"Well son, throw another hydrogen log on the fire and I'll tell you all about that time me and Will Smith stopped the alien invasion with nothing but a pocket calculator. Those where the days!"
This is posted from my linux laptop, a computer that I use pretty much all day every day. I'd just like to say that I much prefer the experience of browsing Slashdot than I did the experience of installing Firefox. No, it wasn't hard at all, but I still find your statement strange. I run linux largely because I can have as little installed software as possible, as opposed to having to run all the crap needed to support Windows.
It's easy to take a snobbish attitude and say "if you can't install it you shouldn't use it", but I know people that have bought Dells and use them only to run the default browser. Put linux in their computers and they'd never know any difference. If I was Dell I'd just rebrand Fedora or Ubuntu and market it as "Dell OS" or something similar. For most people this'd be great and for us/. readers that demand something different, we can install it ourselves.
At long last! Finally we can un-wire all those unsightly server rooms and start providing data in the same style that we consume it. I for one welcome our new servers-in-beds overlords.
Fair enough. I like iPods, but I didn't buy one because I wanted something I could just drag and drop music to under any operating system. As for music distribution, I buy CDs and rip them myself. I can understand, however, that if you enjoy itunes, linux isn't much help to you.
I use linux exclusively now and absolutely love it, but I've also been careful to get locked into as few software/hardware combinations as possible, even if it does mean that my computer experience may at times be less flashy than a Mac users, for example.
I haven't completely weaned myself off XP yet, but I'm working on it.
Just delete it. Getting off Windows is best done quickly. As soon as you delete your Windows partition you'll have to install your webcam drivers and get DVDs playing. That shouldn't take too long and you'll be better for it
Questioning politicians, it's your duty. The day that you assume that you're less intelligent that politicians is the day that you wave all your rights, human or otherwise.
Politicians are only people, you're a person too. Question what they do or you're simply a tool. Don't forget either that they work for you.
an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems
but
this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators
So it won't run (or at least won't run well) on actual hardware, so that's the driver issue nullified. I'm not running ReactOS for the drivers, it's running with virtualisation under my already free OS. So I'm running it so i can run Windows programs under my free OS? Why not use WINE? Or push for some standards compliant software that produces results under any operating system? Of course, business situations may require some specific proprietary software, so why not use the specific, proprietary OS?
I try to use only free software, but if I had to use some software under Windows, I'd run Windows. Creating an alpha environment to run proprietary software just seems wrong.
Don't worry, I'm sure there's some 24 year old somewhere who's been lecturing at top universities on the subject of something-or-other for about 20 years now, they're so enraged by this whole incident (hence the foul language) that they're typing a page up right now. Then they'll make themselves a nice little badge for their user page that reads something like "Justice Squad: Defender of Wikipedia", talk on MSN for a bit and wonder what it would be like to talk to a real girl.
Of course, but I doubt that any prospective government will be planing to give anyone any liberties back.
If Labour dissolve our freedoms, then the next government has the benefits of our reduced freedoms and the chance to blame it on the old government. Win win. Giving us back our freedoms would only be helping those terrorists that been blighting our lives all these years.
I renewed my British passport last year, even though my old one had plenty of time left on it. Nobody was too sure of the details, other than a price increase and a loss of privacy, but everyone knew that 2007 was going to bring some big changes.
What with this sort of behaviour and the whole RFID fiasco, British passports aren't much fun. Which is a shame, because they have the potential to be the best book you could ever own.
Its technologies have also been designed to resist any interference - attempts to disable or take control of the spacecraft - and any efforts to eavesdrop on sensitive communications.
I guess this is the sort of thing the Chinese were thinking about when they recently destroyed that sat. Information security is all well and good, but useless if it can just be shot down.
Nice ideas, but here's mine: Just make the people in space eat food out of a squeezy bag or tube. Who cares what they like, they're in space for the love of jeebus! Isn't that enough of a cool job without having to sweeten the deal with some of their favourite foods?
It's bad enough that people get picky about their food when they have the awesome opportunity to go abroad; it's just taking the piss when they get picky about food in space. If they don't like eating vacuum packed food in space, they can stay on the ground with the rest of us. I'm sure there's plenty of people that would be prepared to take their place.
Great post; I love my low power drawing laptop, especially as the performance of it is more than I usually need. What I do need, however, is hard drive space and lots of it. I've got a few disks (about 1TB in total) in a tower PC that I'm trying to run as greenly as possible.
My way of doing it? An old PC that doesn't even need a fan to keep the processor cool, a tiny power supply and running it all headless. I should buy a power plug meter to run a comparison as you did, but I'm quite confident that the draw is as low as I can get it.
As a European, let me be the first to say that this has never happened to me:
"Quick, Call the Cops - it's an Emergency"... "Oh no... this Linux based telephone has crashed, and I'm going to be beaten up by terrorists". Unfortunately this is an every day occurence in Europe thanks to their unreliable choice of operating system.
I for one welcome our new cop calling, Linux FUD'ing, terrorist fearing, overlords.
Have you ever heard of something called a 'user interface'? Apple knows how to build a good one, and Motorola, LG, Nokia, and the rest of them do not.
You need to start using some better phones. I've had a lot of mobile phones (as we call them in the UK) but a landmark was the Ericsson T68 that I bought back in 2002. The user interface was awesome and remains to this day on the SonyEricsson phones I've been buying ever since. The UI honestly couldn't be any easier to use.
I think the OP was trying to make was that this sort of phone won't be popular in Europe or the East because, although it looks nice, it's expensive and lacking features. It's also been mentioned that we won't be getting it for a long time - so it'll be even more out of date by the time it arrives.
On the 12 month contract I've got with Vodafone at the moment, I was presented with a wide range of free, or very nearly free, handsets that all have wonderful UIs, all had 3G (this is important to me - I do a lot of mobile data), all had good cameras (taking pictures can be fun), all had bluetooth 2.0 (a novelty I'm told in the US) and many had WiFi.
The competition's hot here - when I renew my contract people are keen that I don't go elsewhere - I often pay less than the advertised price for handsets, I often get a bunch of free accessories and additions to my monthly call/text/data quotas, there's often a load of half price stuff too. And the UIs are always great.
It's cheap, it's good; there's a healthy competition in the European market place, my phone is very easy to use, even if I've drunk far too much. Why would I want to spend a lot of money, and be tied into a 2 year contract, on an iPhone? For a good UI? Errm... The world looks much better without Steve Job's cock in your mouth.
Silly me though; when I read it I thought that the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman was acting to protect the consumer, I forgot that it was the big multinational money printers that need a government's protection.
Of course, you could also argue that Steve Jobs' letter said little in plain English apart from "Hey Europe, don't get upset with me, the content producers make me do it". Norway saw through it and actually replied in plain English (Norwegian?) when they said "Jobs, stop making excuses, you're still breaking the law by selling your lock-in products in Norway".
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Mmmm.... Hydrogenated water...
/Homer J. Simpson
"Well son, throw another hydrogen log on the fire and I'll tell you all about that time me and Will Smith stopped the alien invasion with nothing but a pocket calculator. Those where the days!"
It's easy to take a snobbish attitude and say "if you can't install it you shouldn't use it", but I know people that have bought Dells and use them only to run the default browser. Put linux in their computers and they'd never know any difference. If I was Dell I'd just rebrand Fedora or Ubuntu and market it as "Dell OS" or something similar. For most people this'd be great and for us
At long last! Finally we can un-wire all those unsightly server rooms and start providing data in the same style that we consume it. I for one welcome our new servers-in-beds overlords.
Fair enough. I like iPods, but I didn't buy one because I wanted something I could just drag and drop music to under any operating system. As for music distribution, I buy CDs and rip them myself. I can understand, however, that if you enjoy itunes, linux isn't much help to you.
I use linux exclusively now and absolutely love it, but I've also been careful to get locked into as few software/hardware combinations as possible, even if it does mean that my computer experience may at times be less flashy than a Mac users, for example.
Good luck!
You're right mr Anonymous Coward, there should be a "-1 typo" moderation. That would solve the world's ills.
Questioning politicians, it's your duty. The day that you assume that you're less intelligent that politicians is the day that you wave all your rights, human or otherwise.
;-)
Politicians are only people, you're a person too. Question what they do or you're simply a tool. Don't forget either that they work for you.
So yeah, mod parent down
So it won't run (or at least won't run well) on actual hardware, so that's the driver issue nullified. I'm not running ReactOS for the drivers, it's running with virtualisation under my already free OS. So I'm running it so i can run Windows programs under my free OS? Why not use WINE? Or push for some standards compliant software that produces results under any operating system? Of course, business situations may require some specific proprietary software, so why not use the specific, proprietary OS?
I try to use only free software, but if I had to use some software under Windows, I'd run Windows. Creating an alpha environment to run proprietary software just seems wrong.
Don't worry, I'm sure there's some 24 year old somewhere who's been lecturing at top universities on the subject of something-or-other for about 20 years now, they're so enraged by this whole incident (hence the foul language) that they're typing a page up right now. Then they'll make themselves a nice little badge for their user page that reads something like "Justice Squad: Defender of Wikipedia", talk on MSN for a bit and wonder what it would be like to talk to a real girl.
At least I think that's how Wikipedia works.
Of course, but I doubt that any prospective government will be planing to give anyone any liberties back.
If Labour dissolve our freedoms, then the next government has the benefits of our reduced freedoms and the chance to blame it on the old government. Win win. Giving us back our freedoms would only be helping those terrorists that been blighting our lives all these years.
I renewed my British passport last year, even though my old one had plenty of time left on it. Nobody was too sure of the details, other than a price increase and a loss of privacy, but everyone knew that 2007 was going to bring some big changes.
What with this sort of behaviour and the whole RFID fiasco, British passports aren't much fun. Which is a shame, because they have the potential to be the best book you could ever own.
I guess this is the sort of thing the Chinese were thinking about when they recently destroyed that sat. Information security is all well and good, but useless if it can just be shot down.
Nice ideas, but here's mine: Just make the people in space eat food out of a squeezy bag or tube. Who cares what they like, they're in space for the love of jeebus! Isn't that enough of a cool job without having to sweeten the deal with some of their favourite foods?
It's bad enough that people get picky about their food when they have the awesome opportunity to go abroad; it's just taking the piss when they get picky about food in space. If they don't like eating vacuum packed food in space, they can stay on the ground with the rest of us. I'm sure there's plenty of people that would be prepared to take their place.
It's more like a One-Time Pad.
Great post; I love my low power drawing laptop, especially as the performance of it is more than I usually need. What I do need, however, is hard drive space and lots of it. I've got a few disks (about 1TB in total) in a tower PC that I'm trying to run as greenly as possible.
My way of doing it? An old PC that doesn't even need a fan to keep the processor cool, a tiny power supply and running it all headless. I should buy a power plug meter to run a comparison as you did, but I'm quite confident that the draw is as low as I can get it.
Or football pitch lengths?
I for one welcome our new cop calling, Linux FUD'ing, terrorist fearing, overlords.
You need to start using some better phones. I've had a lot of mobile phones (as we call them in the UK) but a landmark was the Ericsson T68 that I bought back in 2002. The user interface was awesome and remains to this day on the SonyEricsson phones I've been buying ever since. The UI honestly couldn't be any easier to use.
I think the OP was trying to make was that this sort of phone won't be popular in Europe or the East because, although it looks nice, it's expensive and lacking features. It's also been mentioned that we won't be getting it for a long time - so it'll be even more out of date by the time it arrives.
On the 12 month contract I've got with Vodafone at the moment, I was presented with a wide range of free, or very nearly free, handsets that all have wonderful UIs, all had 3G (this is important to me - I do a lot of mobile data), all had good cameras (taking pictures can be fun), all had bluetooth 2.0 (a novelty I'm told in the US) and many had WiFi.
The competition's hot here - when I renew my contract people are keen that I don't go elsewhere - I often pay less than the advertised price for handsets, I often get a bunch of free accessories and additions to my monthly call/text/data quotas, there's often a load of half price stuff too. And the UIs are always great.
It's cheap, it's good; there's a healthy competition in the European market place, my phone is very easy to use, even if I've drunk far too much. Why would I want to spend a lot of money, and be tied into a 2 year contract, on an iPhone? For a good UI? Errm... The world looks much better without Steve Job's cock in your mouth.
Great post - thanks for explaining it to me.
Silly me though; when I read it I thought that the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman was acting to protect the consumer, I forgot that it was the big multinational money printers that need a government's protection.
Of course, you could also argue that Steve Jobs' letter said little in plain English apart from "Hey Europe, don't get upset with me, the content producers make me do it". Norway saw through it and actually replied in plain English (Norwegian?) when they said "Jobs, stop making excuses, you're still breaking the law by selling your lock-in products in Norway".
Someone once posted me a rather hurtful letter from France once. It's only obvious that we bomb the shit out of the French postal service.
I think that's the sort of logic the OP is going for at least...
Well, not everyone can be a firefighter. And it's not ignoble, like being a car salesman or lawyer.
True, but not every job requires you to log on to Slashdot to see if it's morally correct or not.