i did honestly try to switch to bing when it came out. i'm a fan of breaking up any monopoly by voting with my dollar and opinion.
but, yeah, the bing results were just too wacky. i'm sure there was a way to search that would probably produce the results i wanted, but it seems like google always thought how i did, when i would go looking for things. either that, or after all this time, i am trained to search on google to get the results i want.
i can't (won't) take the time to map out all the details, so i'll rely on you to make my points for me:
wtf? How does free software equate to software anarchy?
tell me you have noticed that the FOSS movement is disorganized, free of any sort of recognized governing, directing body or group?...pretty anarchist, no?
How does free software equate to sex free computing?
tell me you have noticed that the freetard coders in the three cubes surrounding you are incredibly unsexed?
How does software anarchy equate to sex free computing?
tell me you have noticed that if a=b, and a=c, then b=c?
the big deal is that there is an entire marketplace being controlled by a party with interests that conflict with the entrepreneurs that would be setting up shop in that marketplace.
to rephrase the mantra: if microsoft had these requirements on developing software for Windows operating systems, you'd be typing up a furious reply condemning "M$."
t-mobile let me off the contract for no charge because they had few towers in my area... and they didn't even ask for any sort of annoying proof that i was in the area i said i was.
i had to retreat to at&t, but i took my nexus one with me. from the phone conversations i had with t-mobile, and the excellent customer care i received then, i'm pretty sure that if i move to an area with t-mobile in good supply, or if they expand in my neighborhood, i'll go back
still haven't gotten a bill from google yet, but i'm sure that's coming
So the Slashdot summary links to an article in the Huffington Post. And the HuffPo article links to an article in Wired. And the Wired article links to the actual story in the Boston Globe.
Genius idea: have the Slashdot summary link to the actual story. YES!!!
That's not from smoking, it's from dust and dander in the air. His father probably has pets.
negative. the orange color is a pretty solid indicator that this is a smoker's house.
a house with pets will have larger hairs (and plenty of them!), those are more like fibers from carpeting.
sure, clean houses get dusty computers, too, that's just the nature of computers because of how air flows through them. a house that is well-maintained will have very fine, soft dust (highly processed by vacuums).
not photograph-able: the sticky-to-the-touch quality of that orange dust. uugghhhghghghgh
my shop does mostly PCs, and we will also not warranty hardware problems on parts with exposed circuit boards (or fans) when they're coated in that gross residue - for both neglect-to-the-equipment and this-is-gross-you-can't-pay-me-enough reasons
What you're basically asking for is "why can't this free software made by volunteers be as instantly capable with any hardware on the planet as the big corporate monopoly that spends zillions on the same thing"?
you're missing his point (don't worry, i'll spell it out for you!).
people here whine day and night about how (professional) linux distros are not more readily embraced by companies and end-users
so mikefocke says "well make the ui friendly enough so people can use it without knowing silly minute details"
and now you are arguing "whoa whoa this is free stuff what do you expect?"
the point: if it isn't done right, this will never be accepted as a mainstream competitor.
Due most of the time to poor teacher comp.sci literacy at school (whatever degree).
Sometime is also mind laziness that drives people not to literate themselves.
this
i repair PCs in a mid-sized urban city for a living. 4/5 of my customers come in saying
"My hard drive is broken,"
"My CPU is broken," or
"My modem is broken."
from my personal history, my public high school keyboarding teacher - who taught typing fairly enough - was charged with basic computer literacy immediately before keyboarding instruction began the first semester (this was ~8 years ago). the class was taught to identify parts as "CPU" (the tower case), Monitor, Keyboard, and Mouse.
i don't think it's much of a stretch to think that my generation - really the first to receive modern PC instruction in required secondary school classes - were given poor information, which spread like wildfire to the friends and family that had zero PC 'education.'
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i did honestly try to switch to bing when it came out. i'm a fan of breaking up any monopoly by voting with my dollar and opinion.
but, yeah, the bing results were just too wacky. i'm sure there was a way to search that would probably produce the results i wanted, but it seems like google always thought how i did, when i would go looking for things. either that, or after all this time, i am trained to search on google to get the results i want.
i can't (won't) take the time to map out all the details, so i'll rely on you to make my points for me:
wtf? How does free software equate to software anarchy?
tell me you have noticed that the FOSS movement is disorganized, free of any sort of recognized governing, directing body or group? ...pretty anarchist, no?
How does free software equate to sex free computing?
tell me you have noticed that the freetard coders in the three cubes surrounding you are incredibly unsexed?
How does software anarchy equate to sex free computing?
tell me you have noticed that if a=b, and a=c, then b=c?
the big deal is that there is an entire marketplace being controlled by a party with interests that conflict with the entrepreneurs that would be setting up shop in that marketplace.
to rephrase the mantra: if microsoft had these requirements on developing software for Windows operating systems, you'd be typing up a furious reply condemning "M$."
i'll be wearing it, like all watches, on my belt loop. Why people don't do this i'll never know (bad eyesight, being the one exception)
also, nothing repels pesky advances from the other gender quite like a watch strapped smartly to a man's belt.
they didn't require credentials when the article went up friday; the site hosting the ads got slashdotted
this is the most confusing post i've ever read
everyone in my department is a sports fan, and the only people i know that read fark are middle-aged housewives
t-mobile let me off the contract for no charge because they had few towers in my area... and they didn't even ask for any sort of annoying proof that i was in the area i said i was.
i had to retreat to at&t, but i took my nexus one with me. from the phone conversations i had with t-mobile, and the excellent customer care i received then, i'm pretty sure that if i move to an area with t-mobile in good supply, or if they expand in my neighborhood, i'll go back
still haven't gotten a bill from google yet, but i'm sure that's coming
i heard shieldw0lf raped and murdered a young girl in 1990
common-sense topic
first sentence has no verb
second sentence starts with a conjunction
ctrl f4
So the Slashdot summary links to an article in the Huffington Post. And the HuffPo article links to an article in Wired. And the Wired article links to the actual story in the Boston Globe. Genius idea: have the Slashdot summary link to the actual story. YES!!!
i am upvoting you with my mind
That's not from smoking, it's from dust and dander in the air. His father probably has pets.
negative. the orange color is a pretty solid indicator that this is a smoker's house.
a house with pets will have larger hairs (and plenty of them!), those are more like fibers from carpeting.
sure, clean houses get dusty computers, too, that's just the nature of computers because of how air flows through them. a house that is well-maintained will have very fine, soft dust (highly processed by vacuums).
not photograph-able: the sticky-to-the-touch quality of that orange dust. uugghhhghghghgh
my shop does mostly PCs, and we will also not warranty hardware problems on parts with exposed circuit boards (or fans) when they're coated in that gross residue - for both neglect-to-the-equipment and this-is-gross-you-can't-pay-me-enough reasons
haha the guy was talking about how it's hard to have a tough work environment when you're the quirky foreign guy
guess i'm glad you had a venue to tell your story (finally!)
What you're basically asking for is "why can't this free software made by volunteers be as instantly capable with any hardware on the planet as the big corporate monopoly that spends zillions on the same thing"?
you're missing his point (don't worry, i'll spell it out for you!).
people here whine day and night about how (professional) linux distros are not more readily embraced by companies and end-users
so mikefocke says "well make the ui friendly enough so people can use it without knowing silly minute details"
and now you are arguing "whoa whoa this is free stuff what do you expect?"
the point: if it isn't done right, this will never be accepted as a mainstream competitor.
if only gates knew there were people obviously much smarter than him posting on slashdot at five am!!!
why would this be tagged "streisand effect?"
Due most of the time to poor teacher comp.sci literacy at school (whatever degree). Sometime is also mind laziness that drives people not to literate themselves.
this
i repair PCs in a mid-sized urban city for a living. 4/5 of my customers come in saying
"My hard drive is broken,"
"My CPU is broken," or
"My modem is broken."
from my personal history, my public high school keyboarding teacher - who taught typing fairly enough - was charged with basic computer literacy immediately before keyboarding instruction began the first semester (this was ~8 years ago). the class was taught to identify parts as "CPU" (the tower case), Monitor, Keyboard, and Mouse.
i don't think it's much of a stretch to think that my generation - really the first to receive modern PC instruction in required secondary school classes - were given poor information, which spread like wildfire to the friends and family that had zero PC 'education.'