Bullshit, you're flat out lying. The only reboot I've needed this year was when I upgraded from kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10. Lots of updates in that time, but again, the only reboot was when the kernel was updated.
Why in the hell would I use UNITY and give up one of the advantages?
Again, you're lying. Few of my old DOS games would run under Windows. FoxPro 6 (Microsoft product) wouldn't run under XP, nor would the software that came with my CD burner. About 2000 an upgrade to Access broke every single database I had written. And that wasn't even the point -- the point was that MS pushes proprietary "standards" that only work with Windows.
Not subjective, see Jacob Nielson's site
Yes, really
If I had those kinds of problems I'd find a new OS, or at least a new distro.
It's not acquired with age; I'm 60 and have never had a problem taping friends' records and copying their CDs. It's acquired by amoral propaganda that falsely labels it as wrong. Hell, in the '70s the RIAA tried to get congress to outlaw cassette decks, and they responded by writing a law that specifically legalized taping.
It's from lies like "copying is theft!" and "you wouldn't steal a car, would you?" No, I wouldn't steal a car but if I could make a copy of a car I sure would. I'm not taking anything away from you by copying your car.
The "downloading is stealing" is especially annoying to me. If crack your computer and copy some of the files, well, you may construe that as theft (even though you still have the files and have lost nothing, it's a stretch), but if I buy and pay for a CD and send you copies of its rips, how are you in any way stealing? It was given to you!
The first indication that a person is a sociopath is his or her bald faced lies. How many truthful lawyers, politicians, or CEOs have you ever heard of?
the ancient voting system america uses means its pointless voting for minor parties.
The system isn't what causes my vote to be "pointless". What reduces it is that the mass media (run by the same corporates who own the Ds and Rs) have convinced you that it's pointless, and you believe it.
You have friends and family, people you love, who smoke marijuana. The Ds and Rs want them in prison. It's pointless to vote against a candidate who wants to incarcerate your loved ones? No, it's IDIOTIC to vote for a candidate who would imprison your loved ones, and only rational to vote for a party who wants to legalize their harmless activity no matter how slim their chances of being elected.
Two picoseconds is pretty damned quick. The fastest my old SLR would go was 1/5000th, and it needed fast film and lots of light to get an acceptable picture at that speed. Movie cameras operate at 1/24th of a second. 1/16th for a 35mm still in low light, but you need a tripod and pretty sedentary objects to film.
I just don't see artistic uses for this, but I see lots of military uses.
It makes me think of the computer in "Blade Runner".
Why would one edit a PDF form? Or use one in the first place? They have them where I work, and I wish they didn't. And I have Acrobat on my work computer, and it won't do much in the way of editing at all, and often can't read PDFs from different versions of Acrobat.
OTOH, writing a PDF is built in to most Linux apps like Oo or Lo. Edit it? Why? Edit the original doc and re-save as PDF.
And the point is a polite reminder that they can't get enough advertising to cover the cost of the content you want
Odd, a little weekly newspaper here in Springfield gets enough advertising dollars to publish both a print and web edition, and both are free to the reader. How is it they can make a profit yet the New York Times can't?
Seems like the Times doesn't have good enough content to attract enough eyeballs for the advertisers to pony up.
The town's daily is swimming in debt, laying off people, and their website (also with a "premium content" paywall) is a disastrous mess of advertising, popups, slideovers, and other such nonsense.
Seems to me simply a matter of incompetence. It sure seems so at SJ-R's site and newspaper.
I can read the New York Times print version at the library for free, how is reading it on a library computer and circumventing the paywall any different?
If I steal an orange, the store is out the price they paid for that orange whether or not I would have paid for it and whether or not I eat it. If I circumvent a paywall I would never pay to get past, how is that costing anyone a penny?
Same here, but I have so much music that buying more is silly, especially since KSHE broadcasts seven CDs uncut and interrupted every Sunday. Just plug your notebook's earphone to the PC's audio input and sample. On the rare occasion I do buy any music, it's from a local band producing their own stuff.
Odd that when Napster thrived, CD sales rose, but when the industry sued it, CD sales plummeted -- yet nobody seems to credit the organized boycott against the RIAA labels with any of those losses.
Also odd that studies show that pirates spend more money on music than non-pirates, which you and the GP confirm with your own examples.
Pirates aren't eating the RIAA's lunch, the indies are. Musicians no longer need the labels, and neither do the listeners. The entrenched music industry is now obsolete. Time passes, things get invented, and who will cry for the new candlemaking and buggy whip industries?
I think it's a completely BAD idea. I chose my notebook because it was small and light, yet had a big enough screen. Paper is bulky and heavy, and I don't often print anything at all, even at work.
And despite the added size and weight, even with a desktop it's a dumb idea. Printers have too many moving parts and break too easily. It's like a VCR/TV combo; the VCR will die years before the TV part does.
I do think incorporating the computer and screen in one enclosure would be a good ides -- oh wait, that's called a "tablet" and they already have them.
Asking people to please use a platform is counter productive.
I don't know about counterproductive, but it's certainly not productive. I'd tell the submitter to just tell people why he uses Linux. I have plenty of reasons why I use Linux. Here's the first ten off the top of my head
Security: I need no AV software.
Speed; one reason it's faster than windows is it doesn't need AV software
Reboots. Not needed with Linux unless you're updating or replacing the kernel. Reboots are needed at least monthly on a Windows machine.
No need to enter a password on boot with Linux; you can have it enter the password for you. Not available in Windows
More reboots: you can set Linux up so that when it boots, everything that was open when you shut the machine down for hardware upgrades and repairs reopens when the computer starts.
Familiarity: Microsoft has a nasty habit of making every version of every piece of software completely different than the previous version, and doing so for no apparent reason. Every upgrade has a learning curve. But with KDE there are few visible changes on upgrade. Switching to KDE from any versiion of Windows has a shorter learning curve than going from any Windows version to any other.
Compatibility: MS goes out of its way to make itself incompatible with everything. Linux follows standards.
Ease of use: Windows seems to go out of its way to make everything take as many clicks to accomplish as possible.
Legacy hardware compatibility: Linux has been historically problematic with drivers for bleeding-edge peripherals, but good luck finding drivers for legacy hardware that will work under Windows. Linux shines on old hardware; try getting a supported version of Windows to run on a 486! I couldn't get Win 98 drivers for my video card and audio chip when I had to reinstall in 2005 (or was it 6?) when Sony rooted me with their XCP trojan and I had to reinstall.
OS Upgrades breaking things: When I bought XP because of lack of 98 drivers, my disk burning software (and some others) didn't work. On the first patch day my internet connection disappeared; MS had replaced my perfectly good LAN driver with one that was completely nonfunctional.
Except for games and the occasional professional-use app like PhotoShop I don't know why anyone would use Windows, except perhaps laziness (the reason it's still on my notebook) and ignorance.
One of the funniest things I ever saw was the Saturday after Theo Guisel died, and Jessie Jackson was on Saturday Night Live. They had him read Green Eggs and Ham; damn but that was funny. Jackson's speeches all sound like Dr Suess anyway, that was priceless. Think I'll see if I can find it on YouTube...
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ?
Yes. It is a complete replacement for Windows; like Windows it's the operating system that runs everything else. It has its own drivers, boot sequence, and services. You can buy a blank, unformatted hard drive, install it in your computer, put a Linux CD in and format the drive and install the OS and apps (most of the apps you'll need are likewise free and are on the Linux installation CD or DVD) without Windows ever touching it.
Likewise, Apples don't have Windows either, although you can install Linux and/or Windows on an Apple PC. Apple has its own operating system, which is Unix-like as is Linux.
Windows apps won't run in Linux or Apple, and Linux and Apple apps won't run in Windows. Unix apps will generally work on Apple or Linux, although they may need to be recompiled.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations.
You are the one calculating, and making errors in those calculations. Microsoft charges PC manufacturers a pittance for Windows, which the manufacturers more than make up for by charging folks like McAffee and Yahoo and other makers of crapware to put them on the computers. Those icons on the desktop of your brand new Windows PC? All but the Recycle Bin were paid for by their publishers to have them installed. That's why you get a "free" copy of Windows on your computer. It's also one reason Apples cost more -- they're not getting subsidized by crapware companies like Dell and HP are.
I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ?
Holy crap, kid, do you know what site you're on? Office is NOT Windows. Office runs IN Windows. And it won't run in Linux; there are open source alternatives to office for Linux, just like every other program.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that
It didn't snap into existance overnight, thousands of independant programmers have been contributing to it since 1985. Linux is actually what is known as a kernel, the lowest level of the OS. The part that faces you, the user, is a desktop, and there are several varieties, most notably KDE and GNOME.
And it has been a massive effort, with far more programmers contrinuting to it than Microsoft could ever have. Not only individuals, but companies contribute as well. Novell, Red hat, Sun, Oracle, IBM, all have made massive contributions.
Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
You can't possibly be that ignorant. Apple had a windowed OS long before MS did. They do not use MS software, although MS does sell programs like MS Office that will run under Apple's OS.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
I've made no assumptions. You might want to educate yourself. Linux Apple OS
First off for the weight, size and complexity the Apple is one of the least breakable tablets.
The lightest part of any phone is the plastic case. The battery is most of the weight. Size and complexity have nothing to do with durability.
The sorts of materials you are asking for, don't exist.
Kevlar and Gorilla Glass certainly do exist, and they're what Motorola uses for their Droid Razr.
Second, one of the main reasons it isn't user serviceable is that Apple can glue everything together and make it more durable for its weight.
Utter nonsense, glue is a terrible fastener. Glue is best used to enhance other fasteners, like friction. Trading a removable battery for millimeter or two reduction in thickness is a terrible tradeoff.
Lots of high end things have been fragile for generations
True, but they're not designed to be carried around with you all the time. OTOH a Rolex is high end, but it is very durable, as things you have to keep in a purse or pocket should be. A fragile high end landline phone would be silly, a fragile cell phone is rediculous.
Put a chip in her brain? Some of you guys are just plain crazy. Brain surgery is probably the most dangerous surgery there is, and if there's one prgan I do NOT want damaged, it's my brain.
He was talking about other people sening HIM messages with that stupid sig attached. iPhones are status symbols, and some of us are annoyed and amused at those self-whose worth depends on symbols of their financial success.
On the contrary, everyone I know with an Android uses it for everything it does. But you iPeople seem to want everyone to know that you're "hey, he's got an iPhone, he must be really 133t!!!"
The Androis is a tool, the iPhone is a status symbol. That'ss why you so often see "sent from my iPhone" but seldom "sent from my Android". Not because the Android users don't use it for mail, but because they're not status seeking snobs.
You forgot to mention in your list of cons that union salaries tend to be more based on seniority rather than skill or talent.
That's not how I've seen it work, and I've been in several unions. Senority plays a part when it's time to lay people off, and I think that's the right thing to do. When it comes to promotion, the boss' evaluations decide raises and promotions.
In a union shop you and guy #2 are hired in the same year and he can't keep up while you're ahead, you're going to be the one with the promotion. In fact, if he's that bad, management is going to be perusing the contract to see if they can legally get rid of him. And if they want you gone, they can usually get rid of you, union of no union.
Why should a high end device be fragile? For what an iThing costs they should make them from kevlar and gorilla glass. I should not NEED to return a high end device under warrantee; it should (duh!) be well designed and manufactured for quality, and it should be durable.
Sometimes you don't get what you pay for. If you have to buy "warrantee insurance" for a "high end" product, you're being robbed willingly.
It isn't a childrens' book, it is aimed at kids over 12. These were 14 year olds. Do you have objections to fourteen year old kids seeing Star Wars Episode 3 (other than artistic, I mean)? You have a guy getting both of his hands chopped off before being beheaded, and in the end Darth Vader has all four extremities chopped off and left to die horribly in fire.
Kicking someone to death who has been bullying you is worse?
And I could very well have been Ender in the 7th grade if the gym teacher hadn't pulled me off of the bully I was savaging. I really wanted to kill the bastard, but it was unnecessary -- he didn't ever bother me again. And neither did anybody else.
<blockquote> wasn't working for me earlier. Let's see what <ul> and <ol> do.
first in an ordered list
second in an ordered list
unordered #1
unordered #2
yep, you're right, they work (but no expected dot in the unordered list, just indentation). Lets try blockquote again:
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Too much less and things won't move right; it will look jerky.
It's not acquired with age; I'm 60 and have never had a problem taping friends' records and copying their CDs. It's acquired by amoral propaganda that falsely labels it as wrong. Hell, in the '70s the RIAA tried to get congress to outlaw cassette decks, and they responded by writing a law that specifically legalized taping.
It's from lies like "copying is theft!" and "you wouldn't steal a car, would you?" No, I wouldn't steal a car but if I could make a copy of a car I sure would. I'm not taking anything away from you by copying your car.
The "downloading is stealing" is especially annoying to me. If crack your computer and copy some of the files, well, you may construe that as theft (even though you still have the files and have lost nothing, it's a stretch), but if I buy and pay for a CD and send you copies of its rips, how are you in any way stealing? It was given to you!
The first indication that a person is a sociopath is his or her bald faced lies. How many truthful lawyers, politicians, or CEOs have you ever heard of?
the ancient voting system america uses means its pointless voting for minor parties.
The system isn't what causes my vote to be "pointless". What reduces it is that the mass media (run by the same corporates who own the Ds and Rs) have convinced you that it's pointless, and you believe it.
You have friends and family, people you love, who smoke marijuana. The Ds and Rs want them in prison. It's pointless to vote against a candidate who wants to incarcerate your loved ones? No, it's IDIOTIC to vote for a candidate who would imprison your loved ones, and only rational to vote for a party who wants to legalize their harmless activity no matter how slim their chances of being elected.
Two picoseconds is pretty damned quick. The fastest my old SLR would go was 1/5000th, and it needed fast film and lots of light to get an acceptable picture at that speed. Movie cameras operate at 1/24th of a second. 1/16th for a 35mm still in low light, but you need a tripod and pretty sedentary objects to film.
I just don't see artistic uses for this, but I see lots of military uses.
It makes me think of the computer in "Blade Runner".
Why would one edit a PDF form? Or use one in the first place? They have them where I work, and I wish they didn't. And I have Acrobat on my work computer, and it won't do much in the way of editing at all, and often can't read PDFs from different versions of Acrobat.
OTOH, writing a PDF is built in to most Linux apps like Oo or Lo. Edit it? Why? Edit the original doc and re-save as PDF.
And the point is a polite reminder that they can't get enough advertising to cover the cost of the content you want
Odd, a little weekly newspaper here in Springfield gets enough advertising dollars to publish both a print and web edition, and both are free to the reader. How is it they can make a profit yet the New York Times can't?
Seems like the Times doesn't have good enough content to attract enough eyeballs for the advertisers to pony up.
The town's daily is swimming in debt, laying off people, and their website (also with a "premium content" paywall) is a disastrous mess of advertising, popups, slideovers, and other such nonsense.
Seems to me simply a matter of incompetence. It sure seems so at SJ-R's site and newspaper.
I can read the New York Times print version at the library for free, how is reading it on a library computer and circumventing the paywall any different?
If I steal an orange, the store is out the price they paid for that orange whether or not I would have paid for it and whether or not I eat it. If I circumvent a paywall I would never pay to get past, how is that costing anyone a penny?
Same here, but I have so much music that buying more is silly, especially since KSHE broadcasts seven CDs uncut and interrupted every Sunday. Just plug your notebook's earphone to the PC's audio input and sample. On the rare occasion I do buy any music, it's from a local band producing their own stuff.
Odd that when Napster thrived, CD sales rose, but when the industry sued it, CD sales plummeted -- yet nobody seems to credit the organized boycott against the RIAA labels with any of those losses.
Also odd that studies show that pirates spend more money on music than non-pirates, which you and the GP confirm with your own examples.
Pirates aren't eating the RIAA's lunch, the indies are. Musicians no longer need the labels, and neither do the listeners. The entrenched music industry is now obsolete. Time passes, things get invented, and who will cry for the new candlemaking and buggy whip industries?
I think it's a completely BAD idea. I chose my notebook because it was small and light, yet had a big enough screen. Paper is bulky and heavy, and I don't often print anything at all, even at work.
And despite the added size and weight, even with a desktop it's a dumb idea. Printers have too many moving parts and break too easily. It's like a VCR/TV combo; the VCR will die years before the TV part does.
I do think incorporating the computer and screen in one enclosure would be a good ides -- oh wait, that's called a "tablet" and they already have them.
Asking people to please use a platform is counter productive.
I don't know about counterproductive, but it's certainly not productive. I'd tell the submitter to just tell people why he uses Linux. I have plenty of reasons why I use Linux. Here's the first ten off the top of my head
Except for games and the occasional professional-use app like PhotoShop I don't know why anyone would use Windows, except perhaps laziness (the reason it's still on my notebook) and ignorance.
One of the funniest things I ever saw was the Saturday after Theo Guisel died, and Jessie Jackson was on Saturday Night Live. They had him read Green Eggs and Ham; damn but that was funny. Jackson's speeches all sound like Dr Suess anyway, that was priceless. Think I'll see if I can find it on YouTube...
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ?
Yes. It is a complete replacement for Windows; like Windows it's the operating system that runs everything else. It has its own drivers, boot sequence, and services. You can buy a blank, unformatted hard drive, install it in your computer, put a Linux CD in and format the drive and install the OS and apps (most of the apps you'll need are likewise free and are on the Linux installation CD or DVD) without Windows ever touching it.
Likewise, Apples don't have Windows either, although you can install Linux and/or Windows on an Apple PC. Apple has its own operating system, which is Unix-like as is Linux.
Windows apps won't run in Linux or Apple, and Linux and Apple apps won't run in Windows. Unix apps will generally work on Apple or Linux, although they may need to be recompiled.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations.
You are the one calculating, and making errors in those calculations. Microsoft charges PC manufacturers a pittance for Windows, which the manufacturers more than make up for by charging folks like McAffee and Yahoo and other makers of crapware to put them on the computers. Those icons on the desktop of your brand new Windows PC? All but the Recycle Bin were paid for by their publishers to have them installed. That's why you get a "free" copy of Windows on your computer. It's also one reason Apples cost more -- they're not getting subsidized by crapware companies like Dell and HP are.
I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ?
Holy crap, kid, do you know what site you're on? Office is NOT Windows. Office runs IN Windows. And it won't run in Linux; there are open source alternatives to office for Linux, just like every other program.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that
It didn't snap into existance overnight, thousands of independant programmers have been contributing to it since 1985. Linux is actually what is known as a kernel, the lowest level of the OS. The part that faces you, the user, is a desktop, and there are several varieties, most notably KDE and GNOME.
And it has been a massive effort, with far more programmers contrinuting to it than Microsoft could ever have. Not only individuals, but companies contribute as well. Novell, Red hat, Sun, Oracle, IBM, all have made massive contributions.
Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
You can't possibly be that ignorant. Apple had a windowed OS long before MS did. They do not use MS software, although MS does sell programs like MS Office that will run under Apple's OS.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
I've made no assumptions. You might want to educate yourself.
Linux
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The irony, it BUUUUURNS!
Well, you're not supposed to iron your clothes when you're wearing them!
First off for the weight, size and complexity the Apple is one of the least breakable tablets.
The lightest part of any phone is the plastic case. The battery is most of the weight. Size and complexity have nothing to do with durability.
The sorts of materials you are asking for, don't exist.
Kevlar and Gorilla Glass certainly do exist, and they're what Motorola uses for their Droid Razr.
Second, one of the main reasons it isn't user serviceable is that Apple can glue everything together and make it more durable for its weight.
Utter nonsense, glue is a terrible fastener. Glue is best used to enhance other fasteners, like friction. Trading a removable battery for millimeter or two reduction in thickness is a terrible tradeoff.
Lots of high end things have been fragile for generations
True, but they're not designed to be carried around with you all the time. OTOH a Rolex is high end, but it is very durable, as things you have to keep in a purse or pocket should be. A fragile high end landline phone would be silly, a fragile cell phone is rediculous.
Put a chip in her brain? Some of you guys are just plain crazy. Brain surgery is probably the most dangerous surgery there is, and if there's one prgan I do NOT want damaged, it's my brain.
He was talking about other people sening HIM messages with that stupid sig attached. iPhones are status symbols, and some of us are annoyed and amused at those self-whose worth depends on symbols of their financial success.
I think he's gotten Crusher and Sulu confused.
On the contrary, everyone I know with an Android uses it for everything it does. But you iPeople seem to want everyone to know that you're "hey, he's got an iPhone, he must be really 133t!!!"
The Androis is a tool, the iPhone is a status symbol. That'ss why you so often see "sent from my iPhone" but seldom "sent from my Android". Not because the Android users don't use it for mail, but because they're not status seeking snobs.
Geordi? Is that you? (Thinking of the episode where Spock's dad's illness makes everyone crazy-pissed off)
I occasionally host board game nights
Not me. When I write "bored games" it's neither a typo nor a misspelling.
You forgot to mention in your list of cons that union salaries tend to be more based on seniority rather than skill or talent.
That's not how I've seen it work, and I've been in several unions. Senority plays a part when it's time to lay people off, and I think that's the right thing to do. When it comes to promotion, the boss' evaluations decide raises and promotions.
In a union shop you and guy #2 are hired in the same year and he can't keep up while you're ahead, you're going to be the one with the promotion. In fact, if he's that bad, management is going to be perusing the contract to see if they can legally get rid of him. And if they want you gone, they can usually get rid of you, union of no union.
Why should a high end device be fragile? For what an iThing costs they should make them from kevlar and gorilla glass. I should not NEED to return a high end device under warrantee; it should (duh!) be well designed and manufactured for quality, and it should be durable.
Sometimes you don't get what you pay for. If you have to buy "warrantee insurance" for a "high end" product, you're being robbed willingly.
It isn't a childrens' book, it is aimed at kids over 12. These were 14 year olds. Do you have objections to fourteen year old kids seeing Star Wars Episode 3 (other than artistic, I mean)? You have a guy getting both of his hands chopped off before being beheaded, and in the end Darth Vader has all four extremities chopped off and left to die horribly in fire.
Kicking someone to death who has been bullying you is worse?
And I could very well have been Ender in the 7th grade if the gym teacher hadn't pulled me off of the bully I was savaging. I really wanted to kill the bastard, but it was unnecessary -- he didn't ever bother me again. And neither did anybody else.
<blockquote> wasn't working for me earlier. Let's see what <ul> and <ol> do.
yep, you're right, they work (but no expected dot in the unordered list, just indentation). Lets try blockquote again:
It appears thett they've been working on the code some today. Blockquote wasn't working at all this morning; I checked the spelling closely when the preview didn't show it.