What is hard to believe though is alot of ppl think XP is just as stable as Win2k, when it is not, not by a longshot.
Oh, thanks for your evidence-heavy assertion, friend. Here I was, thinking that because my WinXP install runs just as well as my former Win2000 install, it's just as stable.
Now that you've offered such a concrete demonstration to the contrary, I am a little wiser to the realities of this crazy world.
Ay-freaking-men. The realities of nature are stunning even in comparison to the overblown stool that flows from movie studios worldwide.
But, because reality doesn't necessarily include a set of silicone-enhanced breasts, endless car chases, or the dry-cool wit of action heros, virtually no one can stay awake long enough to pay attention. And that is very sad.
Oh, that's just so wrong. We are one kind of life that has no right to influence any others. What if the life that would have formed without our intervention had turned out to be better than ours in any number of ways? Believe it or not, humans are not necessarily the benchmark of life overall.
It's this type of thinking that has driven the "westernize everybody" philosophy throughout the last several hundred years. Before Europeans arrived in North America, the Indians had created complex political and social structures that worked as well or better than what was forced upon them by colonists. By "taming the savages" without stopping to actually look at how they interacted with each other and, more importantly, nature, colonists damned the Indians along with themselves to the wasteful, filthy existence that has reduced this beautiful planet to a dirty brown globe.
We, as stupid humans, destroy anything we touch, especially since the idiocy of economic politics has come to outweigh any other pursuit.
I can only hope that whatever might be developing upon Titan does so in time to fight us off.
Oh yeah? Where? How many non-technical households can you walk into and ask the inhabitants what they think of Linux and get any reaction but an uninterested, glassy stare?
All this Linux self-importance is giving me a headache. Honda is a household name. SONY is a household name. Microsoft is a household name. Linux doesn't exist outside the tech world, and even within that narrow scope it's often just a buzzword.
Linux winning in the hearts and minds of the consumers.
Oh, for heaven's sake -- it's just a computer product, not a visceral entity. I truly pity anyone who has any computer software in their "heart and/or mind". Talk about overstated importance. Cripes.
Because not everyone wants to be "global". With globalization, comes the two problems of --
1) a potential for becoming too large. I can't afford a server farm if popularity hits hard, can you? That is completely ignoring the massive additional administrative overhead and invariable loss of focus encountered by popular web sites.
2) a potential for shit disturbers. Everyone is a big tough man from a thousand miles away (Slashdot is an almost-too-perfect example of this). I have a hunch that things are very different when one knows that everyone on board is in the same general area.
I ran a BBS too, and I've yet to find a web site that offers any of the same intimacy that those old war-horses did, in addition to the things I mentioned above.
Linux represents choice and freedom, not censorship or religion
Is it raining irony in here? This article is calling for a boycott to kill Microsoft's freedom of speech (in its advertising) and Linux Today's choice to display what it wishes. Yet, Linux clearly represents choice and freedom.
You guys are hilarious. I can't wait to laugh about this one at the office on Monday. What a joke.
So, you're going to trick people into using "your" product, in the hopes that they'll get used to it and not mind its presence.
In other words, you're no better than Gator, any number of other spyware providers, or Microsoft itself. Oh, but you are better because your political beliefs are correct. Bleh.
I'm going to need longer boots to handle all the hypocrisy around this place.
I am SO proud of you for managing to drag your computer politics into a scenario where they have no possible value on the topic being presented. It is just delightful to be presented with such killer examples of why nobody likes anti-Microsoft zealots.
But if you know you will win, this argument is simply not true!
Ah, kids are just precious. In a "loser pays" scenario, the big company just makes it clear that they have better lawyers than you, and more lawyers than you. When you are faced with paying $2500 an hour when you lose to their best and brightest, you are no more willing to move ahead than you are in the current system.
The "winner" in court has nothing to do with who is right. Isn't that right, OJ? Hey, OJ! Get the hell out of my fridge!
Actually, I just intended to make fun of the fact that Slashdot relies almost entirely upon a belief that irrational hatred wins users.
But, since you asked, I don't think that the comment from 'squiggeslash' contains irrational hatred (assuming that's the original post you mean). In fact, I think it's dead-on, in that most linux pundits don't want choice, they want to construct their own replacement monopoly, which will suddenly become A Good Thing. I know that most of them figure that linux et al can't be a monopoly because of its alleged freeness, but the dissection of that is so lengthy that I'll just say, "Incorrect."
FOSS, as far as I am concerned, is the feminism of the IT world (ironic, no?). Most hardcore feminists claim that it's merely a desire to end centuries of patriarchal oppression and attain equality, yet are not satisfied until it patriarchal thinking is replaced by the same thing in reverse. Women, in their estimation, should be placed above men in importance in the name of their pursuit (Read Vandana Shiva's "The Impoverishment of the Environment: Women and Children Last" for an example). This is equality? How?
I see the same thing in the Slashdot world. Microsoft is bad, bad, bad, and anyone who chooses their products is degraded and called stupid. These people constantly talk about 'tricking' unsuspecting luddites into using non-Microsoft products, certain that they won't notice the difference while still offering another tick on the bedpost of the FOSS revolution! Whether they notice isn't really the point, though, is it? By sneaking something else in there, they've removed the luddite's choice. Let me guess, "They're not educated enough in the matter to make a proper choice." Doesn't matter.
Despite the nasal whine around this place, FOSS isn't the best choice for everyone in all cases, or even in many cases. Yet, anything from a proprietary source is immediately bad, despite the fact that it may do the job better than a free alternative. Having read Slashdot for what is approaching six years, I have a hard time believing that a wish to offer choice is behind any of this.
1) There are only two comments on the topic this time. However, every time the topic of cars comes up, the supposedly 'enlightened' linux geeks ain't. Pay attention in the next car article and you'll see.
2) linux geeks constantly trumpet their interest in quality over slick marketing. My claim is this is false, and car choice is excellent evidence. It matters not what percentage of Windows users drive American cars, because they're supposed to be suckered in by shiny advertising. Linux users like to think they're 'above' that 'consuming hoardes' mentality, despite evidence to the contrary.
I think it's hilarious that so many alleged "linux geeks" buy American cars. American cars lack quality, security, performance and are only sold because millions are too stupid to seek out better options. By waving the 'Murcan flag behind a Chevy truck commercial, it appeals to your sense of loyalty and causes you to forget what you're actually buying (read: junk).
The only way that American car quality will EVER improve is if the customers vote with their money. Since many (most?) North Americans can't IMAGINE buying any 'jap crap,' the future of U.S. manufacturers remains clogged with 40,000 mile engine rebuilds while the rest of us, willing to pay more now for imported vehicles (TCO, don't you know), drive happily past.
Sound familiar? Replace the flag with slick marketing, and it's the argument many of you employ in 'discussions' of why Microsoft continues to flourish. Yet, when it comes to cars, you're unsurprisingly not willing to put your money where your mouth is.
There's just nothing better than 'conversing' with American car fans. "What are you calling junk? My Chev has 250,000 miles on it!" "Really? How many engines and transmissions has it been through?" "Four." Heh. I worked in auto parts for three summers -- it happens all the time.
That sounds a lot like the same mentality used in defending Windows, doesn't it? Enjoy your Chevy/Ford, linux fans.
I'll be honest, I really couldn't care less if I'm taken seriously by the Slashdot collective, as any technical issues I could come up with would be almost certainly brushed off by a group who has an agenda to fulfill at all costs. That is, in short, "Linux roolz". It happens all the time around here.
All I'm saying is that these are some of the reasons why I didn't last on Linux, despite appreciating its appearance. Having snooped around, I've found that all of these are fairly common complaints. Consider them carefully as feature "requests," or throw them away as being the bitchings of a jerk -- it really matters not to me, because I don't care if Linux improves.
Slashdot Mirror
That's what you get for buying asdf.com.
Keep that in mind the next time these rubes start accusing Microsoft of FUD and you'll see why so many of us find Slashdot to be hilarious.
Oh, thanks for your evidence-heavy assertion, friend. Here I was, thinking that because my WinXP install runs just as well as my former Win2000 install, it's just as stable.
Now that you've offered such a concrete demonstration to the contrary, I am a little wiser to the realities of this crazy world.
But, because reality doesn't necessarily include a set of silicone-enhanced breasts, endless car chases, or the dry-cool wit of action heros, virtually no one can stay awake long enough to pay attention. And that is very sad.
It's this type of thinking that has driven the "westernize everybody" philosophy throughout the last several hundred years. Before Europeans arrived in North America, the Indians had created complex political and social structures that worked as well or better than what was forced upon them by colonists. By "taming the savages" without stopping to actually look at how they interacted with each other and, more importantly, nature, colonists damned the Indians along with themselves to the wasteful, filthy existence that has reduced this beautiful planet to a dirty brown globe.
We, as stupid humans, destroy anything we touch, especially since the idiocy of economic politics has come to outweigh any other pursuit.
I can only hope that whatever might be developing upon Titan does so in time to fight us off.
Yes.
Oh yeah? Where? How many non-technical households can you walk into and ask the inhabitants what they think of Linux and get any reaction but an uninterested, glassy stare?
All this Linux self-importance is giving me a headache. Honda is a household name. SONY is a household name. Microsoft is a household name. Linux doesn't exist outside the tech world, and even within that narrow scope it's often just a buzzword.
That's an impressive tinfoil hat you've got there.
Oh, for heaven's sake -- it's just a computer product, not a visceral entity. I truly pity anyone who has any computer software in their "heart and/or mind". Talk about overstated importance. Cripes.
Back into the cellar with ye, fanboy.
Until you try to do something other than watching the top display all day long.
1) a potential for becoming too large. I can't afford a server farm if popularity hits hard, can you? That is completely ignoring the massive additional administrative overhead and invariable loss of focus encountered by popular web sites.
2) a potential for shit disturbers. Everyone is a big tough man from a thousand miles away (Slashdot is an almost-too-perfect example of this). I have a hunch that things are very different when one knows that everyone on board is in the same general area.
I ran a BBS too, and I've yet to find a web site that offers any of the same intimacy that those old war-horses did, in addition to the things I mentioned above.
Is it raining irony in here? This article is calling for a boycott to kill Microsoft's freedom of speech (in its advertising) and Linux Today's choice to display what it wishes. Yet, Linux clearly represents choice and freedom.
You guys are hilarious. I can't wait to laugh about this one at the office on Monday. What a joke.
In other words, patents owned by anyone you don't like, or agree with. That is what troll means around here, isn't it?
OK, stay away from American manufacturers, then, and you'll be happy.
In other words, you're no better than Gator, any number of other spyware providers, or Microsoft itself. Oh, but you are better because your political beliefs are correct. Bleh.
I'm going to need longer boots to handle all the hypocrisy around this place.
Sigh -- Slashlogic strikes again.
I am SO proud of you for managing to drag your computer politics into a scenario where they have no possible value on the topic being presented. It is just delightful to be presented with such killer examples of why nobody likes anti-Microsoft zealots.
Ah, kids are just precious. In a "loser pays" scenario, the big company just makes it clear that they have better lawyers than you, and more lawyers than you. When you are faced with paying $2500 an hour when you lose to their best and brightest, you are no more willing to move ahead than you are in the current system.
The "winner" in court has nothing to do with who is right. Isn't that right, OJ? Hey, OJ! Get the hell out of my fridge!
But, since you asked, I don't think that the comment from 'squiggeslash' contains irrational hatred (assuming that's the original post you mean). In fact, I think it's dead-on, in that most linux pundits don't want choice, they want to construct their own replacement monopoly, which will suddenly become A Good Thing. I know that most of them figure that linux et al can't be a monopoly because of its alleged freeness, but the dissection of that is so lengthy that I'll just say, "Incorrect."
FOSS, as far as I am concerned, is the feminism of the IT world (ironic, no?). Most hardcore feminists claim that it's merely a desire to end centuries of patriarchal oppression and attain equality, yet are not satisfied until it patriarchal thinking is replaced by the same thing in reverse. Women, in their estimation, should be placed above men in importance in the name of their pursuit (Read Vandana Shiva's "The Impoverishment of the Environment: Women and Children Last" for an example). This is equality? How?
I see the same thing in the Slashdot world. Microsoft is bad, bad, bad, and anyone who chooses their products is degraded and called stupid. These people constantly talk about 'tricking' unsuspecting luddites into using non-Microsoft products, certain that they won't notice the difference while still offering another tick on the bedpost of the FOSS revolution! Whether they notice isn't really the point, though, is it? By sneaking something else in there, they've removed the luddite's choice. Let me guess, "They're not educated enough in the matter to make a proper choice." Doesn't matter.
Despite the nasal whine around this place, FOSS isn't the best choice for everyone in all cases, or even in many cases. Yet, anything from a proprietary source is immediately bad, despite the fact that it may do the job better than a free alternative. Having read Slashdot for what is approaching six years, I have a hard time believing that a wish to offer choice is behind any of this.
And --POOF-- Slashdot disappears in a cloud of irony.
I'd be happy to wait two, five or ten seconds for results that are better than the wasteland of shitty 'e-commerce' that Google has become.
2) linux geeks constantly trumpet their interest in quality over slick marketing. My claim is this is false, and car choice is excellent evidence. It matters not what percentage of Windows users drive American cars, because they're supposed to be suckered in by shiny advertising. Linux users like to think they're 'above' that 'consuming hoardes' mentality, despite evidence to the contrary.
The only way that American car quality will EVER improve is if the customers vote with their money. Since many (most?) North Americans can't IMAGINE buying any 'jap crap,' the future of U.S. manufacturers remains clogged with 40,000 mile engine rebuilds while the rest of us, willing to pay more now for imported vehicles (TCO, don't you know), drive happily past.
Sound familiar? Replace the flag with slick marketing, and it's the argument many of you employ in 'discussions' of why Microsoft continues to flourish. Yet, when it comes to cars, you're unsurprisingly not willing to put your money where your mouth is.
There's just nothing better than 'conversing' with American car fans. "What are you calling junk? My Chev has 250,000 miles on it!" "Really? How many engines and transmissions has it been through?" "Four." Heh. I worked in auto parts for three summers -- it happens all the time.
That sounds a lot like the same mentality used in defending Windows, doesn't it? Enjoy your Chevy/Ford, linux fans.
How about anyone who writes anything professionally? Surely, there must be, what, 502 of those people on planet Earth.
As to the rest of your "points," they're just as subjective as mine, so I'll just brush them off as you have.
All I'm saying is that these are some of the reasons why I didn't last on Linux, despite appreciating its appearance. Having snooped around, I've found that all of these are fairly common complaints. Consider them carefully as feature "requests," or throw them away as being the bitchings of a jerk -- it really matters not to me, because I don't care if Linux improves.