As you say, women aren't less skilled or capable, so how come they on average have lower salaries.
I don't know how it goes there, but I suspect it is similar to what happens in the US. There are a large number of housewives who have children older than grade school, who wish they had their own spending money and thus go out and obtain part-time or low-wage jobs for this, or for supplemental incomes while their husbands have been working in a specialized field, or doing more labor intensive work for the primary family income.
I, for instance, have worked at a number of companies with women holding the same positions, making the same wages, as the men. What happens? They have children and take extended leaves or quit to take care of their kids. Multiply this by millions and you've got quite a gap when looking at the
Well, for the issue to get traction, it'll take people in the mainstream being worried about it. There's far greater things on the table, and they should be dealt with. Getting the tin-foil hat on over everything just makes the folks that matter not pay attention.
I heard Google might be playing around with and doing analysis on your search history. That has a far greater possibility of impacting your life than cell phone tracking.
Eh, I think you are blowing this possibility out of proportion in your own mind. Sure, someone somewhere might get something stolen from them with information obtained this way, but it's much more likely a thief will simply sit in my neighborhood during a work week and learn everyones patterns without having to go to the trouble of getting everyone's cell phone number.
It's also probably a lot more likely a thief who is savvy enough to run off with cell phone movement records would just snag the credit cards associated with payment, which seems like something more realistic, right here, right now type thing to worry about. Do you have a credit card?
"Depending on the software used, face recognition uses multiple techniques to identify a person's face. Some of the more advanced programs use texture mapping in which a person's skin texture is analyzed and matched. Most however, define nodal points on a person's face and then use software to mathematically represent those points. Things measured include distance between the eyes, width of the nose, length of the jaw line, or shape of the cheekbones. Together these concatenate a numerical code which is stored in a database for later retrieval.
This is all bad. What if I decided to grow a beard or spend a lot of time outdoors, getting various shades of skin from tan, pale, to burned? I'm betting on it being a nightmare for males due to the facial hair factor.
I had enough trouble with thumb readers at my previous job (which I was admin of the box and had like 30 scans entered in to make it more likely to identify one of my scans), and there would be days where either the temperature had a big swing where none of the readers would get a good read and I'd have to start knocking.
Oh and the worst thing about thumb readers is going to the bathroom and seeing one of our greasy developers leave from taking a dump, not washing his hands, and giving the reader a "stink thumb" on his way back into the office. This was the sole reason I started keeping hand sanitizer at my desk.
You know how laptops seem to be going downhill in speed and stuff and people are buying ones with waaaay slower hardware that don't even run windows.
This is the perspective one obtains when only getting their news from slashdot. There's plenty of strong gaming laptops out there with lots of battery-draining power and they sell pretty well. For some reason, we only hear about Apple products, EEE PCs, and such on here. I suspect advertising partnerships, but I'm paranoid like that.
Any guesses which European country requires cell phone providers to record where their customers make calls, and then allows them to give that data away without disclosing that they have done so?"
It's funny to watch headlines attempt to troll out tin-foil hat crowd. This data seems much more useful for the development of cities than it would for evil advertisers or jack-boot government thugs who can find you through any number of measures and come get you whenever they feel like it.
Personally, I don't care much about folks knowing my routine. Wow, I go to work, come home, go shopping, go for a walk, and head off to the same few places every weekend. If data for a better mass-transit system or better roads was to result, that'd be great.
Today is the day that Dungeons and Dragons died. This is it. The game system that survived Second Edition...
Actually, this is something they run into with each edition. SE is what did it for my group of friends many years ago. They'll get enough younger gamers to hang onto the franchise. Then the next version will come along, those gamers will be grownups, move on, and new ones will come in to replace them.
The great thing about paper role-playing systems is you don't have to run out and buy the latest version. Just find like-minded folks and keep playing by the rules you like for as long as you like and leave the new/stupid stuff for kids who don't know any better.
Really, if people are worried about security, then they should probably be looking at the copy of Windows instead of investing in gimmicks. Something tells me the ability to circumvent a program running during Windows startup is going to be relatively easy, no matter what form of trickery it uses.
It's also likely the package is designed to be circumvented out of the box, as there could be some painful customer support issues if their software ever manages to lock out a legitimate user without such a feature.
Even with this, there's nothing to stop a common criminal who will just nuke and pave the system for export to South America or another country, which occurs quite often.
I do. Though it's karma suicide, as my last post got modded "redundant", although nobody else mentioned it, within 30 seconds of clicking submit. You can't bring up facts about/.'s golden children without some neck-beard in his mother's basement trying to shut you down.
You can, pretty much, take Google and insert $SEXY_COMPANY_HERE and expect Google to be best buddies with them when it comes to what's relayed to the public. This helps form advertising partnerships, makes investors balls swell, etc.
The more I've been reading about what Google employees do, the more it becomes apparent that most must be driving new Beetles, wearing "Can you hear me now?"-guy glasses, latte sipping, looking serious while browsing myspace at the coffee shop, goatee donning weeners.
From all I have seen, they are still working on a plan to get these out. Regardless, it's about a million times better than to have nothing in the works and a minimum price of $10k to develop on the platform, as it appears to be with the ps3. The $100 a year is not very much, considering the tools and content you get with it.
I also see nothing wrong with a game being multi-player only, as the majority of people who play XBLA releases are only in it for retro classics and social multi-player games.
That's enough repetition from me. I use computers to do that.
That's what happens when one is very selective on which content they are going to reply to.You've got a narrow point to make and apparently just want to stick to it, regardless of what someone replies with.
And as for adding memory or memory expansion in a future version, there's no reason why that would be "a whole new console", other than the memory - unless Sony wanted to change something else at that time. If you're really as eager a collector of these consoles as you say, you must know that the PS3 was released as more of a "final beta", with several HW upgrades already (mostly economic, like dropping PS1 & PS2 HW in favor of SW emulation).
I am quite aware of this-- with exception to SATA based memory (which I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole), what the hell does that have to do with my collection of consoles? I collected them because they were the ones with the most games, best titles, and so on. I wouldn't buy a "final beta" of a console just for the sake of having it. I find that portion of your response rather childish and would bonk you over the head with my, self-repaired from a pile of parts, Vectrex if you were in swatting distance. Then again, you cite removal of hardware-based features an upgrade and I start to feel bad for you and would rather fix you a cup of tea.
It's not wise, this early on, to assume the PS4, or whatever they choose to call the next Playstaion, will be cell-based. With all the short-term relationships forged in technology, it's more viable to bank on an alcoholic stranger's marriage than it is to try and predict what the next generation console will bring when it's still a few years off.
I wouldn't bank on a memory expansion on the PS3. Where would it hook up?
It would also be rather strange for them to come out with a whole new console and still call it the PS3 if it has differing memory.
Oh, I've read the answers all over the web and nothing has produced any excitement in my veins, thus far. I typically am known as the guy who owns every current generation console, up until this one because some titles on the PS3 were being shipped without online support while coming out for the other with such features (most notable, Virta Fighter 5).
As in previous generation consoles, there's not much I can say that won't get "OH NO, YOU ARE WRONG!" from a particular crowd, so I'm stuck having to wait a couple years for the inevitable outcome. If you think Linux running on a game console is going to generate enough revenue to make sure it will be around a long time, you are mistaken.
Note how 90% of the positive things read in forums are "Well, I need to run out and buy one of these and install Linux on it!", just like folks said two years ago, but still don't have one. The sales will be generated by games and the ability to play Blu-Ray content with, my guess, probably 1-2% of owners having a functional copy of Linux installed.
People forget what a bitch of a company Sony is when they do one little thing for the community. Give them a year or two to rear their ugly head with a new format, or legal issue, and everyone will be back to hating them.:)
What matters most is whether the Linux community stays working on improving the Linux implementation. Which is how Linux works on any platform. Lend a hand!
I'd rather see these man-hours go into Wine, personally. I really don't see a big future in the PS3 implementation, as I said in regards to the Dreamcast, a new whiz-bang bit of hardware comes out, people port Linux to it, then there's a hundred thousand cheer-leaders who just know it'll be around forever. This thought stems from the number of people who actually will run it on the PS3, what happens when the memory of the PS3 becomes obsolete, etc. I am not knocking cell development, just questioning the excitement over a console-specific distribution when there's big, gaping holes in other areas of the OS in question.
Your analogies fail on several levels. You can't use existing copyrighted house designs and duplicate them. This goes for houses that you modify, just as you can't take a book, add a few paragraphs and sell multiple copies as your own work either.
People who specialize in computing tend to think the rest of the world doesn't have any enforcements or funky laws associated with intellectual property. Just try cloning someone else's home designs and see how fast you get sued out of business. Unlike software, you can't hide the stolen "source code" so easily.
Oh thank god! I hate how when I buy a PC, the hardware never seems to work when I take it out of the box. Especially the complicated task of getting things like this to work!:V
From your link:
"However, I noticed that video performance was awful, so I investigated what could be done to improve this." -- There's no updates on his investigation on the website.
"When it comes to audio, Linux on PS3 falls short again as a media center, because of the 2 channel stereo support currently in the audio driver.
But I've been told that work is being done in this area as well. "... -- Yikes!
This stuff sounds like the same things I heard about Linux on the Dreamcast, which eventually petered-out when that generation of console ended and the next one began, leaving a lot of abandoned, half-finished work in it's wake.
I think he is just refuting the point brought up in the headline:
"Not bad specs for the price, either, since Blu-Ray players still aren't cheap. And though the article calls the procedure "somewhat complicated," it's a lot simpler than was installing Linux from floppies not so many years ago."
The headline implies you get decent specs for the price, which seems to be comparing it to PC hardware.
This, to me, is the same kind of fluff the Dreamcast got a few years back when people began running Linux on it. You know, when everyone was jabbering about it being a "super computer", seeming to ignore how you can't upgrade the memory, processor, or any other components which will cause it to be obsolete by the time the price drops a reasonable amount.
*Sigh*
Go read this article on GamaSutra real quick.
Slashdot isn't the place for any positive information about the 360. It's rather silly, because for any up-and-coming game coder, it's probably not a wise one to ignore or spit at.
Considering at least three of the dozen speakers is usually blown, the floor is sticky and the place smells like a muddy diaper, I think I can skip the wall-sized screen and just sit closer to the TV or buy a bigger panel if I was hurting for for a bigger screen experience. As for audio, I've got ample power down here and it's a bit louder than your typical theater experience due to room size (in addition to the THX surround, I'm running a set of 15" subs behind the sofa for more whomp).
Don't forget the rest of us who don't shoot for "theater theme" and just have our panel mounted on the wall and a THX system tucked away out of sight.
My whole goal was to bring the theater home, as in the film, not the crappy smell of a popcorn maker and uncomfortable stadium seats. I've got comfortable furniture folks can stretch out on and a microwave a few rooms away if you need to do some popping.
My absolute favorite in home theater atrocities are the ones where you find a flat panel mounted over the fireplace. I always want to mention what a bad idea it is, but just bite my lip as to not be rude.
I see games as social gatherings. I have no desire to sit in a quiet room and play against lack-luster AI for a few hours when it would be more fun to group up with some friends and play against lack-luster AI or human opponents. Multi-player code is easy to implement these days, unless your developers are a bunch of loons and if you want to write the next blockbuster, it had better have MP support as there's a majority of people out there who will buy the shooter with these features over the one without. It's all about the replay value.
Good nit-pick on the early development remark, though.:)
You have a choice. Just make certain you don't argue, but make recommendations as needed. There's not a lot of SysAdmin positions were one would be expected to be a mindless set of hands.
Just be aware of the differing needs of each individual. Hating on Microsoft, these days, makes for a miserable administrator. It's got it's place, for now, and dislike of it will only add unneeded stress to the job.
I miss simply being able to work in FreeBSD, not logging into a domain, not expected to use Outlook, being able to say "Windows? You'll want to talk to the Windows admin!", etc. But those particular jobs are getting rarer each year and have a limit on pay.
Not to sound nasty, but that sounds more like promotion than fighting.
I've changed a few opinions on the use of Samba and implemented it, to varying degrees, in several companies. I considered it better utilization of resources and not a battle. In fact, had something else worked better, I would have promoted it's use.
Perhaps I should have made a big presentation, with music and slides, instead of just showing the performance gains first-hand on a test system.
Just make sure you don't battle yourself into a box if IT is what you want to do. Once outside the safe nest of a university, it takes a broader approach of implementing the best solution for a particular scenario. You won't get very far if always touting what you desire due to personal preferences, morality, agendas, etc.
Yes there are aspects of Linux that are difficult. So, lets make sure this year isn't the last year of Linux, the year Linux became as obscure as DR-DOS, and Amiga, and the Z80. because, I'm sorry, but some things have to be fought for. So what exactly have you done to fight?
I think this begs an answer because for the vast majority of people who use Linux, they consider it a tool at work and a hobby or way to pad a resume with contributions at home.
It doesn't seem like a fight as much as the natural way things go when you've got price, performance and stability on your side. When politics are involved, there's always going to be pitfalls, but they tend to be temporary setbacks.
Fortunately, I don't see a bleak future where Linux has been outlawed and the only people who run it are hiding in basements, packing away AK47's, waiting for a big standoff over their OS choice.
What about Terri Schiavo? You just made this not worth further discussion. I don't think it's necessary to start citing extremes. That's where discussion starts to break down in politics and why nothing worth-while ever gets done.
If I was to play, I could start pushing how your views on freedom and the rights of parents to decide the welfare of children could go as far as justifying not allowing the law to get involved in extreme cases of child abuse-- because I wouldn't be assuming your beliefs on freedom has rational limits. It would never end, since there's hundreds of cases to cite going both directions and to varying levels of extremity.
Not a game I'm willing to play, even on the Internet, mister..:)
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I don't know how it goes there, but I suspect it is similar to what happens in the US. There are a large number of housewives who have children older than grade school, who wish they had their own spending money and thus go out and obtain part-time or low-wage jobs for this, or for supplemental incomes while their husbands have been working in a specialized field, or doing more labor intensive work for the primary family income.
I, for instance, have worked at a number of companies with women holding the same positions, making the same wages, as the men. What happens? They have children and take extended leaves or quit to take care of their kids. Multiply this by millions and you've got quite a gap when looking at the
Well, for the issue to get traction, it'll take people in the mainstream being worried about it. There's far greater things on the table, and they should be dealt with. Getting the tin-foil hat on over everything just makes the folks that matter not pay attention.
I heard Google might be playing around with and doing analysis on your search history. That has a far greater possibility of impacting your life than cell phone tracking.
Eh, I think you are blowing this possibility out of proportion in your own mind. Sure, someone somewhere might get something stolen from them with information obtained this way, but it's much more likely a thief will simply sit in my neighborhood during a work week and learn everyones patterns without having to go to the trouble of getting everyone's cell phone number.
It's also probably a lot more likely a thief who is savvy enough to run off with cell phone movement records would just snag the credit cards associated with payment, which seems like something more realistic, right here, right now type thing to worry about. Do you have a credit card?
This is all bad. What if I decided to grow a beard or spend a lot of time outdoors, getting various shades of skin from tan, pale, to burned? I'm betting on it being a nightmare for males due to the facial hair factor.
I had enough trouble with thumb readers at my previous job (which I was admin of the box and had like 30 scans entered in to make it more likely to identify one of my scans), and there would be days where either the temperature had a big swing where none of the readers would get a good read and I'd have to start knocking.
Oh and the worst thing about thumb readers is going to the bathroom and seeing one of our greasy developers leave from taking a dump, not washing his hands, and giving the reader a "stink thumb" on his way back into the office. This was the sole reason I started keeping hand sanitizer at my desk.
This is the perspective one obtains when only getting their news from slashdot. There's plenty of strong gaming laptops out there with lots of battery-draining power and they sell pretty well. For some reason, we only hear about Apple products, EEE PCs, and such on here. I suspect advertising partnerships, but I'm paranoid like that.
It's funny to watch headlines attempt to troll out tin-foil hat crowd. This data seems much more useful for the development of cities than it would for evil advertisers or jack-boot government thugs who can find you through any number of measures and come get you whenever they feel like it.
Personally, I don't care much about folks knowing my routine. Wow, I go to work, come home, go shopping, go for a walk, and head off to the same few places every weekend. If data for a better mass-transit system or better roads was to result, that'd be great.
Actually, this is something they run into with each edition. SE is what did it for my group of friends many years ago. They'll get enough younger gamers to hang onto the franchise. Then the next version will come along, those gamers will be grownups, move on, and new ones will come in to replace them.
The great thing about paper role-playing systems is you don't have to run out and buy the latest version. Just find like-minded folks and keep playing by the rules you like for as long as you like and leave the new/stupid stuff for kids who don't know any better.
Really, if people are worried about security, then they should probably be looking at the copy of Windows instead of investing in gimmicks. Something tells me the ability to circumvent a program running during Windows startup is going to be relatively easy, no matter what form of trickery it uses.
It's also likely the package is designed to be circumvented out of the box, as there could be some painful customer support issues if their software ever manages to lock out a legitimate user without such a feature.
Even with this, there's nothing to stop a common criminal who will just nuke and pave the system for export to South America or another country, which occurs quite often.
I do. Though it's karma suicide, as my last post got modded "redundant", although nobody else mentioned it, within 30 seconds of clicking submit. You can't bring up facts about /.'s golden children without some neck-beard in his mother's basement trying to shut you down.
You can, pretty much, take Google and insert $SEXY_COMPANY_HERE and expect Google to be best buddies with them when it comes to what's relayed to the public. This helps form advertising partnerships, makes investors balls swell, etc.
The more I've been reading about what Google employees do, the more it becomes apparent that most must be driving new Beetles, wearing "Can you hear me now?"-guy glasses, latte sipping, looking serious while browsing myspace at the coffee shop, goatee donning weeners.
What? Wait, 2 years? Come on now.
From all I have seen, they are still working on a plan to get these out. Regardless, it's about a million times better than to have nothing in the works and a minimum price of $10k to develop on the platform, as it appears to be with the ps3. The $100 a year is not very much, considering the tools and content you get with it.
I also see nothing wrong with a game being multi-player only, as the majority of people who play XBLA releases are only in it for retro classics and social multi-player games.
That's what happens when one is very selective on which content they are going to reply to.You've got a narrow point to make and apparently just want to stick to it, regardless of what someone replies with.
And as for adding memory or memory expansion in a future version, there's no reason why that would be "a whole new console", other than the memory - unless Sony wanted to change something else at that time. If you're really as eager a collector of these consoles as you say, you must know that the PS3 was released as more of a "final beta", with several HW upgrades already (mostly economic, like dropping PS1 & PS2 HW in favor of SW emulation).
I am quite aware of this-- with exception to SATA based memory (which I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole), what the hell does that have to do with my collection of consoles? I collected them because they were the ones with the most games, best titles, and so on. I wouldn't buy a "final beta" of a console just for the sake of having it. I find that portion of your response rather childish and would bonk you over the head with my, self-repaired from a pile of parts, Vectrex if you were in swatting distance. Then again, you cite removal of hardware-based features an upgrade and I start to feel bad for you and would rather fix you a cup of tea.
It's not wise, this early on, to assume the PS4, or whatever they choose to call the next Playstaion, will be cell-based. With all the short-term relationships forged in technology, it's more viable to bank on an alcoholic stranger's marriage than it is to try and predict what the next generation console will bring when it's still a few years off.
I wouldn't bank on a memory expansion on the PS3. Where would it hook up?
:)
It would also be rather strange for them to come out with a whole new console and still call it the PS3 if it has differing memory.
Oh, I've read the answers all over the web and nothing has produced any excitement in my veins, thus far. I typically am known as the guy who owns every current generation console, up until this one because some titles on the PS3 were being shipped without online support while coming out for the other with such features (most notable, Virta Fighter 5).
As in previous generation consoles, there's not much I can say that won't get "OH NO, YOU ARE WRONG!" from a particular crowd, so I'm stuck having to wait a couple years for the inevitable outcome. If you think Linux running on a game console is going to generate enough revenue to make sure it will be around a long time, you are mistaken.
Note how 90% of the positive things read in forums are "Well, I need to run out and buy one of these and install Linux on it!", just like folks said two years ago, but still don't have one. The sales will be generated by games and the ability to play Blu-Ray content with, my guess, probably 1-2% of owners having a functional copy of Linux installed.
People forget what a bitch of a company Sony is when they do one little thing for the community. Give them a year or two to rear their ugly head with a new format, or legal issue, and everyone will be back to hating them.
I'd rather see these man-hours go into Wine, personally. I really don't see a big future in the PS3 implementation, as I said in regards to the Dreamcast, a new whiz-bang bit of hardware comes out, people port Linux to it, then there's a hundred thousand cheer-leaders who just know it'll be around forever. This thought stems from the number of people who actually will run it on the PS3, what happens when the memory of the PS3 becomes obsolete, etc. I am not knocking cell development, just questioning the excitement over a console-specific distribution when there's big, gaping holes in other areas of the OS in question.
People who specialize in computing tend to think the rest of the world doesn't have any enforcements or funky laws associated with intellectual property. Just try cloning someone else's home designs and see how fast you get sued out of business. Unlike software, you can't hide the stolen "source code" so easily.
Oh thank god! I hate how when I buy a PC, the hardware never seems to work when I take it out of the box. Especially the complicated task of getting things like this to work!
From your link:
"However, I noticed that video performance was awful, so I investigated what could be done to improve this." -- There's no updates on his investigation on the website.
"When it comes to audio, Linux on PS3 falls short again as a media center, because of the 2 channel stereo support currently in the audio driver. But I've been told that work is being done in this area as well. "... -- Yikes!
This stuff sounds like the same things I heard about Linux on the Dreamcast, which eventually petered-out when that generation of console ended and the next one began, leaving a lot of abandoned, half-finished work in it's wake.
"Not bad specs for the price, either, since Blu-Ray players still aren't cheap. And though the article calls the procedure "somewhat complicated," it's a lot simpler than was installing Linux from floppies not so many years ago."
The headline implies you get decent specs for the price, which seems to be comparing it to PC hardware.
This, to me, is the same kind of fluff the Dreamcast got a few years back when people began running Linux on it. You know, when everyone was jabbering about it being a "super computer", seeming to ignore how you can't upgrade the memory, processor, or any other components which will cause it to be obsolete by the time the price drops a reasonable amount.
Go read this article on GamaSutra real quick.
Slashdot isn't the place for any positive information about the 360. It's rather silly, because for any up-and-coming game coder, it's probably not a wise one to ignore or spit at.
Considering at least three of the dozen speakers is usually blown, the floor is sticky and the place smells like a muddy diaper, I think I can skip the wall-sized screen and just sit closer to the TV or buy a bigger panel if I was hurting for for a bigger screen experience. As for audio, I've got ample power down here and it's a bit louder than your typical theater experience due to room size (in addition to the THX surround, I'm running a set of 15" subs behind the sofa for more whomp).
Don't forget the rest of us who don't shoot for "theater theme" and just have our panel mounted on the wall and a THX system tucked away out of sight.
My whole goal was to bring the theater home, as in the film, not the crappy smell of a popcorn maker and uncomfortable stadium seats. I've got comfortable furniture folks can stretch out on and a microwave a few rooms away if you need to do some popping.
My absolute favorite in home theater atrocities are the ones where you find a flat panel mounted over the fireplace. I always want to mention what a bad idea it is, but just bite my lip as to not be rude.
I see games as social gatherings. I have no desire to sit in a quiet room and play against lack-luster AI for a few hours when it would be more fun to group up with some friends and play against lack-luster AI or human opponents. Multi-player code is easy to implement these days, unless your developers are a bunch of loons and if you want to write the next blockbuster, it had better have MP support as there's a majority of people out there who will buy the shooter with these features over the one without. It's all about the replay value.
:)
Good nit-pick on the early development remark, though.
You have a choice. Just make certain you don't argue, but make recommendations as needed. There's not a lot of SysAdmin positions were one would be expected to be a mindless set of hands.
Just be aware of the differing needs of each individual. Hating on Microsoft, these days, makes for a miserable administrator. It's got it's place, for now, and dislike of it will only add unneeded stress to the job.
I miss simply being able to work in FreeBSD, not logging into a domain, not expected to use Outlook, being able to say "Windows? You'll want to talk to the Windows admin!", etc. But those particular jobs are getting rarer each year and have a limit on pay.
Not to sound nasty, but that sounds more like promotion than fighting.
I've changed a few opinions on the use of Samba and implemented it, to varying degrees, in several companies. I considered it better utilization of resources and not a battle. In fact, had something else worked better, I would have promoted it's use.
Perhaps I should have made a big presentation, with music and slides, instead of just showing the performance gains first-hand on a test system.
Just make sure you don't battle yourself into a box if IT is what you want to do. Once outside the safe nest of a university, it takes a broader approach of implementing the best solution for a particular scenario. You won't get very far if always touting what you desire due to personal preferences, morality, agendas, etc.
I think this begs an answer because for the vast majority of people who use Linux, they consider it a tool at work and a hobby or way to pad a resume with contributions at home.
It doesn't seem like a fight as much as the natural way things go when you've got price, performance and stability on your side. When politics are involved, there's always going to be pitfalls, but they tend to be temporary setbacks.
Fortunately, I don't see a bleak future where Linux has been outlawed and the only people who run it are hiding in basements, packing away AK47's, waiting for a big standoff over their OS choice.
If I was to play, I could start pushing how your views on freedom and the rights of parents to decide the welfare of children could go as far as justifying not allowing the law to get involved in extreme cases of child abuse-- because I wouldn't be assuming your beliefs on freedom has rational limits. It would never end, since there's hundreds of cases to cite going both directions and to varying levels of extremity.
Not a game I'm willing to play, even on the Internet, mister..