We have a massive Best Buy service center here in Earth City, MO. Anything returned has to go there as if they did have a shrink-wrapping machine in store they know that employees are going to misuse it.
I would point you towards the other posts below but I'm afraid you're to busy masturbating to OpenOffice.
Outlook doesn't cause viruses or spyware or adware or malware, users do. And so do self-important system administrators who look down on their users and consider themselves better.
Of all the stupid stories on the front page of "News for Nerds, things that matter only to really, really anally retarded linux dorks" this one takes the cake.
Power consumption....Power Consumption! I believe a lot of you have been stuck in your server rooms to long.
oh yeah I like the "I want to see it compared to Windows and OSX" guy post also. I mean, that's guaranteed to generate posts.
Grow up. Do you really think I'm going to base any business decision based on a third rate website that fell out of the loop five years ago? No, I'm going to test, and test, and test. Then I'm going to make the sales guy take me to lunch. I'm a cheap date so even Denny's would be fine. Then I'm going to grill him until his eyes go blank and he starts to drool. Then I'll ask to talk to an engineer.
Its like the OpenOffice posts. Just because SLASHDOT says its great, that means nothing. Good luck fan boys.
"An old topic, but one still relevant as 99% of business notebooks still use XP."
Seriously, why do you think all laptop makers have instructions to downgrade to XP. And, Microsoft knows they got a lemon because the Vista license is also good to use if you downgrade to XP. I recently did this with three Thinkpad T61's.
Well duh, Linux Journal had it on its cover 6 times last year. It must be awesome them! How the hell do Linux Journal stay in business. Are the guys from Sluggy Freelance paying for the whole thing?
You mention Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other crap that weren't built because of Linux. They were created, just like everything else, because people were unhappy with what they had to work with.
Gnome is celebrating its 10th birthday today and that blew me away. I got to thinking, Linux has been around for 14 years now. It still has has the game with penguin sliding down the mountain to prove it can do GL with. Hmm, lets look at all the "linux" companies that went under or changed there name:
Pretty much all of them
What has actually been accomplished. The window manager is still based on X.
Its a good thing you all posted a story about a blog. I mean, what an awesome blog! He has no comments, no facts, and a shitty BLOG! If I make a BLOG about how I hacked into the server for the Crispy Creme company will I get a Slashdot front page story?
Marketers win, takes rest of world 10 years to figure out!
This has been known for a very long time. Pretty much since the plague.
Slashot "New for nerds, um how about News for Ads so we can eat, Shutup Taco! Slashdot "We give up and want to be a tech Drudge but we suck to much."
Or even better,
Slashdot, "No point in actually reading this, we're going to point you to Wikipedia or some blog that has actual content anyhow." Can you believe we actually made millions off this thing?
Care to back this up with facts? Yes, Henry Ford was a socialist...that doesn't mean he supported Hitler. He supported Socialism.
As for your claim that our involvement was far behind the Soviets, you're living in a dream world with cotton candy clouds and smurfs dancing around.
Russia is HUGE, and by HUGE I mean ginormeouslyganticlybrainfreezing HUGE.
They spent their time defending Russia, they only got out of it at the end. Nothing against the Soviets, they kicked some serious, serious ass.
BUT...
The US went from the United States to Britain to France and Africa up through just about everything else. I should say, the US Army did this.
The US Marines went from the US to Australia (twice) and then up through the Solomon's and could have taken Japan. As for that, most US generals wanted to roll right on through to Moscow.
Did I mention the fact that we supplied a shitload of the war material?
See, I can make statements with out facts also except mine are more believable.
So other than putting an icon on the screen, you could hook it to a Mac and run commands? Can't I do that with my keyboard?
"Slashdot, we're the Weekly World News of Technology"
You know they're giving each other high fives for being on this website, right? Except for the guy in the first picture, he's probably in the bathroom with his iPhone on vibrate and taped to his balls.
Because you let them. I don't remember a single story or outrage when they let the Bell's get back together. No, it was "I gotta post this on Slashdot because even though writing a letter (not email) to my state representative won't give me mod points or cred."
Hey eggheads, we're all tired of the carrot before the horse crap. Put all your giant brains together and build me a battery. The most amazing, spectacular battery in the world, nay, universe. I want it to power my Treo (which dies after eight hours just sitting there, and yes I have my auto-sync set to 5 minutes and 15 minutes...all the more reason for an awesome battery) for at least five days using 100% of every damn thing its advertised for. I didn't talk my work into spending $650 for nothing.
And while you're at it, no I don't need Bittorrent on my phone. Why the fuck would I? I have other tools that let me remote control my stuff at home. I don't need another program eating memory that does the same thing.
At this rate, Star Trek and every other sci-fi communicator will never happen because people are to busy trying to "DOODZ, you can get porn and movies on your phone!!!!". I'm the one with expendable income, I want a tool, not a toy. I have a laptop for the latter and I don't have to squint while watching things on it.
Presentations? More like street preachers screaming about how "the man" is taking over.
You do realize that your statement about emails and mailing lists as poor substitutes is absolute "the man is taking over" bullshit, right? This isn't the '70s, there is no homebrew computer club. You want to know why, because the corporate world moved on. I've said this before...
I love linux, as a system admin it is great. As something I want to try to integrate and support...no freaking way. I see posts saying "My Grandmother loves it", "such and such company switched", but there's never anything to back it up. Did you not see the post on the main page about forks in code coming back together? I'm not going to follow forks, for most people a fork is something they use to eat with. I'm not going to tell an employee let alone a boss, "Sorry, but the developers got angry about which direction they were going in and each decided to start something new." I have enough problems remembering how Employee X likes his keyboard setup or employee Y doesn't understand why we won't let him download and install his own screensaver.
For awhile it was awesome but not so much anymore. I'll put certain network systems on it, but that's it.
2000-2004, y'all had your chance and bitched and moaned at each other while the rest of the world passed you by.
Some of you really need to get to know the employees (the one's that talk about their grandchildren all the time, the sales people that bring in the money), it is illuminating. They like familarity and things to work. Labs, class rooms and sitting in a NOC won't teach you this.
Damn straight brother, though I will admit that VMWare and virtual machines in general saved the older mainframes.
In regards to the article. Yeah, I remember when this was posted back in '96 and we were all going to have tablets that we could write and they'd transcribe our words! Plus it would weigh only.00004 pounds and wash the dishes.
I love my desktop (first one I bought from an actual company and didn't build myself), and I have a love/hate relationship with my laptop....
See, I don't every actually put it on my lap. I'd like to have kids one day and I don't think that 300 degrees situated right above my balls is going to help with that. Its not comfortable on an airplane because I have to either stick my elbows in my fellow passengers faces of bungee cord them to my waist.
Coffee shop/Bookstore/"WIFI Hotspot" - yeah, they're great except if I want to get any real work done I better have an extension cord and be in good graces with the owners cause my laptop lasts about 45 minutes.
You ever wonder why most of the people you see at these places are just kind of casually moving the mouse stick around...they're conserving battery power that way. They can impress girls for more than 45 minutes that way.
Since I got my Treo I've found myself using my laptop less and less.
IBM T60 by the way.
I want 14.1" (fuck no I don't need a fucking widescreen laptop, a laptop is a tool, not a toy), 2 gig of ram, 60-80gb hd, a little fuller keyboard, no black square Buck Rogers mouse thing - use that space to expand my keyboard and while you're at it get rid of the second set of mouse buttons. Also, why they hell is there a light bulb in the case of my laptop? I mean if the screen is working, why do I need that light? Make it weigh less than 2 pounds and put out a nice 85 degrees F. Take out the DVD/CD drive and give me easier accessible USB ports and a much better IR system. And fuck the speakers, who needs them. Either you've got external speakers hooked up when doing a presentation or headphones for privacy. That right there is easily 1.3 pounds gone.
Take off all of the fucking stickers and that's another.35 pounds gone.
You are full of shit and trying to get internet high-fives. I've been a subscriber and have never had it crash. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and XP inside a VM in Windows Vista and also in Linux. You didn't lose any money, you lost your anonymous porn surfing and most importantly, you're pissed you can't be an internet tough guy anymore.
Oh my God, a company discontinued a service that they weren't making money on...the world is coming to an end!!!! Wait, didn't RedHat do this?
Slashdot Mirror
We have a massive Best Buy service center here in Earth City, MO. Anything returned has to go there as if they did have a shrink-wrapping machine in store they know that employees are going to misuse it.
I would point you towards the other posts below but I'm afraid you're to busy masturbating to OpenOffice.
Outlook doesn't cause viruses or spyware or adware or malware, users do. And so do self-important system administrators who look down on their users and consider themselves better.
Dilbert was funny when it was true.
Either you are the author, a friend of his, or an intern at NEWESTINTERNETBASEDCOMPUTERHARDWARESOFTWAREHATEMICROSOFTLOVELINUX.com
That article was shit. If you think that was helpful then I guess the Joy of Sex was a real eye opener for you.
Of all the stupid stories on the front page of "News for Nerds, things that matter only to really, really anally retarded linux dorks" this one takes the cake.
Power consumption....Power Consumption! I believe a lot of you have been stuck in your server rooms to long.
oh yeah I like the "I want to see it compared to Windows and OSX" guy post also. I mean, that's guaranteed to generate posts.
Grow up. Do you really think I'm going to base any business decision based on a third rate website that fell out of the loop five years ago? No, I'm going to test, and test, and test. Then I'm going to make the sales guy take me to lunch. I'm a cheap date so even Denny's would be fine. Then I'm going to grill him until his eyes go blank and he starts to drool. Then I'll ask to talk to an engineer.
Its like the OpenOffice posts. Just because SLASHDOT says its great, that means nothing. Good luck fan boys.
"An old topic, but one still relevant as 99% of business notebooks still use XP."
Seriously, why do you think all laptop makers have instructions to downgrade to XP. And, Microsoft knows they got a lemon because the Vista license is also good to use if you downgrade to XP. I recently did this with three Thinkpad T61's.
Well duh, Linux Journal had it on its cover 6 times last year. It must be awesome them! How the hell do Linux Journal stay in business. Are the guys from Sluggy Freelance paying for the whole thing?
You mention Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other crap that weren't built because of Linux. They were created, just like everything else, because people were unhappy with what they had to work with.
Gnome is celebrating its 10th birthday today and that blew me away. I got to thinking, Linux has been around for 14 years now. It still has has the game with penguin sliding down the mountain to prove it can do GL with. Hmm, lets look at all the "linux" companies that went under or changed there name:
Pretty much all of them
What has actually been accomplished. The window manager is still based on X.
Copper phone lines still rule..."You can have my copper when you take it from my cold, dead hands" man says
Somehow PC game company still manage to make money against the console "PC Killers"
Wireless is the Ethernet Killer - though millions of people haven't figured out how to secure they're ethernet or wireless systems
Slashdot is still relevant
And your children will roll their eyes and tell their friends how big of a dork you are.
Its a good thing you all posted a story about a blog. I mean, what an awesome blog! He has no comments, no facts, and a shitty BLOG! If I make a BLOG about how I hacked into the server for the Crispy Creme company will I get a Slashdot front page story?
BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They probably did that because they were emberassed by you grammar.
You sound like the job is beneath you and its their fault. Dick.
Marketers win, takes rest of world 10 years to figure out!
This has been known for a very long time. Pretty much since the plague.
Slashot "New for nerds, um how about News for Ads so we can eat, Shutup Taco! Slashdot "We give up and want to be a tech Drudge but we suck to much."
Or even better,
Slashdot, "No point in actually reading this, we're going to point you to Wikipedia or some blog that has actual content anyhow." Can you believe we actually made millions off this thing?
Care to back this up with facts? Yes, Henry Ford was a socialist...that doesn't mean he supported Hitler. He supported Socialism.
As for your claim that our involvement was far behind the Soviets, you're living in a dream world with cotton candy clouds and smurfs dancing around.
Russia is HUGE, and by HUGE I mean ginormeouslyganticlybrainfreezing HUGE.
They spent their time defending Russia, they only got out of it at the end. Nothing against the Soviets, they kicked some serious, serious ass.
BUT...
The US went from the United States to Britain to France and Africa up through just about everything else. I should say, the US Army did this.
The US Marines went from the US to Australia (twice) and then up through the Solomon's and could have taken Japan. As for that, most US generals wanted to roll right on through to Moscow.
Did I mention the fact that we supplied a shitload of the war material?
See, I can make statements with out facts also except mine are more believable.
Don't you realize she'll just smile at you and keep on coming!
I meant the asteroid, I think.
Let me know what happens...
"'Cause I miss you babe and I don't want to miss a thing!!!!!!!!!!!"
These "clones" don't threaten Microsoft's or Apple's business, because they don't come with these all-in-one support options that businesses love.
Hahaha...Red Hat support...seriously, you're making me want to pee in my pants. Also, fixed your post.
So other than putting an icon on the screen, you could hook it to a Mac and run commands? Can't I do that with my keyboard?
"Slashdot, we're the Weekly World News of Technology"
You know they're giving each other high fives for being on this website, right? Except for the guy in the first picture, he's probably in the bathroom with his iPhone on vibrate and taped to his balls.
This is Myst with TV characters and yawn...
We're going to need a hot coffee plugin for Kate.
Because you let them. I don't remember a single story or outrage when they let the Bell's get back together. No, it was "I gotta post this on Slashdot because even though writing a letter (not email) to my state representative won't give me mod points or cred."
are like the fat kid on the playground who didn't get picked for kickball. Its everyone else's fault.
Now I can kill my battery even quicker!
Screw this crap.
Hey eggheads, we're all tired of the carrot before the horse crap. Put all your giant brains together and build me a battery. The most amazing, spectacular battery in the world, nay, universe. I want it to power my Treo (which dies after eight hours just sitting there, and yes I have my auto-sync set to 5 minutes and 15 minutes...all the more reason for an awesome battery) for at least five days using 100% of every damn thing its advertised for. I didn't talk my work into spending $650 for nothing.
And while you're at it, no I don't need Bittorrent on my phone. Why the fuck would I? I have other tools that let me remote control my stuff at home. I don't need another program eating memory that does the same thing.
At this rate, Star Trek and every other sci-fi communicator will never happen because people are to busy trying to "DOODZ, you can get porn and movies on your phone!!!!". I'm the one with expendable income, I want a tool, not a toy. I have a laptop for the latter and I don't have to squint while watching things on it.
Um, when was the last time you went to a meeting?
Presentations? More like street preachers screaming about how "the man" is taking over.
You do realize that your statement about emails and mailing lists as poor substitutes is absolute "the man is taking over" bullshit, right? This isn't the '70s, there is no homebrew computer club. You want to know why, because the corporate world moved on. I've said this before...
I love linux, as a system admin it is great. As something I want to try to integrate and support...no freaking way. I see posts saying "My Grandmother loves it", "such and such company switched", but there's never anything to back it up. Did you not see the post on the main page about forks in code coming back together? I'm not going to follow forks, for most people a fork is something they use to eat with. I'm not going to tell an employee let alone a boss, "Sorry, but the developers got angry about which direction they were going in and each decided to start something new." I have enough problems remembering how Employee X likes his keyboard setup or employee Y doesn't understand why we won't let him download and install his own screensaver.
For awhile it was awesome but not so much anymore. I'll put certain network systems on it, but that's it.
2000-2004, y'all had your chance and bitched and moaned at each other while the rest of the world passed you by.
Some of you really need to get to know the employees (the one's that talk about their grandchildren all the time, the sales people that bring in the money), it is illuminating. They like familarity and things to work. Labs, class rooms and sitting in a NOC won't teach you this.
Newsblaze just links to others content, plus her and the other "contributing authors". I don't think they'll be around real long.
Myspace replacing TV...hahaha. I am all advertisers bait. 28-34, disposable income, own my own home, laugh at myspace.
Maybe if the 16-25 age group wasn't so fucking lazy and Myspace would win, but it won't.
AOL failed and had a shitload more money than myspace.
Damn straight brother, though I will admit that VMWare and virtual machines in general saved the older mainframes.
.00004 pounds and wash the dishes.
.35 pounds gone.
In regards to the article. Yeah, I remember when this was posted back in '96 and we were all going to have tablets that we could write and they'd transcribe our words! Plus it would weigh only
I love my desktop (first one I bought from an actual company and didn't build myself), and I have a love/hate relationship with my laptop....
See, I don't every actually put it on my lap. I'd like to have kids one day and I don't think that 300 degrees situated right above my balls is going to help with that. Its not comfortable on an airplane because I have to either stick my elbows in my fellow passengers faces of bungee cord them to my waist.
Coffee shop/Bookstore/"WIFI Hotspot" - yeah, they're great except if I want to get any real work done I better have an extension cord and be in good graces with the owners cause my laptop lasts about 45 minutes.
You ever wonder why most of the people you see at these places are just kind of casually moving the mouse stick around...they're conserving battery power that way. They can impress girls for more than 45 minutes that way.
Since I got my Treo I've found myself using my laptop less and less.
IBM T60 by the way.
I want 14.1" (fuck no I don't need a fucking widescreen laptop, a laptop is a tool, not a toy), 2 gig of ram, 60-80gb hd, a little fuller keyboard, no black square Buck Rogers mouse thing - use that space to expand my keyboard and while you're at it get rid of the second set of mouse buttons. Also, why they hell is there a light bulb in the case of my laptop? I mean if the screen is working, why do I need that light? Make it weigh less than 2 pounds and put out a nice 85 degrees F. Take out the DVD/CD drive and give me easier accessible USB ports and a much better IR system. And fuck the speakers, who needs them. Either you've got external speakers hooked up when doing a presentation or headphones for privacy. That right there is easily 1.3 pounds gone.
Take off all of the fucking stickers and that's another
Lenovo...ha!
Hmmm, did you bitch about this when it was called RICO?
_ and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced
That was put into law 30+ years ago and I have to say it was abused in the best way ever. 'Cause we got...
Pink Flamingo's, girls in thong bikini's and Crockett and Tubbs.
You remind of that White Lion song, "When the children cry". Except instead of loving you I'd smack you for your ignorance.
You are full of shit and trying to get internet high-fives. I've been a subscriber and have never had it crash. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and XP inside a VM in Windows Vista and also in Linux. You didn't lose any money, you lost your anonymous porn surfing and most importantly, you're pissed you can't be an internet tough guy anymore.
Oh my God, a company discontinued a service that they weren't making money on...the world is coming to an end!!!! Wait, didn't RedHat do this?