-"Our next game, DoomQuad, will require that you travel forward in time and get yourself a system powerful enough to run it. Unless, naturally, you are content at playing the game at -2 FPS".
...everyone starts foaming at the mouth with excitement.
Now M$ has a product that requires you to have a somewhat beefy system and everyone starts bitching.
Why am I not surprised? This is slashdot after all.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
Replace Babel fish with natural lens capable of resolving details as fine as 10 microarcseconds across
One of his common setups involves a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, at least 512 gigabytes of memory and a specialized operating system based on Linux.
Wow, that new 2.6 kernel can really support a bunch of RAM. Neato!
B.S. Sorry to be so abrupt and crude, but this is simply not correct. There are many alternatives out there including OS X, various flavors of Linux, etc...etc...etc...
Perhaps you should re-read parents statement. "Most" people generally implies the average user. The fact that M$ has cornered the market for the average user has nothing to do with your bogus statement.
The other thing you should know is that Macs have a lower total cost of ownership, require less maintenance, are more reliable, and make folks more productive.
Did you take a class in "how to not win an argument"? You are tying to make it sound like you have this indepth knowledge of why your statement is true. The sentence you wrote should be taken as your opinion not as a fact....
Microsoft users are getting fed up. They're battered by worms, viruses, security patches and increasing enterprise licensing costs. Aggravation has users talking about switching from Microsoft software to something else. We're trying to figure out how much of that talk is just talk, and how much is serious action. Do you seriously plan to dump Microsoft software?
This is a very loaded question. So if you switch from Microsoft you will reap the following benefits:
1. Not being battered by worms and viruses
2. Never having to patch your system
3. The cost of your non-Microsoft solution will never cost anything, or at least never increase in cost.
What most people fail to realize is that it is voluntary behavior. Once you get married, and you start acting like a moron, you can use this ineptness as an excuse for not mowing the lawn, taking out the garbage, etc. It is all really that simple.
I have had experience on both sides of the fence. And I have to say that even though I prefer to stay away from MS whenever I can, Exchange is by far the best groupware product out there. I am not basing this opinion purely on the merits of the software but overall ease of use and cost in a corporate environment.
The current cost of one (1) Exchange license is $67. So a company with 200 "concurrent connection" would have to cough up between $14,000 and $17,400 depending on the version of Exchange they purchase. Compared to a total cost of $0 this is a lot of money, but how much do you have to pay someone to administer this Exchange server? You can hire an MCSE fairly cheap these days and he/she should not have any problems admining this server for you.
On the other side of the coin you have an open source solution that has probably been put together with a fair amount of Linux/Unix customization that requires a significant and deep understanding of whatever flavor you are running.
Whoever put this Open Source solution together is probably very hard to replace. This is something I think most corporations would see as a significant liability...aka "what if you got hit by a truck tomorrow" scenario.
Exchange admins are a dime a dozen, Linux Voodoo Masters are not.
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when you could be riding one of these
You are new here, aren't you?
First of all, I am sure it was compiled in degug mode - resource hog.
Secondly, whenever ID Software claims:
-"Our next game, DoomQuad, will require that you travel forward in time and get yourself a system powerful enough to run it. Unless, naturally, you are content at playing the game at -2 FPS".
Now M$ has a product that requires you to have a somewhat beefy system and everyone starts bitching.
Why am I not surprised? This is slashdot after all.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
Replace Babel fish with natural lens capable of resolving details as fine as 10 microarcseconds across
Please stop the planet so I can get off...
Since real freedom fans are not out to destroy ms-windows but rather to make for a world in wich ms-windows is just another desktop
You are new here, aren't you?
I, for one, welcome our new 40-pound computer overlords.
- What's your opinion on music downloads?
- I do download music over the Internet, I can't lie about that.
5 bucks says RIAA is next. Oh, wait...he's from Canada....go figure.
One of his common setups involves a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, at least 512 gigabytes of memory and a specialized operating system based on Linux.
Wow, that new 2.6 kernel can really support a bunch of RAM. Neato!
Where is a Golgafrincham Space Ark when you need one?
His .plan has a link to a picture of Winamp being used on the space station. woot.
Has anyone seen CowboyNeal lately?
as well as a large calibration signal from the well-known and conventional particle psi-prime(3686)
Oh, the psi-prime(3686)...why didn't you say so right away...
you forgot a </a>
said Daisuke Okabe, a mobile phone culture specialist at Yokohama National University in Japan
Where is a Golgafrincham Space Ark when you need one?
CTHULHU FHTAGN
B.S. Sorry to be so abrupt and crude, but this is simply not correct. There are many alternatives out there including OS X, various flavors of Linux, etc...etc...etc...
Perhaps you should re-read parents statement. "Most" people generally implies the average user. The fact that M$ has cornered the market for the average user has nothing to do with your bogus statement.
The other thing you should know is that Macs have a lower total cost of ownership, require less maintenance, are more reliable, and make folks more productive.
Did you take a class in "how to not win an argument"? You are tying to make it sound like you have this indepth knowledge of why your statement is true. The sentence you wrote should be taken as your opinion not as a fact....
Microsoft users are getting fed up. They're battered by worms, viruses, security patches and increasing enterprise licensing costs. Aggravation has users talking about switching from Microsoft software to something else. We're trying to figure out how much of that talk is just talk, and how much is serious action. Do you seriously plan to dump Microsoft software?
This is a very loaded question. So if you switch from Microsoft you will reap the following benefits:
1. Not being battered by worms and viruses
2. Never having to patch your system
3. The cost of your non-Microsoft solution will never cost anything, or at least never increase in cost.
"But perhaps the greatest benefit of being unemployed is this. I now feel absolutely free to despise George W. Bush"
I found your article funny. However, the last paragraph indicates that you are a complete kneebiter.
Wowbagger
It would be fun to figure out how improbable it is that nature developed something this useful.
This, naturally, has already been discussed at length in THHGTTG
What most people fail to realize is that it is voluntary behavior. Once you get married, and you start acting like a moron, you can use this ineptness as an excuse for not mowing the lawn, taking out the garbage, etc. It is all really that simple.
Since you brought up volts, amps and dying I thought this link would be appropriate.
I have had experience on both sides of the fence. And I have to say that even though I prefer to stay away from MS whenever I can, Exchange is by far the best groupware product out there. I am not basing this opinion purely on the merits of the software but overall ease of use and cost in a corporate environment.
The current cost of one (1) Exchange license is $67. So a company with 200 "concurrent connection" would have to cough up between $14,000 and $17,400 depending on the version of Exchange they purchase. Compared to a total cost of $0 this is a lot of money, but how much do you have to pay someone to administer this Exchange server? You can hire an MCSE fairly cheap these days and he/she should not have any problems admining this server for you.
On the other side of the coin you have an open source solution that has probably been put together with a fair amount of Linux/Unix customization that requires a significant and deep understanding of whatever flavor you are running.
Whoever put this Open Source solution together is probably very hard to replace. This is something I think most corporations would see as a significant liability...aka "what if you got hit by a truck tomorrow" scenario.
Exchange admins are a dime a dozen, Linux Voodoo Masters are not.
Just my $0.02
Minas Gerais = I'm Iran's Sage
I'd stay away from this one...