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Linux Desktop Summit 2004 Review
An anonymous reader writes "I had the experience this week of attending the Linux Desktop Summit hosted
by Michael Robertson's Linspire, Lindows, or whatever you want to call it these days. Irregardless of what you call it, it's Linux, and the general
consensus from vendors and attendees was, "We're here to stay."
I have to say that this was an interesting convention. Keeping in line with the Linux community, there was more of a sense of community rather than the
typical "Choose our product" ambiance, With a few exceptions of course."
Irregardless of what you call it
Irredudant
Don't want to be an asshat but I think it should be "regardless" not "Irregardless of what you call it" . Proper grammar and spelling leads to something positive, though I'm not sure what. Lou Sir
huh this is amazing, the slashdot effect roars in like a lion and takes down any server in its path, has anyone thought of using to to bring down severs intentioanlly? why not give the ip's of some people you dont like,everyone try to connect to them and theyll be slashdotted to oblivian before you know it! mods: this is not a flame! its called satire, you dont have to like it but you dont have to mod it donw either.
Irregardless of what you call it, it's Linux, and the general consensus from vendors and attendees was, "We're here to stay."
Let's look at the word here.
regardless adj. In spite of everything; anyway: continues to work regardless.
ir pref. variant of in-.
in pref. Not: inarticulate. Before l, in- is usually assimilated to il-; before r to ir-; and before b, m, and p to im-.
Regardless is the correct word in this situation. "Irregardless" is the equivalent of saying "Not regardless".
Obviously not the usage that the submitter had in mind.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
how is that a troll? becuase the commenter's opinion is different than the mods?
good call
suckers
Use spell check. That's what it's for.
Irregardless of your critisim, the OED lists irregardless as the humorous form of regardless.
"Irregardless isn't even a word"
"yes it is, it means without lack of regard"
mund freud.
I show my support for this post by replying logged-in.
for dissing his lines.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Perhaps you meant "regardless"? Or maybe it was "irrespective" you were looking for? REGARDLESS, I think "irregardless" is generally considered a nonsensical word.
In other words, REGARDING what you call it.
This is almost as bad as people saying, "That's not unlike this," or whatever, when all you have to say is, "That's like this." Or worse, when people say, "I could care less," when what they actually mean, if they want to say that they don't care at all, is, "I could NOT care less." People are just so stupid. It all stems from the educational system, which completely and utterly sucks. Respect used to be with the teacher. What the teacher said, went. Teachers had the authority to discipline children. But not anymore. Teachers have to be afraid to say the wrong word, or look at some student the wrong way, or use the wrong tone of voice, or they'll get fired and end up on the national news for being "prejudiced" against some child. What a bunch of bullshit! It reminds me of airport security. They WON'T search someone who looks middle eastern because they might get offended, but they WILL search some nun or some child who comes through because they want to appear FAIR. In other words, they SAY they don't want to discriminate, but this behavior IS DISCRIMINATION!!!!! Discrimination works both ways! You can discriminate in order to benefit someone, or in order to unbenefit someone. But no, they won't see it this way, just as nobody sees the absurdity of schools sucking, and when the children fail the tests, because the school did a shitty job of teaching them, the state gets rid of the tests, instead of making the schools teach better.
Do you agree with some of what I've said in this post? If you're a U.S. citizen, write in Ralph Nader on the November 2004 ballot. Voting outside the "traditional" Democrat/Republican parties is the only way to fix this country.