The article and it's tone was to communicate to the Linux community where they stand in relation to joe sixpack and where they need to improve. Look at the replies and you find my breakdowns are accurate, for/. anyway. The average computer user does not want to be an OS expert to install and use their computer. The Linux developers have done a great job on making the install far easier than it was, now then need to concentrate on the user experience: a good GUI (coming along nicely), better pnp, and far better documentation. Like the author says, its hard to RTFM when you can't get to the internet.
Don't dismiss the zealots out of hand. They are the ones crowing how great Linux is. They are the ones making the exaggerated claims. They are who typically first talks to Linux newbies. They are also the first to turn on these newbies with taunts of RTFM, you're not smart enough, etc. Couple that with developers who come out and say Linux is for developers only and you will see many more articles like this one. IMHO, it is far too late for developers to make this claim. People have taken note of Linux and it is rapidly approaching put up or shut up time. My biggest complaint is that the vaunted flexibility of the OSS movement is extremely slow to respond to user level complaints/requests.
You might have a point except that many, many people evangelize Linux as The Answer for Everybody. Linux people are loudly amazed that Linux hasn't caught on as a desktop OS. When articles like this come along and point out from a Joe-six-pack perspective what is broken and needs fixing the following things happen:
Zealots get up in arms at the blasphemy.
Some claim the user is technically incompetent.
The same "Linux for the world" crowd does a complete 180 and says Linux is only for developers.
In short, the Linux crowd cops out. Take your medicine, go back and do better. Not everyone is a developer so if you want to see Linux on the desktop, you'll have to start actually listening to normal users. If you can't, then you have just conceded that Microsoft will always write better desktop software than Linux.
This paranoid garbage got modded to insightful? Hello Newman, Osamma isn't exactly denying the charges and working through the media to clear his name. And if assholes like yourself would have actually followed the elections when the real, counted results came in you know that Bush won the popular vote along with the electoral college. But sheep like you are easily swayed a media mistake.
While the government is barred from jailing me or denying me government service based on my opinions, nowhere in the Constitution did it say I wouldn't be socially ostracized for my opinions. Nowhere does the Constitution say everyone will agree with me. If Micheal Moore or the Dixie Chicks expressed view in line with the KKK, would you still reward them with your money?
We left them high and dry because they wanted to start going all over the world and starting war. The US wasn't down with that. You're forgetting the OBL wasn't from Afghanistan, and wasn't at all interested in helping rebuilding that nation. We did what the world thinks we should be doing today: left them to sort things out themselves. Hardly a betrayal. Unless peace is the furthest thing from your mind and you got used to have a free ride. Where was the very rich and well connected OBL when the people of Afghanistan needed food, water, and infrastructure? He was off with his buddies sharpening his knives and setting is sites on the next fight.
I will blame Bob for not RTFMing before applying something and not installing in a TEST environment first.
I will blame Bob for not setting up any security to begin with. Installing just with the defaults is a big no-no, and Bob isn't learning this lesson, is he?
Bob wouldn't be leery if he TESTS before he applies. Bob is expected to adapt and improvise after a bad experience, not hide under a rock.
No, but I'll keep my rock solid registry that doesn't corrupt anywhere near as much as you think rather than go back to the bad old days of.ini hell. Linux still hasn't learned this lesson.
I shouldn't be too hard on Bob. If it wasn't for him companies would not value people like me who have the expertise to get an NT/AD system up and running reliably. We'd be taken for granted and most likely have lower salaries. Then again, it would be nice if all the fuck-up pretenders like Bob got out of the field.
Your forgetting that TV execs have been recently getting their panties in a bind over "illegal time shifting" aka recording like we have always done. Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Tivo have a 30 second skip feature? Isn't Tivo going to introduce file sharing soon? Also remember that the TV industries arguements haven't been shot down yet in the courts, so all the same arguements they made against Replay will see the light of day against Tivo. Lastly, Tivo has been tolerent of hacking. Look for that to bite them on the ass.
Also worth noting that IIS has NEVER been the dominant webserver. IIS came late on the scene. The only thing Apache has "Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance" is Netscape's webserver.
These experts seem to be commenting on implimentations, but they never have rolled it out. Unfortunately, most NT roll outs start with Bob in accounting in charge of the thing. By the time the NT network becomes important, it is fubared. Instead of blaming Bob's lack of IT skill, or questioning why they didn't hire an NT subject matter expert, they blame the product. Cleaned up after this mess many times. People are generally amazed at what happens when it is setup properly.
It's not that global democracy won't work, but those with the most to loose from this arraingment didn't just keel over and let it happen. Now that it might take "work" to make the vision happen, most are bailing on the process.
...Americans should learn that you don't have a monopoly on truth...
True that, but the Arab world needs to look into their mirror and acknowlege their racism, espcially toward Isreal. No real peace can be achieved until that happens. People ask, "Why do they hate us so much?" and it all boils down to us supporting Isreal and not letting the Middle East "drive Isreal into the sea." Translation: kill 'em all. So they demonize us with their worst fears.
YASPM: Yet Another Stupid Political Move. Ohhh, we are soooooo mad at the USA! We'll show them! We'll restrict their video game sales! Maybe it's only fair, because after the war Germany will have a tough time selling it's chemical components until they find another big customer.
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On the boxes themselves, maybe. But you know they will more than make that up with game sales and license fees.
Uhhh, 90% market share means gobs of profit. You flunked Econ 101 and Business 101, didn't you?
Head in Sand arguement. RTFM and see what Turning has to say to your objections.
Don't dismiss the zealots out of hand. They are the ones crowing how great Linux is. They are the ones making the exaggerated claims. They are who typically first talks to Linux newbies. They are also the first to turn on these newbies with taunts of RTFM, you're not smart enough, etc. Couple that with developers who come out and say Linux is for developers only and you will see many more articles like this one. IMHO, it is far too late for developers to make this claim. People have taken note of Linux and it is rapidly approaching put up or shut up time. My biggest complaint is that the vaunted flexibility of the OSS movement is extremely slow to respond to user level complaints/requests.
Zealots get up in arms at the blasphemy.
Some claim the user is technically incompetent.
The same "Linux for the world" crowd does a complete 180 and says Linux is only for developers.
In short, the Linux crowd cops out. Take your medicine, go back and do better. Not everyone is a developer so if you want to see Linux on the desktop, you'll have to start actually listening to normal users. If you can't, then you have just conceded that Microsoft will always write better desktop software than Linux.
>This paranoid garbage got modded to insightful? Hello Newman, Osamma isn't exactly denying the charges and working through the media to clear his name. And if assholes like yourself would have actually followed the elections when the real, counted results came in you know that Bush won the popular vote along with the electoral college. But sheep like you are easily swayed a media mistake.
While the government is barred from jailing me or denying me government service based on my opinions, nowhere in the Constitution did it say I wouldn't be socially ostracized for my opinions. Nowhere does the Constitution say everyone will agree with me. If Micheal Moore or the Dixie Chicks expressed view in line with the KKK, would you still reward them with your money?
We left them high and dry because they wanted to start going all over the world and starting war. The US wasn't down with that. You're forgetting the OBL wasn't from Afghanistan, and wasn't at all interested in helping rebuilding that nation. We did what the world thinks we should be doing today: left them to sort things out themselves. Hardly a betrayal. Unless peace is the furthest thing from your mind and you got used to have a free ride. Where was the very rich and well connected OBL when the people of Afghanistan needed food, water, and infrastructure? He was off with his buddies sharpening his knives and setting is sites on the next fight.
I shouldn't be too hard on Bob. If it wasn't for him companies would not value people like me who have the expertise to get an NT/AD system up and running reliably. We'd be taken for granted and most likely have lower salaries. Then again, it would be nice if all the fuck-up pretenders like Bob got out of the field.
Your forgetting that TV execs have been recently getting their panties in a bind over "illegal time shifting" aka recording like we have always done. Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Tivo have a 30 second skip feature? Isn't Tivo going to introduce file sharing soon? Also remember that the TV industries arguements haven't been shot down yet in the courts, so all the same arguements they made against Replay will see the light of day against Tivo. Lastly, Tivo has been tolerent of hacking. Look for that to bite them on the ass.
Also worth noting that IIS has NEVER been the dominant webserver. IIS came late on the scene. The only thing Apache has "Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance" is Netscape's webserver.
With Sonic Blue down, TIVO is next in the sights. Expect legal proceedings to begin within the next year.
These experts seem to be commenting on implimentations, but they never have rolled it out. Unfortunately, most NT roll outs start with Bob in accounting in charge of the thing. By the time the NT network becomes important, it is fubared. Instead of blaming Bob's lack of IT skill, or questioning why they didn't hire an NT subject matter expert, they blame the product. Cleaned up after this mess many times. People are generally amazed at what happens when it is setup properly.
NO. Programmers are not engineers, not by a long shot.
It's not that global democracy won't work, but those with the most to loose from this arraingment didn't just keel over and let it happen. Now that it might take "work" to make the vision happen, most are bailing on the process.
But only when hit from behind! Baada boom.
And if you knew what you were talking about, you would have known that Microsoft was end of lifing NT4.0. We've all known this since 2001.
...And that time expired about a year ago. MS has pushed back the final support date for NT4 in deference to these customers.
Actually, they for all intents and purposes brought NT4 to end of life on Dec 31, 2002. They only extened the deadline for support.
I bet their not going to batch NT 3.51 either. So what? If you're still using NT 4.0, you knew LONG ago this would happen.
True that, but the Arab world needs to look into their mirror and acknowlege their racism, espcially toward Isreal. No real peace can be achieved until that happens. People ask, "Why do they hate us so much?" and it all boils down to us supporting Isreal and not letting the Middle East "drive Isreal into the sea." Translation: kill 'em all. So they demonize us with their worst fears.
YASPM: Yet Another Stupid Political Move. Ohhh, we are soooooo mad at the USA! We'll show them! We'll restrict their video game sales! Maybe it's only fair, because after the war Germany will have a tough time selling it's chemical components until they find another big customer.
1) You have the right not to be killed. Murder is a CRIME! Unless it was done by a policeman or aristocrat.
2)You have the right to food money Providing of course you Don't mind a little investigation, humiliation And if you cross your fingers rehabilitation
3)You have the right to free Speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.
True, but you fire bombing snipers deserve to be closely watched and dogged by the FBI. You're a menace to the community.
Ah, but before that happens the Andromida galaxy will collide with the Milky Way. The resulting super black hole will more than likely suck us in.