>> But isn't unix a server os? Isn't its main purpose to run network services and applications? I realize you can use it on the desktop, but Unix/Linux is a server OS.
Lemme see... I've got Linux in my Tivo. Hmmm. I've got Linux in my Playstation 2. I've got Mac desktop and laptop computers running Unix (so do both my kids).
> There's really nothing compelling on the radio any more.
Compelling? That's big word. Obviously you don't listen to KUT in Austin, Texas. The DJ's know music, design their own playlists, an so forth. Several times a week (Friday, at least) they broadcast live performances of excellent quality from a real on-site studio.
When compiling doesn't work, you get to have a NEW hobby. Oh what fun.
I've never tried to compile Gaim source, but while you're criticizing this guy, do you butcher your own cows to make your hamburgers? Do you shuck your own corn?
Mac users have a little different expectation on fit and finish than some other computer users so why don't you stop crying.
"Both AMD and Intel have an R&D budget that dwarfs the annual revenue stream of Transmeta. It has had several years of losses [smartmoney.com] and will likely head into bankruptcy by the end of next year."
Intel and AMD stockholders must be wondering what the fuck their company's have been blowing their R&D budgets on.
Smaller companies are almost always way more productive with a buck than big companies. That's why I would withhold publishing their obituary if I were you.
Remember, Apple has been going out of business every year for two decades.
Anything that can be done to excise politcal diatribes from technical discussions is fine by me.
It had gotten to the point where I avoided even looking at some Slashdot topics I suspected might lend themselves to degrading into political rants. That sorely broke my heart.
I'm glad you guys are helping out. I know that there are no promises but I'm happy that, at least, my chances of reading about Bill Clinton's use of cigars while learning about a new ReiserFS enhancement or George Bush's "lies, lies, lies" while hearing feedback about a Linux roll-out somewhere are reduced.
You can make that political forum lean as far left or as far right as you like because there's no damn way I'm going to even take a peek.
--Richard
PS: Yeah, I know that technology is intertwined with politics but you know what I mean. Less is better and you just do what you can.
> And just WHY should CNN, or any other news service, "push" one > product over another? What possible interest could they have?
Rhetorical questions, both. Historically, the media frequently takes positions on all sorts of things. Your questions imply that they don't.
While I share you enthusiasm for a grassroots process of replacing bad software with good software, historically, the evidence that suggests that this might actually happen is pretty poor.
Almost every non-technical person that I've met doesn't care about any of this stuff. In fact, if they did not suffer from viruses and pop-ups and spam and trojans, they would worry that something is actually wrong with their computer.
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>> But isn't unix a server os? Isn't its main purpose to run network services and applications? I realize you can use it on the desktop, but Unix/Linux is a server OS.
Lemme see... I've got Linux in my Tivo. Hmmm. I've got Linux in my Playstation 2. I've got Mac desktop and laptop computers running Unix (so do both my kids).
You can't delete a posting on Slashdot.
Okay, I read the web page you linked to.
#1. The size of an HTML email versus plaintext is irrelevent now. You want to crusade? Crusade against spam.
#2. Get rid of Outlook, which is the first tool in any virus writer's toolbelt, and most of the other objections go away.
#3. Yes, HTML sucks on listservers. That's a real problem for about 0.017% of the general population.
Put it to bed.
--Richard
> The average Joe does want to learn.
Maybe, but the average Shirley doesn't want to learn. Neither does the average Andrew or Amanda.
And I just checked... The average Sasha definitely doesn't want to learn.
If more young parents start naming their newborns "Joe" the whole world would be better off.
--Richard
> 30 would be enough in that case,
> assuming they are sampling the right target.
Sure, depending on how they pick'em. You have a lot more faith than most people in miniscule sample sets.
--Richard
> There's really nothing compelling on the radio any more.
Compelling? That's big word. Obviously you don't listen to KUT in Austin, Texas. The DJ's know music, design their own playlists, an so forth. Several times a week (Friday, at least) they broadcast live performances of excellent quality from a real on-site studio.
You're listening to the wrong shit.
--Richard
Be careful with how far you extend that metaphor.
I have a Cadillac and fucking thing always has something wrong with it. My brother has a Cadillac and something's always wrong with it too.
Oh, broken headlight? "That's $240 plus taxes."
We hate our Cadillacs.
> Compiling isn't that hard.
Yeah, you're right... when it freaking works.
When compiling doesn't work, you get to have a NEW hobby. Oh what fun.
I've never tried to compile Gaim source, but while you're criticizing this guy, do you butcher your own cows to make your hamburgers? Do you shuck your own corn?
Mac users have a little different expectation on fit and finish than some other computer users so why don't you stop crying.
> Should I prefer it to Fire?
Dunno. Maybe it doesn't crash as much.
--Richard
"...power usage on current mainstream CPUs is out of control."
Amen.
"Both AMD and Intel have an R&D budget that dwarfs the annual revenue stream of Transmeta. It has had several years of losses [smartmoney.com] and will likely head into bankruptcy by the end of next year."
Intel and AMD stockholders must be wondering what the fuck their company's have been blowing their R&D budgets on.
Smaller companies are almost always way more productive with a buck than big companies. That's why I would withhold publishing their obituary if I were you.
Remember, Apple has been going out of business every year for two decades.
--Richard
Anything that can be done to excise politcal diatribes from technical discussions is fine by me.
It had gotten to the point where I avoided even looking at some Slashdot topics I suspected might lend themselves to degrading into political rants. That sorely broke my heart.
I'm glad you guys are helping out. I know that there are no promises but I'm happy that, at least, my chances of reading about Bill Clinton's use of cigars while learning about a new ReiserFS enhancement or George Bush's "lies, lies, lies" while hearing feedback about a Linux roll-out somewhere are reduced.
You can make that political forum lean as far left or as far right as you like because there's no damn way I'm going to even take a peek.
--Richard
PS: Yeah, I know that technology is
intertwined with politics but you
know what I mean. Less is better and
you just do what you can.
Yeah, I was pretty relieved when he got bored with Apple. He's just a button pusher.
--Richard
"One thing that Microsoft Word continues to have are some features very useful for the average user."
You've got to be joking. A grammar checker? Anyone else here just dying for a grammar checker?
The one feature that MS Word has that matters heads and shoulders over all others is.... almost perfect Word file format compatibility.
--Richard
I've been doing work recently for a startup company that uses VOIP and the quality doesn't suck at all. Maybe not all VOIP is the same.
--Richard
"Off-topic, and unimportant, but that Apple description reads like one of those old 80's advertisements where they dream up scenarios for you."
Like "us a mouse instead of keyboard to control your computer"?
--Richard
Survey companies are incapable of measuring something like Open Source activity. They don't even really try.
There's nothing in it for them.
--Richard
"If Windows is really so bad as many people claim, why does it have so many users?"
Your instincts are sound -- your question is very, very close to being flaimbait.
I'll answer your question by way of analogy: If AIDS is so bad, then why do so many people have it?
See? Quantity is not necessarily related to some sort of positive virtue.
--Richard
"5 minutes of adverts in an hour is just not funny."
I read last year that the US major networks average 20-MINUTES of advertisements per hour, not just 15.
I love me Tivo.
--Richard
You have to wonder about a guy that thinks $50 is a lot of money.
--Richard
> And just WHY should CNN, or any other news service, "push" one
> product over another? What possible interest could they have?
Rhetorical questions, both. Historically, the media frequently takes positions on all sorts of things. Your questions imply that they don't.
While I share you enthusiasm for a grassroots process of replacing bad software with good software, historically, the evidence that suggests that this might actually happen is pretty poor.
Almost every non-technical person that I've met doesn't care about any of this stuff. In fact, if they did not suffer from viruses and pop-ups and spam and trojans, they would worry that something is actually wrong with their computer.
--Richard
What keeps me off Windows? Well, I use a Mac running OS X for my desktop use.
I run Linux for my server OS.
I think that probably says it all.
--Richard
"So unless you're just another ignorant Apple fanboy..."
Aaaaaaaaaah!
Aaaaaaah! Aaaaaaargh!
Ouch!
I'm an ignorant Apple fanboy and I'm disappointed to see you use my label so carelessly. You're just speculating.
--Richard
"Never heard of it"
It's never heard of you, either.
"...there is very little interpersonal dialogue or human interaction."
That's kinda the point.
Yes, American Graffiti is just like THX 1138 only better. By all mean, rent American Graffiti.
--Richard
Next time rent Porkys. You'll like it more.
--Richard