On my netbook I can browse the internet, write an essay in OpenOffice, watch 720p movies, run an FTP client, play CS:S. Upgrading to Windows 7 makes all of these things faster.
Nope. See the numbers in the article, everything is really quite the same performance-wise. So '7 it is a huge improvement since vista, but not that much since XP (In fact in many places XP is still faster, slightly faster, but there we go, speed is not a good reason...)
Err, you just called the BSD a freer license than the GPL, this shows so much lack of understanding on the subject... Are you a troll? Or just plain ignorant of what these licenses are? You also think that MS did any good picking GPLv2 instead of v3, and you complain about they not choosing a 'free-er' license. This shows your own lack of understanding of something that should be obvious by now: Moodle is licensed GPLv2, MS wanted to push Moodle into their live service BS, so they HAD to use GPLv2. They didn't just pick it because of "buzzwordiness"
People do not pick GPLv3 just because it is newer but because of its new provisions, that they find necessary. Oh , and culture yourself before making retarded posts like that, you are only embarrassing yourself.
Hey, I had some dejavu when I read his post. Then I google for "I'd like to see where this goes. This is gutsy, and apparently they know what they're doing and they mean business. Their message is clear, concise, and I don't completely disagree with them. Interesting." and it shows me that this strange post abouhow consice the message is everywhere where this is reported uh.
And well, I guess I would be more impressed if they hacked an actual central part of the security industry like they threaten to do rather than just a photo hosting site (are they needy for attention or something?)
The whole idea of a more open web is not great for apple. The current status quo works very well for them and thus they are probably just making up excuses to avoid it to happen. Simply a method different than Microsoft's.
They also suffer a very strong case of NIH.
They are a little allergic to this whole "open standards" stuff, as noticeable by their OOXML support...
I got disappointed here. Sure malware costs and whatever, but dows' supporters will always pull the excuse that it is because of market share. Which is pointless. It could have some small even when considering the dominance of windows in the malware marketshare is much large than the raw market share r, i.e: Desktop Macs sure as hell don't have 3% of the malware. Yet even assuming windows' malware friendliness was solely caused by marketshare if it was truth then it means that the huge marketshare for windows is inconvenient and a great solution would be to migrate the industry into one that can have seriously many OS vendors and options and each has from 0 to 35% marketshare.
I got disappointed because when reading the title I thought this post was going to be about the REAL BIG cost of using Microsoft software. Security is one thing but they have been improving (you got to accept it). The real issue is the LOCK-IN, and THAT is a giantic hidden cost of MS software, I wish some serious publication could analyze and denounce it cause seriously, malware costs are not a big deal and pro-MS groups will always just use their giantic, excessive marketshare as an excuse for it.
What's the excuse for this one case of copyrighted things? Would the world stop using its creativity to generate news just because newspapers are not copyrighted? Are news creative work or something like that? (Ok, maybe some newspapers out there do make news up...)
It is amazing how a troll made a post in an attempt to go off-topic, yet it is actually on-topic. Just like this case, in regards to protecting the children, you are innocent till accused of child molesting/porn/etc.
It is not the piracy party for heavens sake... It is the "Pirate party" and one of their various objectives happens to be the protection of the civil liberties. I don't think at all that a guy that fights against the implementation of state censorship of the internet with the intention to stop what's basically a thoughtcrimes all under the anthem of 'saving the children', even though all the money, resources and freedom spent on battling child porn is not justified when you find out that actual child prostitution is a much , much worse problem that for some reason gets almost no attention or resources, perhaps because battling it would actually mean messing with mafias and organized crime without giving the governments a chance to remove internet censorship...
Though to be fair, perhaps states just want to avoid to get themselves into situations like Iran's government's in which forbidding internation coverage does not help you in your efforts to prevent the world from knowing what's going on all thanks to that evil, open, decentralized beast the internet is.
Cause books are so much better with the zillions of self-help books an things like the Da Vinci code... Basically, every media can be quite a waste of time if you choose the worse examples...
That add about immigrants being forced to sell pirated DVDs is a great way to argument my point. Without DRM, this tragedy wouldn't happen. Thank you very much.
Do you know what? Home taping did not kill the music industry! I still remember those days, I was a kid but I saw it! : people did 'pirate', when you wanted a tune you could just copy one for yourself, liked it? Great! you might be the one buying the tape first next time before sharing it with your friends...
The new people don't have it that easy, if they just want to copy a video they have to go to some site to crack the DRM, and etc. Or maybe they can just download the cracked version from one of the piracy sites. In my country's case, there was no such thing as streets full of hundreds of pirated tape-selling b*stards . Because, people could just easily share their stuff without their aid...
So, if you want to know the truth, all DRM is doing is make things hard for consumers that want to share their tunes. Pirates have it easier now, thanks to IT. Not only that, but the international mafias behind piracy get all their web site money and CD sales, because copying is not trivial anymore. DRM is feeding these mobs, they wouldn't exist if copying was something the most layman guy could do.
No , it wasn't? It was ASUS' uk page for the new eee's specs itself that linked to it... (Ok, I feel dumb pointing this out as the very same link you posted contains a +5 informative post saying exactly the same thing)
With Red hat/Fedora dropping Mono out of the gnome dependencies, and ubuntu and it seems even debian stick to their Mono ways. And ubuntu even threatening their users to install a lower quality Mono-dependent music player to replace Rhythmbox just because the Mono zealots are very, very loud about how they want to push this MS technology on everybody using free software. I guess I will have to change my current ways and just move to.rpm based Fedora. It's been a long time without red hat, shall be fun. "Let's all make gnome depend on MS technology just so we have a desktop widget that has already been ported to native code!" That's great...
The fuck who cares about piracy and usenet and etc? This is about net neutrality, about the internet not being an unidirectional piece of shit like cable, TV and radio. You take your stupid piracy with you... You see the fact that some few geeks can still pirate in hidden places like usenet and IRC a proof that there are no issues here? Again, please go to your usenet and pirate. We are worried about keeping the internet open, decentralized and multi-directional, we want users to be able to be content provides, as they should be able tom, and they are now... They don't have to go to usenet to have free speech or go to some hidden place inside IRC just so they can share their drawings...
Richard Stallman is *not* a genius, but he is much smarter than you.
How many would have bought the movie/game if you could NOT download it? I know of plenty of people that download games/movies because they don't believe they are worth it to buy them.
I don't think removing piracy would magically make these games/movies worth buying...
It is always by this time of the year that the results of programming contests like the ICPC and the TCO get announced and the lame US excuses parade begins...
Russia, Poland and China are better at programming contests, live with it. Really, it is sort of annoying to see Americans making up all sorts of excuses when the results are announced. During the ICPC one guy in slashdot was actually saying that as Russians and Chinese guys are obviously inherently corrupt, they probably stole the answers. Last year, a christian nationalist site said that Russia always wins because the Russian students practice and the US ones obviously don't... What's worse is that Americans assume they are the only country making software, and that they are full of greatly competent programmers that all happen to be busy during these contests.
Guess what? Programmers in other countries are also very busy. There are also companies in other countries that hire their best programmers, and no, they wouldn't let them go with time off... US participation was not low, in fact it was one of the highest, as this is an American company hosted contest...
At least you are not down the bottom in these things, US is probably 5th or something, there are hundreds of countries that do much worse, but at least they don't keep making up these lame excuses...
Basically, they avoiding this by calling software "not a digital good" (if software isn't a digital good then what the hell is a digital good?) This just shows that the law is meant mostly as a way to stop indie music and movies from ever working. Notice that you actually download youtube videos before watching them? No, this is not about pirates, it is about the indie market. Because if you download music that's legitimately free, you still get taxes from the 'similar' music that is not free. Congratulations!
I honestly cannot believe it after all the hype last year, but the Obama administrations sucks.
It sounds like an easy answer, and it covers a wide range of distros. Linux users don't really expect that much consistency anyway, and considering that even Mozillla is able to cover both toolkits, I'd say google perfectly can.
I really think distros using different GUI toolkits should be considered different platforms, it has been long since an OS was just a kernel, really.
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Nope. See the numbers in the article, everything is really quite the same performance-wise. So '7 it is a huge improvement since vista, but not that much since XP (In fact in many places XP is still faster, slightly faster, but there we go, speed is not a good reason...)
People do not pick GPLv3 just because it is newer but because of its new provisions, that they find necessary. Oh , and culture yourself before making retarded posts like that, you are only embarrassing yourself.
Hey, I had some dejavu when I read his post. Then I google for "I'd like to see where this goes. This is gutsy, and apparently they know what they're doing and they mean business. Their message is clear, concise, and I don't completely disagree with them. Interesting." and it shows me that this strange post abouhow consice the message is everywhere where this is reported uh.
And well, I guess I would be more impressed if they hacked an actual central part of the security industry like they threaten to do rather than just a photo hosting site (are they needy for attention or something?)
1. Get a phd.
2. Play MMOs
3. If your character becomes hated due to your lossy gaming, CALL IT PART OF YOUR REASEARCH!
4 ????
5. Profit!
I got disappointed because when reading the title I thought this post was going to be about the REAL BIG cost of using Microsoft software. Security is one thing but they have been improving (you got to accept it). The real issue is the LOCK-IN, and THAT is a giantic hidden cost of MS software, I wish some serious publication could analyze and denounce it cause seriously, malware costs are not a big deal and pro-MS groups will always just use their giantic, excessive marketshare as an excuse for it.
What's the excuse for this one case of copyrighted things? Would the world stop using its creativity to generate news just because newspapers are not copyrighted? Are news creative work or something like that? (Ok, maybe some newspapers out there do make news up...)
It is amazing how a troll made a post in an attempt to go off-topic, yet it is actually on-topic. Just like this case, in regards to protecting the children, you are innocent till accused of child molesting/porn/etc.
Again?
It is not the piracy party for heavens sake... It is the "Pirate party" and one of their various objectives happens to be the protection of the civil liberties. I don't think at all that a guy that fights against the implementation of state censorship of the internet with the intention to stop what's basically a thoughtcrimes all under the anthem of 'saving the children', even though all the money, resources and freedom spent on battling child porn is not justified when you find out that actual child prostitution is a much , much worse problem that for some reason gets almost no attention or resources, perhaps because battling it would actually mean messing with mafias and organized crime without giving the governments a chance to remove internet censorship...
Though to be fair, perhaps states just want to avoid to get themselves into situations like Iran's government's in which forbidding internation coverage does not help you in your efforts to prevent the world from knowing what's going on all thanks to that evil, open, decentralized beast the internet is.
Cause books are so much better with the zillions of self-help books an things like the Da Vinci code... Basically, every media can be quite a waste of time if you choose the worse examples...
That add about immigrants being forced to sell pirated DVDs is a great way to argument my point. Without DRM, this tragedy wouldn't happen. Thank you very much.
Do you know what? Home taping did not kill the music industry! I still remember those days, I was a kid but I saw it! : people did 'pirate', when you wanted a tune you could just copy one for yourself, liked it? Great! you might be the one buying the tape first next time before sharing it with your friends...
The new people don't have it that easy, if they just want to copy a video they have to go to some site to crack the DRM, and etc. Or maybe they can just download the cracked version from one of the piracy sites. In my country's case, there was no such thing as streets full of hundreds of pirated tape-selling b*stards . Because, people could just easily share their stuff without their aid...
So, if you want to know the truth, all DRM is doing is make things hard for consumers that want to share their tunes. Pirates have it easier now, thanks to IT. Not only that, but the international mafias behind piracy get all their web site money and CD sales, because copying is not trivial anymore. DRM is feeding these mobs, they wouldn't exist if copying was something the most layman guy could do.
No , it wasn't? It was ASUS' uk page for the new eee's specs itself that linked to it... (Ok, I feel dumb pointing this out as the very same link you posted contains a +5 informative post saying exactly the same thing)
Does anybody know an actual person that has a) used windows CE and b) did not hate it with all her heart?
With Red hat/Fedora dropping Mono out of the gnome dependencies, and ubuntu and it seems even debian stick to their Mono ways. And ubuntu even threatening their users to install a lower quality Mono-dependent music player to replace Rhythmbox just because the Mono zealots are very, very loud about how they want to push this MS technology on everybody using free software. I guess I will have to change my current ways and just move to .rpm based Fedora. It's been a long time without red hat, shall be fun. "Let's all make gnome depend on MS technology just so we have a desktop widget that has already been ported to native code!" That's great...
Except these other programs are not included as a gnome dependency...
And for gawd's sake, if they like the way cable works so much, they could just stick to cable, rather than trying to turn the internet into cable...
The fuck who cares about piracy and usenet and etc? This is about net neutrality, about the internet not being an unidirectional piece of shit like cable, TV and radio. You take your stupid piracy with you... You see the fact that some few geeks can still pirate in hidden places like usenet and IRC a proof that there are no issues here? Again, please go to your usenet and pirate. We are worried about keeping the internet open, decentralized and multi-directional, we want users to be able to be content provides, as they should be able tom, and they are now... They don't have to go to usenet to have free speech or go to some hidden place inside IRC just so they can share their drawings...
Richard Stallman is *not* a genius, but he is much smarter than you.
I don't think removing piracy would magically make these games/movies worth buying...
Russia, Poland and China are better at programming contests, live with it. Really, it is sort of annoying to see Americans making up all sorts of excuses when the results are announced. During the ICPC one guy in slashdot was actually saying that as Russians and Chinese guys are obviously inherently corrupt, they probably stole the answers. Last year, a christian nationalist site said that Russia always wins because the Russian students practice and the US ones obviously don't... What's worse is that Americans assume they are the only country making software, and that they are full of greatly competent programmers that all happen to be busy during these contests.
Guess what? Programmers in other countries are also very busy. There are also companies in other countries that hire their best programmers, and no, they wouldn't let them go with time off... US participation was not low, in fact it was one of the highest, as this is an American company hosted contest...
At least you are not down the bottom in these things, US is probably 5th or something, there are hundreds of countries that do much worse, but at least they don't keep making up these lame excuses...
No, consumers that consume stuff automatically without even stopping to think why are they using it are why idiots get a bad rap.
I honestly cannot believe it after all the hype last year, but the Obama administrations sucks.
He claims women had free tutoring while men didn't have free tutoring.
Say what you want, but giving free tutoring to any gender and not to the other sounds quite sexist.
I really think distros using different GUI toolkits should be considered different platforms, it has been long since an OS was just a kernel, really.