings I wouldn't be bothered, but I'd never buy a motherboard or notebook that would only let me run Windows as an OS.
No, he meant in the sense that as the Guide says, the population of the universe is zero. I'd think with your user name you would have gotten his joke.
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So what do you do, as an artist, when you think that the 15-year-old with a $20 weekly allowance should only have to pay you $5 for your CD whereas a DJ who makes his living playing the same CD at weddings should pay you $100.
I'd say you should see a shrink. That's like charging Hertz $500,000 for the very same car that a private person can buy for $10,000. It's insane, and so are you for thinking it's rational or reasonable.
It also says you're an idiot for not realising that hearing your CD is likely to result in more sales for you.
Nope, sorry, Linux still has major issues with driver, upgrades breaking shit, and with the DE wars and pulseaudio being flaky.
Why do you keep repeating shit that simply isn't true, hairy? I haven't had had any driver issues in over half a decade (I understand that two video card vendors are pretty hostile to Linux), the only upgrade I had that ever broke shit was the latest upgrade; Flash will no longer work because the box only has 750 meg of memory and Flash now needs a gig, but a newer box wouldn't have that issue. As to pulseaudio, Wikipedia says you're full of shit.
I know someone who absolutely positively believes that there is no such thing as God, yet she calls herself Catholic.
As to unknowable, yes, agnosticism is the only rational belief system until God reveals himself to you. Once you've seen an elephant, believing that elephants don't exist is highly irrational.
It's been my experience as well, complete novices have no more problem learning Linux than it is for them to learn Windows. However, going from any Windows OS to the next version is more of a learning curve than going from any version of Windows to KDE.
No, I don't think so. More likely the question in the survey was poorly worded, and TFA (which I haven't read) was probably as crappy as most non-scientist/statistician summaries of most research.
If the question was "do you believe God created man 10,000 years ago" 46% would be about right. Most people are pretty ignorant about paleontology, jusging from slashdot comments most people don't read enough to know the difference between their there and they're. Personally, I do believe God created it all, but 10k years is far too low; humans have been human for over 50K years and evolved form other apes.
You underestimate the abysmal state of public education in the US, and overestimate the ignorance of article writers. I'd like to see the actual research.
It won't work. There was a bar owner here in Springfield, IL who hired bands that played folk music; music that was no longer under copyright, and bands that played their own compositions. The organization that collects fees for songwriters (sorry, I can't remember the evil organization's name) from bars who hire cover bands and use jukeboxes refused to pay their extortion fees, and the cost of defennding his rights in court bankrupted him. His bar is no longer in business.
With all due respects, Dr. Cooper, are you on crack?*
Or do you just have a reading disability? He said win 7 will be like XP was, not that they're going to keep using XP.
*line stolen from a Nobel Prize winning physicist
Not everyone here is a native speaker. I'd assume English is a second language to him, and he did a far better job than I would if I were writing in Spanish. Mi Espanol es meirde.
They did not like having to use a password at first.
Huh? I'm running the latest kubuntu, I haven't had to enter a password in YEARS unless I need to do something as root. There's even a checkbox on the install screen to let you do that.
How do you get Windows to boot without a password? I haven't seen Winodws not need a password since W95. I have W7 on my notebook and I'd love to be able to boot without PW like I do in Linux.
When I buy your CD I've already paid you, you greedy goddamned pig. I shouldn't have to pay you AGAIN to play the fucking CD I paid for! And like all pigs, your greed blinds you to the fact that if I play your CD at a wedding, there are people there who may hear it, like it, and buy their own copy. Fucking moron.
You remind me of an old joke.
Q: Why won't Baptists have sex standing up?
A: They're afraid someone will see them and think they're dancing!
Damn it, slashdot, stop giving mod points to shills and astroturfers! charnov's comment was in no way a troll. This will indeed be good for the Linux community for the very reason he stated. And that's probably why they REALLY want "Secure Boot" -- to make it harder for their only desktop competetitor's free product to install, because there will be little else for people to wipe W8 and install KDE or Gnome (I don't like Gnome, BTW).
PS: I do disagree with his statement "taking a masterpiece of design like W7". IMO it's almost as unusable as XP, but just because I disagree with him about that doesn't make him a troll.
I miss the old metamoderation system.
I don't think you've thought this through. How do you reconcile "the Linux community along with all the Black Hat Hackers out there will be looking for the key" and "it means that life is harder for malware writers in general"?
The key will be broken, malware writers will again be able to break in, but everybody and his dog will think malware is a thing of the past. This will mean the malware writers win.
Nothing stops you from running Linux on an x86 Windows 8 computer
Except for the fact that every non-Apple x86 computer sold has Windows preinstalled, and when W8 comes out, every non-Apple x86 computer sold will have W8 preinstalled, along with secure boot.
I think everyone hates those offal things; I know I do. But the worst design? Hardly. Clamshell packaging never killed anybody.
Ever drive a car from the late '80s-early '90s? Rather than a knob, the volume control was buttons! Unlike earlier and modern car radios, you couldn't change the volume without taking your eyes off the road!
Worse, your ac/heat controls used to have knobs, too. You could change the temp without taking your eyes off the road. Now they have BUTTONS! God damn it, listen up, idiot designers, buttons don't belong on a car's dash! If you need buttons, put them on the steering wheel like the radio controls on my car. That has the added benefit of not letting the fatassed passenger turn the AC all the way up and freezing me out.
Similarly, what idiot decided to put the winshield wiper on the turn signal? Probably one of the many idiots that never use their turn signals. Not as bad as clamshell packaging or buttons on a car's dash, but still frustrating and stupid.
We at the Monsanto corportation don't feel that you're sarcasm is warranted
We who are not Monsanto don't think that the GP is sarcasm, either! His post, maybe, but not him.
Put the chair down, Steve.
I want something that performs and is stable, hence why I try not to use any version of MS Windows or MS products in general.
Performance and stability are no longer a probem, as least as far as I can tell with the notebook that came with W7 preloaded. My problems with Windows is their unuseable interfaces, the "Microsoft way or no way" as well as Windows' lack of features compared to KDE. Oh yeah, and needing to reboot the damned thing at least every two weeks to apply patches. Why in the hell should I have to boot the OS to apply a patch to an application?
I do NOT understand you hard-core anti-government dweebs. Your "right" to extract cash does NOT trump my right to privacy. Your "right" to pollute does NOT trump my right to be free of your foul emmissions. Your "right" to overcharge for your monopoly service does NOT trump government's responsibility to protect me from it.
The government should NOT be protecting me from myself, but it SHOULD be protecting me from predators. And that is exactly what the EU law does -- protect you from powerful corporations.
Thell the Koch brothers "hi" for me. Either you're very rich, or you're a damned fool.
Three keys for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One key to rule them all, One key to find them,
One key to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie.
Photosynthesis is more effective in diffuse light.
Great... "whiter skies." I absolutely HATE a white sky -- you know, when it's cloudy? If they do this there's going to be a hell of a lot more murders and suicides, because folks with clinical depression cheer up a bit when the sky is blue and become more depressed when it's gray ("whiter").
DO NOT WANT! I know far too many mentally disturbed people. I'd hate to see them get worse.
I'm sure the Vogons are behind this...
As long as I have the option to turn it off in the BIOS settings I wouldn't be bothered, but I'd never buy a motherboard or notebook that would only let me run Windows as an OS.
But then they would have to admit that the bills were in fact drafted by lobbyists.
No, he meant in the sense that as the Guide says, the population of the universe is zero. I'd think with your user name you would have gotten his joke.