Man, I thought we'd heard the last of this, the most Neanderthal of empiricist views. While we're at it, we may as well resucitate Darwin's view that homo sapiens can be further divided into subspecies according to skin color!
Fortunately, those aren't the only choices we have, and, also fortunately, not everybody feels the way you do about the subject. Believe it or not, there are many people writing software with no real monetary compensation every day.
What a ridiculous quiz! Since none of those organizations would ever send me an email that I considered 'legitimate' (I don't do business with them), I chose 'No Answer' to all of them, and thus scored quite badly on the quiz. I still don't need no stinking toolbar;)
BT very well may have been created for legal purposes. There are several [much better] protocols for obtaining Linux and BSD (and friends); ftp and http. The P2P argument for distributing OSS code does not hold much water.
KDE has already been [successfully] ported to Windows; and it runs nicely.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-cygwin/
Again, it's a demonstration that users are not confined to one product or the other--both OSS and proprietary works can coexist. Users are very unlikely to make a product switch if they have no idea what the product they're 'switching to' is or does!
It enables user to use the software they want to use, regardless of platform. None of us are that died-in-the-wool that we use one platform and one platform only (are we?). As another poster pointed out, Windows users will eventually learn that they really don't have to put up with a shoddy, insecure product that they have to pay for, and that there are many alternatives to said product(s). How can that be construed as A Bad Thing?
I don't mask my email addresses, or use any other filtering technique other than a select few RBLs that eliminate 90+% of the spam that comes to any of the three domains I'm hosting.
"I claim that we are close to that point because of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) project to prevent and cure ageing.(sic)"
I was under the impression that aging, which they couldn't manage to spell correctly, was a fact of biological existence rather than a health problem?
By eliminating natural selection at both the beginning and end of the life cycle, we're really cutting off our nose to spite our face in terms of biological evolution. Could we meddle any deeper?
Well, of course! Very seldom will you find a proprietary/paid application out there for which there is not a superior freeware tool.
AdAware and SpyBot, I thought, were the defacto adware/spyware removal tools? One shouldn't need anything more...
I recently left Seattle in part due to the huge rate of competition for even the lowliest IT jobs. I was pleasantly surprised, upon arriving in Nashville, TN, that three different employers were avidly hiring, and that I was able to secure a position with a company my first week in town.
I was up against 425 other techies for the last Seattle position I applied and interviewed for.
As other posters have already pointed out; why would you spend a boatload of money for a Mac? I know that died-in-the-wool Mac users really like their boxes, but I've used and supported Mac G3-G5s and I cannot honestly say that I see any evidence that, especially for the gamer, there would be any advantage to going Mac (unless of course there is some status symbol associated with owning things that are merely more expensive than the next guy's).
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You should really try reading the article(s).
Ooooo, you're l33t ! What a great answer... chump.
Please, spell-check your blurbs. Thank you.
Man, I thought we'd heard the last of this, the most Neanderthal of empiricist views. While we're at it, we may as well resucitate Darwin's view that homo sapiens can be further divided into subspecies according to skin color!
...and what, exactly is the need for this? Oh, no effort... got it.
I think the point being made is "Don't be such a dramaticist; it's not actually that difficult, and you [should] know that. Your point is not valid."
Get it?
Fortunately, those aren't the only choices we have, and, also fortunately, not everybody feels the way you do about the subject. Believe it or not, there are many people writing software with no real monetary compensation every day.
What the f*** are you talking about?
;)
Oh, I see, nothing
Most things break with SP2; it's simply not a good idea to use it.
What a ridiculous quiz! Since none of those organizations would ever send me an email that I considered 'legitimate' (I don't do business with them), I chose 'No Answer' to all of them, and thus scored quite badly on the quiz. I still don't need no stinking toolbar ;)
Funny? How did that assinine comment get 'funny' points?
Yeah; how damned many more than 50,000 people are really wasting their time with this game?
Hopes for M$'s firewall? Wha??? Oh, sorry, that must've been a troll ;)
Only if you want to sell your soul to the NYT :$
Relax!
BT very well may have been created for legal purposes. There are several [much better] protocols for obtaining Linux and BSD (and friends); ftp and http. The P2P argument for distributing OSS code does not hold much water.
KDE has already been [successfully] ported to Windows; and it runs nicely.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-cygwin/
Again, it's a demonstration that users are not confined to one product or the other--both OSS and proprietary works can coexist. Users are very unlikely to make a product switch if they have no idea what the product they're 'switching to' is or does!
It enables user to use the software they want to use, regardless of platform. None of us are that died-in-the-wool that we use one platform and one platform only (are we?). As another poster pointed out, Windows users will eventually learn that they really don't have to put up with a shoddy, insecure product that they have to pay for, and that there are many alternatives to said product(s). How can that be construed as A Bad Thing?
I don't mask my email addresses, or use any other filtering technique other than a select few RBLs that eliminate 90+% of the spam that comes to any of the three domains I'm hosting.
;)
No extra work/software necessary
"I claim that we are close to that point because of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) project to prevent and cure ageing.(sic)" I was under the impression that aging, which they couldn't manage to spell correctly, was a fact of biological existence rather than a health problem? By eliminating natural selection at both the beginning and end of the life cycle, we're really cutting off our nose to spite our face in terms of biological evolution. Could we meddle any deeper?
:) They really don't have a leg to stand on, people, however, I admire Ben's enlightening article.
Well, of course! Very seldom will you find a proprietary/paid application out there for which there is not a superior freeware tool. AdAware and SpyBot, I thought, were the defacto adware/spyware removal tools? One shouldn't need anything more...
I recently left Seattle in part due to the huge rate of competition for even the lowliest IT jobs. I was pleasantly surprised, upon arriving in Nashville, TN, that three different employers were avidly hiring, and that I was able to secure a position with a company my first week in town. I was up against 425 other techies for the last Seattle position I applied and interviewed for.
As other posters have already pointed out; why would you spend a boatload of money for a Mac? I know that died-in-the-wool Mac users really like their boxes, but I've used and supported Mac G3-G5s and I cannot honestly say that I see any evidence that, especially for the gamer, there would be any advantage to going Mac (unless of course there is some status symbol associated with owning things that are merely more expensive than the next guy's).
voting for Buchanan?