I think "acceptable losses" and "collateral damage" would be a cool addition to a WWII game.
Like... Atomic USA: A fantasic game in which you lay nuclear waste to cities populated by women, children, and the elderly then spend the next few decades justifying this crime against humanity by saying, "More would have died during an invasion," while failing to mention that Japan had already surrendered.
SS: The Final Solution: A political strategy game in which you make deals with other high ranking German officers about how to best "evacuate" Jews from German culture.
In Soviet Russia your allies shoot YOU! Every once an a while you spawn as the guy who sits in the back with the machine gun and mows down his own men when the retreat because they're scared to death charging the German army because... There's not enough guns for everyone! Pick up your friend's!
Kamakazi: The Adventure. A flight simulator in which you fly your plane for a few hours and once the action starts up you fly head first into the nearest ship. The game will only load one time, so make it count!
I can't think of one for Britain except like: Jolly Good German Fodder! Cheers and thanks for all the Panzers or something.
I like the comments about simulated sitting around and freezing too.
I love WWII games, particularlly Blitzkreig (?) and Day of Defeat. However, don't try and sell these things as "real." They're not even close. They're fun! Real war is not "fun." None of the above game titles would really be... fun. I mean, if you're sick maybe...
Real war is fucking horrific. However, something a lot of people that get all worked up here and say, "Oh it's making a joke out of war, whah, whah, whah..." forget is that this is how humans deal with horror.
I know what you're saying, chummer. It'd be nice to have one of those hooked up so that the next time some slothead gives you drek you're able to blow the frag outta him.
I loved that game...
You realize that the geek thing to do in that situation would be to use some sort of amplified antenna to get internet service in the bathroom not from your room with the wireless router... no... but from like... your friend's house a few blocks away.
And suddenly I have this terrible image of IMing while taking a dump.
Hey, everything come out all right?
Yeah, it was great.;) Thanx.
I think my wax ring just seg-faulted.
I was gonna go on but... yeah... I should be sleeping.
Why is it the only thing I could come up with was some way to hook this thing up to one of my guns? Now that I think about it, please refrain from answering the question.
Not just wearing a refrigerator but putting a putting a computer on your refrigerator. That always struck me as the most retarded thing.
Funny thing about being a geek is this: A geek would do something like turn his Dreamcast into a web server or install a computer in a blender for the sake of doing so but would never use any of these devices.
Now a toilet computer... that's what I want if for no other reason than the internet has much better bathroom reading material than my local paper and sometimes, when I really have to go, I don't have time to grab a book or the paper.
And if Hot Topic can sell WWF material and still be frequented by fishnet wearing, coffee shop dwelling, whiny ass poets... then you can hate this device and still be a geek.
You've raised a good point. It'd be nice of the government made games in place of all of its advertizing. At least I actually get something for my tax dollars.
Plus, think of the possibilities. BATF: The Adventure - A tactical combat games that shows it's players how to torch religious fanatics in the comfort of their own compound and shoot child carrying mothers in the head.
I would buy that game. And even better, since the government made it, it would be free!
We could even get more local. Highway Patrol: The Road Warriors. Get paid under the table as you meet ticket quotas for the month by nailing people doing 68 in the 65 zones. Upgrade your stock HP vehicle with parts confiscated from "illegals" and unlock special "donut locations."
And finally, Hicktown Police: You sure do got a purdy mouth. This is the best one. Pull over vehicles passing through town and throw the poor, big-city prick in jail overnight and make him call his family so they can Western Union him the cash to get out. While he waits have fun sodomizing him and any minority inmates with a plundger.
Honestly, the market for government games is fun. Why have kids thinking they're space aliens with a rocket launcher when we have a chance to expose them to real crime like working for the government.
IRS: Resistance is Futile. Get bonus points every time you confiscate all the property of a small family barely getting by!
Corporations could even improve their image! RIAA: The Game. A strategy game where you pick out the weakest targets, 12-year-olds in the projects and old ladies and sue them.
It sucks for game distribution, but bootable Linux CDs that go right into a full featured OS (X, a DE, some kind of Office progs, a browser, etc) is really cool when I want to show someone else Linux.
I honestly try to show as many people as I can that it is a viable alternative and not just a nerd OS anymore.
"Linux would be too complicated for me. I'm not really good with computers in the first place."
"Well... try this and tell me what you think."
"I can make my desktop look like that!? That's really nice. Oh... and I like these programs. There's a program here like Trillian too. I thought Linux was harder than Windows."
Hell, I'm putting both my parents on Linux now and my girlfriend just put a second hard drive in her box for a Gentoo installation.
I buy only nVidia because of their Linux and FreeBSD drivers. I don't care if they're closed source because, frankly, it's nice to see my Linux run on par, give or take here and there, with my Windows installation when I play Neverwinter Nights.
ATi is supposedly releasing some new catalyst drivers this month. I want ATi to get their drivers out because it helps Linux but at the same time given their poor attitude toward getting them out the door and supporting them it's unlikely I'll be purchasing any of their hardware anytime soon.
Don't support me and I'm probably not going to support you.
Yeah... you're right. I mean think about it, a pitiful 64-bit Opteron is just now catching up to the Atari Jaguar! How many years ago was that released? They had 64-bit when 16-bit was in and the best 32-bit item was the legendary X32 (or whatever that Genesis add in was).
The number of bits in the processor really means about as much as MHz. Nothing. How well do you think a dual Opteron is gonna play games if it's equiped with a Riva 128?
I don't care what the bit count on the PS2 is. It's nice, but it didn't have the rendering power of a top of the line PC when it came out and it definitely doesn't now. It's an excellent system with great games, but it's not as pretty as my GeForce4/Athlon system.
In Soviet Russia the Linux box rapidly reboots you!
I wish I could attach a picture of a burly Russian dude with a furry hat and a red star pointing at out at whoever is reading this. Kind of like a communist version of Uncle Sam with some cool 50s era propoganda look to it. Any artists out there want to immortalize the much overused joke?
Eh. I disagree. Win2k and Linux boot about as fast on this machine including loading X. Both are liveable but neither are BeOS... that was a fast booting OS.
You're focusing on the wrong part of the story. There's two problems that have gotten out of hand, not just one. That's the worst part of this. Artists should get paid, I agree. However nailing a 12-year-old in the projects for $2000 doesn't solve anything.
Treating the symptoms of a disease instead of the cause will never cure anything.
The recording industry is another just another screw everyone organization. They screw the people the buy their music, the people the make the music and everyone in between. I'll use the simplest label I can here, they're bad. That's one letter less than "evil." They're that too.
And did she steal their property? What is the definition of theft? What is the definition of property? Did she think her actions were wrong? Was there any mens rea?
If it's theft, shouldn't it be pursued in a criminal matter and not a civil matter? If they really feel they're being stolen from, why not charge people with a crime as opposed to this civil bullshit? Because it's easier to step on people in the civil circuits, particularly for corporations and such.
These questions will never get answered because a huge corporation has the power to take these things to the courts and a single mother in the projects is at the mercy of corporations and our lovely, corporate government.
I bet you won't see the RIAA come after anyone with money or prestige enough to fight back. Nope, they're going to make examples out of people they can step on. It's called unequal enforcement.
Do I have pay some sort of fee when I listen to music on the radio or hear a friend of mine playing a song? Do I have to pay a fee whenever I play it back in my mind? Am I breaking the law if I replay a song in my head that I didn't pay for?
If not, why not?
"It was the girl who was in the wrong, not the 'recording artist' or the RIAA" This really is a matter of perspective, isn't it? Right and wrong are such subjective things. Following the "law" rarely has much to do with "right" or "wrong." Nazi Germany is a good example, but the list goes on.
It's wrong for an organization with that much money and that much power to simply step on a poor family like that. It's wrong any way you slice it (according to my rules and perspective anyway which really isn't "any way you slice it" but whatever). There was no harm. There was no theft. The recording industry didn't lose anything, including bandwidth.
We're in the process of dealing with the growing pains of entering a new era and discarding an old one. This is an example of it. It'll be nice when the internet and digital distribution of text, sound, video and other mediums finish destroying these worthless middle men. Unfortunately their white collar, bean counting, paper pushing, space wasting, blood sucking asses won't go down without a fight.
Now if we can just enter an era which begins the extinction of bureaucrats and lawyers.
Do you hear that Mr. RIAA? That is the sound of inevitability, the sound of your death.
Eh... I use Gnome, KDE, and I've found that I really enjoy Xfce4. What I've also found is this, there is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to pick one. Right now the two desktops communicate well. When I open a KDE program in Gnome and vice versa, things pretty much work the same.
Each desktop has its polish and it's problems (KDE has a MUCH nicer save dialog and Konq wipes the floor with the ass that is Nautilus, but I MUCH prefer the Gnome panel so I use Gnome with the KDE file manager) and the ncie thing is, I can pick and choose to my preferences.
If some company wants to standardize with one, fine. I don't care. But don't try to get the "Linux community" to standardize anything. If it never takes over the desktop, I don't care. If I wanted a "one size fits all" solution driven down my throat in the name of taking over the desktop market I'd get a copy of Windows, you know?
And something people seem to miss is that these desktop projects span more than just Linux and if Linux standardizes on one it won't make a difference and the geeks that have made Linux what it is will move to something that they can play with and modify.
Too much standardization is going to kill off Linux's most devoted users.
I also like the way the config scripts run. I might seem like a small deal, but I'll tell you... if I could find something that used debs but had a startup system like Gentoo, I'd be really happy.
I love portage and frankly, I don't mind compiling my software, but that wasn't the allure of Gentoo. It's not even the configurability or customization factor. I find that it's just plain nicer to use. This almost seems opposed to what I find in a lot of its users.
ebuilds (like for the nVidia binary driver) just work.
I disagree that their message is against the desktop at all. I think it's good business sense. If they're not even selling what they're producing I'd wager they're actually losing money on the shelftop sales. I mean, if it was making them money what would be the point of pulling it?
But hey, I don't even use Red Hat and haven't found their package terribly satisfying for what I do in any of the iterations I've used so I'm fairly indifferent to what Red Hat's up to (although not entirely or I wouldn't be posting).
And there are alternatives. SuSE is still there (another one I bought off the shelves) and I liked it a lot better. Mandrake too (another one I liked better, although only marginally).
Is there any statistical data on sales somewhere? I'm curious what distro is doing the best at like Fry's/CompUSA/Office Max/etc.
At this point it's boiling down to personal opinion though, so it's best to take what I say with a grain of salt (and I know everyone will).
The thing people seem to forget about Linux is that until huge companies force feed it to users (like Dell) the average user isn't going to touch it.
Not only did I build my own box, but I installed Linux on it. My mom's gonna be running it soon because I'm putting it on a machine for her. She doesn't care because that's what came with the computer she'll be getting.
If someone isn't tech savvy enough to download their own CD and install it, then they aren't tech savvy enough to install ANY OS and they're simply going to use what came with the computer.
This isn't Red Hat saying that the Linux desktop doesn't exist, it's Red Hat saying, "Okay, corporations don't buy off the shelf and have informed IT (arguably) making the decisions anyway and they'll buy in bulk and pay for support contracts. So they're not gonna buy it. Oh yeah, and nerds don't buy it because they're cheap bastards and have broadband and CD burners and don't even use our distro anyway. Let's see here... John Q. Whatever doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground about computers and uses what's on his Compaq. That leaves... like... five people in the world. Seeing as our sales are blowing in that sector... let's just stop this nonsense."
I actually bought Red Hat off the shelf years ago but that's only because the $30 or whatever beat the hell out of trying to download something that massive on a dial up (not to mention tying up my phone line stops "da ladies" from calling) and because it came with a book... a book that sucked ass and I ended up dropping another $30 on O'Reilly's "Running Linux."
The documentation and broadband availablity is a whole different world now though and Red Hat is making a wise decision. I think so anyway...
This is why I stopped calling myself a "consultant." People stopped taking me seriously. Yet, when I refer to myself as a "geek" and dress accordingly (no tie around this neck) I get work.
But he has a point though. Seriously, Linux 9.0... what's up with the rest of you losers running 2.4.21. And I bet you 2.5.x junkies think YOU'RE cutting edge. You ain't got nothing on us 9.0 users. WE ARE THE FUTURE.
So yeah... I feel like making an all your base joke now but I'm not gonna.
Eh... I dunno how anti-capitalist Linux is. I use it to make money every week.
Besides... it's all free. Cutting costs and maximizing profit with a completely blind eye to any sort of ideal is all about being a capitalist. So is using someone else's hard work for free. While I love the sort of sharing/working together mentality and ideals of a lot of open source, it's the best of both worlds. Hippies can hug it and Republicans can exploit it!
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I think "acceptable losses" and "collateral damage" would be a cool addition to a WWII game.
Like... Atomic USA: A fantasic game in which you lay nuclear waste to cities populated by women, children, and the elderly then spend the next few decades justifying this crime against humanity by saying, "More would have died during an invasion," while failing to mention that Japan had already surrendered.
SS: The Final Solution: A political strategy game in which you make deals with other high ranking German officers about how to best "evacuate" Jews from German culture.
In Soviet Russia your allies shoot YOU! Every once an a while you spawn as the guy who sits in the back with the machine gun and mows down his own men when the retreat because they're scared to death charging the German army because... There's not enough guns for everyone! Pick up your friend's!
Kamakazi: The Adventure. A flight simulator in which you fly your plane for a few hours and once the action starts up you fly head first into the nearest ship. The game will only load one time, so make it count!
I can't think of one for Britain except like: Jolly Good German Fodder! Cheers and thanks for all the Panzers or something.
I like the comments about simulated sitting around and freezing too.
I love WWII games, particularlly Blitzkreig (?) and Day of Defeat. However, don't try and sell these things as "real." They're not even close. They're fun! Real war is not "fun." None of the above game titles would really be... fun. I mean, if you're sick maybe...
Real war is fucking horrific. However, something a lot of people that get all worked up here and say, "Oh it's making a joke out of war, whah, whah, whah..." forget is that this is how humans deal with horror.
I dunno why but seriously, I laugh my ass off almost every time that joke comes up.
There was this one: In Soviet Russia, the form submits you. I still kind of chuckle everytime I think about someone being submitted by a form.
Half the reason I read the comments on a post is to see how that joke will be incorporated. That and the whole overlords bit.
Perhaps I'm too much of a sucker for repetative, semi-inside jokes. I even love those combinations like:
In Soviet Russia All Your Base are belong to YOU!
Do I have a problem?
Ask Slashdot: Am I addicted to stupid inside jokes on Slashdot?
Step 1: Read stupid, repetative jokes on Slashdot.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!
I know what you're saying, chummer. It'd be nice to have one of those hooked up so that the next time some slothead gives you drek you're able to blow the frag outta him. I loved that game...
You realize that the geek thing to do in that situation would be to use some sort of amplified antenna to get internet service in the bathroom not from your room with the wireless router... no... but from like... your friend's house a few blocks away.
;) Thanx.
And suddenly I have this terrible image of IMing while taking a dump.
Hey, everything come out all right?
Yeah, it was great.
I think my wax ring just seg-faulted.
I was gonna go on but... yeah... I should be sleeping.
Why is it the only thing I could come up with was some way to hook this thing up to one of my guns? Now that I think about it, please refrain from answering the question.
Not just wearing a refrigerator but putting a putting a computer on your refrigerator. That always struck me as the most retarded thing.
Funny thing about being a geek is this: A geek would do something like turn his Dreamcast into a web server or install a computer in a blender for the sake of doing so but would never use any of these devices.
Now a toilet computer... that's what I want if for no other reason than the internet has much better bathroom reading material than my local paper and sometimes, when I really have to go, I don't have time to grab a book or the paper.
And if Hot Topic can sell WWF material and still be frequented by fishnet wearing, coffee shop dwelling, whiny ass poets... then you can hate this device and still be a geek.
You've raised a good point. It'd be nice of the government made games in place of all of its advertizing. At least I actually get something for my tax dollars.
Plus, think of the possibilities. BATF: The Adventure - A tactical combat games that shows it's players how to torch religious fanatics in the comfort of their own compound and shoot child carrying mothers in the head.
I would buy that game. And even better, since the government made it, it would be free!
We could even get more local. Highway Patrol: The Road Warriors. Get paid under the table as you meet ticket quotas for the month by nailing people doing 68 in the 65 zones. Upgrade your stock HP vehicle with parts confiscated from "illegals" and unlock special "donut locations."
And finally, Hicktown Police: You sure do got a purdy mouth. This is the best one. Pull over vehicles passing through town and throw the poor, big-city prick in jail overnight and make him call his family so they can Western Union him the cash to get out. While he waits have fun sodomizing him and any minority inmates with a plundger.
Honestly, the market for government games is fun. Why have kids thinking they're space aliens with a rocket launcher when we have a chance to expose them to real crime like working for the government.
IRS: Resistance is Futile. Get bonus points every time you confiscate all the property of a small family barely getting by!
Corporations could even improve their image! RIAA: The Game. A strategy game where you pick out the weakest targets, 12-year-olds in the projects and old ladies and sue them.
Sorry... I got on a role there.
It sucks for game distribution, but bootable Linux CDs that go right into a full featured OS (X, a DE, some kind of Office progs, a browser, etc) is really cool when I want to show someone else Linux.
I honestly try to show as many people as I can that it is a viable alternative and not just a nerd OS anymore.
"Linux would be too complicated for me. I'm not really good with computers in the first place."
"Well... try this and tell me what you think."
"I can make my desktop look like that!? That's really nice. Oh... and I like these programs. There's a program here like Trillian too. I thought Linux was harder than Windows."
Hell, I'm putting both my parents on Linux now and my girlfriend just put a second hard drive in her box for a Gentoo installation.
I buy only nVidia because of their Linux and FreeBSD drivers. I don't care if they're closed source because, frankly, it's nice to see my Linux run on par, give or take here and there, with my Windows installation when I play Neverwinter Nights.
ATi is supposedly releasing some new catalyst drivers this month. I want ATi to get their drivers out because it helps Linux but at the same time given their poor attitude toward getting them out the door and supporting them it's unlikely I'll be purchasing any of their hardware anytime soon.
Don't support me and I'm probably not going to support you.
Yeah... you're right. I mean think about it, a pitiful 64-bit Opteron is just now catching up to the Atari Jaguar! How many years ago was that released? They had 64-bit when 16-bit was in and the best 32-bit item was the legendary X32 (or whatever that Genesis add in was).
The number of bits in the processor really means about as much as MHz. Nothing. How well do you think a dual Opteron is gonna play games if it's equiped with a Riva 128?
I don't care what the bit count on the PS2 is. It's nice, but it didn't have the rendering power of a top of the line PC when it came out and it definitely doesn't now. It's an excellent system with great games, but it's not as pretty as my GeForce4/Athlon system.
I think I sense a wee bit of jealousy...
You know what? I'm really sick of hearing about Linux every time I read Slashdot. If Linux were a living person I would kick him in the ghoulies.
I'm also really sick of hearing about Open Source every time I read Slashdot. If Open Source were a living person I would kick him in the ghoulies.
And remember this, in Soviet Russia Gentoo kicks you in the ghoulies.
9. ???
10. Profit!!
In Soviet Russia the Linux box rapidly reboots you!
I wish I could attach a picture of a burly Russian dude with a furry hat and a red star pointing at out at whoever is reading this. Kind of like a communist version of Uncle Sam with some cool 50s era propoganda look to it. Any artists out there want to immortalize the much overused joke?
Eh. I disagree. Win2k and Linux boot about as fast on this machine including loading X. Both are liveable but neither are BeOS... that was a fast booting OS.
I guess so. I wasn't being serious. Heh. Oh well...
Speak no more of such blasphemy you infidels! Only unbelievers would make such a ridiculous statement.
Just remember, in Soviet Russia, the jokes mod you!
You're focusing on the wrong part of the story. There's two problems that have gotten out of hand, not just one. That's the worst part of this. Artists should get paid, I agree. However nailing a 12-year-old in the projects for $2000 doesn't solve anything.
Treating the symptoms of a disease instead of the cause will never cure anything.
The recording industry is another just another screw everyone organization. They screw the people the buy their music, the people the make the music and everyone in between. I'll use the simplest label I can here, they're bad. That's one letter less than "evil." They're that too.
And did she steal their property? What is the definition of theft? What is the definition of property? Did she think her actions were wrong? Was there any mens rea?
If it's theft, shouldn't it be pursued in a criminal matter and not a civil matter? If they really feel they're being stolen from, why not charge people with a crime as opposed to this civil bullshit? Because it's easier to step on people in the civil circuits, particularly for corporations and such.
These questions will never get answered because a huge corporation has the power to take these things to the courts and a single mother in the projects is at the mercy of corporations and our lovely, corporate government.
I bet you won't see the RIAA come after anyone with money or prestige enough to fight back. Nope, they're going to make examples out of people they can step on. It's called unequal enforcement.
Do I have pay some sort of fee when I listen to music on the radio or hear a friend of mine playing a song? Do I have to pay a fee whenever I play it back in my mind? Am I breaking the law if I replay a song in my head that I didn't pay for?
If not, why not?
"It was the girl who was in the wrong, not the 'recording artist' or the RIAA" This really is a matter of perspective, isn't it? Right and wrong are such subjective things. Following the "law" rarely has much to do with "right" or "wrong." Nazi Germany is a good example, but the list goes on.
It's wrong for an organization with that much money and that much power to simply step on a poor family like that. It's wrong any way you slice it (according to my rules and perspective anyway which really isn't "any way you slice it" but whatever). There was no harm. There was no theft. The recording industry didn't lose anything, including bandwidth.
We're in the process of dealing with the growing pains of entering a new era and discarding an old one. This is an example of it. It'll be nice when the internet and digital distribution of text, sound, video and other mediums finish destroying these worthless middle men. Unfortunately their white collar, bean counting, paper pushing, space wasting, blood sucking asses won't go down without a fight.
Now if we can just enter an era which begins the extinction of bureaucrats and lawyers.
Do you hear that Mr. RIAA? That is the sound of inevitability, the sound of your death.
Eh... I use Gnome, KDE, and I've found that I really enjoy Xfce4. What I've also found is this, there is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to pick one. Right now the two desktops communicate well. When I open a KDE program in Gnome and vice versa, things pretty much work the same.
Each desktop has its polish and it's problems (KDE has a MUCH nicer save dialog and Konq wipes the floor with the ass that is Nautilus, but I MUCH prefer the Gnome panel so I use Gnome with the KDE file manager) and the ncie thing is, I can pick and choose to my preferences.
If some company wants to standardize with one, fine. I don't care. But don't try to get the "Linux community" to standardize anything. If it never takes over the desktop, I don't care. If I wanted a "one size fits all" solution driven down my throat in the name of taking over the desktop market I'd get a copy of Windows, you know?
And something people seem to miss is that these desktop projects span more than just Linux and if Linux standardizes on one it won't make a difference and the geeks that have made Linux what it is will move to something that they can play with and modify.
Too much standardization is going to kill off Linux's most devoted users.
Pretty much.
I also like the way the config scripts run. I might seem like a small deal, but I'll tell you... if I could find something that used debs but had a startup system like Gentoo, I'd be really happy.
I love portage and frankly, I don't mind compiling my software, but that wasn't the allure of Gentoo. It's not even the configurability or customization factor. I find that it's just plain nicer to use. This almost seems opposed to what I find in a lot of its users.
ebuilds (like for the nVidia binary driver) just work.
I disagree that their message is against the desktop at all. I think it's good business sense. If they're not even selling what they're producing I'd wager they're actually losing money on the shelftop sales. I mean, if it was making them money what would be the point of pulling it?
But hey, I don't even use Red Hat and haven't found their package terribly satisfying for what I do in any of the iterations I've used so I'm fairly indifferent to what Red Hat's up to (although not entirely or I wouldn't be posting).
And there are alternatives. SuSE is still there (another one I bought off the shelves) and I liked it a lot better. Mandrake too (another one I liked better, although only marginally).
Is there any statistical data on sales somewhere? I'm curious what distro is doing the best at like Fry's/CompUSA/Office Max/etc.
At this point it's boiling down to personal opinion though, so it's best to take what I say with a grain of salt (and I know everyone will).
The thing people seem to forget about Linux is that until huge companies force feed it to users (like Dell) the average user isn't going to touch it.
Not only did I build my own box, but I installed Linux on it. My mom's gonna be running it soon because I'm putting it on a machine for her. She doesn't care because that's what came with the computer she'll be getting.
If someone isn't tech savvy enough to download their own CD and install it, then they aren't tech savvy enough to install ANY OS and they're simply going to use what came with the computer.
This isn't Red Hat saying that the Linux desktop doesn't exist, it's Red Hat saying, "Okay, corporations don't buy off the shelf and have informed IT (arguably) making the decisions anyway and they'll buy in bulk and pay for support contracts. So they're not gonna buy it. Oh yeah, and nerds don't buy it because they're cheap bastards and have broadband and CD burners and don't even use our distro anyway. Let's see here... John Q. Whatever doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground about computers and uses what's on his Compaq. That leaves... like... five people in the world. Seeing as our sales are blowing in that sector... let's just stop this nonsense."
I actually bought Red Hat off the shelf years ago but that's only because the $30 or whatever beat the hell out of trying to download something that massive on a dial up (not to mention tying up my phone line stops "da ladies" from calling) and because it came with a book... a book that sucked ass and I ended up dropping another $30 on O'Reilly's "Running Linux."
The documentation and broadband availablity is a whole different world now though and Red Hat is making a wise decision. I think so anyway...
This is why I stopped calling myself a "consultant." People stopped taking me seriously. Yet, when I refer to myself as a "geek" and dress accordingly (no tie around this neck) I get work.
But he has a point though. Seriously, Linux 9.0... what's up with the rest of you losers running 2.4.21. And I bet you 2.5.x junkies think YOU'RE cutting edge. You ain't got nothing on us 9.0 users. WE ARE THE FUTURE.
So yeah... I feel like making an all your base joke now but I'm not gonna.
Yeeah. I due. Gots a build in spel chekker and eveything.
Eh... I dunno how anti-capitalist Linux is. I use it to make money every week.
Besides... it's all free. Cutting costs and maximizing profit with a completely blind eye to any sort of ideal is all about being a capitalist. So is using someone else's hard work for free. While I love the sort of sharing/working together mentality and ideals of a lot of open source, it's the best of both worlds. Hippies can hug it and Republicans can exploit it!