You know, wouldn't it just be in Microsoft's best interest to create a version of Windows that works really well on most computers, rather than cluttering the market with thinware? Also, how is this version different from the one that they're shipping out to third-world countries right now?
..if Microsoft wrote something like this, it probably would've gone through a few editors to take away the unprofessional, conversational tone. Apple, same thing. But instead, the Linux supporter writes this article as if he's talking to a friend, with long-windedness bandied throughout.
Know why DOS succeeded, and then Windows? Because it was professional. Professionalism breeds trust. Imagine some pundit trying to sell tax cuts using this guy's writing style. You'd think he was a nut who wasn't prepared to sell his ideas.
And that my friends, as much as I like open source software, is the story of why open source software gets beaten by Microsoft and Apple -- they're great at ideas in places where Microsoft is blindsided, but have no clue how to present themselves to the mass market.
There's a reason why icons like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are icons -- they've honed their craft and are master salesmen. Open source makes no effort to sell themselves like established companies.
Oh, stop whining about the fact that they criticize members of society that are into furry porn.
Fact is, the reason that Something Awful is so great is because it keeps out the moron who's only there to start trouble. It's a great system that rewards those who contribute positively to the society, and scolds those who are hellbent on being retarded or outwardly bizzare.
Keep in mind that it's Lowtax's take on what society should be, and you're golden. Also, it's not hatred nor bigotry: he just manages to find things ripe for parody in the seedy corners of the internet -- retards on forums, people who get way too obsessive over games and other things, people who aren't fucking normal.
He's turned the pay forum into an artform that many outsiders simply don't understand, and that's why it's so successful.
The SA forums have been doing this for years, and you know what? They're popular as hell.
I think that people don't like paying for something they used to get for free, but there's precedent for it. The OP needs to stop pretending that there isn't.
Um, download AIM, buddy, because you have no clue what the hell you're talking about. It's the most popular program on the internet next to IE, and the network's free to use and COMPLETELY unrelated to AOL.
Jesus, can I borrow the cave you've been hiding in? It's been in heavy use for almost a decade now.
Sorry, buddy. OSX has had four versions come out in about the same time period that MS has had just one, and each has been a relatively significant change.
Windows XP is behind OSX for the most part, so it's a bad comparison.
This is a service that any person with half a brain and rudimentary experience with PHP could make. Why would they take their service and put a charge on it -- and on the organizer? Nobody's going to want to organize through Meetup anymore, and sites like thefacebook will jump on this territory quickly.
It was nice while it lasted, Howard Dean followers.
I make a funny joke about popping a cherry, and it gets modded down as flamebait. Such is life. Whenever I call someone a nerd on/., it's meant lovingly.
To not take this post off-topic, it's terrible that the CherryOS is getting so much attention. PearPC is a great project, and the damage that CherryOS has done to the PearPC project is almost irreversible.
I'm going to move to San Fransisco and hang with my America-hating, free-speech-hating, gay-loving liberal posse.
In other news, my iCopulate isn't working as advertised. It's not stimulating me nor my partner. I'd blog about it, but I don't want to pay the extra scratch.
Ditto. That said, this technology is amazing and something I imagine few internet companies have had the foresight to think of.
As paraphrased from my post in the last thread...
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To paraphrase a wise man, myself, who paraphrased a wise man, Steve Jobs, Why is it that the people who keep posting repeats at Slashdot just don't get it?
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To paraphrase a wise man, Steve Jobs, Why is it that the people who run the magazine companies just don't get it?
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And apparently I have no room to bitch, because I spelled apostrophes wrong. :D
Why is it that any moron with a website can get on Slashdot without fact checking, but instead unchecked, grammar-deficient opinion?
Not to be critical, but you went terribly offtopic with the first post of the thread.
What? Rational cognitive thought? Shut up and eat your freedom fries, you Frenchie!
You know, wouldn't it just be in Microsoft's best interest to create a version of Windows that works really well on most computers, rather than cluttering the market with thinware? Also, how is this version different from the one that they're shipping out to third-world countries right now?
Know why DOS succeeded, and then Windows? Because it was professional. Professionalism breeds trust. Imagine some pundit trying to sell tax cuts using this guy's writing style. You'd think he was a nut who wasn't prepared to sell his ideas.
And that my friends, as much as I like open source software, is the story of why open source software gets beaten by Microsoft and Apple -- they're great at ideas in places where Microsoft is blindsided, but have no clue how to present themselves to the mass market.
There's a reason why icons like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are icons -- they've honed their craft and are master salesmen. Open source makes no effort to sell themselves like established companies.
Fact is, the reason that Something Awful is so great is because it keeps out the moron who's only there to start trouble. It's a great system that rewards those who contribute positively to the society, and scolds those who are hellbent on being retarded or outwardly bizzare.
Keep in mind that it's Lowtax's take on what society should be, and you're golden. Also, it's not hatred nor bigotry: he just manages to find things ripe for parody in the seedy corners of the internet -- retards on forums, people who get way too obsessive over games and other things, people who aren't fucking normal.
He's turned the pay forum into an artform that many outsiders simply don't understand, and that's why it's so successful.
I think that people don't like paying for something they used to get for free, but there's precedent for it. The OP needs to stop pretending that there isn't.
Jesus, can I borrow the cave you've been hiding in? It's been in heavy use for almost a decade now.
Sorry, buddy. OSX has had four versions come out in about the same time period that MS has had just one, and each has been a relatively significant change. Windows XP is behind OSX for the most part, so it's a bad comparison.
Don't subscribe to Videotron, because they don't give a shit about my rights.
If this actually works, and Arrested Development gets cancelled, I would drain my bank account for a third season of that.
Who wants to take a bet that Websense is making this up just to ban blogs?
That just brought a tear to my eye, so as a result, I just patented your post.
It was nice while it lasted, Howard Dean followers.
Sorry guys, had to do it. :(
It's not often that a Ph.D. tells me to shut the fuck up.
To not take this post off-topic, it's terrible that the CherryOS is getting so much attention. PearPC is a great project, and the damage that CherryOS has done to the PearPC project is almost irreversible.
Guess they're like a hot virgin at a Star Trek convention, too afraid of a bunch of nerds popping their Cherry.
How is that flamebait? :(
I'm going to move to San Fransisco and hang with my America-hating, free-speech-hating, gay-loving liberal posse. In other news, my iCopulate isn't working as advertised. It's not stimulating me nor my partner. I'd blog about it, but I don't want to pay the extra scratch.
Paris Hilton blows off guys while staring into the camera. In other news, Linus Torvalds gets nookie.
Ditto. That said, this technology is amazing and something I imagine few internet companies have had the foresight to think of.
To paraphrase a wise man, myself, who paraphrased a wise man, Steve Jobs, Why is it that the people who keep posting repeats at Slashdot just don't get it?
To paraphrase a wise man, Steve Jobs, Why is it that the people who run the magazine companies just don't get it?