Sometimes it's not a matter of "It's FREE!!!" but that it costs less to maintain/develop it because everyone is already familiar with Windows.
That's not saying, though, that Windows is always cheaper or a better solution. With more development, Linux will become more well-known and easier to develop/use.
I actually like sci-fi alot better when it, at least, slightly adheres to the laws of science. Stupid stuff like made-up elements and lasers that don't obey the laws of light do grate on my nerves.
Recently watched the Cowboy Bebop movie, and I was actually surprised that it was almost 100% possible. I won't spoil the plot... but I finally was glad that I wasn't watching some dumb thing about "norpisum coated armored skeletons with GDH3829K-#7 laser blaster rifles that look like flamethrowers!"
And if this is all irrelevant, it's because I didn't RTFA.
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Wh00t! Now I can run outside and not have to worry about being blown through my house by a sonic boom!
Now if we can just do something about those G5s...
Let me get an opinion in here from a soon-to-be 16 year old...
Yeah, when I was NINE I got Quake. I bought Warcraft II with money I won from a coloring contest. I've played violent games my entire damn life, and yet I feel sympathy for hurt frogs I find in the back yard. I have no desire to go shoot people, and the times that I do feel that urge, it is because they hurt me and not because I fragged d00ds in Counter-Strike.
This is insane. These kids have probably no father, live in a 2 story house by themselves, and have easy acess to anything they want. Their parent(s) aren't looking for signs of schizoid-like behavior or anything like that, and the moment the bomb explodes they just feel that someone besides them could be at fault.
Maybe the kids were inspired by GTA, but who's to say they wouldn't have been inspired by something else? Everything is information, and to blame a violent crime on flashing bits is farcical. These kids are disturbed and they were long before GTA came along.
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Sounds like a newspaper to me.
Oh, wait, that would be Defcon. =/
I, for one, welcome our new flock of /. t-shirts.
Now I can move to Canada and download as much music as I want without having real Mounties bust in my house and arrest me!
:P
But then again... being arrested by mounties sounds cool.
Would be the guy who tests to see if cloned bull semen was as viscous as normal bull semen.
Either that or the guy who wipes Stephen Hawking's drool from his face.
There hasn't been one of these since, like, '99?!
WHOA!
What IS going to be "antiterrorism" certified? Rocket launchers, knives, American Flags, God Bless America CDs, towel-burners....
does this mean I can now see Darl McBride's heart without an expensive microscope! Wheeee!
The RIAA's heart grew three sizes that day.
And they made little Cindy-loo-Who pay only $2000 and apologize. Grinches, I tell ya.
So I can keep all my expensive pir- er, rightfully purchased Photoshop clones open at once! No... 8gb wasn't enough...
Could I spray a can of Raid on my RAID disks to eliminate bugs?
Sometimes it's not a matter of "It's FREE!!!" but that it costs less to maintain/develop it because everyone is already familiar with Windows.
That's not saying, though, that Windows is always cheaper or a better solution. With more development, Linux will become more well-known and easier to develop/use.
That's why they're gonnna fail. juslt like they did with os/2[.]
Just like how you failed spelling class?
Maybe it's because everyone has their personal files they, um, look at at work under encrypted IBM security subsystems!
Just don't forget your password, or for the especially rich IBM employees, burn your fingerprints off.
Insert witty IBM/SCO comment here.
Well... this is going to be a fun morning for those 261 people.
*Random guy turns on computer*
You've got subpoena!
God damnit... stupid italics tags. =>_o= Meh. Watch the pretty carma burrrrrn in a puff of blue smoke.
I actually like sci-fi alot better when it, at least, slightly adheres to the laws of science. Stupid stuff like made-up elements and lasers that don't obey the laws of light do grate on my nerves.
Recently watched the Cowboy Bebop movie, and I was actually surprised that it was almost 100% possible. I won't spoil the plot... but I finally was glad that I wasn't watching some dumb thing about "norpisum coated armored skeletons with GDH3829K-#7 laser blaster rifles that look like flamethrowers!"
And if this is all irrelevant, it's because I didn't RTFA.
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I was going to post "But Does it RUN LINUX!?" but then I RTFA. Grr....
Wh00t! Now I can run outside and not have to worry about being blown through my house by a sonic boom! Now if we can just do something about those G5s...
Let me get an opinion in here from a soon-to-be 16 year old... Yeah, when I was NINE I got Quake. I bought Warcraft II with money I won from a coloring contest. I've played violent games my entire damn life, and yet I feel sympathy for hurt frogs I find in the back yard. I have no desire to go shoot people, and the times that I do feel that urge, it is because they hurt me and not because I fragged d00ds in Counter-Strike. This is insane. These kids have probably no father, live in a 2 story house by themselves, and have easy acess to anything they want. Their parent(s) aren't looking for signs of schizoid-like behavior or anything like that, and the moment the bomb explodes they just feel that someone besides them could be at fault. Maybe the kids were inspired by GTA, but who's to say they wouldn't have been inspired by something else? Everything is information, and to blame a violent crime on flashing bits is farcical. These kids are disturbed and they were long before GTA came along.