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• If the content providers don't want their vids able to be used on the youtube public API, they shouldn't allow it to be there at all.
  
  Of course, then an increasingly large portion of the population wouldn't see their vids at all and they'd lose out on the ad revenue generated.
  
  Perhaps they should reread his argument, that he's simply using the vids as provided by the youtube API. If they'd put in preroll ads, his service wouldn't block those and the content providers would get paid, end of story.
  
  Also, I read about his service long before I heard of Vevo. If anyone stole anything, Vevo stole his idea. He should sue. In reply to: "Teen Muziic founder chastised by Vevo"

  December 29, 2009

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• What specs does your machine have? What type of monitor and video card do you have?
  
  I really want to know so perhaps I can see what you did differently than me. I've got three machines set up currently, all with variations of Ubuntu and none with those problems.
  
  If there's a certain setup I should avoid for the moment, I'd like to know and if you did something odd that you shouldn't have, I'd like to know that to. Maybe I could find a way to help you fix it. In reply to: "Canonical shines its Ubuntu light on consumers"

  December 28, 2009

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• On a similar note, I installed Xubuntu 9.10 on an amazingly old machine to still be running as her first computer ever.
  
  After teaching her how to use the machine, including how to type and what a password is (necessary for e-mail), I haven't heard from her in close to a month about that machine.
  
  I never taught her about the CLI and have never needed to. I set her up with restricted codecs and flash, that's it. I'd wager she's at least as good with Linux as most "normal users" are with Windows with one very large caveat, she's safer. In reply to: "Canonical shines its Ubuntu light on consumers"

  December 28, 2009

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• Strange that playback of DVDs was actually easier for me to learn how to do on Linux than on Windows.
  
  I did a simple search on Google, clicked a link, copied and pasted a line, pressed enter and I was done.
  
  With Windows, I had to do quite a bit of research before finding out that VLC has the required codecs for free that I needed and would allow me to watch DVDs.
  
  Honestly, if whoever controls the codec required to play DVDs would just let it out, it could be added into the default setup for every OS out there.
  
  My experience was probably different than yours but it's not different enough from everyone else to be completely unique.
  
  Also, Linux Mint has DVD playback out of the box. It's just not 100% legal to come like that in every country on the planet, that's why Ubuntu comes the way it does. In reply to: "Canonical shines its Ubuntu light on consumers"

  December 28, 2009

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• @MrRetardo
  
  It's pretty strange to choose to go through the frustration of activation when all you get is the frustration of having to put up with A/V software sucking away part of your system resources constantly as well as the frustration of having each piece of software not attributed directly to your OS having to update on its own and, let's not forget, you paid for that frustration just so you could be like 90% (claimed percentage, no evidence) of the world.
  
  I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, no activation, I run an A/V scan once a month. Haven't had a hit since I installed Linux in the first place over 8 months ago. I run a firewall but, since it's built into the kernel, I have no extra system resources needed to run it. I run a single update which happens to update all of my software at once through the repository. The bonus, I had no expenses for upgrading to 9.10, not even hardware. I spent the cash I saved on a better monitor and a new computer as a birthday present for my mom, Xubuntu 9.10 installed on it.
  
  The bottom line, market share means jack squat.
  
  @Random_Walk
  
  Glad at least one person isn't trying to pretend Linux doesn't exist. In reply to: "Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation"

  November 13, 2009

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• software preferences, not hardware. That's a completely separate subject. In reply to: "Seinfeld curbs enthusiasm for Microsoft, goes back to Mac"

  November 1, 2009

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• He might already, just without advertising it. Like with his illness, the rest of his personal life could be off limits as well. In reply to: "Seinfeld curbs enthusiasm for Microsoft, goes back to Mac"

  November 1, 2009

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• @professionaladventurer
  
  OpenOffice is available for OS X as well. In reply to: "Apple punts on lower-cost MacBook"

  October 25, 2009

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• Trying to spin the huge number of versions between Windows as a good thing shows you really aren't getting it. Trying to say users of OS X don't know what version of OS X (hint, there's only one) proves you really will never get it.
  
  By the way, when you can get every single "advantage" Windows claims to have without spending money on a new OS without even needing to purchase new hardware and yet you choose to keep shelling out cash for it anyway, it proves just how deeply entrenched in the Windows way of life you are.
  
  If you're a gamer, great. Either get Linux for day to day use and switch into Windows just for those games, get Windows and shut up already or use your head and realize there's a massive amount of games available in Linux for free and a huge variety of paid games will currently play in Linux as is.
  
  If you have a proprietary app that absolutely will not run in Linux, you have the same choices as above except you can also try and run it in a VM if you'd rather not use Windows except when absolutely necessary.
  
  @thydavidcome
  
  Your grandparents could be using Ubuntu right now, checking e-mail, opening/working on documents, having not spent anything at all to do so. Your sister, mom and brother could be using Ubuntu with Compiz Fusion enabled, checking out wobbly windows and show mouse, having fun with the desktop cube with 3D windows, peaking at windows in the background. They could otherwise do everything else on Ubuntu they need except they would have more money in their pockets.
  
  Your dad could be using Ubuntu right now, able to encrypt files, able to encrypt his entire /Home folder, enabled on installation and available with a simple right click on the file/folder he wants to encrypt. All for no charge.
  
  Maybe if you'd given them the choice and also given them all the available facts, they'd have chosen to keep their money and still get all the goodies.
  
  Too bad you didn't. In reply to: "Which Windows 7 is right for you?"

  October 20, 2009

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• @thydavidcome
  
  If MS only made one version and charged the price of the lesser versions, would your grandparents, mom, brother or sister complain that they had extra features? Would your dad complain that he paid less for it? Would you?
  
  I'm using Ubuntu right now, it's perfect for checking e-mail or news, working with word documents (or any other format). Compiz is an amazing replacement for aero, gives more options, including the "aero peak" so many people seem so fond of. WINE is great for many Windows apps and otherwise, VirtualBox allows you to run a VM seamlessly in your current OS, just like XP mode is doing, except you'd have more choices of operating systems to use. Ubuntu even includes built in encryption support and you can get it in Arabic or simply have support for the language.
  
  Oh, also, it has remote desktop hosting, you can do presentations just as easily.
  
  Also, it doesn't need defragging, the apps will always be up to date (all of them), it has a built in firewall that literally just has to be set up one time and it runs in the background permanently and even has a built in A/V, though there aren't any current viruses in the wild I can think of.
  
  Pretty sure your grandparents, mom, sister, brother and father would be just as, if not more, happy with a setup involving Ubuntu. In reply to: "Which Windows 7 is right for you?"

  October 20, 2009

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