though many of them now also function as retailers, cross-selling IRAs and mortgages to customers who come in with a big deposit.
And that is something human beings still do better than any machine. For now.
To paraphrase a line from The Boondock Saints, That's just fuckin' scary. Automatic Retailer Machines. Man, i am not
looking forward to a robot selling me a computer. It's like Uncle Tom with LED's... creepy movie idea, huh.
Umm, clearly you can 'make this stuff up'. I doubt the possibility of anyone male over the age of 30 listening to bspears as a first choice. i
can think of certain other activities they might want to do with her...
but leave it to the microsofties to have that small of an imagination. It's the linux phreaks that are cool enough to make entire desktop themes
in KDE|GNOME dedicated to obscure and scantily clad italian models that, apparently, love penguin tatoos.
I think it's obvious that the (the article touches lightly touches on it) big advantage that Free software users will have over people using microsoft's software (and other proprietary software, for that matter) is the speed with which fixes occur. Release early, release often, remember? That applies to bugfixes and security patches too. I think that as soon as there is a semi-automated way to distribute fixes to people with less technical knowledge in a trusted and secure way, then Free Software will become very quickly a mainstream alternative to the noobs and grandmothers.
it's a very nice thing to use a browser built on a framework which allows you to decide for yourself which components you want active. Obviously you can turn off Active-X and other IE only stuff, but it's annoying that something so easily exploitable is there, on by default, and used by website designers designing for IE. Basically, the thing overlooked by the review is that Firefox is, to some extent, everything to everyone (so to speak); it can be lightweight, it can be feature filled. IE is... well, it's IE. it's buggy, non-standards-compliant software.
this article only circumstantally confirms what everyone already knew; (1) that linux has perennially bad driver support in the sense that,
while there may be drivers, there's never any kind of optimization, which indicates a lack of focus or concern for the linux market, and (2) for most things other than gaming (and even sometimes gaming) linux is faster.
the only interesting part of the review was the comparison between SuSe and Fedora Core 2, and that was crippled by the fact that there wasn't
more information.
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though many of them now also function as retailers, cross-selling IRAs and mortgages to customers who come in with a big deposit. And that is something human beings still do better than any machine. For now.
To paraphrase a line from The Boondock Saints, That's just fuckin' scary. Automatic Retailer Machines. Man, i am not looking forward to a robot selling me a computer. It's like Uncle Tom with LED's... creepy movie idea, huh.
anyway.
Umm, clearly you can 'make this stuff up'. I doubt the possibility of anyone male over the age of 30 listening to bspears as a first choice. i can think of certain other activities they might want to do with her...
but leave it to the microsofties to have that small of an imagination. It's the linux phreaks that are cool enough to make entire desktop themes in KDE|GNOME dedicated to obscure and scantily clad italian models that, apparently, love penguin tatoos.
I think it's obvious that the (the article touches lightly touches on it) big advantage that Free software users will have over people
using microsoft's software (and other proprietary software, for that matter) is the speed with which fixes occur. Release early, release often,
remember? That applies to bugfixes and security patches too. I think that as soon as there is a semi-automated way to distribute fixes to people
with less technical knowledge in a trusted and secure way, then Free Software will become very quickly a mainstream alternative to the noobs and
grandmothers.
it's a very nice thing to use a browser built on a framework which allows you to decide for yourself which components you want active. Obviously you can turn off Active-X and other IE only stuff, but it's annoying that something so easily exploitable is there, on by default, and used by website designers designing for IE. Basically, the thing overlooked by the review is that Firefox is, to some extent, everything to everyone (so to speak); it can be lightweight, it can be feature filled. IE is... well, it's IE. it's buggy, non-standards-compliant software.
I remember when my mother brought home a 486 DX-2 66MHZ Packard Bell with something like 8 or 12 megs of ram.
we thought we were descended from kings, that day.
this article only circumstantally confirms what everyone already knew; (1) that linux has perennially bad driver support in the sense that, while there may be drivers, there's never any kind of optimization, which indicates a lack of focus or concern for the linux market, and (2) for most things other than gaming (and even sometimes gaming) linux is faster. the only interesting part of the review was the comparison between SuSe and Fedora Core 2, and that was crippled by the fact that there wasn't more information.