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Comment: Re:Why not hardware manufacturers? (Score 1) 660

by jedidiah (#40171747) Attached to: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

Once again the Lemmings engage in the usual fear mongering and anti-intellectual rhetoric. The bar really isn't that high here. Anyone with a little gumption can manage to put a LiveCD into their system and boot it.

This pointless bit of security theater just adds a little more scaremongering on top of your usual level of scaremongering.

Comment: Re:Microsoft Pledges to Sell More Macs for Apple (Score 3, Insightful) 660

by jedidiah (#40171691) Attached to: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

> Overwhelmingly, if you wanted to look like you knew why-the-fuck you ought to be on stage, in front of 8,000 people, you went Mac.

Translation: If you want to look like you've got money to burn, then you show off overpriced Apple products.

The "BMW" comparison is very apt really, including the crap quality.

Seeing is decieving...

Comment: Re:Survey? (Score 1) 338

Did you ever see the prices on terminals?

Even dumb terminals were surprisingly expensive. It seems that dedicated thin clients have always been far more expensive than their hardware warranted. This inevitably leads to the obvious cost discussions. You can even see it now on Ars with the new Samsung Chrome box.

The up front costs of dedicated terminal hardware always makes a "real PC" seem like a better option.

It's really quite perverse.

Comment: Re:Survey? (Score 3, Funny) 338

> I am sure the Doctor treating that heart problem thinks they are so dumb.

I had to teach one of these about "right clicking" once.

When it comes to computing they are in fact dumb as rocks and totally helpless. All of their intelligence doesn't come into play because the general attitude of anti-intellectualism that YOU embody discourages it.

Self inflicted and completely avoidable but still real nonetheless.

People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.

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