my point was, toyota had never offered a large executive car in america or europe. the lexus was a new market for toyota and they did amazingly well. their first product was better than the competition in almost every respect.
i would say that people did speak up. even the members of the iso shouted about this and microsoft still won. speaking up just isn't enough when you're fighting a gorilla with 30 billion dollars profit each year.
if you're going to use such loaded language as "that's just not acceptable" and "until it supports my current mainstream hardware" (which should be the other way round by the way---until the manufacturers of my current mainstream hardware support linux), you can expect people to get riled.
that's not true. recumbents are usually faster uphill as well, although they weigh about 3 kg more. the reason is that the rider only uses their energy to provide motion, not to stand on. And of course on a level or downhill a recumbent is easily 30% faster.
i think we all know here what a scheduler is. your problem with using one of the linux kernel schedulers in a windows kernel would be in decompiling the windows kernel. apart from that, everything is just a lot of work, but possible.
calling the huge technical difficulty of implementing ntfs and a specific chkdsk for it a design flaw is maybe the wrong choice of words. microsoft is just going out of their way (as ever) to make sure that nobody else can interoperate, while gnu/linux bends over backwards to make interoperability as easy as possible.
no it isn't free to implement. the project leader for gnash recently said words to the effect that if you have ever used adobe's flash plug-in, you cannot legally work on a free replacement.
we're not talking about other people here but about some really strange, politically extremely powerful companies. i do not see how i am not respecting their privacy by downloading films from bittorrent.
will we ever change our view of basic amenities to include internet? i can't imagine anybody charging 1200$ per month for access to water, but maybe i'm naive here.
i don't know of any packages on officially supported architectures that won't run at all. if you're having that sort of problem, a bug-report would seem to be the way to go.
if i want to call people over the computer, i ask them to download and install openwengo. if the other person isn't even willing to do that, i don't see why i should want to call them.
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if skype is slower in ubuntu, that's skype's fault. for example, the linux kernel itself is orders of magnitude faster than the vista kernel for a number of important tasks.
you shouldn't be getting random crashes in ubuntu. that's a sign that something's wrong. if you're hardware is supported and you don't play around with configuration files, ubuntu should just run.
i've never had this sound problem myself, but it's been reported a lot, so i know it exists, and i presume it depends upon the hardware. 8.04 has a new sound manager called pulseaudio which is meant to fix this problem once and for all. try it with a livecd, maybe it will work.
for internet telephoning i tend to use openwengo. it works okay. seeing as i've never used skype, i couldn't give you a comparison.
i'm not sure that it is 'the only thing wrong with linux', as i think that linux as a distribution has a number of other flaws, but it is remarkable to think that this is where the problem now is. after years of hearing about the complexity and command-line intricacies of gnu/linux as being the showstoppers, i'm reading more and more posts from people saying things like 'ubuntu is just as easy or even easier to use than vista and it has better hardware support, but it's a pain getting WoW running on it'.
do you think it is fair to say that if the next big game was available on ubuntu for example, and for the sake of argument, let's throw the next version of photoshop in there as well, we could see a fairly large movement towards linux distributions on the desktop?
as we were working from different locations on different platforms and my boss is terrified of vpns, a shared drive is not possible. change tracking would also not have helped. we were working on different parts of the document. my idea was to use a wiki and have one page per chapter.
the parent company of the company where i work recently invested in a sharepoint installation. i haven't yet used it, but i saw an attempt to demonstrate it. that was quite embarrassing.
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my point was, toyota had never offered a large executive car in america or europe. the lexus was a new market for toyota and they did amazingly well. their first product was better than the competition in almost every respect.
one word: lexus.
this is soo much easier than linux
he's heard of 'free'! quick! someone offer him a job!
flash only works on a handful of platform/operating system combinations.
you know, i don't know many people who think "how much does the new suv cost? okay, that's how many original and truly innovative ideas i'll have"
i would say that people did speak up. even the members of the iso shouted about this and microsoft still won. speaking up just isn't enough when you're fighting a gorilla with 30 billion dollars profit each year.
if you're going to use such loaded language as "that's just not acceptable" and "until it supports my current mainstream hardware" (which should be the other way round by the way---until the manufacturers of my current mainstream hardware support linux), you can expect people to get riled.
that's not true. recumbents are usually faster uphill as well, although they weigh about 3 kg more. the reason is that the rider only uses their energy to provide motion, not to stand on. And of course on a level or downhill a recumbent is easily 30% faster.
i think we all know here what a scheduler is. your problem with using one of the linux kernel schedulers in a windows kernel would be in decompiling the windows kernel. apart from that, everything is just a lot of work, but possible.
calling the huge technical difficulty of implementing ntfs and a specific chkdsk for it a design flaw is maybe the wrong choice of words. microsoft is just going out of their way (as ever) to make sure that nobody else can interoperate, while gnu/linux bends over backwards to make interoperability as easy as possible.
if microsoft released it solely under the gpl, they wouldn't be able to embrace, extend and extinguish their own code. that would be quite amusing :)
no it isn't free to implement. the project leader for gnash recently said words to the effect that if you have ever used adobe's flash plug-in, you cannot legally work on a free replacement.
so insisting that content is available royalty-free without risk of legal trouble because of patent infringement is according to you "zealotry".
we're not talking about other people here but about some really strange, politically extremely powerful companies. i do not see how i am not respecting their privacy by downloading films from bittorrent.
will we ever change our view of basic amenities to include internet? i can't imagine anybody charging 1200$ per month for access to water, but maybe i'm naive here.
in the press release there is no mention of support for the 5007 chipset built in to the eee :(
however, look here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k for more information.
So, is it finally "trendy" to provide *the manufacturers with our tacit approval to turn gnu/linux into a second windows*?
the thing is, you read every line of their ubuntu-warning page and you just know, it had to be okayed by microsoft.
have a look here (and while you're at it, skim through the rest of the site): http://widefox.pbwiki.com/Scheduler#Performance
i don't know of any packages on officially supported architectures that won't run at all. if you're having that sort of problem, a bug-report would seem to be the way to go.
if i want to call people over the computer, i ask them to download and install openwengo. if the other person isn't even willing to do that, i don't see why i should want to call them.
if skype is slower in ubuntu, that's skype's fault. for example, the linux kernel itself is orders of magnitude faster than the vista kernel for a number of important tasks.
you shouldn't be getting random crashes in ubuntu. that's a sign that something's wrong. if you're hardware is supported and you don't play around with configuration files, ubuntu should just run.
i've never had this sound problem myself, but it's been reported a lot, so i know it exists, and i presume it depends upon the hardware. 8.04 has a new sound manager called pulseaudio which is meant to fix this problem once and for all. try it with a livecd, maybe it will work.
for internet telephoning i tend to use openwengo. it works okay. seeing as i've never used skype, i couldn't give you a comparison.
you had to get the disk because it's registered as a package source in synaptic. just remove it from the list of sources and reload the package list.
i'm not sure that it is 'the only thing wrong with linux', as i think that linux as a distribution has a number of other flaws, but it is remarkable to think that this is where the problem now is. after years of hearing about the complexity and command-line intricacies of gnu/linux as being the showstoppers, i'm reading more and more posts from people saying things like 'ubuntu is just as easy or even easier to use than vista and it has better hardware support, but it's a pain getting WoW running on it'.
do you think it is fair to say that if the next big game was available on ubuntu for example, and for the sake of argument, let's throw the next version of photoshop in there as well, we could see a fairly large movement towards linux distributions on the desktop?
in europe i can get a umts phone with internet flatrate, free calls to landlines and others on my network and 100 free sms for about 60 EUR per month.
just thought i'd share.
as we were working from different locations on different platforms and my boss is terrified of vpns, a shared drive is not possible. change tracking would also not have helped. we were working on different parts of the document. my idea was to use a wiki and have one page per chapter.
the parent company of the company where i work recently invested in a sharepoint installation. i haven't yet used it, but i saw an attempt to demonstrate it. that was quite embarrassing.