That's their problem not yours if you or the establishment is using the device responsibly. For exampe in the movie theather their should be a big sign outside saying cellphones are not allowed. You want to go to the movies? Leave your cellphone at home. Expecting an emergency call that could get you fired/dumped/etc? DON'T GO TO THE MOVIES.
"Regardless of how rude it is for people to be talking on cell phones anywhere and everywhere, you have no right to decide for yourself, "They shouldn't be talking, so I'll stop them.""
I agree in most places you just have to live with it. At the same time in places like Movies, Hospitals, Library's, Elevators I consider it your right to terminate their call. The cell phone users aren't considering your rights, why consider theirs?
I was just going to post about this. I've had OOL for a while now and they way they've drastically raised the rate of Cable Internet access over the past few years is sickening. I've hung on so long because 10MB/1MB is nothing to sneeze at, and obviously it used to be a good deal. If it goes up once more I'll be forced to go back to DSL. I know most people can't relate, but once you have 10MB service going to 1.5MB ala verizon etc is really painful. I'm sure someone out there will say "I'd kill for that", yea well its all relative. Too bad Cablevision has a monopoly in cable because if they didn't they sure wouldn't be able to get awaw with what they've done to their Cable Internet customers.
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According to them they are not responsible for the actual products they sell. Boy, long way we've come since store owners actually stood behind the products they sold.
From their FAQ:
"What about restocking fees? How much? When? Why?
There is a restocking fee of 15% on all returns for refund, unless waived by our Customer Support Agent. Newegg is not responsible for manufacturer defects. We are not manufacturers. We are willing to replace a defective item. If a refund is requested instead of a replacement we will charge a 15% restocking fee. Why? Claiming "defective" is the easy way out of a restocking fee just because you don't want the item. If it's defective we will replace it (rma type repair)."
Total horsecrap that they make you a deviant just for buying from them. That whole thing at the end where they say you would just be "claiming" defective is fucking bullshit. You should be able to return a defective product for a return from anywhere. If its defective then you should be able to escape the sales contract completely. Newegg tacking on a 15% fee is beyond wrong. I guarantee they make a mint screwing customers like that.
So if your buying from newegg.com be warned. If you realize that the product you bought is not only defective but subpar in general be prepared to bend over. I dont support them anymore and neither should you. It's bad enough being nailed for return shipping on a defective product, read the policies carefully so stores like Newegg don't rape you on restocking fees as well.
Get off your high horse. There are plently of things to complain about her reviewing style as noted by some of the people who replied to you.
You'll excuse us if were more than a little bored with the twenty Linux distro reviews that OSNews.com puts out every week. The nit picking and subjective harping on things that many times won't even effect many users gets old real quick.
"ELQ might not be my favorite reviewer but one thing she does, and does well, is find any and all flaws in an OS."
Great. Wake me up when EVER SINGLE review stops being the same whine-fest. Just FYI there are more interesting things to hear about Linux distros then paragraph after paragraph about how a NIC didn't work. Or maybe for some odd reason you like hearing someone droning on about perceived UI issues as compared to Beos/OSX constantly?
We don't want hear glowing reviews, we just want to stop hearing the same review with only the Title switched five times a week. Maybe that means that Linux distros aren't changing enough or just maybe that means OSNews should stop visiting the same subject matter ad nauseum.
Business cards are like $50 for 500. If you don't have $50 to spend its doubtful your business is going to go far in the first place. It's important for a startup to at least look somewhat professional. Also since startups start with a single person or a few people someone needs to be meeting and greeting so business cards are a must IMO. I agree that maybe in your case if your a programmer or something and never meet people it may not be needed, but I think for most people its a good idea if its a small startup. Even if your not of the meet and greet type job role, you never know when business could come up outside of work at a ballgame or something. This is coming for someone who did startup a business and while meeting people was always asked for a business card. YMMV.
Considering how long distros like Knoppix have been around this product is hardly pioneering, but may be useful for Mandrake users who don't want to use any other distro.
If you want to check out a neat Knoppix based distro that's only 50MB check out, Dam Small Linux. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
It obviously doesn't have the same amount of apps that Knoppix has, but for checking out linux, surfing the web, using IRC, and doing some light office editting its pretty cool. It also unlike Knoppix and I'm sure Mandrake will run on a 486 with 16MM ram. So if you bored or on dialup check out Dam Small Linux.
He sure was dead on about the future. Quote Below:
They call us pirates and worse. They lock up their programs behind hardware and software schemes. They set the minions of the law upon us. And still we flourish by our wiles.
Ahoy, ye microlubbers: to pirate a program is not to steal, but to liberate knowledge. We don't take money or goods from anyone; we merely free up information. Most of us don't profit from our buccaneering activities; instead, we share the wealth with our fellow computer users.
The software moguls have only themselves to blame for our cracking open the bars to their programs. If they didn't charge a king's ransom for disks that cost a pittance to duplicate, there would be little incentive for us to practice our skills. There would be no need for them to protect their programs if software were no more expensive than what you and I can afford to pay.
We are no longer in the Dark Ages of personal software, when so few people used computers that program development costs had to be defrayed by high unit prices. Now so many microcomputers are in use that a program should cost no more than a lightweight paperback novel. Instead, we are paying illuminated manuscript prices.
Maybe someday the software publishers will understand how they're killing off the golden goose. But until that time, be warned: there will be many a pirate's flag on the software horizon.
But NTSC is fine for most people. I've seen some real high-end setups and fact of the matter is I just don't miss it except for movies. The content most people watch just doesn't need to be in super High Def the majority of the time. Take gaming for example. Call of Duty needs at least 1024x768 to really be appreciated while Elf Bowling is fine at 640x480. It all comes down to the content. Most content people view is of the "Elf Bolwing" variety and people simply are not willing to pay thousands of dollars for a system that is only really needed for a small amount of the things they watch. So to go back to your other statement, yes they actually don't care about image quality for the most part. The tradeoff from a financial point of view(ie the only view that matters) just isn't worth it.
Nope, why should they do that when they can just go on bashing the company that has done more for linux than any other one? Many linux users, I'll just call them morons, have had a hatred for RedHat ever since they became the leading Linux distributor back in the mid 90's. Its the whole minority is "better" mindset. Hence the average Gentoo user who by being so out of touch with the average Linux user feels that same hatred towards the leading distro. RedHat bashing won't stop until they are a has-been minority distro. Then it will be cool again.
This is SO much better than anything I've seen in a long time on OSNews. After seeing "review" after review of what writers do and don't like about every distribution its really nice to see something on such a wide variety of important topics. It's also nice because its just not one person droning on subjectively. Really a nice article and doesn't make me think the site should have been named OSOpinions.com. More factual technology articles and less opinionated ones are the way to go.
Better than another stupid IPod or SCO article. Plus now is the time for the general public to start using and testing the pre-2.6 builds as we are close to 2.6 final. So yes this is newsworthy and important if your at all intertested in a stable 2.6 which most of us are.
"I'm just amazed that they are able to achieve what they do, and that the quality of the release is so much higher than that of thier comercial competitors."
That's where I disagree. Besides Mandrake I just don't think the quality is that much higher, if at all compared to other distros. I also think when you weigh in ease of use and well designed management and setup tools Debian comes up severly lacking.
I know this is the "let's kiss Debian's butt thread", but really I'm not nor have I ever been very impressed with Debian. I do however think from an ideological standpoint Debian is very important. It will remain a generation behind though. By the time Sarge comes out we will all be on kernel 2.6 and Gnome 2.6. Some people thinks that a good thing. I however don't and I don't recommend running the non-stable versions either. Debian may be good to have around, but other distros have passed it in the areas that matter to most people and that's not going to be changing anytime soon. My 2 cents.
So how does this help Joe User running the average Linksys WAP/Router? They are supposed to build a Linux Firewall box put their WAP outside of that and then figure out how to configure IPTables and VPN? Sounds fine for a corporate network, but this is way above 99.5% of home users heads and isn't even a project most technically inclined people would take on.
I think its healthy to question it, but my advice to you is get on the Fedora mailing list and explain you concerns. Like I said your not the only person in this situation. Talk to the others and see what's going on.
Also and I can't find the link right no, but there is a company that for reasonable pricing is going to be providing updates for 6.2 till 9. If I can find the name I'll post back, but ask around.
Here is the list address http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fe dora-lega cy-list
and the annoucement http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora -devel-list/2 003-September/msg00287.html
As everyone else pointed out nobody is forcing you to use Fedora. And if you do, nobody if forcing you to report bugs. So what's the problem again? Oh I get it. Red Hat is giving away a free distro for anyone to use as they see fit, but that's not enough for you. You want to be paid for using it. Sorry, not gonna happen.
According to your logic everyone who reports bugs for ANY distro deserves to be paid for it, or else they are "just working for free".
"I guess what I'm saying is that I don't want to develop for free"
Are you new to this whole Free Software thing? Because it sounds like it. If your into the "pay me for my work or screw off" thing you'd be better off sticking to proprietary commercial software. And if you going to develop OSS then it better be Dam good. Because if it isn't your sure not going to make any money on it.
"Users continuing with RHL9 past the end of its maintenance window will be interested in the Fedora Legacy Project, a community-driven continuation of updates for RHL9 and RHL7.3."
Based on the talent involved with the Fedora project I see no reason as to why updates won't work well and in a timely manner. To doubt that is to cast doubt on every single other community Linux project such as Debian, Slackware, Gentoo et al. Ther are a lot of users in your particular situation. Nobody has a desire to make things more confusing. I'm absolutely positive that by the time official support ends next year that a great replacement will be up and running for the countless Red Hat users out there. Red Hat 7.x through 9 is likely to be supported for years to come. So no, hopefully tarballs won't be in your future.
"Why does anyone still on Windows have to be pestered by a swarm of open source gnats about their choice of OS?"
Because we as a nation foot the bill for MS products in one way or another. I nor any other opensource user really cares if you use Windows or not. It is however the duty of all opensource evangelists to pester Schools and Universities to support Free and Open Software when they are an option. For example if the local school is spending X amount of dollars on MS Office just so students can learn basic Office skills and do their homework, then something is wrong with the picture. Anytime out taxes enter the equation its ethically and financially wrong not to look into Free alternatives.
So basically yes people should not be bothering you personally because you use Windows, but Schools, Universities, and Government agencies who are not familiar with Free OpenSource apps should be beaten over the head till they understand that there are vialbe alternatives. If Microsoft happens to get booted from our educational system in the process, oh well.
First off they are not actually selling to the desktop user since its free. Second, its not really meant for business use, so there goes your second point. Lastly everyone who has ever even heard of Linux knows about RedHat. Thus when they come across Fedora the first thought that comes to mind is that this is a RedHat product. That in itself is going to determine whether they try the product, not the actual name of the product.
Just because you personally think its bad name doesn't really matter much in the end now does it? I could go on and on about how dumb names like Suse, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, and Slackware sound at first, but what's the freaking point? A name is a name is a name. Judge the product on how useful it is, not because you have some sort of bias against certain words.
"MS also has many, many manufacturers tripping all over themselves building and testing hardware drivers for their products."
I think most people have no idea how opposite the situation for Linux has always been. The fact that Linux works so well with most modern hardware is amazing to say the least. Linux driver gurus have had to reverse engineer, search hard and long for specs, and beg hardware makers for bits and scraps for information. A few companies give enough info to make a proper driver, a few more provide binary drivers. Most are content to say "go away". Imagine if Linux enjoyed the same hardware support that Windows gets?
Then some kid comes on here and posts how Linux sucks because X piece of hardware wasn't autodected upon install. That's when I just shake my head.
I wonder what percentage of the US will still be on dialup in 2010? Probably 30-40%. Bet AOL and Earthlink will cost like $45 a month for 56k by then. And God help me if I'm still posting on Slashdot in 2010.
"IBM is the master of creating an illusion that they're being attacked by this big brutal bully SCO when they're the ones attacking us. They're the ones doing all the behind-the-scenes work."
Yea. That's it. SCO isn't the one suing everyone causing problems and making shit up. It's IBM. Yea, That's the ticket!
No, the insurance system is so screwed up because of the Insurance companies. They are the evil ones. They leave here because they can't force damage limits on victims. Is for example a million dollars enough in the way of damages when you require that much in sugery to fix you after and accident? How about how much pain and suffering you have to endure the rest of your life? Insurance companies are the ones in the wrong here in NJ. They are the ones who cry foul every time they have to make any payout. I'd love to post some of the dirty tricks they've used in past cases I'm familiar with, but I'm simply not allowed to.
Regardless of whatever bias you have against The Trial Lawyers, they are on the right and moral side in this case. For every big case you hear about where some lawyer get some huge settlement, there are a thousand others where people are getting screwed by Insurance companies.
Of course feel free to believe whatever the heck you want. Afterall Insurance companies have such stellar record when it comes to acting ethical, how could they possibly be in wrong?
This is so true. Best Buy is King of never having items in stock you want to buy. They are also the best at screwing people out of rebates. On two occasions even though I included the receipt, the actual UPC seal etc, they have flat out lied and said something was wrong and they couldn't issue the rebate. What am I going to do? Sue them over a $20 rebate? Bunch of mother fuckers they are. I think its bestbuysucks.com that's a great place to go to read about how shitty a company they are. So many people have been screwed by them its just not funny. Amazingly the employees feel the exact same way. If you've ever wondered why the 4 guys in blue shirts run away when ever you walk up to ask a simple questionn its because they hate their job, their manager, and especially customers. Bad Karma at that place.
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That's their problem not yours if you or the establishment is using the device responsibly. For exampe in the movie theather their should be a big sign outside saying cellphones are not allowed. You want to go to the movies? Leave your cellphone at home. Expecting an emergency call that could get you fired/dumped/etc? DON'T GO TO THE MOVIES.
"Regardless of how rude it is for people to be talking on cell phones anywhere and everywhere, you have no right to decide for yourself, "They shouldn't be talking, so I'll stop them.""
I agree in most places you just have to live with it. At the same time in places like Movies, Hospitals, Library's, Elevators I consider it your right to terminate their call. The cell phone users aren't considering your rights, why consider theirs?
I was just going to post about this. I've had OOL for a while now and they way they've drastically raised the rate of Cable Internet access over the past few years is sickening. I've hung on so long because 10MB/1MB is nothing to sneeze at, and obviously it used to be a good deal. If it goes up once more I'll be forced to go back to DSL. I know most people can't relate, but once you have 10MB service going to 1.5MB ala verizon etc is really painful. I'm sure someone out there will say "I'd kill for that", yea well its all relative. Too bad Cablevision has a monopoly in cable because if they didn't they sure wouldn't be able to get awaw with what they've done to their Cable Internet customers.
According to them they are not responsible for the actual products they sell. Boy, long way we've come since store owners actually stood behind the products they sold.
From their FAQ:
"What about restocking fees? How much? When? Why?
There is a restocking fee of 15% on all returns for refund, unless waived by our Customer Support Agent. Newegg is not responsible for manufacturer defects. We are not manufacturers. We are willing to replace a defective item. If a refund is requested instead of a replacement we will charge a 15% restocking fee. Why? Claiming "defective" is the easy way out of a restocking fee just because you don't want the item. If it's defective we will replace it (rma type repair)."
Total horsecrap that they make you a deviant just for buying from them. That whole thing at the end where they say you would just be "claiming" defective is fucking bullshit. You should be able to return a defective product for a return from anywhere. If its defective then you should be able to escape the sales contract completely. Newegg tacking on a 15% fee is beyond wrong. I guarantee they make a mint screwing customers like that.
So if your buying from newegg.com be warned. If you realize that the product you bought is not only defective but subpar in general be prepared to bend over. I dont support them anymore and neither should you. It's bad enough being nailed for return shipping on a defective product, read the policies carefully so stores like Newegg don't rape you on restocking fees as well.
Get off your high horse. There are plently of things to complain about her reviewing style as noted by some of the people who replied to you.
You'll excuse us if were more than a little bored with the twenty Linux distro reviews that OSNews.com puts out every week. The nit picking and subjective harping on things that many times won't even effect many users gets old real quick.
"ELQ might not be my favorite reviewer but one thing she does, and does well, is find any and all flaws in an OS."
Great. Wake me up when EVER SINGLE review stops being the same whine-fest. Just FYI there are more interesting things to hear about Linux distros then paragraph after paragraph about how a NIC didn't work. Or maybe for some odd reason you like hearing someone droning on about perceived UI issues as compared to Beos/OSX constantly?
We don't want hear glowing reviews, we just want to stop hearing the same review with only the Title switched five times a week. Maybe that means that Linux distros aren't changing enough or just maybe that means OSNews should stop visiting the same subject matter ad nauseum.
Business cards are like $50 for 500. If you don't have $50 to spend its doubtful your business is going to go far in the first place. It's important for a startup to at least look somewhat professional. Also since startups start with a single person or a few people someone needs to be meeting and greeting so business cards are a must IMO. I agree that maybe in your case if your a programmer or something and never meet people it may not be needed, but I think for most people its a good idea if its a small startup. Even if your not of the meet and greet type job role, you never know when business could come up outside of work at a ballgame or something. This is coming for someone who did startup a business and while meeting people was always asked for a business card. YMMV.
Considering how long distros like Knoppix have been around this product is hardly pioneering, but may be useful for Mandrake users who don't want to use any other distro.
If you want to check out a neat Knoppix based distro that's only 50MB check out, Dam Small Linux.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
It obviously doesn't have the same amount of apps that Knoppix has, but for checking out linux, surfing the web, using IRC, and doing some light office editting its pretty cool. It also unlike Knoppix and I'm sure Mandrake will run on a 486 with 16MM ram. So if you bored or on dialup check out Dam Small Linux.
nt, but if you mods can't figure why this is a total troll you need to have you points taken away.
He sure was dead on about the future. Quote Below:
They call us pirates and worse. They lock up their programs behind hardware and software schemes. They set the minions of the law upon us. And still we flourish by our wiles.
Ahoy, ye microlubbers: to pirate a program is not to steal, but to liberate knowledge. We don't take money or goods from anyone; we merely free up information. Most of us don't profit from our buccaneering activities; instead, we share the wealth with our fellow computer users.
The software moguls have only themselves to blame for our cracking open the bars to their programs. If they didn't charge a king's ransom for disks that cost a pittance to duplicate, there would be little incentive for us to practice our skills. There would be no need for them to protect their programs if software were no more expensive than what you and I can afford to pay.
We are no longer in the Dark Ages of personal software, when so few people used computers that program development costs had to be defrayed by high unit prices. Now so many microcomputers are in use that a program should cost no more than a lightweight paperback novel. Instead, we are paying illuminated manuscript prices.
Maybe someday the software publishers will understand how they're killing off the golden goose. But until that time, be warned: there will be many a pirate's flag on the software horizon.
JOLLY ROGER
But NTSC is fine for most people. I've seen some real high-end setups and fact of the matter is I just don't miss it except for movies. The content most people watch just doesn't need to be in super High Def the majority of the time. Take gaming for example. Call of Duty needs at least 1024x768 to really be appreciated while Elf Bowling is fine at 640x480. It all comes down to the content. Most content people view is of the "Elf Bolwing" variety and people simply are not willing to pay thousands of dollars for a system that is only really needed for a small amount of the things they watch. So to go back to your other statement, yes they actually don't care about image quality for the most part. The tradeoff from a financial point of view(ie the only view that matters) just isn't worth it.
Nope, why should they do that when they can just go on bashing the company that has done more for linux than any other one? Many linux users, I'll just call them morons, have had a hatred for RedHat ever since they became the leading Linux distributor back in the mid 90's. Its the whole minority is "better" mindset. Hence the average Gentoo user who by being so out of touch with the average Linux user feels that same hatred towards the leading distro. RedHat bashing won't stop until they are a has-been minority distro. Then it will be cool again.
btw in case anyone asks, yes I did post the same thing on OSNews. Hopefully they take it to heart.
This is SO much better than anything I've seen in a long time on OSNews. After seeing "review" after review of what writers do and don't like about every distribution its really nice to see something on such a wide variety of important topics. It's also nice because its just not one person droning on subjectively. Really a nice article and doesn't make me think the site should have been named OSOpinions.com. More factual technology articles and less opinionated ones are the way to go.
Better than another stupid IPod or SCO article. Plus now is the time for the general public to start using and testing the pre-2.6 builds as we are close to 2.6 final. So yes this is newsworthy and important if your at all intertested in a stable 2.6 which most of us are.
"I'm just amazed that they are able to achieve what they do, and that the quality of the release is so much higher than that of thier comercial competitors."
That's where I disagree. Besides Mandrake I just don't think the quality is that much higher, if at all compared to other distros. I also think when you weigh in ease of use and well designed management and setup tools Debian comes up severly lacking.
I know this is the "let's kiss Debian's butt thread", but really I'm not nor have I ever been very impressed with Debian. I do however think from an ideological standpoint Debian is very important. It will remain a generation behind though. By the time Sarge comes out we will all be on kernel 2.6 and Gnome 2.6. Some people thinks that a good thing. I however don't and I don't recommend running the non-stable versions either. Debian may be good to have around, but other distros have passed it in the areas that matter to most people and that's not going to be changing anytime soon. My 2 cents.
So how does this help Joe User running the average Linksys WAP/Router? They are supposed to build a Linux Firewall box put their WAP outside of that and then figure out how to configure IPTables and VPN? Sounds fine for a corporate network, but this is way above 99.5% of home users heads and isn't even a project most technically inclined people would take on.
I think its healthy to question it, but my advice to you is get on the Fedora mailing list and explain you concerns. Like I said your not the only person in this situation. Talk to the others and see what's going on.
e dora-lega cy-list
a -devel-list/2 003-September/msg00287.html
Also and I can't find the link right no, but there is a company that for reasonable pricing is going to be providing updates for 6.2 till 9. If I can find the name I'll post back, but ask around.
Here is the list address
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/f
and the annoucement
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor
As everyone else pointed out nobody is forcing you to use Fedora. And if you do, nobody if forcing you to report bugs. So what's the problem again? Oh I get it. Red Hat is giving away a free distro for anyone to use as they see fit, but that's not enough for you. You want to be paid for using it. Sorry, not gonna happen.
According to your logic everyone who reports bugs for ANY distro deserves to be paid for it, or else they are "just working for free".
"I guess what I'm saying is that I don't want to develop for free"
Are you new to this whole Free Software thing? Because it sounds like it. If your into the "pay me for my work or screw off" thing you'd be better off sticking to proprietary commercial software. And if you going to develop OSS then it better be Dam good. Because if it isn't your sure not going to make any money on it.
He answered that in the first question.
"Users continuing with RHL9 past the end of its maintenance window will be interested in the Fedora Legacy Project, a community-driven continuation of updates for RHL9 and RHL7.3."
Based on the talent involved with the Fedora project I see no reason as to why updates won't work well and in a timely manner. To doubt that is to cast doubt on every single other community Linux project such as Debian, Slackware, Gentoo et al. Ther are a lot of users in your particular situation. Nobody has a desire to make things more confusing. I'm absolutely positive that by the time official support ends next year that a great replacement will be up and running for the countless Red Hat users out there. Red Hat 7.x through 9 is likely to be supported for years to come. So no, hopefully tarballs won't be in your future.
"Why does anyone still on Windows have to be pestered by a swarm of open source gnats about their choice of OS?"
Because we as a nation foot the bill for MS products in one way or another. I nor any other opensource user really cares if you use Windows or not. It is however the duty of all opensource evangelists to pester Schools and Universities to support Free and Open Software when they are an option. For example if the local school is spending X amount of dollars on MS Office just so students can learn basic Office skills and do their homework, then something is wrong with the picture. Anytime out taxes enter the equation its ethically and financially wrong not to look into Free alternatives.
So basically yes people should not be bothering you personally because you use Windows, but Schools, Universities, and Government agencies who are not familiar with Free OpenSource apps should be beaten over the head till they understand that there are vialbe alternatives. If Microsoft happens to get booted from our educational system in the process, oh well.
First off they are not actually selling to the desktop user since its free. Second, its not really meant for business use, so there goes your second point. Lastly everyone who has ever even heard of Linux knows about RedHat. Thus when they come across Fedora the first thought that comes to mind is that this is a RedHat product. That in itself is going to determine whether they try the product, not the actual name of the product.
Just because you personally think its bad name doesn't really matter much in the end now does it? I could go on and on about how dumb names like Suse, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, and Slackware sound at first, but what's the freaking point? A name is a name is a name. Judge the product on how useful it is, not because you have some sort of bias against certain words.
"MS also has many, many manufacturers tripping all over themselves building and testing hardware drivers for their products."
I think most people have no idea how opposite the situation for Linux has always been. The fact that Linux works so well with most modern hardware is amazing to say the least. Linux driver gurus have had to reverse engineer, search hard and long for specs, and beg hardware makers for bits and scraps for information. A few companies give enough info to make a proper driver, a few more provide binary drivers. Most are content to say "go away". Imagine if Linux enjoyed the same hardware support that Windows gets?
Then some kid comes on here and posts how Linux sucks because X piece of hardware wasn't autodected upon install. That's when I just shake my head.
I wonder what percentage of the US will still be on dialup in 2010? Probably 30-40%. Bet AOL and Earthlink will cost like $45 a month for 56k by then. And God help me if I'm still posting on Slashdot in 2010.
"IBM is the master of creating an illusion that they're being attacked by this big brutal bully SCO when they're the ones attacking us. They're the ones doing all the behind-the-scenes work."
Yea. That's it. SCO isn't the one suing everyone causing problems and making shit up. It's IBM. Yea, That's the ticket!
No, the insurance system is so screwed up because of the Insurance companies. They are the evil ones. They leave here because they can't force damage limits on victims. Is for example a million dollars enough in the way of damages when you require that much in sugery to fix you after and accident? How about how much pain and suffering you have to endure the rest of your life? Insurance companies are the ones in the wrong here in NJ. They are the ones who cry foul every time they have to make any payout. I'd love to post some of the dirty tricks they've used in past cases I'm familiar with, but I'm simply not allowed to.
Regardless of whatever bias you have against The Trial Lawyers, they are on the right and moral side in this case. For every big case you hear about where some lawyer get some huge settlement, there are a thousand others where people are getting screwed by Insurance companies.
Of course feel free to believe whatever the heck you want. Afterall Insurance companies have such stellar record when it comes to acting ethical, how could they possibly be in wrong?
This is so true. Best Buy is King of never having items in stock you want to buy. They are also the best at screwing people out of rebates. On two occasions even though I included the receipt, the actual UPC seal etc, they have flat out lied and said something was wrong and they couldn't issue the rebate. What am I going to do? Sue them over a $20 rebate? Bunch of mother fuckers they are. I think its bestbuysucks.com that's a great place to go to read about how shitty a company they are. So many people have been screwed by them its just not funny. Amazingly the employees feel the exact same way. If you've ever wondered why the 4 guys in blue shirts run away when ever you walk up to ask a simple questionn its because they hate their job, their manager, and especially customers. Bad Karma at that place.