Competition should be about various parties working against each other on a basically level playing field, using the actual advantages of their respective products and offerings. So in this mythical land of fair competition, what's the score of your average baseball game?
My point was not that M$ shouldn't cheat or that cheating is right, I just implied that I understand why the cheating takes place. This cheating will never stop, even if M$ is crushed someone else will rise up and cheat away, there is just too much money at state for this kind of activity not to take place. My point was that if Linux relied simply on their innovation and openness then, level playing field or not, it would not take too long for people to realize that the shit being pumped down their throat is, in fact, shit and why eat shit when you are standing next to a garden with the statue of a penguin standign in it holding a sign that says 'free'.
Isn't this what competition is about? I realize M$ does not always--alright never--compete fairly but if Linux will ever take a substantial chunk of M$'s customers away, it will need to do so on the back of innovation and openness. We can not just hope that M$ will stop playing dirty, it makes them billions of dollars and whenever that much money is thrown around who wouldn't round a few corners to make sure that the private chopper always has enough gas?
Isn't Michigan the best? First we had David Hahn and now we have fusion boy. It really makes me want to actually do something worthwhile in my Michigan basement or shed.
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Explain your stance to the person/persons paying you to make a super-duper-lookin' site and you will find yourself with one less client.
Besides, can you really blame the people who sat down, used IE4 and said, "This is garbage, why would I ever want to upgrade garbage?" In fact, I think we should hold these champions of Windows 95 up as examples. They have been immune to the Windows-upgrade hype since the beginning. Either that or they have just been waiting for Vista for a reaaaaaaaaaaaaly long time.
does anyone believe this crap? sure, i have a lot of available mind share just floating around. when i have spare time i mess with linux or something else to do with my computer (read: gaming). take my computer away and i'm not trying to figure out how to drop a case of pickled sausages onto a village in africa without breaking the pickling jars or crushing someone. no, at that point i'm trying to figure out how i get my computer back. so no mind share is lost, instead the spare geek cycles are, instead, harvested.
the day i learned of the SUSE/M$ deal, I removed SUSE from my triple booting laptop. before the deal I would switch between ubuntu, fedora and SUSE and enjoy each of the distros' strong points. now, i look at SUSE and i just see a lamer version of windows in its early stages. its partition has now been replaced with freeBSD. sure i lost some polish but i saved my soul.
I've always had a thing for intel motherboards, at least when building computers for use at work. Something about having an intel chipset on an intel board always seemed to result in fewer motherboard setup problems. Sure some of the tweaking was not there, but for the "it just needs to work" systems i wasn't looking for tweaking. The only problem was having to use an intel processor. Now that nVidia is making motherboards, or so it seems, this should create a reliable solution in the AMD-flavor of motherboards. Now to convince my boss...
I was kind of disappointed that the Shipit process has changed. According to the site you can only get free Ubuntu CDs of 6.06. If you want 6.10, you will have to pay for them. I guess the gravy train has to run out of gravy eventually. Regardless, I still can't wait for the torrent of 6.10 alt install to finish.
I make all my slide shows using XHTML. It sure takes a lot longer than PowerPoint, but it makes me feel all warm inside and that is all any of us are after.
I didn't write the page, just linked to it. Besides, I'm so use to bad Web sites that when I see something that looks like it is off, I just curse MS and load up IE.
I went to a large state school and never had any such professors. If I even only had one or two courses with professors like that, I would probably feel very differently about college. As it is, it seems like the vast majority of colleges are just high school v2.0 (same boring stuff, more party).
I am a state school grad myself, a school known for its parties and its riots (when you try to take the parties away) but I still had four professors I considered brilliant. I was lucky, however, because I studied literature and philosophy, two disciplines that attract the best minds towards teaching. I would imagine that this is not the case with computer science and other practical fields.
Books don't get any less informative just because they're not being regurgitated onto a chalkboard for you.
Spoken like a person who has never experienced a truly brilliant professor who has spent his life researching a single topic. I don't understand why you think you can argue how college is worthless never having experienced it. Did you consider that you might be marginalizing a good number of fantastic schools just because you heard from your buddy that all college was gang bangs, football games and an ointment. Oh wait, this is/. Never mind.
Yahoo! mail is a pile of garbage. I kind of feel dirty for trying it out. After I finish writing this post I'm going to write gmail an apology for looking around.
Maybe this is kind of knee-jerkey, but 3/4 page ads? Plus adds added into the toolbar looking like functions of Yahoo! mail. I think I would rather use hotmail over this.
Would a bubbled city offer a better life for millions in the upper north, people who deal with more winter than summer?
You "sunny-state" people are so funny. An inch of snow and life grinds to a halt and you are left wondering about all of those poor people forced to live in the north. As a native of the north I would like to go on the record saying that it really is not that bad. People who live in the north tend to love the winter and the opportunities it offers. If we were as ethnocentric as you, we might welcome our bubble overlords with hopes that they will bring winter to all of the people who are denied its beauty. But we are not, but we still welcome our bubble overlords.
It sure is tempting to just say touché and bask in my wit. But seriously, an Axis comparison? Apple really must have done you wrong. Regardless, I'll play along. If I had to choose a dictator and my only two options were Hitler (Microsoft) or Mussolini (Apple), I'd take Mussolini. After all, it was the Nazis that persuaded Mussolini to adopt their racial policies. That alone edges out Bill, I mean Adolf.
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My point was not that M$ shouldn't cheat or that cheating is right, I just implied that I understand why the cheating takes place. This cheating will never stop, even if M$ is crushed someone else will rise up and cheat away, there is just too much money at state for this kind of activity not to take place. My point was that if Linux relied simply on their innovation and openness then, level playing field or not, it would not take too long for people to realize that the shit being pumped down their throat is, in fact, shit and why eat shit when you are standing next to a garden with the statue of a penguin standign in it holding a sign that says 'free'.
Isn't this what competition is about? I realize M$ does not always--alright never--compete fairly but if Linux will ever take a substantial chunk of M$'s customers away, it will need to do so on the back of innovation and openness. We can not just hope that M$ will stop playing dirty, it makes them billions of dollars and whenever that much money is thrown around who wouldn't round a few corners to make sure that the private chopper always has enough gas?
Isn't Michigan the best? First we had David Hahn and now we have fusion boy. It really makes me want to actually do something worthwhile in my Michigan basement or shed.
Explain your stance to the person/persons paying you to make a super-duper-lookin' site and you will find yourself with one less client. Besides, can you really blame the people who sat down, used IE4 and said, "This is garbage, why would I ever want to upgrade garbage?" In fact, I think we should hold these champions of Windows 95 up as examples. They have been immune to the Windows-upgrade hype since the beginning. Either that or they have just been waiting for Vista for a reaaaaaaaaaaaaly long time.
"The real problem is lost mind share."
does anyone believe this crap? sure, i have a lot of available mind share just floating around. when i have spare time i mess with linux or something else to do with my computer (read: gaming). take my computer away and i'm not trying to figure out how to drop a case of pickled sausages onto a village in africa without breaking the pickling jars or crushing someone. no, at that point i'm trying to figure out how i get my computer back. so no mind share is lost, instead the spare geek cycles are, instead, harvested.
the day i learned of the SUSE/M$ deal, I removed SUSE from my triple booting laptop. before the deal I would switch between ubuntu, fedora and SUSE and enjoy each of the distros' strong points. now, i look at SUSE and i just see a lamer version of windows in its early stages. its partition has now been replaced with freeBSD. sure i lost some polish but i saved my soul.
i realize this is a core2 board (or i realize now, anyway). just mode me offtopic and be done with it.
I've always had a thing for intel motherboards, at least when building computers for use at work. Something about having an intel chipset on an intel board always seemed to result in fewer motherboard setup problems. Sure some of the tweaking was not there, but for the "it just needs to work" systems i wasn't looking for tweaking. The only problem was having to use an intel processor. Now that nVidia is making motherboards, or so it seems, this should create a reliable solution in the AMD-flavor of motherboards. Now to convince my boss...
where are my mod points when i need them...
I was kind of disappointed that the Shipit process has changed. According to the site you can only get free Ubuntu CDs of 6.06. If you want 6.10, you will have to pay for them. I guess the gravy train has to run out of gravy eventually. Regardless, I still can't wait for the torrent of 6.10 alt install to finish.
I make all my slide shows using XHTML. It sure takes a lot longer than PowerPoint, but it makes me feel all warm inside and that is all any of us are after.
no, the worst way to accomplish anything is to put a restrictive DRM on it and then market the crap out of it. shooting is a distant second.
Now this sounds like a company to work for. Ferraris, models and a board room full of ex-cons. How did the nerds become so cool?
I didn't write the page, just linked to it. Besides, I'm so use to bad Web sites that when I see something that looks like it is off, I just curse MS and load up IE.
Each american produces about 2.3 kg of trash a day
/. posts? Because some of us should be well over 2.3 kg.
Does that include
And what are these kg's anyway? I thought we were talking about americans? Can't we use big macs or something STANDARD to measure things?
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/69ae9009ca2c19ca8 f7c71d2dfe5ce99/index.html
How did you not put WoW on this list. Shame on you.
I went to a large state school and never had any such professors. If I even only had one or two courses with professors like that, I would probably feel very differently about college. As it is, it seems like the vast majority of colleges are just high school v2.0 (same boring stuff, more party).
I am a state school grad myself, a school known for its parties and its riots (when you try to take the parties away) but I still had four professors I considered brilliant. I was lucky, however, because I studied literature and philosophy, two disciplines that attract the best minds towards teaching. I would imagine that this is not the case with computer science and other practical fields.
Books don't get any less informative just because they're not being regurgitated onto a chalkboard for you.
/. Never mind.
Spoken like a person who has never experienced a truly brilliant professor who has spent his life researching a single topic. I don't understand why you think you can argue how college is worthless never having experienced it. Did you consider that you might be marginalizing a good number of fantastic schools just because you heard from your buddy that all college was gang bangs, football games and an ointment. Oh wait, this is
Yahoo! mail is a pile of garbage. I kind of feel dirty for trying it out. After I finish writing this post I'm going to write gmail an apology for looking around.
Maybe this is kind of knee-jerkey, but 3/4 page ads? Plus adds added into the toolbar looking like functions of Yahoo! mail. I think I would rather use hotmail over this.
Here is a little something for ya...
You "sunny-state" people are so funny. An inch of snow and life grinds to a halt and you are left wondering about all of those poor people forced to live in the north. As a native of the north I would like to go on the record saying that it really is not that bad. People who live in the north tend to love the winter and the opportunities it offers. If we were as ethnocentric as you, we might welcome our bubble overlords with hopes that they will bring winter to all of the people who are denied its beauty. But we are not, but we still welcome our bubble overlords.
have you ever played warcraft?
emotions? on /.? isn't this what the lifetime channel is for? maybe another merger is in the works for this week?
It sure is tempting to just say touché and bask in my wit. But seriously, an Axis comparison? Apple really must have done you wrong. Regardless, I'll play along. If I had to choose a dictator and my only two options were Hitler (Microsoft) or Mussolini (Apple), I'd take Mussolini. After all, it was the Nazis that persuaded Mussolini to adopt their racial policies. That alone edges out Bill, I mean Adolf.