do away with patents. Seriously, they are anticompetitive and aid MONOPOLY. If we want monopolies, do it the right way and institute Communism already. Governement-endorsed monopolies in a free-market system are bad. That's why Linux beats 'doze.
Wow, that is a really good point. I may actually have to consider my absolute detest of paranormalism because of your highly insightful topic. Not that I all of the sudden believe in it now, but this does shed a lot of light on the topic.
Let's face it. I love Linux, and so does everyone else here, but it's mainly for hobbyists, developers, and servers. Yes it runs faster, yes its more stable, but think of the target market! I don't think anyone will dare argue with me when I say that Windows is more user-friendly to someone who has never touched a computer in his or her life. M$ pours billions of dollars into making their system easy to use. That's why they don't concentrate on the things we who know what we're doing care about.
Let me provide an example: Under Windows, if I want to install a camera, I plug it in to the USB drive. PRESTO! I can see all my pictures.
Under Linux, If I want to install a camera, I plug it into the USB drive, do an
ls -al|grep sd
to find out whether it got listed as sda, sdb, sdc, or whatever (yes, it differs every time) and then mount it. But the first time I tried to do this, whoops! I didn't have SCSI support in the kernel! Time to recompile the kernel. And also, a lot of googling to find out what I'm supposed to do to mount the camera (who would have guessed it's listed as a SCSI drive?)
So, in conclusion, Linux is better if and only if you know what you're doing. It is a blatant lie to say that it is possible to productively use Linux (or at least as productively as you could use Windows) without heavy use of the command line.
Someone try to prove me wrong, I love a good debate!
I'm not saying they should distribute it beer free, I'm saying that other people distribute it beer free, so you are basically paying $300+ for a sticker on the box that says "Red Hat." Yes, I know you get support, but it would be much cheaper to call a per-call center when you need support.
Seriously, Linux is GPLed free software! Paying 3 digit sums per license for free software boggles the mind. I know, I know, you get support. Well, most of us don't need no freakin support contract. Google is our tech support specialist.
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What does this have to do with my sig?
Exactly.
Good in theory, bad in practice.
do away with patents.
Seriously, they are anticompetitive and aid MONOPOLY. If we want monopolies, do it the right way and institute Communism already. Governement-endorsed monopolies in a free-market system are bad. That's why Linux beats 'doze.
Why not just contribute to Wiktionary?
Or if they don't like the possibility of vandos, why not fork Wiktionary?
You are right. ls -al is just so burned in my mind, that's the file-listing command I always use. So, I guess it's just a habit.
Wow, that is a really good point. I may actually have to consider my absolute detest of paranormalism because of your highly insightful topic. Not that I all of the sudden believe in it now, but this does shed a lot of light on the topic.
Thank you, sir.
Let me provide an example:
Under Windows, if I want to install a camera, I plug it in to the USB drive. PRESTO! I can see all my pictures.
Under Linux, If I want to install a camera, I plug it into the USB drive, do an to find out whether it got listed as sda, sdb, sdc, or whatever (yes, it differs every time) and then mount it.
But the first time I tried to do this, whoops! I didn't have SCSI support in the kernel! Time to recompile the kernel. And also, a lot of googling to find out what I'm supposed to do to mount the camera (who would have guessed it's listed as a SCSI drive?)
So, in conclusion, Linux is better if and only if you know what you're doing. It is a blatant lie to say that it is possible to productively use Linux (or at least as productively as you could use Windows) without heavy use of the command line.
Someone try to prove me wrong, I love a good debate!
I'm not saying they should distribute it beer free, I'm saying that other people distribute it beer free, so you are basically paying $300+ for a sticker on the box that says "Red Hat." Yes, I know you get support, but it would be much cheaper to call a per-call center when you need support.
Say it includes driver for Joe Hardware
Solution: Go to www.joehardware.com and download the driver. It's not very hard.
XP==NT6
(iirc)
Why is Fedora beating Gentoo?
JustWorks(TM) Factor not high enough in Gentoo?
What were the mods smoking when they modded this troll?
Whoops, it filtered out my lessthan sign. Good version:
Google+percall when stuck<$300/yr
Don't forget that they can always call per-call support if they're really stuck, and I highly doubt it will add up to that much.
Google+percall when stuck$300/yr
Seriously, Linux is GPLed free software!
Paying 3 digit sums per license for free software boggles the mind. I know, I know, you get support. Well, most of us don't need no freakin support contract. Google is our tech support specialist.
I define "old" as anyone who uses $CURRENT_TOPIC in Korea.
Or does anything in Korea, as the new meme would suggest
No. Is anyone on /. old?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/1 3/2127206&tid=191&tid=14
some dude can open email, watch TV, and play pong with his brain.
Anything XML must be good. I'm not being smart, I'm absolutely serious. XML is the best thing since sliced bread.