I like throwing this out there every now and again - companies are not autonomous entities acting on their own behalf. The people who work for them do these things. It's always people. Just people.
Sorry, I haven't read playboy ever. I'm not too interested in browsing the work of the airbrushing talent they hire. You'll have to forgive my ignorance.
Microsoft simply doesn't attract enough of the fairer sex. Nice idea though.
I'd have to guess that 90+% of women use Microsoft products. I have nothing to back that up, but considering market share it sure seems more likely to find a batch of naked hotties who have used Windows as opposed to any other OS.
Sometimes people act like the Microsoft bashing is simple knee-jerk or personal dislike. I'm jealous of the strain of ignorance that allows this belief to continue.
It's not ignorance - it's disagreement with your personal opinion. Sorry that we don't all think the way you do. It's a big world, that's gonna happen.
Just as I'm happy to let you continue on with your masturbation, you'll have to be happy with me pointing at it and laughing.
Why bother even fighting the foregone conclusions of the summary? Just accept that Slashdot needs at least one masturbatory Microsoft bashing article every day and let the geeks get on with the wanking.
That can happen no matter who runs the prisons. If you think there's some general method of preventing corruption in human institutions, you're fooling yourself. Badly.
Everybody's more than happy to pay the creator for their work in the same fashion the rest of us get paid.
Who's this "rest of us" you're talking about? There are a tremendous variety of compensation types. Which model would you force on someone else? And how would you force it?
I'm not saying I disagree with your conclusions, but you didn't bother providing anything but a rambling screed. Nothing you said was backed up in any way - although it all has the virtue of agreeing with the populist Slashdot opinion. Your post is hardly insightful, but that's more or less the fault of the moderation system, I guess.
I can only find one problem in your analysis. No one is forcing OEMs to buy licenses from Microsoft. They do it because they believe it provides the best value for their own business.
I certainly had no trouble finding several retailers willing to sell me computers without Windows. The choice may not be as broad, but that's pretty much how a market works. The demand for Windows is pretty strong, whether you like that or not.
You hit on the problem, indirectly. This site is filled with people who are pissed that people aren't forced to use the command line to interact with computers anymore. Any sort of UI that takes less than four years to learn gives them a rage-on.
I wouldn't say anyone is impressed with low uids, except maybe the people who have them. Being on Slashdot for a long time isn't exactly enviable. You might not have noticed, but the web kinda left this place way behind.
How would that be any different from someone with a locally popular opinion doing the same thing? For that matter, how is it any different than the situation we have now with people using "Flamebait" for "I disagree?"
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I like throwing this out there every now and again - companies are not autonomous entities acting on their own behalf. The people who work for them do these things. It's always people. Just people.
Sorry, I haven't read playboy ever. I'm not too interested in browsing the work of the airbrushing talent they hire. You'll have to forgive my ignorance.
Nobody said US-only. It's a lot simpler to make up a point than to actually make one, isn't it?
I'd have to guess that 90+% of women use Microsoft products. I have nothing to back that up, but considering market share it sure seems more likely to find a batch of naked hotties who have used Windows as opposed to any other OS.
If you win big, they usually give you tremendous amounts of free stuff to entice you to stay and give all that money back.
It's not ignorance - it's disagreement with your personal opinion. Sorry that we don't all think the way you do. It's a big world, that's gonna happen.
Just as I'm happy to let you continue on with your masturbation, you'll have to be happy with me pointing at it and laughing.
Why bother even fighting the foregone conclusions of the summary? Just accept that Slashdot needs at least one masturbatory Microsoft bashing article every day and let the geeks get on with the wanking.
That can happen no matter who runs the prisons. If you think there's some general method of preventing corruption in human institutions, you're fooling yourself. Badly.
That's way above the standard needed to get an anti-Microsoft article posted by kdawson.
Who's this "rest of us" you're talking about? There are a tremendous variety of compensation types. Which model would you force on someone else? And how would you force it?
Lighten up, Francis
it turned out to be as meaningful as "information wants to be free"
I'm not saying I disagree with your conclusions, but you didn't bother providing anything but a rambling screed. Nothing you said was backed up in any way - although it all has the virtue of agreeing with the populist Slashdot opinion. Your post is hardly insightful, but that's more or less the fault of the moderation system, I guess.
When people use the phrase "true morals," I reach for my shotgun.
Then I apologize for the misunderstanding
13 year olds are now and always have been assholes. Good luck trying to correct that.
Only when you aren't any good at it.
Doesn't matter how someone came by their religion, proselytizing is always annoying.
I can only find one problem in your analysis. No one is forcing OEMs to buy licenses from Microsoft. They do it because they believe it provides the best value for their own business.
I certainly had no trouble finding several retailers willing to sell me computers without Windows. The choice may not be as broad, but that's pretty much how a market works. The demand for Windows is pretty strong, whether you like that or not.
So your complaint comes down to the fact that your unpopular choice isn't supported as well as the most popular choice?
You hit on the problem, indirectly. This site is filled with people who are pissed that people aren't forced to use the command line to interact with computers anymore. Any sort of UI that takes less than four years to learn gives them a rage-on.
It's important to remember, in a world of 7 billion people, that what is important to you may not mean jackshit to anyone else.
I have only one question.
Now that I know why you care, Why should I?
I wouldn't say anyone is impressed with low uids, except maybe the people who have them. Being on Slashdot for a long time isn't exactly enviable. You might not have noticed, but the web kinda left this place way behind.
How would that be any different from someone with a locally popular opinion doing the same thing? For that matter, how is it any different than the situation we have now with people using "Flamebait" for "I disagree?"