for every intelligent linux user who refuses to give MS the very data it needs to attack linux, there is a gullible one who will cheerfully fill out the survey.
that's why it's the intelligent user's duty to fill out the survey in a random, but believable way.
Sun showing up with a half assed makeover of Gnome isn't going to start a revolution.
no, but providing corporate support and the tie-in to server applications, along with a simplified licensing model may at least blunt MS's dominance a bit.
Re-compiling it or re-packaging does not bring the added value you get for that 349 USD or so. This added value is the technical support - and that's a basic idea behind earning money on GPL-ed software.
ok, so where's the "technical support"?
we have a number of the $60 up2date subscriptions and have decided to take two basic RHEL subscriptions for the time being. i've posted queries a couple of times on the redhat-sponsored lists asking for help when the red hat how-to's failed me (stuff like getting ldap auth over ssl to work) and gotten zero help.
i mistakenly thought that perhaps RHEL came with some conveniences to make enterprise stuff easier to do, or at least some feedback from the lists.
that's just my take on it. i know i'm not a linux *god*, but if i were i wouldn't need tech support or convenience tools to begin with. given that userlinux and debian-enterprise profess the goal of providing turn-key simplicity for mid-level admins, i'm watching them very closely.
Cable television was supposed to be ad free, that's why the consumer would pay.
and if you look at public television (PBS), you'll see full-fledged commercials for BMW, ADM, SNET, and a whole bunch of other fuckwads polluting one of the last refuges from commercialism.
Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV?
<beavis>
YEAH YEAH DO IT - KILL IT KILL IT HEHE HEHEHE...
</beavis>
How do you know what people talked about at gay truckstops in the 1970's?
it was part of popular lore that allowing your keyring to prominently hang out of your pocket was silent signal to other homosexuals.
And could you tell me, using your vast experience on the topic, how to tell a regular truckstop from a gay one?
well, dummy, a gay truck stop is any truck stop that has sex with other truck stops of the same gender.
I prefer to not have a dick stuck through a hole in the stall wall when I'm taking a shit.
this doesn't generally happen if you don't first make suggestive eye contact with the other party through the hole first. so, if you've actually experienced this, you might start there.
the best possible outcome would have been for this to go to court, for shoddy proprietary voting systems to appear on the evening news, and for the DMCA to be publicly humiliated for the piece of shit that it is.
from the company's perspective, i'd FIRE the dimwit who championed this strategy.
the point is that the home user shouldn't have to know that supermount exists, or go to sourceforge, download and install it.
i think virtually all of the elements of a successful end-user distribution exist, it's just a matter of getting it all tied together, making sure that applications interoperate, and then TEST TEST TEST on clueless guinea pigs, and tweak accordingly.
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w3schools.com - it's douche-tastically microsoftian!
just sit down and pull your scrotum up between your legs. and it's free.
actually, that would explain a lot.
yeah, i hear ken "kenny-boy" lay has a faint fecal odor about him at all times.
that's why it's the intelligent user's duty to fill out the survey in a random, but believable way.
make their data useless in the aggregate.
metacity blows. "ease of use" and "useless, featureless piece of crap" needn't go hand in hand.
i will as soon as i can get her to drink this liter of vodka.
it was quite good until the last few minutes, when it seems pretty obvious the test audiences got hold of it.
agreed - i thought i was going to hate it, but it completely absorbed me.
some of the visuals were quite compelling.
dang, i thought i was going to be the first on Planet Geek to suggest this movie.
American Splendor
i've read some of the comics (or, if you insist, "graphic novels"), and thought they were OK, but nothing to write home about.
RFID tracking of vehicles.
no, but providing corporate support and the tie-in to server applications, along with a simplified licensing model may at least blunt MS's dominance a bit.
ok, so where's the "technical support"?
we have a number of the $60 up2date subscriptions and have decided to take two basic RHEL subscriptions for the time being. i've posted queries a couple of times on the redhat-sponsored lists asking for help when the red hat how-to's failed me (stuff like getting ldap auth over ssl to work) and gotten zero help.
i mistakenly thought that perhaps RHEL came with some conveniences to make enterprise stuff easier to do, or at least some feedback from the lists.
that's just my take on it. i know i'm not a linux *god*, but if i were i wouldn't need tech support or convenience tools to begin with. given that userlinux and debian-enterprise profess the goal of providing turn-key simplicity for mid-level admins, i'm watching them very closely.
next you'll tell us about your grey pubic hair.
except for the cute shaved asians!
That's right, TheSpoom - all the way to the year 2000!.
and if you look at public television (PBS), you'll see full-fledged commercials for BMW, ADM, SNET, and a whole bunch of other fuckwads polluting one of the last refuges from commercialism.
Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV?
<beavis>
YEAH YEAH DO IT - KILL IT KILL IT HEHE HEHEHE...
</beavis>
please people, a little originality?
that doesn't make much sense. are you thinking of "paradyme"...?
it was part of popular lore that allowing your keyring to prominently hang out of your pocket was silent signal to other homosexuals.
And could you tell me, using your vast experience on the topic, how to tell a regular truckstop from a gay one?
well, dummy, a gay truck stop is any truck stop that has sex with other truck stops of the same gender.
I prefer to not have a dick stuck through a hole in the stall wall when I'm taking a shit.
this doesn't generally happen if you don't first make suggestive eye contact with the other party through the hole first. so, if you've actually experienced this, you might start there.
ps - no, i'm not gay. sorry to get your hopes up!
hey it is pretty nice - i'm having a look around right now!
or at a gay truckstop in the 1970's.
from the company's perspective, i'd FIRE the dimwit who championed this strategy.
what about:
others?
the point is that the home user shouldn't have to know that supermount exists, or go to sourceforge, download and install it.
i think virtually all of the elements of a successful end-user distribution exist, it's just a matter of getting it all tied together, making sure that applications interoperate, and then TEST TEST TEST on clueless guinea pigs, and tweak accordingly.