Try a Palm pilot - my TX is cleared of information every week or so, and I get online anonymously at wi-fi access points all over the city, then come home to use my pc when I need to type a lot or play games.
Also try TrackMeNot for your browser; it'll take care of those pesky search-term farmers.
Don't worry - wine, running under Ubuntu, has run every M$ product I've come across so far. Best of both worlds, and still virus-free after 4 years of Linux usage. The future, perhaps?
I've come up with a few: the middle aged suburban women addicted to simplistic online gaming, the WoW crowd, the so-called Windows "gurus" that get jobs at the Geek Squad, and the several IT students I've met who only seem involved in the industry for cash and what I guess they perceive as intellectual prestige.
Hang in there, everyone. We'll get through to them somehow...or we'll crush them!
OK, this is ridiculous, "Try to avoid the [M$] versus Open Source software conversation..."
Hmmm. Perhaps because they know that is b$? How do you defend proprietary software to people who probably contribute to, and most likely support Open Source and the GPL in particular? If I cared about money, I'd have a degree in Information Technology and work as a drone for some faceless corporation. No way. I'm a professional chef, with only a set of books and some support forums to help me contribute to what I believe is so far the most important evolutionary step in software development: sharing knowledge freely.
I've never charged anyone for a recipe, or forced them to pay me hourly for consultations or some useless crap like that. I get paid for actually creating something someone can use (or in this case digest), not just the idea. If someone can put a subtle twist on my idea, or even rewrite a majority of it while keeping a key element, and it becomes even better; good for them. I'm not going to demand compensation, and the only reason I can think of to do so is jealousy. Big f$%@ing deal; you're not the most intelligent creature on the planet. Deal with it, and learn from it.
M$'s only argument on industry support is to refer directly back to the page I was already on. I clicked "Meeting the Linux Challenge" on their Partner Tools for the "persona" that believes that Linux has enough support for their software, and nothing happened except apparently a bunch of advertising pop-ups blocked by Firefox. How impressive.
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to do a lot better than that to fool the more rational minority of the population.
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Try a Palm pilot - my TX is cleared of information every week or so, and I get online anonymously at wi-fi access points all over the city, then come home to use my pc when I need to type a lot or play games. Also try TrackMeNot for your browser; it'll take care of those pesky search-term farmers.
Don't worry - wine, running under Ubuntu, has run every M$ product I've come across so far. Best of both worlds, and still virus-free after 4 years of Linux usage. The future, perhaps?
I've come up with a few: the middle aged suburban women addicted to simplistic online gaming, the WoW crowd, the so-called Windows "gurus" that get jobs at the Geek Squad, and the several IT students I've met who only seem involved in the industry for cash and what I guess they perceive as intellectual prestige.
Hang in there, everyone. We'll get through to them somehow...or we'll crush them!
OK, this is ridiculous, "Try to avoid the [M$] versus Open Source software conversation..."
Hmmm. Perhaps because they know that is b$? How do you defend proprietary software to people who probably contribute to, and most likely support Open Source and the GPL in particular? If I cared about money, I'd have a degree in Information Technology and work as a drone for some faceless corporation. No way. I'm a professional chef, with only a set of books and some support forums to help me contribute to what I believe is so far the most important evolutionary step in software development: sharing knowledge freely.
I've never charged anyone for a recipe, or forced them to pay me hourly for consultations or some useless crap like that. I get paid for actually creating something someone can use (or in this case digest), not just the idea. If someone can put a subtle twist on my idea, or even rewrite a majority of it while keeping a key element, and it becomes even better; good for them. I'm not going to demand compensation, and the only reason I can think of to do so is jealousy. Big f$%@ing deal; you're not the most intelligent creature on the planet. Deal with it, and learn from it.
M$'s only argument on industry support is to refer directly back to the page I was already on. I clicked "Meeting the Linux Challenge" on their Partner Tools for the "persona" that believes that Linux has enough support for their software, and nothing happened except apparently a bunch of advertising pop-ups blocked by Firefox. How impressive.
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to do a lot better than that to fool the more rational minority of the population.