Customs inspector. Duties include inspecting all types of electronic equipment and determining whether they could be used to violate U.S. laws regarding stealing all the money from the poor movie people who are richer than my 100 closest friends all put together, cuz the movie peoples are the most important peoples in our free society and stealing from them is like terrorism.
Linux won. Windows users are constantly dealing with trojan spyware, viruses, increasing licensing costs, mysterious popup ads in the middle of a racing game, applications that think they own the whole system, etc.
Those are the complaints i'm hearing from friends who are casual home users. It's ironic that their reason for using windows is that it's alleged to be user friendly. I just shrug and think "glad it's not me".
If Linux ever achieves a 25% share of the desktop market, it too will probably be afflicted with some of windows' problems... So forget i said anything... keep using windows and wearing the bullseye on YOUR back.
Remember the people running "loonie-like" thru the streets being chased by the zombies in Night of the Living Dead? They had good reason to be excited, as do people whose paychecks come from would-be MS competitors.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard a Microsoft Zombie chant the mantra "The Desktop wars are over, Microsoft won the war", I'd be rich enough to build a house right next door to Mr. Gates himself and I'd fart in his general direction. The attitude that most people who can't or won't accept the status quo (MS dominance) must be loonie is abhorant.
Despite all their efforts, and sleezy courtroom antics, MS was found guilty.
In the wake of Enron, folks are right to be up in arms over what (some of) the big companies are doing to them directly, and indirectly.
Loonies? Look no farther than the Microsoft's boardroom. They are on a powertrip so big, they should be the villains in the next James Bond movie "License to Crash".
Why in my day, we had to trod thru snow three feet deep...
You refreshed a few 20 year old neurons with that remark though. I can remember the registrar's office with the box of little pencils on the counter. How quaint!
But the school was up-to-date in some ways. The campus police had terminals connected to CompSci's VAX to manage parking tickets. The bastards.
It's also a lesson for anyone thinking of pulling a scam on ebay or whatever. Some people will not put up with it and of those, some might even be mad or crazy enough to kill you over it.
Point well taken, but try to look at each case for what it is.
These auction winners all had hard evidence that they had been ripped off. From the sounds of it they are basically upstanding citizens whose only motivation was recovering what was stolen from them.
The hard-to-find seller doesn't smell right to begin with.
Put me on a jury to decide this case and the "vigilantes" would get a medal, and the conman would be ordered to pay restitution, be prohibited from doing business online, and given jailtime or at least probation.
Make me the D.A., and maybe i'd give the guy a lighter sentence in return for waiving his rights wrt any civil/criminal cases against those who pursued him.
Of course, that's just me. Seems like most real D.A.s would make criminals out of the good guys.
If the criminal justice system DID THEIR JOB (125k isn't chicken-feed), these people wouldn't have felt the need to do it themselves.
Don't get me wrong, if they had gone after the guy with a baseball bat i'd want to see them in jail too.
MOST of the apps i install on Linux take nothing more than:
rpm -i packagename
and maybe a few next->next->finish clicks first time i run it.
Some of the apps i install on Windows break other stuff, refuse NOT TO LOAD at startup, are incompatible with some dll and are generally a pain in the arse.
I guess it's easy to overlook the warts on the one you love, but Linux just isn't nearly as difficult as most people have heard it is.
DOS was a watered down version of the UNIX command line, and Windows is a watered version of
the modern UNIX GUIs.
The measure of quality isn't how many people use it, it's how long they continue to use it. UNIX is 30 years and has already outlived many so-called top-of-the-line OSes.
20 years from now, people will look back at Windows like they do at 8-track tapes. They might get nostalgic about some windows apps like they do for oldies music, but there will be no denying that it was a piece of shit that needed to die.
With VMware, they can run multiple OSes concurrently and do on-the-fly cross-platform testing, and they can be assured that there's no interaction between the IDE and the client.
Personally, i'm sick and tired of being treated like a second class citizen because a web author is ignorant about his audience. I like this idea.
And please don't respond with the bogus argument about user-agent stats showing 99.999999 windows and.0000001 other. I often masquerade as a windows luser just to get past the lame browser checks so many sites seem to be using. Nobody really knows how much Linux is in use.
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Customs inspector. Duties include inspecting all types of electronic equipment and determining whether they could be used to violate U.S. laws regarding stealing all the money from the poor movie people who are richer than my 100 closest friends all put together, cuz the movie peoples are the most important peoples in our free society and stealing from them is like terrorism.
Requires an MSEE and a total lack of conscience.
Linux won. Windows users are constantly dealing with trojan spyware, viruses, increasing licensing costs, mysterious popup ads in the middle of a racing game, applications that think they own the whole system, etc.
Those are the complaints i'm hearing from friends who are casual home users. It's ironic that their reason for using windows is that it's alleged to be user friendly. I just shrug and think "glad it's not me".
If Linux ever achieves a 25% share of the desktop market, it too will probably be afflicted with some of windows' problems... So forget i said anything... keep using windows and wearing the bullseye on YOUR back.
to put you into this shiny new Yugo this afternoon?
NEC built this machine and marketed an almost identical model under their own name.
Bill Gates wrote the apps (addressbook, etc.) which were included in the machines ROM.
The machine was very popular with journalists. Using the modem/acoustic coupler, they no longer needed to dictate their stories back to the newsroom.
Then you should be locked up right now just in case you decide to do something illegal.
So does vi.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Remember the people running "loonie-like" thru the streets being chased by the zombies in Night of the Living Dead? They had good reason to be excited, as do people whose paychecks come from would-be MS competitors.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard a Microsoft Zombie chant the mantra "The Desktop wars are over, Microsoft won the war", I'd be rich enough to build a house right next door to Mr. Gates himself and I'd fart in his general direction. The attitude that most people who can't or won't accept the status quo (MS dominance) must be loonie is abhorant.
Despite all their efforts, and sleezy courtroom antics, MS was found guilty.
In the wake of Enron, folks are right to be up in arms over what (some of) the big companies are doing to them directly, and indirectly.
Loonies? Look no farther than the Microsoft's boardroom. They are on a powertrip so big, they should be the villains in the next James Bond movie "License to Crash".
Add ELX to that list. If you testdrive various distros looking for the one grandma could use, make sure you give this one a look.
I have no connection with ELX. I was just really impressed.
It wouldn't have been much of a stretch for a railroad designer.
Multiple routes, switches, hubs, semaphore signals. fragmenting a large train to fit between highway crossings or to go up a hill...
...he was not American so he's largely ignored
Or...
... his MG broke down on the way to the patent office.
... he tried to phone it in over BT
... his design called for packets to travel on the left side of the Net
Maybe the rocket scientists should create a Department of Unburned Chunk Kinematics or D.U.C.K. for short.
your just another brick in the wall
Sonar pinging like you hear on submarine movies is what i always assumed the name ping came from.
Think maybe they've got something to hide?
I'll dance in the streets if those scumbags are ever held accountable for their thievery.
Why in my day, we had to trod thru snow three feet deep...
You refreshed a few 20 year old neurons with that remark though. I can remember the registrar's office with the box of little pencils on the counter. How quaint!
But the school was up-to-date in some ways. The campus police had terminals connected to CompSci's VAX to manage parking tickets. The bastards.
Live and learn... what new slimy tricks people will come up with.
It's also a lesson for anyone thinking of pulling a scam on ebay or whatever. Some people will not put up with it and of those, some might even be mad or crazy enough to kill you over it.
I'm glad you guys did what you did. Maybe some other would-be scam artists will think twice before committing this type of fraud.
Point well taken, but try to look at each case for what it is.
These auction winners all had hard evidence that they had been ripped off. From the sounds of it they are basically upstanding citizens whose only motivation was recovering what was stolen from them.
The hard-to-find seller doesn't smell right to begin with.
Put me on a jury to decide this case and the "vigilantes" would get a medal, and the conman would be ordered to pay restitution, be prohibited from doing business online, and given jailtime or at least probation.
Make me the D.A., and maybe i'd give the guy a lighter sentence in return for waiving his rights wrt any civil/criminal cases against those who pursued him.
Of course, that's just me. Seems like most real D.A.s would make criminals out of the good guys.
If the criminal justice system DID THEIR JOB (125k isn't chicken-feed), these people wouldn't have felt the need to do it themselves.
Don't get me wrong, if they had gone after the guy with a baseball bat i'd want to see them in jail too.
MOST of the apps i install on Linux take nothing more than:
rpm -i packagename
and maybe a few next->next->finish clicks first time i run it.
Some of the apps i install on Windows break other stuff, refuse NOT TO LOAD at startup, are incompatible with some dll and are generally a pain in the arse.
I guess it's easy to overlook the warts on the one you love, but Linux just isn't nearly as difficult as most people have heard it is.
DOS was a watered down version of the UNIX command line, and Windows is a watered version of
the modern UNIX GUIs.
The measure of quality isn't how many people use it, it's how long they continue to use it. UNIX is 30 years and has already outlived many so-called top-of-the-line OSes.
20 years from now, people will look back at Windows like they do at 8-track tapes. They might get nostalgic about some windows apps like they do for oldies music, but there will be no denying that it was a piece of shit that needed to die.
You think these companies didn't have business software while Bill Gates was still in diapers (20 years ago)?
Plenty of today's business software continues to run on non-MS servers, and much of what does run on MS was ported from another platform anyway.
Chuck windows? Not nearly as difficult as you might think.
You mean they've got lots of rebooting to do.
.0000001 other. I often masquerade as a windows luser just to get past the lame browser checks so many sites seem to be using. Nobody really knows how much Linux is in use.
With VMware, they can run multiple OSes concurrently and do on-the-fly cross-platform testing, and they can be assured that there's no interaction between the IDE and the client.
Personally, i'm sick and tired of being treated like a second class citizen because a web author is ignorant about his audience. I like this idea.
And please don't respond with the bogus argument about user-agent stats showing 99.999999 windows and
Hey, let's go paint some penguins on the sidewalks!
Give the ELX Linux (beta) a spin if you want to see a KDE desktop nicely preconfigured for transitioning Windows folks.
http://www.elxlinux.com
What are the sharing ratios?
I mean the coax can handle quite a bit more than the 1.5Mb/sec that they restrict me to, can't it?
So, how much can each "neighborhood domain" handle, and how many households are served from each of them?
And how much peering bandwidth do they buy for each of their customers?