Posted on 08/17/2006 9:07:14 AM PDT by AFreeBird
Need a tech ping.
Linux is, unfortunately, a jobs program for Unix system administrators. It's cheaper only if Unix administrators work for free.
Well, these do already exist. X11 and make. :-)
I don't think microsoft has any bragging rights in that area either. :)
Nonsense. There are easy end user distributions. It is just a matter of getting people to try them.
Hoosier Daddy alert.
:)
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to reinstall the engine.
4. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then added more seats.
6. Apple would make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five per cent of the roads.
7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.
8. New seats would force every-one to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag would say 'Are you sure?' before going off.
10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
Some years ago I read about a group of software engineers leaving Apple with the intent of making a more user friendly version of Linux. Has anyone heard of any results?
As opposed to M$ admins, virus and spyware removers?
Uh huh, sure.
I guess those guys work for free.
The administrative costs are there regardless of the O/S. A good, qualified Windows admin costs about the same as a UNIX admin. The difference in individual license cost ($100 each, vs. $0 each) add up to very significant amounts.
Your comment is as false as it is silly.
Do you remember any of the particulars?
One more...
If you drive through a bad neighborhood, your car would automatically allow criminals to climb on board so they could rob you.
Hey Teach, you know anything about this? What are you guys using at your school?
One more, related...
If you'd previously driven through a bad neighborhood, your car will start driving itself downtown in the middle of the night to perform drive-by shootings.
And/Or ride home with you so they could rifle through your drawers, file cabinets, mail and other personal items.
Ah, but let's look at the other side of the equation.
If GM had to please consumers like Microsoft, then every car would have to:
It also wouldn't cost as much as a small house to buy one.
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