Could it be because your web sites are uber-geeky, and only geeks are using Mozilla? My sites aer very much geared towards ALL kinds of people, and they're still hovering around 95-96% IE.
That's how capitalism works. Although it's not necessarily "might" per se, but who prevails in the marketplace for whatever reason: price, quality of product, marketing, etc.
Come on now, how many years old is RH 7.0? It predates the 2.4 kernel, it's ancient... there has been QUITE a bit of progress since those days;)
Ah, I forgot that Redhat has a shelf life of about 6 months. Silly me. I guess that I need to buy a new, "Redhat approved" PC for my particular version of Redhat too, right? Imagine:
[scene: customer in a large super store, looking at a shelf holding 2 PC's, thinking out loud]
"Gee, I really like the Redhat 7.3.2.1.4 model's nice CD-R, but the 7.3.2.1.3 model has a bigger hard drive. Whatever happens, I really hope that nothing breaks on either one. If I have to replace a part, I'm screwed! And since RedHat will only support me for 6 months, I'd have to have some way to get online to find alt.comp.linux.rulez.rtfm.video.drivers.lusers and get help from a surly, spoiled 12 year old to get working. Hmmm...."
[cut to a salesman]
Actually, sir, if you buy any of these models [points to a shelf stretching into infinity], you can install Windows 2000 on top, and they'll work just fine.
[cut back to customer]
But I thought that Linux gave me choices?!
[back to salesperson]
It does sir. Linux works perfectly on either of these two PC's!
Yes, as long as nobody else is harmed. That has nothing to do with competition. That has to do with defective and dangerous products. With competition, somebody is ALWAYS "harmed" in the fact that someone loses out on the business end. That's a fact of life. That's how business works. Companies that can't compete shouldn't exist, that's the whole point. I won't do business with companies that whine and ask for gov't intervention to help them compete. The fact that we live under a gov't that even considers such bullshit is criminal and morally corruupt.
From this article, it was implied that students are at an advantage by not using MS products. Anyone care to explain this one? I understand it was a troll, but still, what's up with that?
That's where they should have thrived. They didn't.
B) Capitalism is determined by competition in a free-market. The desktop PC OS market is governed by a monopoly which by it's very definition means it's no longer a free-market. Look it up.
free market:
Definition 1
Business governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy.
You're talking about government restriction. That's not free. That's quite the opposite.
C) Did you even read my post? Did I even *mention* forcing anybody to sell anything? No. It's about forcing somebody to *not* sell something in a bundle. There are plenty of rules like this already in place, ask your local telephone company for one example.
You can say it any way that you want. The fact is, you're still suggesting that a gov't FORCES a business to sell product A as opposed to product B. The only reason a gov't should FORCE a company NOT to sell something, as you put it, is if it's inherently dangerous (ie: a doll stuffed with arsenic)
And, I think that the phone industry is a pile of shit. It's too expensive and service is shit because it's regulated. That's why I had my home phone disconnected.
Actually, I'd approach it differently... What do you need to do? Saying an "XML" database is already pretty limiting. Hell, a database might not even be the right answer. In some cases, a few flat files will do the trick, or a pipe, or other things.
Call me nuts, but isn't advertising something as "unlimited" when it's not, generally considered fraud? I don't care if it's really x amount of bandwidth + no servers, blah, blah, blah, but the company can't really advertise "unlimited" if it's not. A real "unlimited" pipe to the Net at xxGig/S is called a T-1, or greater. Those are generally $1500/month.
Reason has nothing to it. Companies, like individuals should be allowed to make any stupid decisions that they choose to make. As long as nobody else is harmed, why not let a company make a car that works only with Brand X oil? Hell, my Corvette *had* to have synthetic, and I believe that it was only warrantied if I used Mobil One oil. Stupid decision? I dunno. I bought one anyway. I didn't have to. I could've been super evil and said, "I can't buy this because I only use Penzoil". But that decision was up to Chevy, and nobody else.
So now, instead of telling MS how to run their business, they'd be telling hardware sellers how to run THEIR businesses? That doesn't seem any better for me. If a hardware seller decides not to sell any non-MS OS's with their system, that's their business. If there's really something better for a particular market, that company will lose business and be forced to adapt. But time after time has shown that *nix based PC's just don't work in the marketplace. Hell, VA Software (owner of Slashdot) even couldn't make it work. Forcing companies to sell something they wouldn't normally sell is not how capitalism works, and it doesn't benefit anybody, except competitors that normally couldn't compete in the marketplace.
I have a store. A real "brick & mortar" store. There are plenty of things that I choose not to sell because they don't fit my business. If someone said that I *had* to sell a particular product, I'd tell them to take a flying leap.
My experince was different. Last one I tried was Redhat 7.0, and with generic, old PC's that were put together with generic parts, I couldn't get 'em to work. I should've been able to choose "Sound Blaster compatible" to make 'em work. I don't see ISA cards as "ancient" because A. They still work just fine and B. they work fine in W2K and C. I shouldn't *have* to buy new hardware just to make the software work properly.
I'd be happy with ANY sound! You gotta walk before you can run, and in my experience, Linux is still in the pre-walk stage when it comes to sound. How about something that, when I install a Linux distro, makes whatever sound card I have actually work without having to play around with wierd downloads, configuring text files, etc.? I know that's a bit advanced for 2003, and maybe I'm asking for too much, but it's something that I'd really like to see.
Works well for me. Exceptionally well in fact. So well that all my hardware purchases for the forseeable future will be from Apple.
You're a good little Apple drone. They *love* people like you. I personally think that they should expand their business into clothing, food, household appliances, etc. They should publish a magazine called "Apple Life" that showes off every new shiny plastic toy that Apple Drones have to buy. You'd never have to think again... just buy whatever has a little Apple on it. Wouldn't that be great??! I'm sure that the company's stockholders think so!
Corel Did. MS did NOT own a majority share in Corel, thus they couldn't do anything in the company without support. Corel's horrible management killed Corel. They should have just stuck with what they were good at. Instead, they jumped on (and are continuing to jump on) ev ery trendy bandwagon that rolls through the industry. Corel is irrelevant. Too bad WP is gone. I use Textpad now, but it would've been nice to have something with a few more features.
It also only wastes all your time and ruins your appreciation for monogamus life, as well as the 99.9% of the population that do not look like a model or porn star
Glad my wife falls in that 0.1%. But if the bitch ever gets too fat, I'm divorcing her.
...are my friends because we have things in common... like porn! Any friend who belittles me for checking out porn isn't a friend worth keeping. I personally think that this is a stupid fucking idea.
None of our infrastrcture is gonna collapse without gov't support. If anything, they'll collapse WITH gov't support. Case in point: electricity in CA. CA opened it up to competition, but CAPPED THE PRICES that the companies could charge. So when everyone is yelling about deregulation not working, what in fact happened is that no company was willing to deliver electricity at that arbitrary price. Remove the gov't from the picture, and the need WILL be filled. That's how Capitalism works. If there's money to be made doing something, anything, somebody will do it, whether it be a garbage collector, or an airline.
I think that customers lingering in McDonalds will help quite a bit. A McDonald's "Meal" only stay with most people for under an hour, so after a really nasty dump, you're hungry again! If I were to stay there for 3 hours using their wireless, I could easily eat 4-5 combo meals and not gain a pound!
Why in the hell do you need wireless? Is a phone cable too heavy to carry? Get a free trial with a national ISP, and most have local dialup numbers everywhere.
Wow. You're a great person. You're a vegan. Big fucking deal.
I doubt that the farmer envisioned billions of cows kept alive for the sole purpose of shitting. That would be stupid. I'm sure that he meant that lots of cattle owners could do this same thing.
The sooner you become more efficient, and cleaner, the better for everyone
Exactly, which is why this is so great. Cowshit was just wasted, and now it's used for fuel. That's pretty damn efficient. This way, I get to have my steak and eat it too.
Since the sites doesn't appear to actually do *anything*, what kind of skills are they showing off? That they can make a web page with broken Javascript with a textbox in a form that once you click "submit" returns a page with random links? Somehow, I don't see how this is likely to garner anybody a paid job.
OK, I've looked and I've looked, but this thing isn't going to go anywhere if nobody knows what the hell it is, or what it's suposed to do. I see that it's got something vaguely to do with XML, but other than that, I can't figure out what the hell it's searching, how, or what it's returning. This is one of the most useless web sites that I've visited in a while. Thanks,/.!
I'm pretty sure that the computer you want is made by Lego. I think they're "Lego Mindstorms". A cheap computer that lets people build actually pretty advanced robotics with Lego kits that's already been hacked every which way.
Re:TV/Telephones (Score:1) by binaryDigit (557647) on Friday March 07, @05:33PM (#5463314) Hell, and I got one a month before that with a whopping 10 foot range, with sound quality that's worse than AM radio
I can only assume that the quality of the phones vary greatly?
I have no idea. I have no time or interest to keep up with the exciting field of cordless phone technology. I'd assumed that at this point (having never owned one before) that they'd all be acceptable, and more money would just buy a better quality, but still essentially commodity phone. Little did I know that for some reason, they still really, really suck.
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Could it be because your web sites are uber-geeky, and only geeks are using Mozilla? My sites aer very much geared towards ALL kinds of people, and they're still hovering around 95-96% IE.
Might makes right, I gotcha.
That's how capitalism works. Although it's not necessarily "might" per se, but who prevails in the marketplace for whatever reason: price, quality of product, marketing, etc.
Come on now, how many years old is RH 7.0? It predates the 2.4 kernel, it's ancient... there has been QUITE a bit of progress since those days ;)
Ah, I forgot that Redhat has a shelf life of about 6 months. Silly me. I guess that I need to buy a new, "Redhat approved" PC for my particular version of Redhat too, right? Imagine:
[scene: customer in a large super store, looking at a shelf holding 2 PC's, thinking out loud]
"Gee, I really like the Redhat 7.3.2.1.4 model's nice CD-R, but the 7.3.2.1.3 model has a bigger hard drive. Whatever happens, I really hope that nothing breaks on either one. If I have to replace a part, I'm screwed! And since RedHat will only support me for 6 months, I'd have to have some way to get online to find alt.comp.linux.rulez.rtfm.video.drivers.lusers and get help from a surly, spoiled 12 year old to get working. Hmmm...."
[cut to a salesman]
Actually, sir, if you buy any of these models [points to a shelf stretching into infinity], you can install Windows 2000 on top, and they'll work just fine.
[cut back to customer]
But I thought that Linux gave me choices?!
[back to salesperson]
It does sir. Linux works perfectly on either of these two PC's!
Yes, as long as nobody else is harmed. That has nothing to do with competition. That has to do with defective and dangerous products. With competition, somebody is ALWAYS "harmed" in the fact that someone loses out on the business end. That's a fact of life. That's how business works. Companies that can't compete shouldn't exist, that's the whole point. I won't do business with companies that whine and ask for gov't intervention to help them compete. The fact that we live under a gov't that even considers such bullshit is criminal and morally corruupt.
From this article, it was implied that students are at an advantage by not using MS products. Anyone care to explain this one? I understand it was a troll, but still, what's up with that?
A) VA Linux ONLY sold rack mounts.
That's where they should have thrived. They didn't.
B) Capitalism is determined by competition in a free-market. The desktop PC OS market is governed by a monopoly which by it's very definition means it's no longer a free-market. Look it up.
free market:
Definition 1
Business governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy.
You're talking about government restriction. That's not free. That's quite the opposite.
C) Did you even read my post? Did I even *mention* forcing anybody to sell anything? No. It's about forcing somebody to *not* sell something in a bundle. There are plenty of rules like this already in place, ask your local telephone company for one example.
You can say it any way that you want. The fact is, you're still suggesting that a gov't FORCES a business to sell product A as opposed to product B. The only reason a gov't should FORCE a company NOT to sell something, as you put it, is if it's inherently dangerous (ie: a doll stuffed with arsenic)
And, I think that the phone industry is a pile of shit. It's too expensive and service is shit because it's regulated. That's why I had my home phone disconnected.
Actually, I'd approach it differently... What do you need to do? Saying an "XML" database is already pretty limiting. Hell, a database might not even be the right answer. In some cases, a few flat files will do the trick, or a pipe, or other things.
Call me nuts, but isn't advertising something as "unlimited" when it's not, generally considered fraud? I don't care if it's really x amount of bandwidth + no servers, blah, blah, blah, but the company can't really advertise "unlimited" if it's not. A real "unlimited" pipe to the Net at xxGig/S is called a T-1, or greater. Those are generally $1500/month.
Reason has nothing to it. Companies, like individuals should be allowed to make any stupid decisions that they choose to make. As long as nobody else is harmed, why not let a company make a car that works only with Brand X oil? Hell, my Corvette *had* to have synthetic, and I believe that it was only warrantied if I used Mobil One oil. Stupid decision? I dunno. I bought one anyway. I didn't have to. I could've been super evil and said, "I can't buy this because I only use Penzoil". But that decision was up to Chevy, and nobody else.
So now, instead of telling MS how to run their business, they'd be telling hardware sellers how to run THEIR businesses? That doesn't seem any better for me. If a hardware seller decides not to sell any non-MS OS's with their system, that's their business. If there's really something better for a particular market, that company will lose business and be forced to adapt. But time after time has shown that *nix based PC's just don't work in the marketplace. Hell, VA Software (owner of Slashdot) even couldn't make it work. Forcing companies to sell something they wouldn't normally sell is not how capitalism works, and it doesn't benefit anybody, except competitors that normally couldn't compete in the marketplace.
I have a store. A real "brick & mortar" store. There are plenty of things that I choose not to sell because they don't fit my business. If someone said that I *had* to sell a particular product, I'd tell them to take a flying leap.
My experince was different. Last one I tried was Redhat 7.0, and with generic, old PC's that were put together with generic parts, I couldn't get 'em to work. I should've been able to choose "Sound Blaster compatible" to make 'em work. I don't see ISA cards as "ancient" because A. They still work just fine and B. they work fine in W2K and C. I shouldn't *have* to buy new hardware just to make the software work properly.
I'd be happy with ANY sound! You gotta walk before you can run, and in my experience, Linux is still in the pre-walk stage when it comes to sound. How about something that, when I install a Linux distro, makes whatever sound card I have actually work without having to play around with wierd downloads, configuring text files, etc.? I know that's a bit advanced for 2003, and maybe I'm asking for too much, but it's something that I'd really like to see.
Works well for me. Exceptionally well in fact. So well that all my hardware purchases for the forseeable future will be from Apple.
You're a good little Apple drone. They *love* people like you. I personally think that they should expand their business into clothing, food, household appliances, etc. They should publish a magazine called "Apple Life" that showes off every new shiny plastic toy that Apple Drones have to buy. You'd never have to think again... just buy whatever has a little Apple on it. Wouldn't that be great??! I'm sure that the company's stockholders think so!
Corel Did. MS did NOT own a majority share in Corel, thus they couldn't do anything in the company without support. Corel's horrible management killed Corel. They should have just stuck with what they were good at. Instead, they jumped on (and are continuing to jump on) ev ery trendy bandwagon that rolls through the industry. Corel is irrelevant. Too bad WP is gone. I use Textpad now, but it would've been nice to have something with a few more features.
It also only wastes all your time and ruins your appreciation for monogamus life, as well as the 99.9% of the population that do not look like a model or porn star
Glad my wife falls in that 0.1%. But if the bitch ever gets too fat, I'm divorcing her.
...are my friends because we have things in common... like porn! Any friend who belittles me for checking out porn isn't a friend worth keeping. I personally think that this is a stupid fucking idea.
None of our infrastrcture is gonna collapse without gov't support. If anything, they'll collapse WITH gov't support. Case in point: electricity in CA. CA opened it up to competition, but CAPPED THE PRICES that the companies could charge. So when everyone is yelling about deregulation not working, what in fact happened is that no company was willing to deliver electricity at that arbitrary price. Remove the gov't from the picture, and the need WILL be filled. That's how Capitalism works. If there's money to be made doing something, anything, somebody will do it, whether it be a garbage collector, or an airline.
I think that customers lingering in McDonalds will help quite a bit. A McDonald's "Meal" only stay with most people for under an hour, so after a really nasty dump, you're hungry again! If I were to stay there for 3 hours using their wireless, I could easily eat 4-5 combo meals and not gain a pound!
Why in the hell do you need wireless? Is a phone cable too heavy to carry? Get a free trial with a national ISP, and most have local dialup numbers everywhere.
Wow. You're a great person. You're a vegan. Big fucking deal.
I doubt that the farmer envisioned billions of cows kept alive for the sole purpose of shitting. That would be stupid. I'm sure that he meant that lots of cattle owners could do this same thing.
The sooner you become more efficient, and cleaner, the better for everyone
Exactly, which is why this is so great. Cowshit was just wasted, and now it's used for fuel. That's pretty damn efficient. This way, I get to have my steak and eat it too.
Since the sites doesn't appear to actually do *anything*, what kind of skills are they showing off? That they can make a web page with broken Javascript with a textbox in a form that once you click "submit" returns a page with random links? Somehow, I don't see how this is likely to garner anybody a paid job.
OK, I've looked and I've looked, but this thing isn't going to go anywhere if nobody knows what the hell it is, or what it's suposed to do. I see that it's got something vaguely to do with XML, but other than that, I can't figure out what the hell it's searching, how, or what it's returning. This is one of the most useless web sites that I've visited in a while. Thanks, /.!
I'm pretty sure that the computer you want is made by Lego. I think they're "Lego Mindstorms". A cheap computer that lets people build actually pretty advanced robotics with Lego kits that's already been hacked every which way.
Re:TV/Telephones (Score:1)
by binaryDigit (557647) on Friday March 07, @05:33PM (#5463314)
Hell, and I got one a month before that with a whopping 10 foot range, with sound quality that's worse than AM radio
I can only assume that the quality of the phones vary greatly?
I have no idea. I have no time or interest to keep up with the exciting field of cordless phone technology. I'd assumed that at this point (having never owned one before) that they'd all be acceptable, and more money would just buy a better quality, but still essentially commodity phone. Little did I know that for some reason, they still really, really suck.