Ehm, what would you suggest then Mr. Smart Guy? The way I see it we (the world) have two options.
1. Using science, try to figure out an efficient nuclear fusion method before the worlds limited petrochemical supplies run out.
2. Do nothing and just wait for the the worlds limited petrochemical supplies to run out.
I'm all for the former. The problem with a load of these "insightful" comments on slashdot is that its just like opposition politics sho go around shouting things like "You guys are useless, you're wasting all our voters hard-earned money on stuff" without offering (or most likely even having) an alternative method of providing a necessary service at lower costs. And what always happens with these political whiners is that voters eventually believe them and they get voted in - only to do exactly the same or worse than their predecessors.
Bottom-line. We need safe and efficient fusion power. If we don't try we'll never get it.
Heres a thought: burn and hand them an Ubuntu CD. Don't give them any instructions (bar "boot from this" - and explain what that means if they are not as computer savvy as you say).
Do you have linkage to support the recaptacle redesign weakness theory? I ask, because its the first that I've heard of it (and google is no help so far) - I've only ever heard of the story through third party websites (most of which are usually reputable).
Oh. You're obviously going to ask this one question and pretend its something huge and rub it in my face - so I might aswell cover it straight off.
But if you'd read the whole thing you'd see that I did install it on Windows and it was much easier
Answer: what took you so long to get to the fscking point? I got bored after 30 seconds of your whining and decided to frame a reply - the whining seems to come with the Windows territory. So heres a corollary question - if you have so many problems with Linux and so few with Windows why did you begin your installathon with Linux and - only after you made a mess of it - go back to Windows?
Interesting opinion piece. I have one question - what have your woes with installing Bugzilla on Linux got to do with a Linux vs. Windows debate? You did know that you can run Bugzilla very easily on Windows (despite the wording to the contrary on the Bugzilla website) didn't you? Seeing as you run Windows every day would that not have been better time spent?
Er what? Was it was so hot that it melted the container and caused third degree burns? No. Did the employee handling the coffee recaptacle get burned? No. If a container is hot you drop it - pretty much on instinct. If some idiot decides to drop it all over themselves who's fault is that? Seriously, only in America can one sue others because one is stupid...
If I buy a car that is twice as fast as my current one, floor it and crash into something, can I sue my car manufacturer?
Hot things burn
So, try to handle hot things carefully
If I == Stupid American, sue gigantic corporation for purchased said hot product, spilling hot product that I should have been more careful with al over myself and profit!
If they are suing the people who use the spyware against others and the peson who wrote the spyware, why are they not suing the company who wrote the software that makes it so easy for spyware to exist?
I see your point and agree in some ways, but I think that you're underestimating the human factor - "wetware" as you call it.
As a programmer, I must conform to certain standards: the compiler won't accept any garbage ASCII I just throw at it, libraries must be accessed in certain ways, modules must be checked to see if they exist and loaded correctly and then I must throw the correct error for an end user / sub-program / GUI to understand.
Humans on the other hand like to have their cake and eat it. Any half-assed attempt at "work" will do for them. If they make the slightest effort and get paid they are happy (for most people that I've seen anyway). Its too easy to get away with being a lazy arsehole.
Wetware just wants to make money and laze about. Very few people care about the quality of their work, because "work sucks". They would rather chat with their lazy incompetent colleagues and talk about their nextholiday or night on the town, as opposed to performing a competent job and getting a raise / promotion.
As for the argument that there are lots of single-point-of-failure in a laptop, the disk drive is the most unreliable point
I think you forgot to add "in my experience". In MY experience I've seen pretty much everything give up the ghost on laptops except the HDD. Screens, RAM, USB sockets, networking, wireless, vid card, batteries, power leads... If it happens at work I can usually pull out the hard-drive and pop it in one of the spares and carry on as if nothing happened.
1. Make people have to go completely out of their way - perhaps spend money or valuable time - so they don't have to hear about or buy our prodcuct. 2. Go straight to 3. 3. Profit!
Sounds like a great plan, but I'm slightly confused. Wheres the Profit! step? Also its slashdot protocol that Good Plans (TM) for profit in big business follow three simple steps. You've shot rather long and failed to call "FORE!".
Just curious, but how do you watch movies at home then? Or do you watch movies at all? I don't own a TV but thats mostly because theres nothing worth watching that would make up for having to pay a TV license fee.
Whoop-de-do. Last I checked it still had a few glaring bugs. Whats with teh feature-itis, adding new crap and leaving the old crap unfixed?
Does it still requires 2 gigs free on your C: drive - even when windows is installed on D: ?
What did he expect? A walk in the park? Soldiers in wars kill people and get killed themselves - thats their job. If they don't like it they shouldn't volunteer to do it.
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Dude, get over it. You're either trolling to burn karma, or a jealous little haXor wannabe. Give it a rest.
Ehm, what would you suggest then Mr. Smart Guy? The way I see it we (the world) have two options.
1. Using science, try to figure out an efficient nuclear fusion method before the worlds limited petrochemical supplies run out.
2. Do nothing and just wait for the the worlds limited petrochemical supplies to run out.
I'm all for the former. The problem with a load of these "insightful" comments on slashdot is that its just like opposition politics sho go around shouting things like "You guys are useless, you're wasting all our voters hard-earned money on stuff" without offering (or most likely even having) an alternative method of providing a necessary service at lower costs. And what always happens with these political whiners is that voters eventually believe them and they get voted in - only to do exactly the same or worse than their predecessors.
Bottom-line. We need safe and efficient fusion power. If we don't try we'll never get it.
Just this once I'll take a low UID as irrevocable proof :)
You tell us. Start it tonght and post back in a few months with the size of foo. If you have to reboot the months counter starts over.
Heres a thought: burn and hand them an Ubuntu CD. Don't give them any instructions (bar "boot from this" - and explain what that means if they are not as computer savvy as you say).
Do you have linkage to support the recaptacle redesign weakness theory? I ask, because its the first that I've heard of it (and google is no help so far) - I've only ever heard of the story through third party websites (most of which are usually reputable).
Oh. You're obviously going to ask this one question and pretend its something huge and rub it in my face - so I might aswell cover it straight off.
But if you'd read the whole thing you'd see that I did install it on Windows and it was much easier
Answer: what took you so long to get to the fscking point? I got bored after 30 seconds of your whining and decided to frame a reply - the whining seems to come with the Windows territory. So heres a corollary question - if you have so many problems with Linux and so few with Windows why did you begin your installathon with Linux and - only after you made a mess of it - go back to Windows?
Interesting opinion piece. I have one question - what have your woes with installing Bugzilla on Linux got to do with a Linux vs. Windows debate? You did know that you can run Bugzilla very easily on Windows (despite the wording to the contrary on the Bugzilla website) didn't you? Seeing as you run Windows every day would that not have been better time spent?
Er what? Was it was so hot that it melted the container and caused third degree burns? No. Did the employee handling the coffee recaptacle get burned? No. If a container is hot you drop it - pretty much on instinct. If some idiot decides to drop it all over themselves who's fault is that? Seriously, only in America can one sue others because one is stupid ...
If I buy a car that is twice as fast as my current one, floor it and crash into something, can I sue my car manufacturer?
Farewell karma, I knew thee well.
I wasn't aware that Win32 applications running under Wine that require Flash could magically invoke the Linux Flash binary.
If they are suing the people who use the spyware against others and the peson who wrote the spyware, why are they not suing the company who wrote the software that makes it so easy for spyware to exist?
I see your point and agree in some ways, but I think that you're underestimating the human factor - "wetware" as you call it.
As a programmer, I must conform to certain standards: the compiler won't accept any garbage ASCII I just throw at it, libraries must be accessed in certain ways, modules must be checked to see if they exist and loaded correctly and then I must throw the correct error for an end user / sub-program / GUI to understand.
Humans on the other hand like to have their cake and eat it. Any half-assed attempt at "work" will do for them. If they make the slightest effort and get paid they are happy (for most people that I've seen anyway). Its too easy to get away with being a lazy arsehole.
Wetware just wants to make money and laze about. Very few people care about the quality of their work, because "work sucks". They would rather chat with their lazy incompetent colleagues and talk about their nextholiday or night on the town, as opposed to performing a competent job and getting a raise / promotion.
Richard Stallman? Pfh. What we all want to know is what Simon Cowell thinks!
Are you saying that its not white? Cause it is.
Not powdery? It certainly is.
Not goodness? Go try some and come back to us with a report.
As for the argument that there are lots of single-point-of-failure in a laptop, the disk drive is the most unreliable point
I think you forgot to add "in my experience". In MY experience I've seen pretty much everything give up the ghost on laptops except the HDD. Screens, RAM, USB sockets, networking, wireless, vid card, batteries, power leads ... If it happens at work I can usually pull out the hard-drive and pop it in one of the spares and carry on as if nothing happened.
1. Make people have to go completely out of their way - perhaps spend money or valuable time - so they don't have to hear about or buy our prodcuct.
2. Go straight to 3.
3. Profit!
You should have said so earlier. Please go straight to Monopoly. Do not pass Go. Do not got to Jail.
Thanks. I have a brand new sig :)
Sounds like a great plan, but I'm slightly confused. Wheres the Profit! step? Also its slashdot protocol that Good Plans (TM) for profit in big business follow three simple steps. You've shot rather long and failed to call "FORE!".
:)
Just curious, but how do you watch movies at home then? Or do you watch movies at all? I don't own a TV but thats mostly because theres nothing worth watching that would make up for having to pay a TV license fee.
Like Vista?
Whoop-de-do. Last I checked it still had a few glaring bugs. Whats with teh feature-itis, adding new crap and leaving the old crap unfixed? Does it still requires 2 gigs free on your C: drive - even when windows is installed on D: ?
What did he expect? A walk in the park? Soldiers in wars kill people and get killed themselves - thats their job. If they don't like it they shouldn't volunteer to do it.
Perhaps you need to write yourself a sense of humour in perl :) Its clear Larry already has one.