Windows XP is $100 at ebay. You can't write off the entire market as drones that will buy whatever the big box stores hand them. People know Windows, like Windows, so you have to give them a reason to switch.
I helped a Doctor with his laptop a while back and he was using.....IE8 (GASP). He must have been dummy. I've also helped people who were dolts when it came to picking up malware and they were running Firefox.
Most people use IE8 because it is good enough and its security is fine as long as you are using Windows 7 or Vista. IE6 sucks, IE8 is just mediocre.
If being right-wing is the ultimate outcome of critical and independent thought, did they not receive the same college education that the leftist got?
I don't think there is an ultimate political outcome of critical of independent thought, I consider it an ongoing process.
I didn't pay much attention to right-wingers while in college since they weren't the ones who were grading down my papers for asking too many questions.
I had one liberal professor tell me that she doesn't grade students on the baseball team equally because that would defeat the major benefit of the sports scholarship which is to allow students from a variety of backgrounds go to college. She only admitted this after I asked how the pitcher had passed since he had skipped so many assignments.
She was just one of many unprincipled liberal professors that I had to deal with until entering the hard sciences where pushing one's political bias is far more difficult.
Being smart also doesn't guarantee that you are invulnerable to trends or group pressure. It was once common University opinion that blacks were better off being slaves.
The liberalism that is pushed in college is presented as the natural result of being intellectual but it has huge gaps that are filled in with wishful thinking.
It is egalitarian in origin which while idealistic on some level none the less leaves it vulnerable since there is a false assumption that its tenets are the result of rational thought.
I believe it is ultimately doomed because it makes enemies of highly effective individuals and rejects any objective thinking that threatens its central tenets.
Or they just sit on their cash and live off dividends.
Some rich people provide jobs while others don't. Tax cuts for businesses are better since they can be controlled to ensure that they go to jobs and not savings accounts.
Leftism in the University is all about conformity; there is a long list of researchers that have been vilified for reaching politically incorrect conclusions or even for simply approaching certain areas with an open mind. Repeating group opinion without question is required for any social sciences or humanities degree. Critical thinking is strongly discouraged if it threatens group assumptions.
Do other groups lack critical thinking? Yes but unlike college leftists they never tried to convince me that they were highly educated and had all the answers to the world's problems. It became quite clear to me in college that for certain issues I was supposed to *feel* the answer and not question it. I was very liberal in college and sought out independent leftists but didn't find any. They all had core beliefs that were untouchable and would get angry if I dared question them. Then a week later they would they would make snide remarks about "faith-based" people. Sigh.
I was sickened by the whole experience. I didn't become a conservative but I left college hating liberals and their shallow and smug outlooks. It was all just a lesson in group think for me. The main reason I went into the hard sciences was because it was clear that I didn't fit into the soft sciences where mushy group think is valued over independent thought. I met quite a few students in the hard sciences that felt the same way.
These days I live in a very liberal area and I don't even bring up the subject since I now consider it to be a secular religion. By accepting it as a religion it is easier for me to put up with unfounded statements and smug attitudes. I just roll my eyes and think about how it could be worse, how I could be surrounded by Mormons which would mean no beer.
Yes marginal rates were high but you could also deduct more and for a long period they only targeted the wealthy. Democrats and Republicans compromised by lowering the rates and eliminating deductions and loopholes.
As for handguns Israel has concealed carry and a low homicide rate. State correlations don't match up well either, the presence of guns don't inspire murder as leftists assume.
Congrats if you didn't fall for the first question but then you are an anonymous internet poster who had the advantage of being tipped off. While in college I got bored asking liberals and leftists such questions since their answers were so predictable. College professors are not encouraging critical thinking when it comes to politically sensitive issues and that is a shame. Students are being taught which opinions are correct and which are not. I'm for open debate but I learned in college that issues like the environment are only open for debate if all questions and answers are politically palatable.
The leftist takeover of the social sciences and humanties is well documented so it shouldn't be a surprise that many students lean left.
I'm an independent and while in college I found the liberals to be just as religious as any of the Christian groups. What many of my professors called "critical thinking" really meant give them the answer they wanted and don't ask any questions. Modern leftism is all about conformity, it's quite scare actually. I had only a few friends in college because the fuzzy headed liberals hated how I would *gasp* ask questions and I wasn't interested in bible songs either.
That's easy, just ask young leftist a question on one of the many subjects where they have been conditioned to believe that their opinions are correct and informed. Guns and taxes are two such areas.
Here's an example question: Income tax rates on the wealthy have gone down with recent Republican presidents, should we consider returning the rates to what they were in 1900?
If a city in the US were to ban handguns, would there be a drop in a homicides compared to other cities? (D.C. already did this in 1978 and there was no drop).
As for Linux being to fragmented. Linux is a kernel and that is not fragmented although you will see numerous revisions. Even the many distributions have a tendency to fall into two camps one being Redhat/Fedora and the other being Debian/Ubuntu. For a GUI you predominately have Gnome, KDE and Xfce and it is these Graphical packages that most people that use Linux see and perceive Linux.
You forgot to mention that there are only two main package types. There is also the sound issue.
Oh and don't forget distro versioning.
Pffft.....and that other guy complained about fragmentation. I guess we showed him!
Petty name calling, what a classy place.
Being able to play avi files off a usb drive doesn't mean anything to the public. They don't even know what an avi file is. No media store or DVD drive means no movies to them.
Chrome OS is going to fail and name calling won't change that. If you think it has a chance then you should never work on a consumer OS.
Given that I am very fond of the platform independence of Java this is a great shame. I hope Oracle wakes up before they really ruin things both for themselves and for all the Javaphiles out there.
They probably know how many of those Javaphiles hate Microsoft and will put up with anything.
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Windows XP is $100 at ebay. You can't write off the entire market as drones that will buy whatever the big box stores hand them. People know Windows, like Windows, so you have to give them a reason to switch.
They just don't think that much of them.
Why was this modded down?
I helped a Doctor with his laptop a while back and he was using.....IE8 (GASP). He must have been dummy. I've also helped people who were dolts when it came to picking up malware and they were running Firefox.
Most people use IE8 because it is good enough and its security is fine as long as you are using Windows 7 or Vista. IE6 sucks, IE8 is just mediocre.
Parent is right, it is only a problem for XP users
If being right-wing is the ultimate outcome of critical and independent thought, did they not receive the same college education that the leftist got?
I don't think there is an ultimate political outcome of critical of independent thought, I consider it an ongoing process.
I didn't pay much attention to right-wingers while in college since they weren't the ones who were grading down my papers for asking too many questions.
I had one liberal professor tell me that she doesn't grade students on the baseball team equally because that would defeat the major benefit of the sports scholarship which is to allow students from a variety of backgrounds go to college. She only admitted this after I asked how the pitcher had passed since he had skipped so many assignments.
She was just one of many unprincipled liberal professors that I had to deal with until entering the hard sciences where pushing one's political bias is far more difficult.
Being smart also doesn't guarantee that you are invulnerable to trends or group pressure. It was once common University opinion that blacks were better off being slaves.
The liberalism that is pushed in college is presented as the natural result of being intellectual but it has huge gaps that are filled in with wishful thinking.
It is egalitarian in origin which while idealistic on some level none the less leaves it vulnerable since there is a false assumption that its tenets are the result of rational thought.
I believe it is ultimately doomed because it makes enemies of highly effective individuals and rejects any objective thinking that threatens its central tenets.
Or they just sit on their cash and live off dividends.
Some rich people provide jobs while others don't. Tax cuts for businesses are better since they can be controlled to ensure that they go to jobs and not savings accounts.
Leftism in the University is all about conformity; there is a long list of researchers that have been vilified for reaching politically incorrect conclusions or even for simply approaching certain areas with an open mind. Repeating group opinion without question is required for any social sciences or humanities degree. Critical thinking is strongly discouraged if it threatens group assumptions.
Do other groups lack critical thinking? Yes but unlike college leftists they never tried to convince me that they were highly educated and had all the answers to the world's problems. It became quite clear to me in college that for certain issues I was supposed to *feel* the answer and not question it. I was very liberal in college and sought out independent leftists but didn't find any. They all had core beliefs that were untouchable and would get angry if I dared question them. Then a week later they would they would make snide remarks about "faith-based" people. Sigh.
I was sickened by the whole experience. I didn't become a conservative but I left college hating liberals and their shallow and smug outlooks. It was all just a lesson in group think for me. The main reason I went into the hard sciences was because it was clear that I didn't fit into the soft sciences where mushy group think is valued over independent thought. I met quite a few students in the hard sciences that felt the same way.
These days I live in a very liberal area and I don't even bring up the subject since I now consider it to be a secular religion. By accepting it as a religion it is easier for me to put up with unfounded statements and smug attitudes. I just roll my eyes and think about how it could be worse, how I could be surrounded by Mormons which would mean no beer.
Yes marginal rates were high but you could also deduct more and for a long period they only targeted the wealthy. Democrats and Republicans compromised by lowering the rates and eliminating deductions and loopholes.
As for handguns Israel has concealed carry and a low homicide rate. State correlations don't match up well either, the presence of guns don't inspire murder as leftists assume.
Congrats if you didn't fall for the first question but then you are an anonymous internet poster who had the advantage of being tipped off. While in college I got bored asking liberals and leftists such questions since their answers were so predictable. College professors are not encouraging critical thinking when it comes to politically sensitive issues and that is a shame. Students are being taught which opinions are correct and which are not. I'm for open debate but I learned in college that issues like the environment are only open for debate if all questions and answers are politically palatable.
The leftist takeover of the social sciences and humanties is well documented so it shouldn't be a surprise that many students lean left.
I'm an independent and while in college I found the liberals to be just as religious as any of the Christian groups. What many of my professors called "critical thinking" really meant give them the answer they wanted and don't ask any questions. Modern leftism is all about conformity, it's quite scare actually. I had only a few friends in college because the fuzzy headed liberals hated how I would *gasp* ask questions and I wasn't interested in bible songs either.
That's easy, just ask young leftist a question on one of the many subjects where they have been conditioned to believe that their opinions are correct and informed. Guns and taxes are two such areas.
Here's an example question: Income tax rates on the wealthy have gone down with recent Republican presidents, should we consider returning the rates to what they were in 1900?
If a city in the US were to ban handguns, would there be a drop in a homicides compared to other cities? (D.C. already did this in 1978 and there was no drop).
Works every time.
As for Linux being to fragmented. Linux is a kernel and that is not fragmented although you will see numerous revisions. Even the many distributions have a tendency to fall into two camps one being Redhat/Fedora and the other being Debian/Ubuntu. For a GUI you predominately have Gnome, KDE and Xfce and it is these Graphical packages that most people that use Linux see and perceive Linux.
You forgot to mention that there are only two main package types. There is also the sound issue.
Oh and don't forget distro versioning.
Pffft.....and that other guy complained about fragmentation. I guess we showed him!
that's why people put up with itunes.
Chrome OS will be off the shelves before it gets a decent library. They should have tapped into Android or existing Linux games.
Petty name calling, what a classy place.
Being able to play avi files off a usb drive doesn't mean anything to the public. They don't even know what an avi file is.
No media store or DVD drive means no movies to them.
Chrome OS is going to fail and name calling won't change that. If you think it has a chance then you should never work on a consumer OS.
It seems that half of Slashdot would have no problem with Google taking over the world as long as their mind control servers were running Linux.
That's an online game for kids. It's using the unity engine.
How ever could I doubt this system.
Yes I believe that based on what Google has said so far.
What a feature!
That really compares to being able to also watch movies and play games offline.
Chrome OS is going to bomb, I don't care if it runs Linux. If anything it will give Linux a bad name by having low sales.
Given that I am very fond of the platform independence of Java this is a great shame. I hope Oracle wakes up before they really ruin things both for themselves and for all the Javaphiles out there.
They probably know how many of those Javaphiles hate Microsoft and will put up with anything.
Please explain how having 300+ variations of something impacts you personally in any negative way.
It's annoying to sort through them given that 90% are just general desktop distros
Most distros would be better off being Ubuntu themes.
I also think Linux would be farther ahead if there was greater focus on a few distros.
Nah, it's pretty open
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/postgresql
Maybe you are thinking of mysql
Yea but they could fork it and make GoogleDB.
There is logic flow that is independent of any interface.
Someone already broke the code down, it's not looking good:
http://www.binplay.com/2010/10/look-at-copied-oracle-code.html