I'd like to give these big names some benefit of the doubt, but I'm having an extremely hard time doing so...
Hardware is a physical tangible item, produced by people and machines, the product of (usually) years of development and testing... Each item has a cost and uses up materials.
Software is just data, still the product of people, using machines, but theres no per-item production costs for digital distribution, and for normal distribution it's no different than audio cd's/dvd's, one unique master set of data gets duplicated...
Traditionally software was bundled with hardware, and I can't think of a realistic application that could succeed as a software package with bundled hardware.
They can't mean that hardware will be no-strings-attached free, handed out on street corners, no value what-so-ever...
Hardware cost is meaningless to me. I rationalize this by saying "I drive my car 40 minutes a day on average, and I use a computer 10 hours a day on average. My car costs 26k, the computer 3k." I could build an insanely godlike system for less than 3k, well worth it if you ask me.... I can install it using entirely free software, linux, openoffice, firefox, etc.
There're a thousand good distros out there, but there's really no competition - Xandros is the best newbie distro out there. You don't need command line. It's got most stuff bundled.
Sounds like someone hasn't tried Fedora. If theres one problem in the linux community, it's people who try 1 or 2 distros, and blindly carry the flag as if it's the only one that does the job. Fedora is simply the best, and I've tried nearly every distro over the past 6 years.
If you think it's too difficult, you're just a little slow... read the book, learn the controls, and then play the game as intended. If the quality assurance team could beat the game before release, you can do it now.
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He just ghosted two guys and they didn't even see him coming.
/fp/
We should go, what do you think?
I think you're my new gunner, grab a Gat.
oh.... theres a game?
What good is the on-duty editor if an article can't get shut down during the subscriber only time period?
I'm sure more than just I emailed "OMG!!!! HEADPHONES!!!!"....
Ask Slashmoron.
I'd like to give these big names some benefit of the doubt, but I'm having an extremely hard time doing so...
Hardware is a physical tangible item, produced by people and machines, the product of (usually) years of development and testing... Each item has a cost and uses up materials.
Software is just data, still the product of people, using machines, but theres no per-item production costs for digital distribution, and for normal distribution it's no different than audio cd's/dvd's, one unique master set of data gets duplicated...
Traditionally software was bundled with hardware, and I can't think of a realistic application that could succeed as a software package with bundled hardware.
They can't mean that hardware will be no-strings-attached free, handed out on street corners, no value what-so-ever...
Hardware cost is meaningless to me. I rationalize this by saying "I drive my car 40 minutes a day on average, and I use a computer 10 hours a day on average. My car costs 26k, the computer 3k." I could build an insanely godlike system for less than 3k, well worth it if you ask me.... I can install it using entirely free software, linux, openoffice, firefox, etc.
What in the hell are these people talking about?!
technology wise it's very cool, and a great thing to be released... knowledge is all that will come from it tho.
Is it because you wish to learn all the deep internals of Unix systems? Try Gentoo
I hope that's fucking sarcasm.... I took a crap and it was Gentoo.
There're a thousand good distros out there, but there's really no competition - Xandros is the best newbie distro out there. You don't need command line. It's got most stuff bundled.
Sounds like someone hasn't tried Fedora. If theres one problem in the linux community, it's people who try 1 or 2 distros, and blindly carry the flag as if it's the only one that does the job. Fedora is simply the best, and I've tried nearly every distro over the past 6 years.
could this get any more redundant? Fedora is the best in my opinion.
If you think it's too difficult, you're just a little slow... read the book, learn the controls, and then play the game as intended. If the quality assurance team could beat the game before release, you can do it now.