This is just further proof that our nation wastes tax payer's money.
I could give a shit about how comfortable astronauts are when using urinal on a space station or shuttle. You're wasting my paycheck on this bullshit? Fucking Christ.
You have to realize that Slashdot is filled to the brim with users that follow stereotypes. There are no leaders here. Only followers. They don't know about the concept of thinking for themselves.
Microsoft on your resume, yes, that would be one of the best possible things you could ever have on an IT resume as previous job experience. Anyone in IT with common sense would kill for that job, if only to have it on his or her resume.
If anyone doesn't agree with that, they lose all credibility.
"If the "market penetration" philosophy were true Unix would have been hacked to bits decades ago."
I have to LOL at this reply. You're wrong and the sad part is you will never wise up. Read the article again. Don't partially quote, thereby changing the real meaning and try to rebuke the writer's point.
When will you people take your "what I use is far superior to what you use in every way and I am God" idealism elsewhere? What is it about these alternative operating systems that make you all so delusional that you can't accept the simple facts of reality...
The problem isn't WoW. It's that all the other MMOs out there suck about as hard as a black hole. Make a decent MMO and people might actually play it. SWG dug it's own hole, they can blame no one else. As for other MMOs, how about creating something that we can enjoy after we stop wearing diapers.
What kind of lame off point response is that? First off, that was random and had nothing to do with what I said. Second, you said "that Windows brought upon us". That is beyond laughable. I'm sure Windows had everything to do with it. No, don't even go there. You will not convince me. I am not that naive.
What the hell. You're actually suggesting we install a program using some method other than it's own installation?
I really don't see the logic in 80% of the responses at/.
I'm one of those;-). Although corporate is starting to filter out message boards and sites of that nature. In most of those cases all I have do is hit "continue" to view the site anyway.
I work in IT as a Network Administrator and most of the time I am able to fix what goes wrong in five to 10 minutes while in charge of rougly 200 computers, five server rooms, application servers, support about 160 employees...a lot of the free time I have I spend reading articles online (mainly RSS feeds).
If you want to incriminate someone, initiate a search for "baby porn" through Google on a computer their logged in to and walk away. That would be an interesting thing to do at an employee's desk. Imagine the ramifications when corporate checks web usage.
If you don't like grinding, quit playing MMO's. Simple solution.
I can't stand people that complain about the need to grind in an MMO. They don't bitch about having to run the bases in baseball. Then again they probably would.
>>As much as I hate to admit it, windows XP took me 8 hours to install the other day due to a continuous series of absolutely absurd events (any of which would have completely stumped 99.9% of the public).
It sounds to me like it completely stumped you too, if it took 8 hours to install XP. As long as XP has been available and as many systems I've installed it on, I don't believe it's ever taken longer than 45 minutes to an hour and more typically about 30 minutes.
Will the iPhone kill the iPod? Who actually believes that it would? It will not with 100% certainty. We don't need to explain why since it's common sense. What kind of stupid question is that anyway?
>if you do an install of an OS without a firewall you are an idiot
Oh really? I have been doing that for 15 years and never once been compromised in any way.
Honestly, I would suggest those of you that have had issues installing an OS with no protection to STOP searching for porn while your OS downloads updates, but that is just me.
>>I don't like the way Russinovich is blowing Vista's horn now. I liked him more when he was more critical and analytical on what could be improved, instead of what has already been done.
Are you sure that you do not mean that you don't want to hear anything that does not shed negative light on a Microsoft product?
Of course you will. If your toddler mistakes your hard disk for a slinky... That's probably the best credible excuse you will ever have for screwing up a Vista install.
You CAN "reallocate that beast" to another partition. It takes a simple right click on your My Documents folder to direct it another location.
I have to ask. What exactly should Microsoft have done? Automatically locate the My Documents folder on another partition? When the majority of people have a hard time understanding how to right-click the mouse or locate files on their computer, you don't want to go screwing with their hard drive adding new drive letters.
Possibly due to the fact that some of us actually know how to install an operating system without screwing up that rather easy process. If you can't install Vista without issue, I would strongly suggest that you work at the local Burger King and turn in your drivers license so you don't kill anyone. Or perhaps at least don't eat the product you sale while doing so. You need the working brain cells that you do have concentrating on the road.
Vista runs like a charm for the majority of people with at least the common sense of a zoo animal.
It boggles my mind how anyone that has issues with Windows manages to so much as install Ubuntu, much less Fedora or heaven forbid, Gentoo.
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This is just further proof that our nation wastes tax payer's money.
I could give a shit about how comfortable astronauts are when using urinal on a space station or shuttle. You're wasting my paycheck on this bullshit? Fucking Christ.
You have to realize that Slashdot is filled to the brim with users that follow stereotypes. There are no leaders here. Only followers. They don't know about the concept of thinking for themselves.
Microsoft on your resume, yes, that would be one of the best possible things you could ever have on an IT resume as previous job experience. Anyone in IT with common sense would kill for that job, if only to have it on his or her resume.
If anyone doesn't agree with that, they lose all credibility.
>>Because 100,000k security researchers and hackers all typing away at keyboards will eventually write Shakespeare?
Wow I am impressed. Someone actually has a brain here.
> Dell asks us what we want. We tell them. They do it. Now we complain.
You should not expect any better of Linux users.
People will complain about anything anyway. No matter what it is.
By the way. I wouldn't want to support a damn thing on Linux either. Linux user or not, you know damn well there is plenty of good reason for that.
"If the "market penetration" philosophy were true Unix would have been hacked to bits decades ago."
I have to LOL at this reply. You're wrong and the sad part is you will never wise up. Read the article again. Don't partially quote, thereby changing the real meaning and try to rebuke the writer's point. When will you people take your "what I use is far superior to what you use in every way and I am God" idealism elsewhere? What is it about these alternative operating systems that make you all so delusional that you can't accept the simple facts of reality...
The problem isn't WoW. It's that all the other MMOs out there suck about as hard as a black hole. Make a decent MMO and people might actually play it. SWG dug it's own hole, they can blame no one else. As for other MMOs, how about creating something that we can enjoy after we stop wearing diapers.
I've been writing music for 10 years and doing my own sound production for almost as long. Use Linux for this? Ha!
The proposterous ideas that people come up with.
Oh the poor poor sensative king. Someone please ship a crate of kleenex with a get well soon card.
What kind of lame off point response is that? First off, that was random and had nothing to do with what I said. Second, you said "that Windows brought upon us". That is beyond laughable. I'm sure Windows had everything to do with it. No, don't even go there. You will not convince me. I am not that naive.
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What the hell. You're actually suggesting we install a program using some method other than it's own installation?
I really don't see the logic in 80% of the responses at
Alright. That is enough. No more drugs for the lot of you!
I'm one of those ;-). Although corporate is starting to filter out message boards and sites of that nature. In most of those cases all I have do is hit "continue" to view the site anyway.
I work in IT as a Network Administrator and most of the time I am able to fix what goes wrong in five to 10 minutes while in charge of rougly 200 computers, five server rooms, application servers, support about 160 employees...a lot of the free time I have I spend reading articles online (mainly RSS feeds).
You could always type up the emails in notepad then just copy and paste when you have an Internet connection. :-P
I forward all my emails to Gmail now and use it, except when I am at work. Then I use Outlook and Exchange.
If you want to incriminate someone, initiate a search for "baby porn" through Google on a computer their logged in to and walk away. That would be an interesting thing to do at an employee's desk. Imagine the ramifications when corporate checks web usage.
Awards go to Computerworld.com for:
The #1 "Informative" article to avoid, because it is useless and a waste of time.
and...
The #1 website to avoid if you want useful information.
It's about time for Computerworld to lay off some writers.
You know, that is EXACTLY what I was thinking. I think this is the end of /. Surely, this means the end of the world... I mean... Slashdot.
The next thing you know Linux users will actually agree that their OS isn't all it's hyped up to be. Oh no!
If you don't like grinding, quit playing MMO's. Simple solution.
I can't stand people that complain about the need to grind in an MMO. They don't bitch about having to run the bases in baseball. Then again they probably would.
>>As much as I hate to admit it, windows XP took me 8 hours to install the other day due to a continuous series of absolutely absurd events (any of which would have completely stumped 99.9% of the public).
:-)
It sounds to me like it completely stumped you too, if it took 8 hours to install XP. As long as XP has been available and as many systems I've installed it on, I don't believe it's ever taken longer than 45 minutes to an hour and more typically about 30 minutes.
>> If you keep putting out cookie cutter band clones that don't actually do MUSIC, how are you going to sell MUSIC?!?
It sounds like you're speaking of rap.
Oh wait, that's not music.
Or maybe that was you're point.
Speaking of cookie cutter bullshit that is pushed out by labels, that's the perfect example.
Will the iPhone kill the iPod? Who actually believes that it would? It will not with 100% certainty. We don't need to explain why since it's common sense. What kind of stupid question is that anyway?
>if you do an install of an OS without a firewall you are an idiot Oh really? I have been doing that for 15 years and never once been compromised in any way.
Honestly, I would suggest those of you that have had issues installing an OS with no protection to STOP searching for porn while your OS downloads updates, but that is just me.
Join an organization such as Infragard. It would open up many possibilities for you.
>>I don't like the way Russinovich is blowing Vista's horn now. I liked him more when he was more critical and analytical on what could be improved, instead of what has already been done.
Are you sure that you do not mean that you don't want to hear anything that does not shed negative light on a Microsoft product?
Of course you will. If your toddler mistakes your hard disk for a slinky... That's probably the best credible excuse you will ever have for screwing up a Vista install.
You CAN "reallocate that beast" to another partition. It takes a simple right click on your My Documents folder to direct it another location.
I have to ask. What exactly should Microsoft have done? Automatically locate the My Documents folder on another partition? When the majority of people have a hard time understanding how to right-click the mouse or locate files on their computer, you don't want to go screwing with their hard drive adding new drive letters.
Possibly due to the fact that some of us actually know how to install an operating system without screwing up that rather easy process. If you can't install Vista without issue, I would strongly suggest that you work at the local Burger King and turn in your drivers license so you don't kill anyone. Or perhaps at least don't eat the product you sale while doing so. You need the working brain cells that you do have concentrating on the road.
Vista runs like a charm for the majority of people with at least the common sense of a zoo animal.
It boggles my mind how anyone that has issues with Windows manages to so much as install Ubuntu, much less Fedora or heaven forbid, Gentoo.