I've known many, many people who were royally fucked by PayPal, so I have to disagree. You're talking about a company that acts like a bank, but is not regulated like a bank. You're talking about a company that can arbitrarily freeze assets with no accountability. In my mind, PayPal is a big fraud, and I would never give them a dime. If you want to buy something, and you want protection, use your credit card: that's *real* buyer's fraud protection. It's mandated by federal law.
In case you haven't noticed, but Microsoft consistently has provided the best hardware support in the short history of PC OS's. I've never heard of MS specifically dis-allowing any kind of ahrdware, whatsoever, from any of their OS's. Instead, they are hands-down, the most hardware-inclusive OS's ever made.
You have to keep in mind that A New Hope was tacked on later when Lucas started this whole fucked up mess it was *not* there in 1977 and I should know cause I was.
It actually is. The very first line in the scrolling text at the beginning says, "Episode IV: A New Hope"
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Apparently, this author has never seen a "container". They've been around for what... 30 years? 40 years? The go on tractor trailers, ships, and rail. They're self-contained, cheap, and the infrastructure for quick switching of them from one mode of transport to another is already there. Freight is already past these little cartoons. Whether there's any need for passenger transport that's dual mode is another question entirely.
How, exactly, does this happen? Do the bits and bytes fall out of the computer? I've never heard of deteriorating software, and I used to be a programmer.
You're making fun of what utility files are called? Are you on fucking crack? Every tried Linux? It's like fucking heiroglyphics compared to Windows. And, it's not like 8+3 is a requirement. 8+3 has been dead since Windows NT 3.5 came out in what? 1994? Talk about a straw man...
4 years out of date? What's out of date about W2K? Or maybe, are you one of those people who like to re-install a new OS every 6 months for fun? Those of us who actually *do* things with our computers, do NOT want to be re-installing OS's every few months, or even every few years. W2K runs my business just fine, without having to re-install.
People like you were the cause of the dot-com bubble. Anyone with half a brain would look at Redhat's short, shaky future, and their ridiculously high P/E and stear plenty clear of them for a while. I wouldn't buy RHAT unless they were around 2-3. That would put their P/E within the realm of reality. Even then, that would be very risky, considering you can buy ORCL with a P/E around 22, and shitload of cash in the bank, with a much, much longer proven track record, with a much more stead management team.
Again, you're assuming that the "masses" are right. I'd much rather read an article about genetics by one, intelligent, educated, geneticist, than one by 10,000 average Joe's who picked up their genetics knowlege on Google. If anything has been shown in history, is that the masses can be real morons. Slavery? Nazis? Witch burning? Stoning? I'll stick with readong stuff written by people with an education, thank you.
As a non-business person, you should know that Nordstrom's willingness to accept all abusive customers hurts their bottom line, and makes their prices higher for *all* customers.
People do that online, too. My store has customers come in that say, "I can get this at $xx" online". Well, we don't do sales just to keep things simple, and our prices are always low as hell. We do have a few customers that point to loss leaders online from fly-by-night online companies, and if they bitch, I suggest that they buy that product there. Most of the time, they get screwed, and may even have the balls to come back whining to us. At that point, we don't really bother to help them. If price is the only thing that's important to them, then fuck them. We don't want them as customers. They can go buy their ultra-cheap shit online, and deal with the problems when they don't get it/can't return it/it's expired, etc. I completely agree in firing customers.
We also have customers who will ask us to special order stuff repeatedly, then decide that they don't want that item. Well, fuck them. No more special orders for them. We've lost several customers that way, and it's improved our bottom line!
Ah, well then, that makes a *bit* more sense. Even still, I find it hard to believe that say, browser quality isn't relatively objective. So damn it, pick one! Jesus Christ! Geeks just don't understand that most people don't give a shit. They want it to work. They don't care about the nuances of mouse gestures vs. right clicks. They don't care if their bookmarks are stored in the registry or in XML. They don't care if the window frame is blue or black.
How'd you like it if you walked into a hardware store for a plain ol' flat head screw driver, and the salesperson, instead of selling you a $1.50 screwdriver said, "Well, sir, there are many things to consider when using a screwdriver. Do you turn it with your arm, or your wrist? Are you right handed or left handed? Are you putting in a screw vertically or horizontally? Are you using steel or brass screws? How tightly do you hold your screwdriver? Are you planning on dropping it from a height of more than 4"? Will anybody else ever use your screwdriver?" 99.9% of all people would say, "fuck this" wand walk to the next store and buy a fucking screwdriver without the hassle.
Thanks, but Linux works just great as a server and a desktop for those who know how to use it.
Exactly, numbnuts. That ain't Joe Average. You just contradicted yourself. That's like saying that piloting a space craft is easy for those who know how to do it. Again, that ain't Joe Schmoe who just wants to check his email.
...And the reason we did this is mostly because we could.
What a great reason. I could also probably eat glass, but that's not a good reason to do it. I can't imagine the amount of confusion that a poor person has to go through when they have to figure out what those 5 browsers do differently, why they need 5. If I were a new user, my first response would be, "huh?". That's kinda' like installing 5 different gear shifts in a car... because you can.
What's the point of not having a graphical enterface on a server? CPU cycles? Last I checked, you can't even get a wristwatch that doesn't run a GUI. Of course, last time I tried to install plain 'ol Red Hat, the goddamn hard drive on a Pentium 2 did nothing but swap with just a GUI running and no apps, so you may have a point. Try W2K. No box that you buy today even bats an eye at explorer.exe.
You're talking about all of those things plugged into that same box? Jesus. That's a giant, expensive box, plus a shitload of cabling. I wasn't aware that PS2 cables could go for much further than 10 feet or so, or that monitor cables could go much further than 6 feet. Now where do I find a plain ol' PC with 8 PS2 ports, room for 4 video cards, and enough cooling for those video cards?
With Windows, it would take all of a day to browse around the Internet and update my programs; with Gentoo, a simple "emerge sync && emerge -UD world" keeps my system cutting-edge.
Uh, you forgot the 6 months that it would take to figure out that you have to type that, and where to type that. Besides, how many programs do you really have that it would take all day to update your programs? 99% of modern apps have an "update now" button, which takes about 30 seconds to find. But you're right... spending months of Linux training, hundreds of dollars in books, and weeks Googling to learn how to type "emerge !@#$ blah blah blah" is MUCH easier than clicking "Check For Updates" in whatever programs you use. Much easier.
This article can be summed up as: I like Linux. It's better.
What utter crap! That's not an article. That's not a discussion topic. That's a typical Slashdot post. And all it does is rehash the same old tired arguments. Why didn't the/. editors instead post this interesting story that came out today? I'll give ya' one guess.
Terminal Services requires no special hardware. Install, click "next" a few times, and you can have unlimited people using the same PC at the same time. This has been done for years. We've been doing it at my business for years, in fact.
Why is this necessary? Can't you use your eyeballs to know what state each device is in? If you can't tell whether or not your TV is turned on, then I think that you've got bigger problems than a remote control.
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I've known many, many people who were royally fucked by PayPal, so I have to disagree. You're talking about a company that acts like a bank, but is not regulated like a bank. You're talking about a company that can arbitrarily freeze assets with no accountability. In my mind, PayPal is a big fraud, and I would never give them a dime. If you want to buy something, and you want protection, use your credit card: that's *real* buyer's fraud protection. It's mandated by federal law.
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Thanks!
OK, but apparently none of today's mods get this, but this was a fucking funny post. Shot Kool-Aid out of my nose, onto the monitor, in fact. Purple!
In case you haven't noticed, but Microsoft consistently has provided the best hardware support in the short history of PC OS's. I've never heard of MS specifically dis-allowing any kind of ahrdware, whatsoever, from any of their OS's. Instead, they are hands-down, the most hardware-inclusive OS's ever made.
You have to keep in mind that A New Hope was tacked on later when Lucas started this whole fucked up mess it was *not* there in 1977 and I should know cause I was.
It actually is. The very first line in the scrolling text at the beginning says, "Episode IV: A New Hope"
Apparently, this author has never seen a "container". They've been around for what... 30 years? 40 years? The go on tractor trailers, ships, and rail. They're self-contained, cheap, and the infrastructure for quick switching of them from one mode of transport to another is already there. Freight is already past these little cartoons. Whether there's any need for passenger transport that's dual mode is another question entirely.
Hey, since you're such a corporate genius, I'm wondering, where can I buy your company's stock?
but software does deteriorate.
How, exactly, does this happen? Do the bits and bytes fall out of the computer? I've never heard of deteriorating software, and I used to be a programmer.
You're making fun of what utility files are called? Are you on fucking crack? Every tried Linux? It's like fucking heiroglyphics compared to Windows. And, it's not like 8+3 is a requirement. 8+3 has been dead since Windows NT 3.5 came out in what? 1994? Talk about a straw man...
4 years out of date? What's out of date about W2K? Or maybe, are you one of those people who like to re-install a new OS every 6 months for fun? Those of us who actually *do* things with our computers, do NOT want to be re-installing OS's every few months, or even every few years. W2K runs my business just fine, without having to re-install.
Nows the time folks....buy up
People like you were the cause of the dot-com bubble. Anyone with half a brain would look at Redhat's short, shaky future, and their ridiculously high P/E and stear plenty clear of them for a while. I wouldn't buy RHAT unless they were around 2-3. That would put their P/E within the realm of reality. Even then, that would be very risky, considering you can buy ORCL with a P/E around 22, and shitload of cash in the bank, with a much, much longer proven track record, with a much more stead management team.
Again, you're assuming that the "masses" are right. I'd much rather read an article about genetics by one, intelligent, educated, geneticist, than one by 10,000 average Joe's who picked up their genetics knowlege on Google. If anything has been shown in history, is that the masses can be real morons. Slavery? Nazis? Witch burning? Stoning? I'll stick with readong stuff written by people with an education, thank you.
As a non-business person, you should know that Nordstrom's willingness to accept all abusive customers hurts their bottom line, and makes their prices higher for *all* customers.
People do that online, too. My store has customers come in that say, "I can get this at $xx" online". Well, we don't do sales just to keep things simple, and our prices are always low as hell. We do have a few customers that point to loss leaders online from fly-by-night online companies, and if they bitch, I suggest that they buy that product there. Most of the time, they get screwed, and may even have the balls to come back whining to us. At that point, we don't really bother to help them. If price is the only thing that's important to them, then fuck them. We don't want them as customers. They can go buy their ultra-cheap shit online, and deal with the problems when they don't get it/can't return it/it's expired, etc. I completely agree in firing customers.
We also have customers who will ask us to special order stuff repeatedly, then decide that they don't want that item. Well, fuck them. No more special orders for them. We've lost several customers that way, and it's improved our bottom line!
Ah, well then, that makes a *bit* more sense. Even still, I find it hard to believe that say, browser quality isn't relatively objective. So damn it, pick one! Jesus Christ! Geeks just don't understand that most people don't give a shit. They want it to work. They don't care about the nuances of mouse gestures vs. right clicks. They don't care if their bookmarks are stored in the registry or in XML. They don't care if the window frame is blue or black.
How'd you like it if you walked into a hardware store for a plain ol' flat head screw driver, and the salesperson, instead of selling you a $1.50 screwdriver said, "Well, sir, there are many things to consider when using a screwdriver. Do you turn it with your arm, or your wrist? Are you right handed or left handed? Are you putting in a screw vertically or horizontally? Are you using steel or brass screws? How tightly do you hold your screwdriver? Are you planning on dropping it from a height of more than 4"? Will anybody else ever use your screwdriver?" 99.9% of all people would say, "fuck this" wand walk to the next store and buy a fucking screwdriver without the hassle.
Thanks, but Linux works just great as a server and a desktop for those who know how to use it.
Exactly, numbnuts. That ain't Joe Average. You just contradicted yourself. That's like saying that piloting a space craft is easy for those who know how to do it. Again, that ain't Joe Schmoe who just wants to check his email.
What a great reason. I could also probably eat glass, but that's not a good reason to do it. I can't imagine the amount of confusion that a poor person has to go through when they have to figure out what those 5 browsers do differently, why they need 5. If I were a new user, my first response would be, "huh?". That's kinda' like installing 5 different gear shifts in a car... because you can.
Please, somebody spoil me. I just want to get a distro of Linux that works without haveing a fucking PHD in programming. I wish this were the case.
What's the point of not having a graphical enterface on a server? CPU cycles? Last I checked, you can't even get a wristwatch that doesn't run a GUI. Of course, last time I tried to install plain 'ol Red Hat, the goddamn hard drive on a Pentium 2 did nothing but swap with just a GUI running and no apps, so you may have a point. Try W2K. No box that you buy today even bats an eye at explorer.exe.
You're talking about all of those things plugged into that same box? Jesus. That's a giant, expensive box, plus a shitload of cabling. I wasn't aware that PS2 cables could go for much further than 10 feet or so, or that monitor cables could go much further than 6 feet. Now where do I find a plain ol' PC with 8 PS2 ports, room for 4 video cards, and enough cooling for those video cards?
With Windows, it would take all of a day to browse around the Internet and update my programs; with Gentoo, a simple "emerge sync && emerge -UD world" keeps my system cutting-edge.
Uh, you forgot the 6 months that it would take to figure out that you have to type that, and where to type that. Besides, how many programs do you really have that it would take all day to update your programs? 99% of modern apps have an "update now" button, which takes about 30 seconds to find. But you're right... spending months of Linux training, hundreds of dollars in books, and weeks Googling to learn how to type "emerge !@#$ blah blah blah" is MUCH easier than clicking "Check For Updates" in whatever programs you use. Much easier.
This article can be summed up as: I like Linux. It's better.
/. editors instead post this interesting story that came out today? I'll give ya' one guess.
What utter crap! That's not an article. That's not a discussion topic. That's a typical Slashdot post. And all it does is rehash the same old tired arguments. Why didn't the
'Windows terminal services can do this' -- don't know where to start on that one, suffice it to say: it can't.
Care to explain how we've got 3 people logged into and actively using the same machine right now with Terminal Services?
Terminal Services requires no special hardware. Install, click "next" a few times, and you can have unlimited people using the same PC at the same time. This has been done for years. We've been doing it at my business for years, in fact.
Why is this necessary? Can't you use your eyeballs to know what state each device is in? If you can't tell whether or not your TV is turned on, then I think that you've got bigger problems than a remote control.