But I noticed something peculiar in this article, there were no examples of students being encouraged to drop or avoid math as the title of both the Slashdot summary and the BBC's article state.
He is not asking that we limit the number of operating system choices. He isn't saying we have too much choice. He's saying that the reason why Microsoft wins is we have too much choice.
As far as your analogy goes, it would be better said: Google wins because it is simple. Yahoo has too much "choice"
Where choice in this sense is clutter on their front page: Yahoo games, Yahoo autos, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Movies, and the list just goes on. Although Google offers some similar choices, its primary feature is the search engine (at least towards attracting people to its site, but if we speak of generating revenue we have another story). Most people come to Google to search, and that's all there is to it. But Yahoo tries to draw you away with its many, many, many abundant tangents.
Your argument is based on a specious assumption: that most people aren't competent to own guns. I personally think that's a load of bollocks. But even if you're right, the underlying point is still this: there is NO way to guarantee that you keep guns out of the *wrong* hands. And since the "bad guys" will always have guns, it's wrong to deprive the good guys of the means to defend themselves.
I agree. The third one is the only one that actually attempts to convince you that you should actually use Linux. The first simply let's us know it exists (and anyone actually interested in watching these spoofs would know). The second let's us know that it keeps up to date. But its analogy is not well-thought out, I mean, mac looks way nicer than they show it to be. And Linux, well, I dunno how the analogy is supposed to fit into how linux looks. Reality is much closer to Linux having mismatched colored socks, pants from goodwill, and a knock-off designer purse made in China (really, made in China). Not because it doesn't look nice and not because it's knockoff (no matter how well imitated, where is Linux innovation in GUI?), but because of how its put together. And then there are always people competing, within Linux, for your time (Gnome vs. Kde, etc). Instead of a person out of nowhere handing you a nice nifty new jacket, it would probably be a few people handing you nice jackets, all for free of course, and letting you put what in the closet you wish and wear what when you want.
But the third commercial has no odd-fitting analogies. It's plain and simple: people use Linux, and although not everyone tries to hide it, many would want to use Linux if they only could.
"Blacks in pre-civil war America (and some time afterwards) were also seen as "subhuman" (legally, actually 1/3 of a person) and therefore slave owners were justified in treating them as domesticated animals."
I have a house full of CFs, and have had them for half a decade now, and not only is the colour pleasing with the modern ones, and there is zero flicker or start-up lag, but in the entire time I've owned CFs I've changed two whole bulbs, one being used outside in -25C temperature when it was only rated for indoor use.
So your 'modern' CFs (save the two whole bulbs you've replaced thus far) are half a decade old. Is there a contradiction here, or is this merely an overstatement?
This type of rhetoric is why half the world isn't taking open source seriously.
The first sentence alone is enough for anyone with legal binding power to dismiss this as a rant, "It's come to many in the Linux community's attention you have claimed again and again, that Linux violates Microsoft's intellectual property."
And the header, "Show us the code:\>" Is that a poor imitation of "letter-drive:>" or a confused happy face wearing an upside down party hat? Come on, now.
Most people are of average or lesser intelligence. Most people make far less than the median income. Hell, most people live and die within walking distance of where they were born. But even in third world ghettos, cell phone usage is exploding.
Your Ludditism and lack of influence are no basis for generalizations about the needs of people who buy cell phones.
Talk about generalizations. How about this: most people are of average or higher (a bold word for a bold statement) intelligence (just as true, no?). Better yet, most people, by its very definition, are simply of average intelligence.
"Median income is the amount which divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount." According to wikipedia.
How can "most" people make FAR less than the median, if by definition, it splits the group in half?
And the last bone to pick: what is this most people live and die within walking distance of where they were born? I'm sure you're making generalizations. Have you even met most people? Do you know where they travel, what they do, how they live? No. I'm sure, almost as sure as you are of these generalizations.
It would also explain why socks disappear from the dryer, my car keys aren't where I left them, voting irregularities, etc.: Microsoft has got its hand in the kernel somewhere.
There are a lot more clever explanations of why you lost your socks and car keys than that you're living in some kind of computer simulation (a la the movie Matrix), including, among others, gremlins, leprechauns, fairies, and the like. Don't be so close-minded. "A bit of a fan". HA. You're an extremist.
The European Union, the United States, and Russia are the world's three largest sugar beet producers,[1] although only Europe and Ukraine are significant exporters of sugar from beet. Beet sugar accounts for 30% of the world's sugar production.
You don't need to be a Bible thumper to not want porn all over your cell phones and potentially purchasable by your children, who already go wild enough with ring tones, picture mail, and text messages to run up your bill. Imagine a 13 year old who got a hold of a phone with porn where ever and whenever they wanted. They already go over their prepaid minutes enough.
The safeguards in place to keep bill prices low aren't enough as it is (phone companies have cheated enough parents of their money when their children are irresponsible with overage charges).
So yeah, I really wish people would stop making snide remarks as if the Chinese wiki is the government's parade ground, without even taking a look at it.
Well, seeing as how 99% of the people who make those comments (especially here on slashdot) don't know how to read or even understand Chinese, taking a look at the page wouldn't do much to change their bias anyhow.
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But I noticed something peculiar in this article, there were no examples of students being encouraged to drop or avoid math as the title of both the Slashdot summary and the BBC's article state.
Here it is.
He is not asking that we limit the number of operating system choices. He isn't saying we have too much choice. He's saying that the reason why Microsoft wins is we have too much choice.
As far as your analogy goes, it would be better said: Google wins because it is simple. Yahoo has too much "choice"
Where choice in this sense is clutter on their front page: Yahoo games, Yahoo autos, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Movies, and the list just goes on. Although Google offers some similar choices, its primary feature is the search engine (at least towards attracting people to its site, but if we speak of generating revenue we have another story). Most people come to Google to search, and that's all there is to it. But Yahoo tries to draw you away with its many, many, many abundant tangents.
Your argument is based on a specious assumption: that most people aren't competent to own guns. I personally think that's a load of bollocks. But even if you're right, the underlying point is still this: there is NO way to guarantee that you keep guns out of the *wrong* hands. And since the "bad guys" will always have guns, it's wrong to deprive the good guys of the means to defend themselves.
Your name is psykocrime.
QED.
What does UCSC think of this? How long will it stay up?
I'd like to do something like this on my UC campus... See you on the front page of slashdot in a week!
Definitely interesting as a counterpoint.
Hey, thanks for prescribing your own karma.
in the USA you can't drink until you're 21.
Oh, you can drink. Just go to college.
Hello HP;
You really are an engineer: you've greeted HP through a comment via Slashdot.
...has caused a leak of hellium gas and...
It's helium.
This seems... fishy.
Fishy numbers for fishy fish.
...unless it has a Starbuck's.
Which completes it, reaching for the stars
Or making the buck?
Ha. Corny, I know. =(.
I clicked it fully expecting my browser to crash.
What I got instead was this: "The image 'http://www.danamania.com/temp/dontloadthis.jpg' cannot be displayed, because it contains errors."
The header on my firefox browser said "20000x20000 pixels scaled 2%"
I like the third one best
I agree. The third one is the only one that actually attempts to convince you that you should actually use Linux. The first simply let's us know it exists (and anyone actually interested in watching these spoofs would know). The second let's us know that it keeps up to date. But its analogy is not well-thought out, I mean, mac looks way nicer than they show it to be. And Linux, well, I dunno how the analogy is supposed to fit into how linux looks. Reality is much closer to Linux having mismatched colored socks, pants from goodwill, and a knock-off designer purse made in China (really, made in China). Not because it doesn't look nice and not because it's knockoff (no matter how well imitated, where is Linux innovation in GUI?), but because of how its put together. And then there are always people competing, within Linux, for your time (Gnome vs. Kde, etc). Instead of a person out of nowhere handing you a nice nifty new jacket, it would probably be a few people handing you nice jackets, all for free of course, and letting you put what in the closet you wish and wear what when you want.
But the third commercial has no odd-fitting analogies. It's plain and simple: people use Linux, and although not everyone tries to hide it, many would want to use Linux if they only could.
"Blacks in pre-civil war America (and some time afterwards) were also seen as "subhuman" (legally, actually 1/3 of a person) and therefore slave owners were justified in treating them as domesticated animals."
Actually, 3/5's of a person: Three Fifths Compromise.
I'll just begin my copy and paste of articles from whitesupremacy.com to message boards for storage.
I have a house full of CFs, and have had them for half a decade now, and not only is the colour pleasing with the modern ones, and there is zero flicker or start-up lag, but in the entire time I've owned CFs I've changed two whole bulbs, one being used outside in -25C temperature when it was only rated for indoor use.
So your 'modern' CFs (save the two whole bulbs you've replaced thus far) are half a decade old. Is there a contradiction here, or is this merely an overstatement?
This type of rhetoric is why half the world isn't taking open source seriously.
:\>" Is that a poor imitation of "letter-drive:>" or a confused happy face wearing an upside down party hat? Come on, now.
The first sentence alone is enough for anyone with legal binding power to dismiss this as a rant, "It's come to many in the Linux community's attention you have claimed again and again, that Linux violates Microsoft's intellectual property."
And the header, "Show us the code
How are you going to close a petition? At least have the decency to let them finish what they have to say before your closed mind shuts them up.
Most people are of average or lesser intelligence. Most people make far less than the median income. Hell, most people live and die within walking distance of where they were born. But even in third world ghettos, cell phone usage is exploding.
Your Ludditism and lack of influence are no basis for generalizations about the needs of people who buy cell phones.
Talk about generalizations. How about this: most people are of average or higher (a bold word for a bold statement) intelligence (just as true, no?). Better yet, most people, by its very definition, are simply of average intelligence.
"Median income is the amount which divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount." According to wikipedia.
How can "most" people make FAR less than the median, if by definition, it splits the group in half?
And the last bone to pick: what is this most people live and die within walking distance of where they were born? I'm sure you're making generalizations. Have you even met most people? Do you know where they travel, what they do, how they live? No. I'm sure, almost as sure as you are of these generalizations.
It would also explain why socks disappear from the dryer, my car keys aren't where I left them, voting irregularities, etc.: Microsoft has got its hand in the kernel somewhere.
There are a lot more clever explanations of why you lost your socks and car keys than that you're living in some kind of computer simulation (a la the movie Matrix), including, among others, gremlins, leprechauns, fairies, and the like. Don't be so close-minded. "A bit of a fan". HA. You're an extremist.
You'd have to buy into Creationism to think that such as we could never have happened anywhere else.
No where in "Creationism" does it say life in other parts of the galaxy doesn't exist.
According to this:
The European Union, the United States, and Russia are the world's three largest sugar beet producers,[1] although only Europe and Ukraine are significant exporters of sugar from beet. Beet sugar accounts for 30% of the world's sugar production.
You don't need to be a Bible thumper to not want porn all over your cell phones and potentially purchasable by your children, who already go wild enough with ring tones, picture mail, and text messages to run up your bill. Imagine a 13 year old who got a hold of a phone with porn where ever and whenever they wanted. They already go over their prepaid minutes enough.
The safeguards in place to keep bill prices low aren't enough as it is (phone companies have cheated enough parents of their money when their children are irresponsible with overage charges).
Why in the universe would you triple boot Netbsd, freebsd and x86 solaris on the same computer? EVER?
So yeah, I really wish people would stop making snide remarks as if the Chinese wiki is the government's parade ground, without even taking a look at it.
Well, seeing as how 99% of the people who make those comments (especially here on slashdot) don't know how to read or even understand Chinese, taking a look at the page wouldn't do much to change their bias anyhow.
Well, apparently, 12% of users go out and do just that.