Perhaps he should just shut the hell up and let someone with a passport take over, or even someone who knows where Europe is.
(so that rules out most Americans;))
I prefer to use a computer that actually has uses. Like, say, playing games, not crashing, being able to develop on etc.
If I wanted something pretty to look at, I would buy a Playboy over a G4.
And that's constructive in what way, exactly? We've already covered the shock aspect, and we've seen people using these things FOR YEARS without problems, so go be an ass somewhere else.
It's incredibly possible for a Windows machine to achieve that, given the same spec for that linux box (give or take). Why they made it so unfair is beyond me! (and yes, it's very strange!)
And the linux community wouldn't like to destroy microsoft? You have double standards. Really bad double standards. If Linux was produced by 1 company, it would be doing just as unscrupulous acts as Microsoft, but all you Linux lovers would be up in arms defending Linux.
So the software may be free, but you need a computer 4-times more expensive to run it. Bargain.
Stop blowing everything linux does out of proportion. Face the facts. Someone made a stupidly powerful machine, put Linux on it, and funnily enough, it won. If you put Windows 2000 on that computer, it would piss on Linux.
It wasn't the OS, but the hardware.
I could make an OS out of bits of tape and post-its, put it on a computer like that and it could out-perform anything else - it's not hard.
holding a monopoly position in desktop OS marketshare
So now Linux doesn't exist as a desktop OS? Surely the 1,000 posts every hour praising the penguin prove differently?
The Linux community takes pleasure in being 'the other guys', and play on this whenever possible: 'Look at us! We're using free software, and we're doing things!', but when someone mentions microsoft, you start saying how unfair that microsoft is much bigger and more powerful: 'we're so small! microsoft is so unfair!'.
Yes, Linux is in the top ten. It has the first place for:
1. Speed
2. Price of hardware
3. Running costs
It's hardly a contender when it's 4x the price of the nearest hardware. It's just a demonstration piece, a 'concept server' if you will.
It's going to be a long time before an OS like Linux can compete with the steadfast database servers that have been slowly, but surely, progressing in the back rooms of blue-chip companies.
Previously, the Slashdot community debunked the benchmarks as ridiculous and not proving anything (when windows was top). Now that it's Linux up there, you can't help yourselves pat each other on the back, sing the praises of Linux, and worship its benchmark score (the same thing you accuse Microsoft of doing every day).
From all the communities I've seen on the internet, The orthodox Linux users on Slashdot are the worst. Much worse than Microsoft-based commuinities who don't sink to calling names ('micro$oft' - so clever) or pulling complete 180-degree turns to satisfy their self-important whims.
If an independent survey showed that Microsoft Windows was the best OS, you would bash that committee, but if they said it was Linux, you'd give them some sort of penguin-based prize.
Even though Windows isn't open source, people know exactly what every little part does. One of my old professors at Uni reverse-engineered Windows, and that was just a project. The only hold microsoft has over anyone else is their research budget! (and they don't have to worry about licensing, either).
True, Linux is technically a contender, but the fact that it is more than twice as expensive to run, and needs twice the amount of CPUs to out-perform its rivals shows that it's not competative in the actual marketplace.
Linux = good webserver/conversation piece
Windows = good everything else:)
I know this is (slightly) off-topic, but why are sites which offer very useful information set up so poorly? The site was completely trashed after about 8 comments (IIS to blame there), and even now that its up, the coding of the interface is terrible. How are people supposed to gain as much information as possible from this data, when it's presented in such a messy fashion?
If Microsoft did something to get more money along these lines, all the slashdotters would start crying and winging about it all. Can't you fellas see that these companies are exactly that. COMPANIES. They're not just a group of people working on software in their bedrooms, but large, international companies striving to provide food and shelter for their employees.
Every single story I see posted on this site just brings out some ignorant americans whinging on about rights or how 'micro$oft' (very clever) are 'screwing' the public by making excellent, robust software and selling it on.
Say what you want, I don't give a damn. You know I'm right.
Do you take pleasure in making yourself look like an ass? Maybe their government didn't want their populace blowing the crap out of each other with guns like in the US. Subservience? Staying alive more like it.
If someone suggests that they have a legal right to log your IP or something, you all start crying about personal freedom, yet someone wants money for something you stole from them, you call them greedy or unfair. Please grow up. You can't have it both ways.
Every time I visit slashdot, all I see are childish people moaning on about 'micro$oft' (ooh - very clever), praising Linux (which still hasn't got office, or anything nearly as good).
Ni-Cad? Terrible batteries. They can be recharged about twice before that memory effect kicks in. Lithium Ion or Lithium Polymer batteries are the best on the market so far. Light, easily and quickly rechargeable, and cheap.
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True, you definately get more crashes and smiley faces for your buck with the Mac.
Perhaps he should just shut the hell up and let someone with a passport take over, or even someone who knows where Europe is. (so that rules out most Americans ;))
I prefer to use a computer that actually has uses. Like, say, playing games, not crashing, being able to develop on etc. If I wanted something pretty to look at, I would buy a Playboy over a G4.
And that's constructive in what way, exactly? We've already covered the shock aspect, and we've seen people using these things FOR YEARS without problems, so go be an ass somewhere else.
If you don't mind 'My First Application' looks, smiley faces and 'bing-bong' sounds, then that sounds great :)
It's incredibly possible for a Windows machine to achieve that, given the same spec for that linux box (give or take). Why they made it so unfair is beyond me! (and yes, it's very strange!)
Then show me some benchmarks of Linux beating Win2K on performance and hardware... I dare you :)
It's just a form of Penis envy!
Stop blowing everything linux does out of proportion. Face the facts. Someone made a stupidly powerful machine, put Linux on it, and funnily enough, it won. If you put Windows 2000 on that computer, it would piss on Linux.
It wasn't the OS, but the hardware.
I could make an OS out of bits of tape and post-its, put it on a computer like that and it could out-perform anything else - it's not hard.
holding a monopoly position in desktop OS marketshare
So now Linux doesn't exist as a desktop OS? Surely the 1,000 posts every hour praising the penguin prove differently?
The Linux community takes pleasure in being 'the other guys', and play on this whenever possible: 'Look at us! We're using free software, and we're doing things!', but when someone mentions microsoft, you start saying how unfair that microsoft is much bigger and more powerful: 'we're so small! microsoft is so unfair!'.
Make your mind up.
If what you're saying is true, then surely slashdot should be:
Opinions for nerds, stuff that's not true
Slashdot is dressed up as a news website, but what it posts is just pro-linux rhetoric.
Biassed is not the word.
1. Speed
2. Price of hardware
3. Running costs
It's hardly a contender when it's 4x the price of the nearest hardware. It's just a demonstration piece, a 'concept server' if you will.
It's going to be a long time before an OS like Linux can compete with the steadfast database servers that have been slowly, but surely, progressing in the back rooms of blue-chip companies.
Previously, the Slashdot community debunked the benchmarks as ridiculous and not proving anything (when windows was top). Now that it's Linux up there, you can't help yourselves pat each other on the back, sing the praises of Linux, and worship its benchmark score (the same thing you accuse Microsoft of doing every day).
From all the communities I've seen on the internet, The orthodox Linux users on Slashdot are the worst. Much worse than Microsoft-based commuinities who don't sink to calling names ('micro$oft' - so clever) or pulling complete 180-degree turns to satisfy their self-important whims.
If an independent survey showed that Microsoft Windows was the best OS, you would bash that committee, but if they said it was Linux, you'd give them some sort of penguin-based prize.
True, Linux is technically a contender, but the fact that it is more than twice as expensive to run, and needs twice the amount of CPUs to out-perform its rivals shows that it's not competative in the actual marketplace.
Linux = good webserver/conversation piece :)
Windows = good everything else
I know this is (slightly) off-topic, but why are sites which offer very useful information set up so poorly? The site was completely trashed after about 8 comments (IIS to blame there), and even now that its up, the coding of the interface is terrible. How are people supposed to gain as much information as possible from this data, when it's presented in such a messy fashion?
"mass audience"=America :)
or just use the installer and save your keyboard... ;)
Spellchecker anyone?
If Microsoft did something to get more money along these lines, all the slashdotters would start crying and winging about it all. Can't you fellas see that these companies are exactly that. COMPANIES. They're not just a group of people working on software in their bedrooms, but large, international companies striving to provide food and shelter for their employees.
Every single story I see posted on this site just brings out some ignorant americans whinging on about rights or how 'micro$oft' (very clever) are 'screwing' the public by making excellent, robust software and selling it on.
Say what you want, I don't give a damn. You know I'm right.
Grow up.
Every time I visit slashdot, all I see are childish people moaning on about 'micro$oft' (ooh - very clever), praising Linux (which still hasn't got office, or anything nearly as good).
Grow up.
Not everyone hates microsoft, mate.
Basically the same idea as Bayliss's clockwork radio and torch.
Ni-Cad? Terrible batteries. They can be recharged about twice before that memory effect kicks in. Lithium Ion or Lithium Polymer batteries are the best on the market so far. Light, easily and quickly rechargeable, and cheap.
(ps. sorry, Choco-man, for not believing you - but I'm very untrusting of people who post in all caps :))