More to the point, with Britain's electoral system it would take nothing more than a mass organisation of Muslims and they could get a sizable bloc in Parliament. Hell, Labour's vote share of the 2005 election was about 35%, and they're in government!
Given the choice between software costing $100s of dollars and a free, restrictionless program that does everything you need or want, the choice is also obvious.
His point was that the restrictionless program doesn't do everything he needs and wants. A point you seem to ignore.
you should be more careful about your accuracy or face being dismissed as an untrustworthy voice motivated more by spite than knowledge
Twitter IS an untrustworthy voice motivated more by spite than knowledge. His rants against "M$" and "Windoze" (which he hasn't actually used since Windows 98) are legend here.
There was a website at one time that plugged into myspace to deliver a semi-similar feed. It watched the profiles of all your friends (or people you wanted "watched") and if their relationship status flipped to single you'd get an email.
I just found a new reason to feel better about myself; that I don't stalk girls on MySpace, and constantly check if they're single or not.
I dunno, I like Win2K but for some reason (ANECDOTAL "EVIDENCE" APPROACHING) I get lower FPS on games on Win2K than on XP. Same hardware...hell, HL2:EP1 just didn't work for me on Win2k.
Imagine: ALSA or something causes the kernel to lock up, and you hear commentary from Linus: "Those ALSA bastards couldn't code if they had a etc etc etc"
Let's talk about irrational hatred and Microsoft, they go hand in hand. Microsoft hates just about everyone. They hate Google, iPod, Korn and most of all they hate free software.
It's called "being a business competitor". You don't embrace competitors, you do hate them. And exactly what does Korn have to do with anything?
People realize this and that's why there are fewer and fewer people willing to ensnare themselves in a business model that includes Microsoft dependency
No, there's not. Stop talking shit.
Do you know of any other company that has bothered to sue public schools?
I haven't heard of this, please link me. I don't say that to be combative, I'm genuinely intrigued.
Is there any other industry that treats it's users as hostile criminals who want nothing more than to steal their precious IP?
Sadly, Microsoft really does have a problem with piracy. Quite a large one. WGA is a pisspoor attempt to clamp down on this; product activation less so.
When you treat your customers like criminals and drive all the cool stuff off your platform you will be left with a bare platform that no one uses.
This makes me laugh so fucking hard it's unbelievable. You're willing to tell me that (GNU/)Linux has all the "cool stuff"? Like what? Cos it doesn't have much in the way of games, legal entertainment software or stuff that people actually want to use, like a Flash plugin that works.
Non free software is built on anti-social principles that will ultimately be out competed and rejected.
Um...like, the principle that a company should be allowed to keep the code it wrote secret? I didn't realise it was anti-social to try to keep your own property yours...
By the way, nice to see you've stopped using the stupid M$ thing:)
Let's play a little comparison between free software and non-free software. This is based on my own personal experience.
Ubuntu takes about 40 seconds to a minute to boot. Windows takes about 25 to 30 seconds. Ubuntu doesn't support WPA-PSK out of the box. Windows does. Ubuntu doesn't support my USB wireless stick, my webcam or any of my games. Windows does. The Ubuntu desktop has window tearing and visible redrawing, with windows caught mid-redraw, the order of the day. Windows does. With Ubuntu, numerous simple software installation procedures require the use of the command line, as documented on the project's Wiki. Windows doesn't. With Ubuntu I can barely run a simple game like Neverball at a decent frame rate, and Cedega doesn't even work. Windows runs all my games at a good frame rate.
Once again, these are my own personal observations. Other people probably have more.
Even ignoring Windows, Mac OS X absolutely spanks Linux (and Windows) in terms of overall user experience and ease of use. And of course Windows can't compete on price with something that is given away free. Difference is, Microsoft relies on the quality and compatibility of its OS to get sales, and people will gladly pay for a new version of Windows.
Let's go out of the OS realm entirely. Say...web browsers. Firefox has numerous memory leaks (even on OSes that you say manage memory properly, chortle); Opera doesn't (no, even I'm not going to defend IE6, it's a piece of shit). Firefox is occasionally slow to operate, especially on Linux; Opera isn't. Firefox gets so many critical security issues they have to issue multiple minor point revisions; Opera doesn't. This is of course rendered moot by IE6 being a piece of shit, so really anything's better than that.
Face it twitter, free software isn't "advancing" to the extent you think it is. Linux has barely made an impact in the home market, Firefox is at 10% market share (still impressive) but that's hardly a shining light for "free software". If free software has any commercial future it is in the server room, where it does indeed show numerous strengths. To go on, as you do, as if Microsoft is nothing but a footnote in history which OSS crushed and defeated is both wrong and deluded.
This is not, of course, to say that free software is worthless or bad; there's nothing wrong with it, and the general concept is a good one, however to pretend that it has made anything more than a dent in the market is silly.
As for the Google thing, weren't you shrieking about their non-free software's privacy implications a few days ago?
Goddamn, you're like RMS crossed with Stephen Colbert. You spout lots and lots of FUD but seem to actually believe it, which is the most frightening thing. And then, if anyone calls you out on all the outright lies, FUD and bullshit you spew, you flit away without actually rebutting any of the points they made! I'm not even going into your charming tactic of reposting comments verbatim if they get modded down so your karma (which is on the way to being bruised quite badly, what with all the flamebait mods) doesn't suffer, or posting anonymously to defend yourself. So yeah, I AM a fan. I find it amusing to completely run rings around you and your silly arguments, and even more amusing when you can't even offer a decent rebuttal. You're not just funny, you're hilarious.
Why oh why oh why does Save The Children have a picture of the Swedish Chef on their webspace? Does he go around clearing minefields as charity work or something?
Collaborative, electronic textbooks are sure to overtake traditional publications in the same way free software has overtaken non free.
When you put it that way, it sounds like electronic textbooks WON'T overtake traditional publications, in the exact way that free software hasn't even begun to overtake non-free.
Have you ever realised that saying that "everyone" has done something, when in fact only a small proportion of people have done something, doesn't make it true?
Or that you wouldn't have people following you around calling you out on your bullshit if you didn't TALK such a load of BS?
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More to the point, with Britain's electoral system it would take nothing more than a mass organisation of Muslims and they could get a sizable bloc in Parliament. Hell, Labour's vote share of the 2005 election was about 35%, and they're in government!
Given the choice between software costing $100s of dollars and a free, restrictionless program that does everything you need or want, the choice is also obvious.
His point was that the restrictionless program doesn't do everything he needs and wants. A point you seem to ignore.
Have you seen his wife? He needs all the blue pills he can get...
you should be more careful about your accuracy or face being dismissed as an untrustworthy voice motivated more by spite than knowledge
Twitter IS an untrustworthy voice motivated more by spite than knowledge. His rants against "M$" and "Windoze" (which he hasn't actually used since Windows 98) are legend here.
While Linux advocates are a fiery lot they will probably agree that users switching to osx is better than users staying with windows.
That wouldn't make them Linux advocates, more Windows haters.
THE ARROW!! The cursor can run around "right clicking" on the opponents cheerleaders, if you know what I mean.
Opening up their context menus, wink wink nudge nudge.
There was a website at one time that plugged into myspace to deliver a semi-similar feed. It watched the profiles of all your friends (or people you wanted "watched") and if their relationship status flipped to single you'd get an email.
I just found a new reason to feel better about myself; that I don't stalk girls on MySpace, and constantly check if they're single or not.
(WIndows 2000 Home Edition) ...what? I presume you mean XP Home, or Win2K Professional. Win2K Home doesn't actually exist :)
I dunno, I like Win2K but for some reason (ANECDOTAL "EVIDENCE" APPROACHING) I get lower FPS on games on Win2K than on XP. Same hardware...hell, HL2:EP1 just didn't work for me on Win2k.
It's even more clear that he doesn't care what you say, because he just makes shit up.
Arguing rationally against someone who gleefully makes shit up in this way is impossible.
British people. British companies. Americans charging them with crimes as soon as they set foot on US soil.
What a load of bullshit.
That's not exactly hard, considering it takes about 10 minutes just to load the homepage, and logging in takes another 10.
Welcome to the wonderful world of twitter; where FUD is acceptable if he spouts it.
I thought he'd improved a little last night when he stopped using the "M$" and "Windoze" bullshit, but clearly he had just taken his medication.
Imagine: ALSA or something causes the kernel to lock up, and you hear commentary from Linus: "Those ALSA bastards couldn't code if they had a etc etc etc"
It's called "being a business competitor". You don't embrace competitors, you do hate them. And exactly what does Korn have to do with anything?
No, there's not. Stop talking shit.
I haven't heard of this, please link me. I don't say that to be combative, I'm genuinely intrigued.
Sadly, Microsoft really does have a problem with piracy. Quite a large one. WGA is a pisspoor attempt to clamp down on this; product activation less so.
This makes me laugh so fucking hard it's unbelievable. You're willing to tell me that (GNU/)Linux has all the "cool stuff"? Like what? Cos it doesn't have much in the way of games, legal entertainment software or stuff that people actually want to use, like a Flash plugin that works.
Um...like, the principle that a company should be allowed to keep the code it wrote secret? I didn't realise it was anti-social to try to keep your own property yours...
By the way, nice to see you've stopped using the stupid M$ thing
Mine's noisy as fuck. I only ever leave it on when I have something that needs doing in the background.
I'll bite.
Let's play a little comparison between free software and non-free software. This is based on my own personal experience.
Ubuntu takes about 40 seconds to a minute to boot. Windows takes about 25 to 30 seconds.
Ubuntu doesn't support WPA-PSK out of the box. Windows does.
Ubuntu doesn't support my USB wireless stick, my webcam or any of my games. Windows does.
The Ubuntu desktop has window tearing and visible redrawing, with windows caught mid-redraw, the order of the day. Windows does.
With Ubuntu, numerous simple software installation procedures require the use of the command line, as documented on the project's Wiki. Windows doesn't.
With Ubuntu I can barely run a simple game like Neverball at a decent frame rate, and Cedega doesn't even work. Windows runs all my games at a good frame rate.
Once again, these are my own personal observations. Other people probably have more.
Even ignoring Windows, Mac OS X absolutely spanks Linux (and Windows) in terms of overall user experience and ease of use. And of course Windows can't compete on price with something that is given away free. Difference is, Microsoft relies on the quality and compatibility of its OS to get sales, and people will gladly pay for a new version of Windows.
Let's go out of the OS realm entirely. Say...web browsers. Firefox has numerous memory leaks (even on OSes that you say manage memory properly, chortle); Opera doesn't (no, even I'm not going to defend IE6, it's a piece of shit). Firefox is occasionally slow to operate, especially on Linux; Opera isn't. Firefox gets so many critical security issues they have to issue multiple minor point revisions; Opera doesn't. This is of course rendered moot by IE6 being a piece of shit, so really anything's better than that.
Face it twitter, free software isn't "advancing" to the extent you think it is. Linux has barely made an impact in the home market, Firefox is at 10% market share (still impressive) but that's hardly a shining light for "free software". If free software has any commercial future it is in the server room, where it does indeed show numerous strengths. To go on, as you do, as if Microsoft is nothing but a footnote in history which OSS crushed and defeated is both wrong and deluded.
This is not, of course, to say that free software is worthless or bad; there's nothing wrong with it, and the general concept is a good one, however to pretend that it has made anything more than a dent in the market is silly.
As for the Google thing, weren't you shrieking about their non-free software's privacy implications a few days ago?
Goddamn, you're like RMS crossed with Stephen Colbert. You spout lots and lots of FUD but seem to actually believe it, which is the most frightening thing. And then, if anyone calls you out on all the outright lies, FUD and bullshit you spew, you flit away without actually rebutting any of the points they made! I'm not even going into your charming tactic of reposting comments verbatim if they get modded down so your karma (which is on the way to being bruised quite badly, what with all the flamebait mods) doesn't suffer, or posting anonymously to defend yourself. So yeah, I AM a fan. I find it amusing to completely run rings around you and your silly arguments, and even more amusing when you can't even offer a decent rebuttal. You're not just funny, you're hilarious .
Except that PayPal would charge fees. So that $1 would become about 50 cents very quickly.
Why oh why oh why does Save The Children have a picture of the Swedish Chef on their webspace? Does he go around clearing minefields as charity work or something?
For some reason, that comment gave me an intriguing image of Steve Ballmer working in a sofa shop.
Free delivery, naturally. By air mail.
Collaborative, electronic textbooks are sure to overtake traditional publications in the same way free software has overtaken non free.
When you put it that way, it sounds like electronic textbooks WON'T overtake traditional publications, in the exact way that free software hasn't even begun to overtake non-free.
Have you ever realised that saying that "everyone" has done something, when in fact only a small proportion of people have done something, doesn't make it true?
Or that you wouldn't have people following you around calling you out on your bullshit if you didn't TALK such a load of BS?
Difference is, very few people use Ogg.
Kindly read up on Notorious BIG and 2Pac and tell me it doesn't happen already ;)
"The media companies are behind this"? Are you letting twitter loose on the Submit Story function now?
Whoever wrote that needs their heads checking.