I'm betting my life savings that it's closer to 10 million than 20 or 30. Your 39 Million guestimation is assuming that every internet user in the world has visited W3schools at one point or another, and that doesn't account for computers with dynamic IP addresses.
But regardless of the numbers, as others have stated previously there will be no tipping point where the populous exclaims, "Hey, let's all use Linux!" It will (unfortunately) be a slow process as more and more programs become Windows-only. Additionally, while Ubuntu is an excellent starter OS, it does have its failure points. (My experiences dictate that if GNOME or KDE fails, an inexperienced user is left helpless at the command line - Windows does no such thing. This needs to change and support needs to become even *more* accessible before acceptance is widespread.)
The modding of the parent post as "Flamebait" is exactly the reason why Slashdot shouldn't have a moderating system. It's because left-wing political dongs use it to their advantage to mod down any right-wing opposition. I challenge anyone on Slashdot to point out what, in that post, constitutes "flamebaiting".
This site is disgraceful for the way people abuse its peer-moderation system. If anything, it mirrors the attitude of the nation in that if somebody disagrees with you, they should be squelched and discredited. There's a reason why there is no "-1, Disagree" rating.
o_O How did your fine structure jump from $5000 to $50,000,000? I support enforcing Net Neutrality... but come on, that's just rude.
Also, what's to stop all the false claims that people will make just to make a quick buck?
I know it's too much to ask of you all that you just drop your ISPs if they rate-limit a service or become anti-neutrality (imagine a few million nerds screaming "My precious!"), but there are only two things in the US that can stop net neutrality - the free market and the government, and alot of you seem to despise the latter.
If the government can't or won't enforce network neutrality, then it is up to us, as the consumer, to stand up and show anti-neutral ISPs that we have a voice and a choice.
Oh, please. All that cargo combined probably weighs less than five pounds. This sounds more like a shameless and overblown plug for the company than a viable and worthwhile news article
Launch five humans and a habitat module into orbit and you've got my attention.
I know this will ruin your argument and spoil your chance of miraculously inciting a national rebellion by posting partisan, spun-out-of-context quotes, but would you mind posting the *full* statement from President Bush in regards to a limit on freedom?
Anonymity is NOT a shield from tyranny! Anonymity is a shield from responsibility and accountability! Too many people can act stupid and not suffer the consequences - spill hot coffee on yourself, sue McDonalds and get rich. "Forget" to chew your food? Sue the cook for not adequately warning you to chew it. I for one LOVE America. But it's times like these when we have to come to the harsh realization that absolute freedom is not the best choice. There will always be STUPID people making STUPID decisions, and the only way to impede the retardedness of this nation is to impose laws and limits that protect us from ourselves.
Well I'm SORRY for wanting the fucking FACTS, Jack.
Why don't you put your fucking money where your big mouth is and PROVE YOUR FUCKING POINT before you go around aimlessly discrediting people? As I stated before, YOUR OWN DISAGREEMENT DOES NOT MAKE YOUR STATEMENT ANY MORE CREDIBLE THAN MINE! Cite your fucking sources or consider your point moot.
I definitely see your point and it is a good one at that. However, Google is hardly the accredited source for bipartisan, unbiased reports... if anything, it's about as credible as Wikipedia. While Wikipedia does have factual and peer-reviewed information, its open-ended, anyone-can-submit/edit idea can lead to misconstrued information and even very prominent bias.
Google is the same way - if I used Google to discover that the Iraq war is a legal war, I would most likely find thousands of bloggers on the first hundred pages who argue to the contrary.
In a mostly partisan discussion where credibility is hard to find on either side, all you can really do is assert. Take Newton's Third and apply it to debate - For every argument there is an equal and opposite counterpoint.
I do not base my political affiliation on the "press releases" or "committee reports" released by obviously partisan sources. I wish less Democrats would act like mindless lemmings and actually make up their own minds instead of feeding off of the bullshit "information" that the Democratic Party releases.
If the Democratic Party really wanted to fulfill on all those campaign lies that they fooled you into believing in '06, they wouldn't have spent the entire time trying to frame Republican officials and working out political influence deals with Nigerian officials. They would have FULFILLED THEIR PROMISES. Namely the promise to "rid the Government of corruption." Yeah, see how good that worked? $90,000 and a freezer can make the whole party unravel like a ball of twine.
Please, do us a favor and CITE the articles of the Constitution that the Government is currently violating.
For ONCE, I'd like to see somebody delve deeper into this subject other than just repeating that age-old withered bullshit about "the illegal war". There IS no law in international affairs. The war was authorized by the US Congress. There is NOTHING illegal about it. If this war is so illegal, why do we have the support of numerous nations who want to see the job in Iraq done, and done right?
You aren't getting off that easy. Your own disagreement does not make your statement any more credible than mine. What say you?
I have a question for you. What ever happened to that poor little lady who decided to fool around in Ted Kennedy's car?
I ask you this... *How* is Bush directly responsible for the death of thousands? How about the Congress that authorized the war? How about the top brass who decide the strategies and battle plans? For the love of God, all Liberals ever whine about is Bush, Bush, Bush. Like he has a big red "KILL" button on his desk or something to that regard...
How about you take a course on American Government to see how many people (FROM BOTH PARTIES) are actually involved in governmental and military affairs?
The only reason that the US is 24th is because our infrastructure was built and developed YEARS ago - the cost of expanding and upgrading our entire national infrastructure costs a hell of alot more than what it would for a country that only very recently had access to the internet - South Korea for instance.
My second point is, we quite frankly shouldn't care what place the US is in. Not to be a troll or offensive or anything, but why do we care? It's only a matter of how new the infrastructure is, and as I previously stated, it's financially infeasible to stage an upgrade on a national scale that would put the US anywhere near the top of the list.
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I'm betting my life savings that it's closer to 10 million than 20 or 30. Your 39 Million guestimation is assuming that every internet user in the world has visited W3schools at one point or another, and that doesn't account for computers with dynamic IP addresses.
But regardless of the numbers, as others have stated previously there will be no tipping point where the populous exclaims, "Hey, let's all use Linux!" It will (unfortunately) be a slow process as more and more programs become Windows-only. Additionally, while Ubuntu is an excellent starter OS, it does have its failure points. (My experiences dictate that if GNOME or KDE fails, an inexperienced user is left helpless at the command line - Windows does no such thing. This needs to change and support needs to become even *more* accessible before acceptance is widespread.)
Slashdot would be a much better place with more people like you - living, breathing examples of what constitutes "flamebait".
The amount of flame in that post discredits your post entirely.
Go follow your precious party off a cliff, you Democratic lemming.
The modding of the parent post as "Flamebait" is exactly the reason why Slashdot shouldn't have a moderating system. It's because left-wing political dongs use it to their advantage to mod down any right-wing opposition. I challenge anyone on Slashdot to point out what, in that post, constitutes "flamebaiting".
This site is disgraceful for the way people abuse its peer-moderation system. If anything, it mirrors the attitude of the nation in that if somebody disagrees with you, they should be squelched and discredited. There's a reason why there is no "-1, Disagree" rating.
Mod parent up.
o_O How did your fine structure jump from $5000 to $50,000,000? I support enforcing Net Neutrality... but come on, that's just rude.
Also, what's to stop all the false claims that people will make just to make a quick buck?
I know it's too much to ask of you all that you just drop your ISPs if they rate-limit a service or become anti-neutrality (imagine a few million nerds screaming "My precious!"), but there are only two things in the US that can stop net neutrality - the free market and the government, and alot of you seem to despise the latter.
If the government can't or won't enforce network neutrality, then it is up to us, as the consumer, to stand up and show anti-neutral ISPs that we have a voice and a choice.
Oh, please. All that cargo combined probably weighs less than five pounds. This sounds more like a shameless and overblown plug for the company than a viable and worthwhile news article
Launch five humans and a habitat module into orbit and you've got my attention.
Cell phone email services already allow you to increase your dong on the go.
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I know this will ruin your argument and spoil your chance of miraculously inciting a national rebellion by posting partisan, spun-out-of-context quotes, but would you mind posting the *full* statement from President Bush in regards to a limit on freedom?
Anonymity is NOT a shield from tyranny! Anonymity is a shield from responsibility and accountability! Too many people can act stupid and not suffer the consequences - spill hot coffee on yourself, sue McDonalds and get rich. "Forget" to chew your food? Sue the cook for not adequately warning you to chew it. I for one LOVE America. But it's times like these when we have to come to the harsh realization that absolute freedom is not the best choice. There will always be STUPID people making STUPID decisions, and the only way to impede the retardedness of this nation is to impose laws and limits that protect us from ourselves.
All the people who don't agree with the whole party are flip-floppers or traitors to the other party.
Or John McCain.
Don't get started mixing politicians with technology. The many users of the dump-truck tubes beg of you.
Here's an idea: Ask the candidates what a microkernel is and how it's different from a monolithic kernel, or a hybrid kernel for that matter.
"Job" isn't a verb so the rule doesn't apply. Now stop wasting our oxygen.
As long as you graduate, you'll fare better than people who drop out or go a different route. This old joke sums it all up:
Q: What do you call the med student who graduates last in his class?
A: "Doctor"
Well I'm SORRY for wanting the fucking FACTS, Jack.
Why don't you put your fucking money where your big mouth is and PROVE YOUR FUCKING POINT before you go around aimlessly discrediting people? As I stated before, YOUR OWN DISAGREEMENT DOES NOT MAKE YOUR STATEMENT ANY MORE CREDIBLE THAN MINE! Cite your fucking sources or consider your point moot.
I definitely see your point and it is a good one at that. However, Google is hardly the accredited source for bipartisan, unbiased reports... if anything, it's about as credible as Wikipedia. While Wikipedia does have factual and peer-reviewed information, its open-ended, anyone-can-submit/edit idea can lead to misconstrued information and even very prominent bias.
Google is the same way - if I used Google to discover that the Iraq war is a legal war, I would most likely find thousands of bloggers on the first hundred pages who argue to the contrary.
In a mostly partisan discussion where credibility is hard to find on either side, all you can really do is assert. Take Newton's Third and apply it to debate - For every argument there is an equal and opposite counterpoint.
I do not base my political affiliation on the "press releases" or "committee reports" released by obviously partisan sources. I wish less Democrats would act like mindless lemmings and actually make up their own minds instead of feeding off of the bullshit "information" that the Democratic Party releases.
If the Democratic Party really wanted to fulfill on all those campaign lies that they fooled you into believing in '06, they wouldn't have spent the entire time trying to frame Republican officials and working out political influence deals with Nigerian officials. They would have FULFILLED THEIR PROMISES. Namely the promise to "rid the Government of corruption." Yeah, see how good that worked? $90,000 and a freezer can make the whole party unravel like a ball of twine.
Please, do us a favor and CITE the articles of the Constitution that the Government is currently violating.
For ONCE, I'd like to see somebody delve deeper into this subject other than just repeating that age-old withered bullshit about "the illegal war". There IS no law in international affairs. The war was authorized by the US Congress. There is NOTHING illegal about it. If this war is so illegal, why do we have the support of numerous nations who want to see the job in Iraq done, and done right?
You aren't getting off that easy. Your own disagreement does not make your statement any more credible than mine. What say you?
I have a question for you. What ever happened to that poor little lady who decided to fool around in Ted Kennedy's car?
I ask you this... *How* is Bush directly responsible for the death of thousands? How about the Congress that authorized the war? How about the top brass who decide the strategies and battle plans? For the love of God, all Liberals ever whine about is Bush, Bush, Bush. Like he has a big red "KILL" button on his desk or something to that regard...
How about you take a course on American Government to see how many people (FROM BOTH PARTIES) are actually involved in governmental and military affairs?
Damn the Republicans! Damn the Republican corruption to hell! ...HOW MUCH MONEY? What about a freezer?
*Phone rings*
Err... Jefferson did WHAT?
*Cough*... ALL REPUBLICANS MUST DIE! RAWR CORRUPTION! RAWR IRAQ OIL KARL ROVE!
Wow, either Mac fanbois are out in full moderating force tonight (By the way, I own a Mac laptop) or someone was in a bad mood.
The only reason that the US is 24th is because our infrastructure was built and developed YEARS ago - the cost of expanding and upgrading our entire national infrastructure costs a hell of alot more than what it would for a country that only very recently had access to the internet - South Korea for instance.
My second point is, we quite frankly shouldn't care what place the US is in. Not to be a troll or offensive or anything, but why do we care? It's only a matter of how new the infrastructure is, and as I previously stated, it's financially infeasible to stage an upgrade on a national scale that would put the US anywhere near the top of the list.
Just my $0.02
Now can they make it not suck?
I've always wanted to know... how do you plug a keyboard into a hard drive? Please, inform us of your ways, oh technical one!