Palm didn't buy Be's assets in order to get into the desktop OS market. Quit whining that they won't license the BeOS already, ITS NOT WHAT THEY EVER WANTED TO DO.
I don't mean to interrrupt your thread or anything but I just had to warn you that the New York Times website requires a free registration to read their articles.
Sorry, "common sense" isn't a credible enough source. Seeing as how "common sense" usualy equates to what's obvious to one person and oblivious to another.
Yes but whats the POINT? I wanna use a computer not spend time fiddling with it. When I needed two PC's to run FreeBSD and Linux I looked all over, including the small mom and pop shops that sold AMD chips and were way cheaper than the big guys. I decided to try one, then they told me I'd have to wait 2-3 weeks for my system to be built and to arrive. Compaq was able to ship me stuff the next day.
Building your own is fun and all but I just want a minimum of fuss. Is that such a crime?
If you are going to go into "alamrist commie" mode with your "police state" comments then the least you could do is log into Slashdot so we can see your username.
Gee, my ISP requires authentication before I can get online. Is that yet another sign of our oncoming police state?
But in a few years when the Linux hype dies down completely and no one cares about it anymore and funding for the various Linux projects dies will the Linux refugees be better or worse acting then the BeOS/Amiga refugees?
I really don't know what your gripe with OS X is. First of all its not unstable, second of all hard to configure? In what way? What is it that you need to do with the OS that you find hard to configure? There's also themes for the OS to make it look like the Classic Mac OS, there's utilities to give you back the Apple Menu and the App Switcher. What exactly is the problem you have with it that made you jump from here to Windows?
The only problem with your line of reasoning is that every time someone or some company gives MS a chance to do the right thing they are always screwed over. How many times are we going to give MS just "one more chance"? Sure.NET appears to be free but how free is it if it simply locks you into one technology on one platform?
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Palm didn't buy Be's assets in order to get into the desktop OS market. Quit whining that they won't license the BeOS already, ITS NOT WHAT THEY EVER WANTED TO DO.
I don't mean to interrrupt your thread or anything but I just had to warn you that the New York Times website requires a free registration to read their articles.
Thank You -- The Management.
I think what we have here is called a "stalemate"
Sorry, "common sense" isn't a credible enough source. Seeing as how "common sense" usualy equates to what's obvious to one person and oblivious to another.
Can you provide us with a source that demands a release must have binaries?
Or just get a quiet laptop and put the noisy desktops in a closet and just ssh into them remotely. :P)
Actually that is exactly what makes a Communist country Communist. The fact that the government has to force you to live in such a system.
Yes but whats the POINT? I wanna use a computer not spend time fiddling with it. When I needed two PC's to run FreeBSD and Linux I looked all over, including the small mom and pop shops that sold AMD chips and were way cheaper than the big guys. I decided to try one, then they told me I'd have to wait 2-3 weeks for my system to be built and to arrive. Compaq was able to ship me stuff the next day.
Building your own is fun and all but I just want a minimum of fuss. Is that such a crime?
Killing innocent SUV's is obscene and vulgar. He should have gotten life in prison for that horrendous crime against humanity.
Will suburbanites EVER be safe? EVER?
Yes they are
Not only are binaries compatable between the various BSD's, but they are compatable to Linux, several corporate Unix's and Mac OS X/Darwin as well.
It would be of _great_ assistance to yourself it you educated yourself before opening your mouth.
What so we can all pay more per computer? What the fuck are you on crack or something?
Shut the fuck up and get over yourself! Its just a stupid weblog site.
If you are going to go into "alamrist commie" mode with your "police state" comments then the least you could do is log into Slashdot so we can see your username.
Gee, my ISP requires authentication before I can get online. Is that yet another sign of our oncoming police state?
Sorry you'll have to find another cop out to use. Mandrake is a perfectly fine distro for running a server on.
The problem is with the 2.4.x kernel, not the distros.
.....use FreeBSD
Shut up Mentat :P
What are they supposed to see it as? An Institute of Higher learning perhaps? Hah!
Geeks are techies
Novelists are litterati
Lets keep it simple
So you "frown" huh?
Would you also "frown" if you were the one who had to pay for all this bandwidth usage?
I bet you would.
"You know, there's a power source in between chemical rockets and total annihilation."
Hahahahhah. Thats the funniest thing I've heard all day.
Yes apache is only good for serving static pages. Obviously it cannot and is not used for anything else.
You sir are a moron.
But in a few years when the Linux hype dies down completely and no one cares about it anymore and funding for the various Linux projects dies will the Linux refugees be better or worse acting then the BeOS/Amiga refugees?
I really don't know what your gripe with OS X is. First of all its not unstable, second of all hard to configure? In what way? What is it that you need to do with the OS that you find hard to configure? There's also themes for the OS to make it look like the Classic Mac OS, there's utilities to give you back the Apple Menu and the App Switcher. What exactly is the problem you have with it that made you jump from here to Windows?
The only problem with your line of reasoning is that every time someone or some company gives MS a chance to do the right thing they are always screwed over. How many times are we going to give MS just "one more chance"? Sure .NET appears to be free but how free is it if it simply locks you into one technology on one platform?