Brings a whole new meaning to free software then:P. We who use it are the freemen, our great barons and lords who write our software kind and generous and our system of monarchy, much like Sparta has two great kings, Linus and RMS.
From my experience home basic is the worst. It's being sold on 512mb ram machines and it is just so sluggish. Everyone I know who has bought home basic machines has now switched to Ubuntu with my help. Home premium on the other hand comes on decent machines with 2GB+ ram runs a lot better. Obviously it's more resource intensive but the machines it is sold on are so much better that it doesn't seem that way. Most windows users who have home premium are reasonably satisfied. It's a lot harder to get them to switch. Home premium runs fine with aero turned off in Virtual box when it is given 2GB of ram too...
thats because pi to 4 decimals is 666/212 so therefore anything close real pi is of course the devils work. (I can't believe I just stumbled on something more accurate than 22/7 by accident while trying to make a real lame joke)
Correction, there is a fine XP market ready and waiting now that everything only comes with vista. Why would you bother pirating vista (apart from that it would MS very very very happy). I don't see the typical pirate have 2GB+ of ram so vista is near to impossible to get running well. With more than 2GB of ram it does compare with XP which has 512mb of ram.
But ignoring my hatred of GNOME and the morons that came up with its interface guidelines (I, and no one I know, have ever applied how to use my microwave to using a file browser), the important concept is choice. Choice is good.
I use GNOME but that is really funny:)
I seem to be wrong on the price... I had to check over my notes etc... $10,000 is one of the more expensive installations aimed more for commercial use. Very basic systems such as the Solar Edwards LX series are under $3000 and suitable for the average home. There may be cheaper solutions too.
The initial cost maybe more, but you save on your power bill and there is less cost in maintenance that a power plant would incur. It uses solar energy which is no doubt one of the cleanest.
There are personal benefits concerning liberty too, self sustainability and not having to worry about government or corporate policies. The warranty on the system that I just skimmed over was 7 years. No doubt many systems would last longer than that. One of my points was that the initial cost maybe higher but long term it get cheaper. It may cost $1 billion for a power plant but it is then run at profit, that doesn't get passed on to the consumer. We save $100 per month in power bills and after some time there is no cost to our water heating.
The benefit being a reduction in your personal power bill, lower carbon emissions etc. We did it and save around $100 per month now. Over 10 years your installation is free.
Often the short term cost of a long term solution is great. From that the long term problem eventually gets solved/improved though. Even if this seems a waste in some ways it places building blocks for the next step. With out these kinds of projects it would be difficult for us to think differently or even transition to a new lifestyle. In New Zealand, if everyone employed solar water heating we would save 50% of household power usage from the old water cylinder. That's the amount a $1 billion power plant could give us extra. So each person spends an extra $10,000 on their home instead of a cheap water cylinder and the long term savings for the country are huge.
I agree that throwing ever more Hi-tech at the problem probably won't fix anything but thinking about how we use our current low tech in different ways will. I am studying architecture and have taken many papers and read many books on sustainable building (Not just in the sense of green building either) and can tell you from my point of view it is where humanity can save the most resources. Building smaller more contained rooms saves on heating, so does building thick concrete floors. The way we use windows etc etc.
I also think that taking an open source approach to more of our research and getting rid of patents will save a lot of money and carbon dioxide emissions. Too much effort is being put in to redundancy.
While I do not live there anymore as far as I know barely anybody votes! I guess that means that if even a small sample of votes get tampered, it can have a big effect.
I see it as more an issue of budgeting than progression. If the evil moon goblin terrorists had attacked New York, well I bet you the moon would be painted blue white and red by now.
A late slightly off topic question but has anyone actually managed to install Vista illegally? It seems to be with so much unhappiness with the OS no one would willingly pirate it?
That's the biggest fucking bullshit I ever heard. It just shows they can't do their job properly. They're sitting in their board room aware that they're not making any more money because people a sick of their adware and bloatish antics when some bright spark says "WELL LETS MAKE EVERYTHING A VIRUS AND MAKE THE DEVELOPERS PAY US TO GET THEIR PROGRAM WORKING!!!!!!1". Fucking Chav dickheads. I'm fucking glad I use Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
So is the blogosphere
Brings a whole new meaning to free software then :P. We who use it are the freemen, our great barons and lords who write our software kind and generous and our system of monarchy, much like Sparta has two great kings, Linus and RMS.
From my experience home basic is the worst. It's being sold on 512mb ram machines and it is just so sluggish. Everyone I know who has bought home basic machines has now switched to Ubuntu with my help. Home premium on the other hand comes on decent machines with 2GB+ ram runs a lot better. Obviously it's more resource intensive but the machines it is sold on are so much better that it doesn't seem that way. Most windows users who have home premium are reasonably satisfied. It's a lot harder to get them to switch. Home premium runs fine with aero turned off in Virtual box when it is given 2GB of ram too...
thats because pi to 4 decimals is 666/212 so therefore anything close real pi is of course the devils work. (I can't believe I just stumbled on something more accurate than 22/7 by accident while trying to make a real lame joke)
Correction, there is a fine XP market ready and waiting now that everything only comes with vista. Why would you bother pirating vista (apart from that it would MS very very very happy). I don't see the typical pirate have 2GB+ of ram so vista is near to impossible to get running well. With more than 2GB of ram it does compare with XP which has 512mb of ram.
And that's why slashdot is ranked #1197.
or a Linux live CD with NTFS rw could do some good, especially if you have decent backup options.
The trouble is they have NIH and so won't just work with the wine project.
Why don't you just make sure you have a pet octopus?
I use GNOME but that is really funny
Similar to A Tolkien Bestiary, by David Day? Published 1979.
Next they will be suing wikipedia for the write up about harry potter they have...
Will the bush administration now start a push to eco friendly electric cars in the name of anti-terrorism?
I seem to be wrong on the price... I had to check over my notes etc... $10,000 is one of the more expensive installations aimed more for commercial use. Very basic systems such as the Solar Edwards LX series are under $3000 and suitable for the average home. There may be cheaper solutions too.
The initial cost maybe more, but you save on your power bill and there is less cost in maintenance that a power plant would incur. It uses solar energy which is no doubt one of the cleanest.
There are personal benefits concerning liberty too, self sustainability and not having to worry about government or corporate policies. The warranty on the system that I just skimmed over was 7 years. No doubt many systems would last longer than that. One of my points was that the initial cost maybe higher but long term it get cheaper. It may cost $1 billion for a power plant but it is then run at profit, that doesn't get passed on to the consumer. We save $100 per month in power bills and after some time there is no cost to our water heating.
The benefit being a reduction in your personal power bill, lower carbon emissions etc. We did it and save around $100 per month now. Over 10 years your installation is free.
Often the short term cost of a long term solution is great. From that the long term problem eventually gets solved/improved though. Even if this seems a waste in some ways it places building blocks for the next step. With out these kinds of projects it would be difficult for us to think differently or even transition to a new lifestyle. In New Zealand, if everyone employed solar water heating we would save 50% of household power usage from the old water cylinder. That's the amount a $1 billion power plant could give us extra. So each person spends an extra $10,000 on their home instead of a cheap water cylinder and the long term savings for the country are huge.
I agree that throwing ever more Hi-tech at the problem probably won't fix anything but thinking about how we use our current low tech in different ways will. I am studying architecture and have taken many papers and read many books on sustainable building (Not just in the sense of green building either) and can tell you from my point of view it is where humanity can save the most resources. Building smaller more contained rooms saves on heating, so does building thick concrete floors. The way we use windows etc etc.
I also think that taking an open source approach to more of our research and getting rid of patents will save a lot of money and carbon dioxide emissions. Too much effort is being put in to redundancy.
While I do not live there anymore as far as I know barely anybody votes! I guess that means that if even a small sample of votes get tampered, it can have a big effect.
All I get is a heightened sensation of the colour green :(
Awesome idea, mod GP up!
I see it as more an issue of budgeting than progression. If the evil moon goblin terrorists had attacked New York, well I bet you the moon would be painted blue white and red by now.
A late slightly off topic question but has anyone actually managed to install Vista illegally? It seems to be with so much unhappiness with the OS no one would willingly pirate it?
I for one would wear a mask/belaclava if confronted by this problem in my country.
Grocklaw has something else to jabber about! :P The GPL better hold tight, it would be seriously worrying what would happen otherwise.
I think it's more like changing sides when the battle turns foul.
That's the biggest fucking bullshit I ever heard. It just shows they can't do their job properly. They're sitting in their board room aware that they're not making any more money because people a sick of their adware and bloatish antics when some bright spark says "WELL LETS MAKE EVERYTHING A VIRUS AND MAKE THE DEVELOPERS PAY US TO GET THEIR PROGRAM WORKING!!!!!!1". Fucking Chav dickheads. I'm fucking glad I use Linux.