5. Non-Simple Update from Different Revision of the OS. Maybe I am ignorant but These this hinder linux from becoming a complete powerhouse.
You are ignorant. To ugprade from one Ubuntu revision to another requires hitting a single button marked "upgrade". Wow, that was so hard.
This is a good thing, because I like using commercial software on Linux (read: I like using VMware Player to run virtual machines),
Why would you need RHEL to run VMware Player? It's been in the Ubuntu repositories since 6.06.
Seriously, why does linux have so many release cycles.
Because people want the latest versions of software?
That's one thing I didnt like about Ubuntu. It took me forever to get it running just the way I wanted and by then a new version was out and I had the pressure to upgrade..and of course..I had to set up everything again since invariably, it broke something.
You didn't have to upgrade at all. No one forces you to do so if everything already works just fine.
It's funny how many people here bitched that windows was coming out with Win 7 so soon after vista, but they don't mind that linux seems to release something every couple months depending on the distro. Odd.
Because it doesn't cost me a couple of hundred dollars to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10? Or from Fedora 10 to 11? I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.
But if you really are
And how is that job from McDonalds going to provide even the most basic of needs for a person and their family? This goes beyond not being able to afford a 50 inch plasma, it would be more like you won't be able to afford to house your family on that salary.
The users probably didn't consider it a likely occurrence, and may have believed that the web host should be able to fix a problem that they allowed due to their negligence.
But this wasn't due to negligence on the part of the web host. This was due to some Indian guy putting out apparently shitty software that contains amateur-level exploits.
You've already signed up for that. It's overpriced in part because they're paying a chunk of the price of the phone.
Yeah which answers your question of how they are going to get their money back.
So why should they throw away another couple hundred dollars on a customer they already have?
Because they are going to make that a couple times over on the ridiculous monthly bills from your phone and data plan?
Additionally could this implicate free software as we saw on the iPhone, lots and lots of extremely hampered trial-ware?
What would be the point since this isn't going to be a pay-for-apps store?
How is AT&T supposed to make money giving away subsidized phones before they pay back the ones they've already subsidized?
The overpriced data plan that they force you to sign up for?
Losely translated
There have been many people who use "loose" where they've meant "lose", but I think this is the first time someone has made this stupid mistake in the reverse.
People were so buy foaming at the mouth that they never bothered to read the actual article
But but but! Oracle is eviiiiiiiiiiiil! Who cares what the truth was? Did you know that Oracle was eviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil!
So does this mean it was all one huge typo? Or was Oracle/Sun tentatively testing the waters to see the community's reaction? In either case it's nice to see Java's back on the right path."
No, it means that the original article was a misleading pile of FUD since the G1 garbage collector was released GPL + Classpath exception from the beginning. It's amusing that after being pointed out that the original submission was misleading and wrong that instead of this being a retraction that this article still tries to implicitly claim that Sun or Oracle did something wrong.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
