I'm surprised this guy didn't claim that doing battle with the Loch Ness Monster is also part of the Windows installation process. It would be just as accurate and believable as the rest of this steaming pile of deliberately skewed nonsense.
Instead of installing a standard retail copy of Win2000, he deliberately chose some bizaare, proprietary system restore process. *Of course* it took longer doing it that way -- but he knew that before he started.
"Joe Barr, a LinuxWorld.com columnist," --- you don't think he might be a little prejudiced, do you? Strike One.
"...as I inserted the first of three Sony System Restore CDs supplied with the laptop" --- he then chooses some bizaare installation method to make things even more difficult. Strike Two.
"Then I set the time and time zone. Again, it rebooted to continue." -- bullshit. I've installed Windows 2000 on several computers and it doesn't reboot at this point. Strike 3. Yer Out!!!
This article is total bullshit. Windows 2000 only requires one CD, not the 3 (or is it 4?) that he claims in the story. Although I never timed Windows 2000 during the many installs I've done I can tell you that this guy is deliberately screwing around just to skew the results. For comparison, I recently installed Windows XP Pro -- 1 CD, 1 reboot, 18 minutes to install on a brand new clean hard drive.
We already have trains running all over the country. Ever hear of Amtrak?
And it's been a failure, losing huge sums of money. In addition to mismanagement, the biggest problem with all forms of mass transit is that they don't go where people want to go, when they want to go. So people stick with cars.
A fancy shmancy high speed train will just be another multi-billion dollar government boondoggle.
As we continue to cling to the absurd notion of "intellectual property" we will create more and more of these ridiculous situations.
Consider:
You're a movie producer. You need some automobiles for a scene in your movie. What do you do? You call up a local car dealer and have them send over some cars. You use the cars in the movie and you pay the car dealer. End of story. At no time are you required to make any payment to Ford or General Motors (the creators of the cars).
Now you need some music for your movie. You go to a local store, you buy a CD and use the music in your movie. Guess what, you're getting sued big time because you didn't pay the creator of the music. Despite the fact that you legitimately purchased and paid for the music, just as you paid for the automobiles.
There is a high capacity replacement for floppies -- It's called CD-R. 650 meg on a disk that costs 30 cents.
All Your Failing Linux Are Belong To Us
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Redhat: 1998 - Lost $3 million 1999 - Lost $6 million 2000 - Lost $42 Million 2001 - Lost $86 million 2002 - Lost $140 million (Redhat's fiscal 2002 has already ended)
Mandrake: Lost 3.6 million euros in the 1st 6 months of this year, lost 7 million euros in the 6 months before that.
Yep, that "give the product away for free and make money on service and support" businesss model is really working well.
Open Source is great for amateur programming geeks who like to tinker with code, but it is failing miserably as a business model.
Linux is still inferior to Windows in functionality and ease of use. It's popularity is growing only because of Microsoft's continuing (and getting worse) bullying behavior and increasing onerous licensing practices.
Fusion reactors and anti-matter drives sound cool, but do the math... assuming these drives can propel a craft at one-tenth the speed of light, which is a speed of approximately 66.9 Million Miles Per Hour, it would still take 30 years to reach the nearest star.
I know this is terribly Politically Incorrect but
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why does an illiterate person in a third world country need a computer?
"what i do with Redhat7.3 is i uncheck Gnome, and leave KDE unchecked too, so there is no WM except for twm (yuck) then i install Blackbox and run switchdesk, then Xclients-default will have to manually edited to point to/usr/bin/blackbox, because the switchdesk command only looks in/usr/X11R6/bin for WMs"
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this sort of techobabble spew is exactly why Linux will not gain any significant market share over Windows as a desktop OS.
The comparison to the auto industry doesn't work. Back when there were 50 auto companies
there were a lot fewer people in the US and a lot less demand for cars. A shake-out was inevitable. There would be no need for any of those 25 telecom companies to go broke if they were run properly -- there's plenty of customers and plenty of demand.
What we are seeing with WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, ect. is a recurring pattern. Companies with lots of customers and lots of revenue -- who are going broke. More and more companies are becoming the playthings of the wealthy elite and Wall Street -- existing not to produce goods and services but existing only to enrich a handful of people.
example -- @Home had over 4 million customers paying $45 a month. Do the math. And yet they went broke. Could it be the $6 Billion they blew on a worthless dotcom?
example -- Exodus Communications had $300 million gross revenue in 2000. In 2001 they had $660 million gross revenue -- more than double the previous year -- and filed for Chapter 11 at the end of 2001. Why? Blowing hundred of millions on bad aquisitions.
example -- AT&T hires a new CEO. Fires him less that a year later, citing "a lack of intellectual leadership" as the reason. But gives him a $26 million severance package.
example -- Hewlett-Packard/Compaq -- History shows very clearly that there has never been a merger of this type that has worked out well. Not one. And yet the deal was done anyway because it will enrich the people who engineered the deal. 5 years from now, when Hewlett-Packard is following in the footsteps of WorldCom and Carly Fiorina is fired by the HP board of directors, it won't matter -- she and a few others will have already pocketed their millions and will draw a nice severeance package as a reward for running the company into the ground.
example -- Dozens of companies who are doing poorly, profits are down, even losing money in some cases, but top executives receive large raises and bonuses.
They got 106 entries and not one was worth using? You've got to be kidding me! Are BSD supporters really that uncreative or is BSD way too anal? Either way it doesn't bode well.
"Q: Will the virus impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as Eudora?"
"A: If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But, most other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication."
Bull. The wiring to my house was installed 20 years ago and has been paid for many times over.
Cable companies are "not profitable" due to mismanagement. The recent Excite@Home fiasco is a perfect example. They didn't go out of business because they weren't making enough money (4.1 million customers x an average of $45 a month, do the math). They went broke because they spent $6 Billion to buy a worthless dot-bomb.
Look at the cable industry -- mergers and aquisitions flying all over the place. It all adds up to billions in debt that gets passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. Cable companies should be offering customers faster speed at lower prices -- instead we get just the opposite. Why are cable internet companies raising prices and reducing service?
1. Because they can. They have no competition.
2. they need more and more money to finance stupid mergers and aquisitions.
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First, we must do away with the phrase "Intellectual Property" which implies that certain types of property (CDs, DVDs, etc) are somehow different from other types of property. This false, and absurd, notion is the root of the problem.
Property is property. Period. And the laws should reflect that. You should be free to do anything with it, except for *SELLING* copies of it.
99% of current IP laws are wrong and should be abolished. The claim that eliminating IP laws would result in nothing being produced, except ocassionally out of "good will" is patently false.
Proof:
During Napster's 2 year existance, music sales went up, not down. Today, hundreds of thousands of people continue to use P2P file sharing networks every day and it has had *ZERO* impact on record company sales or profits. Sales are currently down slightly, but only because of the current recesion.
A few writers and musicians have made their works freely available on the Internet and it has resulted in increased, not decreased sales.
People are downloading new movies before they are in theaters, and yet these movies gross hundreds of millions at the box office.
Re:Why he got away with it for so long.
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"Scam artists, despite the vulgarity of their profession, are actually very talented and very good at what they do."
Contrary to popular belief, most con artists are neither smart nor clever. The success of a scam depends almost entirely on the greed of the victim -- the greedier the person, the more gullible they are and the more likely they are to be taken.
The vast majority of scams are not clever or skillfully executed -- in fact most are obvious hoaxes -- but the hoax is only obvious to someone not blinded by greed. The vast majority of scams succeed simply because the victim's greed causes then to suspend disbelief. Just like the gambler who's afraid to walk away from a slot machine because it might pay out soon, the victims of this guy couldn't walk away because of their greed --- they were afraid that someone else would cash in on this "invention"
The Angelfire site you are trying to reach has been temporarily suspended due to excessive bandwidth consumption."
Imagine that you were renting a building and running a business - a retail store. One day, the owner of the bulding comes in and padlocks the doors and says "Sorry, you can't re-open till the first of the month - too many people have come into your store".
I've been building my own computers for several years, not so much so that I can build one "to my own personal specs" but mainly because I can build one that has higher quality components for a lower cost (look inside the major brand-name computers -- what crap!).
Unfortunately, the same does not apply to Operating Systems. Linux is good and getting better, but still inferior to Windows in many ways.
What planet are you living on? In the past 8 months the price of memory has tripled. In Sept. of last year I paid $28 for 256 meg DDR -- now it's selling for over $80.
"Wouldn't life had been so much easier if Windows had died, an everyone used OS/2, too bad its a legacy system now."
I really liked OS/2, but there were just too many problems. Installation was a pain, hardware support was iffy.... it was a good product but the incompetent retards at IBM couldn't get their act together. In 1990 (when Win 3.0 was released) Microsoft didn't have nearly the monopoly they have today. IBM had a shot and blew it.
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I'm surprised this guy didn't claim that doing battle with the Loch Ness Monster is also part of the Windows installation process. It would be just as accurate and believable as the rest of this steaming pile of deliberately skewed nonsense.
Instead of installing a standard retail copy of Win2000, he deliberately chose some bizaare, proprietary system restore process. *Of course* it took longer doing it that way -- but he knew that before he started.
"Joe Barr, a LinuxWorld.com columnist," --- you don't think he might be a little prejudiced, do you? Strike One.
"...as I inserted the first of three Sony System Restore CDs supplied with the laptop" --- he then chooses some bizaare installation method to make things even more difficult. Strike Two.
"Then I set the time and time zone. Again, it rebooted to continue." -- bullshit. I've installed Windows 2000 on several computers and it doesn't reboot at this point. Strike 3. Yer Out!!!
This article is total bullshit. Windows 2000 only requires one CD, not the 3 (or is it 4?) that he claims in the story. Although I never timed Windows 2000 during the many installs I've done I can tell you that this guy is deliberately screwing around just to skew the results. For comparison, I recently installed Windows XP Pro -- 1 CD, 1 reboot, 18 minutes to install on a brand new clean hard drive.
We already have trains running all over the country. Ever hear of Amtrak?
And it's been a failure, losing huge sums of money. In addition to mismanagement, the biggest problem with all forms of mass transit is that they don't go where people want to go, when they want to go. So people stick with cars.
A fancy shmancy high speed train will just be another multi-billion dollar government boondoggle.
As we continue to cling to the absurd notion of "intellectual property" we will create more and more of these ridiculous situations.
Consider:
You're a movie producer. You need some automobiles for a scene in your movie. What do you do? You call up a local car dealer and have them send over some cars. You use the cars in the movie and you pay the car dealer. End of story. At no time are you required to make any payment to Ford or General Motors (the creators of the cars).
Now you need some music for your movie. You go to a local store, you buy a CD and use the music in your movie. Guess what, you're getting sued big time because you didn't pay the creator of the music. Despite the fact that you legitimately purchased and paid for the music, just as you paid for the automobiles.
Sorry, but this makes no sense.
There is a high capacity replacement for floppies -- It's called CD-R. 650 meg on a disk that costs 30 cents.
Redhat:
1998 - Lost $3 million
1999 - Lost $6 million
2000 - Lost $42 Million
2001 - Lost $86 million
2002 - Lost $140 million (Redhat's fiscal 2002 has already ended)
Mandrake:
Lost 3.6 million euros in the 1st 6 months of this year, lost 7 million euros in the 6 months before that.
Yep, that "give the product away for free and make money on service and support" businesss model is really working well.
Open Source is great for amateur programming geeks who like to tinker with code, but it is failing miserably as a business model.
The true cost of Windows Apps
Windows (downloaded from usenet warez newsgroup) $0
Office $0
CAD $0
Graphics $0
Animation $0
Educational $0
Math $0
Science $0
GAMES $0
AntiVirus $0
Firewalls $0
Network tools $0
Linux is still inferior to Windows in functionality and ease of use. It's popularity is growing only because of Microsoft's continuing (and getting worse) bullying behavior and increasing onerous licensing practices.
Fusion reactors and anti-matter drives sound cool, but do the math ... assuming these drives can propel a craft at one-tenth the speed of light, which is a speed of approximately 66.9 Million Miles Per Hour, it would still take 30 years to reach the nearest star.
why does an illiterate person in a third world country need a computer?
"what i do with Redhat7.3 is i uncheck Gnome, and leave KDE unchecked too, so there is no WM except for twm (yuck) then i install Blackbox and run switchdesk, then Xclients-default will have to manually edited to point to /usr/bin/blackbox, because the switchdesk command only looks in /usr/X11R6/bin for WMs"
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this sort of techobabble spew is exactly why Linux will not gain any significant market share over Windows as a desktop OS.
The comparison to the auto industry doesn't work. Back when there were 50 auto companies
there were a lot fewer people in the US and a lot less demand for cars. A shake-out was inevitable.
There would be no need for any of those 25 telecom companies to go broke if they were run properly -- there's plenty of customers and plenty of demand.
What we are seeing with WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, ect. is a recurring pattern. Companies with lots of customers and lots of revenue -- who are going broke. More and more companies are becoming the playthings of the wealthy elite and Wall Street -- existing not to produce goods and services but existing only to enrich a handful of people.
example -- @Home had over 4 million customers paying $45 a month. Do the math. And yet they went broke. Could it be the $6 Billion they blew on a worthless dotcom?
example -- Exodus Communications had $300 million gross revenue in 2000. In 2001 they had $660 million gross revenue -- more than double the previous year -- and filed for Chapter 11 at the end of 2001. Why? Blowing hundred of millions on bad aquisitions.
example -- AT&T hires a new CEO. Fires him less that a year later, citing "a lack of intellectual leadership" as the reason. But gives him a $26 million severance package.
example -- Hewlett-Packard/Compaq -- History shows very clearly that there has never been a merger of this type that has worked out well. Not one. And yet the deal was done anyway because it will enrich the people who engineered the deal. 5 years from now, when Hewlett-Packard is following in the footsteps of WorldCom and Carly Fiorina is fired by the HP board of directors, it won't matter -- she and a few others will have already pocketed their millions and will draw a nice severeance package as a reward for running the company into the ground.
example -- Dozens of companies who are doing poorly, profits are down, even losing money in some cases, but top executives receive large raises and bonuses.
They got 106 entries and not one was worth using? You've got to be kidding me! Are BSD supporters really that uncreative or is BSD way too anal? Either way it doesn't bode well.
if this would work in black neighborhoods.
But ten years from now, Windows XP 2012 Service Pack 9 will run at least 5 percent faster.
Bionic eyes!! Ya!!!
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/20
"Q: Will the virus impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as Eudora?"
"A: If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But, most other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication."
Bull. The wiring to my house was installed 20 years ago and has been paid for many times over.
Cable companies are "not profitable" due to mismanagement. The recent Excite@Home fiasco is a perfect example. They didn't go out of business because they weren't making enough money (4.1 million customers x an average of $45 a month, do the math). They went broke because they spent $6 Billion to buy a worthless dot-bomb.
Look at the cable industry -- mergers and aquisitions flying all over the place. It all adds up to billions in debt that gets passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. Cable companies should be offering customers faster speed at lower prices -- instead we get just the opposite. Why are cable internet companies raising prices and reducing service?
1. Because they can. They have no competition.
2. they need more and more money to finance stupid mergers and aquisitions.
First, we must do away with the phrase "Intellectual Property" which implies that certain types of property (CDs, DVDs, etc) are somehow different from other types of property. This false, and absurd, notion is the root of the problem.
Property is property. Period. And the laws should reflect that. You should be free to do anything with it, except for *SELLING* copies of it.
99% of current IP laws are wrong and should be abolished. The claim that eliminating IP laws would result in nothing being produced, except ocassionally out of "good will" is patently false.
Proof:
During Napster's 2 year existance, music sales went up, not down. Today, hundreds of thousands of people continue to use P2P file sharing networks every day and it has had *ZERO* impact on record company sales or profits. Sales are currently down slightly, but only because of the current recesion.
A few writers and musicians have made their works freely available on the Internet and it has resulted in increased, not decreased sales.
People are downloading new movies before they are in theaters, and yet these movies gross hundreds of millions at the box office.
Does Linux support Windows yet?
"Scam artists, despite the vulgarity of their profession, are actually very talented and very good at what they do."
Contrary to popular belief, most con artists are neither smart nor clever. The success of a scam depends almost entirely on the greed of the victim -- the greedier the person, the more gullible they are and the more likely they are to be taken.
The vast majority of scams are not clever or skillfully executed -- in fact most are obvious hoaxes -- but the hoax is only obvious to someone not blinded by greed. The vast majority of scams succeed simply because the victim's greed causes then to suspend disbelief. Just like the gambler who's afraid to walk away from a slot machine because it might pay out soon, the victims of this guy couldn't walk away because of their greed --- they were afraid that someone else would cash in on this "invention"
"Temporarily Unavailable
The Angelfire site you are trying to reach has been temporarily suspended due to excessive bandwidth consumption."
Imagine that you were renting a building and running a business - a retail store. One day, the owner of the bulding comes in and padlocks the doors and says "Sorry, you can't re-open till the first of the month - too many people have come into your store".
What stupidity.
I've been building my own computers for several years, not so much so that I can build one "to my own personal specs" but mainly because I can build one that has higher quality components for a lower cost (look inside the major brand-name computers -- what crap!).
Unfortunately, the same does not apply to Operating Systems. Linux is good and getting better, but still inferior to Windows in many ways.
What planet are you living on? In the past 8 months the price of memory has tripled. In Sept. of last year I paid $28 for 256 meg DDR -- now it's selling for over $80.
"Wouldn't life had been so much easier if Windows had died, an everyone used OS/2, too bad its a legacy system now."
.... it was a good product but the incompetent retards at IBM couldn't get their act together. In 1990 (when Win 3.0 was released) Microsoft didn't have nearly the monopoly they have today. IBM had a shot and blew it.
I really liked OS/2, but there were just too many problems. Installation was a pain, hardware support was iffy