Here's something interesting:
After reading a lot of viewpoints (where I thought Thinkpads ALWAYS sucked - now there's just a "legitimate" excuse) - I went to Lenovo's site to examine the TPs again.
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/
If you keep your mouse over the T60 balloon (New ThinkPad T60 Notebooks) - the image on the right still has the IBM logo on the bottom right? This is true as of 4/17 9am EST.
You're absolutely right. I write this on my first laptop - a Gateway M210. I've had some minor issues with it - and Gateway has been amazingly helpful. They even have this "online chat" feature - so you don't have stick to the phone - and turnaround time is usually a minute or two. They are very nice, fairly intelligible and fix things pretty quickly.
One time I had send my laptop for a charging port issue - I got it back within 2 days all fixed up.
This compared to my last computer - Dell....my 5 O'Clock shadow came back by the time I even got a courtesy 'hello' on their call.
I really hope Gateway survives...their products are VERY competitive with great specs at near-jaw-dropping low prices. I picked up a Centrino 1.6, 14.1" widescreen, 60GB and DVD+/-RW for under $1200. It even has this screen technology (whose name I forget) that makes images look very TV-esqe; countless people who walk by my laptop stop and ask me where I got it from because they love the screen. I even convinced a couple of other friends to buy a Gateway as well.
Ooh Ooh, my postman also changed to Firefox!! Can I get a post on/. as well?
Seriously, can we get over this firefox-mania? It's a *nice* browser, with pros AND CONS compared to IE (I don't need to list the pros, everyone knows them. my biggest problem is how bloated it is - at times it's running at over 400mb in memory).
The/. herd mentality has got to go.
(Watch me get 'flame-bait', -1, 0, 'off-topic' mods for this)
You're absolutely right. A few years ago (I think it was circa-2000), Pakistan "released" a study showing the impact of a nuclear attack on New Delhi or Mumbai and the areas it would affect. It was a chilling report, that was also covered by the Indian-equivalent of Time magazine, India Today. It showed how a few hundred million people would be either dead or permanently maimed and how many square kilometres (sorry, but *normal* people use the metric system) would be affected and for how many years people and land would continue to suffer.
In return, Indian military officials "released" their own study that was summarized as:
If India detonated one nuclear bomb, *anywhere* in Pakistan, it would erase the entire population of the country. *ENTIRE POPULATION*
After that, Pakistan essentially shut up about their nuclear 'prowess'.
How can the EU "demand" that the code be opened up? The windows code is essentially MS' bread-butter. If they released the code, *anyone* (ok, not EVERYone, but you get the idea) can start writing Joe Windows or Larry Windows.
I just wonder that EU went too far with this 'demand'. I can see Bill and Steve sitting in their office laughing - "They want our code? Sure! Would you like fries with that?"
Could MS actually pull Windows from all EU countries? Then they wouldn't be subject to the fine, right? That would be fun! CatFight!!
...IT employees/nerds/geeks/techies are more interested in *other* things with the money they earn/save - I see it all the time at my company.
My fellow employees have no qualms dropping $2000+ on a Apple iMac G5 super-duper aluminium/titanium/platinum/uranium coated computer that-can-do-rocket-science-but-instead-will-just-b e-a-boasting-point-with-my-friends........but they can't be bothered to invest a hundred bucks in a decent jacket.
I'm not going to comment on whether it's necessary/unnecessary to dress nicely/well/expensive at work - *to each his own* *if the boss doesn't care, then oh well*
But hey - it works out for me:) I'm the best dressed IT employee!
Correct if I'm wrong (and I very well might be), wasn't Pearl Harbour a military base?
And further correct me (but I don't think I am), weren't Hiroshima and Nagasaki COMPLETELY civilian cities?
remember - an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Yes, Japan attacked first, and USA should have fought back - but with atom bombs? How can the States call themselves 'civilized' with an attack like that?
I'm not a hippie/troll/peace junkie trying to say USA-sucks! , but if we want to argue about who is BETTER and more CIVILIZED, then....really, neither is.
I guess my point of mentioning the nuclear (or in Bush-speak, nucular) tests was to merely exlempify his knowledge and intelligence.
As far the validity or fairness of nuclear tests, everyone can argue no end. I don't think I ever heard the USA apologize to Japan for the nuclear *attacks* on Hiroshima/Nagasaki. All India did was *testing*.
And yes, there HAS to be a nuclear arms race - if for no other reason than just to show who has the bigger fence around one's house. And with foreign militants being ruthless and not to mention, being backed (almost) openly by governments, India had to do *something* to sorta say "Back off!".
I'm not interested in claiming India's right or to accuse any other country of misdeeds, just want to let out a, IMHO, valid point in the logic behind the tests.
Hello fellow indian! I was hoping someone would defend APJ Abdul Kalam and this guy is right (maybe a little too much information)....
Abdul Kalam was the architect of India's nuclear tests (which caused much boo-hoo by the US) and is widely considered as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful men in the country.
I believe he was merely pointing out how it could be possible rather than spreading FUD. If George Bush were in the same room as him, I think Bush might just self-combust.
I think it's spurious to blatantly claim that he got his money 'illegally'.
- He created a product that was sold to over 100mil+ computers (Windows 9x/2000/XP). ANYTHING that sells that much cannot be that bad.
- Call it a monopoly, call it what you may, Microsoft has EARNED what it has made. It has done so with SHREWD business practices (yes, start shouting)...and honestly, you would have done the same. B.G. is a smart businessman, which is what gives him an edge over Steve 'turtleneck' Jobs and the rest of the clan.
About fixing others' computers - I feel your pain - I deal with all the time too. But your answer is in your statement - they are *non-technical*.
The analogy I always make is with cars - if you give a 4 year old a car, he/she IS going to wreck it or worse. We expect a certain maturity to be able to operate vehicles - the same should apply to computers. It is what has happened with computers now. Every shmuck is allowed to use a computer and essentially allowed to fuck it up for everyone else.
When an old lady who can barely lift a full cup without spilling half of it is driving down I-495 in the left lane in her Ford Taurus at 50mph, it pisses me off so much, I wish I had a Mack truck to run her over. But the blame lies with the user/driver, and not with the software maker/car maker.
Microsoft makes software like Ford or Honda - for the lowest common denominator - anyone with 2 hands and 2 feet, whereas *nix and Macs are made like Mercedes or Porsches - for people who KNOW how to use one.
Teach your non-technical friends to exercise good computing practices. That's what I do.
As far as monopolies go, I don't see anyone bitching about Apple. They have created a monopoly with iPod+iTunes - where I can download songs, but can't take it anywhere with me unless I have an iPod? I don't see anyone complaining about their monopolistic (??) business practices?
I read the headline - and I let out an audible groan. Because here comes the brickbats. Here's a man, who donates more money than humanly imaginable (I believe the current number is $10bil++) and is actually concerned about the state of rot this country's technology human base is in and all he's going to get from the "intelligent" and "discerning"/. readers is flame about how he's probably got some sinister motive behind it.
C'mon. I really respect Bill Gates - because the guy created a company that has $500bil in assets (like it or not, you HAVE TO respect that number - and he did it from scratch.)...and because the guy generously donates to the causes of poverty, cancer research etc...and never once toots his horn about it.
That's so much more than any of us have or probably will do in the future.
Swallow your mac/*nix pride for once, and grudgingly accept this man's importance.
...he admits he's 'rant'ing...but it's more than that.
He talks about how MSN messenger is bloated et al just because of the new features it has....well, the simple solution is - DONT USE THEM!
MSN messenger is one of the better IMs out there and Microsoft is not REQUIRED to produce a version for any other OS. So him claiming that it provides a stronghold for Windows is kinda silly.
Yes - GAIM and Kopete do suck. Gaim looks like a cheap knockoff of AIM, and even that it doesn't do very well. I like Kopete, but it is no less cumbersome to use than any other messenger.
All in all, I think/. needs to STOP publishing articles that start with "I hate Microsoft".
I live in NYC and have a t-mobile cell phone connection, but I'm originally from India where the business model is very different from the US. Same with Europe (mainland at least from what I know).
There are no contracts. Mostly there is GSM service (and some CDMA)...the competition is never on service - virtually anywhere you go in the country, you have full service - I don't think Indians have (in the last 4 years or so) ever experienced a 'dead zone'. What you really pay for is the quality of the service and the cost. You CAN buy cellphones from the service provider but only the morons do that. Most phones are sold by retail outlets at *reasonable* prices (def not $400-500 for a monochrome model, like here) and you are charged by the minute rather than 'X minutes for $Y' plans. So the customer's choice is really value-added services provided, like GPRS, wireless internet access, special plans for special needs (for eg, if you send a lot of SMS, then you can pay a certain premium so that your per-sms cost goes down significantly, or if you travel abroad a lot, a particular service provider may have more tie-ins for intl roaming). There are no contracts at all - if you realise you don't like a service provider anymore, you can drop them tomorrow and sign up with another.
Personally, I prefer the X-min-for-$Y style plans, but I see the Indian/European business models as being more customer friendly. I'm currently searching for a new apartment, and my first concern is always "Will I have reception?" - something that is never of any concern in India.
The service providers must work towards changing the customer's mentality to get out these rebate+locked cell phones - it just gives the provider too much control over a device that is rightfully yours (like they can lock out some features). Users must be encouraged to get their own cellphones; it not only promotes independance for the consumer, but also technological knowledge of knowing what cellphone to get, what features you need etc (something a 10 year old kid as well as a 80 year old grandfather knows simply by virtue of being forced into buying their own phones).
It's obviously too much to ask for from service providers - they would like to keep max control over their customer base...but that's just stupid. It's prob one of the biggest reasons why the cell phone industry in the US is prob one of the most backward. And it's clearly not going anywhere anytime soon.
I have a Motorola A768i (which I procured separately) because I hate being tied down to T-mobile with their craptacular phones.
Now, please excuse me while I run outside and wave my hands in various directions like a madman hoping that some combination will cause my cellphone to find reception.
Yes!! finally a first post....I want to thank jesus, no wait...im not christian....
and my parents for teaching me english so I could read slashdot..
Honestly though, great news for BT. It's a great file distribution system (legal and otherwise).
The fact that all the people who label gamers and computer 'geeks' in general as 'geeks, nerds, losers, freaks'.......are the same people who could never survive without what the 'geeks' have contributed to the modern world.
think email, instant messaging, blah blah......how else would the jocks have cyber sex with their 'girlfriends'??...
If anything, shouldn't the gamers and nerds and geeks be WORSHIPPED ??!
I read the frontpage summary of this article prob 4-5 times, just trying to see WHERE it said that laptops are not allowed?
I'm no genius and I would assume that the people who approve of publishing stories are smarter than I am - but why are such trivial and redundant articles being published on/.???
Sorta get the feeling that/. is heading the kuro5hin way.....
When I saw the post, as always, I made a small bet with myself about how many posts would go by before some jackass raises the "let's somehow blame this on M$" flag.
After seeing the article, I thought to myself - there is no way this could be linked to m$, could it? So maybe at least 100 comments before the name shows up..
But wow - first post. un-fucking-believable. you sir, are a true moron.
i can't be bothered to check if this has been posted before since I'm too busy slacking off from fixing my office machines from the Zotob worm....
This theory sounds bogus to me. If this were true, wouldn't the playboy pictorial dissapear at the peak of the masturbation process? In which case, you wouldn't be able to "complete" - and spin into this infinite loop, of reaching climax point, but never achieving it because you went "temporarily blind" - and then trying all over again.
Who is this "we" that everyone keeps talking about?
What did "we" do, and what did "we" get in the whole firefox process?
These firefox-linux-i-hate-m$ nuts talk like every single one of them helped create firefox!
on my country's independance day, i use a phrase to make a point: "Just because you wear khadi - that doesn't make you an Indian"
"Just because you use firefox, doesn't make you any smarter than me"
Let's put the whole Firefox thing in perspective. A solid, alternative browser, with some great ideas (user-created plugins) - but they've also had the advantage to study IEs shortcomings over the years. Let's look forward to a good browser competition (not a fucking "war") where, hopefully, the winner is the end-user.
As begrudgingly as I accept the 'Microsoft way' of taking over the computer way (mostly because I was a little kid when all this happened and I cannot make an argument out of something that I have no basis for)....
I just always feel that M$ is EXCESSIVELY demonized and that/.ers really need to step back for a second and stop blaming them for everything that goes wrong in this world. I (and you) would not be surprised if there was a story on the rising price of gas/oil, and there'd be enough comments somehow idiotically linking M$ to that too - and then get major points from the mods...(you know it COULD happen)...
and that, to me, is just sad. Maybe M$ is the corporate-giant-soul-sucking-behemoth, but I believe they've done a lot of good - though that's a story for another time.
Microsoft wouldn't have a bad reputation if they didn't do something(s) to earn it
Well, by the same logic, Microsoft wouldn't be worth $500 billion if they didn't do a LOT of things right. Correct? I refuse to believe that any company can make THAT much money based solely on lies and fraud.
Because of those low prices that Microsoft have become the norm, every schmuck with $300 get a computer, get it infected with all sorts of trash and generally fuck things up for the rest of us.
Who died and made you king? What gives you (or any person) the right to decide who gets to have a computer or not?
Everyday, 80 year old people drive cars, and bang into other cars and just as well "fuck up things for the rest of us" - so should we start blaming Honda and Toyota for making cars affordable?
No, it's called taking accountability for one's own action - not blaming the medium.
(Another analogy - any schmuck with a mortgage can buy a house and leave it unlocked - hence, inviting robbers and thieves to steal - and then fuck up things for everyone else by inciting more robberies in the neighborhood)
They can go to hell and they can die
So much anger - for a computer company? WOW.
Shouldn't such anger and hate be better directed towards real issues in this world? Just becuase M$ is an easy target, everyone vents at them, and then checks off "good deed for the day" in their cub scout handbook.
It's kinda sad where your priorities lie, my friend.
i think/. is slowly becoming less of 'stuff that matters' and more of a popularity contestant.
'i know! let's publish articles that bash microsoft and make apple look like a victim/saint...it can't fail!'
'yes! by jove, you got it!'
EVERYONE who isn't busy following paris hilton is busy getting patents for anything they can. I remember, as a college senior, doing my senior design project, one week we were made to look thru the US Patent Office website and find possible 'patent infringements' for our design (just as an exercise in real world product cycle development) - and we prob found about a hundred patents that "loosely" resemble every known product from a Tivo to a toaster....
every article now seems to be completely anti-microsoft and pro-apple. and if it has nothing to do with them, then the comments will always bring M$ into the fray.
Really, can you HONESTLY say that/. and the internet and the computer me and you and everyone else is able to afford now was NOT a direct or indirect result of Microsoft and its products?
(I already know I'm going to be considered a troll or given a 1 rating, but it needs to be said)
She was making out with her billionaire boyfriend!!
Would you be worrying about a seatbelt if you were in the backseat of a Benz feeling up your new girlfriend who happens to be ex-royalty?
Slashdot Mirror
Here's something interesting: After reading a lot of viewpoints (where I thought Thinkpads ALWAYS sucked - now there's just a "legitimate" excuse) - I went to Lenovo's site to examine the TPs again. http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/ If you keep your mouse over the T60 balloon (New ThinkPad T60 Notebooks) - the image on the right still has the IBM logo on the bottom right? This is true as of 4/17 9am EST.
You're absolutely right. I write this on my first laptop - a Gateway M210. I've had some minor issues with it - and Gateway has been amazingly helpful. They even have this "online chat" feature - so you don't have stick to the phone - and turnaround time is usually a minute or two. They are very nice, fairly intelligible and fix things pretty quickly. One time I had send my laptop for a charging port issue - I got it back within 2 days all fixed up. This compared to my last computer - Dell....my 5 O'Clock shadow came back by the time I even got a courtesy 'hello' on their call. I really hope Gateway survives...their products are VERY competitive with great specs at near-jaw-dropping low prices. I picked up a Centrino 1.6, 14.1" widescreen, 60GB and DVD+/-RW for under $1200. It even has this screen technology (whose name I forget) that makes images look very TV-esqe; countless people who walk by my laptop stop and ask me where I got it from because they love the screen. I even convinced a couple of other friends to buy a Gateway as well.
Ooh Ooh, my postman also changed to Firefox!! /. as well?
/. herd mentality has got to go.
Can I get a post on
Seriously, can we get over this firefox-mania? It's a *nice* browser, with pros AND CONS compared to IE (I don't need to list the pros, everyone knows them. my biggest problem is how bloated it is - at times it's running at over 400mb in memory).
The
(Watch me get 'flame-bait', -1, 0, 'off-topic' mods for this)
You're absolutely right. A few years ago (I think it was circa-2000), Pakistan "released" a study showing the impact of a nuclear attack on New Delhi or Mumbai and the areas it would affect. It was a chilling report, that was also covered by the Indian-equivalent of Time magazine, India Today. It showed how a few hundred million people would be either dead or permanently maimed and how many square kilometres (sorry, but *normal* people use the metric system) would be affected and for how many years people and land would continue to suffer.
In return, Indian military officials "released" their own study that was summarized as:
If India detonated one nuclear bomb, *anywhere* in Pakistan, it would erase the entire population of the country. *ENTIRE POPULATION*
After that, Pakistan essentially shut up about their nuclear 'prowess'.
How can the EU "demand" that the code be opened up? The windows code is essentially MS' bread-butter. If they released the code, *anyone* (ok, not EVERYone, but you get the idea) can start writing Joe Windows or Larry Windows.
I just wonder that EU went too far with this 'demand'. I can see Bill and Steve sitting in their office laughing - "They want our code? Sure! Would you like fries with that?"
Could MS actually pull Windows from all EU countries? Then they wouldn't be subject to the fine, right? That would be fun! CatFight!!
...IT employees/nerds/geeks/techies are more interested in *other* things with the money they earn/save - I see it all the time at my company.
b e-a-boasting-point-with-my-friends ..... ...but they can't be bothered to invest a hundred bucks in a decent jacket.
:) I'm the best dressed IT employee!
My fellow employees have no qualms dropping $2000+ on a Apple iMac G5 super-duper aluminium/titanium/platinum/uranium coated computer that-can-do-rocket-science-but-instead-will-just-
I'm not going to comment on whether it's necessary/unnecessary to dress nicely/well/expensive at work - *to each his own* *if the boss doesn't care, then oh well*
But hey - it works out for me
So you admit USA "raped" Japan?
....really, neither is.
Correct if I'm wrong (and I very well might be), wasn't Pearl Harbour a military base?
And further correct me (but I don't think I am), weren't Hiroshima and Nagasaki COMPLETELY civilian cities?
remember - an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Yes, Japan attacked first, and USA should have fought back - but with atom bombs? How can the States call themselves 'civilized' with an attack like that?
I'm not a hippie/troll/peace junkie trying to say USA-sucks! , but if we want to argue about who is BETTER and more CIVILIZED, then
I guess my point of mentioning the nuclear (or in Bush-speak, nucular) tests was to merely exlempify his knowledge and intelligence.
As far the validity or fairness of nuclear tests, everyone can argue no end. I don't think I ever heard the USA apologize to Japan for the nuclear *attacks* on Hiroshima/Nagasaki. All India did was *testing*.
And yes, there HAS to be a nuclear arms race - if for no other reason than just to show who has the bigger fence around one's house. And with foreign militants being ruthless and not to mention, being backed (almost) openly by governments, India had to do *something* to sorta say "Back off!".
I'm not interested in claiming India's right or to accuse any other country of misdeeds, just want to let out a, IMHO, valid point in the logic behind the tests.
Hello fellow indian! I was hoping someone would defend APJ Abdul Kalam and this guy is right (maybe a little too much information) ....
Abdul Kalam was the architect of India's nuclear tests (which caused much boo-hoo by the US) and is widely considered as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful men in the country.
I believe he was merely pointing out how it could be possible rather than spreading FUD. If George Bush were in the same room as him, I think Bush might just self-combust.
I think it's spurious to blatantly claim that he got his money 'illegally'.
- He created a product that was sold to over 100mil+ computers (Windows 9x/2000/XP). ANYTHING that sells that much cannot be that bad.
- Call it a monopoly, call it what you may, Microsoft has EARNED what it has made. It has done so with SHREWD business practices (yes, start shouting)...and honestly, you would have done the same. B.G. is a smart businessman, which is what gives him an edge over Steve 'turtleneck' Jobs and the rest of the clan.
About fixing others' computers - I feel your pain - I deal with all the time too. But your answer is in your statement - they are *non-technical*.
The analogy I always make is with cars - if you give a 4 year old a car, he/she IS going to wreck it or worse. We expect a certain maturity to be able to operate vehicles - the same should apply to computers. It is what has happened with computers now. Every shmuck is allowed to use a computer and essentially
allowed to fuck it up for everyone else.
When an old lady who can barely lift a full cup without spilling half of it is driving down I-495 in the left lane in her Ford Taurus at 50mph, it pisses me off so much, I wish I had a Mack truck to run her over. But the blame lies with the user/driver, and not with the software maker/car maker.
Microsoft makes software like Ford or Honda - for the lowest common denominator - anyone with 2 hands and 2 feet, whereas *nix and Macs are made like Mercedes or Porsches - for people who KNOW how to use one.
Teach your non-technical friends to exercise good computing practices. That's what I do.
As far as monopolies go, I don't see anyone bitching about Apple. They have created a monopoly with iPod+iTunes - where I can download songs, but can't take it anywhere with me unless I have an iPod? I don't see anyone complaining about their monopolistic (??) business practices?
Think about that.
I read the headline - and I let out an audible groan. Because here comes the brickbats. Here's a man, who donates more money than humanly imaginable (I believe the current number is $10bil++) and is actually concerned about the state of rot this country's technology human base is in and all he's going to get from the "intelligent" and "discerning" /. readers is flame about how he's probably got some sinister motive behind it.
...and never once toots his horn about it.
C'mon. I really respect Bill Gates - because the guy created a company that has $500bil in assets (like it or not, you HAVE TO respect that number - and he did it from scratch.)...and because the guy generously donates to the causes of poverty, cancer research etc
That's so much more than any of us have or probably will do in the future.
Swallow your mac/*nix pride for once, and grudgingly accept this man's importance.
...he admits he's 'rant'ing...but it's more than that.
....well, the simple solution is - DONT USE THEM!
/. needs to STOP publishing articles that start with "I hate Microsoft".
He talks about how MSN messenger is bloated et al just because of the new features it has
MSN messenger is one of the better IMs out there and Microsoft is not REQUIRED to produce a version for any other OS. So him claiming that it provides a stronghold for Windows is kinda silly.
Yes - GAIM and Kopete do suck. Gaim looks like a cheap knockoff of AIM, and even that it doesn't do very well. I like Kopete, but it is no less cumbersome to use than any other messenger.
All in all, I think
I live in NYC and have a t-mobile cell phone connection, but I'm originally from India where the business model is very different from the US. Same with Europe (mainland at least from what I know).
...the competition is never on service - virtually anywhere you go in the country, you have full service - I don't think Indians have (in the last 4 years or so) ever experienced a 'dead zone'.
There are no contracts. Mostly there is GSM service (and some CDMA)
What you really pay for is the quality of the service and the cost. You CAN buy cellphones from the service provider but only the morons do that. Most phones are sold by retail outlets at *reasonable* prices (def not $400-500 for a monochrome model, like here) and you are charged by the minute rather than 'X minutes for $Y' plans. So the customer's choice is really value-added services provided, like GPRS, wireless internet access, special plans for special needs (for eg, if you send a lot of SMS, then you can pay a certain premium so that your per-sms cost goes down significantly, or if you travel abroad a lot, a particular service provider may have more tie-ins for intl roaming). There are no contracts at all - if you realise you don't like a service provider anymore, you can drop them tomorrow and sign up with another.
Personally, I prefer the X-min-for-$Y style plans, but I see the Indian/European business models as being more customer friendly. I'm currently searching for a new apartment, and my first concern is always "Will I have reception?" - something that is never of any concern in India.
The service providers must work towards changing the customer's mentality to get out these rebate+locked cell phones - it just gives the provider too much control over a device that is rightfully yours (like they can lock out some features). Users must be encouraged to get their own cellphones; it not only promotes independance for the consumer, but also technological knowledge of knowing what cellphone to get, what features you need etc (something a 10 year old kid as well as a 80 year old grandfather knows simply by virtue of being forced into buying their own phones).
It's obviously too much to ask for from service providers - they would like to keep max control over their customer base...but that's just stupid. It's prob one of the biggest reasons why the cell phone industry in the US is prob one of the most backward. And it's clearly not going anywhere anytime soon.
I have a Motorola A768i (which I procured separately) because I hate being tied down to T-mobile with their craptacular phones.
Now, please excuse me while I run outside and wave my hands in various directions like a madman hoping that some combination will cause my cellphone to find reception.
yeah yeah, you're right. us "evolutionary" non-christians don't get to post first.
Only 'intelligentally' designed christians get first post.
Yes!! finally a first post....I want to thank jesus, no wait...im not christian.... and my parents for teaching me english so I could read slashdot.. Honestly though, great news for BT. It's a great file distribution system (legal and otherwise).
It's true, and it's a sad truth.
.... ...are the same people who could never survive without what the 'geeks' have contributed to the modern world.
... ...how else would the jocks have cyber sex with their 'girlfriends'??...
The fact that all the people who label gamers and computer 'geeks' in general as 'geeks, nerds, losers, freaks'
think email, instant messaging, blah blah
If anything, shouldn't the gamers and nerds and geeks be WORSHIPPED ??!
(i know this is offtopic, but it had to be said"
I read the frontpage summary of this article prob 4-5 times, just trying to see WHERE it said that laptops are not allowed?
/.???
/. is heading the kuro5hin way.....
I'm no genius and I would assume that the people who approve of publishing stories are smarter than I am - but why are such trivial and redundant articles being published on
Sorta get the feeling that
When I saw the post, as always, I made a small bet with myself about how many posts would go by before some jackass raises the "let's somehow blame this on M$" flag.
After seeing the article, I thought to myself - there is no way this could be linked to m$, could it? So maybe at least 100 comments before the name shows up..
But wow - first post. un-fucking-believable. you sir, are a true moron.
i can't be bothered to check if this has been posted before since I'm too busy slacking off from fixing my office machines from the Zotob worm....
This theory sounds bogus to me. If this were true, wouldn't the playboy pictorial dissapear at the peak of the masturbation process? In which case, you wouldn't be able to "complete" - and spin into this infinite loop, of reaching climax point, but never achieving it because you went "temporarily blind" - and then trying all over again.
Just a thought.
Who is this "we" that everyone keeps talking about?
What did "we" do, and what did "we" get in the whole firefox process?
These firefox-linux-i-hate-m$ nuts talk like every single one of them helped create firefox!
on my country's independance day, i use a phrase to make a point:
"Just because you wear khadi - that doesn't make you an Indian"
"Just because you use firefox, doesn't make you any smarter than me"
Let's put the whole Firefox thing in perspective. A solid, alternative browser, with some great ideas (user-created plugins) - but they've also had the advantage to study IEs shortcomings over the years. Let's look forward to a good browser competition (not a fucking "war") where, hopefully, the winner is the end-user.
Amen to that brother.
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/.ers really need to step back for a second and stop blaming them for everything that goes wrong in this world. I (and you) would not be surprised if there was a story on the rising price of gas/oil, and there'd be enough comments somehow idiotically linking M$ to that too - and then get major points from the mods...(you know it COULD happen)...
As begrudgingly as I accept the 'Microsoft way' of taking over the computer way (mostly because I was a little kid when all this happened and I cannot make an argument out of something that I have no basis for)
I just always feel that M$ is EXCESSIVELY demonized and that
and that, to me, is just sad. Maybe M$ is the corporate-giant-soul-sucking-behemoth, but I believe they've done a lot of good - though that's a story for another time.
Microsoft wouldn't have a bad reputation if they didn't do something(s) to earn it
Well, by the same logic, Microsoft wouldn't be worth $500 billion if they didn't do a LOT of things right. Correct? I refuse to believe that any company can make THAT much money based solely on lies and fraud.
Because of those low prices that Microsoft have become the norm, every schmuck with $300 get a computer, get it infected with all sorts of trash and generally fuck things up for the rest of us.
Who died and made you king? What gives you (or any person) the right to decide who gets to have a computer or not?
Everyday, 80 year old people drive cars, and bang into other cars and just as well "fuck up things for the rest of us" - so should we start blaming Honda and Toyota for making cars affordable?
No, it's called taking accountability for one's own action - not blaming the medium.
(Another analogy - any schmuck with a mortgage can buy a house and leave it unlocked - hence, inviting robbers and thieves to steal - and then fuck up things for everyone else by inciting more robberies in the neighborhood)
They can go to hell and they can die
So much anger - for a computer company? WOW.
Shouldn't such anger and hate be better directed towards real issues in this world? Just becuase M$ is an easy target, everyone vents at them, and then checks off "good deed for the day" in their cub scout handbook.
It's kinda sad where your priorities lie, my friend.
i think /. is slowly becoming less of 'stuff that matters' and more of a popularity contestant.
'i know! let's publish articles that bash microsoft and make apple look like a victim/saint...it can't fail!'
'yes! by jove, you got it!'
EVERYONE who isn't busy following paris hilton is busy getting patents for anything they can. I remember, as a college senior, doing my senior design project, one week we were made to look thru the US Patent Office website and find possible 'patent infringements' for our design (just as an exercise in real world product cycle development) - and we prob found about a hundred patents that "loosely" resemble every known product from a Tivo to a toaster....
every article now seems to be completely anti-microsoft and pro-apple. and if it has nothing to do with them, then the comments will always bring M$ into the fray.
Really, can you HONESTLY say that /. and the internet and the computer me and you and everyone else is able to afford now was NOT a direct or indirect result of Microsoft and its products?
(I already know I'm going to be considered a troll or given a 1 rating, but it needs to be said)
She was making out with her billionaire boyfriend!! Would you be worrying about a seatbelt if you were in the backseat of a Benz feeling up your new girlfriend who happens to be ex-royalty?
I think even the suggestion of introducing MS into this story - for no good reason, IMHO - is pretty crass.