people fundamentally distrust others and do not like to be reliant on others when it can be trivally avoided (Linux).
A. Nothing about Linux is trivial unless it comes on an embedded device. That's FUD.
B. Security is too important to be (mis) managed in house for small companies. I WANT to outsource all of my IT stuff so that I don't have to deal with it in house. I'd like to have off-site file serving, mail, web (the last two we have already outsourced). If broadband ever gets to be more reliable, I'd even consider outsourcing app hosting, as well.
finely divided glass dust is NOT something that you want to inhale. Not to mention the fact that the blender jar and blades are now contaminated with the remnants of the iPhone, rendering the blender unfit for food preparation.
You're proving my point.
When I was a kid, kids did stupid things, got hurt, broke things learned from their mistakes, and grew up to be normal people. Now, we've got kids afraid of their own shadows, and on all kinds of dangerous prescription crazy drugs to help them deal with their neuroses. The kids coming out of today's ultra-neurotic parenting are gonna be fucked up people and I feel bad for them. Hell, I know 6 year olds that are on anti-depressants that are covered head to toe in antibiotic SPF 1000 sunscreens just to leave the house (and even then, only to play in an adult-supervised, fenced in back yard). That's sick.
You're right. And just wait another two years. I'm betting that Nintendo is a one trick pony, and once the hype dies down, that these things will start collecting dust and game sales will tank. If they're smart, they're already working on a sequel... the "Wii Wii" PS3 will just be hitting it's stride, with the bugs worked out, and tons of games hitting the market that are starting to take advantage of the computing power. The 360 will still be popular, but it'll start looking and feeling "old" in comparison to the more powerful PS3.
It's pretty sad you'd say that, actually. When I was a kid, we'd actually do things like this (physically... with our hands). Now, kids just watch them on YouTube because parents are afraid of... well... everything apparently ("glass smoke"? Are you serious?).
Maybe there's a really good reason that Photoshop does things the way it does. It's designed for professionals, and hasn't changed a whole lot in at least a decade, so I gotta figure that for professionals, Photoshop is made to work the way most graphics professionals need it to work. The layer thing IS complicated, but from what little I know about graphic design, all of that stuff is very useful (necessary?).
I can buy a television without subscribing to cable TV service offered by Best Buy, why should a computer (for which there more options) be any different?
Any Joe Schmoe can buy a pair of rabbit ears at Wal-Mart for $5 or plug their TV into a DVD player, game system, etc.
The reality is that most people buying computers with no OS are putting a pirated version Windows on them. That's obvious. Requiring all PC's to come with an OS might not be the best way to do it, but to suggest that most (or even a small percentage) of "No OS" PC's end up with a truly free OS on them at the end of the day is just silly.
I hate to tell ya', but if you're reachable by your company 24/7 and you're not compensated accordingly (on-call pay, and of course, full cell phone coverage, at the very least), that you ARE a blue collar worker.
I have one with me 24/7 because I own my own business, and things go wrong. It sucks ass, and yes, by stomach turns every time it rings (I have a very painful stress-induced ulcer), so I agree with you. But really, if you're just some average joe working a regular job that's doesn't pay well into the 6 figures, you shouldn't have to have a cell phone 24/7. That's a pretty rotten situation.
Rental properties, sure. Pipes break. People get locked out. Shit happens. But for a job? Dude, you really need to rethink that.
Here in the U.S., customers can choose whether they want to get screwed by Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, AT&T, or Comcast. Isn't unregulated capitalism great?!
OK, here's a free clue for ya'... you don't have to buy anything you don't want to.
Now hold on to your pants here. Are you sitting down? You sure? This one will wow ya'... You don't HAVE to even have a cell phone!
Ohh, I know. That will take you a few minutes to wrap your head around. But it's true. You don't actually have to purchase a cell phone, a cell phone contract, or even those stupid Star Trek things that people wear on, around, and in their ears. You can choose to purchase nothing if you want!
I've heard that there is a group of Pacific Islanders ( I don't remember which one... there are so many) that have actually survived for many thousands of years with no telephone service at all. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. I thought the same thing too. It's gotta be fake, like an article from The Onion.
But actually, it's real. I shit you not. There are people who have lived and continue to live without a telephone of any kind. You should look it up... maybe you can learn what their secret trick is to surviving without a telephone.
Now, I don't know if they're capitalists or socialists or communists, or Mormons, (I think they were cannibalistic scientologists living in a semi-rigid authoritarian commune... I can't remember exactly) but I do know that it's possible. So if they can do it, surely you can, too.
So, good luck, and farewell in your quest to not purchase a cell phone.
Hey guys... if you're gonna go over the top like this, how about giving iPhone it's own category, so those of us who are sane can ignore them, huh? With the number of iPhone stories, it should be "Slashdot: News about the iPhone (and some other stuff)".
The difference is that the 'small' company in Cupertino, CA, is not a convicted monopolist.
This is the stupidest argument that people make, and I'm sick of hearing it. Don't trot out the "Big Brother says it's wrong, so it's wrong" argument unless you're also willing to get behind the Patriot Act, the DMCA, harsh drug laws, and every other stupid, moronic law and court case that our broken government spits out.
Somebody doesn't understand what "good will" means. By voluntarily admitting to problems and accepting returns/recalls, they are increasing good will towards themselves. Not admitting to a problem hurts goodwill. I'm not buying an XBox 360 because I don't like them, but I wouldn't not buy one because of this recall/warranty stuff.
HP has always had either rotten on non-existent drivers. I remember returning my last HP device to the store where I bought it (a large flatbed scanner, I think) because HP didn't ever release Windows 2000 drivers for my gizmo with the explanation that Windows 2000 was a "business OS". HP is a truly crappy company. I wouldn't buy a pencil from them.
From the reviews I've been reading, the iPhone's "phone" functionality is pretty much worthless anyway. Even though each sucker [customer] paid a few thousand for what is apparently the worst cell phone service on the market, I'm sure we'll see people just getting rid of it, and instead having a $2000+ iPod. It's twisted, but I'll bet money that it'll be widespread.
$50 bucks cheaper? Who thinks that this is going to make a single person buying a Dell change their mind? $50? One tank of gas? 1/12 of an iPhone (with no service)? 6% of the purchase price? That might not even cover shipping. You gotta be kidding me if anybody would look at this and say, "hmmm... well then... 50 bucks, huh? Well, sure, I might as well learn an entirely new operating system and find replacements for all of my programs that won't work if there's $50 at stake!"
Here's a little secret for ya'... Unless you're doing some bullshit, high-tech startup that has no intention of turning a profit (venture capital, synergy, blah, blah, blah), you can't get a loan to start a business. It's virtually impossible. Most people who start businesses (myself included) end up having to use personal credit, which is the same shitty system.
I have no evidence, but I knew plenty of people who were making $50/hour plus as HTML/JS people. It was pretty common, actually. I don't know any "full time permanent" people who were making that much, but then again, the "full time permanent" people screwed themselves out of all of the Dot Com Boom money, anyway. But contractors (working as W-2 employees, 40+ hours/week) often took home this much for being straight web people.
Oh, get over yourself. It's an interesting, weird as hell story about some weird people and some weird events. Somebody is probably dead and somebody else probably caused it. It happens every day. The story doesn't deserve any more reverence because you happen to know the guy, or because the guy wrote some slick code.
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people fundamentally distrust others and do not like to be reliant on others when it can be trivally avoided (Linux).
A. Nothing about Linux is trivial unless it comes on an embedded device. That's FUD.
B. Security is too important to be (mis) managed in house for small companies. I WANT to outsource all of my IT stuff so that I don't have to deal with it in house. I'd like to have off-site file serving, mail, web (the last two we have already outsourced). If broadband ever gets to be more reliable, I'd even consider outsourcing app hosting, as well.
finely divided glass dust is NOT something that you want to inhale.
Not to mention the fact that the blender jar and blades are now contaminated with the remnants of the iPhone, rendering the blender unfit for food preparation.
You're proving my point.
When I was a kid, kids did stupid things, got hurt, broke things learned from their mistakes, and grew up to be normal people. Now, we've got kids afraid of their own shadows, and on all kinds of dangerous prescription crazy drugs to help them deal with their neuroses. The kids coming out of today's ultra-neurotic parenting are gonna be fucked up people and I feel bad for them. Hell, I know 6 year olds that are on anti-depressants that are covered head to toe in antibiotic SPF 1000 sunscreens just to leave the house (and even then, only to play in an adult-supervised, fenced in back yard). That's sick.
You're right. And just wait another two years. I'm betting that Nintendo is a one trick pony, and once the hype dies down, that these things will start collecting dust and game sales will tank. If they're smart, they're already working on a sequel... the "Wii Wii" PS3 will just be hitting it's stride, with the bugs worked out, and tons of games hitting the market that are starting to take advantage of the computing power. The 360 will still be popular, but it'll start looking and feeling "old" in comparison to the more powerful PS3.
It's pretty sad you'd say that, actually. When I was a kid, we'd actually do things like this (physically... with our hands). Now, kids just watch them on YouTube because parents are afraid of... well... everything apparently ("glass smoke"? Are you serious?).
Real simple... Windows support costs much less that Ubuntu support. Duh.
That's a terrible analogy. Attaching rabbit ears is a single connection, and it always works. It's not even in the same ballpark.
Maybe there's a really good reason that Photoshop does things the way it does. It's designed for professionals, and hasn't changed a whole lot in at least a decade, so I gotta figure that for professionals, Photoshop is made to work the way most graphics professionals need it to work. The layer thing IS complicated, but from what little I know about graphic design, all of that stuff is very useful (necessary?).
Comparing plugging in a few wires to a TV to installing Linux or FreeBSD is patently absurd.
I can buy a television without subscribing to cable TV service offered by Best Buy, why should a computer (for which there more options) be any different?
Any Joe Schmoe can buy a pair of rabbit ears at Wal-Mart for $5 or plug their TV into a DVD player, game system, etc.
The reality is that most people buying computers with no OS are putting a pirated version Windows on them. That's obvious. Requiring all PC's to come with an OS might not be the best way to do it, but to suggest that most (or even a small percentage) of "No OS" PC's end up with a truly free OS on them at the end of the day is just silly.
This is very good! The more businesses are forced to actually pay for all those MS loaded machines, the easier they might consider using linux.
Why do you care if people use Linux or not? Do you own stock in Red Hat?
You could even make the thing multi-platform, reporting on specific apps, and providing other useful data and pitch it to Google and company.
Why is that data useful, and to who is it useful?
This is how we get to say things like 'Windows is 90% of the market', etc.
That's important for marketing. Why would anybody who is not in marketing care one way or the other?
I hate to tell ya', but if you're reachable by your company 24/7 and you're not compensated accordingly (on-call pay, and of course, full cell phone coverage, at the very least), that you ARE a blue collar worker.
I have one with me 24/7 because I own my own business, and things go wrong. It sucks ass, and yes, by stomach turns every time it rings (I have a very painful stress-induced ulcer), so I agree with you. But really, if you're just some average joe working a regular job that's doesn't pay well into the 6 figures, you shouldn't have to have a cell phone 24/7. That's a pretty rotten situation.
Rental properties, sure. Pipes break. People get locked out. Shit happens. But for a job? Dude, you really need to rethink that.
Well, the parent could also use a traditional landline, which is highly regulated by the government. That's muuuuch better.
Here in the U.S., customers can choose whether they want to get screwed by Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, AT&T, or Comcast. Isn't unregulated capitalism great?!
OK, here's a free clue for ya'... you don't have to buy anything you don't want to.
Now hold on to your pants here. Are you sitting down? You sure? This one will wow ya'... You don't HAVE to even have a cell phone!
Ohh, I know. That will take you a few minutes to wrap your head around. But it's true. You don't actually have to purchase a cell phone, a cell phone contract, or even those stupid Star Trek things that people wear on, around, and in their ears. You can choose to purchase nothing if you want!
I've heard that there is a group of Pacific Islanders ( I don't remember which one... there are so many) that have actually survived for many thousands of years with no telephone service at all. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. I thought the same thing too. It's gotta be fake, like an article from The Onion.
But actually, it's real. I shit you not. There are people who have lived and continue to live without a telephone of any kind. You should look it up... maybe you can learn what their secret trick is to surviving without a telephone.
Now, I don't know if they're capitalists or socialists or communists, or Mormons, (I think they were cannibalistic scientologists living in a semi-rigid authoritarian commune... I can't remember exactly) but I do know that it's possible. So if they can do it, surely you can, too.
So, good luck, and farewell in your quest to not purchase a cell phone.
There's no such thing as "consumer rights". It's a meaningless phrase, anyway,
Hey guys... if you're gonna go over the top like this, how about giving iPhone it's own category, so those of us who are sane can ignore them, huh? With the number of iPhone stories, it should be "Slashdot: News about the iPhone (and some other stuff)".
The difference is that the 'small' company in Cupertino, CA, is not a convicted monopolist.
This is the stupidest argument that people make, and I'm sick of hearing it. Don't trot out the "Big Brother says it's wrong, so it's wrong" argument unless you're also willing to get behind the Patriot Act, the DMCA, harsh drug laws, and every other stupid, moronic law and court case that our broken government spits out.
Somebody doesn't understand what "good will" means. By voluntarily admitting to problems and accepting returns/recalls, they are increasing good will towards themselves. Not admitting to a problem hurts goodwill. I'm not buying an XBox 360 because I don't like them, but I wouldn't not buy one because of this recall/warranty stuff.
HP has always had either rotten on non-existent drivers. I remember returning my last HP device to the store where I bought it (a large flatbed scanner, I think) because HP didn't ever release Windows 2000 drivers for my gizmo with the explanation that Windows 2000 was a "business OS". HP is a truly crappy company. I wouldn't buy a pencil from them.
From the reviews I've been reading, the iPhone's "phone" functionality is pretty much worthless anyway. Even though each sucker [customer] paid a few thousand for what is apparently the worst cell phone service on the market, I'm sure we'll see people just getting rid of it, and instead having a $2000+ iPod. It's twisted, but I'll bet money that it'll be widespread.
I'm not whining. I'm saying that $50 isn't going to convince anybody to switch. That's absurd.
Good for you if you get to save $50. That's great.
And for the record, I have a FreeBSD box that I'm using at home right now for my music collection (FreeNas).
$50 bucks cheaper? Who thinks that this is going to make a single person buying a Dell change their mind? $50? One tank of gas? 1/12 of an iPhone (with no service)? 6% of the purchase price? That might not even cover shipping. You gotta be kidding me if anybody would look at this and say, "hmmm... well then... 50 bucks, huh? Well, sure, I might as well learn an entirely new operating system and find replacements for all of my programs that won't work if there's $50 at stake!"
Slashdot has officially hit a new low.
. It works for starting a business
Here's a little secret for ya'... Unless you're doing some bullshit, high-tech startup that has no intention of turning a profit (venture capital, synergy, blah, blah, blah), you can't get a loan to start a business. It's virtually impossible. Most people who start businesses (myself included) end up having to use personal credit, which is the same shitty system.
I have no evidence, but I knew plenty of people who were making $50/hour plus as HTML/JS people. It was pretty common, actually. I don't know any "full time permanent" people who were making that much, but then again, the "full time permanent" people screwed themselves out of all of the Dot Com Boom money, anyway. But contractors (working as W-2 employees, 40+ hours/week) often took home this much for being straight web people.
Oh, get over yourself. It's an interesting, weird as hell story about some weird people and some weird events. Somebody is probably dead and somebody else probably caused it. It happens every day. The story doesn't deserve any more reverence because you happen to know the guy, or because the guy wrote some slick code.