I don't think Microsoft deliberately wanted to break the standards. What would they get? They aren't becoming the standard that you claim so, they are just allowing other browsers to take more bites out of their market share. Now I know/. hates MS and would like to think that they're evil, maybe so... but in the IE compatibility-development department I think they've just become incompetent and complacent due to their monopoly.
I touched Vista for the first time today, because a friend wanted help installing a printer, and my cries of "I know nothing about windows!" fell on deaf ears. It took me 3 minutes from power on to bluescreening, and 2:30 of that was the time it took to boot...True story.
You posted good questions, but my take on it will be: maybe it depends on the being's (degree of) humanity. If the being is able to reason and choose freely (as in his/her/its destiny), then I feel that we ought to treat him/her/it as an individual person with dignity and respect. I'd object strongly however, on treating a being as a pet, when that being shows humanity (in the sense I've described above and others.)
I'll avoid your questions about the morality of a child created by rape as I'm quite unsure of the answer myself, but I don't think my conscience can handle me killing an embryo whose form I recognize as something similar to my own - a human. Just as I can't in clear conscience allow a being whom I recognize similarly human-like qualities (reason & free will, not just of form) to be treated as something less than how I should be treated.
But then again... I have been brought up, and is a Catholic, so my conscience will be tainted/influenced by some of its teachings.
Sorry if my post doesn't make much sense, English isn't my 1st language.:P
Half-life 2 can be played at $500 boxes. It might not run on flawless FPS and on the highest of settings, but it will still be pretty playable. And a $1000 box can play the newest games right now; and play the games of 2006 and earlier up to the 1st quarter of 2007 on or close to the highest settings.
It's sad to think that some people think that a game is the epitome of what a computer can do. Like I said, if you want buy an Xbox... it's cheaper. Otherwise, just get Cedega on Linux. Better framerate and still cheaper than Windows (and antispyware and antivirus and extra ram etc etc).
Sad, yes:D. But you can't talk about linux being ready for desktop without talking about its capability to run games (all forms and sizes).
We don't want an Xbox, stop shoving it in our faces. The point of gamers here is that the one thing that's stopping us from migrating to a linux is the lack of games. Is that too hard to grasp? We're not ignorant fools nor Microsoft fan boys (far from it), we're saying that the solutions you're touting doesn't work most of the time (and that's being generous.) Better frame rate? Yes, on games that can run natively on Linux, but the games developed for win32 are in general way better in its native os than in linux (if it even works there).
Personally I like being able to open up a spare window when playing WOW without crashing or locking up or bluscreening like the other people in my guold on windows when they try the same thing.
So do we, I had a $500 pc that ran WOW and was able to multi-task (surf, music, watch videos) without crashing or locking up - slowed down? Yes. In my experience, "bluescreening" only happens on XP on hardware issues. (Go ahead, say I was just one of the the 'magical exception'.)
It's a pretty safe assumption that all of slashdot readers know what OLPC means. This is after all news site for geeks at heart and it's not the 1st time we've heard about it here. If you fail to understand it, just read the article is that too much to ask?
If I want RIAA, ISP, RAM, OLPC, etc. to be spelled out for me I'd go read news sites geared toward the general public.
Follow-up questions: Is slashdot a (your) full time job? Are editors full time employees as well? How much are they paid? How much do you make from slashdot? What is the organizational structure of slashdot?
I know, these information might be way too personal, but still I (we) are curious..:D
I know this might come off as too anecdotal but me and many of my friends and family continue to use Windows because: 1. It's the first OS we have had and we have since grown to be real power users; perhaps not to the levels of an 'uber-unix-sysadmin', but enough to feel like geeks. 2. It's the most widely used OS - in schools and in offices. And honestly, it's quite a hassle to make sure files (documents mostly) are interoperable; I'm sure openoffice does it pretty good, but making sure files are saved in a format thats readable in both systems takes extra effort. 3. There are lots of accessible people who are experienced/power users of windows. If an aunt needs help with her system she could call any of her children, nephew, or nieces to help her. If I have a question/problem with my kubuntu, I often need to literally scour the net and forums to find solutions. 4. Windows may not be the first thing that pops up in one's mind when talking about security but it can be easily fixed, or at least alleviated, by third-party apps (firefox, anti-virus, etc.) or if the need arises, format the drive and reinstall. 5. Applications and lots of it. I need a post-it type of app? I need an app that keeps my windows 'on-top'? I need an app that does x,y,z? I google it and download one. 6. Games. 7. Everything is available for free! Just go to your favorite torrent site, search for whatever you want, and get it.
And if people stopped worshipping Redmond they'd actually realize that *they* have the power to choose, not the producers. Blame it on their monopoly and on our ignorance... but I believe that the market had chosen. Fear not though as people can still choose. Linux is starting to get noticed more and more and soon (hopefully) producers will no longer be able to ignore them. As long as anti-monopoly laws hold up against MS, I believe linux (Ubuntu, most likely) can challenge it.
"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"
I see, sorry I misread your first post. But then, if Apple deliberately bricks my hardware, chargebacks should be the least of their (and our) worries.
Voiding the warranty shouldn't stop Apple from considering me a non-customer, doesn't it? Do I now not deserve the firmware updates because I chose to void the warranty, I am still a paying customer and should receive support right?
What the fuck has morality got to do with this? I hope to all that is holy that you're being sarcastic.
You seriously consider unlocking/hacking an iPhone, which you legally bought and own, to be morally wrong? Now unlocking the phone would void the warranty, yes; but that doesn't give Apple the right (nor moral high ground) to purposely brick my unlocked iPhone because they, "clearly state that the iPhone will only work on their network."
I don't live in America, so I must ask... will that be legal then?
One buys an iPhone and hacks it in another country or one buys an iPhone from another country that is already hacked. Can apple sue you then? If not, then why not just always claim a friend in China gave you the hacked iPhone when apple comes knocking.
Making it big requires hard work but working hard doesn't mean you will make it big (especially financially). Granted there are those few who are born in royalty, but that's just the exception and not the rule.
I hate it when people belittle other people's achievements - claiming that they're born a genius, they were lucky, etc.
Hmm, so we got the suspects. Do we have motive? How much does the site earn?
It may be interesting if profit is a driving force for the coup...
If you were the site owner, what can you do when a coup does go successfully and hijacks all the ad revenue of the site?
And also from reading/., I see that there's hardly a true 'unlimited' broadband in other countries - where there are fines imposed for exceeding one's monthly quota. And for a person with such a connection, it's pretty understandable how one might treat their bandwidth as THEIR PRECIOUSSSSS... bandwidth after all is a resource.
I have the same attitude but then again I live in a country where there's no RIAA and the likes. And from what I've been reading in/. I'm kind of thinking how one such as you can get sued by the labels for piracy because of a casual user "illegally" downloading music/videos over your open network.
Well in my home, I leave my network open for people to use. It's a pretty small compound, about 150 families, and they quickly found out about my "unsecured" network. And when some of my neighbors were informing my dad of our open network and people "stealing" our internet, I told them that it was intended - that there's no real need to hide all the bandwidth (it's unlimited) when it's often left unused by day. And from then on five of my neighbors also opened their network, giving internet access to most of the compound.
Anyways, my point is that one cannot determine whether a network is intended to be open or open because of the owner's ignorance. And I'm not sure in other countries/places but I believe there are open networks intended to be open there.
Ubuntu has already gotten way more usable and intuitive than Windows is or ever will be
Not yet... not yet, In some aspects perhaps, but as OS in its entirety and ease-of-use, newbies (the moms and pops, or the myspace users market:P) would definitely prefer windows over ubuntu.
Oh, I've built my fair share of machines of my own. It may not have been "premium parts", usually just about a generation behind the beelding edge hardware, but they're not what you call 'commodity'.
But I could have totally misunderstood your definition of premium parts and commodity... pls do define which stuffs are premium and which aren'tt
Anyways, if we're talking about the lowest common denominator... which os has the most numerous selection of supported devices anyways? Im no OS guru, but from my limited experience, I think windows supports the most hardware out there. Based on my tinkering with a couple or more linux distros, I've had more driver issues in linux than in windows. (Unfair comparisson perhaps, but nevertheless true)
I do, about 4 times a year (Compaq computers at home) for 6 years now. And i have yet to see any errors whatsover.
I agree with rwven: "Windows is not nearly as unstable as the FUDDERS would like to make it seem."
It's already sickening to hear most people in slashdot always bashing all of Microsoft's producs; sorry for generalizing, but most slashdotters do! And these people usually turn a blind eye or justify linux's shortcommings.
But a gamer who tries on linux would certainly be surprised when he/she finds that their games wont _just_ install on linux. How hard could it be, pop in the CD and click on the setup icon!
And yes there are alot of great games that runs natively on linux, God bless their souls. But surely there are more games out there that simply wont 'install' on a linux machine that those that can. And this is the wall that linux faces, when Windows users migrate to linux and find that their apllications (which are so common! they use/find it in school, work, cafe computers!) aren't present in Linux.
Migrating to linux means not just a change of operating system but a change of a whole set of software that they use in windows.
Should sony be held responsible for other people's actions? For God's sakes they're supplying a console not some life-saving medicine. The people that commit these idiotic acts should be the only ones responsible for their own actions and not sony.
I don't think sony is the one to blame on this one. Their limited supply wasn't something they fabricated but rather forced by circumstance and time constraints (at least that seems logical because after all sony would want to sell as many consoles as they can and the timing is just right). They've already launched PS3 slightly late into the holiday shopping season.
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I don't think Microsoft deliberately wanted to break the standards. What would they get? They aren't becoming the standard that you claim so, they are just allowing other browsers to take more bites out of their market share. Now I know /. hates MS and would like to think that they're evil, maybe so... but in the IE compatibility-development department I think they've just become incompetent and complacent due to their monopoly.
I touched Vista for the first time today, because a friend wanted help installing a printer, and my cries of "I know nothing about windows!" fell on deaf ears. It took me 3 minutes from power on to bluescreening, and 2:30 of that was the time it took to boot...True story.
Fixed.You posted good questions, but my take on it will be: maybe it depends on the being's (degree of) humanity. If the being is able to reason and choose freely (as in his/her/its destiny), then I feel that we ought to treat him/her/it as an individual person with dignity and respect. I'd object strongly however, on treating a being as a pet, when that being shows humanity (in the sense I've described above and others.)
:P
I'll avoid your questions about the morality of a child created by rape as I'm quite unsure of the answer myself, but I don't think my conscience can handle me killing an embryo whose form I recognize as something similar to my own - a human. Just as I can't in clear conscience allow a being whom I recognize similarly human-like qualities (reason & free will, not just of form) to be treated as something less than how I should be treated.
But then again... I have been brought up, and is a Catholic, so my conscience will be tainted/influenced by some of its teachings.
Sorry if my post doesn't make much sense, English isn't my 1st language.
Half-life 2 can be played at $500 boxes. It might not run on flawless FPS and on the highest of settings, but it will still be pretty playable. And a $1000 box can play the newest games right now; and play the games of 2006 and earlier up to the 1st quarter of 2007 on or close to the highest settings.
It's sad to think that some people think that a game is the epitome of what a computer can do. Like I said, if you want buy an Xbox... it's cheaper. Otherwise, just get Cedega on Linux. Better framerate and still cheaper than Windows (and antispyware and antivirus and extra ram etc etc).Sad, yes :D. But you can't talk about linux being ready for desktop without talking about its capability to run games (all forms and sizes).
We don't want an Xbox, stop shoving it in our faces. The point of gamers here is that the one thing that's stopping us from migrating to a linux is the lack of games. Is that too hard to grasp? We're not ignorant fools nor Microsoft fan boys (far from it), we're saying that the solutions you're touting doesn't work most of the time (and that's being generous.) Better frame rate? Yes, on games that can run natively on Linux, but the games developed for win32 are in general way better in its native os than in linux (if it even works there).
Personally I like being able to open up a spare window when playing WOW without crashing or locking up or bluscreening like the other people in my guold on windows when they try the same thing.So do we, I had a $500 pc that ran WOW and was able to multi-task (surf, music, watch videos) without crashing or locking up - slowed down? Yes. In my experience, "bluescreening" only happens on XP on hardware issues. (Go ahead, say I was just one of the the 'magical exception'.)
It's a pretty safe assumption that all of slashdot readers know what OLPC means. This is after all news site for geeks at heart and it's not the 1st time we've heard about it here. If you fail to understand it, just read the article is that too much to ask?
If I want RIAA, ISP, RAM, OLPC, etc. to be spelled out for me I'd go read news sites geared toward the general public.
Follow-up questions: Is slashdot a (your) full time job? Are editors full time employees as well? How much are they paid? How much do you make from slashdot? What is the organizational structure of slashdot?
:D
I know, these information might be way too personal, but still I (we) are curious..
1. It's the first OS we have had and we have since grown to be real power users; perhaps not to the levels of an 'uber-unix-sysadmin', but enough to feel like geeks.
2. It's the most widely used OS - in schools and in offices. And honestly, it's quite a hassle to make sure files (documents mostly) are interoperable; I'm sure openoffice does it pretty good, but making sure files are saved in a format thats readable in both systems takes extra effort.
3. There are lots of accessible people who are experienced/power users of windows. If an aunt needs help with her system she could call any of her children, nephew, or nieces to help her. If I have a question/problem with my kubuntu, I often need to literally scour the net and forums to find solutions.
4. Windows may not be the first thing that pops up in one's mind when talking about security but it can be easily fixed, or at least alleviated, by third-party apps (firefox, anti-virus, etc.) or if the need arises, format the drive and reinstall.
5. Applications and lots of it. I need a post-it type of app? I need an app that keeps my windows 'on-top'? I need an app that does x,y,z? I google it and download one.
6. Games.
7. Everything is available for free! Just go to your favorite torrent site, search for whatever you want, and get it. And if people stopped worshipping Redmond they'd actually realize that *they* have the power to choose, not the producers. Blame it on their monopoly and on our ignorance... but I believe that the market had chosen. Fear not though as people can still choose. Linux is starting to get noticed more and more and soon (hopefully) producers will no longer be able to ignore them. As long as anti-monopoly laws hold up against MS, I believe linux (Ubuntu, most likely) can challenge it.
"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"
I see, sorry I misread your first post. But then, if Apple deliberately bricks my hardware, chargebacks should be the least of their (and our) worries.
Voiding the warranty shouldn't stop Apple from considering me a non-customer, doesn't it? Do I now not deserve the firmware updates because I chose to void the warranty, I am still a paying customer and should receive support right?
What the fuck has morality got to do with this? I hope to all that is holy that you're being sarcastic.
You seriously consider unlocking/hacking an iPhone, which you legally bought and own, to be morally wrong? Now unlocking the phone would void the warranty, yes; but that doesn't give Apple the right (nor moral high ground) to purposely brick my unlocked iPhone because they, "clearly state that the iPhone will only work on their network."
I don't live in America, so I must ask... will that be legal then?
One buys an iPhone and hacks it in another country or one buys an iPhone from another country that is already hacked. Can apple sue you then? If not, then why not just always claim a friend in China gave you the hacked iPhone when apple comes knocking.
Making it big requires hard work but working hard doesn't mean you will make it big (especially financially). Granted there are those few who are born in royalty, but that's just the exception and not the rule.
I hate it when people belittle other people's achievements - claiming that they're born a genius, they were lucky, etc.
Hmm, so we got the suspects. Do we have motive? How much does the site earn? It may be interesting if profit is a driving force for the coup... If you were the site owner, what can you do when a coup does go successfully and hijacks all the ad revenue of the site?
Yea! Let's go fucking experiment on retards; since they're just "nuisance" to society we might as well make them our guinea pigs.
Papa Pope: That's Nonsense, I Invented Taxes. Google Is The Devil!
And also from reading /., I see that there's hardly a true 'unlimited' broadband in other countries - where there are fines imposed for exceeding one's monthly quota. And for a person with such a connection, it's pretty understandable how one might treat their bandwidth as THEIR PRECIOUSSSSS... bandwidth after all is a resource.
I have the same attitude but then again I live in a country where there's no RIAA and the likes. And from what I've been reading in /. I'm kind of thinking how one such as you can get sued by the labels for piracy because of a casual user "illegally" downloading music/videos over your open network.
Well in my home, I leave my network open for people to use. It's a pretty small compound, about 150 families, and they quickly found out about my "unsecured" network. And when some of my neighbors were informing my dad of our open network and people "stealing" our internet, I told them that it was intended - that there's no real need to hide all the bandwidth (it's unlimited) when it's often left unused by day. And from then on five of my neighbors also opened their network, giving internet access to most of the compound.
Anyways, my point is that one cannot determine whether a network is intended to be open or open because of the owner's ignorance. And I'm not sure in other countries/places but I believe there are open networks intended to be open there.
Not yet... not yet, In some aspects perhaps, but as OS in its entirety and ease-of-use, newbies (the moms and pops, or the myspace users market :P) would definitely prefer windows over ubuntu.
Just ignore the phrase "...as a box of rocks" mods. Oh, and lay off the caffine
Oh, I've built my fair share of machines of my own. It may not have been "premium parts", usually just about a generation behind the beelding edge hardware, but they're not what you call 'commodity'.
But I could have totally misunderstood your definition of premium parts and commodity... pls do define which stuffs are premium and which aren'tt
Anyways, if we're talking about the lowest common denominator... which os has the most numerous selection of supported devices anyways?
Im no OS guru, but from my limited experience, I think windows supports the most hardware out there.
Based on my tinkering with a couple or more linux distros, I've had more driver issues in linux than in windows. (Unfair comparisson perhaps, but nevertheless true)
Heh, and now I get the nick "win-hugger"
I do, about 4 times a year (Compaq computers at home) for 6 years now.
And i have yet to see any errors whatsover.
I agree with rwven:
"Windows is not nearly as unstable as the FUDDERS would like to make it seem."
It's already sickening to hear most people in slashdot always bashing all of Microsoft's producs; sorry for generalizing, but most slashdotters do! And these people usually turn a blind eye or justify linux's shortcommings.
I thought vanilla people refers to white rappers...
We, the geeks, know cadega, yes.
But a gamer who tries on linux would certainly be surprised when he/she finds that their games wont _just_ install on linux. How hard could it be, pop in the CD and click on the setup icon!
And yes there are alot of great games that runs natively on linux, God bless their souls. But surely there are more games out there that simply wont 'install' on a linux machine that those that can. And this is the wall that linux faces, when Windows users migrate to linux and find that their apllications (which are so common! they use/find it in school, work, cafe computers!) aren't present in Linux.
Migrating to linux means not just a change of operating system but a change of a whole set of software that they use in windows.
Should sony be held responsible for other people's actions? For God's sakes they're supplying a console not some life-saving medicine. The people that commit these idiotic acts should be the only ones responsible for their own actions and not sony.
I don't think sony is the one to blame on this one. Their limited supply wasn't something they fabricated but rather forced by circumstance and time constraints (at least that seems logical because after all sony would want to sell as many consoles as they can and the timing is just right). They've already launched PS3 slightly late into the holiday shopping season.