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Linux Going Mainstream
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Show Linux to the grandmother who needs her computer fixed.
Show Linux to the government of your country. Show Linux to your mom.
Your Boss already knows about Linux.
Linux will be mainstream competition in a year.
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Linux Going Mainstream
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I predict that within 1-2 years Linux will have equal marketshare with Windows. I also predict that Linux will surpass Longhorn.
That is not a sign of intelligence. You assume that all humans want freedom and democracy, or that all humans need it at this very moment. Sure most humans do want it, and most need it, but some just arent ready for it.
The middle east, Africa, China, these places just arent ready. They don't want it for religious reasons or cultural reasons, and they get pissed off when you try to tell them what they want.
Freedom comes with a price. We in the USA ourselves cant always handle the price of freedom. Freedom on the net means freedom to do evil as well as good, freedom to download mp3s, freedom to create hate sites, freedom to create terrorist sites.
Freedom is not something that every country is capable of handling at this time. You give absolute freedom to the middle east and they will use it to create terrorist hate sites. You give absolute freedom to Americans and the concept of intellectual property will be destroyed. You give absolute freedom to the Chinese and all our jobs will go to China.
This who pro-China stuff is lead and controlled by big corporations who want to hire foreign labor. They want to help China so they can get rich off China. They don't mind giving China all the jobs even if we all lose our jobs here. Someday China will surpass and what will we do then?
You cannot control China once you bring China into the market, and swell up their economy to the size of ours. Right now the only reason we are super power is because China lacks the money to go to war with us. Why on earth do we want to empower China is beyond me.
"Are the people of China ready for a democratic, capitalistic system?"
Well since we clearly arent a democracy, why do we expect China to be?
We are a republic, period. Is China ready? No. DO they have to copy us? No. China is having its problems with human rights, the USA had its problems too. In the USA when slavery was legal about 100 or so years ago, no country came to our aid to tell us how we were abusing human rights. Why should we be Chinas savior? China is our competition, why not let them struggle through the next 50 years, why not keep our jobs and labor? Why not keep our technology and our internet?
If they arent ready for it, leave them in the stone age.
As far as China's political system, honestly China should do what works for China. So far their economy is kicking our ass right now and I don't think we should dare help China. In fact it pisses me off to see all of these Americans who are the same ones mad about outsourcing, now wanting to give all this help to China.
I mean really. Sure its good to help China in the short term, yeah China will get educated, get democracy, have more freedom etc but what will happen 20 years from now when China is super power, has all the jobs, all the technology, all the freedom. Why would anyone want to live in America?
All of these pro freedom for China people do not realize that eventually when most websites are Chinese and those websites host warez, kiddie porn, and anti bush anti american literature, what happens then?
What company or government wants an uncensored internet?
Our US government wants a censored controlled internet, no napster, no terrorist sites, no kiddie porn.
Our US companies want a censored internet, think the RIAA, don't dare talk bad about SCO, don't dare talk bad about microsoft.
The China government wants a censored internet.
"Think of the Trojan horse. If you don't sell the Chinese these sorts of technologies, they are going to be less likely to develop internet infrastructure. If you sell the Chinese these sorts of technologies, yes the Chinese government will try to censor the content, but they'll fail miserably at it."
The trojan horse will backfire just like it did with Japan. Soon China will lead the world in internet technology. Soon most websites will be Chinese websites. Soon China will be influencing us through the internet and our government will be trying to censor us from terrorist Chinese websites.
This goes both ways you know.
China is not the soviet union. What war?
I think we need to end all of these endless pointless wars. The whole "give freedom to country X" does not work unless country X wants freedom. IF country x wants freedom let them take it themselves.
Its because we want to liberate countries against their will that we keep making more enemies, which causes more war in an endless cycle.
Most of europe hates us now, even though we stopped the soviet union. It seems that the world is less stable without 2 superpowers than it was when we had 2. Now every country hates us, theres no more playing sides, whats our best move? Get out of the spotlight.
Why should we waste all our moneys helping countries who don't want our way of life?
Let China be China, give China the technology and do business with them, and let them solve their own political problems. As much as we think we can somehow influence China through the internet, its playing a game by rules which we don't want or need to play.
All of this focus on China is allowing China to consume all our jobs, all our technology, all our best features of America, and once that happens why stay in America?
Its not our job to help out other countries. They have the internet, we gave it to them. Its time for us to sit back and watch. Its our helping out that allowed al-qaeda to gain strength, its our helping out that caused 911. We are better off letting these countries solve their own problems. NONE OF THESE COUNTRIES HELPED AMERICA!
People with high IQs are usually not very successful at working normal jobs. You can be a complete genius and be lazy. Most geniuses are lazy because average jobs are too easy and boring.
I want privacy because YOU don't have the right to know everything about me without MY permission.
I decide who knows me on a personal level, who is intimate with me, and who I'm friends with.
Not everyone deserves to know me. Not everyone deserves to know about me. Not everyone wants to be or is my friend. Not everyone is intimate with me.
The point? Some information people just have no business knowing. My sexuality for example is no ones business. Gay, Straight, Bi, none of your damn business. Its also none of your damn business what I do at home, or who I date. Some things people need to know, everything else just is not your damn business.
If the government can have privacy why the hell cant we?
Thats the solution. Make a porn sharing P2P application so idiots no longer have to sign up for free porn on the web.
Lets ruin the porn industry like we ruined the music industry.
Have a very white sounding name. If you even seem like a minority you can forget about finding a job besides McDonalds and just go on welfare. Another option if you are a woman, get a sex change. You'll get hired faster, and for higher wages. You may even get a chance to become president.
Think I'm kidding?
Proof: Proof1 Proof2 Exerpt:"Consider it a different kind of name dropping. These days human resource managers are legally required to put on color-blind glasses, to carefully pore over resumes looking for the "best" candidate. But still, discrimination can be as quick and capricious as looking at a person's name.
That's according to a new study of 5,000 resumes sent in response to want ads. Researchers found that people with black sounding names like Tamika or Tyrone were fifty percent more likely to get dropped from consideration and those with "white" sounding names were strongly favored."
Some keys to ending racism in the workplace.
1)Get rid of all names on resumes. Everyone should just be a number.
2) Get rid of job interviews. A computer should hire and fire on merit and productivity alone. Remove the human element from the process.
The results of these actions? The end of affirmative action. If we want to get rid of affirmative action I just showed you how.
Anyone who supports ending affirmtive action and racism at the same time, please respond and support this msg, mod it up if you cant respond with support.
"Any economist will tell you that deficit spending is a standard prctice for the govt. to get out of a recession. It worked for Reagan and looks like it's working for Bush as well."
If we didnt have 2 wars and 911, you'd be right. However, in a war its smarter to just raise the damn taxes! The tax cuts should come, but only for the middle/working class.
I'd simply shift the taxes to those who make the most money, and give a tax cut to those who spend the most money. Instant economy boost with minimal budget deficit. We have budget issues because Bush wanted to give everyone tax cuts, even big companies and billionaires.
I'm not against tax cuts, don't take me for a liberal. I just want the tax cuts to be for the people, and I could give a damn if companies pay higher taxes when they outsource and ruin our economy.
When will we have a full 3d polygonal interface?
I'm betting Sun with their JAVA3d based interface will do it before Keith Packard and Freedesktop people.
People donate to AOL all the time even though AIM is free, Winamp is free, Mozilla is free.
Whats your point?
Their model is based on subscription revenue not donations. I see nothing wrong with this model if they make money. If Howard Dean can make millions of dollars just by hosting a blog, I don't see why an important Linux company cant stay afloat in non profit fashion.
The survival of Linux Mandrake is due to the efforts of the mandrake club subscribers. I suggest every user subscribe to the club. Those who don't are cheap bastards who have no honor or respect for hard work.
1) We arent talking about all games. We are talking about the sims.
2)We arent talking about some other online games. We are talking about the sims.
3) Some kids have parents who don't care or who believe their kids can handle the sims. What is your point?
4)Some parents are idiots. Some parents are bad parents. What does this have to do with the sims?
5) Whats that mean?
6)The rules are decided by the people who pay. If parents want their kids to play the sims, and the sims has sexual content or swearing this has nothing to do with maxis, or EA, it has everything to do with the parent and child.
In my opinion, if a parent thinks their kid can play the sims then their kid can play the sims. I leave it up to the parent to be responsible for the child. It's not our job. Children with bad parents need to learn to survive in the real world a bit sooner. Thats life.
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Show Linux to the grandmother who needs her computer fixed. Show Linux to the government of your country. Show Linux to your mom. Your Boss already knows about Linux.
I predict that within 1-2 years Linux will have equal marketshare with Windows. I also predict that Linux will surpass Longhorn.
In Longhorn, they will just include their search engine as part of the OS itself, no need to ever type in www.google.com. Its all over.
That is not a sign of intelligence. You assume that all humans want freedom and democracy, or that all humans need it at this very moment. Sure most humans do want it, and most need it, but some just arent ready for it.
The middle east, Africa, China, these places just arent ready. They don't want it for religious reasons or cultural reasons, and they get pissed off when you try to tell them what they want.
Freedom comes with a price. We in the USA ourselves cant always handle the price of freedom. Freedom on the net means freedom to do evil as well as good, freedom to download mp3s, freedom to create hate sites, freedom to create terrorist sites.
Freedom is not something that every country is capable of handling at this time. You give absolute freedom to the middle east and they will use it to create terrorist hate sites. You give absolute freedom to Americans and the concept of intellectual property will be destroyed. You give absolute freedom to the Chinese and all our jobs will go to China.
This who pro-China stuff is lead and controlled by big corporations who want to hire foreign labor. They want to help China so they can get rich off China. They don't mind giving China all the jobs even if we all lose our jobs here. Someday China will surpass and what will we do then?
You cannot control China once you bring China into the market, and swell up their economy to the size of ours. Right now the only reason we are super power is because China lacks the money to go to war with us. Why on earth do we want to empower China is beyond me.
"Are the people of China ready for a democratic, capitalistic system?" Well since we clearly arent a democracy, why do we expect China to be? We are a republic, period. Is China ready? No. DO they have to copy us? No. China is having its problems with human rights, the USA had its problems too. In the USA when slavery was legal about 100 or so years ago, no country came to our aid to tell us how we were abusing human rights. Why should we be Chinas savior? China is our competition, why not let them struggle through the next 50 years, why not keep our jobs and labor? Why not keep our technology and our internet? If they arent ready for it, leave them in the stone age. As far as China's political system, honestly China should do what works for China. So far their economy is kicking our ass right now and I don't think we should dare help China. In fact it pisses me off to see all of these Americans who are the same ones mad about outsourcing, now wanting to give all this help to China. I mean really. Sure its good to help China in the short term, yeah China will get educated, get democracy, have more freedom etc but what will happen 20 years from now when China is super power, has all the jobs, all the technology, all the freedom. Why would anyone want to live in America?
All of these pro freedom for China people do not realize that eventually when most websites are Chinese and those websites host warez, kiddie porn, and anti bush anti american literature, what happens then?
What company or government wants an uncensored internet? Our US government wants a censored controlled internet, no napster, no terrorist sites, no kiddie porn. Our US companies want a censored internet, think the RIAA, don't dare talk bad about SCO, don't dare talk bad about microsoft. The China government wants a censored internet. "Think of the Trojan horse. If you don't sell the Chinese these sorts of technologies, they are going to be less likely to develop internet infrastructure. If you sell the Chinese these sorts of technologies, yes the Chinese government will try to censor the content, but they'll fail miserably at it." The trojan horse will backfire just like it did with Japan. Soon China will lead the world in internet technology. Soon most websites will be Chinese websites. Soon China will be influencing us through the internet and our government will be trying to censor us from terrorist Chinese websites. This goes both ways you know.
China is not the soviet union. What war? I think we need to end all of these endless pointless wars. The whole "give freedom to country X" does not work unless country X wants freedom. IF country x wants freedom let them take it themselves. Its because we want to liberate countries against their will that we keep making more enemies, which causes more war in an endless cycle. Most of europe hates us now, even though we stopped the soviet union. It seems that the world is less stable without 2 superpowers than it was when we had 2. Now every country hates us, theres no more playing sides, whats our best move? Get out of the spotlight. Why should we waste all our moneys helping countries who don't want our way of life? Let China be China, give China the technology and do business with them, and let them solve their own political problems. As much as we think we can somehow influence China through the internet, its playing a game by rules which we don't want or need to play. All of this focus on China is allowing China to consume all our jobs, all our technology, all our best features of America, and once that happens why stay in America?
Its not our job to help out other countries. They have the internet, we gave it to them. Its time for us to sit back and watch. Its our helping out that allowed al-qaeda to gain strength, its our helping out that caused 911. We are better off letting these countries solve their own problems. NONE OF THESE COUNTRIES HELPED AMERICA!
People with high IQs are usually not very successful at working normal jobs. You can be a complete genius and be lazy. Most geniuses are lazy because average jobs are too easy and boring.
I want privacy because YOU don't have the right to know everything about me without MY permission. I decide who knows me on a personal level, who is intimate with me, and who I'm friends with.
Not everyone deserves to know me. Not everyone deserves to know about me. Not everyone wants to be or is my friend. Not everyone is intimate with me. The point? Some information people just have no business knowing. My sexuality for example is no ones business. Gay, Straight, Bi, none of your damn business. Its also none of your damn business what I do at home, or who I date. Some things people need to know, everything else just is not your damn business. If the government can have privacy why the hell cant we?
Make them solve for mate in a chess game.
Thats the solution. Make a porn sharing P2P application so idiots no longer have to sign up for free porn on the web. Lets ruin the porn industry like we ruined the music industry.
Make it complicated. People stupid enough to sign up for free porn simply arent smart enough to solve a basic logic puzzle.
Have a very white sounding name. If you even seem like a minority you can forget about finding a job besides McDonalds and just go on welfare. Another option if you are a woman, get a sex change. You'll get hired faster, and for higher wages. You may even get a chance to become president.
Think I'm kidding?
Proof: Proof1
Proof2
Exerpt:"Consider it a different kind of name dropping. These days human resource managers are legally required to put on color-blind glasses, to carefully pore over resumes looking for the "best" candidate. But still, discrimination can be as quick and capricious as looking at a person's name.
That's according to a new study of 5,000 resumes sent in response to want ads. Researchers found that people with black sounding names like Tamika or Tyrone were fifty percent more likely to get dropped from consideration and those with "white" sounding names were strongly favored."
Some keys to ending racism in the workplace.
1)Get rid of all names on resumes. Everyone should just be a number.
2) Get rid of job interviews. A computer should hire and fire on merit and productivity alone. Remove the human element from the process.
The results of these actions? The end of affirmative action. If we want to get rid of affirmative action I just showed you how.
Anyone who supports ending affirmtive action and racism at the same time, please respond and support this msg, mod it up if you cant respond with support.
I'm sorry but inheritance should not even exist. Why should anyone from birth get anything they did not earn?
"Any economist will tell you that deficit spending is a standard prctice for the govt. to get out of a recession. It worked for Reagan and looks like it's working for Bush as well."
If we didnt have 2 wars and 911, you'd be right. However, in a war its smarter to just raise the damn taxes! The tax cuts should come, but only for the middle/working class.
I'd simply shift the taxes to those who make the most money, and give a tax cut to those who spend the most money. Instant economy boost with minimal budget deficit. We have budget issues because Bush wanted to give everyone tax cuts, even big companies and billionaires.
I'm not against tax cuts, don't take me for a liberal. I just want the tax cuts to be for the people, and I could give a damn if companies pay higher taxes when they outsource and ruin our economy.
When will we have a full 3d polygonal interface? I'm betting Sun with their JAVA3d based interface will do it before Keith Packard and Freedesktop people.
Most developers use gentoo or debian. Please TRY to BE serious.
You arent a mandrake club member. Thats why there is more bugs.
People donate to AOL all the time even though AIM is free, Winamp is free, Mozilla is free. Whats your point? Their model is based on subscription revenue not donations. I see nothing wrong with this model if they make money. If Howard Dean can make millions of dollars just by hosting a blog, I don't see why an important Linux company cant stay afloat in non profit fashion.
The survival of Linux Mandrake is due to the efforts of the mandrake club subscribers. I suggest every user subscribe to the club. Those who don't are cheap bastards who have no honor or respect for hard work.
1) We arent talking about all games. We are talking about the sims. 2)We arent talking about some other online games. We are talking about the sims. 3) Some kids have parents who don't care or who believe their kids can handle the sims. What is your point? 4)Some parents are idiots. Some parents are bad parents. What does this have to do with the sims? 5) Whats that mean? 6)The rules are decided by the people who pay. If parents want their kids to play the sims, and the sims has sexual content or swearing this has nothing to do with maxis, or EA, it has everything to do with the parent and child. In my opinion, if a parent thinks their kid can play the sims then their kid can play the sims. I leave it up to the parent to be responsible for the child. It's not our job. Children with bad parents need to learn to survive in the real world a bit sooner. Thats life.
Not a big deal. Make an Open Source engine, an Open Source MMORPG server toolkit, and make an Open Source sims.