The survey was based on web surfers so it may be accurate
Er, or it may not. Does the web surfing population necessarily represent all computer owners? I would suggest that web surfers are slightly more likely to be tech-savvy and therefore web-surfers will have a higher percentage of Linux desktop use than non-web users. So the figure may be even lower.
I though that Linux had a *huge* share of the desktop market!
Re:Screenshot link is fine... and helpfull.
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KDE 3.0 beta 1 is out
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On the other hand, wouldn't it be a hoot if that guy really did change his page so it redirects to goatse?
I'm thinking the plan is:
1) Mirror a site (properly)
2) Get up to +5.
3) Set a script up to swap the images on your linked site with the goatse.cx ones and back again every 5 / 10 seconds.
Half the people who visit will see anus, the other half the correct images - consequently no-one will know what the feck is going on!
Further question though - what the hell has that guy done to his ass - drive a truck through it???
Guess you can sell DRAM for a hundred bucks a gigabyte, but you can't make a living at it yet
What does this even mean?? Guess you can seel stuff ridiculously cheap but that doesn't enable you to make a profit. Uh yeah, guess so. Guess this is written bu some open source -> profit chimp.
Yeah, let's have real physics! Your in-game character will be a 23-stone sweaty short-sighted nerd and the first time he falls off a platform the forces exerted on his body will destroy his spine in the game, so you'll only be able to die once in your game, ever.
Jesus dude, if every time you see a spelling error you decide to assume it's some word you're going to have a real hard time living in this imperfect world! The typo and the correct word were even phonetically similar!
Most people here on/. tend to get up in arms about one thing or another and a good bit of us do something about it. Well, now is the time for a fair majority of us to really do something and let the manufacturers know WITH YOUR DOLLARS.
I have to keep posting this same point. Slashdot readership is a piss in the ocean. You sir, are an unimportant blip on the gloabl market, as am i.
See that six-figure number that's your user id. How many is slashdot up to, 800,000 maybe, if that? How many of those are still active? How many have read this article? How many of those have read your post? How many agree with it? How many of those are thinking of buying DVD player? Piss in the ocean.
vi is the greatest thing on earth. nothing beats the fun factor of typing the 'replace the next 500 characters with' command and watching your fellow developer crap all over his code the next key they press and the ensuing panic. You'd think this would only work once - but ohhhh no.
No, Damian Conway is an extra from Planet of the Apes. What is it with geeks and lame-ass facial hair? Do VDU's stop its proper growth or something - I think we need to be told.
Naked petrified Natalie Portman with hot grits in her pants.
Pedants corner: Naked girls don't have pants. Although to be fair, you probably haven't seen the former. You'll probaby have a vast collection of the latter from the local playgroup's washing line though.
* M$, Micro$oft and other varieties.
* Spelling Porn as Pr0n (I was around in the cool old days, oh yes)
* www.goatse.cx
*... a beowulf cluster of these (before trolls took this over (me included))
* Can you install Linux on it? (before trolls took this over (me included))
Any more anyone - perhaps we can get the definitive list and get it added into the Lameness filter;-)...
It sorta reminds me how I used to mess with my dumb math teachers in high school by doing all my 'internal' calculations in hex, only converting the final answer back to decimal.
Jee-sus! How did you find time to do that and screw all the hot girls in your year?
Re:I hate to nitpick...
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It is where I come from, you fucking gay bastard;-).
Because, fuckard, it is a pointless and baseless critique of an OS just to attract populist point-scoring.
Believe or not, some people who visit this site actually have a balanced view and don't wank themselves to sleep thinking of the latest linux kernel updates.
Anyone else find it odd that MS will be supporting DOS, Win 3.x and NT 3.5 a month longer than 95? I mean, seriously. I can count the number of people I know that have win 3.x system on one hand.
I think, chances are, MS don't use the amount of people *you* know as a consideration on how long they're going to support a particular operating system.
My point was - if you look at desktop pc's as an example of how many people 'stray from the norm' and install linux, that is quite a low percentage. And it is a relatively easy task.
If you then think about that number and think how much smaller the percentage of people there is will do it to an XBox, and furthermore consider that (at least for the foreseeable future) there are going to be a massively smaller amount of xboxes as compared to PC's, you can come to understand what a piss in the water that will be to MS, and we can perhaps dispel this ridiculous notion that MS are going to get financially screwed by this practice.
They might be lost though. If it turns out to be really easy to modify an X-Box enough to run Linux and play your MP3's, DIV-X movies, do email, etc, then people might buy an X-Box and never spend a penny on an X-Box game.
Look mate - in your peer group, and on this website, maybe there is a relatatively high percentage minority of people who are going to do this - but in the real world, normal everyday people do not do this. Wake up!!
As an example - how much money do you think MS 'lose' on computers sold on which people solely install linux? It's really not that great a percentage of total pc's...
Slashdot Mirror
The survey was based on web surfers so it may be accurate
Er, or it may not. Does the web surfing population necessarily represent all computer owners? I would suggest that web surfers are slightly more likely to be tech-savvy and therefore web-surfers will have a higher percentage of Linux desktop use than non-web users. So the figure may be even lower.
I though that Linux had a *huge* share of the desktop market!
On the other hand, wouldn't it be a hoot if that guy really did change his page so it redirects to goatse?
I'm thinking the plan is:
1) Mirror a site (properly)
2) Get up to +5.
3) Set a script up to swap the images on your linked site with the goatse.cx ones and back again every 5 / 10 seconds.
Half the people who visit will see anus, the other half the correct images - consequently no-one will know what the feck is going on!
Further question though - what the hell has that guy done to his ass - drive a truck through it???
Can't fault a company for trying to make some money - hope it works.
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Yeah, apart from when it's Microsoft - hypocrasy abound again on
Guess you can sell DRAM for a hundred bucks a gigabyte, but you can't make a living at it yet
What does this even mean?? Guess you can seel stuff ridiculously cheap but that doesn't enable you to make a profit. Uh yeah, guess so. Guess this is written bu some open source -> profit chimp.
Yeah, let's have real physics! Your in-game character will be a 23-stone sweaty short-sighted nerd and the first time he falls off a platform the forces exerted on his body will destroy his spine in the game, so you'll only be able to die once in your game, ever.
Jesus dude, if every time you see a spelling error you decide to assume it's some word you're going to have a real hard time living in this imperfect world! The typo and the correct word were even phonetically similar!
Most people here on /. tend to get up in arms about one thing or another and a good bit of us do something about it. Well, now is the time for a fair majority of us to really do something and let the manufacturers know WITH YOUR DOLLARS.
I have to keep posting this same point. Slashdot readership is a piss in the ocean. You sir, are an unimportant blip on the gloabl market, as am i.
See that six-figure number that's your user id. How many is slashdot up to, 800,000 maybe, if that? How many of those are still active? How many have read this article? How many of those have read your post? How many agree with it? How many of those are thinking of buying DVD player? Piss in the ocean.
I don't live in a M$ world, nor do I want to.
Well, there's an easy way, or a hard way.
vi is the greatest thing on earth. nothing beats the fun factor of typing the 'replace the next 500 characters with' command and watching your fellow developer crap all over his code the next key they press and the ensuing panic. You'd think this would only work once - but ohhhh no.
No, Damian Conway is an extra from Planet of the Apes. What is it with geeks and lame-ass facial hair? Do VDU's stop its proper growth or something - I think we need to be told.
Naked petrified Natalie Portman with hot grits in her pants.
Pedants corner: Naked girls don't have pants. Although to be fair, you probably haven't seen the former. You'll probaby have a vast collection of the latter from the local playgroup's washing line though.
nah man, mechanics can't make their own auto-parts, they can only buy and fit new ones...
Exactly.
Er, except the car costs a fortune to buy and it's a little difficult and expensive to make your own parts.
So, er, pretty damn remote from Linux.
Good point otherwise though...
* M$, Micro$oft and other varieties. ... a beowulf cluster of these (before trolls took this over (me included))
;-)...
* Spelling Porn as Pr0n (I was around in the cool old days, oh yes)
* www.goatse.cx
*
* Can you install Linux on it? (before trolls took this over (me included))
Any more anyone - perhaps we can get the definitive list and get it added into the Lameness filter
always wondered what it'd be like with kangaroos roaming the plains with lions
Have you? Really? Or are you Lion?
It sorta reminds me how I used to mess with my dumb math teachers in high school by doing all my 'internal' calculations in hex, only converting the final answer back to decimal.
Jee-sus! How did you find time to do that and screw all the hot girls in your year?
It is where I come from, you fucking gay bastard ;-).
Because, fuckard, it is a pointless and baseless critique of an OS just to attract populist point-scoring.
Believe or not, some people who visit this site actually have a balanced view and don't wank themselves to sleep thinking of the latest linux kernel updates.
How about Windows 2k then?
Anyone else find it odd that MS will be supporting DOS, Win 3.x and NT 3.5 a month longer than 95? I mean, seriously. I can count the number of people I know that have win 3.x system on one hand.
I think, chances are, MS don't use the amount of people *you* know as a consideration on how long they're going to support a particular operating system.
My point was - if you look at desktop pc's as an example of how many people 'stray from the norm' and install linux, that is quite a low percentage. And it is a relatively easy task.
If you then think about that number and think how much smaller the percentage of people there is will do it to an XBox, and furthermore consider that (at least for the foreseeable future) there are going to be a massively smaller amount of xboxes as compared to PC's, you can come to understand what a piss in the water that will be to MS, and we can perhaps dispel this ridiculous notion that MS are going to get financially screwed by this practice.
They might be lost though. If it turns out to be really easy to modify an X-Box enough to run Linux and play your MP3's, DIV-X movies, do email, etc, then people might buy an X-Box and never spend a penny on an X-Box game.
Look mate - in your peer group, and on this website, maybe there is a relatatively high percentage minority of people who are going to do this - but in the real world, normal everyday people do not do this. Wake up!!
As an example - how much money do you think MS 'lose' on computers sold on which people solely install linux? It's really not that great a percentage of total pc's...
Whoopi-do. Shall I list all the things Windows is used for as well? Or OS2?
This is not 'off-topic'. I was asked what features were wanted, I replied.
a) Apologies for not closing the I Tag.
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;-).
b) If anyone does have links to pictures of famous women's spread pussies, here's the place to post them
One caveat - famous women who AREN'T porn stars