But the US government is already bought by these people, and I see little chance for the amazing common sense shown by one of your politicians on the MP3 issue (can't be arsed to find the link, I'm drunk and tired), ie allowing people to listen to music they've already paid for in a different format that doesn't skip just because the bus went over a pothole. The whole web browser war was useless, but that's a whole different thread.
First of all check out this link to see why I and many others disagree with child labour. Secondly, if child labour is not wrong why is it highly illegal in all western nations? You're final argument made me so angry that I wanted to kick your spotty, greasy-haired head in. How dare you, you little prick. I disagree with the exploitation of children so I'm a paedophile. Very good, you pathetic little moron, you don't have a real opinion, so you have to make sick accusations from behind a computer screen. Do the world a favour and make your next jump without a parachute.
Does anyone know whether Lego uses child labor? Or maybe they ruthlessly ran the Bric Blocs people out of business. Who cares?
Well you should care. It certainly turns my stomach to know that kids not much older than my little nephew are making clothes and shoes in the name of the almighty corporate share price.
No-one can buy one. Stop fussing about something that won't arrive until at least Christmas next year (and that's just in the US), if it arrives at all.
But RedHat is NOT the only distro. Don't use them, use distros which are driven by something other than the share price (SuSE and Mandrake spring to mind). RedHat may be the ones with the best marketing department, but you're buying software, not advertising.
I do bash RedHat on a regular basis after the hassles I had with 6.0 and 6.1 (broken KDE anyone?). I'm much happier with Mandrake, who actually seem to test their software before releasing it. RedHat should be held accountabe, so flame away. This is what happens when marketing/directors decide when a product is ready, not the people that are actually doing the work. Thank you RedmondHat for bringing MS's working practices to the Linux world:-(
Unless said 133t hax0r can afford an RS6000 or a Proliant, I think you're sadly mistaken. I'm referring to the amount of servers shipped with Linux over the past year, not the number cover-mounted RedHat Linux CDs. This a real figure determined by the simple equation:
(number of servers shipped with linux / total number of servers) * 100. If I was making figures up surely I would have said that Linux has more market share than NT, which it doesn't, NT has 35%. These are the facts, as confirmed by Dell, IBM, Compaq when they release their sales information.
That's because Linus is a personable Scandinavian, whereas RMS, for all his genius and talent, is quite a scary human being (like all true fanatics). This is a media list, not a geek list.
But choice is rarely a bad thing, and it's sad that there will be less of a choice on the Sparc platform. But considering that SuSE, Mandrake and Debian are still supporting it, I don't think it's a real problem.
I see what you're saying, in that the corporate mentality wouldn't understand Debian, but to make out that there's no-one in charge is a fallacy. How could you possibly create a something as large as a whole operating system without some kind of leadership. Debian isn't just a bunch of hippies smoking dope whilst typing in lines of C, they're more like a charitable organisation with people in charge of various projects.
The reality is that in just over a year, without big marketing campaigns and huge product launches, Linux has grabbed 24% of the server market, has several large IT corporations backing it and has even been acknowleged by Steve Ballmer as a serious competitor in the server space. Few Linux zealots would argue that Linux is ready for serious desktop use, but considering that a useable desktop for Linux didn't come out until last year, and an excellent one is due out in 2 weeks, I don't think it will be too long before Linux is competing for at least the corporate desktop. I think Microsoft are a great deal more worried than they let on, because Linux will be a lot harder to squash than Netscape was. Linux isn't quite there yet, but there are still more than 2 million people using Linux as a desktop OS and that number is increasing all the time.
Indeed, but there are a lot of people that don't know any better and just use the OS that comes with their computer. Do you think MS won't add the MAC address as part of their IPv6, along with a whole load of crap that isn't in the spec. They should not have their privacy invaded just because their interest and abilities are different to those of geeks. The spec should be changed, why does anyone need to know my ethernet address anyway?
And of course my favorite; wear a latex suit and wrap your head in aluminum. This totally disgueses your actions on the Internet and makes you totally anonymous.
Whatever you do in the privacy of your own home is your own business (for now anyway);-)
But if the American media told them the truth instead of making out like Netscape were just a bunch of clowns that couldn't run a business, I would be surprised if that approval rating stayed so high. Has there been any articles in any of your newspapers summarizing the findings of fact, or has it all been Microsoft press releases masquerading as stories?
Why was this post marked as redundant and the one below, saying a very similar thing was marked as funny? Methinks that duplicate stories are not the only thing not quite right in the Slashdot world.
You don't know what you're talking about you foolish person. Perhaps you've heard of KDE? Version 2 is due out in about 10 days time and includes a Samba share browser as part of it's file manager, and guess what? KDE 2 has been usable for a couple of months now. And if you say 'why do I have to use beta software', just because MS releases something doesn't mean it's ready or it works as specified, at least on Linux, people are honest about when a piece of software reaches a final version, because it's driven by coders, not by internal and external political appearance.
Well JBuilder offers all these things for Java and it's been out for about 9 months, and, assuming that Kylix will be similar, the same thing will be available for Delphi and C++.
No they'll get one of their staff to fix the problem, just like Sun do, or are all the Sun developers on 24/7/365 callout just in case something they did went wrong. Jeez, who invited the ZDNet journalist. That is clueless FUD of the worst kind, and you, sir, are the one that is mistaken.
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But the US government is already bought by these people, and I see little chance for the amazing common sense shown by one of your politicians on the MP3 issue (can't be arsed to find the link, I'm drunk and tired), ie allowing people to listen to music they've already paid for in a different format that doesn't skip just because the bus went over a pothole. The whole web browser war was useless, but that's a whole different thread.
First of all check out this link to see why I and many others disagree with child labour. Secondly, if child labour is not wrong why is it highly illegal in all western nations? You're final argument made me so angry that I wanted to kick your spotty, greasy-haired head in. How dare you, you little prick. I disagree with the exploitation of children so I'm a paedophile. Very good, you pathetic little moron, you don't have a real opinion, so you have to make sick accusations from behind a computer screen. Do the world a favour and make your next jump without a parachute.
Does anyone know whether Lego uses child labor? Or maybe they ruthlessly ran the Bric Blocs people out of business. Who cares?
Well you should care. It certainly turns my stomach to know that kids not much older than my little nephew are making clothes and shoes in the name of the almighty corporate share price.
No-one can buy one. Stop fussing about something that won't arrive until at least Christmas next year (and that's just in the US), if it arrives at all.
Generally speaking that's true, but you missed out over-priced as well.
But RedHat is NOT the only distro. Don't use them, use distros which are driven by something other than the share price (SuSE and Mandrake spring to mind). RedHat may be the ones with the best marketing department, but you're buying software, not advertising.
I do bash RedHat on a regular basis after the hassles I had with 6.0 and 6.1 (broken KDE anyone?). I'm much happier with Mandrake, who actually seem to test their software before releasing it. RedHat should be held accountabe, so flame away. This is what happens when marketing/directors decide when a product is ready, not the people that are actually doing the work. Thank you RedmondHat for bringing MS's working practices to the Linux world :-(
Unless said 133t hax0r can afford an RS6000 or a Proliant, I think you're sadly mistaken. I'm referring to the amount of servers shipped with Linux over the past year, not the number cover-mounted RedHat Linux CDs. This a real figure determined by the simple equation:
(number of servers shipped with linux / total number of servers) * 100. If I was making figures up surely I would have said that Linux has more market share than NT, which it doesn't, NT has 35%. These are the facts, as confirmed by Dell, IBM, Compaq when they release their sales information.
The headline says tech, the hyperlink doesn't. Just a bit of editor timesaving. Nothing to see here, move along.
Cobblers.
That's because Linus is a personable Scandinavian, whereas RMS, for all his genius and talent, is quite a scary human being (like all true fanatics). This is a media list, not a geek list.
But choice is rarely a bad thing, and it's sad that there will be less of a choice on the Sparc platform. But considering that SuSE, Mandrake and Debian are still supporting it, I don't think it's a real problem.
But you're missing the point. SuSE and Mandrake also provide support and someone to yell at. Linux is more than just RedmondHat after all.
I see what you're saying, in that the corporate mentality wouldn't understand Debian, but to make out that there's no-one in charge is a fallacy. How could you possibly create a something as large as a whole operating system without some kind of leadership. Debian isn't just a bunch of hippies smoking dope whilst typing in lines of C, they're more like a charitable organisation with people in charge of various projects.
The reality is that in just over a year, without big marketing campaigns and huge product launches, Linux has grabbed 24% of the server market, has several large IT corporations backing it and has even been acknowleged by Steve Ballmer as a serious competitor in the server space. Few Linux zealots would argue that Linux is ready for serious desktop use, but considering that a useable desktop for Linux didn't come out until last year, and an excellent one is due out in 2 weeks, I don't think it will be too long before Linux is competing for at least the corporate desktop. I think Microsoft are a great deal more worried than they let on, because Linux will be a lot harder to squash than Netscape was. Linux isn't quite there yet, but there are still more than 2 million people using Linux as a desktop OS and that number is increasing all the time.
Indeed, but there are a lot of people that don't know any better and just use the OS that comes with their computer. Do you think MS won't add the MAC address as part of their IPv6, along with a whole load of crap that isn't in the spec. They should not have their privacy invaded just because their interest and abilities are different to those of geeks. The spec should be changed, why does anyone need to know my ethernet address anyway?
;-)
And of course my favorite; wear a latex suit and wrap your head in aluminum. This totally disgueses your actions on the Internet and makes you totally anonymous.
Whatever you do in the privacy of your own home is your own business (for now anyway)
But if the American media told them the truth instead of making out like Netscape were just a bunch of clowns that couldn't run a business, I would be surprised if that approval rating stayed so high. Has there been any articles in any of your newspapers summarizing the findings of fact, or has it all been Microsoft press releases masquerading as stories?
You missed out:
MS-fans who get upset about Slashdot bias.
Really, if you don't like it, I'm sure there's plenty of MS-brown-nose sites, go there, and bask in the glory of the Gates God-being.
8. Why do you read the extremely pro-linux /. when it quite obviously offends you?
Why was this post marked as redundant and the one below, saying a very similar thing was marked as funny? Methinks that duplicate stories are not the only thing not quite right in the Slashdot world.
Why? Did someone change the IP address, or install a device driver?
You don't know what you're talking about you foolish person. Perhaps you've heard of KDE? Version 2 is due out in about 10 days time and includes a Samba share browser as part of it's file manager, and guess what? KDE 2 has been usable for a couple of months now. And if you say 'why do I have to use beta software', just because MS releases something doesn't mean it's ready or it works as specified, at least on Linux, people are honest about when a piece of software reaches a final version, because it's driven by coders, not by internal and external political appearance.
Well JBuilder offers all these things for Java and it's been out for about 9 months, and, assuming that Kylix will be similar, the same thing will be available for Delphi and C++.
Was that a rhetorical question? It would be hard not to know that they're a member of the almighty Time-Warner group.
No they'll get one of their staff to fix the problem, just like Sun do, or are all the Sun developers on 24/7/365 callout just in case something they did went wrong. Jeez, who invited the ZDNet journalist. That is clueless FUD of the worst kind, and you, sir, are the one that is mistaken.