Linux's day is coming. Live CDs will be a big help. It's one thing to just pop a CD in and boot without risk and quite another to do a complete install that wipes out your personal data. Live CDs will allow average people to take a look at Linux without risk. Most will like what they see.
Microsoft fans will be quick to point out that gaming isn't there and some will even try the ol' "Plug and Play doesn't work" card.
For gaming it is true that there hasn't been a large enough adoption of Linux for most companies to make the investment. As Linux continues to be adopted I suspect that more companies will feel that there is a market to be tapped.
The "Plug and Play doesn't work" card is a farce. The vast majority of hardware works right out of the box. Most of the time I find it easier to get hardware working with Linux than with Windows. With Windows I always spend a lot of extra time loading drivers that came on separate media (If I can find them). More and more manufacturers are including Linux drivers and as the popularity of Linux grows it just gets better.
So for Windows fans: You may not like Linux but Linux's time is coming. So if you don't want to join the party fine but stop trying to throw a turd in our punchbowl.
'I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.'
Yes Ballmer, I know...
A friend of mine use to work at Microsoft for years but quit after Ballmer arrived. He told me that he and a lot of talent was leaving Microsoft because Ballmer and other "bean counters" were destroying the company.
How about faking evidence at the antitrust trial. They were caught red handed doing that. I believe that even though the Court chose not to prosecute that does go afoul of criminal law.
"More often than not the FLOSS claim that Microsoft "hinders" them is centered around disappointment over unrealistic expectations of fame and fortune..."
Show me an example.
Did Netscape (The leader in browser software at the time) have unrealistic expectations when Microsoft crushed them by illegally leveraging its OS monopoly?
There are numerous other examples where companies were in dominant positions until Microsoft crushed them. Not by offering a better product but by illegally using their monopoly position in the OS area to gain an unfair advantage.
"There are all sorts of ISO standards that people refuse to use in their current form."
But how many of them are used by a product that has a monopoly share of the market? People will buy Microsoft Office 2007. People will save almost all documents using the default OXML format. People will feel the pain of Microsoft's lock-in once more.
They miss the mark every single time. I mean it couldn't possibly be the fact that they chose to sue their own customers that alienated people from them.
I decided to watch the video again, you know, to make sure wasn't giving you any bad information. Retired General Clark said that General at the Pentagon told him on or about the 20th of September of 2001 that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq. He said that he visited the Pentagon again a few weeks later and asked this general if we were still going to war with Iraq and the General replied "Oh it's worse than that" the General held up a piece of paper and said "I just got this memo from the Secretary of Defenses Office that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years. Starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran."
I'm not the one who's wrong you are. Of course you'll just whine about me not searching the internet for you and providing a link because as a partisan asshole it's more important to you to feel you've won an argument than to actually know the truth. Well keep your illusion because that's all it is. If you decide that this is an important enough issue to discuss I suggest you find the video (I've already given you the site (website) where you can probably find it. But you won't. You'll just whine that I'm not spoon feeding you information blah, blah, blah... Oh, and don't forget to throw in a couple of insults just to top it off.
"The reason Linux has been abstracted into a concept is so it doesn't have to compete on merit."
Bullshit. I does fine on merit. Maybe people just say "Linux" instead of "Ubuntu 6.10" or "Mandrake 10.1" is because the former is the way people talk. You know just like they say "Windows" instead of the exact version.
Also most distros have so much common code (Sort of the whole point of open source) that when talking about a feature it just makes more sense to say "Linux" then to rattle off a definitive list.
Besides, when people talk about Linux it covers a lot of things. Just like when people talk about.Net. There's the kernel and the windowing environment, and all the other programs that are put together to make a useable operating system. Again that's just the nature of open source.
This guy is nothing more than an anti-Linux, anti open source troll. Here are some of his "Words of Wisdom":
" The reason Linux has been abstracted into a concept is so it doesn't have to compete on merit."
" Linux is surrounded by people who generally don't even use real names and often "exaggerate" what they do for a living."
" PJ, the woman who allegedly heads up this legal resource, is currently ducking service from SCO and lord knows what she is covering up."
On the last example I must comment. SCO indeed wants to put PJ in the spot light. Not for any reason other than to harass her. Through her efforts she has shined a light on SCO's legal scam.
PJ has stated that she is extremely shy. Most people don't know what it is like to be so shy that you would do almost anything rather than be put on center stage. I know what it's like. For people like us written communication is no big deal but face to face and sometimes even phone contact causes unbelievable anxiety.
It's pretty shitty for this guy to imply that PJ has anything to hide.
Okay you ignorant partisan asshole, you have thrown insult after insult. I am under no obligation to hold your fucking hand and guild you to the exact file. I told you which website you can find the video. If you weren't such a whiny ass fuck you would have just gone out to the site watched the video and we could be discusing the ramifications. I even offered to go out of my way to encode it as a mpeg and upload it for you but you prefer to just continue throwing insults
Go find the file yourself or remain as blindly ignorant of the truth as you are. I don't have any more patents or time for a pathetic bone-headed ass wipe like you.
"It's interesting. I provide facts and cites, you provide insults. I think that speaks volumes."
If you don't want it to get personal then don't make it so. Your "Or maybe you don't know what a cite is." was the first insult thrown and it was thrown by you.
BTW the "cites" you provided was nothing more than neo-con dribble just parroting the same ol' right wing rhetoric. And anything I seemed to say you would twist it around. I NEVER SAID that "last resort" was part of the language of the resolution. Maybe I was unclear but I always meant that the resolution was to give Bush the power to go to war as a last resort. Any intelligent person wouldn't take the war option without exhausting all other avenues first. Unless of course they wanted regime change.
I provided the most telling fact of all: that the Bush Administration decided to attack Iraq way before the WMD red herring was put out and they had a plan to take out seven countries in that region. Unless of course you claim that Ret. General Clark is a liar. The proof is an interview that is playing on Free Speech TV. It's not a "cite." Although I believe you can find the video on the free speech tv site. The url I gave you. www.freespeechtv.org. And if you really can't find it I did record it and could convert it into a mpeg and post it on UTube or whatever.
The Congress ASSUMED Chimp-man would only use it as a last resort. My statements stand.
"Yeah, I didn't think you could. Thanks for the non-effort there. Or maybe you don't know what a cite is. There's a couple above that you could use as examples."
That's pretty f****** lazy dude. Take you attitude problem and shove it up your ass. Go out to www.freespeech.org and find the video yourself. You might learn something. Or tune your fricking tv set to that channel and watch for it. It is well documented that the WMD crap was just an excuse for doing what the Administration was going to do no matter what.
I'm not saying that Democrats didn't vote to give the President the authority as a last resort. I'm saying that this war was planed and the "evidence of WMDs" was picked and exaggerated so as to make most of the Congress feel that force was justified.
"I'm sure you can provide, you know, a cite for that"
His interview is playing on Free Speech TV. Watch it for yourself.
"The democrats voted to authorize Bush to decide if we would go to war."
This war was based on cooked intelligence. It is part of the Wolfowitz Doctrine.
Ret. General Clark stated for the record that he was told at the beginning of the Afghanistan war by a high ranking officer at the Pentagon that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq had been made. He was later told by the same person that the Administration was planning on crushing seven countries in the region.
Or don't you care if elections are literally stolen?
The 2004 presidential elections had anomalies THAT WERE OUTSIDE THE POSSIBLE MARGIN OF ERROR FOR EXIT POLLS.
Do you understand what that means? It means that the results WERE rigged. This country was forced into a war of choice by a president that was never legitimately elected and there are hundreds of thousands of people who are dead because of it.
This goes way beyond politics into the realm of treason. Those responsible for subverting our election process should be hanged until dead. Every last one of them.
Maybe they unencumbered by patents and license agreements that make it impossible to implement in Open Source software... You know. Truly open rather than just by Microsoft's definition.
" 'When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success..."
What?! You don't believe in God! You must die infidel!
We have a problem with appointments on our Judges outlook calendars that were made prior to the "patch" if those appointments fall in the new daylight savings time. The appointments are shifted by one hour. We found that deleting them and recreating them didn't help. Weird.
I wish it were as easy as writing a couple scripts.
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Linux's day is coming. Live CDs will be a big help. It's one thing to just pop a CD in and boot without risk and quite another to do a complete install that wipes out your personal data. Live CDs will allow average people to take a look at Linux without risk. Most will like what they see.
Microsoft fans will be quick to point out that gaming isn't there and some will even try the ol' "Plug and Play doesn't work" card.
For gaming it is true that there hasn't been a large enough adoption of Linux for most companies to make the investment. As Linux continues to be adopted I suspect that more companies will feel that there is a market to be tapped.
The "Plug and Play doesn't work" card is a farce. The vast majority of hardware works right out of the box. Most of the time I find it easier to get hardware working with Linux than with Windows. With Windows I always spend a lot of extra time loading drivers that came on separate media (If I can find them). More and more manufacturers are including Linux drivers and as the popularity of Linux grows it just gets better.
So for Windows fans: You may not like Linux but Linux's time is coming. So if you don't want to join the party fine but stop trying to throw a turd in our punchbowl.
'I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.'
Yes Ballmer, I know...
A friend of mine use to work at Microsoft for years but quit after Ballmer arrived. He told me that he and a lot of talent was leaving Microsoft because Ballmer and other "bean counters" were destroying the company.
They were paid over 400 Million dollars to get into bed with Microsoft. If I paid a whore that much money I'd expect a lot too.
How about faking evidence at the antitrust trial. They were caught red handed doing that. I believe that even though the Court chose not to prosecute that does go afoul of criminal law.
"More often than not the FLOSS claim that Microsoft "hinders" them is centered around disappointment over unrealistic expectations of fame and fortune..."
Show me an example.
Did Netscape (The leader in browser software at the time) have unrealistic expectations when Microsoft crushed them by illegally leveraging its OS monopoly?
There are numerous other examples where companies were in dominant positions until Microsoft crushed them. Not by offering a better product but by illegally using their monopoly position in the OS area to gain an unfair advantage.
"People (you know, out there, not "here") by and large don't have a negative view of Microsoft..."
They would if they actually knew Microsoft and its anticompetitive ways.
And BTW there are just as many Microsoft zealots as Linux and your inference that Linux zealots are stupid and can't spell is... Well... really dumb.
"There are all sorts of ISO standards that people refuse to use in their current form."
But how many of them are used by a product that has a monopoly share of the market? People will buy Microsoft Office 2007. People will save almost all documents using the default OXML format. People will feel the pain of Microsoft's lock-in once more.
They miss the mark every single time. I mean it couldn't possibly be the fact that they chose to sue their own customers that alienated people from them.
heh heh. Okay, okay...
Just require a valid credit card as proof just like the p0rn sites do... :/
then why don't my legs jerk when I fart?
Just a question.
A simple google search and:
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/
You can find a link to the video on that page. Happy now?
Pretty lazy Dude.
I decided to watch the video again, you know, to make sure wasn't giving you any bad information. Retired General Clark said that General at the Pentagon told him on or about the 20th of September of 2001 that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq. He said that he visited the Pentagon again a few weeks later and asked this general if we were still going to war with Iraq and the General replied "Oh it's worse than that" the General held up a piece of paper and said "I just got this memo from the Secretary of Defenses Office that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years. Starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran."
I'm not the one who's wrong you are. Of course you'll just whine about me not searching the internet for you and providing a link because as a partisan asshole it's more important to you to feel you've won an argument than to actually know the truth. Well keep your illusion because that's all it is. If you decide that this is an important enough issue to discuss I suggest you find the video (I've already given you the site (website) where you can probably find it. But you won't. You'll just whine that I'm not spoon feeding you information blah, blah, blah... Oh, and don't forget to throw in a couple of insults just to top it off.
"The reason Linux has been abstracted into a concept is so it doesn't have to compete on merit."
.Net. There's the kernel and the windowing environment, and all the other programs that are put together to make a useable operating system. Again that's just the nature of open source.
Bullshit. I does fine on merit. Maybe people just say "Linux" instead of "Ubuntu 6.10" or "Mandrake 10.1" is because the former is the way people talk. You know just like they say "Windows" instead of the exact version.
Also most distros have so much common code (Sort of the whole point of open source) that when talking about a feature it just makes more sense to say "Linux" then to rattle off a definitive list.
Besides, when people talk about Linux it covers a lot of things. Just like when people talk about
This guy is nothing more than an anti-Linux, anti open source troll. Here are some of his "Words of Wisdom":
" The reason Linux has been abstracted into a concept is so it doesn't have to compete on merit."
" Linux is surrounded by people who generally don't even use real names and often "exaggerate" what they do for a living."
" PJ, the woman who allegedly heads up this legal resource, is currently ducking service from SCO and lord knows what she is covering up."
On the last example I must comment. SCO indeed wants to put PJ in the spot light. Not for any reason other than to harass her. Through her efforts she has shined a light on SCO's legal scam.
PJ has stated that she is extremely shy. Most people don't know what it is like to be so shy that you would do almost anything rather than be put on center stage. I know what it's like. For people like us written communication is no big deal but face to face and sometimes even phone contact causes unbelievable anxiety.
It's pretty shitty for this guy to imply that PJ has anything to hide.
He rambles on and on... What a jerk.
Okay you ignorant partisan asshole, you have thrown insult after insult. I am under no obligation to hold your fucking hand and guild you to the exact file. I told you which website you can find the video. If you weren't such a whiny ass fuck you would have just gone out to the site watched the video and we could be discusing the ramifications. I even offered to go out of my way to encode it as a mpeg and upload it for you but you prefer to just continue throwing insults
Go find the file yourself or remain as blindly ignorant of the truth as you are. I don't have any more patents or time for a pathetic bone-headed ass wipe like you.
"It's interesting. I provide facts and cites, you provide insults. I think that speaks volumes."
If you don't want it to get personal then don't make it so. Your "Or maybe you don't know what a cite is." was the first insult thrown and it was thrown by you.
BTW the "cites" you provided was nothing more than neo-con dribble just parroting the same ol' right wing rhetoric. And anything I seemed to say you would twist it around. I NEVER SAID that "last resort" was part of the language of the resolution. Maybe I was unclear but I always meant that the resolution was to give Bush the power to go to war as a last resort. Any intelligent person wouldn't take the war option without exhausting all other avenues first. Unless of course they wanted regime change.
I provided the most telling fact of all: that the Bush Administration decided to attack Iraq way before the WMD red herring was put out and they had a plan to take out seven countries in that region. Unless of course you claim that Ret. General Clark is a liar. The proof is an interview that is playing on Free Speech TV. It's not a "cite." Although I believe you can find the video on the free speech tv site. The url I gave you. www.freespeechtv.org. And if you really can't find it I did record it and could convert it into a mpeg and post it on UTube or whatever.
The Congress ASSUMED Chimp-man would only use it as a last resort. My statements stand.
"Yeah, I didn't think you could. Thanks for the non-effort there. Or maybe you don't know what a cite is. There's a couple above that you could use as examples."
That's pretty f****** lazy dude. Take you attitude problem and shove it up your ass. Go out to www.freespeech.org and find the video yourself. You might learn something. Or tune your fricking tv set to that channel and watch for it. It is well documented that the WMD crap was just an excuse for doing what the Administration was going to do no matter what.
You're really in denial dude.
At least when the big one hits, all of the crap in the atmosphere will solve the global warming problem...
I'm not saying that Democrats didn't vote to give the President the authority as a last resort. I'm saying that this war was planed and the "evidence of WMDs" was picked and exaggerated so as to make most of the Congress feel that force was justified.
"I'm sure you can provide, you know, a cite for that"
His interview is playing on Free Speech TV. Watch it for yourself.
"In your opinion."
No, mathematical fact.
"The democrats voted to authorize Bush to decide if we would go to war."
This war was based on cooked intelligence. It is part of the Wolfowitz Doctrine.
Ret. General Clark stated for the record that he was told at the beginning of the Afghanistan war by a high ranking officer at the Pentagon that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq had been made. He was later told by the same person that the Administration was planning on crushing seven countries in the region.
Or don't you care if elections are literally stolen?
The 2004 presidential elections had anomalies THAT WERE OUTSIDE THE POSSIBLE MARGIN OF ERROR FOR EXIT POLLS.
Do you understand what that means? It means that the results WERE rigged. This country was forced into a war of choice by a president that was never legitimately elected and there are hundreds of thousands of people who are dead because of it.
This goes way beyond politics into the realm of treason. Those responsible for subverting our election process should be hanged until dead. Every last one of them.
Only now when it's too late do they realize the power of the Geekie side!
Maybe they unencumbered by patents and license agreements that make it impossible to implement in Open Source software... You know. Truly open rather than just by Microsoft's definition.
" 'When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success ..."
What?! You don't believe in God! You must die infidel!
We have a problem with appointments on our Judges outlook calendars that were made prior to the "patch" if those appointments fall in the new daylight savings time. The appointments are shifted by one hour. We found that deleting them and recreating them didn't help. Weird.
I wish it were as easy as writing a couple scripts.