Well... I would like my workplace to adopt Linux so that I don't have to develop for Windows anymore.
I would like my family to adopt Linux (not Gentoo) so that they stop either wasting money on a new computer every time Windows slows down or asking me to fix it (depends on which family member). I started my in-laws out on Kubuntu right off the bat and that has worked out great but the rest are more resistant.
I would like to see the rest of the world switch out of fear that something new will come out that I want but has no Linux support. This last one has gotten a lot better in recent years though both because there is native software for doing just about anything now and because Wine works pretty good.
Actually, I work in a Microsoft shop. I use Linux at home only now though I have used it in the workplace at previous jobs. It's not that I think Windows is that BAD. I agree, much of what made it suck back when I switched to Linux is better now, that's what I meant by the stability comment although it's more than just that. I just don't see anything special about Windows. I just went to Best Buy. They want $200 for the home edition of Windows. I've never been a fan of the 'Home' versions but I'll use that for my comparison since it is probably what most norms would have at home.
I don't pay anything for Linux. I do understand that purchase price isn't everything, if one just works... but in my experience neither 'just works'. Unless you get it pre-installed. Then it 'just works' the day you buy it. On Windows it will run a little worse each day from then on. If you really know what you are doing, are careful what you install, run defrag (yes, it still makes a difference), etc... you can prolong the inevitable but eventually it needs reformatted. Even if you do keep it going eventually they stop writing drivers for your version and you have to shell out another $200 to run a printer or some other piece of hardware.
Linux on the other hand falls apart through upgrades. Leave it alone and it will run until your hardware wears out but then you don't get security updates and besides, at the rate Linux and Linux software is developed you will want to update for new features. Eventually though, especially if you installed something from outside your distro some upgrade breaks some dependency which breaks another, on down the line in a complicated tree of dependencies (some circular) and you have to really know your stuff to keep it all going. The difference between the two?? Price tag. Mostly...
Now take my description of running the two at home and imagine building a business like Tucloud and having to pay for per-user licensing. Why chose the more expensive option unless they are offering something EXCEPTIONAL that the free alternative isn't?
I gave up on binary packages years ago and switched to Gentoo. You might think it would be a lot of work and time to do everything by source but it isn't so bad. I just do everything in screen with the priority niced down so I can still use the computer while it is working. Don't get me wrong, I don't see compiling everything from source as a way to sell the Linux Desktop to the norms! But it does make for a better desktop experience for those who are going to use Linux anyway. More things just work.
Acrobat - So? There are several pdf readers for Linux, even a couple of good ones. That's a couple more good ones than Windows has. As for writing PDF files few Windows users I know do that but those that do just use the print to pdf feature of Acrobat. That comes free in Linux. I suppose if you are editing a pdf Linux is a little limited but who does that? Normal people just make a document in a word processor and only turn it into a pdf at the end.
I thought twice before writing this. I know 1000 Windows liking Slashdotters are going to mod this down and call me a Linux fanboi but really? This kind of courtroom arguing seems so petty when viewed from the outside when so many great OSs are free for as many users as the hardware can handle. I just don't get what there is to Windows that is worth licensing at all. Don't get me wrong, it is much more stable than it was 10 years ago but what is special about it? Nothing that I can see...
Geesh, Not so slow of thinking, just fast of typing. That wasn't explained in your original post and I replied before reading the other replies. I actually would prefer the UK system, for the most part it would be less expensive. Although it would require slightly more planning ahead. If you never bought the trailer plate I suspect you couldn't go get one on a weekend/holiday/middle of the night right? Wouldn't bother me at all though, I'd buy the plate right away for ever car I have with a hitch!
Because the vast majority don't give the slightest care to ethical issues like those surrounding Paypal AND once they learn to do things one way with one company's product they have zero interest in learning to use another's product, even if the interface is better or basically the same. Strangely this does not apply to learning a new version of the original product. They will go right along with those changes.
Meanwhile the rest of us pretty much are locked in because there is no use changing money with yourself. That's the problem with online auctions anyway. In person, so long as you can swipe a card it's all good. IE go with Square. Of course... the things those companies have done that provide the card you are swiping... I can't help you there.
I just read a post claiming that insurance is cheaper and uninsured driver protection is only $10 a month in a state where it isn't required. Suddenly I regret my previous comment. I'll pay my $10 and let the uninsured moron who hits me worry about how he is going to pay for it.
At the beginning of the first Bush term I was happy. Not because I thought he would do good things but because I thought he was to stupid to succeed in changing anything and that is exactly what I wanted. Wow was I wrong!
Nah, it's just a continuation of the Bush phase. It only seems worse because the new changes add to the old changes not because they are coming any faster.
Ah, then I take back my other comment. I know we can't switch plates between cars in the US without notifying the DMV and paying a fee. Otherwise a police officer can run your plates, see your car doesn't match the description on record and come after you. I always assumed trailer plates were the same thus the UK method of just moving the plate between trailers wouldn't work. It's probably just a way to get more money from us. We wouldn't have to buy as many trailer plates if they aren't specific to the trailer.
Wow, I'm glad I don't live in the UK. It sounds like you cannot loan a trailer (without loaning your car) or own two different vehicles and use them both to pull the same trailer. And a person who wants to do this 'DESERVES problems'? Yikes! What an un-free attitude! I borrow a trailer from my in-laws fairly often. Can you even rent a trailer and if so how? Do you have to rent the whole car too? Here I sometimes rent a trailer (if i can't borrow one) because it is much much cheaper than renting a car.
Or can you just swap the plates between cars? In the US plates cannot be just swapped between vehicles but our trailer plates don't match our car plates so it doesn't matter.
Yup. You missed a lot. 100,000 planets per star would be no mass at all compared to the mass of dark matter in the universe. it's less than a drop in a bucket.
Not that I disagree with your conclusion but I hate how you get there. Legal definitions and moral definitions are not always the same thing. The letter of the law should be the main thing considered in a discussion about how to keep yourself out of trouble but it should never be the dictionary that defines your morals.
Personally I think looking for the owner is the best thing to do. Just leaving it where it is wouldn't be wrong though, it isn't really your responsibility and the owner might come back for it quicker than you can find the owner any way. If you want to keep it though then yes, I would agree that is stealing unless you make a valid effort to find the owner first. Given that cellphones have unique IDs that at the very least the cellular company could identify the owner I don't see how you would end up getting it to keep it if you do try. Not unless you find the owner and they tell you they meant to dispose of it and you can have it.
I'd like to see what would happen if the law was you can do what you want but the penalties for using drugs while driving, in public, in front of children (including your own) and/or advertising drugs was huge. Huge as in you get caught doing it once and you don't get an opportunity to do it again. Buying, selling and using would all be allowed though except that the only permitted advertising would be word of mouth.
I totally agree that you shouldn't have to do that. But... if it's the carrier that is creating the limitations for you, not the platforms themselves then there really isn't any value making comparisons of platforms. It's the carrier that sucks and you are just screwed by only being covered by one. In other words.. Old versions of Mickeysoft phone aren't the only platform that allows sideloading.. it's just the only one that happens to be available to you.
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Well... I would like my workplace to adopt Linux so that I don't have to develop for Windows anymore.
I would like my family to adopt Linux (not Gentoo) so that they stop either wasting money on a new computer every time Windows slows down or asking me to fix it (depends on which family member). I started my in-laws out on Kubuntu right off the bat and that has worked out great but the rest are more resistant.
I would like to see the rest of the world switch out of fear that something new will come out that I want but has no Linux support. This last one has gotten a lot better in recent years though both because there is native software for doing just about anything now and because Wine works pretty good.
I suspect that my reasons are pretty typical.
Actually, I work in a Microsoft shop. I use Linux at home only now though I have used it in the workplace at previous jobs. It's not that I think Windows is that BAD. I agree, much of what made it suck back when I switched to Linux is better now, that's what I meant by the stability comment although it's more than just that. I just don't see anything special about Windows. I just went to Best Buy. They want $200 for the home edition of Windows. I've never been a fan of the 'Home' versions but I'll use that for my comparison since it is probably what most norms would have at home.
I don't pay anything for Linux. I do understand that purchase price isn't everything, if one just works... but in my experience neither 'just works'. Unless you get it pre-installed. Then it 'just works' the day you buy it. On Windows it will run a little worse each day from then on. If you really know what you are doing, are careful what you install, run defrag (yes, it still makes a difference), etc... you can prolong the inevitable but eventually it needs reformatted. Even if you do keep it going eventually they stop writing drivers for your version and you have to shell out another $200 to run a printer or some other piece of hardware.
Linux on the other hand falls apart through upgrades. Leave it alone and it will run until your hardware wears out but then you don't get security updates and besides, at the rate Linux and Linux software is developed you will want to update for new features. Eventually though, especially if you installed something from outside your distro some upgrade breaks some dependency which breaks another, on down the line in a complicated tree of dependencies (some circular) and you have to really know your stuff to keep it all going. The difference between the two?? Price tag. Mostly...
Now take my description of running the two at home and imagine building a business like Tucloud and having to pay for per-user licensing. Why chose the more expensive option unless they are offering something EXCEPTIONAL that the free alternative isn't?
But who is going to run games on something like Tucloud?
I want to agree but I don't feel like going to prison when somebody parks their car out front and downloads their daily dose of kiddie porn.
somebody still uses rpms?
"one of the biggest reasons they don't target Linux is that it's a moving target" - ding ding ding we have a winner
"Windows is a GUI environment" - which is why I just don't get that people use it as a server!
I gave up on binary packages years ago and switched to Gentoo. You might think it would be a lot of work and time to do everything by source but it isn't so bad. I just do everything in screen with the priority niced down so I can still use the computer while it is working. Don't get me wrong, I don't see compiling everything from source as a way to sell the Linux Desktop to the norms! But it does make for a better desktop experience for those who are going to use Linux anyway. More things just work.
Acrobat - So? There are several pdf readers for Linux, even a couple of good ones. That's a couple more good ones than Windows has. As for writing PDF files few Windows users I know do that but those that do just use the print to pdf feature of Acrobat. That comes free in Linux. I suppose if you are editing a pdf Linux is a little limited but who does that? Normal people just make a document in a word processor and only turn it into a pdf at the end.
I thought twice before writing this. I know 1000 Windows liking Slashdotters are going to mod this down and call me a Linux fanboi but really? This kind of courtroom arguing seems so petty when viewed from the outside when so many great OSs are free for as many users as the hardware can handle. I just don't get what there is to Windows that is worth licensing at all. Don't get me wrong, it is much more stable than it was 10 years ago but what is special about it? Nothing that I can see...
Oh, wow, handwritten is ok? That would be great!
Geesh, Not so slow of thinking, just fast of typing. That wasn't explained in your original post and I replied before reading the other replies. I actually would prefer the UK system, for the most part it would be less expensive. Although it would require slightly more planning ahead. If you never bought the trailer plate I suspect you couldn't go get one on a weekend/holiday/middle of the night right? Wouldn't bother me at all though, I'd buy the plate right away for ever car I have with a hitch!
Because the vast majority don't give the slightest care to ethical issues like those surrounding Paypal AND once they learn to do things one way with one company's product they have zero interest in learning to use another's product, even if the interface is better or basically the same. Strangely this does not apply to learning a new version of the original product. They will go right along with those changes.
Meanwhile the rest of us pretty much are locked in because there is no use changing money with yourself. That's the problem with online auctions anyway. In person, so long as you can swipe a card it's all good. IE go with Square. Of course... the things those companies have done that provide the card you are swiping... I can't help you there.
Basically, people suck.
I just read a post claiming that insurance is cheaper and uninsured driver protection is only $10 a month in a state where it isn't required. Suddenly I regret my previous comment. I'll pay my $10 and let the uninsured moron who hits me worry about how he is going to pay for it.
"I don't think anyone disputes the necessity of auto insurance or the laws requiring it."
I think you give people WAY too much credit!
At the beginning of the first Bush term I was happy. Not because I thought he would do good things but because I thought he was to stupid to succeed in changing anything and that is exactly what I wanted. Wow was I wrong!
Nah, it's just a continuation of the Bush phase. It only seems worse because the new changes add to the old changes not because they are coming any faster.
Ah, then I take back my other comment. I know we can't switch plates between cars in the US without notifying the DMV and paying a fee. Otherwise a police officer can run your plates, see your car doesn't match the description on record and come after you. I always assumed trailer plates were the same thus the UK method of just moving the plate between trailers wouldn't work. It's probably just a way to get more money from us. We wouldn't have to buy as many trailer plates if they aren't specific to the trailer.
Wow, I'm glad I don't live in the UK. It sounds like you cannot loan a trailer (without loaning your car) or own two different vehicles and use them both to pull the same trailer. And a person who wants to do this 'DESERVES problems'? Yikes! What an un-free attitude! I borrow a trailer from my in-laws fairly often. Can you even rent a trailer and if so how? Do you have to rent the whole car too? Here I sometimes rent a trailer (if i can't borrow one) because it is much much cheaper than renting a car.
Or can you just swap the plates between cars? In the US plates cannot be just swapped between vehicles but our trailer plates don't match our car plates so it doesn't matter.
If a moon orbiting a planet in a solar system can generate heat through tidal forces why couldn't one orbiting a nomad?
Yup. You missed a lot. 100,000 planets per star would be no mass at all compared to the mass of dark matter in the universe. it's less than a drop in a bucket.
Not that I disagree with your conclusion but I hate how you get there. Legal definitions and moral definitions are not always the same thing. The letter of the law should be the main thing considered in a discussion about how to keep yourself out of trouble but it should never be the dictionary that defines your morals.
Personally I think looking for the owner is the best thing to do. Just leaving it where it is wouldn't be wrong though, it isn't really your responsibility and the owner might come back for it quicker than you can find the owner any way. If you want to keep it though then yes, I would agree that is stealing unless you make a valid effort to find the owner first. Given that cellphones have unique IDs that at the very least the cellular company could identify the owner I don't see how you would end up getting it to keep it if you do try. Not unless you find the owner and they tell you they meant to dispose of it and you can have it.
People do all of that that anyway now!
I'd like to see what would happen if the law was you can do what you want but the penalties for using drugs while driving, in public, in front of children (including your own) and/or advertising drugs was huge. Huge as in you get caught doing it once and you don't get an opportunity to do it again. Buying, selling and using would all be allowed though except that the only permitted advertising would be word of mouth.
I totally agree that you shouldn't have to do that. But... if it's the carrier that is creating the limitations for you, not the platforms themselves then there really isn't any value making comparisons of platforms. It's the carrier that sucks and you are just screwed by only being covered by one. In other words.. Old versions of Mickeysoft phone aren't the only platform that allows sideloading.. it's just the only one that happens to be available to you.
wow, talk about citations needed