User 956, meet Joke. Joke, this is User 956. What's that you say Joke? You've never met User 956 before? You say he hangs out with your cousin Bee In My Bonnet all the time?
MacOS doesn't run on cheap, available-everywhere, commodity, x86 hardware.
I don't get this argument... so should everyone drive Hyundais? They're cheap and available everywhere?
Maybe...
but I bet the Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, Infiniti, etc, drivers don't give a damn as their more expensive cars *just work* and don't need the same level of maintenance the rest of us take for granted as just part of what goes with owning a (cheap) car...
Please note that Saturn has a similar reliability rep as those above marks *and* is inexpensive, yet they're not taking over the auto world...
Quite often, despite what it appears a LOT of Slashdotters think, purchase price doesn't mean a thing...
And I ran a PowerMac 8500/120 (from 1995) till last year (6 years) with proc (g3 400, $225) and ram (768MB, $110) and disk (18GB SCSI-2, $100) upgrades. And I ran OS 9.x successfully and 10.1 just fine too (with Ryan Rempel's XPFextension package...
And while I can't prove it to you in person, OSX ran a ton better on an G3 400 than WinXP did on the PIII450s I doled out to employees when we upgraded boxes this fall...
P
Sure, I could have bought a new iMac for the money spent, but from a install/archive/manage standpoint, it was a win...
Perhaps this will have the happy side effect of demonstrating to the polits that spam has true costs to recipients, not only in transfer-across-the-wire and storage costs, but in management costs as well.
Hopefully this will bring something good to bear. I doubt it but I hope it...
For most people in your company, the "slowness" is going to be way more than offset by stability and the productivity it yields: not just in terms of time lost rebooting, but also for sysdamins restoring whacked documents from backup since 95 GPF'd and F'd up an important spreadsheet or presentation.
When the GPL denies users access to something useful, because it generates the impression that the GPL is anti-user. (Trolls and dumb modders, note that I didn't say the GPL was anti-user, but that these types of incidents create that impression).
This is unfortunately the kind of thinking Microsoft would love to perpertuate and here they didn't have to raise a finger or spend a cent.
Just providing a viewpoint from outside the GNU rules! Linux-uber-alles camp...
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And Linux on x86 runs a lot more software than Linux on PPC
And using that logic, why bother with Linux when Windows run LOTS LOTS LOTS LOTS LOTS more software than Linux on X86...
...I'm proud to say I live in Massachusetts!!!
Go Tom Go Tom Go Tom!!!
(and Doug!)
Bullshiznit. A job's a privilege, NOT a right. While I hope he doesn't, my boss can, and should be able to, fire me at will...
I have the "right" to go find another job...
It's Verizon ferchrissakes, what do you expect?
...or call customer service... ...or talk with my "sales rep"
Has *ANYONE* ever had a good experience with them?
I cringe everytime they walk in the door and head for the demarc closet...
These guys have stupidity down to a fine science...
...now *THERES* a classic.
I can't be the only one to wait excitedly each month for my copy!
Given all the comments I've been reading it's seems to me like this is nothing more than Vaporware.
Maybe not. But right now it's clearly meant to be Hurd and not seen. ;-)
I think this speaks also to the fact that WE should not be anti-Microsoft, but be pro-OSS. Being positive does a lot more than being negative.
Might as well shut down Slashdot, in that case...
And if you get Software Assurance, you can upgrade to the latest version of MS Judge XP!
User 956, meet Joke. Joke, this is User 956. What's that you say Joke? You've never met User 956 before? You say he hangs out with your cousin Bee In My Bonnet all the time?
Nice troll.
But downloading drivers beats compiling kernels and kernelmods *any* day of the week! Especially Christmas. ;-)
with names becoming generic to the point of no return:
LinuX
XeroX
KleeneX
Note to "GNU/Linux" moniker lovers - not gonna happen
God help me, but all I can think of is Cartman shouting "you po' Kenny! PO!!!"
Every 16 year old with a ride builds his own for his car. You know... boooommm boom boom boom boooommmm
;-))
If they can, you can too. (And if you *can't*, please turn in your geek badge right now
Besides, your (legal, of course) MP3s and Quake III Arena will sound much better with one!
I don't get this argument... so should everyone drive Hyundais? They're cheap and available everywhere?
Maybe...
but I bet the Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, Infiniti, etc, drivers don't give a damn as their more expensive cars *just work* and don't need the same level of maintenance the rest of us take for granted as just part of what goes with owning a (cheap) car...
Please note that Saturn has a similar reliability rep as those above marks *and* is inexpensive, yet they're not taking over the auto world...
Quite often, despite what it appears a LOT of Slashdotters think, purchase price doesn't mean a thing...
And while I can't prove it to you in person, OSX ran a ton better on an G3 400 than WinXP did on the PIII450s I doled out to employees when we upgraded boxes this fall... P Sure, I could have bought a new iMac for the money spent, but from a install/archive/manage standpoint, it was a win...
Perhaps this will have the happy side effect of demonstrating to the polits that spam has true costs to recipients, not only in transfer-across-the-wire and storage costs, but in management costs as well.
Hopefully this will bring something good to bear. I doubt it but I hope it...
C'mon now.
Seriously.
For most people in your company, the "slowness" is going to be way more than offset by stability and the productivity it yields: not just in terms of time lost rebooting, but also for sysdamins restoring whacked documents from backup since 95 GPF'd and F'd up an important spreadsheet or presentation.
As a troll, I give you a C-
When the GPL denies users access to something useful, because it generates the impression that the GPL is anti-user. (Trolls and dumb modders, note that I didn't say the GPL was anti-user, but that these types of incidents create that impression).
This is unfortunately the kind of thinking Microsoft would love to perpertuate and here they didn't have to raise a finger or spend a cent.
Just providing a viewpoint from outside the GNU rules! Linux-uber-alles camp...
...that he kept pestering Carly to change the company name to GNU/HP
The accelerator pedal is on the RIGHT.
FreeCell already got the name figure out -- or would that be OpenFreeCell? FreeFreeCell? hmm...
Hmm...how about GNU/FreeCell? ;-)
Someone get these guys a copy of Consumer Reports' car reliability guide!
THE frickin' topic itself is off-topic by being redundant!!!
Sad to say, but Slashdot seems to be slipping towards that sad reality where shortly the trolls will write "Slashdot is dying" and be 100% correct...
Many thanks to *all* of them.
Bet they don't hear that enough...
Getting something for free is also the point of Linux for a *LOT* of people and that's not in the favor of a game developer.