5) Put up adds on Craigs List etc. and do a little consulting on the side while in school. It beats washing dishes. Just make sure you know how the taxes work. More opportun ity for networking. Nothing speaks volume like satisfied customers.
Conversely, respond to ads on Craig's List. It's actually how I found my last two contracts at small design/development firms.
For Linux their might be a binary driver, if you are lucky, but if not you are stuck with a working system but with no extras and your system working unaccelerated
While I can't say that nVidia is guaranteed to work, I've found that you are more likely to have graphics drivers available from them, than you are to get ATI drivers. A little research and I found that while ATI opened (parts of) its source, they don't really have any real interest in helping the OSS community or supporting Linux. Therefore, I've found ATI to be a little more hit or miss than nVidia (for example, my husband has one of the HD series cards from ATI, it happens to be one of the like three HD series cards that don't have 3D Acceleration yet, and the proprietary one makes the system less stable than a bad WinME install).
Most Linux system will support most graphics cards and monitors out of the box at the highest resolution Windows often won't until you load a manufacturer supplied driver for the card or the monitor
Exactly.
You do realize I'm talking about before graphics drivers are installed, right? With the drivers, my card can support HD resolutions.
That said, I can only speak for my experiences of Win2k, XP, and Vista installations (of which, as a computer tech, has been many), as the last time I installed Win9x was...well, in 9x, and NT4 was one I never really played with.
That said, I would kind of expect Apple software to support Apple hardware straight out of the box, that's kind of the point of running an OS only a handful of hardware combinations.
You can thank ATI and nVidia for that. Even ATI's drivers aren't fully open-sourced due to legal issues, and although they've open sourced parts of their drivers, they've stated outright that they have no intent on helping the open source community with writing the drivers. nVidia is only slightly better because they actively develop drivers that work reasonably well on Linux, but they won't open their source. That leaves three-quarters of the drivers that are maintained by the community to be reverse engineered.
That said, Windows doesn't support most graphics cards out of the box, either. I don't know about you, but one of the first things I do when installing a fresh copy of Windows on a computer is go straight to the video card manufacturer so I don't have to deal with a crappy 800x600 resolution. Win7 was better in that it could actually support 1280x1024, but I still had to get the "extra binary driver" in order to actually do anything with my card and make full use of it.
Your signature certainly fits your attitude.
I think Microsoft and the majority of the population perpetuate the idea of just letting "mommy and daddy" (in this case, Microsoft, or the vendor in general) handle everything, unquestioningly. And, I agree, it is astounding that they do this.
they primarily market their products as "easy to use!"
That reminds me of the "Mac Attack" commercial, with the legal text that pops up.
How is telling someone that's complaining to disable the addon or spend thirty seconds on Google to uninstall it (and it's actually been fixed by M$ and doesn't require anything more than updating it to get rid of it) apologist?
I don't deny (fully agree, actually) that how M$ rolled it out is shady. Ethically speaking, they should have anything that affects a third party application as a separate download and make it clear what it's for. However, thanks to US law, they can basically say "you agreed to our terms of service when you installed the OS, and our ToS says we can push out whatever updates we want."
The addon was rolled out with an update to the
There are two things, also, that add to people's negative reactions -- 1.) the initial inability to uninstall the addon, and 2.) the fact that it's Microsoft.
What most people seem to be missing is that the JRE also ships with a Firefox addon, and it's not obvious that it's getting installed when you install the JRE.
They also seem to be missing that the Java addon also cannot be uninstalled from the addon window. This is not something that Microsoft or Sun or Oracle did that circumvented something in Firefox. This is how Firefox handles addons installed by the permission level typically used by installers (system-wide). While Microsoft was in the wrong to not be more open about the installation, they at least took a step in the right direction by updating the addon so that it could be removed in the addon window.
Was Microsoft wrong to go about it the way they did? Certainly (and, in my opinion, so is Sun/Oracle; no one should be able to modify a third party application without being very explicit about it). Was it their fault the addon's uninstall option was disabled? Kind of, since it's also Firefox's policy to behave that way for the different access levels. Does Microsoft deserve the lack of trust they get? Definitely. Is the sky falling because of this update? No.
Regardless of what either the M$ fanbois or the M$ haters think, Microsoft is run by mere humans. This particular issue was partly unintentional (as evidenced by the update to allow it to be uninstalled) and partly poor customer service. At least Microsoft put in a description for the addon that shows up in the addon window so the user has an idea of what it's for (which the Java Quick Starter 1.0 doesn't do, surprisingly).
And thank you for your considerate response.
Then don't run Windows. There are plenty of perfectly acceptable alternatives out there.
And I'm not an "apologist retard" (and resorting to name calling is unbecoming, though I guess I should expect it from some posting as an AC). I actually don't really like Microsoft. However, my current career path has put me in a position that allows me to understand what the addon actually is and is used for, and I'm therefore less quick to put on my Tin Foil Hat in this case.
It takes all of thirty seconds to go to Google, type in the name of the addon, and get all the information you need about what it is, what it's for, and how to uninstall it.
I imagine a municipal run ISP would be able to handle this pretty well and it would help the community. It would be nice to have a 50 or 60mbps link to everyone on my local node. Oh well, perhaps someday the municipal government will wise up.
There's a town in North Carolina that has tried this. As far as I know, Time Warner took the matter to the state to try to get them to force the town to shut it down. I don't know how far through or if anything has come of it yet, though.
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