The vast majority of Windows users behave exactly as the grandparent post states. I know this because I deal with the results every day in my shop. I'd guess that 80% of the machines I see [...]
What makes you think that the majority of Windows users take their computers to shops for software problems? In my experience, the only people who do that are the ones too technically incompetent to solve the problem and too socially incompetent to find a techie friend to help them.
People who choose to use crappy operating systems get what they deserve. I'm sick of people whining about adware, spyware, etc... In life, we make our choices and suffer the consequences.
Just today I was unable to complete an online transaction because the company's online store required proprietary software. I sucked it up, put away my credit card, and moved on. You don't hear me complaining.
Why is the parent not modded as funny? He was clearly parodying a classic "linux geek" response to the question. I guess it zoomed over all the moderators' heads.
It's been about 5 years since I used Windows. In the past year or two, whenever I've tried to help a friend do something on his Windows machine, I haven't been able to help much. I just don't remember it. And so long as I'm happy with what I use, there's no need to learn Windows.
there was a low-profile scandal about 15 or 20 years ago in the US when a political special interest lobbying group paid off a congressman by working a deal where he "wrote a book" that was then "published".
In 1989, Speaker of the House Jim Wright was forced to resign over a shady book deal. I seem to recall that it was a real book, but that unions bought thousands upon thousands as a way to funnel illegal donations to him. If I recall correctly, after consulting Google, the book was his Reflections of Public Man, which had been published in 1984. He's continued to write since then and is a regular newspaper columnist.
Others have made this point, but it's true: there's plenty worse than this to come. There are very powerful forces that are threatened by the development of Linux, and they will fight to the death. Hired character assassins are just the beginning.
I'm not trying to get into a browser argument here, but I've tried the alternatives and like IE better than them.
I understand that you're not trying to get into an argument, but could you elaborate on one point? I find tabbed browsing to be indispensible. Did you not like tabbed browsing?
This is major-league political-type mudslinging, and it's painfully obvious that the only reason he's doing it (barring some personal vendetta, which I doubt) is to cast doubt in the community on Linux vs. SCO.
This is GOOD news, because (1) it shows that free software is really in the big leagues now, and (2) the attack is so incompetently done.
People still see ads in their web browsers? How 1997!
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It is interesting to me that in a professional setting no one's word has weight unless 'Doctor' precedes their name, and the burden of proof does not lay with the accusers.
People who teach at universities are well aquainted with the phenomenon of the student who has plagiarized, but whose plagiarism cannot be conclusively demonstrated. In those cases, the faculty are forced to grade the work as though they didn't know that the student who wrote it was a plagiarist. We grit our teeth and give the grade the (source of the) plagiarized paper deserves.
Perhaps it's different in other professional settings, but at universities, the benefit of the doubt is very much in favor of the accused student.
It sounds like there was an unfortunate false accusation against you. But the vast majority of such accusations are not false. My proof? The fact that when you have graded literally tens of thousands of papers, you learn what normal students can and can't do. If someone fall outside that range, they are either exceptionally strong students (as your 28 years had made you), or cheating. And they are most often cheating. In your case, you could probably have provided the professors who challenged you with other things you'd written that would have set their minds at ease. The typical student who is suspected of plagiarism but can't be proved to have plagiarized, however, can do no such thing. They cheat, we know they cheated, and we can't do anything about it.
Ken Brown will make lots of money from this book because of the massive free publicity.
I doubt it. It's being published through Booksurge.com, a vanity publisher.
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He'll publish.
I'm sure you're right, but the problem is that he's holding off publishing so that he can respond to the critics. But he CAN'T respond to the critics! So what's he going to do?
Is the money from Microsoft really worth destroying his reputation?
Is there any chance Brown will just scrap this misbegotten report? When you look at the critiques that have already been made, there's no way he can possibly revise the report to accommodate them. Maybe he should just not publish the report.
The writing standards of most undergraduate students are so low that anything well written really stands out. I simply run these through google.
So do I, as do most of my colleagues. Google has become the primary anti-plagiarism tool on our campus.
But there's more to it than merely competent writing. There's an authoritative voice in professional writing. When you see it in a student's paper, it's a sure sign that you're either dealing with an exceptionally strong student, or they are plagiarizing. Usually the latter, but once in awhile the former.
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if she'd gotten her music reviewed before she revealed how she made it. Now we'll never know how Pitchforkmedia would have reviewed them.
Open Source software can not be made into a profitable business model.
IBM seems to be doing OK.
Bought any music lately?
No. I think that was the original poster's point.
I have so far gotten very little spam in my gmail inbox.
What was that address again?
The vast majority of Windows users behave exactly as the grandparent post states. I know this because I deal with the results every day in my shop. I'd guess that 80% of the machines I see [...]
What makes you think that the majority of Windows users take their computers to shops for software problems? In my experience, the only people who do that are the ones too technically incompetent to solve the problem and too socially incompetent to find a techie friend to help them.
People who choose to use crappy operating systems get what they deserve. I'm sick of people whining about adware, spyware, etc... In life, we make our choices and suffer the consequences.
Just today I was unable to complete an online transaction because the company's online store required proprietary software. I sucked it up, put away my credit card, and moved on. You don't hear me complaining.
Why is the parent not modded as funny? He was clearly parodying a classic "linux geek" response to the question. I guess it zoomed over all the moderators' heads.
It's been about 5 years since I used Windows. In the past year or two, whenever I've tried to help a friend do something on his Windows machine, I haven't been able to help much. I just don't remember it. And so long as I'm happy with what I use, there's no need to learn Windows.
there was a low-profile scandal about 15 or 20 years ago in the US when a political special interest lobbying group paid off a congressman by working a deal where he "wrote a book" that was then "published".
In 1989, Speaker of the House Jim Wright was forced to resign over a shady book deal. I seem to recall that it was a real book, but that unions bought thousands upon thousands as a way to funnel illegal donations to him. If I recall correctly, after consulting Google, the book was his Reflections of Public Man, which had been published in 1984. He's continued to write since then and is a regular newspaper columnist.
Who's the greater fool, KB with his million dollars in book revenue
It's being published through a vanity press, not a real publisher.
Others have made this point, but it's true: there's plenty worse than this to come. There are very powerful forces that are threatened by the development of Linux, and they will fight to the death. Hired character assassins are just the beginning.
I'm not trying to get into a browser argument here, but I've tried the alternatives and like IE better than them.
I understand that you're not trying to get into an argument, but could you elaborate on one point? I find tabbed browsing to be indispensible. Did you not like tabbed browsing?
When it comes to a choice between trying to reason with a liar and defending our ability to feed our children, we'll take the children every time.
Thank God somebody is thinking about the children!!!
Thousands and thousands and thousands of pissed-off Linux zealots buy said book
Too bad it's not available through legitimate bookstores, because it is published through a vanity press and not through a real publisher.
This is major-league political-type mudslinging, and it's painfully obvious that the only reason he's doing it (barring some personal vendetta, which I doubt) is to cast doubt in the community on Linux vs. SCO .
This is GOOD news, because (1) it shows that free software is really in the big leagues now, and (2) the attack is so incompetently done.
MOD PARENT UP!!!
I personally use them both and I like them both
An OS is like a wife, not a girlfriend. Sounds like somebody has a problem with commitment.
People still see ads in their web browsers? How 1997!
It is interesting to me that in a professional setting no one's word has weight unless 'Doctor' precedes their name, and the burden of proof does not lay with the accusers.
People who teach at universities are well aquainted with the phenomenon of the student who has plagiarized, but whose plagiarism cannot be conclusively demonstrated. In those cases, the faculty are forced to grade the work as though they didn't know that the student who wrote it was a plagiarist. We grit our teeth and give the grade the (source of the) plagiarized paper deserves.
Perhaps it's different in other professional settings, but at universities, the benefit of the doubt is very much in favor of the accused student.
It sounds like there was an unfortunate false accusation against you. But the vast majority of such accusations are not false. My proof? The fact that when you have graded literally tens of thousands of papers, you learn what normal students can and can't do. If someone fall outside that range, they are either exceptionally strong students (as your 28 years had made you), or cheating. And they are most often cheating. In your case, you could probably have provided the professors who challenged you with other things you'd written that would have set their minds at ease. The typical student who is suspected of plagiarism but can't be proved to have plagiarized, however, can do no such thing. They cheat, we know they cheated, and we can't do anything about it.
I've written an OS (not Unix, early OS/360)
Well, there goes YOUR credibility, since as Ken Brown has taught us, NO ONE could possibly write an OS by himself!
Ken Brown will make lots of money from this book because of the massive free publicity.
I doubt it. It's being published through Booksurge.com, a vanity publisher.
He'll publish.
I'm sure you're right, but the problem is that he's holding off publishing so that he can respond to the critics. But he CAN'T respond to the critics! So what's he going to do?
Is the money from Microsoft really worth destroying his reputation?
The parent post is actually funny, because the ADTI site has lots of links to Brown's "responses" to his critics, but the links don't lead anywhere.
Is there any chance Brown will just scrap this misbegotten report? When you look at the critiques that have already been made, there's no way he can possibly revise the report to accommodate them. Maybe he should just not publish the report.
The writing standards of most undergraduate students are so low that anything well written really stands out. I simply run these through google.
So do I, as do most of my colleagues. Google has become the primary anti-plagiarism tool on our campus.
But there's more to it than merely competent writing. There's an authoritative voice in professional writing. When you see it in a student's paper, it's a sure sign that you're either dealing with an exceptionally strong student, or they are plagiarizing. Usually the latter, but once in awhile the former.