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Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

Shuttleworth — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:08:40 -0000

>>>Nonetheless freetard hack boy says, "I don't think this is the end of the road for retail Linux PCs -- not by a long shot," though he concedes that "selling Linux to the masses is going to require more than just a low price tag -- since, when you get down to it, Linux already has that."

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!

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

magnetik — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:10:45 -0000

Phreaky you're an idiotic troll who never has anything interesting to say.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

jcorso28 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:45:16 -0000

Why doesn't apple go the way of pc, and allow any computer to use apple software, I would give up ms windows program for apple program, there are less problems. I mean hard drive, memory chips, modem, everything is the same. I just don't feel like forking out a ton of money to buy apple computers and systems. And should ms compatible programs if apple doesn't have an equivelant program.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

doonrothmani — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:29:41 -0000

not that i have anything against the fake noam chomsky. so dont take it that way.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

doonrothmani — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:27:34 -0000

you are lying, and must be human. any ai/alife entity would immediately determine that neither the fake nor real noam chomsky is worth responding to.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

Stephen Fleming — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:15:43 -0000

It's not Wal-Tards. It's Wal-Martians.

(Hat tip to Mac McAnally)

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

Martin Theiler — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:18:30 -0000

Apple is a reputed company selling lots of products. i don't think would do such thing to their customers.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

lastangelman — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:34:53 -0000

Gloat over this too while you're at it.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

lastangelman — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:30:06 -0000

I already posted that URL., along with commentary.
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?

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Stephanos Anton Ballmerfeld — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:23:56 -0000

I knew it!

http://fakesteveballmer.blo...

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

bucketOfColdWater() — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:30:14 -0000

You know, this is just a hunch, but Wal-Mart is probably not the best place to be trying to market underdog technology in the first place. Maybe I'm crazy, but the folks who shop there don't strike me as "rebels." Schmucks, maybe, but definitely not the "round pegs in the square holes" types. I don't think this is the most receptive audience to alternate ways of thinking.

It'd be like trying to explain civics to the attendees at the Republican National Convention!

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

gg — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:26:32 -0000

It finally happened

http://www.desktoplinux.com...

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

osisbs — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:00:15 -0000

There's nothing wrong with someone wanting to pay 200.00 for something that works and does email and can browse a few sites like eBay. The problem is, once again, everyone overthinking EVERYTHING.
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?

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

BitBurn — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:55:31 -0000

The world don't want Linux on a home PC...They want Word and Messenger on their home PC; that's it. Perhaps Microsoft should make a Linux version of those 2 apps :-D ...then again who cares. Linux + Windows sucks.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

Don — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:34:41 -0000

Hmmm.... .how can this be? My Linux friends told me, and they assured me that this time, that this year - this very year - is the Year of Linux!

Oh well, there's always next year?

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caszerino — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:59:31 -0000

dbl post, sorry (using crappy Linux which hates Flash and anything good and right and American).

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

caszerino — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:59:23 -0000

As much as I hate to agree with FSJ on this issue, since he's so fucked in the head re: FOSS, I have to, albeit for different reasons.

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?

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C. Beanie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:23:04 -0000

Steve, i'm surprised with your technological wizardry you couldn't find Elliot Spitzer's girl. lol
http://beanieville.blogspot...

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

John G — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:19:44 -0000

Gee, oh Great One, while I defer to your bashing of the freetards most of the time my 10 year old just got an ASUS eee Linux "laptop" and she is happy as a pig in shit. She took the Apple stickers from her iPod and plastered them on the case. She now thinks she has an Air but it's a pound lighter and $1500 cheaper and she doesn't care. And it runs the American Girl website just fine. So screw me for being a cheap bastard.

PS send me more stickers.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

Webster Phreaky — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:06:16 -0000

Quotes just TODAY at macfixit.com:
- Blank optical discs not recognized under Mac OS X 10.5.2
- MacBook Air SMC Update 1.0 solves "fan running constantly" issue
- Parental Controls still causing problems in Leopard (too "Childlike"?)
- iTunes 7.6.1: Apple TV not recognized, various fixes
- Apple TV 2.0: Problems navigating menus (stuck); downgrading to 1.x; stuttering playback
- Long passwords can cause iWeb publishing errors
- Special Report: Troubleshooting Mac OS X 10.5.2 (bwah ha ha ha )
- Will Apple address missing first letters on other Macs?
- Mac Pros restarting instead of waking from sleep
- Apple's tips for solving iTunes freezes
- Fix for some SuperDrive failures
- Freezes when switching network locations/ports: fix
- Inexplicable slow-down? Check for hanging processes (or "the Spinning Beach Ball of Wait n Wait n Wait n Wait n Wait n Wait n ...)

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.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

DarkSol — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:02:33 -0000

Meh, people who shop at Wal-Mart are too dumb to understand WINDOWS PC's, much less Linux.

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.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

acap. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:03:52 -0000

Never heard from "presstard-concept". Remove reality and build a free juicy press.

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

acap. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:00:34 -0000

Where my dear are your links?!? Arn't you undercover of the 'hot dog' (i still hope i don't blame him, and have never doned, i mean the everything wish to control company, inclusive this sometimes from mr. ballmer arriving and lanced adertisements annoyings against a real free press - or what we can by thinking different understand from the - do kind of ap-vs.-pa liberation).

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

Levon — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:59:49 -0000

Excellent!! Sadly, I don't think the theory that you suggest at the end of the piece is far removed from reality...

Re: Wal-Mart yanks Linux PC, cites lack of childlike wonder

Mike Cane — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:50:04 -0000

Hey, Apple can milk some new dough out of System 7 (a lucky number to the hicktards). Have some Taiwanese company run out a new Color Classic, sell it all for $200: Macintard Plus, The Computer For Those Of Us Who Aren't Those Of Them!