Re:Apple exists because it pleases Microsoft
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Are you saying that Microsoft is "letting" Linux stay around?
You betcha. All it would take is a short-term 50% drop in software prices and Linux is suddenly dead on the desktop before it ever hits 5% market share. The only reason why your PHB would consider anything other than Microsoft software right now is price and Redmond is certainly not stupid enough to allow that factor alone to sway market share in any other direction.
"Oh, you're so stupid. Microsoft would never do that". You're right, because with an ~80% lead over everyone else, they don't yet have to.
I am not a game-playing type guy and have virtually zip for knowledge with any home game consoles, but I can't imagine anyone getting close to the physical experience of this game outside of an arcade.
If I still had even half of the money from my endless hours in front of this game, I could tell Student Loans to get bent.
Posting to Slashdot, very, very goofed out on stink weed, at 11:30 on a Friday night, alone.
They say that there's nothing more pathetic than a sad clown and, while that may be true in most cases, I am truly sadder and clownier than the saddest clown... at least right now. Luckily, I'm too numb to notice. Heh heh.
Also, this is a great move for Redhat in that it not only diversified their potential for support income past just the OS itself now that RH is actually making money, but also offers an oddly top-quality OSS database with an increasingly stable name recognition behind it to win some goofy nods in the corporate boardroom of Smallco. Redhat certainly ain't no Microsoft or Adobe quite yet in terms of public knowledge, but with the number of slobberpails© who immediately assume that Red Hat *IS* Linux *IS* Redhat, it's the closest thing that the Linux community has to an overall "street rep".
[buying other companies and their technology sure is hard work!]
I can't imagine where the money came from to purchase these smaller companies, can you? Surely it's not from years of clever (whether you agree or not) business coupled with blood, sweat and tears in front of a damn monitor for eighteen hours at a time. You 'people' seem to think that Gates was born with 50+ billion dollars available at a moment's notice when the fact is that, love him or hate him, dude's got mad skillz and built an empire from nothing.
Oh, and I doubt that you or any of the other armchair CEOs lurking around here could put together an entity like Microsoft over any timespan, regardless of how "simple" it may seem.
Meh, it's just karma and, if the VA Linux tanking rumors are true, it may become a moot point before too long. Nonetheless, I appreciate your positive critique just the same.
Dear God, man. It's ok to point out that someone's wrong without being such an ass.
You're probably right... I often get carried away in light of the stunning lack of openmindedness around here and evidently overdo it when I get the chance. You're actually very correct, it basically does come down to money but an unfortunate number of zealots are not willing to concede that point and instead pump Linux as the second coming of Christ (with less hair), especially in comparison to Microsoft products which have an unquestionable place in the market.
Hey, I have a Linux/Apache server running three feet from me right now that is pushing 90 days of uptime, so obviously I have faith in the combination (and I can't argue with the price for a privateer like myself) but people like the one I originally replied who proudly point at the Netcraft stats as "proof" of Linux's upward swing really just don't have a sniff.
Apache doesn't equal Linux, big guy. Apache runs very nicely on actual enterprise OSs as well as your infallable Linux so your argument leads to precisely cob.
Nice try, though. I'm more surprised that you haven't been moderated to the moon for your Linux masturbation, though.
You have an excellent point, and it's one that has been seen around here before. Of course, the fact that you're right also explains why your post is currently labelled as a troll.
There's really no point in being honest around Slashdot unless you support the company line -- careful, OSS zealots, your bias is showing.
Oh shut your mouth, dingus. It's morons like you with your complete inability to consider anything that doesn't toe the Linux party line who cause people like me to cringe while admitting that I use Linux for fear of being grouped in with absolute horseshit purveyors like yourself. Guess what: I use Win2000 on my desktop because it suits my needs more effectively and I agree that Linux is years from competing in that area.
If I'm a wuss and/or liar in your remarkably closed mind as a result, I encourage you to shove that opinion directly up your ass.
Before all the Iron Chef fansites were pulled for "legal reasons", the prevailing opinion was that he actually was saying allez cuisine, which translates to "go kitchen" from french to english. If you watched the US battle between houseplant Bobby Flay and Morimoto, it was more obviously "allez" than in the syndicated Japanese episodes.
Don't hesitate to ask any other questions relating to completely useless information that nobody could possibly care about aside from undersexed losers like myself. I'm the Cliff Claven of Slashdot.
Is it suddenly Kuro5hin day at Slashdot, what with all this whining about the rights of students? You screwed up, deserved to be punished, and blame the school system for doing its job -- amazing. How stunning that an open source web site populated by supposed 'freedom seekers' who are largely unwilling to do anything involving any risk to further the cause would justify another bitch and moan session like yours with a plus 5. Nobody of any value cares about your tale of woe, which explains perfectly why it's moderated up to the moon around this place.
Oh, and for the moderators who will surely be stupified (further) by such a rude set of revelations as these, this is a flame, not a troll.
It's like the difference between PortoguseSQL & Oracle.
Okay, that has got to be the single most mangled misspelling of PostgreSQL I have ever run across. If I've missed something clever, please, give me the business for being an idiot, but if not -- yikes.
So I'll assume, then, that you're not one of those mouthy, nasal jackasses who run rampant around this place at the slightest notion of anyone's speech, no matter how worthless, being stifled. Oh, but that's surely different, right? If this guy's pr0n sig discourages you from responding to the actual content of his post, you quite likely had nothing worthwhile to say anyhow.
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You betcha. All it would take is a short-term 50% drop in software prices and Linux is suddenly dead on the desktop before it ever hits 5% market share. The only reason why your PHB would consider anything other than Microsoft software right now is price and Redmond is certainly not stupid enough to allow that factor alone to sway market share in any other direction.
"Oh, you're so stupid. Microsoft would never do that". You're right, because with an ~80% lead over everyone else, they don't yet have to.
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If I still had even half of the money from my endless hours in front of this game, I could tell Student Loans to get bent.
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Poor server.
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They say that there's nothing more pathetic than a sad clown and, while that may be true in most cases, I am truly sadder and clownier than the saddest clown... at least right now. Luckily, I'm too numb to notice. Heh heh.
Also, this is a great move for Redhat in that it not only diversified their potential for support income past just the OS itself now that RH is actually making money, but also offers an oddly top-quality OSS database with an increasingly stable name recognition behind it to win some goofy nods in the corporate boardroom of Smallco. Redhat certainly ain't no Microsoft or Adobe quite yet in terms of public knowledge, but with the number of slobberpails© who immediately assume that Red Hat *IS* Linux *IS* Redhat, it's the closest thing that the Linux community has to an overall "street rep".
Blah. Insightful or Troll, I really don't care.
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Oh sure, blame it all on me.
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Who ever said I needed it approval from anyone? I'm simply showing appreciation for his complimentary reply, as any respectable person would.
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I can't imagine where the money came from to purchase these smaller companies, can you? Surely it's not from years of clever (whether you agree or not) business coupled with blood, sweat and tears in front of a damn monitor for eighteen hours at a time. You 'people' seem to think that Gates was born with 50+ billion dollars available at a moment's notice when the fact is that, love him or hate him, dude's got mad skillz and built an empire from nothing.
Oh, and I doubt that you or any of the other armchair CEOs lurking around here could put together an entity like Microsoft over any timespan, regardless of how "simple" it may seem.
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Meh, it's just karma and, if the VA Linux tanking rumors are true, it may become a moot point before too long. Nonetheless, I appreciate your positive critique just the same.
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They're not... you're just reading a whole bunch of hoo-ha (also known as FUD) from a demographic that is very, very good at producing it.
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You're probably right... I often get carried away in light of the stunning lack of openmindedness around here and evidently overdo it when I get the chance. You're actually very correct, it basically does come down to money but an unfortunate number of zealots are not willing to concede that point and instead pump Linux as the second coming of Christ (with less hair), especially in comparison to Microsoft products which have an unquestionable place in the market.
Hey, I have a Linux/Apache server running three feet from me right now that is pushing 90 days of uptime, so obviously I have faith in the combination (and I can't argue with the price for a privateer like myself) but people like the one I originally replied who proudly point at the Netcraft stats as "proof" of Linux's upward swing really just don't have a sniff.
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It's funny that you have "The Great Unwashed" and RMS in the same paragraph. Maybe they can relate to each other more effectively...
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Nice try, though. I'm more surprised that you haven't been moderated to the moon for your Linux masturbation, though.
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There's really no point in being honest around Slashdot unless you support the company line -- careful, OSS zealots, your bias is showing.
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Nice try. Ever used Photoshop?
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I will find a way of making them tender and delicious by modifying a rudimentary chemistry set in my mother's potting shed -- then you'll thank me.
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It's people with this attitude who hold back the open source dog-and-pony show of yours.
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He wax chumps like a candle, yo.
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Oh shut your mouth, dingus. It's morons like you with your complete inability to consider anything that doesn't toe the Linux party line who cause people like me to cringe while admitting that I use Linux for fear of being grouped in with absolute horseshit purveyors like yourself. Guess what: I use Win2000 on my desktop because it suits my needs more effectively and I agree that Linux is years from competing in that area.
If I'm a wuss and/or liar in your remarkably closed mind as a result, I encourage you to shove that opinion directly up your ass.
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Don't hesitate to ask any other questions relating to completely useless information that nobody could possibly care about aside from undersexed losers like myself. I'm the Cliff Claven of Slashdot.
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Oh, and for the moderators who will surely be stupified (further) by such a rude set of revelations as these, this is a flame, not a troll.
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Okay, that has got to be the single most mangled misspelling of PostgreSQL I have ever run across. If I've missed something clever, please, give me the business for being an idiot, but if not -- yikes.
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It's actually +2, Realistic. Try running a content site and you'll find out soon enough.
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Dude, don't be so descriminatory -- maybe it's glandular.
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The Biodiesel web site has more information on renewable fuel sources.
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So I'll assume, then, that you're not one of those mouthy, nasal jackasses who run rampant around this place at the slightest notion of anyone's speech, no matter how worthless, being stifled. Oh, but that's surely different, right? If this guy's pr0n sig discourages you from responding to the actual content of his post, you quite likely had nothing worthwhile to say anyhow.
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