My point was that a 1-sentence summary declaration that "users are retards" getting moderated as "+5 Insightful" is a telling reflection of the lack of tolerance and willingness to understand user needs that has kept Linux in backend environments for so long. Most users were raised with Windows PC's throughout their lives (except for elites like you and I who were exposed to Linux), so their expectation that common games running on all of their freinds computers would run on theirs is not necessarily a reflection of their lack of intelligence. Consoles have a long history of heterogeneity, so this expectation does not exist; it is an apples to oranges analogy.
I think the fact that this post was moderated as "Insightful" and neither of the two responses (as of this writing) sought to qualify or refute it is a perfect explanation for why Linux hasn't made it to the desktop mainstream in the 7 or so years they have been trying to do so. Con Kolivas was right -- there are a lot of closed (and not very high-functioning) minds in this community.
You can read the site to get the full story, but suffice it to say that there are people from the entire spectrum of mental illness that come to the group meetings. There are the mild dysfuntional folks who have non-debilitating disorders (like my ADD/bipolar/Asperger's syndrome) to those with full-blown schizophrenia.
I am going to one at 11AM in Omaha tomorrow. You would be doing yourself a favor by looking up the meeting group in your area and sitting in on a meeting or two if you or someone you love are suffering from a mental illness. I have only been going to weekly meetings for about a month now, and I have to say that it has helped me gain coping skills that I haven't been able to get anywhere else in the 28 years I have been on this planet.
Paraphrase: "If you aren't a witch, you won't float in the water -- you will drown. Prove to us that you aren't a witch or we will burn you at the stake!"
There is a lot of "borrowing" from Microsoft in the open source GUI world. I know some genius who thinks he knows something is going to make a comment about Microsoft "borrowing" from Apple (and, if they want to be fair, about Apple "borrowing" from Xerox).
It would be nice if the book reviewers gave the scale that they rated books on (or were required to use a standard rating system). It is hard to compare reviews when one reviewer uses A - F, the next uses 1 - 5, and the next uses 1 - 10.
Gee Willekers, Bill Gates is using his bully-pulpit with the press to announce that Microsoft is going to do something that all of there customers have been _wanting_ them to do for aeons. This is about as pressworthy as Larry Ellison advocating a gigantic national database -- running Oracle software.
This "leaked" email is rather silly. The press should have more restraint in printing patently self-serving "inside scoops" like this. Microsoft is insanely rich -- make them pay for their marketing.
Oh, another aspiring e.e. cummings. My hat is off to you, sir, for your bold capitalization choices (I think there is a pun lurking there), but I think that your disdain for statistics, sources, and logical ("Modernist" or "Rationalist" if you prefer) debate are misplaced on this particular forum. Most of us are of a critical and scientific bent (not all, to be sure), and prefer to make a decisions and value judgements on an empirical basis.
That should be clue #1 that these people really don't understand the most basic economic realities. Both Oracle and Microsoft have higher profits (the real metric of a companies strength) than most of the companies on that list. But because they don't have as high of "revenues" (i.e., because they don't waste as much of the money that they take in as most of the bloated bohemoths that made their list) they don't even show up on these morons' radar screens. Companies with higher profits and cash savings (MS is #1 in this respect) have far more power than a company like Itochu (#10) and Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (#13) which are LOSING $792M and $609MM (respectively) on their "high" revenues.
Revenues don't mean squat if you aren't making a profit. I think a telling figure in THEIR OWN REPORT that emphasizes this mistake is that their "Top 200" companies account for only.78% (yes, not even one percent) of the total profits of the world's companies.
Leave it to leftists to look at the wrong metrics. Two of the companies to "fear" the most (if your mental condition lends itself to that sort of thing) didn't even make the list.
shane
Do you see the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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Any movie about the pissant bombing of Pearl Harbor should also show the amazing "punishment" that we doled out to the Japanese. Millions of innocent civilians getting fried to a crisp. It pretty much dwarfs what little the Japanese were able to do to our Hawaiin base.
Oh, and does it show the US concentration camps for US citizens that happened to be of Japanese descent?
Didn't think so.
This movie sounds like it was written to drum up anti-Oriental sentiment. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but shudder at the selective re-writing of history that this little piece of propoganda posits.
At least two of those are necessary for open source. Maybe you would prefer no rule of law at all -- just rule of force. In some countries that is the way it is; whoever has the most rocket launchers that week is that faction that is in power. Life in such places is truly a Hobbesian dystopia: nasty, brutish, and short.
"At various periods during the air campaign, COMINT units from the AFSS were intercepting North Korean, Chinese, or Soviet instructions to their pilots. These were disguised as "radar plots" and forwarded in near-real time to U.S. pilots operating over North Korean territory. When this source was exploited, the U.S. "kill ratio" over MiGs was quite high; during periods of nonexploitation, the ratio was much lower."
Now that is a profound observation!
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I'm glad you took the time to post that comment. Although it is fairly self-evident and completely non-controversial (you could post the same comment, unaltered, about almost any technology story on Slashdot), I guess some idiot had to say it. What would Slashdot be without incisive comments like that? Well put, my friend.
Maybe I will write a Perl program to post that comment to Slashdot about every article that comes up. I'll call it "first_post.pl" It will do constant HTTP GET's of the webserver, and post that comment right away whenever there is a new article. I will be the first-post king!
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Regards,
Shane
My point was that a 1-sentence summary declaration that "users are retards" getting moderated as "+5 Insightful" is a telling reflection of the lack of tolerance and willingness to understand user needs that has kept Linux in backend environments for so long. Most users were raised with Windows PC's throughout their lives (except for elites like you and I who were exposed to Linux), so their expectation that common games running on all of their freinds computers would run on theirs is not necessarily a reflection of their lack of intelligence. Consoles have a long history of heterogeneity, so this expectation does not exist; it is an apples to oranges analogy.
But if a refutation is what you want, then here it is: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010204.html
Regards,
Shane
I think the fact that this post was moderated as "Insightful" and neither of the two responses (as of this writing) sought to qualify or refute it is a perfect explanation for why Linux hasn't made it to the desktop mainstream in the 7 or so years they have been trying to do so. Con Kolivas was right -- there are a lot of closed (and not very high-functioning) minds in this community.
Regards,
Shane
You can read the site to get the full story, but suffice it to say that there are people from the entire spectrum of mental illness that come to the group meetings. There are the mild dysfuntional folks who have non-debilitating disorders (like my ADD/bipolar/Asperger's syndrome) to those with full-blown schizophrenia.
I am going to one at 11AM in Omaha tomorrow. You would be doing yourself a favor by looking up the meeting group in your area and sitting in on a meeting or two if you or someone you love are suffering from a mental illness. I have only been going to weekly meetings for about a month now, and I have to say that it has helped me gain coping skills that I haven't been able to get anywhere else in the 28 years I have been on this planet.
Shane (shanelenagh@yahoo.com)
Just send the check to me, and I will take care of getting that wireless thing up and working:
Shane Lenagh
9835 Evans St.
Omaha, NE 68134
With only $7G it will be tight, but I think we can make it work. Please make the check out in my name. Thanks.
Paraphrase: "If you aren't a witch, you won't float in the water -- you will drown. Prove to us that you aren't a witch or we will burn you at the stake!"
I think Rexx would be better than all the languages mentioned in this thread so far. Net-Rexx, preferably...
[snort][chortle]That was a very good Micro$lut joke!!!!!!!!![snort][chortle]They suck!![snort][chortle]My mom's calling me...gotta go
Oh, very good point. I can see the relevant differences.
I agree with you completely.
There is a lot of "borrowing" from Microsoft in the open source GUI world. I know some genius who thinks he knows something is going to make a comment about Microsoft "borrowing" from Apple (and, if they want to be fair, about Apple "borrowing" from Xerox).
Not only it is it not far, it is right on the money!
I read John's updates every week and he has NOTHING BUT logical / technical backup for his approaches. Maybe you are the ill-informed one.
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It would be nice if the book reviewers gave the scale that they rated books on (or were required to use a standard rating system). It is hard to compare reviews when one reviewer uses A - F, the next uses 1 - 5, and the next uses 1 - 10.
To quote from the 80's Wendy's commercial:
"Where's the beef?!"
Gee Willekers, Bill Gates is using his bully-pulpit with the press to announce that Microsoft is going to do something that all of there customers have been _wanting_ them to do for aeons. This is about as pressworthy as Larry Ellison advocating a gigantic national database -- running Oracle software.
This "leaked" email is rather silly. The press should have more restraint in printing patently self-serving "inside scoops" like this. Microsoft is insanely rich -- make them pay for their marketing.
Shane
shane
Revenues don't mean squat if you aren't making a profit. I think a telling figure in THEIR OWN REPORT that emphasizes this mistake is that their "Top 200" companies account for only .78% (yes, not even one percent) of the total profits of the world's companies.
Leave it to leftists to look at the wrong metrics. Two of the companies to "fear" the most (if your mental condition lends itself to that sort of thing) didn't even make the list.
shane
Any movie about the pissant bombing of Pearl Harbor should also show the amazing "punishment" that we doled out to the Japanese. Millions of innocent civilians getting fried to a crisp. It pretty much dwarfs what little the Japanese were able to do to our Hawaiin base.
Oh, and does it show the US concentration camps for US citizens that happened to be of Japanese descent?
Didn't think so.
This movie sounds like it was written to drum up anti-Oriental sentiment. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but shudder at the selective re-writing of history that this little piece of propoganda posits.
shane
shane
shane
We have tons of hydroelectric plants here in Nebrasksa.
shane
http://www.nsa.gov/korea/papers/sigint_background_ korean_war.htm
Maybe I will write a Perl program to post that comment to Slashdot about every article that comes up. I'll call it "first_post.pl" It will do constant HTTP GET's of the webserver, and post that comment right away whenever there is a new article. I will be the first-post king!
The bill will be titled "The Terrorism and Child Molestation Prevention Act of 2001".
shane