Linux is free, but it hasn't been a deliverable. Red Hat, Suse and other distributors have given Linux "OS packages" away at times, but overall, Linux remains "come and get what we have"... and this is not what Apple and MS have been doing.
To non-technical users, there's a world of difference.
Did it ever occur to you that when someone is coding a virus, they'd prefer it to be effective and therefore write it to take advantage of the fact that most of the known planet uses a particular type of e-mail client?
Yes, it did. It also occurred to me that such a person might be as lazy as the rest of us and find such an easy target irresistable.
No way. The Linux version of Outlook absolutely sucked. I deleted it.
Joking aside, what is it about Outlook that so great? I've used everything you named except Opera and I don't understand your hardon for Outlook.
You might not be an idiot, but many Windows users are (apparently).
My point is that GOOD software doesn't support viruses from the get-go. Outlook is, at the most fundemental levels, designed to support virus propagation.
I imagine virus authors lick their chops at the very thought of Outlook, "The job's half done!"
Here, let's try this out... "Mozilla? The job's half done!"
Well, since I spent the last 7 months travelling, I use a web mail, and I chose Hotmail. Outlook and Outlook express can handle hotmail. Can anyone else?
Interesting. I have a filter set up in Evolution to move hotmail messages to a "Spam" folder.
Must be you -- I looked the screenshots over and like them a lot.
There are a lot of people out there who want to skin everything, love transparent windows and LSD-inspired color combinations, and teeny screen characters only 4-pixels high (XMMS). Well, I'm not one of them.
Amen to that. You'll notice that they give high marks to the WD800BB (7200RPM, 80GB, 2MB cache). I bought this drive last March, and it served me well: fast and reasonably quiet. However, in July, it died. Corrupted boot sector, various bad sectors, etc.
I've owned this drive, running continuously for a year, without any problems at all.
I've had the 8MB cache version now almost since they came out, without any problems at all.
For what it's worth, American's are number one in a lot of things.
Me thinks my compatriot pressed one of your insecurity buttons.
You realize, don't you, that when you (non-Americans) start preaching you merely come off sounding like jealous little children?
You may be right on many of your points, but you can't seriously think that you are impressing anyone but yourself when you become unbalanced in a public forum. I believe that the newsgroups are the traditional venues for this type of thing.
Frankly, unless you've immersed yourself in our culture and learned to appreciate its shortcomings and strengths and unless we immersed ourselves in your culture and became familiar with its strengths and weaknesses, most anything either of us say amounts to nothing more than boosterism.
--Richard
PS: This Friday night, I'm going to attend a football game for my son's high school. I'm sure that there's something that you do that's similarly pleasurable.
PPS: I don't think the UN knows anything about my son's high school football games.
Marketing organizations like this one, Gartner, et al, are brain damaged. They use poor methodologies and frequently draw almost comical conclusions from their lazy research.
Don't be duped.
Example: Software Sales.
Go into the software section of a typical computer store and grab a software title: Zaboomafu, a kid's title, or maybe a game like You Don't Know Jack.
Both games come one a hybrid CD, meaning that the CD contains versions for Windows and the Mac OS -- on the same disk. But when your purchase is recorded, it is classified as a Windows software sale, not a Macintosh software purchase.
Bogus.
Another example... consider the figures that these shithead research companies quote on Linux deployment... They're based on sales.
Linux Sales != Linux Deployment
...and they don't know the difference!
So, file this lazy-ass info into the shitcan where it belongs.
You refer to "standard(s)" and "defacto standard(s)"...
You're sending mixed messages.
Also, as I'm sure everyone is aware, "official" standards, if there really is such a thing, are set before implementation as well as after implementation.
Lots of standards have been defined and then ignored. Lots of defacto standards have been blessed only after embarrassing passages of time.
You just pissed off a whole bunch of slash dotters by saying "like the vast majority of people out there (who don't read slashdot and never have heard of Ogg)...."
This is not the place to express your opinion unless you actually enjoy reading the work "fuck" or some variation of it used in a reference to you or your name.
As an independent thinker posting on this site, you'd better keep your posts lock-step with those of all the other independent thinkers here!
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Yes, I'm sure that it WAS, but you just hexed yourself.
Might as well start shopping now!
Linux is free, but it hasn't been a deliverable. Red Hat, Suse and other distributors have given Linux "OS packages" away at times, but overall, Linux remains "come and get what we have"... and this is not what Apple and MS have been doing.
To non-technical users, there's a world of difference.
--Richard
When I first heard of the movie iBrother, I thought that they were going to spoof the one, original iBrother, the late Rodney O'Lain.
I guess if they're going to use his moniker, there still might be a chance that they will dedicate the film to him. It would be super appropriate.
--Richard
It doesn't matter, people who don't like Apple's attitude can just switch to alternative suppliers of Macintoshes and buy OS X from someone else.
Or just steal their OS like Windows users do.
Did it ever occur to you that when someone is coding a virus, they'd prefer it to be effective and therefore write it to take advantage of the fact that most of the known planet uses a particular type of e-mail client?
Yes, it did. It also occurred to me that such a person might be as lazy as the rest of us and find such an easy target irresistable.
No way. The Linux version of Outlook absolutely sucked. I deleted it.
Joking aside, what is it about Outlook that so great? I've used everything you named except Opera and I don't understand your hardon for Outlook.
You might not be an idiot, but many Windows users are (apparently).
My point is that GOOD software doesn't support viruses from the get-go. Outlook is, at the most fundemental levels, designed to support virus propagation.
I imagine virus authors lick their chops at the very thought of Outlook, "The job's half done!"
Here, let's try this out... "Mozilla? The job's half done!"
As you can see, that didn't work at all.
My son once ate cow tongue for two dollars.
That's why Evolution blatantly ripped off the Outlook interface, right?
What's the interface got to do with anything?
Look a little deeper... I use Evolution and I'm not worried about your viruses.
Well, since I spent the last 7 months travelling, I use a web mail, and I chose Hotmail. Outlook and Outlook express can handle hotmail. Can anyone else?
Interesting. I have a filter set up in Evolution to move hotmail messages to a "Spam" folder.
The saddest thing in my mind is that Chris apparently feels that he deserves his punishment.
Maybe you could learn something from this guy. I know he's thought about this whole thing a lot more than you have.
...now slashdotted.
I'm really surprised that no one mentioned the Microsoft tax on this computer.
At last! An xmms skin that is actually legible!
I, too, thought it would never happen.
--Richard
Must be you -- I looked the screenshots over and like them a lot.
There are a lot of people out there who want to skin everything, love transparent windows and LSD-inspired color combinations, and teeny screen characters only 4-pixels high (XMMS). Well, I'm not one of them.
I USE my computer.
--Richard
I've had the 8MB cache version now almost since they came out, without any problems at all.
I must be doing something wrong.
So, is this a good time to ask whether floppy disk drives are worth having?
And wake me up when I can run OS X on my Z80.
Whoa, cowboy! You got excited, didn't you?
For what it's worth, American's are number one in a lot of things.
Me thinks my compatriot pressed one of your insecurity buttons.
You realize, don't you, that when you (non-Americans) start preaching you merely come off sounding like jealous little children?
You may be right on many of your points, but you can't seriously think that you are impressing anyone but yourself when you become unbalanced in a public forum. I believe that the newsgroups are the traditional venues for this type of thing.
Frankly, unless you've immersed yourself in our culture and learned to appreciate its shortcomings and strengths and unless we immersed ourselves in your culture and became familiar with its strengths and weaknesses, most anything either of us say amounts to nothing more than boosterism.
--Richard
PS: This Friday night, I'm going to attend
a football game for my son's high school.
I'm sure that there's something that you do
that's similarly pleasurable.
PPS: I don't think the UN knows anything
about my son's high school football games.
Slashdot won't let you type in all caps?
Awesome!
Thanks, Slashdot.
LOTS of companies manufacture CPU's without DRM
;->
IBM comes to mind
--Richard
Please, people, don't buy this crap.
Marketing organizations like this one, Gartner, et al, are brain damaged. They use poor methodologies and frequently draw almost comical conclusions from their lazy research.
Don't be duped.
Example: Software Sales.
Go into the software section of a typical computer store and grab a software title: Zaboomafu, a kid's title, or maybe a game like You Don't Know Jack.
Both games come one a hybrid CD, meaning that the CD contains versions for Windows and the Mac OS -- on the same disk. But when your purchase is recorded, it is classified as a Windows software sale, not a Macintosh software purchase.
Bogus.
Another example... consider the figures that these shithead research companies quote on Linux deployment... They're based on sales.
Linux Sales != Linux Deployment
So, file this lazy-ass info into the shitcan where it belongs.
--Richard
Almost every developer I know has at least one linux box. I can count Macintosh friends on one hand, even after OS X.
Hmmm. Almost every non-developer that I know uses Macs -- I'm the only one with a Linux box. A couple of distant relatives use Winblows.
Using your logic, I have to conclude the stats are untrustworthy and that Windows has only 20% of the market.
So much for that kind of reasoning...
--Richard
I agree with you and I don't.
You refer to "standard(s)" and "defacto standard(s)"...
You're sending mixed messages.
Also, as I'm sure everyone is aware, "official" standards, if there really is such a thing, are set before implementation as well as after implementation.
Lots of standards have been defined and then ignored. Lots of defacto standards have been blessed only after embarrassing passages of time.
Standards are over-rated.
Talk about a social faux pas!
You just pissed off a whole bunch of slash dotters by saying "like the vast majority of people out there (who don't read slashdot and never have heard of Ogg)...."
This is not the place to express your opinion unless you actually enjoy reading the work "fuck" or some variation of it used in a reference to you or your name.
As an independent thinker posting on this site, you'd better keep your posts lock-step with those of all the other independent thinkers here!
"Usenet has *much* better quality of music..."
How do you know this? Are you a subscriber to this new service or are you just trolling?