Yeah, but it's more expensive. Buying an 802.11g card would be stupid when I could get an 802.11b card for cheaper, if all I'm gonna run into is 802.11b bubbles.
Here's a little story. Joe Clueless would walk into his local computer store and see two HP computers. One is running Linux, and one is running XP. Joe obviously buys the Linux one because it's cheaper. He takes his new computer home and shows it to all of the little Clueless's. They try to install Deer Hunter on it with no luck. They try to install Quicken on it with no luck. Little Bobby Clueless tries to install his pirated version of Photoshop with no luck. They take it back to the computer store to say that it's broken. They walk out a few hundred dollars poorer with a bad idea of what Linux is.
Until Linux becomes a solid Desktop OS solution for everyone, it is better off having it this way.
Yeah, I agree. Kiddie porn and crashing planes into large skyscrapers are a God-given right.
You're missing the point. Kiddie porn would be on the internet, and the internet is not supposed to be censored. Killing people/other terroist actions are still very much illegal and so is having sex with a minor. Building a website telling people how to make a bomb isn't illegal.
Well, not only the lying, but the poll was also asking slashdot users if Windows was their main OS. Many people on slashdot I'm guessing use Windows at work (with Office most likely) and Linux at home, and thus call their main OS Linux.
Wrong. The majority of/. readers use Windows. Besides, even for those of us who don't use any Microsoft products at all, it's always good to know. Keep in mind slashdot is News for nerds, not News for Linux users.
The article and the predictions that it made have since become the stuff of legend, and like most legends it has gone through a number of changes in the telling and retelling.
Just curious, but has anyone ever even heard of this before? It's very interesting, but the article was written in 1965, and I don't think current geeks know a lot about this. I certainty didn't
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Yeah, but it's more expensive. Buying an 802.11g card would be stupid when I could get an 802.11b card for cheaper, if all I'm gonna run into is 802.11b bubbles.
I'm glad. Most of the world uses 802.11b anyways, and if it's $20 cheaper, I'm all for it.
...what color will the eighth notes be on the iTunes 4 icon?
Here's a little story. Joe Clueless would walk into his local computer store and see two HP computers. One is running Linux, and one is running XP. Joe obviously buys the Linux one because it's cheaper. He takes his new computer home and shows it to all of the little Clueless's. They try to install Deer Hunter on it with no luck. They try to install Quicken on it with no luck. Little Bobby Clueless tries to install his pirated version of Photoshop with no luck. They take it back to the computer store to say that it's broken. They walk out a few hundred dollars poorer with a bad idea of what Linux is. Until Linux becomes a solid Desktop OS solution for everyone, it is better off having it this way.
Yeah, I agree. Kiddie porn and crashing planes into large skyscrapers are a God-given right.
You're missing the point. Kiddie porn would be on the internet, and the internet is not supposed to be censored. Killing people/other terroist actions are still very much illegal and so is having sex with a minor. Building a website telling people how to make a bomb isn't illegal.
...when people hear the name of Mr. Bates...
Oh please. You're telling me people would actually address him by "Mister"? If it were me, I would certainly address him as "Master".
Now not only the people in rich neighborhoods get free internet! I love my neighbors, and their 802.11b wireless internet =D
If some wise /.'er knows which product MS copied to make Access, I'd like to know
Pencil and paper? Seems to me that's what people used to database before Access.
Well, not only the lying, but the poll was also asking slashdot users if Windows was their main OS. Many people on slashdot I'm guessing use Windows at work (with Office most likely) and Linux at home, and thus call their main OS Linux.
Wrong. The majority of /. readers use Windows. Besides, even for those of us who don't use any Microsoft products at all, it's always good to know. Keep in mind slashdot is News for nerds, not News for Linux users.
The article and the predictions that it made have since become the stuff of legend, and like most legends it has gone through a number of changes in the telling and retelling.
Just curious, but has anyone ever even heard of this before? It's very interesting, but the article was written in 1965, and I don't think current geeks know a lot about this. I certainty didn't