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Re:Why do Australians hate the US so?
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Its simple really. The US thinks that its the centre of the intellectual, entertainment, moral, religious and political universes to name a few. Actually, if you look at who is fucking up the planet with unbridled consumption and interference in the policies of other countries so that they can get their hands on resources, it's the US. Having said that I've met some very nice (and good) citizens of the US, its just that the values of the society in general suck big time. A society that "claims" to be Christian but is the biggest producer of porn of all sorts? Hey, there is something wrong there, and thats just one example.
he was a passionate Australian. What more can a fellow Aussie ask? As for all you half baked wankers who seem to think its good sport to make jokes at the expense of another family's tragedy, all I can say is you are fucking pathetic. I wont even ask you to put yourself in the position of his family because you are so fucking selfish you wouldnt know how.
Your original post is exactly on the point I've tried to make a number of times. Joe blogs wont use linux unless it looks and feels like windows, because he has no need to. And if it wont run the things he wants to run then he wont give it a second glance. This is not saying I like windows - I dont, but for gods sake, some of you self important nerds need to get into the real world of what the CONSUMER wants, not what you believe they should want. So, linux fanboys, read the original post again. Duds is right..... he sees Linspire as an acceptable alternative to windows, so it is - end of story. He doesn't see other ditros as acceptable alternatives, so they arent - end of story.
two daughters of my own and two sons of my wifes from a previous marriage, I actually dont give a flying fuck how they catch these perverted bastards. They are criminals and should be treated as such. Actually, put them in the toughest prisons and let them really see what is like to be treated like a worthless piece of meat.
Interesting that this story only got a score of 2. The writer has it right. MS is so pervasive, that the ordinary user thinks it is the only way to "use" a computer. IE is the internet after all is it not? And, the less intelligent - or more technophobic - the user, the more likely they will be to resist change in my experience. The OSS community has to get into the real world and out of a foggy ivory tower. Give ordinary people what they want and they will "buy" it. Ordinary people want their software to look like MS software. They want it to operate like MS software. I have sympathy for the idealism of OSS communities, and I use FC on my machine at home by the way, but when I reflect on my colleagues at work and how they use their machines, I realise that they will in all likelyhood never even consider OSS solutions, even if you give them a disk, install it for them and spend hours re-assuring them and helping them understand how it works.
And besides which how will their children ( code for they in many cases ) play their computer games.
Totally agree with you. Only a complete moron would really believe that the definitive english language exists in Word. I'm not all that clever, but even I know that.
Oh hang on, I use macs and pc's with linux..... maybe Word does have all the answers after all, and I'm sadly mis-informed.
Tim R
Many consumers will be sucked into buying what is increasingly appearing to be an inferior product because the salespeople in computer stores dont know ( or care) any better, and they have sales targets to meet...... and prolly XP will disappear from shelves anyway, so the only MS os available will be vista, good bad or indifferent.
As a consumer that just wants the stuff I buy to work and work properly, it look like a good excuse to not "upgrade" and even to "switch"
Actually I think that as long as a product works and works properly, most consumers will wait if they believe that the wait will deliver a superior product.
Cheers
Its interesting that when MS goes into a new area they (MS) lable it fair competition, and use all the money and tactics - lgal and otherwise - to eliminate the other players. Now a serious competitor appears in one of their favourite areas, they cry foul.. MS, you are no better than the schoolyard bullies that I have seen in the last 25 years. If you reallly believed you were the best, you would welcome competition, because you would really be able to prove that your are in fact the best, and it would drive you on to improve your product.
As a high school teacher and father of 4 children, I can assure you all that by 14 they have already started making their own decisions. How we protect them from their own ignorance is something that anyone who works with teens wonders every day. Unfortunately they possess a childs brain inside and (almost) adult body.......
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My daughter "bought" an ipod on Ebay, and it never arrived. A couple of weeks later she was contacted by another "buyer" who had noticed that the "seller" had a business email address. So, he looked up the business on the internet and contacted the owner. Lo and behold, the business was a security firm, and the"seller" had been using company time, and the company system to market the ipods that she didnt have. So, Mim contacted the owner, and he told her that she would have her money in her bank account by the end of the week, which it was. I wonder if the seller is still a trusted employee at the security firm........ I certainly hope not. We subsequently heard that she had ripped off at least another 4 people with the same scam.
Actually I dont give a flying F**K what they call themselves or what their motives are, or for that matter how many friggen distros there are. Give me a viable, easy to use alternative to m$ crapware is all I ask. The key words here are "easy to use"
I use OS X at home M$ at work and FC4 for my server. IMHO, OS X rocks, M$ sucks and FC is somewhere in between. I also don't give a F**K what you think about my opinions by the way, so any flames wont be responded to.
In general Linux distros are too different to M$ to attract new users - unless they are like me and read/digest/think about viable alternatives. Come on guys.... get into the real world and ask yourselves why the linux distros have not taken off...... they are too efffin different to M$ shitware. And M$ is what we are being fed.
As soon as linux distros "lookand feel (whatever the hell that means)" familiar, and are easy to: install new software/ play the latest shit game/install the latest and newest usless piece of crappy software, then we may be getting somewhere.
For f**cks sake, give linspire a go. At least they are attepting to make the user experience consistent and friendly.
Jeez its good posting to Slahdot whith a skinfull under my belt.......
Yours in the spirit of inebriation
TimTheTosser
argument for preservation efforts in Southeast Asia. And if you believe in Intellgent Design, it provides compelling argument that the earth is very young, or how could they have survived.
I had a bout of toxoplasmosis when I was 16 and I'm still alive...... and lots of people think I'm a rat, especially those people who like to run mazes.
US companies are the best (worst) at pillaging other countries intellectual property and claiming it for themselves. Just look at native uses for various plants that have been patented by a rotten system, with the original traditional "owners" being denied access to any benefits.
Maybe some of these pirating companies and countries see you greedy cunts as fair game.
Call me a troll or whatever the hell you want to - I actually dont give a flying fuck either way - but its only a matter of time before other rapidly developing countries - India and China two name two will tell the US to get stuffed, and they'll have the economic clout to do so.
There is a big defference between IP and patenting fragments of DNA. For one thing, IP is just that intellectual property - hence by definition has been INVENTED by someone. the gene fragment patent on the other hand does not cover invention or creation - it covers the patenting of something that already existed and was uncovered in gene research, so called "junk DNA".
There is no good reason why CSIRO should not hold patents - the people there created the IP, CSIRO is owned by me (in part at least as an aussie) and the CSIRO - and hence I as a "shareholder" get some benefit, not least of which is that the royalties reduce my tax burden in supporting CSIRO.
The company which patented the junk DNA should never have been able to do so, and nor, imho, should any company be able too patent something that is already there. the use of that junk DNA in a treatment of some sort?.... well thats a totally different issue and is an invention, so should be covered by IP patent
three reasons.
1) I believe that monopolies are unhealthy for both the consumer and the monopoly. The old saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely seems appropriate when considering some of the business practices of MS. Because of their power in the marketplace they are able to get away with ignoring or modifying international standards to their own advantage - hence "forcing" other companies to do the same. I could go on re-hashing the arguments and wasting my time.......
And, the monopoly gets slack in the end - oh of course this could never happen in the 21st century, cos they really have the needs of the consumer at heart.
2) I dont like the the way a lot of MS software assumes that you are a complete imbecile when you use it - for gods sake give us some credit for our inteligence.
3) I like to give the little guy a go, especially if his product or service is comparable to the big guy. Its a bit like going to the corner store instead of driving to the shopping mall - maybe the selection isnt as wide, but the personal service is much better.
My wife tells me that channel 9 has just pulled its digital sport coverage due to - apparently - lack of patronage.
As someone who rarely bwatches tv of any sort, I dont care either way, but it seems insane that we can still buy analogue sets here...... in fact we bought one not so long ago when our 12 year old set finally died. As tv's seem to last a while compared with other consumer electronics, I guess when the plug is finally pulled, we'll get an addon box.
Has anyone seen any govt produced information about digital lately. My children say they havent - but maybe thats because they have just signed up for fox digital between them.
on a piece of software to check any part of their written work in a tertiary institution, probably has been let down by their primary and high school education in some way. Oh hang on, doesn't the constructivist bullshit that many junior schools rely on as a basis for their pedagogy say that chiildren can invent their own knowledge....... Thats ok then, we'll let some machine help them invent that knowledge.
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micro-soft an indication of the size and quality of the expected aftermath of the date?
Its simple really. The US thinks that its the centre of the intellectual, entertainment, moral, religious and political universes to name a few. Actually, if you look at who is fucking up the planet with unbridled consumption and interference in the policies of other countries so that they can get their hands on resources, it's the US. Having said that I've met some very nice (and good) citizens of the US, its just that the values of the society in general suck big time. A society that "claims" to be Christian but is the biggest producer of porn of all sorts? Hey, there is something wrong there, and thats just one example.
he was a passionate Australian. What more can a fellow Aussie ask? As for all you half baked wankers who seem to think its good sport to make jokes at the expense of another family's tragedy, all I can say is you are fucking pathetic. I wont even ask you to put yourself in the position of his family because you are so fucking selfish you wouldnt know how.
Your original post is exactly on the point I've tried to make a number of times. Joe blogs wont use linux unless it looks and feels like windows, because he has no need to. And if it wont run the things he wants to run then he wont give it a second glance. This is not saying I like windows - I dont, but for gods sake, some of you self important nerds need to get into the real world of what the CONSUMER wants, not what you believe they should want. So, linux fanboys, read the original post again. Duds is right ..... he sees Linspire as an acceptable alternative to windows, so it is - end of story. He doesn't see other ditros as acceptable alternatives, so they arent - end of story.
two daughters of my own and two sons of my wifes from a previous marriage, I actually dont give a flying fuck how they catch these perverted bastards. They are criminals and should be treated as such. Actually, put them in the toughest prisons and let them really see what is like to be treated like a worthless piece of meat.
Interesting that this story only got a score of 2. The writer has it right. MS is so pervasive, that the ordinary user thinks it is the only way to "use" a computer. IE is the internet after all is it not? And, the less intelligent - or more technophobic - the user, the more likely they will be to resist change in my experience. The OSS community has to get into the real world and out of a foggy ivory tower. Give ordinary people what they want and they will "buy" it. Ordinary people want their software to look like MS software. They want it to operate like MS software. I have sympathy for the idealism of OSS communities, and I use FC on my machine at home by the way, but when I reflect on my colleagues at work and how they use their machines, I realise that they will in all likelyhood never even consider OSS solutions, even if you give them a disk, install it for them and spend hours re-assuring them and helping them understand how it works.
And besides which how will their children ( code for they in many cases ) play their computer games.
Totally agree with you. Only a complete moron would really believe that the definitive english language exists in Word. I'm not all that clever, but even I know that. Oh hang on, I use macs and pc's with linux ..... maybe Word does have all the answers after all, and I'm sadly mis-informed.
Tim R
Many consumers will be sucked into buying what is increasingly appearing to be an inferior product because the salespeople in computer stores dont know ( or care) any better, and they have sales targets to meet ...... and prolly XP will disappear from shelves anyway, so the only MS os available will be vista, good bad or indifferent.
As a consumer that just wants the stuff I buy to work and work properly, it look like a good excuse to not "upgrade" and even to "switch"
Actually I think that as long as a product works and works properly, most consumers will wait if they believe that the wait will deliver a superior product.
Cheers
Its interesting that when MS goes into a new area they (MS) lable it fair competition, and use all the money and tactics - lgal and otherwise - to eliminate the other players. Now a serious competitor appears in one of their favourite areas, they cry foul.. MS, you are no better than the schoolyard bullies that I have seen in the last 25 years. If you reallly believed you were the best, you would welcome competition, because you would really be able to prove that your are in fact the best, and it would drive you on to improve your product.
As a high school teacher and father of 4 children, I can assure you all that by 14 they have already started making their own decisions. How we protect them from their own ignorance is something that anyone who works with teens wonders every day. Unfortunately they possess a childs brain inside and (almost) adult body .......
My daughter "bought" an ipod on Ebay, and it never arrived. A couple of weeks later she was contacted by another "buyer" who had noticed that the "seller" had a business email address. So, he looked up the business on the internet and contacted the owner. Lo and behold, the business was a security firm, and the"seller" had been using company time, and the company system to market the ipods that she didnt have. So, Mim contacted the owner, and he told her that she would have her money in her bank account by the end of the week, which it was. I wonder if the seller is still a trusted employee at the security firm. ....... I certainly hope not. We subsequently heard that she had ripped off at least another 4 people with the same scam.
Actually I dont give a flying F**K what they call themselves or what their motives are, or for that matter how many friggen distros there are. Give me a viable, easy to use alternative to m$ crapware is all I ask. The key words here are "easy to use" I use OS X at home M$ at work and FC4 for my server. IMHO, OS X rocks, M$ sucks and FC is somewhere in between. I also don't give a F**K what you think about my opinions by the way, so any flames wont be responded to. In general Linux distros are too different to M$ to attract new users - unless they are like me and read/digest/think about viable alternatives. Come on guys .... get into the real world and ask yourselves why the linux distros have not taken off ...... they are too efffin different to M$ shitware. And M$ is what we are being fed.
As soon as linux distros "lookand feel (whatever the hell that means)" familiar, and are easy to: install new software/ play the latest shit game/install the latest and newest usless piece of crappy software, then we may be getting somewhere.
For f**cks sake, give linspire a go. At least they are attepting to make the user experience consistent and friendly.
Jeez its good posting to Slahdot whith a skinfull under my belt .......
Yours in the spirit of inebriation
TimTheTosser
argument for preservation efforts in Southeast Asia. And if you believe in Intellgent Design, it provides compelling argument that the earth is very young, or how could they have survived.
I had a bout of toxoplasmosis when I was 16 and I'm still alive ...... and lots of people think I'm a rat, especially those people who like to run mazes.
There can only be one respnse to crap like this besides "only in America" and that is What a Wanker!
US companies are the best (worst) at pillaging other countries intellectual property and claiming it for themselves. Just look at native uses for various plants that have been patented by a rotten system, with the original traditional "owners" being denied access to any benefits. Maybe some of these pirating companies and countries see you greedy cunts as fair game. Call me a troll or whatever the hell you want to - I actually dont give a flying fuck either way - but its only a matter of time before other rapidly developing countries - India and China two name two will tell the US to get stuffed, and they'll have the economic clout to do so.
I wonder if they'll be able to see the rings around uranus with it?
You are a voice of sanity...... the auto whatevers give me the shits, and what's worse is the method of turning them off isnt always obvious.
a long-standing project of mine, a new value of pi to assign I'd fix it at three cos its easier you see than three point one four one five nine
There is a big defference between IP and patenting fragments of DNA. For one thing, IP is just that intellectual property - hence by definition has been INVENTED by someone. the gene fragment patent on the other hand does not cover invention or creation - it covers the patenting of something that already existed and was uncovered in gene research, so called "junk DNA". There is no good reason why CSIRO should not hold patents - the people there created the IP, CSIRO is owned by me (in part at least as an aussie) and the CSIRO - and hence I as a "shareholder" get some benefit, not least of which is that the royalties reduce my tax burden in supporting CSIRO. The company which patented the junk DNA should never have been able to do so, and nor, imho, should any company be able too patent something that is already there. the use of that junk DNA in a treatment of some sort? .... well thats a totally different issue and is an invention, so should be covered by IP patent
three reasons. 1) I believe that monopolies are unhealthy for both the consumer and the monopoly. The old saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely seems appropriate when considering some of the business practices of MS. Because of their power in the marketplace they are able to get away with ignoring or modifying international standards to their own advantage - hence "forcing" other companies to do the same. I could go on re-hashing the arguments and wasting my time....... And, the monopoly gets slack in the end - oh of course this could never happen in the 21st century, cos they really have the needs of the consumer at heart. 2) I dont like the the way a lot of MS software assumes that you are a complete imbecile when you use it - for gods sake give us some credit for our inteligence. 3) I like to give the little guy a go, especially if his product or service is comparable to the big guy. Its a bit like going to the corner store instead of driving to the shopping mall - maybe the selection isnt as wide, but the personal service is much better.
My wife tells me that channel 9 has just pulled its digital sport coverage due to - apparently - lack of patronage. As someone who rarely bwatches tv of any sort, I dont care either way, but it seems insane that we can still buy analogue sets here...... in fact we bought one not so long ago when our 12 year old set finally died. As tv's seem to last a while compared with other consumer electronics, I guess when the plug is finally pulled, we'll get an addon box. Has anyone seen any govt produced information about digital lately. My children say they havent - but maybe thats because they have just signed up for fox digital between them.
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I wonder how Hong Kong retailers respond to fists full of 1 cent notes - yes they do exist and I have a few.
on a piece of software to check any part of their written work in a tertiary institution, probably has been let down by their primary and high school education in some way. Oh hang on, doesn't the constructivist bullshit that many junior schools rely on as a basis for their pedagogy say that chiildren can invent their own knowledge....... Thats ok then, we'll let some machine help them invent that knowledge.