You seem to be the one with all of the butt hurt and vitriol.

It's rather ironic really.

Clearly you're suffering from an inferiority complex and need to lash out.

This right here demonstrates the "feminine advantage". They are indoctrinated into social politics. So it seems obvious that they would have an advantage once a company grows so large that office politics is more important than anything else.

It doesn't necessarily mean that such entities are more productive. Usually they are much less so.

Utter nonsense.

The common carrier status of AT&T had nothing to do with it's level of "innovation". It's monopoly status did. Competitive providers are more than capable of operating in a non-monopoly environment. The example of phone services AFTER the AT&T breakup is a glaringly obvious example of this.

We already have a working model for breaking up the cable monopolies.

EXACTLY. I don't want to deal with crappy straightjacked Apple hardware. I would much rather run an OS (ANY OS) on the hardware of my choosing. It doesn't matter if it's bare metal or a VM.

It would be nice to run MacOS on a VM. That would make it much easer to suss out all of this persistent propaganda that fanboys like to spew so much.

It would make it much easier and much cheaper to fully demo MacOS. I am sure that this is why it is not done. It's much easier to maintain the Apple mystique if it's harder and more expensive to try.

Most non-geeks won't blow $500 just to try a new bit of tech.

I cut out all of your rhetorical garbage because it was just that rhetorical garbage.

You tried to equate random garbage with things that are actually relavent to judging a PC. You don't want anyone to consider obvious things that would cast your precious corporate brand in a bad light.

Although now that I think on it some more, PCs can do process control. There are specialized industrial PCs. Those PCs can run something like QNX which has been a trusted name in process control for decades.

It doesn't need to be "off the shelf". This is 2014. You can search the web for any kind of PC you want. Some of those PC vendors even specialize in industrial applications.

The PC market allows PCs to be all things to all people.

So your attempt at red herrings is a failure on two levels.

No. Idiots like you always spew such marketing nonsense.

Not a word you've said has any real objective meaning. It's all just marketing speak that means nothing really.

You're just like a Lemming droning on about msoffice.

...the point being is that I can optimize my PC to my exact requirements.

Apple kit is always optimized to make Apple the most money and there is ZERO competition for compatible kit. So Apple can pretty much say "screw you" any time it likes (like with the Mac Pro).

As a Linux user, I just buy hardware. I don't care about the consumerist brand fixations. I don't care about impressing anyone else. Cost might be an issue but ultimately it's about getting something done.

A Linux user that buys a Mac has to actually like that hardware for it's own merits (whatever those may be).

> There are a lot of things Mac hardware can't do,

Exactly.

Macs are overpriced and inflexible compared to PCs. End of story. Lame excuses won't impress anyone outside the cult.

For a brief moment in time Mac hardware managed to do well in a particular niche (HTPC). Once cheaper suitable PCs came along I immediately moved on.

Macs are great for people who love to make excuses for paying more to do less. That demographic doesn't seem to overlap with Linux users much.

The shift to accuracy and secular subjects in art is a useful milestone in terms of anthropology or history certainly. However, it's not anthropology that's really under discussion in this "Age of Man" thread. That would be more of a goeologic metric than an anthropologic one.

+...and yes it is true that a lot of the Italian Renaissance was the re-discovery of principles that had been known to the ancients.

A number of my colleagues would dump Windows in a heartbeat if they could run their PC games on some other OS.

I'm not so sure this is a "tech industry" thing as much as it is a "media narrative" thing. The media has found themselves a great nerd bashing technique and some of the nerds are attempting damage control.

It's all marketing. That's the beauty of it. Companies can announce things that any numerate person should be skeptical of because journalists are likely not nerdy enough to understand what they're being told.

...at the expense of every other company.

Rants like this forget that there is a SUPPLY problem. You can't magically increase female participation in your IT departments because there aren't 20% there. If Amazon and Intel are all hot and bothered about "diversity" they could very well consume all of the available "talent".

They might consume all of the available suitable talent and still come up short.

At least Intel is bright enough to try addressing the supply side of this.

Yes. it's nice to use a system that "just works". It's too bad that Windows isn't that. It may be fine for ultra-light use but if you push it a little around the edges it starts to fall apart.

These alternate init daemons have that same problem.

Their level of complexity and their assumptions make it far too easy to render your system unbootable. They create something that's no longer transparent or maintainable.

...as if "being old and conservative and not wanting to change" is a bad thing.

If something works, then don't break it. If a vanishingly small number of people need a different alternative, then don't shove it down everyone else's throats.

That's the whole point of modularity. If I suddenly decide I like WindowMaker better, I don't have to piss in everyone else's cheerios.

Change control is not a bad thing.

> You may have written linux kernel drivers before, but apparently you have never encountered this thing called Google?

Yes. Google. With all kinds of things tossed together both good and bad. Just because something is on Google, it doesn't mean you can trust it. The Internet is a great conduit for spreading nonsense.