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When Spun Really Fast, CDs Explode
Anonymous Coward writes: "Ever wonder why cd-rom/cd-rw drives are not getting any faster? Wonder why they heat up? This page has a rather amusing experiment where they put various CD's into something that can spin up to 30,000RPM and found that most cd's explode at just around 28,000RPM. Oh and they seem to like using Corel CD-ROM discs for their experiment." Update: Yep, it's a dupe...
Yeah, it's pretty bad when fark.com gets stories weeks ahead of /.
no soup for you
Linux doesn't have any graphical interface.
Linux doesn't. It's not even an operating system. It's a kernel. That means that there's at least one more layer of indirection(than direct access)(if cross-platform compatability is implemented, meaning no direct hooks into the kernel, and no direct access to hardware) before software can access devices. That leads to one of his points, that X is slow. X is a heap of several layers of indirection. I like it because that means I can use whatever windowmanager, video card, kernel and processor architecture I want to. With Windows, you get one windowmanager, any videocard, one kernel and one architecture.
No company has ever released a game for Linux.
In my opinion, tic-tac-toe is a game, not a game. Quake is a game. Just the fact that there can be two meanings for the same word in the same context proves that it's subjective.
Not one piece of Windows software runs well enough under WINE to consider using day-to-day.(rather subjective -- until you see that some programs run identically to their windows counterparts, such as Quake II, which makes this flat-out wrong.)
His experience with WINE may not have been a successful one. I never got DOSEmu running, so, for me, no DOS program (or even old ".com" programs like Robot Odyssey or some of Sierra's really old games) work well enough in Linux to warrent the effort to use frequently. Again, it's subjective.
Linux users are forced to use Netscape 4 if they want to surf the internet.
He may have been referring to mainstream-only software, which is a subjective distinction.
Linux has no way of changing the IP address of an interface without resorting to the command prompt.
I grimace here. I don't think he made that point, because he freely admitted that Linux was excellent for programming, and he did mention that he tried to get Linux to work for him.
No company would ever consider deploying Linux.
The fact that he referenced a Slashdot article shows he almost certainly didn't say that.
No hardware company would ever release drivers for Linux.
He said they rarely release drivers. And he said why.
In reference to my second point above, think about the form of communication we're using. In English, everything is subjective. I've never heard a sentence that someone couldn't twist into meaning something different. That's what politicians and the Media are all about, remember? Ever notice that all most third-world politicians ever do is claim that their opponents' charges of corruption against them are lies? I suggest that's largely due to the inflexibility of their languages.
What's this Submit thingy do?