Congratulations on a stupid and inappropriate comment.
First off, it is not that there is only a hammer. The problem is that there are too many slightly different specialized hammers.
Second, it is fairly easy to swap a screwdriver for a hammer or one type of hammer for another. Swapping out the "programming environment" used to make an application would entail rewriting the whole program.
The proper analogy is:
Your project is to build a 4 story building. Here are 50 different tool boxes complete with tools. Some have more tools than others. Choose one tool box to build a house. You can have multiple copies of the same tool box, but everyone who works on the project must use the same tool box and set. If you want to change tool boxes and sets, you have to start over from scratch. You will also have to explain why you have to start over from scratch, justify the expense of new tools, and then toss out the old tools. Oh, and the design of the building my change during construction.
With copper at an all time high, and the wires made of copper, it would not surprise me if the techs are doing that so they can sell the wire to a recyclers.
Remember, each penny is worth about $.05 as metal, most of that being the copper shell.
Sure, it is unethical and possibly illegal, but I am surprised that submitter didn't think of that, considering the number of unethical geeks on Slashdot.
Businesses are in business to make money. It is not cost effective to support Linux in the way you suggest. And, as so many fanboys point out, Linux is "by geeks, for geeks". It should not be necessary to provide Linux users with that level of support.
Let me get this straight. The bloggers want to remain anonymous, but want to name names in their blogs?
How cowardly and hypocritical.
The bloggers want to talk about others and use names and other identifying information, then they should not whine about those same people getting their names from their ISPs.
There are many executives and marketing and sales people and they most of them make two or more times what IT people make. They contribute little and take them most. We contribute the most and get little.
And, it is going to stay that way until we rise up and take them down. Until we unite and shut down a few businesses, they will continue to take advantage of us.
Until we have our own lobbying group to counter the outsourcing and H1B agencies.
Until you are willing to fight for what is right, you will continue to be treated like shit.
I will take that over being at my desk for 8-10 hours a day with barely a lunch break and then being on call and/or having to work from home because management can get away with it. After all, they can always outsource to India or bring in an H1B who is willing to work like that because they plan on going back to India in a couple of years.
Go more mainstream to improve adoption among the general populace while maintaining a stable kernel.
There is no reason to give up advanced functionality or stability.
Maintaining a stable kernel is not hard considering it is change that creates instability. Advanced functionality can be available through the command line or even GUIs.
The kernel functionality is good. What is needed is better usability, especially for configuration and management of non-kernel OS components.
I would love to put a better face on Linux and make it more usable to the average user, but there is no margin in it. It would take too much time and would not provide any income, so why bother?
The write up is good up until the last line. The respondent having MS says nothing about the case nor does having MS prevent her from using a computer or downloading music or provide immunity from civil prosecution.
There is a law against disturbing the peace. Look it up, dumb-ass. You are manufacturing rights for yourself and the asshole. You do not have the right to force your opinion on others. That is called disturbing the peace.
What is amazing is you are so stupid you can't even keep your insults to me. Am I a "an out and out fascist" or am I a "whinny liberal thug"?
You are little more than an ignorant, selfish, rude asshole. You deserve to have your ass kicked and so did that little asshole.
The assembly was disturbed when the asshole tried to take it over. You are wrong, society does have the right to use violence to defend itself and it's people against assholes who would oppress others and that is exactly what this asshole was doing. He was oppressing others.
Tell me, what should they have done, just let him rant. Or do you suggest the people peacefully assembled should have turned their forum over to the asshole? That would be allowing him to take away their right to peacefully assemble, their right to free speech, and their right to associate with whom they choose.
There were two choices. Remove the asshole, with force if necessary, or let him take over their assembly. The choice is simple.
Now pay attention, shithead. One has the right to say what one wants but one does not have a right to an audience. Once they decided they didn't want to listen to him, he was impinging on their freedom. YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO MAKE PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOU OR TO TAKE OVER SOMEONE ELSE'S ASSEMBLY.
The sooner you realize that your right end where other people's rights begin, the sooner you will realize that other people have rights and freedoms too.
When are you people going to learn that your rights do not trump the rights of others?
Kerry and his supporters were peacefully gathered and exercising their right to free speech. This jackass came in and disturbed their gathering. He does not have a right to do that.
He trampled their right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of association. He doesn't have a right to do that.
Neither his rights nor your rights over ride the rights of others. Your rights end where the rights of others begin. His right to free speech ended when they decided they didn't want to listen to him and he was disturbing their assembly. You have a right to free speech, but you do not have a right to an audience and can not force other to be an audience against their will.
You, dumb-ass, you do not have a constitutional right to go into someone else's meeting and suppress their free speech rights and that is exactly what this asshole did.
One may have the right to free speech, but you don't have a right to an audience and you don't have the right to disturb someone else's peaceful assembly.
Why do you think he has a right to disturb that peaceful assembly? Do you think his right to speak his mind overrides their right to peaceably assemble and speak their minds?
You seem to confuse being free and brave with being an asshole.
You don't know this "kid", and by "kid" I mean asshole adult, you were not there, and you are pretty much clueless.
He is in college and is an adult. He should know how to behave. He purposely disrupted the forum, refused to leave, and then resisted arrest. He has a blog and was trying to get some publicity for it.
By flailing his arms, he committed battery on a police officer. He was not physically abused by the police. He abused the police. Once one resists arrest, the police is not going to let one "leave peacefully" because the police are already in the process of making the arrest. He was not arrested for resisting arrest. He was arrest for trespassing and disturbing the peace.
If he does not know how to act like an adult, perhaps he should be put in an institution until he learns. And perhaps you should join him as you seem to have no clue as to where his and your rights end and the rights of other begin.
"Ok, if I stop expecting people to drop Windows, could I ask them to stop sueing the Windows they don't want to drop?"
I don't think you should ask or expect people to stop suing MS. There is no conflict between wanting to use Windows and expecting better behavior from MS and not switching to something else like Linux. Not wanting to use Linux should not prevent one from suing MS just because one uses MS products. Kind of like saying if one is hurt in a store, one can not sue unless one stops shopping at that store even if that store is the only store that provides what one wants and/or needs.
"Ok, if I continue my efforts to make GNUs more user friendly, could I ask article writers to not proclaim that GNU/Linux isn't even good enough to be considered an option. (I'm very sensitive)"
I don't see it as saying Linux isn't good enough to be considered an option, but rather that it was considered an option and found wanting. And, that is true.
My whole position is that if GNU/Linux proponents want more people to switch to Linux distros, then they need to improve the user experience for the users who have problems using Windows let alone a something like Linux where one might have to use a command line or actually know something about the computer itself.
I am fairly certain that there is money to be from an alternative O/S to compete with Windows, but I don't see Linux being able to fulfill that role in the near future.
I propose that you stop expecting people to do something against what they believe is in their best interest. I propose that you start expecting the GNU/Linux developers and the distro developers to make Linux more user friendly.
The problem MS has is that it claimed in U.S. court and in front of Congress that it could not remove WMP or IE from Windows because they were so tightly integrated.
If it complies with the EU, it could be charged with perjury here in the U.S. and it could also have some interesting effects as it might cause a new browser lawsuit.
many refuse to accept the fact that any problem they experience could possibly be caused something they did or did not do
many do not know or understand the terms used to describe computer power, confusing memory, storage and speed ratings.
some can't even cut and paste between applications
Yes, GNU/Linux really is so bad that it can't be considered an option. It is simple fact is that no Linux distribution is actually designed for the average user. The developers and distributors of Linux expect people to have a certain level of skill, knowledge, competence, and devotion which is beyond most users.
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Please explain in detail how one "pulls" data, which is merely electrical signals, through a gate.
First off, it is not that there is only a hammer. The problem is that there are too many slightly different specialized hammers.
Second, it is fairly easy to swap a screwdriver for a hammer or one type of hammer for another. Swapping out the "programming environment" used to make an application would entail rewriting the whole program.
The proper analogy is:
With copper at an all time high, and the wires made of copper, it would not surprise me if the techs are doing that so they can sell the wire to a recyclers.
Remember, each penny is worth about $.05 as metal, most of that being the copper shell.
Sure, it is unethical and possibly illegal, but I am surprised that submitter didn't think of that, considering the number of unethical geeks on Slashdot.
Businesses are in business to make money. It is not cost effective to support Linux in the way you suggest. And, as so many fanboys point out, Linux is "by geeks, for geeks". It should not be necessary to provide Linux users with that level of support.
Let me get this straight. The bloggers want to remain anonymous, but want to name names in their blogs?
How cowardly and hypocritical.
The bloggers want to talk about others and use names and other identifying information, then they should not whine about those same people getting their names from their ISPs.
There are many executives and marketing and sales people and they most of them make two or more times what IT people make. They contribute little and take them most. We contribute the most and get little.
And, it is going to stay that way until we rise up and take them down. Until we unite and shut down a few businesses, they will continue to take advantage of us.
Until we have our own lobbying group to counter the outsourcing and H1B agencies.
Until you are willing to fight for what is right, you will continue to be treated like shit.
Sounds like you work for Verizon.
Hahahaha. You know, it is the federal law that makes sure you get paid more than $3.00 per hour to mop those floors.
I will take that over being at my desk for 8-10 hours a day with barely a lunch break and then being on call and/or having to work from home because management can get away with it. After all, they can always outsource to India or bring in an H1B who is willing to work like that because they plan on going back to India in a couple of years.
Go more mainstream to improve adoption among the general populace while maintaining a stable kernel.
There is no reason to give up advanced functionality or stability.
Maintaining a stable kernel is not hard considering it is change that creates instability. Advanced functionality can be available through the command line or even GUIs.
The kernel functionality is good. What is needed is better usability, especially for configuration and management of non-kernel OS components.
I would love to put a better face on Linux and make it more usable to the average user, but there is no margin in it. It would take too much time and would not provide any income, so why bother?
This has got to be one of the stupidest things I have heard. What kind of dumbass does something like that?
And calling it art? Art? Give me a fucking break.
The write up is good up until the last line. The respondent having MS says nothing about the case nor does having MS prevent her from using a computer or downloading music or provide immunity from civil prosecution.
The fact that she has MS is irrelevant.
There is a law against disturbing the peace. Look it up, dumb-ass. You are manufacturing rights for yourself and the asshole. You do not have the right to force your opinion on others. That is called disturbing the peace.
What is amazing is you are so stupid you can't even keep your insults to me. Am I a "an out and out fascist" or am I a "whinny liberal thug"?
You are little more than an ignorant, selfish, rude asshole. You deserve to have your ass kicked and so did that little asshole.
And, yes, the police should tase your stupid ass.
Because if he can see that, then he is just a troll.
The assembly was disturbed when the asshole tried to take it over. You are wrong, society does have the right to use violence to defend itself and it's people against assholes who would oppress others and that is exactly what this asshole was doing. He was oppressing others.
Tell me, what should they have done, just let him rant. Or do you suggest the people peacefully assembled should have turned their forum over to the asshole? That would be allowing him to take away their right to peacefully assemble, their right to free speech, and their right to associate with whom they choose.
There were two choices. Remove the asshole, with force if necessary, or let him take over their assembly. The choice is simple.
Now pay attention, shithead. One has the right to say what one wants but one does not have a right to an audience. Once they decided they didn't want to listen to him, he was impinging on their freedom. YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO MAKE PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOU OR TO TAKE OVER SOMEONE ELSE'S ASSEMBLY.
The sooner you realize that your right end where other people's rights begin, the sooner you will realize that other people have rights and freedoms too.
When are you people going to learn that your rights do not trump the rights of others?
Kerry and his supporters were peacefully gathered and exercising their right to free speech. This jackass came in and disturbed their gathering. He does not have a right to do that.
He trampled their right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of association. He doesn't have a right to do that.
Neither his rights nor your rights over ride the rights of others. Your rights end where the rights of others begin. His right to free speech ended when they decided they didn't want to listen to him and he was disturbing their assembly. You have a right to free speech, but you do not have a right to an audience and can not force other to be an audience against their will.
You, dumb-ass, you do not have a constitutional right to go into someone else's meeting and suppress their free speech rights and that is exactly what this asshole did.
One may have the right to free speech, but you don't have a right to an audience and you don't have the right to disturb someone else's peaceful assembly.
That is why he was arrested.
YOUR RIGHTS DO NOT OVERRIDE ANYONE ELSE'S RIGHTS.
Why do you think he has a right to disturb that peaceful assembly? Do you think his right to speak his mind overrides their right to peaceably assemble and speak their minds?
You seem to confuse being free and brave with being an asshole.
That makes you a dumb asshole.
You don't know this "kid", and by "kid" I mean asshole adult, you were not there, and you are pretty much clueless.
He is in college and is an adult. He should know how to behave. He purposely disrupted the forum, refused to leave, and then resisted arrest. He has a blog and was trying to get some publicity for it.
By flailing his arms, he committed battery on a police officer. He was not physically abused by the police. He abused the police. Once one resists arrest, the police is not going to let one "leave peacefully" because the police are already in the process of making the arrest. He was not arrested for resisting arrest. He was arrest for trespassing and disturbing the peace.
If he does not know how to act like an adult, perhaps he should be put in an institution until he learns. And perhaps you should join him as you seem to have no clue as to where his and your rights end and the rights of other begin.
Disturbing the peace. He was disturbing the peaceful meeting of that group for that public forum. He purposefully disturbed the peace.
You are an asshole if you can't see that.
"Ok, if I stop expecting people to drop Windows, could I ask them to stop sueing the Windows they don't want to drop?"
I don't think you should ask or expect people to stop suing MS. There is no conflict between wanting to use Windows and expecting better behavior from MS and not switching to something else like Linux. Not wanting to use Linux should not prevent one from suing MS just because one uses MS products. Kind of like saying if one is hurt in a store, one can not sue unless one stops shopping at that store even if that store is the only store that provides what one wants and/or needs.
"Ok, if I continue my efforts to make GNUs more user friendly, could I ask article writers to not proclaim that GNU/Linux isn't even good enough to be considered an option. (I'm very sensitive)"
I don't see it as saying Linux isn't good enough to be considered an option, but rather that it was considered an option and found wanting. And, that is true.
My whole position is that if GNU/Linux proponents want more people to switch to Linux distros, then they need to improve the user experience for the users who have problems using Windows let alone a something like Linux where one might have to use a command line or actually know something about the computer itself.
I am fairly certain that there is money to be from an alternative O/S to compete with Windows, but I don't see Linux being able to fulfill that role in the near future.
I propose that you stop expecting people to do something against what they believe is in their best interest.
I propose that you start expecting the GNU/Linux developers and the distro developers to make Linux more user friendly.
You will draw more flies with honey than vinegar.
Wow. You obviously hate America and Americans. Why don't you just stop using American products all together, mmmkay.
The problem MS has is that it claimed in U.S. court and in front of Congress that it could not remove WMP or IE from Windows because they were so tightly integrated.
If it complies with the EU, it could be charged with perjury here in the U.S. and it could also have some interesting effects as it might cause a new browser lawsuit.
Yes, GNU/Linux really is so bad that it can't be considered an option. It is simple fact is that no Linux distribution is actually designed for the average user. The developers and distributors of Linux expect people to have a certain level of skill, knowledge, competence, and devotion which is beyond most users.