At the time I read this, three people had replied. All of them were childish remarks. Instead, people should be pointing out that Linux actually promotes the American Way, by making it easier for people to learn computing on their on, based on merit rather than existing wealth, which is the entire Republican "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" mentality.
Pointing this out, preferably in a more public place than this forum, would do far more good for the cause. And as a disclaimer, I run Windows, and just signed up to beta Windows XP, simply because Linux has never worked properly for me, even when installed by hardcore users. However, I believe choice should exist, and Open Source should not be stopped, I merely choose not to make use of it right now.
The issue is that Rambus claims to have patents on SDRAM and DDRRAM in addition to RDRAM. Simply because you don't want to use RDRAM on yoru next machine doesn't mean that if Rambus wins your memory prices won't increase anyway. Which would suck.
A 2d graphics card that a LOT of people happen to have and lets them use pretty much all of Be. If you decide not to call that a driver you're just being an asshole.
Now that's entertaining. I make a legitimate, factual argument, he makes a blatant attempt to get a rise out of me, I point this out, and I get modded down. Ah well, I was at the cap anyway,, it was probably one of his many accounts, do your worst.
I said you pulled this account out because there was a sea of sequential UIDs and as soon as someone commented that you commented with this account that this account didn't have a sequential UID and it defended them. This is the ONLY non-sequential UID in the bunch.
As for being a reader "for a long time," YOUR UID is in the 230000's. I've been reading from shortly before Columbine, that was two years ago. My guess from your ID# is that you've been reading for maybe a year. You're trolling.
Thank you for agreeing with me. I actually didn't notice the numbers until it was brought up after the first four, then there was this flood of them. I was disgusted. I'm glad to see I'm not just delusional.
That was my point, I was being sarcastic, hence the "I don't believe it" at the end. There's no way the situation i described would occur, but it's the only alternative to one person, that was my entire point.
That doesn't even deserve a real reply, you have all the facts against you so you try to use emotion against me. You're one of the sequentials, you're irrelevant.
An "unnamed correspondent" gets a story posted on/. about Linuxgruven, a known method of attracting the attention of a lot of techies. The story has an air of incredulity, then is responded to by dozens of obviously generated accounts, giving the appearance that half of/. is behind this. One account, and ONLY one, is out of order, probably the poster's original account. This person is probably hoping that no one would notice that, we'd all think this was a great company and go sign up, thereby making him lots of money. I hope all these accounts get Bitchslapped.
Right, you're the one of these posters without a sequential ID#, and they continue after you, in perfect succession, like an old-timer (sorta) is part of this apparent scam, and generated all these accounts to back it up, then when you got challenged you pulled this one out to give yourself some semblence of legitimacy and then went right back to your old tricks. This account is way too defensive of the others to not be related.
So a bunch of your nice big happy Linuxgruven family sat down, read this article synchronized, created user accounts, and held a conference call to assure that all posts hit one minute apart? Now that sounds like an awful lot of effort. I don't believe it.
Oh, it's definitely one person, grammar and writing styles are nearly identical, capitalization is the same, they're nearly sequential UIDs with perfectly successive post numbers. The odds of those four people creating accounts in that order and then all having good experiences with Linuxgruven and posting about them like that are about as good as a troll pouring hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants.
Celery 400 and GeForce 1? What the fuck are you talking about? P3-733 and nV25, which hasn't even been named yet. It's highly unlikely this is true, yes, but atm you sound like an asshole who doesn't know what he's talking about.
True, Win2k for me is a not too bad second choice from BeOS, but with much better support. However, keeping everything on the desktop is still a bad practice, if you must it would be better to leave My Documents maximized, you get ALL the space to put your stuff in, and can even put shortcuts to your drives if you want.
I never said I had a problem with a few desktop shortcuts, but the actual files shouldn't be kept there long-term. Also, we have this nifty thing called "Recent Documents."
As for sitting in my ivory tower of computer science at RPI, should mechanics sit in their ivory towers and tell us how we "should" shift so as not to trash our transmissions?
Though I must agree with the response below about how Win2k handles it much better, and in fact is just far greater in general. In fact, I'm using it to type this...
The computer should work for me and not the other way around.
That doesn't mean it should have to wipe your ass for you. The desktop was designed to be a place to begin access to the filesystem and maybe hold shortcuts to frequently used apps. It is incredibly sloppy to use it to store your personal files. Computers should work for you, but you have to use them as they were intended, just as you can't expect a manual transmission to shift for you just because it should "work for you."
Or there is a common cause. You're falling prey to the assumption that if there's a correllation, there has to be a cause/effect relationship between the two, which is the SECOND hting you learn in a stats class.
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Wouldn't an army of cheerleaders to do your bidding be a far more worthy investment?
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Pointing this out, preferably in a more public place than this forum, would do far more good for the cause. And as a disclaimer, I run Windows, and just signed up to beta Windows XP, simply because Linux has never worked properly for me, even when installed by hardcore users. However, I believe choice should exist, and Open Source should not be stopped, I merely choose not to make use of it right now.
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As for being a reader "for a long time," YOUR UID is in the 230000's. I've been reading from shortly before Columbine, that was two years ago. My guess from your ID# is that you've been reading for maybe a year. You're trolling.
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As for sitting in my ivory tower of computer science at RPI, should mechanics sit in their ivory towers and tell us how we "should" shift so as not to trash our transmissions?
Though I must agree with the response below about how Win2k handles it much better, and in fact is just far greater in general. In fact, I'm using it to type this...
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That doesn't mean it should have to wipe your ass for you. The desktop was designed to be a place to begin access to the filesystem and maybe hold shortcuts to frequently used apps. It is incredibly sloppy to use it to store your personal files. Computers should work for you, but you have to use them as they were intended, just as you can't expect a manual transmission to shift for you just because it should "work for you."
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