The question should be: Now which of these does linux offer?
Are you really telling me that linux offers *any* of:
probable emerging standard (don't make me laugh - linux is anarchy - BSD is more standard since it is committe based)
existing high-quality implementation (have you ever looked at linux code? And it changes every two minutes)
existing widespread hardware support (DVD? Hardware RAID even?....)
non-techies are comfortable with it (please...)
Liberal licencing (GPL!!!)
And as for stuff like "massive momentum", you must remember that the momentum behind linux is its use as an application not as an OS. Linux boys use linux as their primary app, not as an OS to run another app. Their app *IS* linux. It *IS* spending the whole evening downloading the latest Hungarian font patches and recompiling the kernel just so their system is "complete". Ten minutes later they're downloading the next patch that is issued, for hardware they don't have....
Why not run BSD? After all, this'll be more reliable, and the code is more controlled. And The NetBSD boys would be more than happy to have another set of patches added to their already amazingly portable source.
Also, I would guess that the boys at IBM know about the '#ifdef IBM' statement.
You are NOT "throwing away your vote" - voting is NOT about winning, it is about being *heard*
Vote for who you want to win (even if they won't in reality). If you don't like any, vote
for "None of the above" as described below
You vote to be *heard* - NOT to win!
So voting for a minority party with no chance of winning is NOT a lost vote.
DO NOT VOTE *AGAINST* CANDIDATES BY CHOOSING THE OTHER - THAT's WHY YOU ARE IN THE CURRENT MESS!!!
And you US boys don't have a 'NONE OF THE ABOVE' option (unlike, say, the UK, which although does not explicitly have one, it does count destroyed papers - so in the UK:
NO VOTE == Apathy
DESTROYED PAPER == NONE OF THE ABOVE
In the US:
NO VOTE == Apathy
Vote for local candidate and no vote for president == "None of the above", since these are apprently counted.
Barring the latter option, your only other choice is to not vote and hope that politicians start asking why 75% of people didn't vote this election, and get that "None of the above" box added to the ballot paper.
Roll on non-elected democracies - a random sample of people as politicans is better than this elected crowd, since you fuckers DON'T KNOW HOW TO VOTE and as such skew the results!!!!
Gary
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And what a boring world that would be!
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In a democracy perhaps - but democracy sucks.
But by that token windows is better. Why not run NT on the BigIron machines then? I'd personally sooner see that than linux.
- massive momentum
- probable emerging standard
- huge (unpaid by them) developer community
- existing high-quality implementation
- existing widespread hardware support
- easy to find techies who know it
- non-techies are comfortable with it
- liberal licensing
Now which of these does HURD offer?The question should be: Now which of these does linux offer?
Are you really telling me that linux offers *any* of:
- probable emerging standard (don't make me laugh - linux is anarchy - BSD is more standard since it is committe based)
- existing high-quality implementation (have you ever looked at linux code? And it changes every two minutes)
- existing widespread hardware support (DVD? Hardware RAID even?
....)
- non-techies are comfortable with it (please
...) - Liberal licencing (GPL!!!)
And as for stuff like "massive momentum", you must remember that the momentum behind linux is its use as an application not as an OS. Linux boys use linux as their primary app, not as an OS to run another app. Their app *IS* linux. It *IS* spending the whole evening downloading the latest Hungarian font patches and recompiling the kernel just so their system is "complete". Ten minutes later they're downloading the next patch that is issued, for hardware they don't haveAlso, I would guess that the boys at IBM know about the '#ifdef IBM' statement.
I too am sick to death of this shit.
Notice that you hit a nerve there, since they modded you down?
Wankers.
Gary
Go fuck yourtselves you fucking land-thieves.
You are NOT "throwing away your vote" - voting is NOT about winning, it is about being *heard*
Vote for who you want to win (even if they won't in reality). If you don't like any, vote for "None of the above" as described below
You vote to be *heard* - NOT to win!
So voting for a minority party with no chance of winning is NOT a lost vote.
DO NOT VOTE *AGAINST* CANDIDATES BY CHOOSING THE OTHER - THAT's WHY YOU ARE IN THE CURRENT MESS!!!
And you US boys don't have a 'NONE OF THE ABOVE' option (unlike, say, the UK, which although does not explicitly have one, it does count destroyed papers - so in the UK:
In the US:
-
NO VOTE == Apathy
- Vote for local candidate and no vote for president == "None of the above", since these are apprently counted.
Barring the latter option, your only other choice is to not vote and hope that politicians start asking why 75% of people didn't vote this election, and get that "None of the above" box added to the ballot paper.Roll on non-elected democracies - a random sample of people as politicans is better than this elected crowd, since you fuckers DON'T KNOW HOW TO VOTE and as such skew the results!!!!
Gary
And what a boring world that would be!
...
C'mon, mod me down, I'm not on the proxy yet
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