Read all about it: Mandrake kept rapidly losing money even though they have less employees then some StarBucks restraunts, were awarded funding by European governments, and got free hordes of cash from sympathizers! Mandrake has pitifully poor marketing and management! Who didn't see this coming?!
I educate people in Linux and open source for free. I also perform the task for a fee on occasion, but mostly for free. This is because I'm not a lazy ass like you, and choose give back to the community that gives me a free operating system with a slew of applications and tools. Suzy.
It's obvious that the open source development model and Linux is going to be the dominating force in computing. The only way that either can even be slowed down is through crooked litigation, which will not fly in the rest of the world.
Linux is the Micheal Jordan of operating systems. You can't stop him, only hope to contain him. Linux is Micheal Jackson, Microsoft is Tito. A mega-rich and powerful Tito, but still Tito nontheless.
I agree. Between 1998 and 2000 I as worked as a tech at a local college. We had over 1,000 workstations and plenty of servers over the three campuses that I worked at. I can count on one hand how many hard drives we had crash or develop bad sectors during that time. Boy was such a thing rare back then.
In the past year, I must have came across 5 or 6 crashed hard drives - all the "latest and greatest".
Silly theist, there is an enormous fossil trail of early man (like the neanderthal), the obvious similarites bewteen primates, the evolutionary tree that we have built of the great apes, and other evolutionary evidence like retro-viruses and DNA similarity.
No, no, what am I saying, this must all be wrong. Man was wished into reality by a super-being that lives in a happy magic land outside of our visible universe somewhere, that's right. You can't prove or disprove that this happy magic land with it's super being and omniscient master exists, so I must be right!
Just use common sense. The fact that we haven't found an imaginary animal has nothing to do with it.
1. To sustain a population of organisms a decent gene pool must be available. This means that there must be a sufficient number of these animals in the wilds to continue fostering the species, and a sufficient number must have existed in the recent past. Populations of animals leave behind obvious evidence. The larger the organism and it's population, the more evidence it leaves behind. Even the rarest forest mouse can be detected and revealed by a week-end naturalist. Why in all of the history of the world has not a single piece of verifiable evidence been found? Bones, waste, etc, etc. Here is a hint: Aliens don't leave evidence, either;)
2. In addition to obvious physical evidence that should be available is the lack of evolutionary evidence. Scientists haved exhaustively catalogued much of the life that has evolved up to this point in North America and Asia. Why is there nothing, not one single shred of evidence, that would in any way conclucde that such a primate ever existed in the earth's recent past. Heres a hint: the same reason that no scientist can find any physical proof or evolutionary justification that a beast that exists solely on goat's blood resides in Puerto Rico. (Especially considering that goats were introduced recently to that island, but I digress)
I could go on, but you get the point. It will take a lot more then the stock "a thousand years ago scientists said that we would never bla bla bla" or "just because we haven't found one bla bla bla" arguements to make a valid point against a seasoned pupil of Shermer and Sagan. You might do better disproving the existance of Santa to a 10 year old. Go give it a try, you will see how I feel in this circumstance.:)
Delusional. Buddhists commit the entirety of their lives to the pursuit of some magical heaven-land of ultimate knowledge and power next to their man-god spirit Prince Saddartha. Most of them have hallucinations in which they meet this spiritual demi-god. The hallucinations are vivid, the spiritual "traveler" will experience actual physical sensations during these episodes. Does this make even one tiny claim of the Buddhist faith factual? No, it does not, as any sane person can plainly explain to you. For there is no magical faery land in the sky with demi-gods waiting for you once you die. You rot. Most people can't come to grasps with that.
The "paranormal": big foot, lochness monster, vampire rodent beasts in Puerto Rico, ghosts, monkey men with claws, and religion is basically adults playing pretend. You might be too detached from reality to just say "my great uncle whatever was chasing phantoms because he lacked a basic foundation of scientific knowledge, and therefore was prone to buying into psuedo-science and superstition", but I am not.
So, your great uncle whatever was chasing phantoms because he lacked a basic foundation of scientific knowledge, and therefore was prone to buying into psuedo-science and superstition.
Besides, if they wanted to, they could just remove these guy's from their listing. I can't belive the audactiy of these guys (fucking sueing for crying out loud) to begin with!
You're trying to apply the climate of the proprietary market to that of open source development and community, but it just doesn't work. The Linux operating system is created by the community. Deficiencies are corrected in days or weeks, not years. There are various distros to choose from that all benefit from the community, which in turn benefits the user. The programs that fill shelf space in CompUSA would be obselete in a week in a Linux world. Duh.
I was actually going to start actually making more points here, but it's pointless: I would be speaking to the choir. 90% of Slashdot readers understand your post to be the kind made by inexperienced people with very little understanding of how the open source community and development model works, so I would just be wasting my time pointing it out to you.
Suffice to say your rebuttle equals nothing in the end. Hopefully one day soon you will realize why.
I wonder how bad the prospect of a rapid gain of 5% of the home PC and 10% of the business workstation market by Linux scares companies like these? How bad do they fret over the fact that many, many servers running inheirently insecure operating systems are being replaced by an operating system that has no need for them?
It reminds me of something Roblimo wrote about the other day over at NewsForge, where he was standing in the software aisle of CompUSA looking at rows and rows of applications that exist to fix some deficiency with Windows. What will these companies do when Linux takes over?
I was building computers when I was 16. I used to help my high school computer guy after basketball practice when I was 18. I know about 15 other people with similar backgrounds. None of us have ever even thought about getting an A+ cert. Why? Because building and troubleshooting PC hardware has always been extremely easy, straightforward, and demanded very little technical knowledge. It is a hobby for many. Such a lax and intellectually undemanding trade shouldn't require some form of regulation. Basic contractual agreements already protect a consumer enough.
Realize first that this technology is being billed as "trusted computing". Then realize that it is Microsoft Corporation pushing it. This should ring out ALARM YOU IDIOT! by itself. I'm not saying this because I am some kind of "Microsoft basher", as fat nerds like to call us sensible techie folk. I am saying it because there is no other truth.
Microsoft is not interested in your security. Microsoft doesn't even much care about their own security, as long as the license is already paid for. They only want to make money and lock you into long term deals. The massive and drastic tactics by Microsoft to lock consumers into their platform indefinately is because there is actual competition (Linux, and an invigorated Macintosh) now. It is so plainly obvious that it stuns the senses.
History should already be telling the world never to trust anything from Microsoft.
Canon doesn't try to restrict what cartridges can be used with their printers. All Canon does is refuse to honor the warranty for damages caused by non-approved material, and of course, they can't guarantee you that the third party products will operate to optimal unit specs.
For example, let's say that you have a Canon ImageClass C2100 color laser copier. You go to CompUSA and buy some generic brand of high gloss paper that claims to be compatible. You pop a sheet in, and the third sheet melts in your fuser. Canon will not always honor the damage caused by that third party product, of course, because Canon has no way of testing the material beforehand, and they have no control over the third party's production techniques and claims. On the other hand, if you use approved Canon media and supplies, then you have nothing to fear under their very nice and expansive warranty.
Furthermore, this is no secret, but Canon manufactures almost all HP engines. Almost all other manufacturers lease out many Canon patents to make their stuff work. Why bother going second-hand when you can just buy directly from the source?
Yes, I am a satisfied Canon customer of three years. After dealing with Lexmark and HP for years at my past job, I couldn't dream of ever switching from Canon.
Microsoft should get Ellen Fiess and Steve the "Dude" guy of Dell fame to market this 'innovative' (heh) new technology. Could you imagine how amazing that marketing campaign would be?
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"This game could possibly become a sociological disaster in that the game encourages VERY unhealthy behaviour for long periods of time....."
Like furtive and grubby sessions of mutual masturbation between middle-aged housewives and overweight, pubescent 14 year old boys. Frankly, if I had a kid, I would see this scenario as healthier then catching him pounding-the-pudd to hentai. There is something deeply, deeply wrong with spanking it to the rape of a crap-covered 13 year old schoolgirl buy a ninja octopus demon.
The site mentions a Linux server "prototype driver". Frankly, if this guy wants to make money off of this little invention directly (I.E. doesn't sell it to some company for a few beans), then he would shoot himself in the foot sticking with Windows. Imagine, LANPipe BestBuy special, $250, $100 of that from the Windows license. 10 people might buy it at @$250, 1,000 would buy it at $100.
I started using Linux to escape obtrusive and bloated applications with restrictive licenses. Anyways, it's tough to view the best pr0n when you have to keep updating your Windows Media PLayer codecs - it's hard enough using mplayer now (we should all thank the mplayer team for giving us the best cli media player around).
Dark matter is just the term for matter that we can't detect. It can be baryonic material or even black holes. "Dark" doesn't mean 'invisible' when they use it in that context.
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Read all about it: of course I would know that if I gave a rat's ass fat boy.
Read all about it: Mandrake kept rapidly losing money even though they have less employees then some StarBucks restraunts, were awarded funding by European governments, and got free hordes of cash from sympathizers! Mandrake has pitifully poor marketing and management! Who didn't see this coming?!
....the law grant us the permission to kill malicious users, instead.
I educate people in Linux and open source for free. I also perform the task for a fee on occasion, but mostly for free. This is because I'm not a lazy ass like you, and choose give back to the community that gives me a free operating system with a slew of applications and tools. Suzy.
It's obvious that the open source development model and Linux is going to be the dominating force in computing. The only way that either can even be slowed down is through crooked litigation, which will not fly in the rest of the world.
Linux is the Micheal Jordan of operating systems. You can't stop him, only hope to contain him. Linux is Micheal Jackson, Microsoft is Tito. A mega-rich and powerful Tito, but still Tito nontheless.
Let's see the AMI spin doctor try to come up with believable answers to those questions! Thumbs up.
In the past year, I must have came across 5 or 6 crashed hard drives - all the "latest and greatest".
A box of cracker jacks and spent motor oil. What the hell do you think one would be looking for?
No, no, what am I saying, this must all be wrong. Man was wished into reality by a super-being that lives in a happy magic land outside of our visible universe somewhere, that's right. You can't prove or disprove that this happy magic land with it's super being and omniscient master exists, so I must be right!
This is too much fun.
1. To sustain a population of organisms a decent gene pool must be available. This means that there must be a sufficient number of these animals in the wilds to continue fostering the species, and a sufficient number must have existed in the recent past. Populations of animals leave behind obvious evidence. The larger the organism and it's population, the more evidence it leaves behind. Even the rarest forest mouse can be detected and revealed by a week-end naturalist. Why in all of the history of the world has not a single piece of verifiable evidence been found? Bones, waste, etc, etc. Here is a hint: Aliens don't leave evidence, either ;)
2. In addition to obvious physical evidence that should be available is the lack of evolutionary evidence. Scientists haved exhaustively catalogued much of the life that has evolved up to this point in North America and Asia. Why is there nothing, not one single shred of evidence, that would in any way conclucde that such a primate ever existed in the earth's recent past. Heres a hint: the same reason that no scientist can find any physical proof or evolutionary justification that a beast that exists solely on goat's blood resides in Puerto Rico. (Especially considering that goats were introduced recently to that island, but I digress)
I could go on, but you get the point. It will take a lot more then the stock "a thousand years ago scientists said that we would never bla bla bla" or "just because we haven't found one bla bla bla" arguements to make a valid point against a seasoned pupil of Shermer and Sagan. You might do better disproving the existance of Santa to a 10 year old. Go give it a try, you will see how I feel in this circumstance. :)
The "paranormal": big foot, lochness monster, vampire rodent beasts in Puerto Rico, ghosts, monkey men with claws, and religion is basically adults playing pretend. You might be too detached from reality to just say "my great uncle whatever was chasing phantoms because he lacked a basic foundation of scientific knowledge, and therefore was prone to buying into psuedo-science and superstition", but I am not.
So, your great uncle whatever was chasing phantoms because he lacked a basic foundation of scientific knowledge, and therefore was prone to buying into psuedo-science and superstition.
Skeptic.com - terrific stuff
Besides, if they wanted to, they could just remove these guy's from their listing. I can't belive the audactiy of these guys (fucking sueing for crying out loud) to begin with!
I was actually going to start actually making more points here, but it's pointless: I would be speaking to the choir. 90% of Slashdot readers understand your post to be the kind made by inexperienced people with very little understanding of how the open source community and development model works, so I would just be wasting my time pointing it out to you.
Suffice to say your rebuttle equals nothing in the end. Hopefully one day soon you will realize why.
It reminds me of something Roblimo wrote about the other day over at NewsForge, where he was standing in the software aisle of CompUSA looking at rows and rows of applications that exist to fix some deficiency with Windows. What will these companies do when Linux takes over?
I was building computers when I was 16. I used to help my high school computer guy after basketball practice when I was 18. I know about 15 other people with similar backgrounds. None of us have ever even thought about getting an A+ cert. Why? Because building and troubleshooting PC hardware has always been extremely easy, straightforward, and demanded very little technical knowledge. It is a hobby for many. Such a lax and intellectually undemanding trade shouldn't require some form of regulation. Basic contractual agreements already protect a consumer enough.
Microsoft is not interested in your security. Microsoft doesn't even much care about their own security, as long as the license is already paid for. They only want to make money and lock you into long term deals. The massive and drastic tactics by Microsoft to lock consumers into their platform indefinately is because there is actual competition (Linux, and an invigorated Macintosh) now. It is so plainly obvious that it stuns the senses.
History should already be telling the world never to trust anything from Microsoft.
For example, let's say that you have a Canon ImageClass C2100 color laser copier. You go to CompUSA and buy some generic brand of high gloss paper that claims to be compatible. You pop a sheet in, and the third sheet melts in your fuser. Canon will not always honor the damage caused by that third party product, of course, because Canon has no way of testing the material beforehand, and they have no control over the third party's production techniques and claims. On the other hand, if you use approved Canon media and supplies, then you have nothing to fear under their very nice and expansive warranty.
Furthermore, this is no secret, but Canon manufactures almost all HP engines. Almost all other manufacturers lease out many Canon patents to make their stuff work. Why bother going second-hand when you can just buy directly from the source?
Yes, I am a satisfied Canon customer of three years. After dealing with Lexmark and HP for years at my past job, I couldn't dream of ever switching from Canon.
Microsoft should get Ellen Fiess and Steve the "Dude" guy of Dell fame to market this 'innovative' (heh) new technology. Could you imagine how amazing that marketing campaign would be?
Make them work better at debugging. What a pointless story/question this is.
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Like furtive and grubby sessions of mutual masturbation between middle-aged housewives and overweight, pubescent 14 year old boys. Frankly, if I had a kid, I would see this scenario as healthier then catching him pounding-the-pudd to hentai. There is something deeply, deeply wrong with spanking it to the rape of a crap-covered 13 year old schoolgirl buy a ninja octopus demon.
The site mentions a Linux server "prototype driver". Frankly, if this guy wants to make money off of this little invention directly (I.E. doesn't sell it to some company for a few beans), then he would shoot himself in the foot sticking with Windows. Imagine, LANPipe BestBuy special, $250, $100 of that from the Windows license. 10 people might buy it at @$250, 1,000 would buy it at $100.
I started using Linux to escape obtrusive and bloated applications with restrictive licenses. Anyways, it's tough to view the best pr0n when you have to keep updating your Windows Media PLayer codecs - it's hard enough using mplayer now (we should all thank the mplayer team for giving us the best cli media player around).
Dark matter is just the term for matter that we can't detect. It can be baryonic material or even black holes. "Dark" doesn't mean 'invisible' when they use it in that context.