You build it and I will try it out to see if it works and stays maintained. Until then, since I have neither the time nor the talent to create a screen scraper myself, I will pay for the data because I sure don't want to go without it.
As far as I recall, I have never paid a television network. I use an antenna to receive their signal free over the air, so I don't even pay a cable company.
The GP is correct. Advertisers pay the networks to gather viewers who will watch their advertisements. Viewers are not customers, they are the product. Programing is simply the bait with which the product is captured. The money flows from customer --> advertiser --> network.
You are wrong because it is not included in any default install of Ubuntu. Dell is using a standard install of Ubuntu, not including things to make it more like Windows.
I had problems with a friend's broadcom wireless card as well. I finally solved it on ebay with a $25 intel card. It took 5 minutes to change it out and worked as soon as I turned on the computer. Sometimes spending a small amount to upgrade the hardware is worth it.
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You build it and I will try it out to see if it works and stays maintained. Until then, since I have neither the time nor the talent to create a screen scraper myself, I will pay for the data because I sure don't want to go without it.
As far as I recall, I have never paid a television network. I use an antenna to receive their signal free over the air, so I don't even pay a cable company. The GP is correct. Advertisers pay the networks to gather viewers who will watch their advertisements. Viewers are not customers, they are the product. Programing is simply the bait with which the product is captured. The money flows from customer --> advertiser --> network.
You are wrong because it is not included in any default install of Ubuntu. Dell is using a standard install of Ubuntu, not including things to make it more like Windows.
Except that the GPL doesn't allow them to do this and continue to distribute the software.
I had problems with a friend's broadcom wireless card as well. I finally solved it on ebay with a $25 intel card. It took 5 minutes to change it out and worked as soon as I turned on the computer. Sometimes spending a small amount to upgrade the hardware is worth it.
Hmm. Just as I suspected, they are paying you to take Windows.
The wifi card did work in other distros though as mentioned in TFA.
Does anyone remember Microsoft Bob? Dumbing the interface down too much can be worse than making it complex.