Re: M$ attack on Common Sense

From: Bob the Knobb (bobtheknobb_at_mailandnews.com)
Date: 09/16/03 

Date: 16 Sep 2003 12:55:31 -0700

"User" <User@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<A477b.89604$bo1.55513@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> I know most doctors around here use windows because they cannot work out
> unix.

The embeded systems used for medical use cannot freez up or crash
ever. I reboot my windows machine 7 times a day, 8 or nine if I'm
feeling Zen.

I love windows don't get me wrong but wouldn't bet my life on them not
crashing,

Some people have computers installed in their hearts to keep them
beating. How about Autopilot? Surviving a major nuclear attack? Will
MS give confirmation codes to people who's hardware pukes out if
Seatle is flattened like a Hiroshima pancake?

> Moron. Blamining users just because they haven't done a
> computer science degree or spent 30 hours a week hacking unix is arrogant
> and elitist. Other people have a real life you know.

If people are going to give away so much of their bodily function to a
machine it must be to one that they know they can trust
 
> Security is not about having to spend all your life learning unix.

Learning linux will give you controll over all other operating
systems. Only understanding every detail of a functioning
computer(hardware and software) can make it safe to allow our hearts
and minds to be controlled by machines. If the terrorists learn linux
they will be able to buy discarded office computers for pennies on the
dollar and sucessfully figure out how to kill us by implimenting

> Its a
> trade off between risk and resourses. That is the case no matter what
> operating system you have. Ever wonder why most users go for microsoft
> instead if (say) linux even though linux is "free". Maybe its because you
> can get microsoft stuff to do what its supposed to easily.

MSOS comes preinstalled in 96% of the machines the other 4% are
macintosh. The only machines that come preinstalled with linux are
high end servers and cluster super computers, Note that ten years ago
linux was nothing other than a student project and today its a student
project thats gone hideously awry. Ten years ago linux was nothing,
Now it is the leading edge. That can change since some clever person
can understand a kernal and come to a radically new and ingenious
solution. But not if the fucntions are hidden.

MS- mediocrity is the mode, people like to pick on macintosh/windows,
but if linux got popular whatever brand would be the cons, right now
the pro's are familiar with mac/os/Ms but use linux to overlord
BSD(unix)/windows mixes or BSD/Mac (mac being Auqua-Darwin a NEC
linux/unix offshoot)

The cons are the spammers, spywarers, virus-ers, get with the pro's
and let go of the bull*** thats ruining the internet or at least
putting it years behind where it should be.

Stopping SPAM and completely virus free OS has already been solved

a. Users want to
> _use_ the computer - they do not want to be _system administrators_ .

Computers should do +EXACTLY+ what the user wants and act entirely in
the interest of the user.

HAving more understandable benchmarks rather than fuzzy guessing
RAM/GHZ/HD-RPMs/ to a somewhat technically minded person todays modern
computers are a joke, wasting ram, turning your hardrive into
sphaghetti, and such, confusing graphics with actual function.

You pay a premium for GHZ/ and RAM use it don't waste it.

For pay operating systems should have been trying out new algorythms
emulating them with Supercomputers and getting a smaller kernal with
faster more dynamic compression algorythms. This would have happened
if there had been competition just like the chip market, instead
modern os are a bunch of programs stuffed together with a gui.

> Berating people because they have a life outside the machine only shows off
> your own character.

Here here, kill your television.

> The only medical practice I know around here that uses unix (SCO Unix) the
> unix box always has problems and has been of the air for several days last
> week. The windows machines have all worked fine!!
 
> The company that owns the contract to maintain the SCO box can't seem to get
> it to handle more than 14 users, have difficulty setting up VPNs on it and
> all the other good stuff that appear to be just plug and play with
> microsoft.
 
> Large organizations like hospitals and uni's are able to support unix more
> than small businesses because they use taxpayer money to give the machine a
> pat everytime it needs attention and the IT staff are able to dictate to the
> staff/students what to use.
 
> "Alan Connor" <alanconnor@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:3c27b.3513$PE6.993@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...

> > My final word on the subject:

> > Windows is a crummy operating system.

> > And we see here just WHY it is:
> >
> > Because most of its users are utterly incapable of exercising basic
> > common sense.
> >
> >
> > Here's your clue, Windoze Weenies -- > 2 + 2 = 4
> >
> >
> > Whether you *like* it or not.....
> >
> >
> > Alan C
> >
> >
> >
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