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Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free
ron_ivi writes "Reuters reports that Sun's President and COO thinks hardware will be free and that people will pay for software subscriptions instead. Reuters quotes Schwartz: 'In our world, you will subscribe to the software and the hardware is free.' 'Directionally, our expectation is that in fiscal 2005 you're going to see a rapid departure from selling hardware, software and services apart.' 'Bill Gates and I agree that within four to five years hardware will be free.' We've recently read here on /. how Gates thinks hardware will be free."
It still can't beat my honda hybrid...
Hard to believe that hardware will really be free -- guess it depends on what kind of hardware.....
it must be crack which is currently free to executives.
Bill Gates and I agree
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I'll post this one a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=109118&c id=9270617"> last time sos people can learn from my bad luck. If you're sick of it i apologize, but folk have to know. I changed it a bit so even if you've read before, you might want another look.
Anyway, I'm a semi-regular slashdot reader, and I get mod points quite a lot. Monday was a pretty normal day for me in the IT department where I've worked for 2 years now. I'd finished my work, and am about to head to lunch when I cruise by Slashdot to see what stuff that matters there is, and I see I have mod points, right?
So I set my threshold to -1(cause a good mod looks at it all, sometimes good stuff is dfown there), and go into a newish article, and start modding. I see a couple of stuff that ain't funny and mod that. I see a couple of funny gags about clippy so I mod them up. My boss comes in half way through, so I stop what I'm doing and turn round and talk to him. After a few moments, I can see he's looking at the screen.
Now I hadn't really paid attention to where it was pointing, and it turns out it was on one of those GNAA posts. My boss asks me straight out, what the hells that, or something. I try to explain but he's not satisfied, he reads the word nigger and gay, and he's very dubious of me. He bumps it up to his superior. The next day, I'm sitting in a confrence room speaking to 3 senior boss's trying to explain how come I was viewing a race hate crime website in my work time. I say to them it was my lunchh break which they say is ok then i try to explain Slashdot's like the wild west, at a low level you get all sorts of crazy shit. I'm sweating like mad at this point.
To cut the long short, by today Thursday, I'm out of a f*cking job. My boss thinks I was posting or reading that shit, and now I've got to find something else in this sh*tty job market. What the f am I going to put on my resume about my last job? I get no fucking refrence at all for 2 years work. My f*cking life has been totally ruined by these crapflooding bastards.
If your reading this, you gnaa f****, F*CK OFF BACK TO KUROFIN. If your laughing to yourselfs remember that it is NOT A COMPUTER GAME!!. I am in the shed now because of you, and I hope in your dead hearts you will suffer for what you have done to me. i know loads of stuff and i have the skills to take you down.
I also wanted to say if you're out ther and looking for a talented Perl programmers in the Michigan area, or you just feel sorry for my bad luck and want to get me in for a verbal or physical interview, reply here and I'll give you a contact address, and send you a resume. I am the victim of other people without my professional intergity, and I have leanrt my lesson. Please genuine offers only.
I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider twitter and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Knoppix or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.
If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than twitter. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.
For example, in this recent post twitter not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "GNU". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +4) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.
More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own.
More? Bad spelling in astounding conspiracy theories, more offtopic FUD and uninformed "I'm right, look at me" rants, promptly proven wrong. Worse even, twitter wants to be RMS, apparently (that first one is a winner). I mean, really. You think?
FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, offtopic FUD, and more FUD. This guy is like the Monty Python SPAM skit, but with FUD and more FUD instead of canned meat. Amazed
If you're trying to get past library or corporate censorship, it's "bicches." Likewise, the verb meaning to m*ke l*ve is "fsck."
Further, look closely at this post. "Evil"? "Corn and wheat are honest stuff"? The guy must be "colluded" with Microsoft, of course, because otherwise sad, stupid little twitter wouldn't have a point. Read, don't just look at the keywords!
"Sun is doomed"? "ran out of steam 20 years ago"? "those who cling to it will be swept away"? Read closely. What do you see? Just an extremist fuck using some important-sounding words in a desperate, pathetic attempt to make a bogus argument. DO NOT mod him up!
YHBT.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Do not blame GNAA for your being a dipshit, reading (or modding) at -1 while at work is fucking stupid, I don't go lower than 3 while at a computer other than my own.