This is why a ton of good bands that arent popular stay with their tiny labels when they get big. Mustard Plug is sticking with Hopeless Records, and damn it, they probably get more money per CD than the label. I normally thought of sony as a company that actually though things through...oh well. All hail the little guys.
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I know what you mean. The first thing Hitler did when he came to power was "silence" anyone who opposed him, and by the time we found out about it it was too late anyway.
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The stupid proxies we use at school are already are biased enough as it is. They don't allow you to go to AD&D sites, but they'll allow you to go to sites that are against AD&D. They'll ban you from godlovesfags.com but it lets you into godhatesfags.com, tell me that wasn't the work of the government... Imagine how this will be on the national level. I'd be banned from half the useful information on the internet just because it was controversial or conflicting with the ideas of one of the people that decides what sites get what ratings. If this does become a reality, I can tell you right now I'll be fighting it with every ounce of energy I've got. You can't tell me the script kiddies won't be cracking away everyday in protest. Since some countries would ban different things (ie Germany - no hate speech...which of course translates into any speech that is controversial ) I would definately set up a system of proxies in the US and send massive amounts of email to be forwarded to the germans showing them how to use the proxies. Get the idea now? Civil disobedience is also on the top of the list, I'm sure a lot of sysadmins would be glad to rate ALL of their content as "sexually violent racial slurs" or something like that. Then when kids can't get in to te useful information, they complain to teachers or parents, and in turn to congressmen and such. Another plan is the ever popular petition. Everyone on my block and everyone in my school and everyone in my email address book would be glad to send around petitions or take a few seconds to sign one. If the leaders of this beast receive 6 billion signatures, and a few billion emails, do you think theyd get the picture? Maybe not, but it would be worth it. If EVERYONE does EVERYTHING in their power to shoot this down, I think we can.
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What the hell? Now theres a biased moderator. I state an opinion that is held by the majority of people I know, and parts of it can actually be proven as fact, and its labeled as flamebait? Geez, I guess I should have known a moderator or two would be a radical religious fanatic. Moderating that down only served to prove my point of the church and its fanatical followers hating when people say something that goes against what the church beleives. Thank you. I'd assume they've got some points left, so this should be flamebait soon too.
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I'll bet the church is gonna go nuts over this one. I mean, they get pissed off when someone SAYS something that contradicts what they say. Imagine what its gonna be like since someone actually DID something against what the church beleives. Not to mention, I forget what chapter/verse/whatever, but in the bible it says something along the lines of the anti-christ will be born not of god or flesh. That oughta make the catholic church shit itself.
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I doubt the ports 12345 and 12346 are for netbus, I beleive nmap just throws the name of the service that NORMALLY runs on that port and puts it on the list of open ports. I mean, what kind of moron would waste their time porting netbus over to whatever OS the dreamcast runs when they could just code their own in less time... Not to mention it would be a copyright infringment on NetBus Inc. or whatever now....Unless Sega paid to use netbus, which again, would be retarded.
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Maybe some of you played this, but I doubt anyone with half a mind still does. I quit playing after they started releasing a new set every week. My god, there isn't much more they can do with the game now, so I doubt hasbro is gonna make any money off of that deal. Type 2 tournaments are simply a money making scheme. They don't allow older sets, WOTC doesn't sanction type 1, so you HAVE to buy the new cards if you want to play in the tours. Its friggin crazy. Richard Garfield HAD a great idea til it got all twisted around in an effort to make money.
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1. Can they fit all that they want to fit in a properly sized ball? I'm sure the voice recognition software would take up a lot, and so would all the sensory crap they want on it...
2. What happens when it hits a wall? Unless they put even more sensors on it, which brings us back to problem #1...
3. What's this? Should first be deployed in 2001? Aren't they worried it will decide it doesn't like astronauts and go crazy? Damn that Anti-NASA propaganda from many years ago...
4. What if it screws up a command? I'm sure that will happen a lot. I'm not kidding.
5. How much will this little toy cost? Will hovercraft type versions be available for consumers? Will we ever surpass the Jetsons?
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What's the big deal about these cool cases? None of my computers don't even have a case except for this one and it doesn't even have any screws in it cuz I take it apart so much. Any true geek would never think of purchasing or making any crazy case cause they know they'll be fiddling with things inside all the time. Not only that, but wouldn't you rather purchase some hardware upgrades or books instead? If you want a cool looking case, go for a much less ugly G3 type design. The side just pops open for easy access to any parts, but that damn thing is ugly as hell. Maybe a nice design with easy inside access would catch my attention.
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I know linux can be forced to run on some palmtop devices, but are there any distro's geared towards a palm PC's hardware? That would probably KILL winCE because from my experience, most palm PC users are geeks and most geeks prefer linux... Hell, imagine how cool it would be to run X on a palm pilot. And imagine the performance and usability boost. You could use your handheld devices to do anything then. Not to mention it's cheaper cuz its free...
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This is one of those good bad ideas... First, the possibilities for abuse are just plain outstanding. Also, you have to remember that only people that can afford computers have them. This means that poor people and welfare recipients and such still won't get to vote if they weren't going to. If you say "what about internet cafes and such" well if theyre gonna go there just to vote, what was the point in the first place? Anyway, as I was saying, this would prove for a little bias-ness in the votes. My next thought is of privacy. Since there will have to be some sort of verification, that means they will know which way you voted, so say this is some local election and whoever loses feels like breaking your knees, they can. One of my other little opinions is if your lazy enough to use this, you shouldn't be voting anyway. (Unless of course we go back to the people that are stuck at home and such). Also, one last little consideration, you would probably have to provide a LOT of personal information to restrict tampering, so just think of those poor people with trojans on their computers that go and vote while someone is sitting there watching keystrokes... I could go on and on, but I need sleep...
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1. Set the default for anyone not logged in to browse at 0 on comments instead of -1 2. Only allow 1 post per minute from an IP. This would slow spam to an incredible halt and anyone that just happened to be posting a lot of comments wouldn't have to wait that long (normally a message takes a few minutes to type anyway) 3. Pretend your the US Government and pass a law that allows you access to the offenders computers and provides you with the a backdoor to their encrypted files. 4. Heres a nice controversial one: Allow moderators with karma of 2 to delete AC posts. 5. Moderators with karma of 2 can -1 an AC post without losing any points. 6. Heres one to make those crazy censorship people go crazy: Auto-delete a post if it contains too much vulgarity. Better yet, if a post has a ton of horrible words in it, send them back to their comment with a nice little message about "Stop with the fucking profanity" and allow them to remove any choice words and hit post again. Sorry if half of these were already mentioned...of course, we could just forget about all this and form a lynch mob and track down anyone that posts offensive comments and beat them with a sack of doorknobs...
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This is being blow out of proportion... There is no proof RedHat was involved, only Amazon.com and all they wanted was for him not to advertise his product in a way that made it look as though it was the official distro. Theyr'e not saying he can't call it Redhat, just that he cant make use of the official name on a product that isn't the official product. IE, he is passing off his own burnt CD's as the "official" RedHat boxed set.
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But how many of you get on the phone each day and say "I'm goin to go assassinate the president at 6:30 tonight. Good Bye."
My point is, how many of you that are complaining about this actually get on the phone and discuss illegal things that Big Brother would actually care about?
Albeit, it is a large invasion of privacy and is against our constitutional rights in one way or another. So don't bother replying with the usual "Hey dumbass, its against our rights! Freedom of speech, d00d!"
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Just stop and think for a moment. These aren't some crazy hacker computer criminals that are getting free access to your computer, it's the government. With A LOT of revision to this, it may be a good idea. Such as, for NO REASON whatsoever would they be allowed to access it through the internet, thats just asking for trouble. Maybe some type of key built into any encryption programs that would allow the goverment, while on the premises and with a search warrant or something, to recover keys for encrypted files. Just imagine how it would feel to bust some drug dealers and get their computer hardware and browse through their files and see that all the files are encrypted. Those could be the names and addresses of thousands of drug dealers and users, not to mention other very bad things. This is only as much of an invasion of privacy as when the police get a search warrant and come into your home and look through your sock drawers. Nobody ever whined about that. Just take a moment and think about that before you flame the life out of me.
Maybe someone should tell him it is also addictive behavior to waste more than 4 hours a day formulating horrible theories about addictive behavior. Does he also know that he is addicted to such horrible things as: breathing, eating, and urinating? They have horrible symptoms of withdrawal such as: death, suffocation, and spontaneous bladder eruption.
This is just a bit crazy. If you were encouraged, fine, but don't encourage other people. If they WANT to be programmers, they'll be programmers. This sort of thing is just plain stupid. We're going to end up with a bunch of retarded programmers that will go work for MS and make even worse kernels to base ever worse OS's on. Don't take this as a sexist comment, I would say the same if the programming field was dominated by women and someone was "envouraging" men to program. If they want to program, they will. They'll be the good ones that go off and do nice things like alan cox. If they don't want to program, or weren't thinking about it until being persuaded, they'll probably be little morons and do stupid things like Stef from UF and end up borrowing code from "hello world"
So this is a little off topic. Some individuals I've spoken to, which run pirate or warez sites like that guy, all give me the same crap as an excuse: "D00D, those companies charge too much for the games, they shouldnt be able to do that! We're just fighting the power, man!" I ask of you, how the hell are they supposed to make a living? You want them to sell you games and such cheaper, and lighten your burden of paying for a LUXURY by losing his hard earned money? Write your own damned games and you'll see how easy it is ( sarcasm ) . Don't give me that freedom of information crap, what about the freedom to make a f****** living?
Whoa...ya got me there. It feels good to argue without trading insults for once...
Anyway, I was just exaggerating, but I did mean it about the ease of use. I spend most of my time in windows because most of my computing time is only spent checking email and reading slashdot:)
I know, I know. I understand exactly what you're saying. But most windows machines come pre-loaded and they don't even have to go through the little hassle of installing windows. My other point was, ask any normal windows end-user to tell you what PPP is. You'll get some weird responses. Its not that most people don't KNOW how or CAN'T install linux or configure anything slightly difficult, its more along the lines of they don't want to learn. Damn it, but they're frightened of messing with things and happy leaving it the way it is.
I didn't say that, I only said that you only NEED 1 brain cell to use it. That doesn't mean only people with 1 brain cell use it. It was meant more in terms of how computer knowledgable the person was, not intelligence. Most people don't want to take the time to learn when they can just use windows instead.
All those trendy magazines and news channels that keep saying linux is the next big thing, they're wrong. They're not thinking in terms of geeks and end-users. All the geeks that want linux already have it, it's very popular among the hackers, wannabee hackers, nerds, and techies. But that is the farthest its goin to go without a 1BRI (1 Brain Cell Required Interface). Its near its peek since all us geeks already have linux and all the companies that want to switch are about to do it. But thats it. Linux is not an end user product. Like it or not, MS is easy to use, and the users don't really mind rebooting every five minutes. They want to be able to turn on their computer, fire up MS Office, type up some fancy documents and reboot a couple of times. No more, no less. And thats what theyre getting, so they're happy. They don't want linux or the flexibility and stability it has to offer. And damn it, that's how its gonna stay wether we like it or not.
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This is why a ton of good bands that arent popular stay with their tiny labels when they get big. Mustard Plug is sticking with Hopeless Records, and damn it, they probably get more money per CD than the label. I normally thought of sony as a company that actually though things through...oh well. All hail the little guys.
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Did I forget to mention that I patented the alphabet? You all owe me a lotta money...
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Maybe they could use it to control MIR?
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I know what you mean. The first thing Hitler did when he came to power was "silence" anyone who opposed him, and by the time we found out about it it was too late anyway.
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The stupid proxies we use at school are already are biased enough as it is. They don't allow you to go to AD&D sites, but they'll allow you to go to sites that are against AD&D. They'll ban you from godlovesfags.com but it lets you into godhatesfags.com, tell me that wasn't the work of the government...
Imagine how this will be on the national level. I'd be banned from half the useful information on the internet just because it was controversial or conflicting with the ideas of one of the people that decides what sites get what ratings.
If this does become a reality, I can tell you right now I'll be fighting it with every ounce of energy I've got. You can't tell me the script kiddies won't be cracking away everyday in protest. Since some countries would ban different things (ie Germany - no hate speech...which of course translates into any speech that is controversial ) I would definately set up a system of proxies in the US and send massive amounts of email to be forwarded to the germans showing them how to use the proxies. Get the idea now? Civil disobedience is also on the top of the list, I'm sure a lot of sysadmins would be glad to rate ALL of their content as "sexually violent racial slurs" or something like that. Then when kids can't get in to te useful information, they complain to teachers or parents, and in turn to congressmen and such. Another plan is the ever popular petition. Everyone on my block and everyone in my school and everyone in my email address book would be glad to send around petitions or take a few seconds to sign one. If the leaders of this beast receive 6 billion signatures, and a few billion emails, do you think theyd get the picture? Maybe not, but it would be worth it. If EVERYONE does EVERYTHING in their power to shoot this down, I think we can.
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What the hell? Now theres a biased moderator. I state an opinion that is held by the majority of people I know, and parts of it can actually be proven as fact, and its labeled as flamebait? Geez, I guess I should have known a moderator or two would be a radical religious fanatic. Moderating that down only served to prove my point of the church and its fanatical followers hating when people say something that goes against what the church beleives. Thank you. I'd assume they've got some points left, so this should be flamebait soon too.
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I'll bet the church is gonna go nuts over this one. I mean, they get pissed off when someone SAYS something that contradicts what they say. Imagine what its gonna be like since someone actually DID something against what the church beleives. Not to mention, I forget what chapter/verse/whatever, but in the bible it says something along the lines of the anti-christ will be born not of god or flesh. That oughta make the catholic church shit itself.
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I doubt the ports 12345 and 12346 are for netbus, I beleive nmap just throws the name of the service that NORMALLY runs on that port and puts it on the list of open ports. I mean, what kind of moron would waste their time porting netbus over to whatever OS the dreamcast runs when they could just code their own in less time...
Not to mention it would be a copyright infringment on NetBus Inc. or whatever now....Unless Sega paid to use netbus, which again, would be retarded.
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Maybe some of you played this, but I doubt anyone with half a mind still does. I quit playing after they started releasing a new set every week. My god, there isn't much more they can do with the game now, so I doubt hasbro is gonna make any money off of that deal. Type 2 tournaments are simply a money making scheme. They don't allow older sets, WOTC doesn't sanction type 1, so you HAVE to buy the new cards if you want to play in the tours. Its friggin crazy. Richard Garfield HAD a great idea til it got all twisted around in an effort to make money.
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1. Can they fit all that they want to fit in a properly sized ball? I'm sure the voice recognition software would take up a lot, and so would all the sensory crap they want on it...
2. What happens when it hits a wall? Unless they put even more sensors on it, which brings us back to problem #1...
3. What's this? Should first be deployed in 2001? Aren't they worried it will decide it doesn't like astronauts and go crazy? Damn that Anti-NASA propaganda from many years ago...
4. What if it screws up a command? I'm sure that will happen a lot. I'm not kidding.
5. How much will this little toy cost? Will hovercraft type versions be available for consumers? Will we ever surpass the Jetsons?
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Does anyone else *NOT* feel quilty about -1 ing posts that say "go ahead and moderate this down you slashdot robots"???
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What's the big deal about these cool cases? None of my computers don't even have a case except for this one and it doesn't even have any screws in it cuz I take it apart so much. Any true geek would never think of purchasing or making any crazy case cause they know they'll be fiddling with things inside all the time. Not only that, but wouldn't you rather purchase some hardware upgrades or books instead? If you want a cool looking case, go for a much less ugly G3 type design. The side just pops open for easy access to any parts, but that damn thing is ugly as hell. Maybe a nice design with easy inside access would catch my attention.
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I know linux can be forced to run on some palmtop devices, but are there any distro's geared towards a palm PC's hardware? That would probably KILL winCE because from my experience, most palm PC users are geeks and most geeks prefer linux... Hell, imagine how cool it would be to run X on a palm pilot. And imagine the performance and usability boost. You could use your handheld devices to do anything then. Not to mention it's cheaper cuz its free...
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This is one of those good bad ideas...
First, the possibilities for abuse are just plain outstanding. Also, you have to remember that only people that can afford computers have them. This means that poor people and welfare recipients and such still won't get to vote if they weren't going to. If you say "what about internet cafes and such" well if theyre gonna go there just to vote, what was the point in the first place? Anyway, as I was saying, this would prove for a little bias-ness in the votes. My next thought is of privacy. Since there will have to be some sort of verification, that means they will know which way you voted, so say this is some local election and whoever loses feels like breaking your knees, they can. One of my other little opinions is if your lazy enough to use this, you shouldn't be voting anyway. (Unless of course we go back to the people that are stuck at home and such). Also, one last little consideration, you would probably have to provide a LOT of personal information to restrict tampering, so just think of those poor people with trojans on their computers that go and vote while someone is sitting there watching keystrokes...
I could go on and on, but I need sleep...
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1. Set the default for anyone not logged in to browse at 0 on comments instead of -1
2. Only allow 1 post per minute from an IP. This would slow spam to an incredible halt and anyone that just happened to be posting a lot of comments wouldn't have to wait that long (normally a message takes a few minutes to type anyway)
3. Pretend your the US Government and pass a law that allows you access to the offenders computers and provides you with the a backdoor to their encrypted files.
4. Heres a nice controversial one: Allow moderators with karma of 2 to delete AC posts.
5. Moderators with karma of 2 can -1 an AC post without losing any points.
6. Heres one to make those crazy censorship people go crazy: Auto-delete a post if it contains too much vulgarity. Better yet, if a post has a ton of horrible words in it, send them back to their comment with a nice little message about "Stop with the fucking profanity" and allow them to remove any choice words and hit post again.
Sorry if half of these were already mentioned...of course, we could just forget about all this and form a lynch mob and track down anyone that posts offensive comments and beat them with a sack of doorknobs...
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This is being blow out of proportion...
There is no proof RedHat was involved, only Amazon.com and all they wanted was for him not to advertise his product in a way that made it look as though it was the official distro. Theyr'e not saying he can't call it Redhat, just that he cant make use of the official name on a product that isn't the official product. IE, he is passing off his own burnt CD's as the "official" RedHat boxed set.
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But how many of you get on the phone each day and say "I'm goin to go assassinate the president at 6:30 tonight. Good Bye."
My point is, how many of you that are complaining about this actually get on the phone and discuss illegal things that Big Brother would actually care about?
Albeit, it is a large invasion of privacy and is against our constitutional rights in one way or another. So don't bother replying with the usual "Hey dumbass, its against our rights! Freedom of speech, d00d!"
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Just stop and think for a moment. These aren't some crazy hacker computer criminals that are getting free access to your computer, it's the government. With A LOT of revision to this, it may be a good idea. Such as, for NO REASON whatsoever would they be allowed to access it through the internet, thats just asking for trouble. Maybe some type of key built into any encryption programs that would allow the goverment, while on the premises and with a search warrant or something, to recover keys for encrypted files. Just imagine how it would feel to bust some drug dealers and get their computer hardware and browse through their files and see that all the files are encrypted. Those could be the names and addresses of thousands of drug dealers and users, not to mention other very bad things. This is only as much of an invasion of privacy as when the police get a search warrant and come into your home and look through your sock drawers. Nobody ever whined about that. Just take a moment and think about that before you flame the life out of me.
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Maybe someone should tell him it is also addictive behavior to waste more than 4 hours a day formulating horrible theories about addictive behavior. Does he also know that he is addicted to such horrible things as: breathing, eating, and urinating? They have horrible symptoms of withdrawal such as: death, suffocation, and spontaneous bladder eruption.
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This is just a bit crazy. If you were encouraged, fine, but don't encourage other people. If they WANT to be programmers, they'll be programmers. This sort of thing is just plain stupid. We're going to end up with a bunch of retarded programmers that will go work for MS and make even worse kernels to base ever worse OS's on. Don't take this as a sexist comment, I would say the same if the programming field was dominated by women and someone was "envouraging" men to program. If they want to program, they will. They'll be the good ones that go off and do nice things like alan cox. If they don't want to program, or weren't thinking about it until being persuaded, they'll probably be little morons and do stupid things like Stef from UF and end up borrowing code from "hello world"
Just my 3 or 4 cents...
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So this is a little off topic.
Some individuals I've spoken to, which run pirate or warez sites like that guy, all give me the same crap as an excuse: "D00D, those companies charge too much for the games, they shouldnt be able to do that! We're just fighting the power, man!"
I ask of you, how the hell are they supposed to make a living? You want them to sell you games and such cheaper, and lighten your burden of paying for a LUXURY by losing his hard earned money? Write your own damned games and you'll see how easy it is ( sarcasm ) . Don't give me that freedom of information crap, what about the freedom to make a f****** living?
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Whoa...ya got me there. It feels good to argue without trading insults for once...
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Anyway, I was just exaggerating, but I did mean it about the ease of use. I spend most of my time in windows because most of my computing time is only spent checking email and reading slashdot
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I know, I know. I understand exactly what you're saying. But most windows machines come pre-loaded and they don't even have to go through the little hassle of installing windows. My other point was, ask any normal windows end-user to tell you what PPP is. You'll get some weird responses. Its not that most people don't KNOW how or CAN'T install linux or configure anything slightly difficult, its more along the lines of they don't want to learn. Damn it, but they're frightened of messing with things and happy leaving it the way it is.
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I didn't say that, I only said that you only NEED 1 brain cell to use it. That doesn't mean only people with 1 brain cell use it. It was meant more in terms of how computer knowledgable the person was, not intelligence. Most people don't want to take the time to learn when they can just use windows instead.
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All those trendy magazines and news channels that keep saying linux is the next big thing, they're wrong. They're not thinking in terms of geeks and end-users. All the geeks that want linux already have it, it's very popular among the hackers, wannabee hackers, nerds, and techies. But that is the farthest its goin to go without a 1BRI (1 Brain Cell Required Interface).
Its near its peek since all us geeks already have linux and all the companies that want to switch are about to do it. But thats it. Linux is not an end user product. Like it or not, MS is easy to use, and the users don't really mind rebooting every five minutes. They want to be able to turn on their computer, fire up MS Office, type up some fancy documents and reboot a couple of times. No more, no less. And thats what theyre getting, so they're happy. They don't want linux or the flexibility and stability it has to offer. And damn it, that's how its gonna stay wether we like it or not.
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