Why is the best browser available making strides against IE news anymore? It's better, everyone knows it, including our government intelligence (hah!), and only PHB's give me any reason to use IE anymore.
Cue Opera fans.
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Try wondering into the IT dept in your average corp and asking how many run unix on their boxes at home.
Interestingly enough, we're completely backwards. We're a Windows shop (except for Unix and Linux servers I use in teh course of my work), but all the IT guys use Linux at home. Strange, eh?
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Isn't RHEL Linux-for-suits?
Yes. But at least the underlying technology is the same, so no one can accuse it of being pure marketing BS.
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As time has gone on, though, it has gotten much better, I'll grant you that.
This statement kind of makes the whole preceding paragraph superfluous, doesn't it? My post kind of assumed that we aren't pitting Windows NT or UNIX '92 versus Linux 1.0.
You have *got* to be kidding (or simply new to the Linux scene) if you would think that anyone who would pay for a UNIX license would have paid for Linux back then.
Please tell me where in my post I said anything remotely like "back then".
With great OSS projects like Open Office, Gimp, and others, Linux desktop users have become accustomed a totally free desktop, and dislike free solutions that only provide binaries. This is not a very inviting environment for commercial companies to jump in
Seems quite inviting enough for IBM (Eclipse), Sun (OO.o), and Novell (Ximian).
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It's the value of the software. Even at the same price as UNIX, Linux would kick the pants off of Windows on the server. Linux is by hackers for hackers, and Windows is by suits for suits. I'm not a suit, I'm a hacker; incidentally, so are most other IT folks.
Stop rewarding their deplorable labor practices with your dollars.
What if I don't care? They made the decision to make more money than an easy-going job like mine provided. That's the trade-off: if you want the money, you have to work harder.
That said, if they aren't making any money, they need to move out east where I live.
Your Canada remark isn't a retort at all to what I said. Care to try again?
It's called a "refutation", where I take your comment and show how it's factually incorrect. Our founding fathers, which you said would "never invade a country that meant us harm", invaded Canada in 1783. Get it? You were wrong. Care to try again?
This Administration's faulty intelligence including forged documents lead to decisions which directly killed creeping up on 2,000 Americans, and a great many Iraqis, and left the Nation's reputation in tatters, so they gave people medals for their outstanding service.
A few people think free elections are worth more than human life. These people include the president, Benjamin Franklin, and me.
While on the subject, the committee that formed the whole of the religious canon of Christianity did so from a narrow selection of letters written by fanatical cult members over three hundred years earlier.
You've been listening to Jehovah's Witnesses. You should stop doing that. Trinitarian theology is very strongly rooted in the New Testament.
Much of the body of the Bible was written in letters by a schizophrenic who was born a hundred years after Christ's death.
I assume you're talking about Paul. The hypothesis that the Pauline epistles were written years after Jesus' death has been largely discredited by the finding of numerous copies dated around 65 AD, very close to the time the scriptures place themselves. We also have a few copies of the gospels from the same time period. As it is, we have more historical evidence for the correct dating of the New Testament than we do for the epic of Gilgamesh. Or so I've heard; don't take my word for it.
Mature students have pretty good track records. What they may lack or have forgotten in skills, they make up for in attitude and general savvy.
I'd go a step further and say that if you have the experience, you don't need the education. My CS degree isn't getting me anywhere, whereas my friends without any degrees at all are getting their foot in the door for coding jobs based purely on work history.
Well, if you'd just reinstalled Windows like you'd been asked to, you wouldn't have had to call them a second time, would you?:)
Naw, the second time was really a continuation of the first. The dude accidently dropped the line on me after three hours of me working through his "routine" ("Now press the power button. Now unplug the power cord...") while I keep saying "Yeah, that didn't work because the power supply is broken".
I call up again, get the same guy who definitely remembers me, but still insists that, because it's a fresh call, we have to go through the whole "routine" again before I can send in the defective power supply.
...obviously has never called Dell tech support. I've had to call them twice for a broken power supply, so I know. I completely endorse and support the modded-down comment.
It was posted one minute after its (+3, Funny) predacessor. Because he took the extra time to stick in that bold tag, he's going to lose karma. Is that fair?
Regretfully, the number 7% includes opinions of non-scientists that are allowed in the National Academy of Sciences, namely mathematicians.
Mathematics is the first science to get it right. When your precious "scientists" were making up goofy cosmological models to account for idiotic presuppositions, it was the mathematicians that set them straight. At the beginning of the modern era, all real scientists were first and foremost mathematicians. Tomorrow, we may find out your most precious "science" was fraudulantly doctored, but 1 plus 1 will always equal 2. Period.
The above quote, by the way, shows you know absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch about mathematics or science. Anyone who has taken high school chemistry ought to know better.
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Why is the best browser available making strides against IE news anymore? It's better, everyone knows it, including our government intelligence (hah!), and only PHB's give me any reason to use IE anymore.
Cue Opera fans.
Try wondering into the IT dept in your average corp and asking how many run unix on their boxes at home.
Interestingly enough, we're completely backwards. We're a Windows shop (except for Unix and Linux servers I use in teh course of my work), but all the IT guys use Linux at home. Strange, eh?
Isn't RHEL Linux-for-suits?
Yes. But at least the underlying technology is the same, so no one can accuse it of being pure marketing BS.
As time has gone on, though, it has gotten much better, I'll grant you that.
This statement kind of makes the whole preceding paragraph superfluous, doesn't it? My post kind of assumed that we aren't pitting Windows NT or UNIX '92 versus Linux 1.0.
You have *got* to be kidding (or simply new to the Linux scene) if you would think that anyone who would pay for a UNIX license would have paid for Linux back then.
Please tell me where in my post I said anything remotely like "back then".
You cite three huge service companies.
Well, there's no money in shrink-wrap anymore, anyways. Even shrink-wrap software shops make more money selling SA's with the software these days.
With great OSS projects like Open Office, Gimp, and others, Linux desktop users have become accustomed a totally free desktop, and dislike free solutions that only provide binaries. This is not a very inviting environment for commercial companies to jump in
Seems quite inviting enough for IBM (Eclipse), Sun (OO.o), and Novell (Ximian).
It's the value of the software. Even at the same price as UNIX, Linux would kick the pants off of Windows on the server. Linux is by hackers for hackers, and Windows is by suits for suits. I'm not a suit, I'm a hacker; incidentally, so are most other IT folks.
This post was funny and insightful. Nevertheless, JPelorat has committed the cardinal sin of breaking from slashthink.
We love Apple?
If you steal stuff, or substantially contribute to it, you pay the price.
No, I'm pretty sure you're the only one that shucked out the $20.00 to buy 28 Days Later on DVD.
Stop rewarding their deplorable labor practices with your dollars.
What if I don't care? They made the decision to make more money than an easy-going job like mine provided. That's the trade-off: if you want the money, you have to work harder.
That said, if they aren't making any money, they need to move out east where I live.
Your Canada remark isn't a retort at all to what I said. Care to try again?
It's called a "refutation", where I take your comment and show how it's factually incorrect. Our founding fathers, which you said would "never invade a country that meant us harm", invaded Canada in 1783. Get it? You were wrong. Care to try again?
Ben Franklin would never approve of America invading a nation that was no threat to us
You mean like Canada in 1783?
This Administration's faulty intelligence including forged documents lead to decisions which directly killed creeping up on 2,000 Americans, and a great many Iraqis, and left the Nation's reputation in tatters, so they gave people medals for their outstanding service.
A few people think free elections are worth more than human life. These people include the president, Benjamin Franklin, and me.
And now, the long running attempt at a joke has FINALLY achieved humor value.
Please, don't encourage him.
While on the subject, the committee that formed the whole of the religious canon of Christianity did so from a narrow selection of letters written by fanatical cult members over three hundred years earlier.
You've been listening to Jehovah's Witnesses. You should stop doing that. Trinitarian theology is very strongly rooted in the New Testament.
Much of the body of the Bible was written in letters by a schizophrenic who was born a hundred years after Christ's death.
I assume you're talking about Paul. The hypothesis that the Pauline epistles were written years after Jesus' death has been largely discredited by the finding of numerous copies dated around 65 AD, very close to the time the scriptures place themselves. We also have a few copies of the gospels from the same time period. As it is, we have more historical evidence for the correct dating of the New Testament than we do for the epic of Gilgamesh. Or so I've heard; don't take my word for it.
Mature students have pretty good track records. What they may lack or have forgotten in skills, they make up for in attitude and general savvy.
I'd go a step further and say that if you have the experience, you don't need the education. My CS degree isn't getting me anywhere, whereas my friends without any degrees at all are getting their foot in the door for coding jobs based purely on work history.
I get the same comfort level knowing that my Windows platform is behind hardware firewall.
;)
If it's Linksys, it's pure placebo effect.
Mods don't find marketspeak funny, apparently.
Probably because it has nothing to do with Communism, old people, Beowulf clusters or setting up bombs.
If we put our brains together synergistically, and I'm sure we can reach a solution.
Well, if you'd just reinstalled Windows like you'd been asked to, you wouldn't have had to call them a second time, would you? :)
Naw, the second time was really a continuation of the first. The dude accidently dropped the line on me after three hours of me working through his "routine" ("Now press the power button. Now unplug the power cord...") while I keep saying "Yeah, that didn't work because the power supply is broken".
I call up again, get the same guy who definitely remembers me, but still insists that, because it's a fresh call, we have to go through the whole "routine" again before I can send in the defective power supply.
Aaarrgh I hate outsourced tech support!
...obviously has never called Dell tech support. I've had to call them twice for a broken power supply, so I know. I completely endorse and support the modded-down comment.
It was posted one minute after its (+3, Funny) predacessor. Because he took the extra time to stick in that bold tag, he's going to lose karma. Is that fair?
All science is physics unless its stamp collecting.
Ah-hah! But all physics is math! Therefore, the removal of all mathematicians from the NAS would leave only stamp collectors!
QED!
Regretfully, the number 7% includes opinions of non-scientists that are allowed in the National Academy of Sciences, namely mathematicians.
Mathematics is the first science to get it right. When your precious "scientists" were making up goofy cosmological models to account for idiotic presuppositions, it was the mathematicians that set them straight. At the beginning of the modern era, all real scientists were first and foremost mathematicians. Tomorrow, we may find out your most precious "science" was fraudulantly doctored, but 1 plus 1 will always equal 2. Period.
The above quote, by the way, shows you know absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch about mathematics or science. Anyone who has taken high school chemistry ought to know better.