This is because it is featureful and robust. The Open Source crowd would like you to think that it is 'bloatware', but they just want to diflect your attention away from the fact that Open Source software actually has no features and nothing can be accomplished using it. This is some sort of badge of honor for them.
Rest assured that when your install is finished you will have the most stable, feature laden, robust, reliable operating system to be had anywhere.
I hope this is accepted. Microsoft will be able to put all this ugliness behing them and get back to doing what they do best, coding up the most advanced software ever known.
This will also be good for the Open Source community as they will be in a position to steal all those wonderful MS innovations.
1) Microsoft is more than happy to obscure what Win 2K reports itself as, there are many firms that purchase this service from them.
2) You've seen photos of the machines they have in their racks but you have no way of knowing what OS they run.
3) I post to the lkml too. See if you can figure out who I am.
4) The Google programming contest is just a ruse.
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You take that idea straight to court, I think you have a great case. Tell the judge that you went to a free search site, it gave you results that were altered, and you want your money back.
Also, Google's people have openly discussed their architecture many times and told everyone that they run Linux. Of course this is simply the tactic of security through obscurity, as well as driving their userbase up by convincing all you zealots to use their site under the mistaken belief that they support your cause. Misleading all of the pseudo hackers amongst you keeps their equipment crack free, as the myriad of Linux hacks are of no use against an enterprise class OS like Win2K.
Ok, I came back to Slashdot. The place had gotten too bad even for me and I hoped that if I took a break it would improve a little. It didn't.
As for ESR claiming that Windows will die, OK, fine. Everyone knows ESR is a moron, his progressive views on gun control not withstanding. But his ignorance is nothing compared to the comments in this article. I must have waded through 200 of these fuckers and they all made the same four or five points. Not that geeks know even the slightest about the business world (Microsoft has to keep their stock price high to ensure their enormous cash flow, son of a bitch thats the most ignorant thing I have read in quite a while), but jesus christ, you people don't seem to be capable of generating any ideas beyond the immediately obvious. This isn't the fabled Slashdot groupthink. It's more like a group of dumbasses posting to a weblog.
Of the 200 some posts I read near the beginning of this article, not a single one pointed out that giving away the OS itself but charging a subscription fee to use it is the direction Microsoft is headed. Maybe that idea is in here somewhere but it is buried beneath layer after layer of pointless dreck. It 10 years Microsoft will be the AOL of operating systems. (Laugh all you want geeks, at least no MS execs will be eating cold Campbell's soup and living under a bridge) You'll be able to pick up a copy of Windows 2012 in a grocery store for nothing. OEMs will not be charged a dime for installing it. The end user will though, he'll have to renew his license on a regular basis or his system will stop running, maybe he'll even get 1000 hours free or some crap. Businesses will be treated the same way, although their network management software will renew their licenses for them. They'll get their operating system bill every month in the mail just like their phone bill.
Linux still won't have any market share anywhere. It will still be the worst tool for any given job. ESR will still predict MS's death and Slashdot geeks will still post the same lame ideas and the same worthless jokes. Once again, Microsoft is so far ahead of ESR that he can't even afford to make a long distance call to them. Stick to writing your toy operating systems for toasters and let the big boys worry about making money.
You realize, don't you, that ESR was locked in? He was bragging about how rich he was in that article, yet by the time he was actually allowed to convert any of that money into cold hard cash, his wealth had shrunk to a pittance.
That article was a perfect illustration of why ignorant geeks will never succeed in business. They don't understand even the most basic of principles, such as the difference between liquid and non-liquid assests.
Also, your mom still doesn't buy it. I spoke with her last night and she is still pretty sure that you were jerking off during all that time you spent in your room rather than playing video games.
While I did not get root, I have an important message to convey.
Slashdot is overrun with geeks
Please leave as soon as possible so you do not continue to eat up theiur precious bandwidth. They know you don't ever plan to buy anything, all you are doing to helping VA go bankrupt.
Until the banner ad revenue exceeds the cost of running the site?
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I removed Linux, not so much from my computer but from my house, with a shotgun and a shovel. There were far fewer steps involved in my process and I would thus recommend it, based on efficiency, to anyone who wishes to free himself from the shackles of Linux. My method also tops the parent post as it can be applied to virtually all Free Software that exists today, or will ever exist in the future.
Go to Wal-Mart and purchase a Remington 870 Express Super Magnum, 12 gauge.
While there purchase 2 boxes of Federal Premium Turkey loads, 12 gauge, 3 1/2", #4 shot.
Go home and stand in front of your computer that is running Free Software.
Just behind the trigger on the gun is the safety. We don't want anyone to get hurt so push the safety button from left to right until it clicks. You can visually verify that the gun is on safe by checking for a the red line painted around the safety button. If it appears, the gun IS NOT ON SAFE. Reverse the direction you pushed the safety button and verify again.
Insert the shells into the shotgun's magazine. Continue until it will hold no more shells.
Draw the forearm back toward yourself until it stops. Sharply snap the forearm forward until it stops again, (this is called chambering a round) the gun is now loaded.
Take the gun off safe by pressing the safety button in.
Keeping both eyes open, point the gun at the computer. The bead at the end of the barrel should cover the area you plan to hit.
Brace yourself, especially if you are a weakling. These 3 1/2" mags kick something awful. Pull the trigger.
Chamber another round and pull the trigger again. Repeat this process until you have exhausted your entire supply of shells.
Take the remains of the computer into your back yard and bury it at least six feet deep. You don't want any animals to dig it back up and be poisoned by the Free Software still present in its system.
The focus on P2P networks in the past has been solely on stealing music. But you can also steal other data using a P2P network. There's an open source project with a P2P network for stealing Microsoft.NET web resources. Help us test the stealability of our network, just grab the tar.gz and run the software!
Yeah, making money is so stupid! They should just live and let live. So what if that means eating in homeless shelters and combing your hair with a plastic fork, at least they'll be noble people.
And another thing, why must they insist on infringing on everyone's right to steal? We've been stealing everything since the first cassette tapes hit the market, we're socially conditioned to steal. If they want to suddenly shut off the tap of warez and porn and MP3s that I base my entire self esteem upon, I say they should be fought them with everything we've got! Those fuckers! I demand unfettered access to pop music I didn't buy. I want a copy of that manga film my buddy shoplifted. Windows is overpriced so I'm forced to steal the CDs from work. This stuff is all my birthright and I'll sit here on my ass and complain to all of these like minded geeks on this weblog until someone does something to make sure my right to continue to steal is preserved.
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Rest assured that when your install is finished you will have the most stable, feature laden, robust, reliable operating system to be had anywhere.
This will also be good for the Open Source community as they will be in a position to steal all those wonderful MS innovations.
2) You've seen photos of the machines they have in their racks but you have no way of knowing what OS they run.
3) I post to the lkml too. See if you can figure out who I am.
4) The Google programming contest is just a ruse.
So then you are a complete idiot, rather than just a run of the mill one?
Also, Google's people have openly discussed their architecture many times and told everyone that they run Linux. Of course this is simply the tactic of security through obscurity, as well as driving their userbase up by convincing all you zealots to use their site under the mistaken belief that they support your cause. Misleading all of the pseudo hackers amongst you keeps their equipment crack free, as the myriad of Linux hacks are of no use against an enterprise class OS like Win2K.
Replace the word It with Odd. Don't fuck up reading my post again, I don't have time to lead you around Slashdot by the hand.
It you should call it a stunning display of Linux capability when they run Windows 2000 and MSSQL exclusively.
Why not just pull up their site and hump your monitor screen like you do when you hit the porn sites?
As for ESR claiming that Windows will die, OK, fine. Everyone knows ESR is a moron, his progressive views on gun control not withstanding. But his ignorance is nothing compared to the comments in this article. I must have waded through 200 of these fuckers and they all made the same four or five points. Not that geeks know even the slightest about the business world (Microsoft has to keep their stock price high to ensure their enormous cash flow, son of a bitch thats the most ignorant thing I have read in quite a while), but jesus christ, you people don't seem to be capable of generating any ideas beyond the immediately obvious. This isn't the fabled Slashdot groupthink. It's more like a group of dumbasses posting to a weblog.
Of the 200 some posts I read near the beginning of this article, not a single one pointed out that giving away the OS itself but charging a subscription fee to use it is the direction Microsoft is headed. Maybe that idea is in here somewhere but it is buried beneath layer after layer of pointless dreck. It 10 years Microsoft will be the AOL of operating systems. (Laugh all you want geeks, at least no MS execs will be eating cold Campbell's soup and living under a bridge) You'll be able to pick up a copy of Windows 2012 in a grocery store for nothing. OEMs will not be charged a dime for installing it. The end user will though, he'll have to renew his license on a regular basis or his system will stop running, maybe he'll even get 1000 hours free or some crap. Businesses will be treated the same way, although their network management software will renew their licenses for them. They'll get their operating system bill every month in the mail just like their phone bill.
Linux still won't have any market share anywhere. It will still be the worst tool for any given job. ESR will still predict MS's death and Slashdot geeks will still post the same lame ideas and the same worthless jokes. Once again, Microsoft is so far ahead of ESR that he can't even afford to make a long distance call to them. Stick to writing your toy operating systems for toasters and let the big boys worry about making money.
Because it dilutes their brand. I'll look through my address book, maybe I know someone at Apple who could help get the ball rolling.
Of course he was unable to seel at the right time because he was locked. The SEC requires it you ignorant server monkey.
That article was a perfect illustration of why ignorant geeks will never succeed in business. They don't understand even the most basic of principles, such as the difference between liquid and non-liquid assests.
Dumbass.
The 97% of the internet browsing public that uses previous IE versions, geek.
Really, even trolls hate you. Crapflooders hate you. You make the entire world just that much less enjoyable to live in.
You people are so fucking ignorant. If you were actually in charge of anything important I would seriously worry about the fate of humanity.
Slashdot posts these statements just to watch the inevitable page impressions from froth mouthed geeks.
You are a human calculator. I stand in awe of your computational abilities.
Put it on Sourceforge, where all the other abandoned, outdated projects go to die.
Also, your mom still doesn't buy it. I spoke with her last night and she is still pretty sure that you were jerking off during all that time you spent in your room rather than playing video games.
Slashdot is overrun with geeks
Please leave as soon as possible so you do not continue to eat up theiur precious bandwidth. They know you don't ever plan to buy anything, all you are doing to helping VA go bankrupt.
Until the banner ad revenue exceeds the cost of running the site?
Go to Wal-Mart and purchase a Remington 870 Express Super Magnum, 12 gauge.
While there purchase 2 boxes of Federal Premium Turkey loads, 12 gauge, 3 1/2", #4 shot.
Go home and stand in front of your computer that is running Free Software.
Just behind the trigger on the gun is the safety. We don't want anyone to get hurt so push the safety button from left to right until it clicks. You can visually verify that the gun is on safe by checking for a the red line painted around the safety button. If it appears, the gun IS NOT ON SAFE. Reverse the direction you pushed the safety button and verify again.
Insert the shells into the shotgun's magazine. Continue until it will hold no more shells.
Draw the forearm back toward yourself until it stops. Sharply snap the forearm forward until it stops again, (this is called chambering a round) the gun is now loaded.
Take the gun off safe by pressing the safety button in.
Keeping both eyes open, point the gun at the computer. The bead at the end of the barrel should cover the area you plan to hit.
Brace yourself, especially if you are a weakling. These 3 1/2" mags kick something awful. Pull the trigger.
Chamber another round and pull the trigger again. Repeat this process until you have exhausted your entire supply of shells.
Take the remains of the computer into your back yard and bury it at least six feet deep. You don't want any animals to dig it back up and be poisoned by the Free Software still present in its system.
Hope this helps.
The focus on P2P networks in the past has been solely on stealing music. But you can also steal other data using a P2P network. There's an open source project with a P2P network for stealing Microsoft .NET web resources. Help us test the stealability of our network, just grab the tar.gz and run the software!
And another thing, why must they insist on infringing on everyone's right to steal? We've been stealing everything since the first cassette tapes hit the market, we're socially conditioned to steal. If they want to suddenly shut off the tap of warez and porn and MP3s that I base my entire self esteem upon, I say they should be fought them with everything we've got! Those fuckers! I demand unfettered access to pop music I didn't buy. I want a copy of that manga film my buddy shoplifted. Windows is overpriced so I'm forced to steal the CDs from work. This stuff is all my birthright and I'll sit here on my ass and complain to all of these like minded geeks on this weblog until someone does something to make sure my right to continue to steal is preserved.