You are a newbie! Linus and the other kernel toilers have for years had the attitude that making the kernel stable and secure was the job of the distributors. Saying that stability and security has been put on the back burner is being quite generous indeed.
You just re-made my point, though. No, walmart won't be beat on price simply because they'll be offering (in your words) low-end parts for super cheap. Parts that I don't see the DIY crowd bothering with. Hell anyone who wanted to save on price would probably not bother with a DIY computer and would instead either get a pre-built, or a used one (either from a shop or from someplace such as retrobox.com).
As far as I can tell, anyone who wants to build their own would probably know enough to want better parts, and also know where to get them too.
Wal-mart already offers computers without windows (with linspire, last I checked), so that's not an issue. What is an issue is that everything that wal-mart sells is on the, shall we say, low-end. I strongly doubt that Wal-mart will offer any hardware that people who are DIYers will find compelling, and if by some chance they do, the DIY crowd will probably look at other, cheaper outlets where they can get quality hardware for less than what walmart offers it (assuming, as I've said, they offer it at all).
So, the same people who consider Fox News reliable also consider the internet a reliable news source? Might not be the best group to get a representative sample from, if you ask me...
I'm sure computing folks of the 1970's said the same thing about IBM. When MS falls, they'll be replaced (my money is on google to do the replacing, but that's just me).
As they say around here, "a broken clock is right twice a day". It's already been pointed out in this thread that Dvorak wasn't exactly right on with that prediction anyway.
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You misread the GP post. The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN. The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN. The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN. The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN. The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN. Got it?!?!?!?
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You are a newbie! Linus and the other kernel toilers have for years had the attitude that making the kernel stable and secure was the job of the distributors. Saying that stability and security has been put on the back burner is being quite generous indeed.
You just re-made my point, though. No, walmart won't be beat on price simply because they'll be offering (in your words) low-end parts for super cheap. Parts that I don't see the DIY crowd bothering with. Hell anyone who wanted to save on price would probably not bother with a DIY computer and would instead either get a pre-built, or a used one (either from a shop or from someplace such as retrobox.com).
As far as I can tell, anyone who wants to build their own would probably know enough to want better parts, and also know where to get them too.
Wal-mart already offers computers without windows (with linspire, last I checked), so that's not an issue. What is an issue is that everything that wal-mart sells is on the, shall we say, low-end. I strongly doubt that Wal-mart will offer any hardware that people who are DIYers will find compelling, and if by some chance they do, the DIY crowd will probably look at other, cheaper outlets where they can get quality hardware for less than what walmart offers it (assuming, as I've said, they offer it at all).
Third! Can I get a fourth?
You mean like this, or like this, or both?
...before declaring FP.
So, the same people who consider Fox News reliable also consider the internet a reliable news source? Might not be the best group to get a representative sample from, if you ask me...
I'm sure computing folks of the 1970's said the same thing about IBM. When MS falls, they'll be replaced (my money is on google to do the replacing, but that's just me).
Nature, and Corporate Power, abhor a vacuum.
Slow down, cowboy! You forgot a couple of steps:
1)Find something better
2)Submit it
3)???
4)Rejection!
As they say around here, "a broken clock is right twice a day". It's already been pointed out in this thread that Dvorak wasn't exactly right on with that prediction anyway.
...and he almost never is.
But at least we're not revolting!
>Look, it's not exactly rocket surgery:
Are you saying you don't have to be a brain scientist to figure this out?
at least while there's IRC and allofmp3.com!
,s/update/upgrade/g
I'm using debian 3.1. Is this something I'm going to have to run dist-update for? (the 'crap' is because I'd have to update over dialup).
Would half a parenthesis be considered a word?
Haven't they finished taking out everything that makes it different from XP yet?!??!?
Editors have unlimited mod points; just FYI. It's no skin off their ass to keep this up all day.
:( Jeez louise; that'll teach me to go against the Torrent Plz crowd.
Yessir, that's a mighty Fine Pony!
Put me down as "not interested"
You misread the GP post. The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN.
The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN.
The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN.
The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN.
The man files are COMPREHENSIVE and WELL WRITTEN.
Got it?!?!?!?
It's too late. I've been told they've already had one remote hole in the default install; more are bound to pour in any day now!
>["Sony rootkit, Sony bad, Sony bad! .... PS3 .... uhhhh shinnyyy!!!"]
Yeah, fortunately slashdotters see through tha...hey, wait a minute!