Your LINUX acronym is a backronym. The name Linux comes from the first place Linus uploaded the kernel to. He didn't supply a name for it, so they made one up.
In the early days of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to greet each other with an exchange of:
Caller: "Ahoy!"
Callee: "Ahoy hoy!"
Mr. Burns does it, if you're a Simpsons fan.
Actually, simply including MSIE with Windows wasn't their crime- it was their insistence that vendors include ONLY MSIE, along with other demands, else lose the right to sell MSFT products, that was MSFT's crime.
Whorf and Sapir fail, imo, because they're looking for a one-way street. Thinking less of queer people leads to saying "gay", which reinforces the lack of respect for queer people. which leads to saying "gay" for lame...
I'll see your anecdotal group of queer friends who use "gay" for lame and raise you an anecdotal campus full of homophobes who think the words are synonymous.
You've never seen apt-get or its Synaptic frontend, have you?
'Cos they pretty much take your argument behind the shed and quietly beat it to death with shovels.
...and if your reading comprehension skills weren't the result of our public school system, you'd have noticed that your viewpoint is exactly the same as that of the individual you've just bitched out. Way to think, genius.
It isn't about functionality, it's about mindshare. Anyone could slap together a PHP or MySQL app to replace Facebook in a few weeks, but replicating the idea that The Facebook is where you go to post pics of yourself, catch up with friends, and schedule the party for this weekend? Anyone would kill for that sort of mindshare.
Those "rights" are no such things. They are wrongs which have been legally codified as legal privileges. The solution is not to respect them, but to annihilate them.
Sorry, no. The correct response to a bad system is not playing along and creating crappy situations that soften the blow of that bad system, it's knocking down the system and creating something healthier.
I mean, by your logic, everyone should just write programs for Windows that make the crappiness of Windows more bearable instead of saying "Fuck you, MSFT!" and creating/ programming for Linux.
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End users can learn to program.
It's guh-NOO.
Are you going to write your own version of ls so that you don't have to use Stallman's software?
Your LINUX acronym is a backronym. The name Linux comes from the first place Linus uploaded the kernel to. He didn't supply a name for it, so they made one up.
Ever read any of your man pages? Check out how many of your basic commands and system utilities are FSF. Hell, ls was partially written by Stallman.
In the early days of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to greet each other with an exchange of: Caller: "Ahoy!" Callee: "Ahoy hoy!" Mr. Burns does it, if you're a Simpsons fan.
Actually, simply including MSIE with Windows wasn't their crime- it was their insistence that vendors include ONLY MSIE, along with other demands, else lose the right to sell MSFT products, that was MSFT's crime.
What, and can we also say "nigger" as long as we spell it "nhiggehr?"
Whorf and Sapir fail, imo, because they're looking for a one-way street. Thinking less of queer people leads to saying "gay", which reinforces the lack of respect for queer people. which leads to saying "gay" for lame... I'll see your anecdotal group of queer friends who use "gay" for lame and raise you an anecdotal campus full of homophobes who think the words are synonymous.
I don't want to know you, and you don't want to know me! We have so much in common, we should hang out!
You restrict foolishness and merriment to a single day each year? Wow. I'm glad I don't know you.
Apple didn't insist on not lowering prices on cheaper tracks- they insisted on not raising prices on popular tracks.
You've never seen apt-get or its Synaptic frontend, have you? 'Cos they pretty much take your argument behind the shed and quietly beat it to death with shovels.
...and if your reading comprehension skills weren't the result of our public school system, you'd have noticed that your viewpoint is exactly the same as that of the individual you've just bitched out. Way to think, genius.
Please!
If you're after Windows users, simply making the switch constitutes a fairly high improvement in security in and of itself.
Dare you to say that under your username. Fucking coward.
It isn't about functionality, it's about mindshare. Anyone could slap together a PHP or MySQL app to replace Facebook in a few weeks, but replicating the idea that The Facebook is where you go to post pics of yourself, catch up with friends, and schedule the party for this weekend? Anyone would kill for that sort of mindshare.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. I'm just sad that Meese or North didn't get it first.
Run a website full of idiot college students or live in unimaginable luxury... decisions, decisions...
Well-played, timecop. Well-played.
Those "rights" are no such things. They are wrongs which have been legally codified as legal privileges. The solution is not to respect them, but to annihilate them.
>>>>>Vista is probably the upper limit on what the size of an OS (or any computer program) can be. Yeah, and who could ever need more than 64K?
Sorry, no. The correct response to a bad system is not playing along and creating crappy situations that soften the blow of that bad system, it's knocking down the system and creating something healthier. I mean, by your logic, everyone should just write programs for Windows that make the crappiness of Windows more bearable instead of saying "Fuck you, MSFT!" and creating/ programming for Linux.
I use PCLinuxOS, which started as a Mandriva fork. It comes on one cd, and anything I need I just download through Synaptic.