The culture that worships violence in so many forms. The Wild West mythology, the American Revolution, the Second Ammendment, Football, the Civil War, etc, etc. America was founded on violence. However, America was also founded on puritian values. That's the problem here. Indoctrinate a child to belive that all the good in your country and society has come about through violently rebellious acts, and then oppress them for being different and 'impure' for not liking the 'right' kinds of violence. What happens to him? He decides to get violent...
Big surprise, eh?
The Second ammendment is part of the culture that is the problem.
is bad:-) This clearly wasn't comparing Linux to the likes of Solaris or *BSD in terms of logging and SMP - more like OS/360 and other "Big Iron" OSes.
Although the NT thing is still a mystery (didn't they take into account memory useage or stability at all?)
However, this coloum starts out on the right foot, but descends into Anti-FUD. As I said elswhere, it's about as useful as the Linux user on IRC that says "Well, it works for me... I don't know what's wrong on your end."
Having someone that can address drawbacks impartially would be... I don't know. It would just be.
Okay, how much credibility does a Windows--recently-turned-Linux user have when talking about the fundamental drawbacks of an OS? This article was about as useful as the wonderful IRC answer "Well, it works for me... you must be doing something wrong."
"Modern Unices including Linux no more rely on them than any other desktop operating system. "
MacOS excluded, of course.
"And the world's most popular operating system -- Microsoft's command line only Disk-based OS (DOS) -- is still the most popular. If difficulty was a barrier to adoption, then how did Microsoft succeed?"
Different era, different users. PCs are now being targeted at EVERYONE. In the 80s, they were targeted at over educated, over paid yuppies. (Look at the ads from back then in Compute or Byte - you had the white male in a suit, housewife, 2.5 kids and a dog, clustered around thier floor model wood cabinet TeeVee, with an IBM PC Jr. plugged into it.)
Oh, yeah, there was the office workers, who don't exactly have a choice in the matter, and whose bosses were seduced by the cheaper price of IBMs.
The only place I could find that claims they will stock the Linux version of Civ:CTP is Future Shop. I would imagine that they would be stocking Quake 3 as well.
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Wow....
Wait till some kid who knows more about explosives takes out a school of 1000. Or 2000.
Good, old fashioned, home grown domestic terrorism.
Oh, but wait, you have guns to protect yourself from your children...
You're right, you need to change the culture.
The culture that worships violence in so many forms. The Wild West mythology, the American Revolution, the Second Ammendment, Football, the Civil War, etc, etc. America was founded on violence. However, America was also founded on puritian values. That's the problem here. Indoctrinate a child to belive that all the good in your country and society has come about through violently rebellious acts, and then oppress them for being different and 'impure' for not liking the 'right' kinds of violence. What happens to him? He decides to get violent...
Big surprise, eh?
The Second ammendment is part of the culture that is the problem.
I don't think so.
Perhaps 2 years ago, before the trial, and before the Linux blip appeared on the radars of mainstream reporters.
Now? Linux is big, and MSFT is resented.
Even excluding that, there's one thing who's ass gets infinietly more kissing than MSFT's.
Conflict.
MS vs. OSS is the dominating theme througout most mainstream discussions of Linux. It is, albiet very toned down, a war.
The press *loves* war.
Why did this come up anonymously?
Weird...
I think that Rob may be messing around under the hood right now.
is bad
Although the NT thing is still a mystery (didn't they take into account memory useage or stability at all?)
"offical and supported"
... only on 3dfx hardware, and we all know how wonderful that is (yay... 16 bit colour... pretty.... NOT.)
It's from the book The Psychology of Computer Programming (which I have on order) or something. It was reviewed a while back here.
I agree with you.
However, this coloum starts out on the right foot, but descends into Anti-FUD. As I said elswhere, it's about as useful as the Linux user on IRC that says "Well, it works for me... I don't know what's wrong on your end."
Having someone that can address drawbacks impartially would be... I don't know. It would just be.
Okay, how much credibility does a Windows--recently-turned-Linux user have when talking about the fundamental drawbacks of an OS? This article was about as useful as the wonderful IRC answer "Well, it works for me... you must be doing something wrong."
"Modern Unices including Linux no more rely on them than any other desktop operating system. "
MacOS excluded, of course.
"And the world's most popular operating system -- Microsoft's command line only Disk-based OS (DOS) -- is still the most popular. If difficulty was a barrier to adoption, then how did Microsoft succeed?"
Different era, different users. PCs are now being targeted at EVERYONE. In the 80s, they were targeted at over educated, over paid yuppies. (Look at the ads from back then in Compute or Byte - you had the white male in a suit, housewife, 2.5 kids and a dog, clustered around thier floor model wood cabinet TeeVee, with an IBM PC Jr. plugged into it.)
Oh, yeah, there was the office workers, who don't exactly have a choice in the matter, and whose bosses were seduced by the cheaper price of IBMs.
We aren't. This isn't real news. It's just an elaborate setup by Rob and Wired to trick us into thinking that subsequent posts are true.
It's all one big AFJ.
We have a category for Star Wars, why not Star Trek? What would a geek be without at least an affinity for Star Trek, past or (ugh) present?
And The Physics of Star Trek, and The Metaphysics of Star Trek and The Biology of Star Trek, ad nausem....
BTW, Rob, any specifc reason you didn't allow <u>underline</u> in the 'Allowed HTML?'?
An OpenLaw community...? Hrm....
The popular philosophy of "release early, release often" works almost as well for Legalese as for C++.
An OpenLaw community...? Hrm....
The only place I could find that claims they will stock the Linux version of Civ:CTP is Future Shop. I would imagine that they would be stocking Quake 3 as well.
??????
I pray to Eris that you mean 'Software OpenGL rendering', because if not, your life is probably going to be wrecked from all the crack you're smoking.
BTW, software OpenGL rendering would be glacial compared to a traditional Quakeish software renderer.
-- John Carmack
Hear, hear!
Hell, it just looks better than vanilla slashdot!
Rock on, rob. Keep it up.