As an owner of a G1, I can't WAIT until 2010 when my contract expires so I can get the hell out from under this failtastic piece of shit. Randomly powers off? Check! Loses network connections whenever? Check! Crashes when I try to answer the phone? Checkaroo! Takes 3 minutes to become usable after restarting? Oh, that's a check! Interface slow like molasses in winter? You'd better believe that's a check! Broken accelerometer? Outside of warranty, CHECK! Shitty, tinny speaker? Check! Poor battery life? Check! Headphone jack? No check here.
I'm thinking about a netbook with someone else's data service and prepaid cellular. Fuck HTC, T-Mobile, and Google in their collective asses.
100% market penetration for yet another first person shooter. A cutting edge first person shooter. On an OS whose users like to brag about how shitty and old their PC is.
You would be surprised of how often tech "pros" do something stupid. I've had some people not update Windows because it might "mess something up" then others still have IE 6 because some outdated intranet program needs it
So the correct course of action is to throw patches into production without testing and break compatibility business apps? Where do you work? It sounds exciting.
Fear mongering? Are you claiming that people don't like to use things that are familiar to them, or that claiming that they do IS fear mongering?
Also, I don't know what DOS or Slackware has to do with anything. For the record, getting Slackware from 1996 switched over to glibc was significantly harder than building a config.sys and autoexec.bat pair for any given app.
You just said 'I doubt that usage percentage has anything to do with what system is actually better and more to do with what they use at work or school or what their neighbor who is "good with computers" thinks.'
Sounds like you just said they go with Windows because they know how to use it and can get support. I threw in applications because they are more fun to use than an OS.
20 years, eh? Given 20 years of "better," I'd expect everything I own to be running MacOS, but alas, it's Windows for desktops, Linux for my frankenbox server and phone, and some embedded mess in my DVR.
Don't you blaspheme the Food Network! But yeah, Lifetime and all 6 of the ESPNs can go away. ESPN is directly responsible for about $8 of my cable bill, IIRC.
Don't do that! Tin foil is actually aluminum foil, which is produced by Alcoa. Alcoa is a front for the New World Order and they treat the metal in such a way to actually increase signal propagation from your brain. The only real solution to government mind control or reading is to boil your head in distilled or rain water. 30 seconds at 100C should be enough.
Maybe you could find something to do with your free time that is actually productive. I suppose at the very least you've given some call center employees something to talk about at lunch, so that's not so bad.
So are user fees automatically bad everywhere? Toll roads, fuel taxes, school registration, and so on all fit the same criteria. You are paying tax to support *some* of it, but it seems fair to make the people who are actually using a service pay more.
Fucking over the competition may be dirty but it isn't evil. Microsoft isn't running guns or selling children into prostitution, they make a whole bunch of software, a little bit of hardware, and do research. They also take advantage of their resources and do some questionable things to maintain an advantage, but fucking a, grow some perspective. Enron was evil, Microsoft are kind of dicks.
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I suppose I can see how staying on could be tough to get right.
Right, that's exactly like being violently attacked.
Insightful? Really? Walking into a store and signing a contract for a discount on a phone you want is like rape? Grow some perspective you twats.
As an owner of a G1, I can't WAIT until 2010 when my contract expires so I can get the hell out from under this failtastic piece of shit. Randomly powers off? Check! Loses network connections whenever? Check! Crashes when I try to answer the phone? Checkaroo! Takes 3 minutes to become usable after restarting? Oh, that's a check! Interface slow like molasses in winter? You'd better believe that's a check! Broken accelerometer? Outside of warranty, CHECK! Shitty, tinny speaker? Check! Poor battery life? Check! Headphone jack? No check here.
I'm thinking about a netbook with someone else's data service and prepaid cellular. Fuck HTC, T-Mobile, and Google in their collective asses.
How's Loki Games doing lately?
How many of those 3 million are sitting headless somewhere, serving up files or running batch jobs?
20% of gamers that run Linux, have a decent enough PC, and enjoy FPSes might be more reasonable.
100% market penetration for yet another first person shooter. A cutting edge first person shooter. On an OS whose users like to brag about how shitty and old their PC is.
What is this Linux you speak about? I've never heard of it before. Do you have a link or something?
If you are taking some service on a box down to update it, what is the damn difference if you reboot the entire box?
You would be surprised of how often tech "pros" do something stupid. I've had some people not update Windows because it might "mess something up" then others still have IE 6 because some outdated intranet program needs it
So the correct course of action is to throw patches into production without testing and break compatibility business apps? Where do you work? It sounds exciting.
Our desktop guys reimage workstations rather than relying on the last user to not fuck things up. Hostname contains department, user's name, and OS.
Fear mongering? Are you claiming that people don't like to use things that are familiar to them, or that claiming that they do IS fear mongering?
Also, I don't know what DOS or Slackware has to do with anything. For the record, getting Slackware from 1996 switched over to glibc was significantly harder than building a config.sys and autoexec.bat pair for any given app.
Wow, you really respond well to marketing.
You just said 'I doubt that usage percentage has anything to do with what system is actually better and more to do with what they use at work or school or what their neighbor who is "good with computers" thinks.'
Sounds like you just said they go with Windows because they know how to use it and can get support. I threw in applications because they are more fun to use than an OS.
20 years, eh? Given 20 years of "better," I'd expect everything I own to be running MacOS, but alas, it's Windows for desktops, Linux for my frankenbox server and phone, and some embedded mess in my DVR.
Yes, knowing how to use the damn thing is important. So is being able to get support and applications. Both of those trump some nebulous "better."
Shrug, I use it to learn about Windows security shit I should be aware of. Those are usually the only timely stories that make it here anymore.
KDawson posting some old, stupid story about Microsoft should be the free space at the center.
Don't you blaspheme the Food Network! But yeah, Lifetime and all 6 of the ESPNs can go away. ESPN is directly responsible for about $8 of my cable bill, IIRC.
Don't do that! Tin foil is actually aluminum foil, which is produced by Alcoa. Alcoa is a front for the New World Order and they treat the metal in such a way to actually increase signal propagation from your brain. The only real solution to government mind control or reading is to boil your head in distilled or rain water. 30 seconds at 100C should be enough.
Maybe you could find something to do with your free time that is actually productive. I suppose at the very least you've given some call center employees something to talk about at lunch, so that's not so bad.
So are user fees automatically bad everywhere? Toll roads, fuel taxes, school registration, and so on all fit the same criteria. You are paying tax to support *some* of it, but it seems fair to make the people who are actually using a service pay more.
Fucking over the competition may be dirty but it isn't evil. Microsoft isn't running guns or selling children into prostitution, they make a whole bunch of software, a little bit of hardware, and do research. They also take advantage of their resources and do some questionable things to maintain an advantage, but fucking a, grow some perspective. Enron was evil, Microsoft are kind of dicks.
Holy bejezus, melodramatic much?
Yes, that is exactly it. I'm glad someone finally understands.
Needlessly pedantic and completely misses the point. Congratulations, you win the prize.