In other words there's no good way of estimating the number of Linux users out there? Sure there's.... charge 90 dollars for every OEM copy for example.
All I want to say is that a lot of third world country people don't pay for their OS software. So if Linux want to beat out winblows, it will solely depend on techical superiority. I heard that BSD 's very good at handling 2-byte chacaters (chinese, Japanese Character; I read this on/. and I don't know a lot about it.) Can Linux handle Chinese/Japanese characters as good as freeBSD?) So there you go.
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>>So why letting any government organization handling this kind of data? It's just an idea, but why doesn't the NRA keep track of guns on a voluntary basis? The NRA could put the data in a thouroughly encrypted database at a secret location. Then if the FBI looks for a weapon used in a crime the NRA can check if such a weapon is reported as missing. This way the NRA could demonstrate its commitment to fight gun abuse and limite the FBI's obsession to control your personal data by sending a strong signal that responsible citicens can handle this themselves.
Several reasons.
1. The NRA is not a government institution, they have no authority to keep such records.
2. Even if the NRA could be used in that fashion, who's to say that 15 years from now the group will not be taken over by anti-gun activists who just want to see it destroyed?
What many people don't understand is this, with our current system a firearm can be tracked to it's legal owner, but the process takes longer than 5 minutes. The people who push for federal registration do this because of how easy it would be to compile a list, so that they can later be confiscated.
Seems to me that people are using the shootings as an excuse to say "hey we're geeks/nerds/whatever and we have a tough life because of it". So is a jock different from a nerd? Is a bully different from a geek? Nope. We're all labelled by each other in some way. I have a friend who is very clever, and she laughs at Jocks and labels them as stupid idiots. Im sure they laugh back at her for liking maths. Maybe because I was between both worlds I don't quite see the point of this hysteria.
Sounds like Katz is trying to create martyrs from geeks. You is what you is.
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>>So I am European. Do I want to take your guns away? Hell, no. If you want to collect guns that's cool, whatever works for you.
Cool attitude, I can deal with that.
>>The people who worry and who I assume worry you, are your fellow Americans who don't trust you to handle your guns and think there should be something like gun control.
The people who worry me are Americans who feel that we'd be safer if we'd disarm. The past century in Europe is enough proof for me that this is not true.
>>That's a bummer, because from what you wrote I am sure you are a very mature, stable and likable character.
I like to think so.
>>What I don't understand is why the NRA is not lobbying for a "gun control" that gives the current gun owners control. Instead they appear of being permanently in the defensive.
The NRA supports measures that will actually reduce crime. Gun Control does not. Since 1968 the murder rate in the US has gone up, even though there are thousands more gun laws on the books.
>>In my country you can buy all sorts of guns for sport and hunting, and you can keep them at home with ammunition. As you were pointing out Europe's history is violent, so there are a lot of traditional sport shooting clubs. The guys in these clubs make sure no psychos are admitted and register the guns. So everybody's happy: The guys who want to have guns and the rest who know that somebody is accountable for keeping track of them.
In this country, the right to own guns isn't predicated upon hunting, or sporting uses. We oppose federal registration because it can only be used as a tool for confiscation in the future. It was done that way in Nazi occupied europe, and it was done in US cities where gun posession was outlawed. We may not all be geniuses, but we're not stupid enough to fall for the same trick again.
egads Lotek. There can be no substitute for a parent talking to his or her child. When I read that this poor kid's parents didn't have the time to devote to watching his/her internet usage, I cried. Time is something we can choose how we spend it, just like money. Maybe the parents are coming home from work late, they eat dinner, and poor kiddie is off in bed? What kind of a relationship is that? being a parent is about making sacrifices to our children. So maybe Mommy doesn't get to watch her TV show, and Daddy doesn't get to sleep in that extra 25 minutes. They're expecting that child (yes, a ten year old child, a human being, a person) to sacrifice something very important to him/her, but the parents...the parents can make a sacrifice of a mere 30 minutes a day to spend with their kid, even if it is just surfing the web with Jip. Who knows? maybe Jip will be killed in a car accident, or be a cancer statistic , or even a victim of a shooting in his elementary school. Those parents are robbing their child of their time, and they are robbing themselves of precious time with that child. At 10 I still wanted my parents love and support. At 12, I wanted them to drop me off at a friend's house or leave me alone to wallow in pre-teen angst in my room. I think those parents should be relishing every moment of time they can spend with Jip, not taking away a computer.
when your story with my mail was posted several students in a and issued a formal apology Desktop publishing class recognized the story (and the name) and handed printouts to the principal who called me into his office to tell me that the school had all investigations stopped and issued a formal apology to me.
Thank you so much
Mootar High King OF The Cow Gods
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>>Who gives the most to the UN?
Obviously not the U.S.... it owes over $2 billion dollars in dues and your paranoid, right-wing extremist congress is preventing your president from doing the right thing and paying it.
Perhaps I should have worded it to say "Who has given the most money to the UN?
We get nothing back for the money we spend, except a bunch of foreigners who think that they have the right to dictate to us how we run our country.
We should stop paying the UN, we should pull out entirely. The UN has too much power, the UN should NOT have the ability to send military forces anywhere. Economic sanctions of member nations should be the only tool at the UN's disposal.
As for the "right-wing extremists", somebody puts a little too much faith in what they see on TV.
Anyone right of center is an extremist in the eyes of many media moguls.
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. -Barry Goldwater
I have found the articles the last few days interesting, informative, and disturbing, but unfortunately not too surprising-it reminds me too much of my own highschool experience. It makes me glad to be out of high school and in college! I thought I'd share some good news actually on this topic...I live in Lincoln Nebraska and I read on the front page of the Lincoln JournalStar yesterday that students at one of the highschools decided to have a walkout to protest unfair treatment of individuals who wear trencoats, or are picked on because they are quiet and reserved, or seen as social outcasts, geeks or nerds. The principal actually came out with the students and they had a moment of silence around the flagpole for the victims in Littleton. He also allowed them to talk to the news media and actually sat down with the students and was willing to LISTEN to their concerns. I'm impressed. I don't know how much good it will do in the long run, but It's a step in the right direction. As a geek myself who knows the alienation that kids can face I fully support these highschoolers.
What is morally true to one may not be morally true to another. What is ethically true must be followed by everyone. Ethics are what your actions are, morals are your justification for the pre-set ethics.
I'm sorry. I'm just sick and tired of hearing about people having their "rights violated" in schools. Yes, a witch-hunt such as this is such a violation. But when you begin to refer to the structure of schools as such, you generalize. I was in the same boat as many people until my sophomore year of high school. That's when I realized that much of the ridicule I received was not from being different (which I was...) but from being paranoid about being different and about everyone else being "out to get me."
I soon realized that it was also partly my fault for my being ridiculed. The kids who fit in weren't making fun of me because I was a geek. They were making fun of me because I thought everyone did/wanted to.
Jon, I don't know where you come in saying that goths are individualistic. They are the biggest cult following out there(not in a bad sense, just that there's a lot of you and all of you are rather unindividualistic).
Everyone out there just has to remember that Geeks are not the minority. We're the majority. The majority is almost never in control. Stop thinking yourselves into being made fun of. Nobody will make fun of you if you don't expect them to.
Of course they are, every crime that is committed, is committed by a person. Ever murder that occurs is at the hand of a person.
>>Technology is NOT neutral.
Sure it is. Technology is, by definition, tha application of science. Science, just like the derivitive technology, is neutral.
>>Speaking as an engineering student (a future creator of technology), technology is designed and created for specific purposes, with specific intents, for use within a specific culture.
Not at all, quite often science leads to technology which exists for no other reason than to prove that it could be done. The laser existed for years before there was a practical use for the technology.
By your logic, computers are to blame when some cracker takes down a corporate or government network. After all if s/he didn't have the computer, s/he couldn't have done it, right?
>>Sure, you can use a gun to hammer nails, to knead dough, to unclog pipes... but realistically, for each of those uses a gun is not the optimal tool. Therefore a gun will ultimately be used for its optimal purpose: to kill.
Guns are designed to expel projectiles in a relatively straight path. What they are used for after that point is determined exclusively by people. Many guns were intended to woulnd rather than kill. Why do you think that international law prohibits the use of soft point, or hollow point ammunition in war zones?
>>So when you permit widespread ownership of such weapons, no matter how responsible the owner, sooner or later you will have deaths--intentionally or unintentionally. Whether you like it or not.
The same is true of automobiles, swimming pools, cutlery, alcohol, tobacco, rope, chains, plumbing supplies, insecticides, and virtually every other consumer product.
I'm not sure if I have the quote correct, but in one of the SW trailers Yoda says something like this: "Fear leads to suffering, suffering leads to hate and hates leads to the Dark Side."
One of the greatest tradgedies that has become apparent in these recent posts is how many people have given into the Dark Side. The decision whether to let hate dominate our own lives is our own choice, whether we are the oppresors or the ones being oppressed.
And so with this latest backlash the cycles continues. However, the choice of response if ours, we can choose to forgive or to hate in return.
you can say that again...this Pournelle guy is a complete moron. His web page is almost illiterate, rambling and doesn't say anything. The links don't really seem to go anywher... Does anyone actually subscribe to this POS?
I can't believe anyone lets him write articles for them.
sorry for the pournelle rant..but I just can't stand him ---- "Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
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>>Do you think we Canadians and Europeans are here simply to talk down to you and cut the U.S. down a few notches?
I don't care what your intent is, but what the result will be.
>>Are we jealous of your rate of crime?
Are we jeleous of your history of violence?
>>Of your lack of health care?
Or your lack of quality in health care.
>>Of your lack of any gun control whatsoever?
Umm, excuse me? We get sweeping new gun control measures every time some nut runs amok with a firearm. It's kind of funny how the crime rate has gone up after every increase in gun control.
>>Of your exorbitant military spending?
Europeans don't seem to unhappy about it when our military is sent to save their arses.
>>I couldn't believe my eyes the other day when Clinton proposed that gun sales be restriced to ONE PER MONTH! One per month?!?!? That's a restriction*?!? Why would anyone need MORE guns, let alone one??
Why is it any of your business? I'm a gun collector, I've bought two guns in one week. Hell once even in the same day.
Clinton is a socialist at heart, and he too is a self loathing american.
>>We all live on the same planet here and we have to work together to ensure a sustainable future... it's time you began to think about the bigger picture rather than simply about the good ol' U.S. of A.
I don't care about how you choose to live on the other side of the pond. I'm not a "citizen of the planet earth", I'm an American. My country is more important to me than any other, or every other for that matter.
Well, it's no worse than these Compaq boxes here at work. freakin daugtherbords on daughterbords on fatherboards stuck in the middle of the motherboard. And the memory of course is under it all so you have to dissasemble the damn thing to get to something.
---- "Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
Maybe someone should make a "smooth, flowing curve" computer case with a built-in cup holder! I'm thinking like you see in cars nowadays, especially mini-vans. That would be cool!
BTW I like the cases, especially if I had a B&W G3 mac, I could get one of these for my PC and have a matching set. Of course as other posters have said, good luck finding matchin monitors, mice, etc... ---- "Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
There are like 20 of these throughout the internet. They are lame and don't measure shit. In some of them, OSes like BeOS and AmigaOS are kicking everyones asses, and other ones like Windows are kicking ass. The problem comes with dialup users who visit the site quite frequenty (most are probably windows and macos users) who get a different ip.
How many monuments have been erected to convicted homosexuals? Is it really surprizing that no large corporations are leaping at the opportunity to finance a monument to one now? If the English legal system ever apologized, maybe that would be a first step in honoring the man.
While these are great stats, and I realize this is a global audience, it should be noted that "For this OS count the RIPE Host Count was used to collect host addresses"... RIPE, from what I can tell, is a coallition of European IP hosts, so I don't think any US data is included here...
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I agree with quax. Here in Venezuela going through high school wasn't that bad, even for geeks. Geeks were at least respected, even the socially disfunctional. I can't remember of a single story of a geek been beaten by jocks. And I was the only boy with long hair on a school of 1500 kids. This whole thing is somewhat related to this tale about the geeks who moved from Idaho to Chicago, posted on/. some weeks ago.
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Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
In other words there's no good way of estimating the number of Linux users out there?
Sure there's.... charge 90 dollars for every OEM copy for example.
CY
Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
/. and I don't know a lot about it.) Can Linux handle Chinese/Japanese characters as good as freeBSD?) So there you go.
All I want to say is that a lot of third world country people don't pay for their OS software. So if Linux want to beat out winblows, it will solely depend on techical superiority. I heard that BSD 's very good at handling 2-byte chacaters (chinese, Japanese Character; I read this on
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>So why letting any government organization handling this kind of data? It's just an idea, but why doesn't the NRA keep track of guns on a voluntary basis? The NRA could put the data in a thouroughly encrypted database at a secret location. Then if the FBI looks for a weapon used in a crime the NRA can check if such a weapon is reported as missing. This way the NRA could demonstrate its commitment to fight gun abuse and limite the FBI's obsession to control your personal data by sending a strong signal that responsible citicens can handle this themselves.
Several reasons.
1. The NRA is not a government institution, they have no authority to keep such records.
2. Even if the NRA could be used in that fashion, who's to say that 15 years from now the group will not be taken over by anti-gun activists who just want to see it destroyed?
What many people don't understand is this, with our current system a firearm can be tracked to it's legal owner, but the process takes longer than 5 minutes. The people who push for federal registration do this because of how easy it would be to compile a list, so that they can later be confiscated.
LK
Posted by stodge:
Seems to me that people are using the shootings as an excuse to say "hey we're geeks/nerds/whatever and we have a tough life because of it". So is a jock different from a nerd? Is a bully different from a geek? Nope. We're all labelled by each other in some way. I have a friend who is very clever, and she laughs at Jocks and labels them as stupid idiots. Im sure they laugh back at her for liking maths. Maybe because I was between both worlds I don't quite see the point of this hysteria.
Sounds like Katz is trying to create martyrs from geeks. You is what you is.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>So I am European. Do I want to take your guns away? Hell, no. If you want to collect guns that's cool, whatever works for you.
Cool attitude, I can deal with that.
>>The people who worry and who I assume worry you, are your fellow Americans who don't trust you to handle your guns and think there should be something like gun control.
The people who worry me are Americans who feel that we'd be safer if we'd disarm. The past century in Europe is enough proof for me that this is not true.
>>That's a bummer, because from what you wrote I am sure you are a very mature, stable and likable character.
I like to think so.
>>What I don't understand is why the NRA is not lobbying for a "gun control" that gives the current gun owners control. Instead they appear of being permanently in the defensive.
The NRA supports measures that will actually reduce crime. Gun Control does not. Since 1968 the murder rate in the US has gone up, even though there are thousands more gun laws on the books.
>>In my country you can buy all sorts of guns for sport and hunting, and you can keep them at home with ammunition. As you were pointing out Europe's history is violent, so there are a lot of traditional sport shooting clubs. The guys in these clubs make sure no psychos are admitted and register the guns. So everybody's happy: The guys who want to have guns and the rest who know that somebody is accountable for keeping track of them.
In this country, the right to own guns isn't predicated upon hunting, or sporting uses. We oppose federal registration because it can only be used as a tool for confiscation in the future. It was done that way in Nazi occupied europe, and it was done in US cities where gun posession was outlawed. We may not all be geniuses, but we're not stupid enough to fall for the same trick again.
LK
Posted by Soul Goddess:
egads Lotek. There can be no substitute for a parent talking to his or her child. When I read that this poor kid's parents didn't have the time to devote to watching his/her internet usage, I cried. Time is something we can choose how we spend it, just like money. Maybe the parents are coming home from work late, they eat dinner, and poor kiddie is off in bed? What kind of a relationship is that? being a parent is about making sacrifices to our children. So maybe Mommy doesn't get to watch her TV show, and Daddy doesn't get to sleep in that extra 25 minutes. They're expecting that child (yes, a ten year old child, a human being, a person) to sacrifice something very important to him/her, but the parents...the parents can make a sacrifice of a mere 30 minutes a day to spend with their kid, even if it is just surfing the web with Jip. Who knows? maybe Jip will be killed in a car accident, or be a cancer statistic , or even a victim of a shooting in his elementary school. Those parents are robbing their child of their time, and they are robbing themselves of precious time with that child. At 10 I still wanted my parents love and support. At 12, I wanted them to drop me off at a friend's house or leave me alone to wallow in pre-teen angst in my room. I think those parents should be relishing every moment of time they can spend with Jip, not taking away a computer.
Posted by mootar:
when your story with my mail was posted several students in a and issued a formal apology Desktop publishing class recognized the story (and the name) and handed printouts to the principal who called me into his office to tell me that the school had all investigations stopped and issued a formal apology to me.
Thank you so much
Mootar High King OF The Cow Gods
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
... it owes over $2 billion dollars in dues and your paranoid, right-wing extremist congress is preventing your president from doing the right thing and paying it.
>>Who gives the most to the UN?
Obviously not the U.S.
Perhaps I should have worded it to say "Who has given the most money to the UN?
We get nothing back for the money we spend, except a bunch of foreigners who think that they have the right to dictate to us how we run our country.
We should stop paying the UN, we should pull out entirely. The UN has too much power, the UN should NOT have the ability to send military forces anywhere. Economic sanctions of member nations should be the only tool at the UN's disposal.
As for the "right-wing extremists", somebody puts a little too much faith in what they see on TV.
Anyone right of center is an extremist in the eyes of many media moguls.
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.
-Barry Goldwater
LK
Posted by *kit:
I have found the articles the last few days interesting, informative, and disturbing, but unfortunately not too surprising-it reminds me too much of my own highschool experience. It makes me glad to be out of high school and in college!
I thought I'd share some good news actually on this topic...I live in Lincoln Nebraska and I read on the front page of the Lincoln JournalStar yesterday that students at one of the highschools decided to have a walkout to protest unfair treatment of individuals who wear trencoats, or are picked on because they are quiet and reserved, or seen as social outcasts, geeks or nerds. The principal actually came out with the students and they had a moment of silence around the flagpole for the victims in Littleton. He also allowed them to talk to the news media and actually sat down with the students and was willing to LISTEN to their concerns. I'm impressed. I don't know how much good it will do in the long run, but It's a step in the right direction. As a geek myself who knows the alienation that kids can face I fully support these highschoolers.
Posted by The [not so] Little Hacker:
What is morally true to one may not be morally true to another. What is ethically true must be followed by everyone. Ethics are what your actions are, morals are your justification for the pre-set ethics.
Posted by The [not so] Little Hacker:
I'm sorry. I'm just sick and tired of hearing about people having their "rights violated" in schools. Yes, a witch-hunt such as this is such a violation. But when you begin to refer to the structure of schools as such, you generalize. I was in the same boat as many people until my sophomore year of high school. That's when I realized that much of the ridicule I received was not from being different (which I was...) but from being paranoid about being different and about everyone else being "out to get me."
I soon realized that it was also partly my fault for my being ridiculed. The kids who fit in weren't making fun of me because I was a geek. They were making fun of me because I thought everyone did/wanted to.
Jon, I don't know where you come in saying that goths are individualistic. They are the biggest cult following out there(not in a bad sense, just that there's a lot of you and all of you are rather unindividualistic).
Everyone out there just has to remember that Geeks are not the minority. We're the majority. The majority is almost never in control. Stop thinking yourselves into being made fun of. Nobody will make fun of you if you don't expect them to.
Posted by DarkSecret:
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So this would be like 2 linux boxes per person? Kewl.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>People are absolutely NOT the problem.
Of course they are, every crime that is committed, is committed by a person. Ever murder that occurs is at the hand of a person.
>>Technology is NOT neutral.
Sure it is. Technology is, by definition, tha application of science. Science, just like the derivitive technology, is neutral.
>>Speaking as an engineering student (a future creator of technology), technology is designed and created for specific purposes, with specific intents, for use within a specific culture.
Not at all, quite often science leads to technology which exists for no other reason than to prove that it could be done. The laser existed for years before there was a practical use for the technology.
By your logic, computers are to blame when some cracker takes down a corporate or government network. After all if s/he didn't have the computer, s/he couldn't have done it, right?
>>Sure, you can use a gun to hammer nails, to knead dough, to unclog pipes... but realistically, for each of those uses a gun is not the optimal tool. Therefore a gun will ultimately be used for its optimal purpose: to kill.
Guns are designed to expel projectiles in a relatively straight path. What they are used for after that point is determined exclusively by people. Many guns were intended to woulnd rather than kill. Why do you think that international law prohibits the use of soft point, or hollow point ammunition in war zones?
>>So when you permit widespread ownership of such weapons, no matter how responsible the owner, sooner or later you will have deaths--intentionally or unintentionally. Whether you like it or not.
The same is true of automobiles, swimming pools, cutlery, alcohol, tobacco, rope, chains, plumbing supplies, insecticides, and virtually every other consumer product.
LK
Posted by Alf Alpha:
I'm not sure if I have the quote correct, but in one of the SW trailers Yoda says something like this: "Fear leads to suffering, suffering leads to hate and hates leads to the Dark Side."
One of the greatest tradgedies that has become apparent in these recent posts is how many people have given into the Dark Side. The decision whether to let hate dominate our own lives is our own choice, whether we are the oppresors or the ones being oppressed.
And so with this latest backlash the cycles continues. However, the choice of response if ours, we can choose to forgive or to hate in return.
May the Force be with you, always.
Posted by The Incredible Mr. Limpett:
you can say that again...this Pournelle guy is a complete moron. His web page is almost illiterate, rambling and doesn't say anything. The links don't really seem to go anywher...
Does anyone actually subscribe to this POS?
I can't believe anyone lets him write articles for them.
sorry for the pournelle rant..but I just can't stand him
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"Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a
villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Do you think we Canadians and Europeans are here simply to talk down to you and cut the U.S. down a few notches?
I don't care what your intent is, but what the result will be.
>>Are we jealous of your rate of crime?
Are we jeleous of your history of violence?
>>Of your lack of health care?
Or your lack of quality in health care.
>>Of your lack of any gun control whatsoever?
Umm, excuse me? We get sweeping new gun control measures every time some nut runs amok with a firearm. It's kind of funny how the crime rate has gone up after every increase in gun control.
>>Of your exorbitant military spending?
Europeans don't seem to unhappy about it when our military is sent to save their arses.
>>I couldn't believe my eyes the other day when Clinton proposed that gun sales be restriced to ONE PER MONTH! One per month?!?!? That's a restriction*?!? Why would anyone need MORE guns, let alone one??
Why is it any of your business? I'm a gun collector, I've bought two guns in one week. Hell once even in the same day.
Clinton is a socialist at heart, and he too is a self loathing american.
>>We all live on the same planet here and we have to work together to ensure a sustainable future... it's time you began to think about the bigger picture rather than simply about the good ol' U.S. of A.
I don't care about how you choose to live on the other side of the pond. I'm not a "citizen of the planet earth", I'm an American. My country is more important to me than any other, or every other for that matter.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>But when there's a will, there's a way...
By George, I think you've got it.
LK
Posted by The Incredible Mr. Limpett:
Well, it's no worse than these Compaq boxes here at work. freakin daugtherbords on daughterbords on fatherboards stuck in the middle of the motherboard. And the memory of course is under it all so you have to dissasemble the damn thing to get to something.
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"Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a
villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
Posted by The Incredible Mr. Limpett:
Maybe someone should make a "smooth, flowing curve" computer case with a built-in cup holder! I'm thinking like you see in cars nowadays, especially mini-vans. That would be cool!
BTW I like the cases, especially if I had a B&W G3 mac, I could get one of these for my PC and have a matching set. Of course as other posters have said, good luck finding matchin monitors, mice, etc...
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"Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a
villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
Posted by Soco:
There are like 20 of these throughout the internet. They are lame and don't measure shit. In some of them, OSes like BeOS and AmigaOS are kicking everyones asses, and other ones like Windows are kicking ass. The problem comes with dialup users who visit the site quite frequenty (most are probably windows and macos users) who get a different ip.
Posted by invisix:
I've haven't seen a decent PC case in years... Apple has some good cases now, and SGI has always been in the zone. Doh!
Posted by jgeduldig:
How many monuments have been erected to convicted homosexuals? Is it really surprizing that no large corporations are leaping at the opportunity to finance a monument to one now? If the English legal system ever apologized, maybe that would be a first step in honoring the man.
Posted by DratSomeoneTookMyName:
There goes the neighborhood.
Or, I'm assuming, now it will be called the "Network Neighborhood".
-adam a
Posted by keyva:
While these are great stats, and I realize this is a global audience, it should be noted that "For this OS count the RIPE Host Count was used to collect host addresses"... RIPE, from what I can tell, is a coallition of European IP hosts, so I don't think any US data is included here...
Posted by vampyroteuthis:
/. some weeks ago.
I agree with quax. Here in Venezuela going through high school wasn't that bad, even for geeks. Geeks were at least respected, even the socially disfunctional. I can't remember of a single story of a geek been beaten by jocks. And I was the only boy with long hair on a school of 1500 kids.
This whole thing is somewhat related to this tale about the geeks who moved from Idaho to Chicago, posted on