Google puts their resources behind their big money makers, how shocking. It is a free service that isn't a huge revenue source for the company, why are people complaining? If blogging is that big of a deal to you then pay the cash necessary to get what you want instead of relying on Google.
I used to use linux as my primary desktop but next time you think linux is ready for the masses I want you to go to a slightly above average windows user and.....
1.) Explain why their pda will no longer sync with their calendar, mail client, or transfer files
2.) Explain why they can't just plugin more than two monitors and just get it to display without editing config files
3.) Explain why they can't use that one application they NEED for work that only runs on windows.
4.) Explain why they can't play [latest high end game]
5.) Explain why [latest high end hardware] doesn't work in linux at all.
6.) Explain why their cheap no name printer doesn't work with linux out of the box.
7.) Explain why the pptp linux client is such a pain in the ass to use.
Before you go into some detailed explanation about how the evil M$ empire is preventing interoperability or how linux is so much more secure and stable remember your average user doesn't give a damn. They want to work/play and they can either do it right away or they can't, excuses and explanations don't matter.
I had to check wikipedia to see who the hell any of those people are and I am 26. Then again my parents threw away our only tv and the only reading material we had were books from the library so there are many popular culture references I know nothing about. Apparently the married man/mistress thing is very common as I've seen many women in this situation.
ASUS is a business not an evangelist. They used linux because it was cheap and ran well on the hardware they are trying to sell, not because they want to push some agenda.
Every time I hear someone talking about a company pushing Linux on the desktop over windows I think of this woman I worked with who was having an affair with a very financially successful married man. Every few months she would get all excited because the divorce papers were finally coming through and she would be recognized as his wife. Then a few weeks after she would be crying because it was going to be "just a few more months". Instead of recognizing the situations for what it was; She was just a cheap, easy lay and he was never leaving his wife, she clung onto the idea that she would eventually be his wife. Linux on the desktop is the mistress, windows is the wife, big business is the successful husband and unless the mistress puts a bullet in the wifes head the husband isn't voluntarily divorcing his wife anytime soon.
What is with the obsession with the Titanic? I don't get it, it was really interesting when I was in the 3rd grade but 16 years, a few bad books I was forced to read and one HORRIBLE movie later I just don't see why people continue to resurrect this little piece of history.
Oh gosh I don't even know where to start with this one. Black people don't look up to characters like 50 cent, you need to look around more the guy has sold approximately 30 million albums and they were bought by mostly WHITE suburbanites. Anyone who sells that many albums has to have a HUGE white fanbase.
As far as education...
In many poor HS's (I went to one) you will be lucky if you even have a teacher who knows anything beyond basic algebra, much less calc. These classes aren't even offered and if they are they are taught by someone who just took a community college calc course and barely knows the subject themselves. When I was in HS I was teaching the calc course because the teacher did not know the material. I had to beg school administration for higher level books which the superintendent of schools pulled strings to loan from another school district. You talk as if many of these kids can just waltz into their local high school and get the education that they need. We didn't even have a computer science course in my HS but the three of us who were driven enough once again BEGGED for some access to computers and you know what we got?!? A VAX system and one ratty algorithms and data structures book from the 80s with missing pages in the FUCKING YEAR 2000. The exact same calc teacher who didn't know calc taught our computer science course.
When there are two sets of children and one set has access to a higher level education by default but the other set of kids has to beg and plead just to get access to that same level of education which group is going to have a higher percentage of successful students?
I grew up with people who were just as intelligent as I was but they didn't improve for one of two reasons.
1.) They didn't even know there was more out there. You may take your awareness of higher education for granted but there are people out there who don't know anyone who has gotten anything higher than a HS education, if that. When the bar is that low and the school system doesn't tell the students that they can achieve more how is a 15 year old suppose to know otherwise?
2.) They could make the cut academically but at the young age of 15 it was too much to ask that they help their parents pay the bills, take classes AND fight just to get some semblance of a decent education.
As for women, my fiancée, who went to an equally inept school district and is now published (as an undergraduate) in the journal Advanced Materials says Paris Hilton was the inspiration behind all the work she did in polymer chemistry.
The waahmbulance will be out next time masses of slashdotters are crying about H1B visas and offshoring.
Congratulations you have just made an argument against seat belts, sun screen, and immunization. I mean we are always exposed to the potential death by car, the sun, and disease so why bother avoiding them.
That is a ridiculous argument you will always be at the mercy of something or someone as a business. The key is to avoid it when possible, I deal with enough middle men as it is. Why would any business owner want ANOTHER middle man that doesn't provide something that has significant value but has the drawback of vendor lockin? The positives have to outweigh the negatives and I don't see that in this situation.
Because as a business owner you recognize the benefit of not having to invest in IT administration overhead?
So let me get this straight.. I leave myself at the mercy of google in order to save the cost of IT administration? That doesn't sound like a good business decision.
Because as a business owner, you recognize that Google is investing in your business by seeding your startup costs?
Startup costs? You can't be serious, both hardware and bandwidth are dirt cheap, in college (2000) between my four friends and I, we were able to start my first business using pocket money we earned from odd jobs. This is a VERY weak arguement.
Because as a software developer you recognize that leveraging the tools Google is offering (and will be adding to over time) will speed your time to delivery?
I'd love an explanation on how this would speed up my time to delivery? I took a look at the video and read the article and it does nothing that I can't already do myself to speed up time to delivery other than have hardware resources readily available. But once again I leave myself at the mercy of Google for access hardware and bandwidth. Thanks but no thanks.
Or, what happens if you would create anything that takes off and Google decides that they like it..
and that to me is the killer. If someone had a really good idea and it did well whats keeping someone at google from peeking at the code and creating a competing product and snuffing that persons product before it becomes wildly profitable?
Agreed. It is now 2008 and the only way I've ever been able to easily have the resolution changed on the fly and easily add multiple monitors in linux was with nvidia drivers. It's ok though cause I have these really cool cubes that flip and rotate, wobbly windows, and all sorts of other useless crap that will keep me entertained so I forget about actual functionality.
Weeee look at the cube spin...spin cube!!! spin!!!
People use exotic ports as a security measure? I've always done it to keep my log files from becoming bloated from script kiddies attacks. When I see something out of the ordinary in my log files now I can be reasonably certain it is more serious than an automated script.
Erroneous data? I said ADULTS! In fact I'll quote myself since you didn't bother to read what I wrote.
Here is a dirty little fact that most people don't know the average adult on welfare is a single WHITE woman with children
The chart you have only includes FAMILIES by the race of the adult family member. So single adults do not count in the stats you provided. If you had bothered to look a bit more for the stats for race/ethnicity for ADULTS only, you would have seen that white ADULTS do in fact make a majority of the welfare recipients by a slim margin.
There are several books that break down these numbers even further and I can assure you that the vast majority of those white adults on welfare are single mothers and as an interesting side-note most of those single mothers are recently divorced mothers. If you are really that concerned about erroneous data I will be more than happy to give you ISBN numbers for the books after the holiday season and when I have time to look through my collection. There are still many subjects that reliable data can not be found on the internet and this is one of them.
Apparently my sarcasm didn't come through. Although it seems like common sense to you and I, you would shocked at how many people assume that the majority of people on welfare on black and hispanic.
Here is a dirty little fact that most people don't know the average adult on welfare is a single WHITE woman with children. Furthermore white people live off of welfare as well and profit from it far more than African Americans or Hispanics, except in the corporate world they call it SUBSIDIES. All those farmers who get paid NOT to farm? All those airlines who receive money from the government to avoid bankruptcy. All of the oil companies who get huge tax breaks when they are earning record profits? Thats government sponsored WELFARE and the people who benefit from such welfare are largely middle class and upper middle class people who are largely white. Welfare programs for the poor are absolute chump change compared to the amount of money corporations and by proxy their shareholders take from the government.
This is among the worst summaries I've ever seen on slashdot, and thats saying a lot. The use of so many acronyms without any background information, combined with absolutely no reason as to why anyone should even care is a true achievement. Congrats sir for combining the worst characteristics of article submissions so that future slashdotters may have an example of a poor submission. With all that you have accomplished with this I have one complaint and do not take this as a troll. In your next submission would you please find a way to dupe another submission WHILE accomplishing all of the amazing feats stated above.
Very true look at what a joke Zip disks are. When I was a freshman CE major it was required for us to have a Zip Drive and a Zip Disk. A year later they were totally worthless, $150 down the drain!! Everyone was moving to CDW/CDRW.
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Google puts their resources behind their big money makers, how shocking. It is a free service that isn't a huge revenue source for the company, why are people complaining? If blogging is that big of a deal to you then pay the cash necessary to get what you want instead of relying on Google.
........Bring you Neil Armstrong's Whipped Creamed Wives.
I used to use linux as my primary desktop but next time you think linux is ready for the masses I want you to go to a slightly above average windows user and.....
1.) Explain why their pda will no longer sync with their calendar, mail client, or transfer files
2.) Explain why they can't just plugin more than two monitors and just get it to display without editing config files
3.) Explain why they can't use that one application they NEED for work that only runs on windows.
4.) Explain why they can't play [latest high end game]
5.) Explain why [latest high end hardware] doesn't work in linux at all.
6.) Explain why their cheap no name printer doesn't work with linux out of the box.
7.) Explain why the pptp linux client is such a pain in the ass to use.
Before you go into some detailed explanation about how the evil M$ empire is preventing interoperability or how linux is so much more secure and stable remember your average user doesn't give a damn. They want to work/play and they can either do it right away or they can't, excuses and explanations don't matter.
I had to check wikipedia to see who the hell any of those people are and I am 26. Then again my parents threw away our only tv and the only reading material we had were books from the library so there are many popular culture references I know nothing about. Apparently the married man/mistress thing is very common as I've seen many women in this situation.
No one said the wife couldn't be a man :D
ASUS is a business not an evangelist. They used linux because it was cheap and ran well on the hardware they are trying to sell, not because they want to push some agenda. Every time I hear someone talking about a company pushing Linux on the desktop over windows I think of this woman I worked with who was having an affair with a very financially successful married man. Every few months she would get all excited because the divorce papers were finally coming through and she would be recognized as his wife. Then a few weeks after she would be crying because it was going to be "just a few more months". Instead of recognizing the situations for what it was; She was just a cheap, easy lay and he was never leaving his wife, she clung onto the idea that she would eventually be his wife. Linux on the desktop is the mistress, windows is the wife, big business is the successful husband and unless the mistress puts a bullet in the wifes head the husband isn't voluntarily divorcing his wife anytime soon.
What is with the obsession with the Titanic? I don't get it, it was really interesting when I was in the 3rd grade but 16 years, a few bad books I was forced to read and one HORRIBLE movie later I just don't see why people continue to resurrect this little piece of history.
Business people discuss what makes them money. The horrific details at the bottom of the hour.
Oh gosh I don't even know where to start with this one. Black people don't look up to characters like 50 cent, you need to look around more the guy has sold approximately 30 million albums and they were bought by mostly WHITE suburbanites. Anyone who sells that many albums has to have a HUGE white fanbase. As far as education... In many poor HS's (I went to one) you will be lucky if you even have a teacher who knows anything beyond basic algebra, much less calc. These classes aren't even offered and if they are they are taught by someone who just took a community college calc course and barely knows the subject themselves. When I was in HS I was teaching the calc course because the teacher did not know the material. I had to beg school administration for higher level books which the superintendent of schools pulled strings to loan from another school district. You talk as if many of these kids can just waltz into their local high school and get the education that they need. We didn't even have a computer science course in my HS but the three of us who were driven enough once again BEGGED for some access to computers and you know what we got?!? A VAX system and one ratty algorithms and data structures book from the 80s with missing pages in the FUCKING YEAR 2000. The exact same calc teacher who didn't know calc taught our computer science course. When there are two sets of children and one set has access to a higher level education by default but the other set of kids has to beg and plead just to get access to that same level of education which group is going to have a higher percentage of successful students? I grew up with people who were just as intelligent as I was but they didn't improve for one of two reasons. 1.) They didn't even know there was more out there. You may take your awareness of higher education for granted but there are people out there who don't know anyone who has gotten anything higher than a HS education, if that. When the bar is that low and the school system doesn't tell the students that they can achieve more how is a 15 year old suppose to know otherwise? 2.) They could make the cut academically but at the young age of 15 it was too much to ask that they help their parents pay the bills, take classes AND fight just to get some semblance of a decent education. As for women, my fiancée, who went to an equally inept school district and is now published (as an undergraduate) in the journal Advanced Materials says Paris Hilton was the inspiration behind all the work she did in polymer chemistry. The waahmbulance will be out next time masses of slashdotters are crying about H1B visas and offshoring.
Talk about illogical statements
Congratulations you have just made an argument against seat belts, sun screen, and immunization.
I mean we are always exposed to the potential death by car, the sun, and disease so why bother avoiding them.
Apparently you missed out on the "when possible" portion of that sentence.
That is a ridiculous argument you will always be at the mercy of something or someone as a business. The key is to avoid it when possible, I deal with enough middle men as it is. Why would any business owner want ANOTHER middle man that doesn't provide something that has significant value but has the drawback of vendor lockin? The positives have to outweigh the negatives and I don't see that in this situation.
Because as a business owner you recognize the benefit of not having to invest in IT administration overhead?
So let me get this straight.. I leave myself at the mercy of google in order to save the cost of IT administration? That doesn't sound like a good business decision.
Because as a business owner, you recognize that Google is investing in your business by seeding your startup costs?
Startup costs? You can't be serious, both hardware and bandwidth are dirt cheap, in college (2000) between my four friends and I, we were able to start my first business using pocket money we earned from odd jobs. This is a VERY weak arguement.
Because as a software developer you recognize that leveraging the tools Google is offering (and will be adding to over time) will speed your time to delivery? I'd love an explanation on how this would speed up my time to delivery? I took a look at the video and read the article and it does nothing that I can't already do myself to speed up time to delivery other than have hardware resources readily available. But once again I leave myself at the mercy of Google for access hardware and bandwidth. Thanks but no thanks.
Or, what happens if you would create anything that takes off and Google decides that they like it.. and that to me is the killer. If someone had a really good idea and it did well whats keeping someone at google from peeking at the code and creating a competing product and snuffing that persons product before it becomes wildly profitable?
As a software developer and business owner why would I want to leave myself at the mercy of Google like this by being tied to their service?
I'm sure if we look back historically there was a similar dip in revenue around the time Rick James first became popular.
Agreed. It is now 2008 and the only way I've ever been able to easily have the resolution changed on the fly and easily add multiple monitors in linux was with nvidia drivers. It's ok though cause I have these really cool cubes that flip and rotate, wobbly windows, and all sorts of other useless crap that will keep me entertained so I forget about actual functionality. Weeee look at the cube spin...spin cube!!! spin!!!
Actually Cingular bought ATT not the other way around http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/17/technology/cingular_att/
Tata Nano?
Listen making mp3 players smaller == good
Making Tatas smaller == bad
People use exotic ports as a security measure? I've always done it to keep my log files from becoming bloated from script kiddies attacks. When I see something out of the ordinary in my log files now I can be reasonably certain it is more serious than an automated script.
Erroneous data? I said ADULTS! In fact I'll quote myself since you didn't bother to read what I wrote. Here is a dirty little fact that most people don't know the average adult on welfare is a single WHITE woman with children
The chart you have only includes FAMILIES by the race of the adult family member. So single adults do not count in the stats you provided. If you had bothered to look a bit more for the stats for race/ethnicity for ADULTS only, you would have seen that white ADULTS do in fact make a majority of the welfare recipients by a slim margin.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/character/FY2006/tab21.htm
There are several books that break down these numbers even further and I can assure you that the vast majority of those white adults on welfare are single mothers and as an interesting side-note most of those single mothers are recently divorced mothers. If you are really that concerned about erroneous data I will be more than happy to give you ISBN numbers for the books after the holiday season and when I have time to look through my collection. There are still many subjects that reliable data can not be found on the internet and this is one of them.
Apparently my sarcasm didn't come through. Although it seems like common sense to you and I, you would shocked at how many people assume that the majority of people on welfare on black and hispanic.
Here is a dirty little fact that most people don't know the average adult on welfare is a single WHITE woman with children. Furthermore white people live off of welfare as well and profit from it far more than African Americans or Hispanics, except in the corporate world they call it SUBSIDIES. All those farmers who get paid NOT to farm? All those airlines who receive money from the government to avoid bankruptcy. All of the oil companies who get huge tax breaks when they are earning record profits? Thats government sponsored WELFARE and the people who benefit from such welfare are largely middle class and upper middle class people who are largely white. Welfare programs for the poor are absolute chump change compared to the amount of money corporations and by proxy their shareholders take from the government.
This is among the worst summaries I've ever seen on slashdot, and thats saying a lot. The use of so many acronyms without any background information, combined with absolutely no reason as to why anyone should even care is a true achievement. Congrats sir for combining the worst characteristics of article submissions so that future slashdotters may have an example of a poor submission. With all that you have accomplished with this I have one complaint and do not take this as a troll. In your next submission would you please find a way to dupe another submission WHILE accomplishing all of the amazing feats stated above.
Very true look at what a joke Zip disks are. When I was a freshman CE major it was required for us to have a Zip Drive and a Zip Disk. A year later they were totally worthless, $150 down the drain!! Everyone was moving to CDW/CDRW.