Comment Share (Score 1) 309
If Apple has to spend a bundle on marketing to get the meagre share they have, why has GNU/Linux twice the share? Could it be that its not about marketing only but price also matters?
Comment Re:Linux users... (Score 1) 309
Parent leans on facts not in evidence. 100 million users of GNU/Linux on the desktop cannot be GNU/Linux freaks/geeks/sociopaths. GNU/Linux works well. If someone with too much cash wants to spend money on CPU power to round the corners on rectangular areas of the screen, so be it. Others want to get on with what they are doing with less regard to M$ and pals bottom lines.
I use GNU/Linux because it works and that other OS does not. That other OS phones home, sniffs files for DRM, BSODs, has a very EXCLUSIVE EULA, invites malware in, needs re-re-reboots, and messes up memory, storage and everything else it touches. I do not give a damn about how beautiful the UI is. I use PCs to get things done.
Comment That Process Failed for Vista (Score 1) 309
One of the richest companies in the world produces a crappy user interface. So much for the thesis that GNU/Linux must have professional UI designers.
Take, for example, GIMP. Many say it has a lousy user-interface. I can give GIMP to folks who have never used PS and they have no trouble at all making the fish larger, eliminating fly-away hair, whitening teeth and eliminating ex-boyfriends. In what way is the UI not good? Only in that GIMP is not identical to PS, apparently. Folks who take the trouble to learn how to use GIMP have no problems with its user-interface.
Comment Stable (Score 1) 309
"Stable" has two meanings:
1)features set
2)failures are rare
Comment Re:Gun Rights (Score 1) 2221
Hmmm.
Iraq: suicide bombers, IEDs, AK47s and RPGs
DC: handguns...
That does not look like a fair comparison, especially with bombs that can fly in a window from miles away, killer drones flying day and night and taxpayers tolerating thousands of casualties and billion dollar budgets for occupation.
Journal Journal: Job was lame
My new job was lame. During the interview I was told my technical expertise would be respected. I set up my LAN with LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) on an AMD64 with 2gB RAM and 200 gB storage. I showed students the variety and virtues of GNU/Linux in the Debian distro and was shocked to find they preferred that other OS, XP, not for any valid reason, but because they could escape the scrutiny of my kid filter and process watching. The bosses even said the students should use Windows. I was
Journal Journal: Time to go back to work.
I go back to work on Monday, but I have a week to ease myself into the new job.
I find it stressful making changes but I love it, too. It can make me feel young which is getting harder each year. Meeting new people, places and systems is always overwhelming but it eventually gets done and I do my thing which is making the world a better place wherever I go.
Journal Journal: It is a Great Day to be a Computergeek!
I built a server in January. I paid $100 CDN for 512 MB RAM. Today, I can get it for $50 CDN. Motherboards, hard drives and CDs are also cheaper. The 64 bit CPUs from AMD are coming down, too. Debian Sarge is down to 100 critical bugs, and I find it useable now.
