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No. Really. I've been here.
Brilliant post (again). Maybe if the gPC machines came with cupholders the machines would have a greater appeal for the Walmart crowd. Or perhaps gPC could cross-promote with a USB connected deep-fryer...
Shows you how much Linux has evolved on the consumer end in eight years. Answer: Not much.
My entire taping system ran on Linux, and Rosemary Woods could run it just fine.
See, I hear kindergarten kids in India and China can!
Now we have a Freetard Gap!!
>>>My entire taping system ran on Linux, and Rosemary Woods could run it just fine.
Ah, you provided us all with an exciting time, Dick. Why don't you get the hell out of that tomb? America needs you!
1.)Most Everex units were not sold in the stores but online. Very limited amount (about five to eight per store depending on population) were in brick and mortars, the rest sold out online.
2.)Linux computers, including its UMPC and Cloudbook will still be sold at walmart.com online, where they still sellout. Want the phone number to call the rep and verify that?
3.)Everex is now launching its own version of the Mini which runs on gOS, of course. Because it has better hardware than the towers, it prices just below that of a MacMini, has one year warranty and 24/7 telephone support. Cool kids on budgets for bucks and space will still buy MacMini, but for now, I only see Linux fans, not people turning away from Vista, buying the Everex Mini, unless WAL*MART and Everex spend bucks advertising unit.
4.)SVN-J already did a story(feel free to cut and paste) on this guy who engineered the buyout/bailout of SCOG, and the Saudis complied , as a favor to Bill, knowing full well SCOG, at this time, is a toilet. (But at least they got rid of this <a href="http://www.linuxwins.com/darl_mcbride.jpg"prick, who made out like a bandit. Wonder what patent troll company he'll be hired by next?)Anyway, I'm pretty sure Everex being dropped from box stores is NOT a Microsoft conspiracy of any kind, as WAL*MART tells Ballmer to jump, he asks with or without a chair (at that moment, black ops from Bentonville duct tape Ballmer to an American Standard and defenestrate him for wasting time with a stupid question. Moshe's equal from Bentonville is Saira, she's Pakistani-Lebanese-Jordanian, an atheist, trained by PRC, served in Angola, PLO, Somalia, Europe.Opted into Bentonville after '89, personally hired by Sam Walton after she took a loyalty oath and shot ten Nicaraguan Communists stone cold dead in 7 seconds on Sam's private reserve in Fayetteville).
Anyway here is link to March 4th SJV-N on WAL*MART brick and mortars(http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9479425919.html)
Link to photo of king of douchebags, supposed be after this - But at least they got rid of.
Too many not to understand insight you heave.
No. Really. I've been here.
Maybe it's because it knows that no one here will click through to them?
Normally this would be a good reason for Wal-Mart to stuff their stores with even more green PC's. The response that "Our customers want this so much that we have stopped selling it" is extremely curious.
BTW, I downloaded the gOS that the Wal-Mart Linux PC runs, and got it to run on my MacBook. It works great, and looks very much like the Mac OS X, except that instead of blue everything is green!
To be fair, you really don't want to buy a Linux PC without being able to try it out in the store, and Wal*Mart does not even turn on the PCs they sell. Most of them are not even displayed outside of the boxes. A Wal*Mart computer buyer reads the specs on the machine, decides which one is best and throws it in the shopping cart.
Oddly enough, the cheapest machine I saw there was $499 without monitor and the best deal was probably the $599 machine with a dual core processor and 20" monitor.
They are brand name machines, so I have to assume they are no different from what you'd get at a Best Buy.
That seems like they're a good deal. Whether they are good computers I leave as an exercise for the reader. When I checked out PCs in Best Buy I was astonished at how much truly obnoxious software is loaded on those machines.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
And another neologism: Wal-Tard! Love it!!
"If we wanted something that just worked we would all be running macs"
This may not be germane but I wanted to share it.
Case in point:
I work in tech support, and someone wondered why their PC wouldn't boot. I told them to check the connections, and they said, and I quote:
"The power cord is pluged in, and there's this blue plug I assume is for upgrades, cuz PCs can do that now! But the problem is that it stays black when I turn it on, and the light on the front stays yellow..."
They only had a monitor. And it was from walmart.
I rest my case. Linux PC's should be ONLY sold in tech stores.
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Well STEVIE, at least the LINUX OS doesn't have ALL the bullshit BUGS that YOUR piece of shit OS X and Apple Hardware creates! All for the tidy Mac PREMIUM prices, too.
PS send me more stickers.
http://beanieville.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-hotli...
Wal-Tards (brilliance!) are probably too stupid to use OS X; so who in the hell thought it'd be a good idea to market Linux to them?
Oh well, there's always next year?
Engineer 1: Hey, what if your average Walmart customer wants a GUI interface to upload current RGI Graphics and doesn't have the SMT interace driver version 3.2?
Engineer 2: WTF? How about just making the thing work. Are you some sort of freakin' idiot?
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9088528047.html
But surprise, surprise, you don't read all the comments, meaning not only do you have nothing new to add, you are in the same league as Mr Cut And Paste.
For those who'd love to gloat even more, Eee PC Asus with stripped down XP Home outsells Linux version 3 to 2. What I wanna know is how the hell did they make a bare bones version of Windows XP SP2 that'd run on that toy and how often does it crash?
It'd be like trying to explain civics to the attendees at the Republican National Convention!
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(Hat tip to Mac McAnally)
Hey, I know! Instead of making Linux better so that people actually want to use it of their own free will, let's just argue on the Internet about it all day, lie about what it's capable of, and tell everyone how much better it is than Windows!
Yeah, I can just see Cletus plunking down 180,000 pennies for a computer with no ethernet, no optical drive and no pre-loaded link to EmperorsClub.com where he can order a $5000 escort. Oh well, he can always rent the so-called-HD version of "Pretty Woman" from iTunes for $50.
I will own apple and run them into the ground on purpose!!!!!!!!!!!!
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