I just suppose that in this case the companies have been allowed too much control over a critical service in the US while in the UK we've been fortunate enough so far as to have limitations on the power BT can utilise over the public. America certainly doesn't have a free market because if it did the RIAA would be told 'ah, this web thing will put you out of business. Well I hope your replacements are as useful as you were' but the problem in your case is most inteference is to protect corperations that are failing or going to fail rather than protecting the public.
Anyway its just that we are looking at a situation where a country has allowed the telcos too much control with the result looking like the end of net neutrality in the USA. Your leaders had the chance to back net neutrality and they didn't. The people of the USA will suffer because of it unfortunately. In Britain, BT doesn't have enough power to break net neutrality anyway irrespective of the law.
There are already as many Vista exploits out there as there are Linux yes. Vista has a critical flaw already despite having a much smaller market share than Linux.
Broadband usage is about 55% in the UK with availability around the 97% mark. BT dragged its heels early on and had an horifically spotty service during the early years but have really turned it around. Average available speeds is 4MB (which I'm on personally) with the used average being 1MB, BT are beginning to roll out their 24MB service in the cities. So the UK is by no means the poor relation in terms of broadband that it used to be. Prices are reasonable as well I pay £14 a month for my 4MB connection with a 50GB limit.
What do you mean by competitors. Britain (and most of Europe AFAIK) have a state sanctioned broadband setup that all the ISP's compete across. I'm with a company called Plusnet but there are a whole host of ISP's ready to take my custom should Plusnet annoy me too much and I'm in the darkest depths of the Welsh Valleys so I'm not near any large population center.
I don't think competition is an issue and as time is moving on broadband is getting much cheaper, much faster, more reliable and with greater penetration. I suppose it just goes to show the value of a mixed economy over a pure free market. Nobody is in danger of taking our internet bar the American companies since all net usage still requires the US for things like DNS (that will obviously start to change the day US telcos break net neutrality, the EU will get Galileo/GPS about it likely).
The difference is in this crucial area Unix environments have sane options by default but with Windows you have to go quite deep. You shouldn't have to write a script to handle users its one of the most crucial parts of any OS and is something that needs clarity. It would have helped if they had given more sane options in the user management area but 'limited user' is an understatement. When I had setup a machine with people as power users rather than limited or admin it at least gave them the ability to run 90% of apps without the ability to trash the OS too easily since they still had no install options.
The one thing I never understood with the XP user system. Why didn't they just create a folder for legacy apps and gaive everyone full access to that part of the system. At the very least then you can seperate the apps that do things correctly from the need full write access apps.
The select middle paste clipboard is entirely isolated to the normal copy paste system. I actually use both quite regularly. When I'm copying and pasting to a terminal I always half the Alt-Tab work by using both clipboards. Windows does not have this feature AFAIK.
Rights of smokers on one hand. Rights not to die of second hand smoke from lung cancer* on the other.
*which despite a lot of 'science' from tobacco company sponsored studies has more evidence now than ever. The growing mountain of evidence is why many countries are now banning it in public when they didn't 30 years ago.
The Christian faith suggests you should have no wealth and should share everything. God gave people the free will to do different but at no point does the Bible suggest it is fine to hoard wealth. It's another of the Bibles little games, free will for those who want to go to hell, the rest a strict rule book. Those who don't believe this aren't practicing Christians.
I think the main problem is that they don't provide any uninstall option for most of these packages. OOo most certainly is a part of the ubuntu-desktop and is installed by default along with Firefox, Evolution, Rhythmbox and a host of other apps. The only thing it lacks is out of the box codec support but most codecs aren't installed in XP by default (even MP3's only have playback by default) which is why things like k-lite exist. Automatix and easyubuntu makes codec support as easy as k-lite.
Drivers for my version of XP are difficult to install. I have a Geforce 6800 and had to reinstall XP on my dual boot machine this very day. The default vga drivers on the CD are of no use (and I forgot to backup the drivers I downloaded since XP is little more than a gaming toy which a family member destroyed in 30 minutes) so I had to install Firefox then search the web, all the while my mouse pointer was jumping everywhere. Of course I could have downloaded the drivers in Linux then copied them across but thats a lot of effort for an OS that just works, you have to risk searching the net without updates or install Linux and use it as a secure environment.
Now the nv drivers are far superior than MS's default attempt and even if Ubuntu was going nuts I could drop it to a terminal and apt-get the driver.
Ubuntu has more working out of the box than Windows. When I install XP very little works, when I install Ubuntu I have everything bar my GFX card installed and even installing than (sudo apt-get nvidia-glx) is easier than in Windows (hunt the net, agree to 'we own you' EULA, install, reboot). Ubuntu even has a working app suite, of course Windows has the calculator and notepad working as default so thats something.
Admittedly I always change the way my network is setup but theres no doubt that it works out of the box. They have even got most wireless cards working now.
Probably but Windows problems are due to an attempt to restrict options. Theres nothing worse than having an OS where a pointless paperclip appears seemingly from nowhere yet the tools required to set up user privileges properly are not in the same place as the create a new user dialog. No you have to dive deeply into completely seperate areas of the control panel to do that. Of course most Windows users only ever log in as root.
I'd say Windows is definately easier for less technical users but a small increase in knowledge can make a Unix system far more useful.
Starcraft was good but I'm not sure it was even on the greatest game ever list. At the time both Total Annihilation and Shogun:TW were better strategy games. To each his own I suppose, I'd certainly buy a copy of Starcraft 2 if it came out provided it wasn't Vista only.
#1. Media transport protocol - specs so it can be implemented in a GPL-friendly app.
Don't be stupid, if they did this then that corrupt billionaire OSS movement will use its market connections to ensure that MTP will only be available via Tux-Approved sources thus forcing the poor Redmond company out of business.
A good example of that, consider Azureus. Say there are 500,000 Az users on the planet and say a 2GB memory stick costs £50. Thats £25,000,000 spent to account for the use of crippling Java. Now consider uTorrent, it will run on a 133Mhz machine with 16MB of RAM. You've actually saved people a lot of money because machines that were previously rendered useless due to the spread of intepreted and JIT code have now been given a use because uTorrent can run on them. Personally I'd pay money for uTorrent because I like to multitask and thats entirely impossible with Az taking 2.5GB of page file on XP on a machine with 1GB of RAM, just a pity that theres no Linux port but I can run Linux in a VM while uTorrent runs on the host machine and its still more efficient than Az. When you can run an entire second OS in a much smaller footprint than a BT client then something is wrong.
As I see it, people code in Java to save time/money. I expect that saving to be translated into the price. I'd also spend more on C/C++ equivalents quite happily.
Irrespective the poster made a point about games so decided the context. To argue outside that context would be similar to me saying that rally car x is fantastic then have somebody compare it to a formula one car in terms of speed.
If you read my post you'd have seen the loans for peerages scandal mentioned directly and dismissed as not as relevant as what goes on in the US because: 1. The amounts of money involved were trivial in comparison 2. It is being made illegal to do it in future as a result of the scandal
The courts will consider this statement as good as a verbal contract. It would be very difficult to back track from this position. Generally British judges are very good at putting common sense above flaws in the law and the way the law is handled doesn't give the rich as much power as it does in the US. If the BPI sued me tomorrow the state would pay all my expenses if I cannot pay them myself, so it would turn into the BPI verses the UK in terms of financial resources and the Judges would not allow SCO style stretch the case out until the opposition goes bankrupt.
Not really the parties are capped to a spending limit in the UK that essentially nullifies their ability to be bribed. True enough theres the loans for peerages scandal but thats low ball compared to what goes on in the US and the fact the UK is up in arms over people buying their way into the Lords bodes well for our country IMHO. All donations have to be made public now and thats an extra barrier to corruption.
I think the major difference is most of the British population don't believe that rampant capitalism helps the nation anymore than moderate capitalism so all the let companies have their own way is completely unnecessary.
The real enemy in Britain is the current government rather than corperations. They are screwing us over with the only benefit being to their ego. Blair is on his side and his side alone.
Yes we have WMD and the codes necessary to utilise them are locked up safely in the Whitehouse as our consession to the SALT. Indeed we could hack the detonators in pretty short notice but if the US was to invade the UK if would be in full nuclear force and we'd be well below sea level before we had a chance to respond. In reality it won't happen but never believe our WMD are a defense while they are crippled by needing US consent for launch (or being hacked).
If I'm reading this correctly its being done in the time proven traditional British way of not actually changing any law but just doing things by rough consent that the company could change at any time. I'm amazed by the volume of laws in our country that are utterly irrelevant because people have decided to take a relaxed position and force them out of existence.
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I just suppose that in this case the companies have been allowed too much control over a critical service in the US while in the UK we've been fortunate enough so far as to have limitations on the power BT can utilise over the public. America certainly doesn't have a free market because if it did the RIAA would be told 'ah, this web thing will put you out of business. Well I hope your replacements are as useful as you were' but the problem in your case is most inteference is to protect corperations that are failing or going to fail rather than protecting the public.
Anyway its just that we are looking at a situation where a country has allowed the telcos too much control with the result looking like the end of net neutrality in the USA. Your leaders had the chance to back net neutrality and they didn't. The people of the USA will suffer because of it unfortunately. In Britain, BT doesn't have enough power to break net neutrality anyway irrespective of the law.
Taking the piss out of DNF is no fun. The delay has been because they are waiting for the GNU/HURD port.
There are already as many Vista exploits out there as there are Linux yes. Vista has a critical flaw already despite having a much smaller market share than Linux.
Broadband usage is about 55% in the UK with availability around the 97% mark. BT dragged its heels early on and had an horifically spotty service during the early years but have really turned it around. Average available speeds is 4MB (which I'm on personally) with the used average being 1MB, BT are beginning to roll out their 24MB service in the cities. So the UK is by no means the poor relation in terms of broadband that it used to be. Prices are reasonable as well I pay £14 a month for my 4MB connection with a 50GB limit.
What do you mean by competitors. Britain (and most of Europe AFAIK) have a state sanctioned broadband setup that all the ISP's compete across. I'm with a company called Plusnet but there are a whole host of ISP's ready to take my custom should Plusnet annoy me too much and I'm in the darkest depths of the Welsh Valleys so I'm not near any large population center.
I don't think competition is an issue and as time is moving on broadband is getting much cheaper, much faster, more reliable and with greater penetration. I suppose it just goes to show the value of a mixed economy over a pure free market. Nobody is in danger of taking our internet bar the American companies since all net usage still requires the US for things like DNS (that will obviously start to change the day US telcos break net neutrality, the EU will get Galileo/GPS about it likely).
The difference is in this crucial area Unix environments have sane options by default but with Windows you have to go quite deep. You shouldn't have to write a script to handle users its one of the most crucial parts of any OS and is something that needs clarity. It would have helped if they had given more sane options in the user management area but 'limited user' is an understatement. When I had setup a machine with people as power users rather than limited or admin it at least gave them the ability to run 90% of apps without the ability to trash the OS too easily since they still had no install options.
The one thing I never understood with the XP user system. Why didn't they just create a folder for legacy apps and gaive everyone full access to that part of the system. At the very least then you can seperate the apps that do things correctly from the need full write access apps.
The select middle paste clipboard is entirely isolated to the normal copy paste system. I actually use both quite regularly. When I'm copying and pasting to a terminal I always half the Alt-Tab work by using both clipboards. Windows does not have this feature AFAIK.
Rights of smokers on one hand. Rights not to die of second hand smoke from lung cancer* on the other.
*which despite a lot of 'science' from tobacco company sponsored studies has more evidence now than ever. The growing mountain of evidence is why many countries are now banning it in public when they didn't 30 years ago.
The Christian faith suggests you should have no wealth and should share everything. God gave people the free will to do different but at no point does the Bible suggest it is fine to hoard wealth. It's another of the Bibles little games, free will for those who want to go to hell, the rest a strict rule book. Those who don't believe this aren't practicing Christians.
Or the hotly anticipated 10^686_4096.X300
I think the main problem is that they don't provide any uninstall option for most of these packages. OOo most certainly is a part of the ubuntu-desktop and is installed by default along with Firefox, Evolution, Rhythmbox and a host of other apps. The only thing it lacks is out of the box codec support but most codecs aren't installed in XP by default (even MP3's only have playback by default) which is why things like k-lite exist. Automatix and easyubuntu makes codec support as easy as k-lite.
Drivers for my version of XP are difficult to install. I have a Geforce 6800 and had to reinstall XP on my dual boot machine this very day. The default vga drivers on the CD are of no use (and I forgot to backup the drivers I downloaded since XP is little more than a gaming toy which a family member destroyed in 30 minutes) so I had to install Firefox then search the web, all the while my mouse pointer was jumping everywhere. Of course I could have downloaded the drivers in Linux then copied them across but thats a lot of effort for an OS that just works, you have to risk searching the net without updates or install Linux and use it as a secure environment.
Now the nv drivers are far superior than MS's default attempt and even if Ubuntu was going nuts I could drop it to a terminal and apt-get the driver.
Windows abolished case altogether surely being a purely GUI system these days. (and no the XP command line doesn't count since it has no functions)
Ubuntu has more working out of the box than Windows. When I install XP very little works, when I install Ubuntu I have everything bar my GFX card installed and even installing than (sudo apt-get nvidia-glx) is easier than in Windows (hunt the net, agree to 'we own you' EULA, install, reboot). Ubuntu even has a working app suite, of course Windows has the calculator and notepad working as default so thats something.
Admittedly I always change the way my network is setup but theres no doubt that it works out of the box. They have even got most wireless cards working now.
Probably but Windows problems are due to an attempt to restrict options. Theres nothing worse than having an OS where a pointless paperclip appears seemingly from nowhere yet the tools required to set up user privileges properly are not in the same place as the create a new user dialog. No you have to dive deeply into completely seperate areas of the control panel to do that. Of course most Windows users only ever log in as root.
I'd say Windows is definately easier for less technical users but a small increase in knowledge can make a Unix system far more useful.
Just opened up Kdevelop and Gedit. Selected code in Kdevelop right click copy, over to Gedit right click paste. Works perfectly.
Seriously, I tried it in Crossover the other day and it struggled in a win98 bottle.
Starcraft was good but I'm not sure it was even on the greatest game ever list. At the time both Total Annihilation and Shogun:TW were better strategy games. To each his own I suppose, I'd certainly buy a copy of Starcraft 2 if it came out provided it wasn't Vista only.
#1. Media transport protocol - specs so it can be implemented in a GPL-friendly app.
Don't be stupid, if they did this then that corrupt billionaire OSS movement will use its market connections to ensure that MTP will only be available via Tux-Approved sources thus forcing the poor Redmond company out of business.
A good example of that, consider Azureus. Say there are 500,000 Az users on the planet and say a 2GB memory stick costs £50. Thats £25,000,000 spent to account for the use of crippling Java. Now consider uTorrent, it will run on a 133Mhz machine with 16MB of RAM. You've actually saved people a lot of money because machines that were previously rendered useless due to the spread of intepreted and JIT code have now been given a use because uTorrent can run on them. Personally I'd pay money for uTorrent because I like to multitask and thats entirely impossible with Az taking 2.5GB of page file on XP on a machine with 1GB of RAM, just a pity that theres no Linux port but I can run Linux in a VM while uTorrent runs on the host machine and its still more efficient than Az. When you can run an entire second OS in a much smaller footprint than a BT client then something is wrong. As I see it, people code in Java to save time/money. I expect that saving to be translated into the price. I'd also spend more on C/C++ equivalents quite happily.
Irrespective the poster made a point about games so decided the context. To argue outside that context would be similar to me saying that rally car x is fantastic then have somebody compare it to a formula one car in terms of speed.
If you read my post you'd have seen the loans for peerages scandal mentioned directly and dismissed as not as relevant as what goes on in the US because:
1. The amounts of money involved were trivial in comparison
2. It is being made illegal to do it in future as a result of the scandal
The courts will consider this statement as good as a verbal contract. It would be very difficult to back track from this position. Generally British judges are very good at putting common sense above flaws in the law and the way the law is handled doesn't give the rich as much power as it does in the US. If the BPI sued me tomorrow the state would pay all my expenses if I cannot pay them myself, so it would turn into the BPI verses the UK in terms of financial resources and the Judges would not allow SCO style stretch the case out until the opposition goes bankrupt.
Not really the parties are capped to a spending limit in the UK that essentially nullifies their ability to be bribed. True enough theres the loans for peerages scandal but thats low ball compared to what goes on in the US and the fact the UK is up in arms over people buying their way into the Lords bodes well for our country IMHO. All donations have to be made public now and thats an extra barrier to corruption. I think the major difference is most of the British population don't believe that rampant capitalism helps the nation anymore than moderate capitalism so all the let companies have their own way is completely unnecessary. The real enemy in Britain is the current government rather than corperations. They are screwing us over with the only benefit being to their ego. Blair is on his side and his side alone.
Yes we have WMD and the codes necessary to utilise them are locked up safely in the Whitehouse as our consession to the SALT. Indeed we could hack the detonators in pretty short notice but if the US was to invade the UK if would be in full nuclear force and we'd be well below sea level before we had a chance to respond. In reality it won't happen but never believe our WMD are a defense while they are crippled by needing US consent for launch (or being hacked).
If I'm reading this correctly its being done in the time proven traditional British way of not actually changing any law but just doing things by rough consent that the company could change at any time. I'm amazed by the volume of laws in our country that are utterly irrelevant because people have decided to take a relaxed position and force them out of existence.