Courtesy of Ted in SoC. Yes, I know it’s just Pogson. But it’s Pogson at his flaming looniest.
His main argument seems to be that it is wrong for hardware manufacturers to take $10 of Intel’s money and use their Atom chips. What they should do, according to Pog-boy, is buy chips from anybody other than Intel, and recoup the money by installing Linux rather than Windows.
This is quite breath-taking. It doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. Why not take the Intel $10 and also install Linux? After all, Linux runs on Atom. It, er, doesn’t run on ARM (if Debian is to be believed).
It’s worth reading the comments, fully 50% of which are from Pogson himself. My favourite is:
If you are so convinced that there is a market Pog, then why dont you invest in it?
I may very well make an investment if bureaucrats don’t do their jobs and hire me/provide insurance benefits.
I should not have to invest, though, for the cause. Many businesses are investing in GNU/Linux and ARM in all form factors.
Bureaucrats are not doing their job. Not enough businesses are doing their job. And Our Man in the XP Fail Tent is consequently reduced to random speculation.
It’s elegant fail in two short paragraphs.
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(Edit, 6pm): And then he quotes Oiaohm in his defence. (Oiaohm has a remarkably unmistakable verbal signature.)
W00t!
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lol, who of you is “El Spicey Taco”? Hi asked him when he used windows the last time and pog admitted it was XP. On the other hand many loons are PROUD about the fact that they don’t know anything about windows or office.
ah, sorry for the spam, this was already dealt with on the stream. I always go through the tabs from left to right, sorry
Not spam at all. I nicked it off Ted on SoC for two reasons: (a) it deserves a wider audience and (b) SoC is a decent idea that is worth pointing people at.
Also, Poggo was especially loony in this case. I barely scratched at the surface.
When I die and go to Heaven, I will be reincarnated as “El Spicey Taco.” That was a wonderful comment.
and yet El sSpicey Taco for all of his zingers didn’t even phase Pog, who simply continued on as if nothing worth responding to was said.
Pogson is an ideologue who is also addicted to frugality. He actually agonized over whether buying a quad core system was overkill! He also believes that his experiences working in the far north of Canada can be applied to the world at large.
There is simply no arguing with someone like this. Just sit back and watch the show.
“ChrisTX wrote a bunch of irrelevant stuff.
I was there in those days, and XP, as issued, used to freeze and crash a lot. Don’t believe me? Read history.”
:D :D
If XP used to crash and freeze a lot, you’re doing it wrong, or you installed it on a POS with a bad disk or bad RAM.
XP can run quite happily for months if not years, if you don’t mind updates not being applied.
“On the other hand many loons are PROUD about the fact that they don’t know anything about windows or office. “
I can confirm too that loons are proud for not having tried Windows 7, even for 10 minutes. When you ask them why they won’t even bother trying Windows 7, they will say “it’s just Vista SP7”.
The truth of course is that Windows 7 has advanced so much that it’s convinient for them to compare linux only with XP. Because the comparison with 7 would make then cry…
Windows 7 nothing but Windows XP with a gimped version of Compiz Fusion built-in and greatly increased resource consumption. Keep thinking otherwise.
Ubuntu nothing but a Gimped rip-off of Minix with broken ABIs and broken APIs and an unsavoury bunch of dimwits cheering it on from down in the sewers.
Keep thinking otherwise.
“Windows 7 nothing but Windows XP with a gimped version of Compiz Fusion built-in and greatly increased resource consumption. Keep thinking otherwise.”
So have you actually used it, or are you just pulling that statement out of your butt?
Only a technical idiot would make such a statement.
That’s what it amounts to yes. You can throw irrelevant bullets all you want, but the fact is people can do pretty much the same shi!t they can do on Windows 7 using Windows XP. That’s why it’s STILL so popular, despite being 10 years old.
“That’s why it’s STILL so popular, despite being 10 years old.”
So what? XP will age out of the computer population just the way as windows 9x did. as people purchase new systems with windows 7 installed. Its already happening in our shop.
But all of this aside, I ask again, Mr. King. Have you actually worked with windows 7, or are you just talking out of your posterior?
“People can still do the same shi!t [ten years later]?”
Indeed so, Adam. Have you, perhaps, ever heard of the mathematical concept of a sub-set?
And has it occurred to you that your statement hardly applies to Linux? Have you tried configure/make/make install on Ubuntu 10 with a tgz from 1999?
I haven’t tried that specific combination myself, but from past experience I am fairly confident of the outcome.
In other words, people like and value consistency.
Rather ironic that the Evil Monopolists, by design, don’t force you to upgrade every six months, whereas the Heroes Of Freedom do precisely that, isn’t it?
Free, as in Brownian Motion.
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