Lets be honest with each other. Linux is superior to the current Windows framework in many ways. What it lacks are some pretty important things though. Consider the average user: me. I want an office suite that doesn't suck. (Yes I'm forced to use OpenOffice at work along with Thunderbird and the crap calendar plugin it has.) All these apps suck and are slow when compared to Microsoft's offerings. If Linux ran Office 2003 or had a similar solution that didn't suck, could play World of Warcraft, had half decent drivers from at least one company other than nvidia, and didn't require 50,000 libraries I don't have each time I want to install something, I'd use it and pitch Windows XP x64 right out the friggin window.
Open Office needs a LOT of work, WoW isn't working on Linux boxes yet even though it does on OSX, Thunderbird has no realistic shared calendar solution and to do any REAL OS customization and driver changes requires recompiles, kernel mods, and all sorts of other crap most people don't have time for.
True enough and I won't argue that all of the situations necessitating this device suck quite hard. My argument is that less people die using this device and IMHO, that's always a good thing:)
I appreciate what you're saying and also your sense of altruism. Unfortunately, in the world we live in today, I'd rather have my son burned by a raygun than be taken from this world by some trigger happy idiot holding an M16 claiming to "just be following orders".
No possible good use? How about dispersing one group of people that's lynching another group. How about dispersing a group of people about to destroy millions of dollars in property belonging to someone not at all involved in the conflict? Isn't this better than shooting people dead with guns? Tiananmen Square massacre anyone?
Let's ban everything that could possibly be used for evil. Let's start with rayguns, thermonuclear weapons and finish with the internet, caffeine, open source, and anything else that can be abused for that matter. Let me ask you a question: What would you prefer if you were in a crowd regardless of the circumstances: 1. Be shot at with real bullets. 2. Be shot at with rubber bullets. 3. Be shot at with teargas or flashbangs or 4. Be shot at with a raygun?
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Lets be honest with each other. Linux is superior to the current Windows framework in many ways. What it lacks are some pretty important things though. Consider the average user: me. I want an office suite that doesn't suck. (Yes I'm forced to use OpenOffice at work along with Thunderbird and the crap calendar plugin it has.) All these apps suck and are slow when compared to Microsoft's offerings. If Linux ran Office 2003 or had a similar solution that didn't suck, could play World of Warcraft, had half decent drivers from at least one company other than nvidia, and didn't require 50,000 libraries I don't have each time I want to install something, I'd use it and pitch Windows XP x64 right out the friggin window. Open Office needs a LOT of work, WoW isn't working on Linux boxes yet even though it does on OSX, Thunderbird has no realistic shared calendar solution and to do any REAL OS customization and driver changes requires recompiles, kernel mods, and all sorts of other crap most people don't have time for.
Yeah you're right. We should send the Care Bears after them instead.
True enough and I won't argue that all of the situations necessitating this device suck quite hard. My argument is that less people die using this device and IMHO, that's always a good thing :)
I appreciate what you're saying and also your sense of altruism. Unfortunately, in the world we live in today, I'd rather have my son burned by a raygun than be taken from this world by some trigger happy idiot holding an M16 claiming to "just be following orders".
No possible good use? How about dispersing one group of people that's lynching another group. How about dispersing a group of people about to destroy millions of dollars in property belonging to someone not at all involved in the conflict? Isn't this better than shooting people dead with guns? Tiananmen Square massacre anyone?
Let's ban everything that could possibly be used for evil. Let's start with rayguns, thermonuclear weapons and finish with the internet, caffeine, open source, and anything else that can be abused for that matter. Let me ask you a question: What would you prefer if you were in a crowd regardless of the circumstances: 1. Be shot at with real bullets. 2. Be shot at with rubber bullets. 3. Be shot at with teargas or flashbangs or 4. Be shot at with a raygun?
Lost the crown? :) Yeah right, talk to me "after" we see what new things Quake 4 brings to the table. I wouldn't count Carmack out just yet...