Pardon but I think there are way too many UI specialists telling us what our opinions on user-friendliness should be. UI is often just opinion (though there are hard and fast rules such as information density and whatnot). Hence the flamewars between KDE & Gnome, M$ and Mac. Most of this is preference, not truth.
I know I'll get flamed for this, but I don't think macs are the pinnacle of userfriendliness everyone else thinks. I do love macs, they are generally much easier than Windows. At work I use a mac, at home I have linux, I prefer linux. Here is why:
The dock sucks. I don't care what anyone says, this guy is right. Bruce Tognazzini founded apple's human interface group that so many rave about. So he knows what he is talking about.
I think the ejecting disks to the trash is idiotic. I tried to help one lady who insisted that if she dragged her flash disk to the trash it would delete it, we had to back everything up before she would even try it.
I hate how you have to use a mouse for everything. I use a mouse as little as possible (I even usually browse the internet sans mouse), I find it quicker when I know hotkeys. Same for about any other program with a gui, if it is well designed there are keyboard shortcuts that are faster than the mouse.
I have other gripes too, but these are pretty good examples of why I don't think macs are the most user friendly things ever.
I know I'm going to get killed for this comment, but it has to be said.
Macs are easy, and currently not affected by much of what plagues windows. But I fear that Apple is growing a group of computer idiots for users. I don't mean you guys on slashdot there are plenty of brilliant people who use macs because of the BSD underpinnings. I mean the userswho can't handle Windows maintenance so we advise them to use a mac. So the people capable of maintaining up-to-date security patches and whatnot with Windows stay with Windows, those who can't switch. Because of this growing trend I think there is going to be some major problems in a few years for them (once their market share hits critical mass).
What happens when someone releases a worm like the sasser on a mac? (If you think it can't happen, you really must have the wool pulled over your eyes). All these macs aren't running firewalls, no one uses a virus scanner et cetera. Basically Apple (or people like myself encouraging others to switch to a mac) is encouraging bad behaviour. See what I mean? Safety comes from good computing practices regardless of what OS you run. I run a firewall and virus scanner, and I am on Debian.
As a disclaimer I do love macs, I use them all the time at work but nonetheless I worry about the users mac is attracting.
SCO came from Caldera, remember them? They won millions from M$ in the DRDOS anti-trust case. Why would M$ partner with them? M$ knows them for the litigous parasites they are, this company's bread and butter has been litigation since they were spun off from Novell (who did own DRDOS but spun off Caldera because they didn't want to be in the OS market).
Close, but not quite right. SCO was paying millions in lawyer fees, millions and millions. Their stock was going to the toilet for no reason other than lawyer fees.
So they offered the current legal team $30 million lump instead of by the hour or case or page. So this team is now stuck litigating until the cows come home, without getting more money. How long until even they get apathetic?
The d-ram companies got together to pick a next standard. Rambus pushed hard for one in particular, and the others went along. As soon as the ink was dry setting the standard, Rambus pulled out a patent for the standard. Generally talks like this include an explicit clause that disallows using a patented standard, but there was no such clause on these talks.
So the other firms got together without rambus and said screw this we aren't paying obscene licensing fees. They chose another standard. They sued rambus for pulling the dirty patent trick. Rambus sued because the other three wouldn't deal with rambus. Non-competition agreements are a violation of section one of the sherman antitrust act (yes that is still the relevant act).
This is why other d-ram manufacturers were mad. Deceit. Standards are good, tricking others into licensing fees (rather than truly innovative technology everyone wants to license) is bad. So while it is illegal to do what the other firms did, rambus certainly acted unethically if not illegally.
What the DOJ should do is slap the other firms on the wrist and let them develop a royalty-free d-ram standard. Rambus's patents were legal, their methodology was deceitful.
The d-ram companies got together to pick a next standard. Rambus pushed hard for one in particular, and the others went along. As soon as the ink was dry setting the standard, Rambus pulled out a patent for the standard. Generally talks like this include an explicit clause that disallows using a patented standard, but there was no such clause on these talks.
So the other firms got together without rambus and said screw this we aren't paying obscene licensing fees. They chose another standard. They sued rambus for pulling the dirty patent trick. Rambus sued because the other three wouldn't deal with rambus. Non-competition agreements are a violation of section one of the sherman antitrust act (yes that is still the relevant act).
This is why other d-ram manufacturers were mad. Deceit. Standards are good, tricking others into licensing fees (rather than truly innovative technology everyone wants to license) is bad. So while it is illegal to do what the other firms did, rambus certainly acted unethically if not illegally.
What the DOJ should do is slap the other firms on the wrist and let them develop a royalty-free d-ram standard.
This is what happened in brief. The four companies got together to pick a next standard. Rambus pushed hard for one in particular, and the others went along. As soon as the ink was dry, Rambus pulled out a patent. Generally talks like this include a clause that disallows using a patented standard, but there was no such clause on these talks.
So the other three firms got together without rambus and said screw this we aren't paying obscene licensing fees. They chose another standard. They sued rambus for pulling the dirty patent trick. Rambus sued because the other three wouldn't deal with rambus.
The price fixing scheme just happens to be at the same time. That is the third lawsuit going on in the dram industry now. They all had fixed prices sometime ago, it was this falling out over standards that got Hynix to squeal to the DOJ on the price fixing.
I read this article not 30 minutes ago. Thought it was very insightful and good investigative work. What happened? Now the link is dead, no mention of the article on the sight, coral cache can't dig it up, nor can google cache?
Where did it go? Anyone got it in cache? How about a mirror?
I'm not saying that parts of office are preloaded. I'm saying office uses the same libraries that windows does. Installing office doesn't make more libraries preload as you demonstrated. Office uses a lot of the windows OS in it's own programs. This isn't bad; it is a great way to do things. In the same way koffice uses a lot of the kde libraries that are already loaded when you are in KDE.
Now if you get office to run in wine as fast as in Windows then maybe you'd have a case where office is just faster. But running it on a clean windows install doesn't disprove what I am saying.
Yeah OO.org is slower, but you really are using a quickstarter for excel. A lot of office is loaded on startup. So while this doesn't completely account for OOo slowness, it does a fair amount. Likewise Koffice is faster in KDE than OO.org
This is the same with IE. IE boots faster than either firefox or opera, on a coldboot (if the programs haven't been run before). It doesn't mean IE is worth using, just boots faster.
Actually most people's votes don't ever count. Everyone who voted for Kerry didn't count, they got nothing they wanted. Everyone who voted for Badnarik (like myself) or other 3rd party candidate, don't count. Everyone who voted for Bush in a Kerry state didn't count. In the end, although I vote because I feel it is my duty, it makes more sense http://www.slate.com/id/2107240/ to play the lottery, even in a perfectly divided election.
That is such a patently false idea I don't know where to start. 'Starve the beast' is one of the most idiotic GOP strategies in decades. This is what is wrong: 1. The programs that suffer lost funds aren't the ones we want to. You know what suffers? Education, NPR, et cetera. All you have to do is argue that this agency or that one, is in the interest of national security and you actually protecting all the kids who are losing funding for a theater department. 2. The beast has been starving for years. We've run massive deficits for years, and not had a problem continuing. We haven't even had a problem expanding spending. The beast will not be starved into submission, we have to take political action.
Write your legislators, tell them you want them to cut spending, kill the patriot act, or kill certain *ahem* agencies.
Bullocks. IE & Office ARE NOT the only reason for Windows. Both are available for Macs, but we don't see huge switching to macs.
The reason for windows is two fold. 1. It is easy. With all the Linux FUD out there, corporations to think of two OS's as easy, OSX and Windows. 2. It is cheap. Ok windows isn't cheap, but the hardware makes up for that. I worked in an all M$ shop, and we'd switch to Macs in a second if we could get them as cheap as the deals we got with dell.
The reason is the idiot PHBs in the world want a 'unified solution.' Or a 'one stop shop.' Or any other corporate speak you can think of to say "we're lazy, we want one guy to do everything and not have to manage the rest of it."
First, Autodesk doesn't want to 'alienate' alias customers (a bad pun I know, but true). The majority of computer users, use windows, but a much higher proportion of video editors use Macs/Linux. Macs have long been touted as king of video editing by video editors, and who can beat a lightweight linux distro for rendering?
Nothing will change, Maya and whatnot will continue to be available on OSX and Linux. Go home sensationalists.
I've had to deal with a highly infested windows system a few times. There are a lot of ways to deal with it; my favorite is reformat and hand them Mepis (or another easy distro) but some people can't handle that. I had one system in particular I couldn't completely clean up, I had logged in safe mode and cleaned, but there was still something (with no services or processes I could see running) going on. So I grabbed this Rootkit Revealer and it found my problems. It was a cinch to log in under dos and get rid of the problems (although in retrospect I could have used Knoppix or another LiveCD.
So there are good Windows rootkit revealers, you just have to look for them.
I am a computer assistant at a very busy computer lab. In fact the most used lab at my university (a private university of over 40,000 students). Whenever blackboard or webapps act funny I direct people to firefox, and problems disappear. There may be security problems, but they get fixed, machines get re-imaged, and firewalls protect. But having a usable, working browser is priceless.
Open Source software has often been acused of lacking in the graphical department. With the advent of more stable Inkscape 0.42.2 and user friendly Gimp 2.0 this has left us lacking only in the video department. Cinerella 2.0 was just released to close that gap. Coupled with alternatives such as diva , blender and others, what is linux and other Open Source operating systems still lacking?
Hear hear. You are dead on. Everyone looks to technology to solve our technology woes. It won't happen. Laptops are a means to an end, not an end of themselves. It is far to easy to get distracted with a laptop (or desktop) so having all students carry the worlds greatest distraction is hardly a great idea for learning.
Laptops are great for education, if you have discipline. Technology has been the biggest money pit for educational institutions ever. Remember laser discs? Who bought those? Schools. Those and stacks of pointless other technologies has been driving up the cost of education, but not driving up test scores (or any other measure of scholastic aptitude you can devise).
What I hope this is used for is the Linux desktop. Searching in Linux sucks. For the most part that is ok, if you can install Linux (and use it) you know where your stuff is. But if Linux expands to an average end user, a search that works would be a great boon. "IBM's version of Google Desktop Search." Google could fill this gap itself, but it hasn't released ANY software for Linux, so once again Big Blue steps up and contributes something useful. I hope it is incorporated.
Oh no! Y2K all over again! *Dons tin-foil hat*. The internet will evolve into a super intelligent virtual being weilding the massive power of unpatched systems, PDA's, Tivo's, Microwaves, Blenders and DVD players.
Though many may reply "SCO 5ux0rz and Linux 0wnz" there is a lot of crap in this article.
To back up his security claim he cits " In CNET's, May 27, 2005 article entitled "OS Makers Slow to Fix Flaw ". As any bugzilla will show Linux is patched frequently and quickly. Check google news if you don't think Linux is secure Darl. Point one for Darl, 1770 for Linux. Darl references (though gives no link) a study done by the MI2G group. This group is famous for FUD and being special interest lackeys. Great sources.
Next Darl takes Linux to task for disorganization. Linux will likely continue to face challenges about its development methodologies and roadmaps as long as it continues to be a loosely organized set of volunteers who develop what they want, when they want.. Has he not heard of Novell, RedHat, Mandriva, or Ubuntu? What about the OSTG?!? Are these "loosely organized volunteers?" NO! These are firms, supporting and developing Linux, firms that are pounding SCO into non-existence.
He claims The grand promise of Linux was that it wouldn't fork or fragment into multiple Linux operating systems. . Never have I heard that. The grand promise of Linux is that it is open. Free as in freedom. Unlike the "Open Server" SCO sells, which is neither open nor free.
Next he asks the following. Who is checking for compatibility across thousands of applications, drivers, hardware and peripherals? Who is verifying backward compatibility? Well if you are using Debian, it is the Debian team. If you are using SuSE it is Novell. Et cetera et cetera. Darl betrays extraordinary ingorance in thinking that all operating systems built on GNU/Linux are the same. Gentoo != Mandriva != Slackware != Knoppix. Ye the media (and Darl, who shouldn't be able to plea ignoracne) continue to ignorantly blanket statement all Linux distros as "Linux".
Frankly this is crap. He admits to being biased, but doesn't have the balls to point out where his bias is. That is because it is everywhere, throughout this ridiculous article.
And who the heck has ever heard of "Steve the Linux Super Villain Guy?" And why would a "popular internet cartoon" lend credence to a serious business claim??
Though I am going to burn Karma for this, the holy Slashdot would be a lot more interesting if it didn't post Media/FUD as news.
You know why it has taken so long right? Gates had to wait for Apple to innovate before he could rip it off. **Ducks flying tomato**
Ok maybe Apple spied on Longhorn and has a faster development cycle. **Ducks many flying tomatos**
Really? Well it is because it takes a long time to invent features, realize they aren't feasible (because M$ can't build revolutionary stuff in house), and abandon them.
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Pardon but I think there are way too many UI specialists telling us what our opinions on user-friendliness should be. UI is often just opinion (though there are hard and fast rules such as information density and whatnot). Hence the flamewars between KDE & Gnome, M$ and Mac. Most of this is preference, not truth.
I know I'll get flamed for this, but I don't think macs are the pinnacle of userfriendliness everyone else thinks. I do love macs, they are generally much easier than Windows. At work I use a mac, at home I have linux, I prefer linux. Here is why:
The dock sucks. I don't care what anyone says, this guy is right. Bruce Tognazzini founded apple's human interface group that so many rave about. So he knows what he is talking about. I think the ejecting disks to the trash is idiotic. I tried to help one lady who insisted that if she dragged her flash disk to the trash it would delete it, we had to back everything up before she would even try it. I hate how you have to use a mouse for everything. I use a mouse as little as possible (I even usually browse the internet sans mouse), I find it quicker when I know hotkeys. Same for about any other program with a gui, if it is well designed there are keyboard shortcuts that are faster than the mouse.
I have other gripes too, but these are pretty good examples of why I don't think macs are the most user friendly things ever.
I know I'm going to get killed for this comment, but it has to be said.
Macs are easy, and currently not affected by much of what plagues windows. But I fear that Apple is growing a group of computer idiots for users. I don't mean you guys on slashdot there are plenty of brilliant people who use macs because of the BSD underpinnings. I mean the userswho can't handle Windows maintenance so we advise them to use a mac. So the people capable of maintaining up-to-date security patches and whatnot with Windows stay with Windows, those who can't switch. Because of this growing trend I think there is going to be some major problems in a few years for them (once their market share hits critical mass).
What happens when someone releases a worm like the sasser on a mac? (If you think it can't happen, you really must have the wool pulled over your eyes). All these macs aren't running firewalls, no one uses a virus scanner et cetera. Basically Apple (or people like myself encouraging others to switch to a mac) is encouraging bad behaviour. See what I mean? Safety comes from good computing practices regardless of what OS you run. I run a firewall and virus scanner, and I am on Debian.
As a disclaimer I do love macs, I use them all the time at work but nonetheless I worry about the users mac is attracting.
No way were they funded my M$. No way.
SCO came from Caldera, remember them? They won millions from M$ in the DRDOS anti-trust case. Why would M$ partner with them? M$ knows them for the litigous parasites they are, this company's bread and butter has been litigation since they were spun off from Novell (who did own DRDOS but spun off Caldera because they didn't want to be in the OS market).
Close, but not quite right. SCO was paying millions in lawyer fees, millions and millions. Their stock was going to the toilet for no reason other than lawyer fees.
So they offered the current legal team $30 million lump instead of by the hour or case or page. So this team is now stuck litigating until the cows come home, without getting more money. How long until even they get apathetic?
The d-ram companies got together to pick a next standard. Rambus pushed hard for one in particular, and the others went along. As soon as the ink was dry setting the standard, Rambus pulled out a patent for the standard. Generally talks like this include an explicit clause that disallows using a patented standard, but there was no such clause on these talks.
So the other firms got together without rambus and said screw this we aren't paying obscene licensing fees. They chose another standard. They sued rambus for pulling the dirty patent trick. Rambus sued because the other three wouldn't deal with rambus. Non-competition agreements are a violation of section one of the sherman antitrust act (yes that is still the relevant act).
This is why other d-ram manufacturers were mad. Deceit. Standards are good, tricking others into licensing fees (rather than truly innovative technology everyone wants to license) is bad. So while it is illegal to do what the other firms did, rambus certainly acted unethically if not illegally.
What the DOJ should do is slap the other firms on the wrist and let them develop a royalty-free d-ram standard. Rambus's patents were legal, their methodology was deceitful.
The d-ram companies got together to pick a next standard. Rambus pushed hard for one in particular, and the others went along. As soon as the ink was dry setting the standard, Rambus pulled out a patent for the standard. Generally talks like this include an explicit clause that disallows using a patented standard, but there was no such clause on these talks.
So the other firms got together without rambus and said screw this we aren't paying obscene licensing fees. They chose another standard. They sued rambus for pulling the dirty patent trick. Rambus sued because the other three wouldn't deal with rambus. Non-competition agreements are a violation of section one of the sherman antitrust act (yes that is still the relevant act).
This is why other d-ram manufacturers were mad. Deceit. Standards are good, tricking others into licensing fees (rather than truly innovative technology everyone wants to license) is bad. So while it is illegal to do what the other firms did, rambus certainly acted unethically if not illegally.
What the DOJ should do is slap the other firms on the wrist and let them develop a royalty-free d-ram standard.
This is what happened in brief. The four companies got together to pick a next standard. Rambus pushed hard for one in particular, and the others went along. As soon as the ink was dry, Rambus pulled out a patent. Generally talks like this include a clause that disallows using a patented standard, but there was no such clause on these talks.
So the other three firms got together without rambus and said screw this we aren't paying obscene licensing fees. They chose another standard. They sued rambus for pulling the dirty patent trick. Rambus sued because the other three wouldn't deal with rambus.
The price fixing scheme just happens to be at the same time. That is the third lawsuit going on in the dram industry now. They all had fixed prices sometime ago, it was this falling out over standards that got Hynix to squeal to the DOJ on the price fixing.
There now you don't have to RTFA.
I read this article not 30 minutes ago. Thought it was very insightful and good investigative work. What happened? Now the link is dead, no mention of the article on the sight, coral cache can't dig it up, nor can google cache?
Where did it go? Anyone got it in cache? How about a mirror?
I'm not saying that parts of office are preloaded. I'm saying office uses the same libraries that windows does. Installing office doesn't make more libraries preload as you demonstrated. Office uses a lot of the windows OS in it's own programs. This isn't bad; it is a great way to do things. In the same way koffice uses a lot of the kde libraries that are already loaded when you are in KDE.
Now if you get office to run in wine as fast as in Windows then maybe you'd have a case where office is just faster. But running it on a clean windows install doesn't disprove what I am saying.
Yeah OO.org is slower, but you really are using a quickstarter for excel. A lot of office is loaded on startup. So while this doesn't completely account for OOo slowness, it does a fair amount. Likewise Koffice is faster in KDE than OO.org
This is the same with IE. IE boots faster than either firefox or opera, on a coldboot (if the programs haven't been run before). It doesn't mean IE is worth using, just boots faster.
Actually most people's votes don't ever count. Everyone who voted for Kerry didn't count, they got nothing they wanted. Everyone who voted for Badnarik (like myself) or other 3rd party candidate, don't count. Everyone who voted for Bush in a Kerry state didn't count. In the end, although I vote because I feel it is my duty, it makes more sense http://www.slate.com/id/2107240/ to play the lottery, even in a perfectly divided election.
That is such a patently false idea I don't know where to start. 'Starve the beast' is one of the most idiotic GOP strategies in decades. This is what is wrong:
1. The programs that suffer lost funds aren't the ones we want to. You know what suffers? Education, NPR, et cetera. All you have to do is argue that this agency or that one, is in the interest of national security and you actually protecting all the kids who are losing funding for a theater department.
2. The beast has been starving for years. We've run massive deficits for years, and not had a problem continuing. We haven't even had a problem expanding spending. The beast will not be starved into submission, we have to take political action.
Write your legislators, tell them you want them to cut spending, kill the patriot act, or kill certain *ahem* agencies.
Bullocks. IE & Office ARE NOT the only reason for Windows. Both are available for Macs, but we don't see huge switching to macs.
The reason for windows is two fold. 1. It is easy. With all the Linux FUD out there, corporations to think of two OS's as easy, OSX and Windows. 2. It is cheap. Ok windows isn't cheap, but the hardware makes up for that. I worked in an all M$ shop, and we'd switch to Macs in a second if we could get them as cheap as the deals we got with dell.
The reason is the idiot PHBs in the world want a 'unified solution.' Or a 'one stop shop.' Or any other corporate speak you can think of to say "we're lazy, we want one guy to do everything and not have to manage the rest of it."
First, Autodesk doesn't want to 'alienate' alias customers (a bad pun I know, but true). The majority of computer users, use windows, but a much higher proportion of video editors use Macs/Linux. Macs have long been touted as king of video editing by video editors, and who can beat a lightweight linux distro for rendering?
Nothing will change, Maya and whatnot will continue to be available on OSX and Linux. Go home sensationalists.
I've had to deal with a highly infested windows system a few times. There are a lot of ways to deal with it; my favorite is reformat and hand them Mepis (or another easy distro) but some people can't handle that. I had one system in particular I couldn't completely clean up, I had logged in safe mode and cleaned, but there was still something (with no services or processes I could see running) going on. So I grabbed this Rootkit Revealer and it found my problems. It was a cinch to log in under dos and get rid of the problems (although in retrospect I could have used Knoppix or another LiveCD.
So there are good Windows rootkit revealers, you just have to look for them.
I am a computer assistant at a very busy computer lab. In fact the most used lab at my university (a private university of over 40,000 students). Whenever blackboard or webapps act funny I direct people to firefox, and problems disappear. There may be security problems, but they get fixed, machines get re-imaged, and firewalls protect. But having a usable, working browser is priceless.
Open Source software has often been acused of lacking in the graphical department. With the advent of more stable Inkscape 0.42.2 and user friendly Gimp 2.0 this has left us lacking only in the video department. Cinerella 2.0 was just released to close that gap. Coupled with alternatives such as diva , blender and others, what is linux and other Open Source operating systems still lacking?
Hear hear. You are dead on. Everyone looks to technology to solve our technology woes. It won't happen. Laptops are a means to an end, not an end of themselves. It is far to easy to get distracted with a laptop (or desktop) so having all students carry the worlds greatest distraction is hardly a great idea for learning. Laptops are great for education, if you have discipline. Technology has been the biggest money pit for educational institutions ever. Remember laser discs? Who bought those? Schools. Those and stacks of pointless other technologies has been driving up the cost of education, but not driving up test scores (or any other measure of scholastic aptitude you can devise).
What I hope this is used for is the Linux desktop. Searching in Linux sucks. For the most part that is ok, if you can install Linux (and use it) you know where your stuff is. But if Linux expands to an average end user, a search that works would be a great boon. "IBM's version of Google Desktop Search." Google could fill this gap itself, but it hasn't released ANY software for Linux, so once again Big Blue steps up and contributes something useful. I hope it is incorporated.
Oh no! Y2K all over again! *Dons tin-foil hat*. The internet will evolve into a super intelligent virtual being weilding the massive power of unpatched systems, PDA's, Tivo's, Microwaves, Blenders and DVD players.
But only for 1 week a year.
Though many may reply "SCO 5ux0rz and Linux 0wnz" there is a lot of crap in this article. To back up his security claim he cits " In CNET's, May 27, 2005 article entitled "OS Makers Slow to Fix Flaw ". As any bugzilla will show Linux is patched frequently and quickly. Check google news if you don't think Linux is secure Darl. Point one for Darl, 1770 for Linux. Darl references (though gives no link) a study done by the MI2G group. This group is famous for FUD and being special interest lackeys. Great sources.
Next Darl takes Linux to task for disorganization.
Linux will likely continue to face challenges about its development methodologies and roadmaps as long as it continues to be a loosely organized set of volunteers who develop what they want, when they want.. Has he not heard of Novell, RedHat, Mandriva, or Ubuntu? What about the OSTG?!? Are these "loosely organized volunteers?" NO! These are firms, supporting and developing Linux, firms that are pounding SCO into non-existence.
He claims The grand promise of Linux was that it wouldn't fork or fragment into multiple Linux operating systems. . Never have I heard that. The grand promise of Linux is that it is open. Free as in freedom. Unlike the "Open Server" SCO sells, which is neither open nor free.
Next he asks the following.
Who is checking for compatibility across thousands of applications, drivers, hardware and peripherals? Who is verifying backward compatibility? Well if you are using Debian, it is the Debian team. If you are using SuSE it is Novell. Et cetera et cetera. Darl betrays extraordinary ingorance in thinking that all operating systems built on GNU/Linux are the same. Gentoo != Mandriva != Slackware != Knoppix. Ye the media (and Darl, who shouldn't be able to plea ignoracne) continue to ignorantly blanket statement all Linux distros as "Linux".
Frankly this is crap. He admits to being biased, but doesn't have the balls to point out where his bias is. That is because it is everywhere, throughout this ridiculous article.
And who the heck has ever heard of "Steve the Linux Super Villain Guy?" And why would a "popular internet cartoon" lend credence to a serious business claim??
Though I am going to burn Karma for this, the holy Slashdot would be a lot more interesting if it didn't post Media/FUD as news.
We've used them in Physics at BYU for almost 4 years now. They work just fine, though I don't like them so much, you have to stay awake.
You know why it has taken so long right? Gates had to wait for Apple to innovate before he could rip it off. **Ducks flying tomato**
Ok maybe Apple spied on Longhorn and has a faster development cycle. **Ducks many flying tomatos**
Really? Well it is because it takes a long time to invent features, realize they aren't feasible (because M$ can't build revolutionary stuff in house), and abandon them.
What part of this call list is online?? None? So why is it filed under "Your Rights Online?