And your diatribe is at least interesting but far off topic. I didn't say that open source stuff was bad or that openness should go away. I said it (Linux) was not a product that the average person would want to use.
Oh and I may have subconsciously added the mod comment for your reason, but it seems that mostly when I gig the sacred cow that is Linux I get modded down for sacrilege.
I'm really glad the you are so plugged in. I am too. I know what I'm doing and can handle all this stuff myself. I even consult enough that I have set up systems for many people. I've built Windows boxes from components. Most of my customers use Apple and I buy them set them up and they don't make me very much money. A couple use Linux and they make me a bunch of money so do the windows customers. Mostly because the Linux customers have very sophisticated apps that need more power all the time and they need me to research which pieces of hardware will be compatible with their particular distro. The windows users surf the net and they don't follow my recommendations much and they get crap in their systems so I go clean them out or re-install the OS once every oh about 4 months or so.
But you still don't get it. Why should I recommend Ubuntu. Is it the right distro for everyone. Perhaps, the jury is still out on that one.
Yes, I've called Microsoft several times, got an answer, took a bit of time but I did indeed get an answer. I knew exactly where to call. I knew who would be most likely to answer that question and I just called. When I have Apple questions, I go to the store at the mall and ask them there (before that I knew what phone book to look in for Apple's phone number, at the least 411 worked). I've almost always gotten the correct answer, I've gotten a reference to call the Apple tech people when I didn't get what I needed but still I KNEW where to go and who to ask.
wake up and smell the help desk people. The Linux community is great, but we don't know where to find them. They are every where and no where I want to look. Yes I have an internet connection and I know how to read, but even then I have a phone, tell me where to call to get help with blah blah blah distro of the latest (what build and what version) of Linux? Who will answer my questions?
I just cannot believe how, well not stupid but lacking in common sense we are. I'm part of that community, I've been using Linux since Kernel version 0.0.27 and I still can't get my questions answered without a very carefully worded search and crawl through nine million tech discussions that each touch on an aspect of what I want to have answered but not quite exactly my distro or version.
Ok, but I'm not a driveling whiny developer enthusiast that needs to have the bazillion levels of freedom that you need to hack the bejeezus out of your computer. I'm a burger flipper, a tire guy, a mechanic, a professional, or a housewife and I just want the stuff to work. I don't want to have to make a stupid decision about which distribution I should download and I don't want to have to answer nine billion technical questions just to get it installed. Something I have never gotten from Linux. I want to have that feeling that there is a company that I can blame, I need to have the feeling that there is a group of people that may benefit from my purchase, and who can be called upon to support that product. I want a product not a cool concept (Apple delivers both). Grow up, Linux is as good or better technically than anything being sold but it isn't a product. It will never be a product as long as it is distributed by and has as many distributions as geeks writing it. Ubuntu is coming the closest to being a product and it's goals are commendable but it is not a mainstream desktop PRODUCT and never will be.
Just because it's free doesn't mean it is going to be good and just because it costs a lot of money doesn't mean that it's evil. The answer is in between those extremes just like everything else in life.
I'l probably get modded a 0 flame bait for this but it's still a valid statement!
Of course if the two of you eat the entire pie you end up dividing it by two and getting zero parts left so that may not be the safest way to go about this.
Seems to me most of us endured quite an education. I do agree but, they can handle many patients and get more than just chickens, give me a break think about it. With their education they can help quite a few patients in a day and make a very good living. We could always go back to the old Chinese system of paying them a monthly stipend until you get sick, at which point you stop paying until you get better.
Actually you are quite wrong, we, the intelligent ones, have killed common sense ourselves by not having enough children WITH common sense to make a difference. Further we have disdained the voting process and let the morons run the school boards, the ogres run the police and the uninformed make the rest of our decisions for us. We need a smart people forced breeding program and a full eugenics program to make up for the idiocracy we have created.
it seems that they actually only charge that much if you have insurance. Making insurance much more expensive. So if we can eliminate the insurance industry we can get back to affordable health care. During this time of many other economic failures and cut backs it would seem to be a great time to put all those insurance workers out of work and let them find new careers. The opportunities are endless right now. Lets try to get us back to the country doctor who'd work for a chicken or two. If health care were affordable we could avoid all that nasty socialist stuff as well and pay for our own health care easing the burden on business and the taxpayer. So who's with me?
We can work on the lawyers next. This could be great!
Now if we can just get everyone to stop using Flash. MY cell phone doesn't have flash and I don't want that crap. Most of the crashes I have with all of my browsers are flash related. Flash is crap, silverlight is crap, there is a better way.
I tried
schroedinger>mkdir/box
then
schroedinger>mv cat/box
Then when I went to look in/box
schroedinger>ls/box I found two files...
cat
cat.dead
it's not in the manual...
Not nearly as good as the old TCP over carrier pigeon. With the birds there was much higher latency (measured in days or weeks sometimes) and the packet loss could be attributed to other wildlife, or poor training of the carrier. But OK I see it, this one could work.
Slashdot Mirror
It only applies if you deliberately use the proxy to conceal your identity while committing a crime. No deliberate concealment, no crime, no worries.
And your diatribe is at least interesting but far off topic. I didn't say that open source stuff was bad or that openness should go away. I said it (Linux) was not a product that the average person would want to use.
whooosh
Oh and I may have subconsciously added the mod comment for your reason, but it seems that mostly when I gig the sacred cow that is Linux I get modded down for sacrilege.
I'm really glad the you are so plugged in. I am too. I know what I'm doing and can handle all this stuff myself. I even consult enough that I have set up systems for many people. I've built Windows boxes from components. Most of my customers use Apple and I buy them set them up and they don't make me very much money. A couple use Linux and they make me a bunch of money so do the windows customers. Mostly because the Linux customers have very sophisticated apps that need more power all the time and they need me to research which pieces of hardware will be compatible with their particular distro. The windows users surf the net and they don't follow my recommendations much and they get crap in their systems so I go clean them out or re-install the OS once every oh about 4 months or so.
But you still don't get it. Why should I recommend Ubuntu. Is it the right distro for everyone. Perhaps, the jury is still out on that one.
Yes but they have to have an OS to download something. You morons just don't GET IT!
Did he mention that in order for it to stay that safe you have to unplug the network cable?
Yes, I've called Microsoft several times, got an answer, took a bit of time but I did indeed get an answer. I knew exactly where to call. I knew who would be most likely to answer that question and I just called. When I have Apple questions, I go to the store at the mall and ask them there (before that I knew what phone book to look in for Apple's phone number, at the least 411 worked). I've almost always gotten the correct answer, I've gotten a reference to call the Apple tech people when I didn't get what I needed but still I KNEW where to go and who to ask.
wake up and smell the help desk people. The Linux community is great, but we don't know where to find them. They are every where and no where I want to look.
Yes I have an internet connection and I know how to read, but even then I have a phone, tell me where to call to get help with blah blah blah distro of the latest (what build and what version) of Linux? Who will answer my questions?
I just cannot believe how, well not stupid but lacking in common sense we are. I'm part of that community, I've been using Linux since Kernel version 0.0.27 and I still can't get my questions answered without a very carefully worded search and crawl through nine million tech discussions that each touch on an aspect of what I want to have answered but not quite exactly my distro or version.
Yes, but which distribution? Why was it easier and what store did you walk into to buy it?
You guys all still don't get it.
Ok, but I'm not a driveling whiny developer enthusiast that needs to have the bazillion levels of freedom that you need to hack the bejeezus out of your computer. I'm a burger flipper, a tire guy, a mechanic, a professional, or a housewife and I just want the stuff to work. I don't want to have to make a stupid decision about which distribution I should download and I don't want to have to answer nine billion technical questions just to get it installed. Something I have never gotten from Linux. I want to have that feeling that there is a company that I can blame, I need to have the feeling that there is a group of people that may benefit from my purchase, and who can be called upon to support that product. I want a product not a cool concept (Apple delivers both). Grow up, Linux is as good or better technically than anything being sold but it isn't a product. It will never be a product as long as it is distributed by and has as many distributions as geeks writing it. Ubuntu is coming the closest to being a product and it's goals are commendable but it is not a mainstream desktop PRODUCT and never will be.
Just because it's free doesn't mean it is going to be good and just because it costs a lot of money doesn't mean that it's evil. The answer is in between those extremes just like everything else in life.
I'l probably get modded a 0 flame bait for this but it's still a valid statement!
Ok, come on now everybody has to drink the cool aid at the same time.
Gotta color em Purple then!
Of course if the two of you eat the entire pie you end up dividing it by two and getting zero parts left so that may not be the safest way to go about this.
Pity the foo
I thought that maybe that I was alone in this... perhaps not.
You could still choose NOT to break the law.
Seems to me most of us endured quite an education. I do agree but, they can handle many patients and get more than just chickens, give me a break think about it. With their education they can help quite a few patients in a day and make a very good living. We could always go back to the old Chinese system of paying them a monthly stipend until you get sick, at which point you stop paying until you get better.
You could always choose NOT to break the law.
Actually you are quite wrong, we, the intelligent ones, have killed common sense ourselves by not having enough children WITH common sense to make a difference. Further we have disdained the voting process and let the morons run the school boards, the ogres run the police and the uninformed make the rest of our decisions for us. We need a smart people forced breeding program and a full eugenics program to make up for the idiocracy we have created.
Wow you geeks are something else, now you have lamps that allow access to computers. What will they think of next.
Good thing I registered organlegger.com. Now I have a place to put my online organ store.
it seems that they actually only charge that much if you have insurance. Making insurance much more expensive. So if we can eliminate the insurance industry we can get back to affordable health care. During this time of many other economic failures and cut backs it would seem to be a great time to put all those insurance workers out of work and let them find new careers. The opportunities are endless right now. Lets try to get us back to the country doctor who'd work for a chicken or two. If health care were affordable we could avoid all that nasty socialist stuff as well and pay for our own health care easing the burden on business and the taxpayer.
So who's with me?
We can work on the lawyers next. This could be great!
Now if we can just get everyone to stop using Flash. MY cell phone doesn't have flash and I don't want that crap. Most of the crashes I have with all of my browsers are flash related. Flash is crap, silverlight is crap, there is a better way.
I tried /box
/box
/box
/box I found two files...
schroedinger>mkdir
then
schroedinger>mv cat
Then when I went to look in
schroedinger>ls
cat cat.dead
it's not in the manual...
Not nearly as good as the old TCP over carrier pigeon. With the birds there was much higher latency (measured in days or weeks sometimes) and the packet loss could be attributed to other wildlife, or poor training of the carrier. But OK I see it, this one could work.