The article claims that "Red Hat is warming to the use of the Linux operating system on desktop computers, a difficult market where customers are picky and Microsoft is the leader."
Most customers aren't that picky, but just go along with the mainstream of users and do not understand the power of open source systems such as Linux. The majority just wants text processing software, solitaire, and some internet capabilities, and seem to think Microsoft software is user friendly and Linux software is complex as hell. If customers were in fact picky, Microsoft would have a very hard time competing with these open source software systems, since they provide more stability and speed at much lower cost. How's that for user-friendly? Easy of use is becoming less of an issue in later distributions of Linux and and you don't have these big-brother issues as with XP and the coming Palladium...
No, customers being "picky" hasn't got much to do with it, but many customers are just ignorant.
How user friendly is it to have to push "start" in order to shut down a computer anyway?
That's probably true, since the sum of all processing power in silicon valley of about 25 years ago is now wrapped up in a single personal computer. weird huh?!
>> Would you really want to have sex with a smurf?
> Yes, yes and Hell yes.
Hmm judging from the number of people that say "yes", this would make an interesting/. poll...
Would you want to have sex with a smurf?
1) Why, certainly!
2) Heck no you filthy animal!
3) Only with Smurfette
4) Sure, if my girlfriend/boyfriend joins the fun
5) Nah I'm afraid I'll squash the poor little smurf
6) My heart belongs to Cowboy Smurf
"It's true folks - nothing stops NT on on a warship - particularly when you divide by nothing."
Not to start some religious type mathematical discussion here, but dividing by nothing is NOT the same as dividing by zero. Nothing is not the same as zero.
... but wait until you finally get a date again and you kiss a girl with another implant causing a feedback loop... The rest of the evening you'll spend doing sign language to each other...
(this may not be a problem for the regular slashdotter though)
I always do that. Every time before compiling I type make, offer a lamb and cut my thumb, letting the blood drip on an altar surrounded by candles. Then I carefully press enter while murmering a latin prayer and humbly ask for forgiveness. The debugging gods usually answer instantl yby giving 121 error messages, indicating they're not satisfied with my rituals. After performing the ritual a couple of times, the debugging gods often seem pleased and let me run my code. If they're really cranky they'll let me compile without trouble the first time, but while executing the code problems arise. These cases take a lot of sacrifice...
Slashdot Mirror
" ... can't they just put newer, smaller, niftier satellites about ten klicks behind the first one in its orbital path? "
Do you have any idea how crowded it already is up there? Or how crowded it would become if they do that?
"Last wave was the home musicians, now movie makers. What next?"
Home MTV makers?
I tested it by putting the code under version control, but then I discovered a bug...
I've never seen my code since...
>Spam me, and you will never, ever, get my money.
Not even for our new business opportunity of your life, now coming with a free penis enlargement, breast implants and a PhD?
The article claims that "Red Hat is warming to the use of the Linux operating system on desktop computers, a difficult market where customers are picky and Microsoft is the leader."
Most customers aren't that picky, but just go along with the mainstream of users and do not understand the power of open source systems such as Linux. The majority just wants text processing software, solitaire, and some internet capabilities, and seem to think Microsoft software is user friendly and Linux software is complex as hell. If customers were in fact picky, Microsoft would have a very hard time competing with these open source software systems, since they provide more stability and speed at much lower cost. How's that for user-friendly? Easy of use is becoming less of an issue in later distributions of Linux and and you don't have these big-brother issues as with XP and the coming Palladium...
No, customers being "picky" hasn't got much to do with it, but many customers are just ignorant.
How user friendly is it to have to push "start" in order to shut down a computer anyway?
That's probably true, since the sum of all processing power in silicon valley of about 25 years ago is now wrapped up in a single personal computer.
weird huh?!
>> Would you really want to have sex with a smurf?
/. poll...
> Yes, yes and Hell yes.
Hmm judging from the number of people that say "yes", this would make an interesting
Would you want to have sex with a smurf?
1) Why, certainly!
2) Heck no you filthy animal!
3) Only with Smurfette
4) Sure, if my girlfriend/boyfriend joins the fun
5) Nah I'm afraid I'll squash the poor little smurf
6) My heart belongs to Cowboy Smurf
"NYTimes wants me to register and log in. Anyone got a mirror?"
... must... resist... temptation...
Sure I've got a mirror, but I don't see how looking at yourself is gonna help you getting in NYTimes....
Yup... that was the end of my positive amount of Karma...
"...and she's got huge jugs, so the /. crew should love it! wohoo! Bring on the large pixelated breasts!"
*sigh*...
I guess some people really only look at a girl's breasts...
I mean... have you seen that blue face?
Or that purple hair?
Would you really want to have sex with a smurf?
tsk tsk...
"It's true folks - nothing stops NT on on a warship - particularly when you divide by nothing."
Not to start some religious type mathematical discussion here, but dividing by nothing is NOT the same as dividing by zero. Nothing is not the same as zero.
... but wait until you finally get a date again and you kiss a girl with another implant causing a feedback loop...
The rest of the evening you'll spend doing sign language to each other...
(this may not be a problem for the regular slashdotter though)
And if you follow the instructions of every penis enlargement email you get, you'll soon really be part of something greater than you...
I always do that. Every time before compiling I type make, offer a lamb and cut my thumb, letting the blood drip on an altar surrounded by candles. Then I carefully press enter while murmering a latin prayer and humbly ask for forgiveness. The debugging gods usually answer instantl yby giving 121 error messages, indicating they're not satisfied with my rituals. After performing the ritual a couple of times, the debugging gods often seem pleased and let me run my code. If they're really cranky they'll let me compile without trouble the first time, but while executing the code problems arise. These cases take a lot of sacrifice...