This has to do with a lack of standards and poor linux compartmentalization. Linux needs to be willing to lose in speed and ram usage to windows and have every single bit of the OS be swappable with no issues. It would make coding simpler and faster for any given function. Which would make linux a nicer place. Generally because it would kill the incredibly fragmented set up there is currently.
Disclaimer: This will never happen. Even if Ubuntu, RedHat and SUSE all get together to try and set standards. People won't like it and will fork. (Many coders fork oss far far FAR more than is needed). It won't change until indiviual coders are willing to make comprimises and realize the importance of working together over having something individually tailored. As well, big groups should carefully consider reincorporating forks as they appear. While it might not be exactly what you envisioned perhaps there could be amiddle ground.
Set it to auto-update on standard and have an option to shut it off./.ers would agree that having the vast majority of people unpatched would be bad so auto-updates have to be on normally. Power users can pick and choose. The main reason/.ers dislike windows auto-update is probably still windows xp with WGA when it first came out.
Flash updates silently and very infrequently. Uninstall adobe. Uninstall ituns, which will also allow you to get rid of quicktime. Firefox updates twice a year.
There is a good reason to not use windows updates. Because you would be ignoring all your customers that are on a pirated version of windows. Tons of users are on pirated versions of windows with auto-update left off. WGA is system crippling so it is better to leave it off. And there are tons of people with it turned off. Better to roll your own and get patches out there rather than abandon those users.
If windows had an auto update system that was highly configurable then it could be of value. A set of radio buttons for each ap that updates. Never, ask, security only, always. Or something along those lines. Otherwise it would be worthless.
Agreed, this article is FUD/trolling. We chew windows out for patch tueday AND that they patch alot? That's pretty stupid. And like you said, linux updates plenty. No problem with this at all.
"Incidentally bitmaps that use em have not been invented yet." Huh?.... Set the 50x50px image to be 12x12em.... works fine on the interwebs.
Basically speaking we can make websites that look good, perfectly fine when dealing with tons of different screens, resolutions and DPI. No reason why aps wouldn't work. YES, it makes it harder. You have to think about it a bit. Bit it is pretty fucking minor. Look at ALLLLLL windows aps. You can resize them freely within certain bounds and they don't fuck up horribly. So it seems like we've been doing this for decades.
I originally read kefka. And thought he meant apple is an insane clown. Which i guess i could see. Then you commented about 'the trial' and I thought you meant 'the trial' scene from chrono trigger.
I'd say too much squaresoft but you can never really have too much.
The problem comes with a lack of strong standards. When you have a computer it has devices attatched to it and drivers that allow programers of aps to not need tweak for every computer setup.
The same is not true for phones. For example. Sliding keyboards which rotate the screen. This rotated screen setup is non-standardized. So on one phone your ap might rotate as expected when you slide out the keyboard (or hold the thing sideways). But on another phone it won't. This feature needs to be part of the OS and standardized. (Disclaimer: I know this is broken in windows mobile but i dont know if it is done right in android)
Another example is various processor types. A solution for this would be to have all apps release with a version for every chip. But devs don't seem to do this across the board for windows. (Likely solved by an ap store setting standards)
As well for windows, backwards compatibility was important. With some tweaks I can get aps from the dos days running on windows 7. With windows mobile aps they are usually poorly documented perhaps not labeling even which version of windows it has been tested on. And there is no sign of aproval. Again something a strong ap store could help fix.
I don't think an ap store is a requirement, it wasn't for windows. BUT I do think that the marketplace is too fucking messy atm. That wasn't a problem for windows. So I think it would be helpful to have one simply to set standards and layout how to do things (requiring meeting certain quility guideline or not ignoring certain features like.... differing resolutions). After that people can go off on their own.
If you bought it before then count it as format shifting. And bravely break laws that you find are unjust. Think of it as protest. Otherwise you are succumbing to threats by the mafiaa which is kinda lame. That and I haven't heard of anyone dling a rom getting charged millions for doing so (unlike mp3s).
50 years is a long time. I mean, 50 years ago in the field of brain science we were using electro shock therapy. There wasn't an ethics commitee for psychiatric experimentation (which resulted in shrinks torturing people). We had just recently discovered DNA. We just completed our first integrated circuit. And our technology increases exponentially (thus far) not linearly.
Really, if governments cared about technology or perhaps a tech-race started.. Then we'd see this stuff fairly quickly (ability to read the jist of what you are thinking). As in 15years rather than the 30 it might take now.
That sucks. Also, girls being pissed at you when they misheard something and seeming to feel that their mishearing something is no excuse for saying something like that. It is like... anger inertia or something.
Some one will always make a product with the functionality if you look around enough. $ is the way in which the whole market can change. That said this only looks like a $5 drop in cost.
"Something where if you buy the hard copy you can obtain the electronic copy for free." Just dl a copy if you have the book. No one anywhere has been charged for this and it has been common practice for people dling roms of video games they own for decades. Self-enforcing stupid laws that you won't get in trouble for is silly. Being needlessly subservient.
I do most of my reading at home but I think it'd be a $ saver for me if they were 100$. Since I feel perfectly comfortable dling books that are over 15yrs old. It might make less sense if I didn't have access to books in the last century.
That list makes me really wish I had the ability to purchase custom electronics. But then today's laptops are not nearly customizable enough. I've no idea why it'd be so expensive to offer say... a range of cameras that fit in the same form factor.
It makes me proud that of the whole world apparently we are the ones fighting this.
I imagine various EU members have the most to be pissed about looking at this document. The birthplace of PyratBiran and no outcry? Lots of liberal countries there that have remained silent. I'd be pissed.
Might have been something along the lines of a 'memorandom of understanding' aka an agreement. Which given expensive enough lawyers can be ignored. You really need water-tight contracts for this sorta thing.
Yeah but we should be getting pissed about whatever is causing black people to fall into the poorer classes rather than non-existent racism in this case. NVM getting pissed about the classism in the 1st place.
The RIAA used to, maybe still does have a spot on their site where you could mail them money so they wouldn't sue your ass. Feels like blackmail though.
I want to point out that the laws are typically anti-poor not racist these days. We've grown past that i think. It doesn't help to misplace your anger.
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Thats stupid, they would just be hacking a few outputs. Simply the interface. If they can do it for WoW they can do it for a car. Way WAY simpler.
'hypocritiser' ... afaik that isn't a word, something like something retarded that bush would say though. BTW nuke-u-lar isn't a word either :/
This has to do with a lack of standards and poor linux compartmentalization. Linux needs to be willing to lose in speed and ram usage to windows and have every single bit of the OS be swappable with no issues. It would make coding simpler and faster for any given function. Which would make linux a nicer place. Generally because it would kill the incredibly fragmented set up there is currently.
Disclaimer: This will never happen. Even if Ubuntu, RedHat and SUSE all get together to try and set standards. People won't like it and will fork. (Many coders fork oss far far FAR more than is needed). It won't change until indiviual coders are willing to make comprimises and realize the importance of working together over having something individually tailored. As well, big groups should carefully consider reincorporating forks as they appear. While it might not be exactly what you envisioned perhaps there could be amiddle ground.
Set it to auto-update on standard and have an option to shut it off. /.ers would agree that having the vast majority of people unpatched would be bad so auto-updates have to be on normally. Power users can pick and choose. The main reason /.ers dislike windows auto-update is probably still windows xp with WGA when it first came out.
Flash updates silently and very infrequently. Uninstall adobe. Uninstall ituns, which will also allow you to get rid of quicktime. Firefox updates twice a year.
There is a good reason to not use windows updates. Because you would be ignoring all your customers that are on a pirated version of windows. Tons of users are on pirated versions of windows with auto-update left off. WGA is system crippling so it is better to leave it off. And there are tons of people with it turned off. Better to roll your own and get patches out there rather than abandon those users.
If windows had an auto update system that was highly configurable then it could be of value. A set of radio buttons for each ap that updates. Never, ask, security only, always. Or something along those lines. Otherwise it would be worthless.
Agreed, this article is FUD/trolling. We chew windows out for patch tueday AND that they patch alot? That's pretty stupid. And like you said, linux updates plenty. No problem with this at all.
"Incidentally bitmaps that use em have not been invented yet." Huh?.... Set the 50x50px image to be 12x12em .... works fine on the interwebs.
Basically speaking we can make websites that look good, perfectly fine when dealing with tons of different screens, resolutions and DPI. No reason why aps wouldn't work. YES, it makes it harder. You have to think about it a bit. Bit it is pretty fucking minor. Look at ALLLLLL windows aps. You can resize them freely within certain bounds and they don't fuck up horribly. So it seems like we've been doing this for decades.
Hasn't the US plotted to kill chavez too? In either case the US has had people assassinated. And well... currently is invading places.
I originally read kefka. And thought he meant apple is an insane clown. Which i guess i could see. Then you commented about 'the trial' and I thought you meant 'the trial' scene from chrono trigger.
I'd say too much squaresoft but you can never really have too much.
The problem comes with a lack of strong standards. When you have a computer it has devices attatched to it and drivers that allow programers of aps to not need tweak for every computer setup.
The same is not true for phones. For example. Sliding keyboards which rotate the screen. This rotated screen setup is non-standardized. So on one phone your ap might rotate as expected when you slide out the keyboard (or hold the thing sideways). But on another phone it won't. This feature needs to be part of the OS and standardized. (Disclaimer: I know this is broken in windows mobile but i dont know if it is done right in android)
Another example is various processor types. A solution for this would be to have all apps release with a version for every chip. But devs don't seem to do this across the board for windows. (Likely solved by an ap store setting standards)
As well for windows, backwards compatibility was important. With some tweaks I can get aps from the dos days running on windows 7. With windows mobile aps they are usually poorly documented perhaps not labeling even which version of windows it has been tested on. And there is no sign of aproval. Again something a strong ap store could help fix.
I don't think an ap store is a requirement, it wasn't for windows. BUT I do think that the marketplace is too fucking messy atm. That wasn't a problem for windows. So I think it would be helpful to have one simply to set standards and layout how to do things (requiring meeting certain quility guideline or not ignoring certain features like.... differing resolutions). After that people can go off on their own.
If you bought it before then count it as format shifting. And bravely break laws that you find are unjust. Think of it as protest. Otherwise you are succumbing to threats by the mafiaa which is kinda lame. That and I haven't heard of anyone dling a rom getting charged millions for doing so (unlike mp3s).
50 years is a long time. I mean, 50 years ago in the field of brain science we were using electro shock therapy. There wasn't an ethics commitee for psychiatric experimentation (which resulted in shrinks torturing people). We had just recently discovered DNA. We just completed our first integrated circuit. And our technology increases exponentially (thus far) not linearly.
Really, if governments cared about technology or perhaps a tech-race started.. Then we'd see this stuff fairly quickly (ability to read the jist of what you are thinking). As in 15years rather than the 30 it might take now.
That sucks. Also, girls being pissed at you when they misheard something and seeming to feel that their mishearing something is no excuse for saying something like that. It is like... anger inertia or something.
Some one will always make a product with the functionality if you look around enough. $ is the way in which the whole market can change. That said this only looks like a $5 drop in cost.
"Something where if you buy the hard copy you can obtain the electronic copy for free."
Just dl a copy if you have the book. No one anywhere has been charged for this and it has been common practice for people dling roms of video games they own for decades. Self-enforcing stupid laws that you won't get in trouble for is silly. Being needlessly subservient.
I do most of my reading at home but I think it'd be a $ saver for me if they were 100$. Since I feel perfectly comfortable dling books that are over 15yrs old. It might make less sense if I didn't have access to books in the last century.
And ignoring market demand is for the real geniuses?
That list makes me really wish I had the ability to purchase custom electronics. But then today's laptops are not nearly customizable enough. I've no idea why it'd be so expensive to offer say ... a range of cameras that fit in the same form factor.
Reminded me of http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/products/flexpad keyboard-touchpad rather than touchpad-keyboard.
It makes me proud that of the whole world apparently we are the ones fighting this.
I imagine various EU members have the most to be pissed about looking at this document. The birthplace of PyratBiran and no outcry? Lots of liberal countries there that have remained silent. I'd be pissed.
Might have been something along the lines of a 'memorandom of understanding' aka an agreement. Which given expensive enough lawyers can be ignored. You really need water-tight contracts for this sorta thing.
Yeah but we should be getting pissed about whatever is causing black people to fall into the poorer classes rather than non-existent racism in this case. NVM getting pissed about the classism in the 1st place.
The RIAA used to, maybe still does have a spot on their site where you could mail them money so they wouldn't sue your ass. Feels like blackmail though.
I want to point out that the laws are typically anti-poor not racist these days. We've grown past that i think. It doesn't help to misplace your anger.
Directly link through a cat5 port?
USB would work.