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Mad Hatter Preview - Sun Java Desktop System Demo
bengine writes "According to this article, Sun Java Desktop System is a good product overall, built on the well-established SuSE system with integration from Sun. It delivers what appears to be a very useful desktop OS and it has the chance to make a dent in the Windows monopoly. But Sun will have to differentiate itself on its quality, hardware, services and reputation. That means a lot of hard work, so the key questions will be how well they execute their strategy, how much public acceptance they gain and what message they convey through public venues." This makes a good companion to the earlier story linking to Mad Hatter screenshots.
fp - baby
Everything has a chance for a dent. into Windows monopoly. Like goatse guy has a chance to shrink his hole.
Georgy Russell is a fine illustration of everything that's wrong with the United States political system. Our Founding Fathers gave everybody the right to vote and participate under the assumption that most people who WOULD participate were of at least average intelligence and abilities. The fact that a numb cunt like Russell was permitted to enter the race at all should be clear evidence that somewhere, something went terribly wrong. To begin with, she has no apparent leadership ability, only that stale and very outdated idealistic dogma that business is bad and anything calling itself "progressive" is good. To read her angry comments about anybody who disagrees with her is to see the real Georgy Russell: a spiteful, immature, hateful, spoiled little bitch who has a lot of growing up to do. Secondly, her unwillingness to take a stand on even minor issues, such as "vi vs. emacs", leads one to wonder how she could possibly hope to be taken seriously on important issues like budget reform or the electricity mess in California. Finally, it should be obvious to most observers that the only reason she received any momentum at all is that she's an attractive girl who knows a thing or two about computers. If it weren't for thousands of hackers, who are known to be primarily overweight and antisocial loners, she would have disappeared immediately. One wonders if Russell realizes that she will be remembered far longer as a vision in the minds of thousands of masturbating geeks than as a political figure.
Moderators are targeting individual users and modding down every comment they post just because they don't agree with their opinions.
For people that claim to love free-speech, you practice censorship an awful lot.
Moderators are targeting individual users and modding down every comment they post just because they don't agree with their opinions.
For people that claim to love free-speech, you practice censorship an awful lot.
aslhdsalhda
Join the army.
that java was designed so "some people" [1] can write platform independent viruses and spyware. Therefore, if for example you oppose the government your toaster will start launching toasts at you, your computer erases your p0rn, the telephone is ringing and when you pick it up you hear the sound of a ringing telephone on the other end of the line, the TV opens and you see a room with people who watch a TV which shows you in your room watching the TV, etc. No thanks.
[1] NSA. CIA. RIAA.
Moderators are targeting individual users and modding down every comment they post just because they don't agree with their opinions.
For people that claim to love free-speech, you practice censorship an awful lot.
zxcv
You never call me.
*sigh*
Moderators are targeting individual users and modding down every comment they post just because they don't agree with their opinions.
For people that claim to love free-speech, you practice censorship an awful lot.
llokk
Moderators are targeting individual users and modding down every comment they post just because they don't agree with their opinions.
For people that claim to love free-speech, you practice censorship an awful lot.
zzra
Moderators are targeting individual users and modding down every comment they post just because they don't agree with their opinions.
For people that claim to love free-speech, you practice censorship an awful lot.
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it's not that they don't agree. the 'problem', is that they MuSt attempt to 'filter' posts that are representative of real folks' honest opinions/experiences, in favour of their 'obligations' to their phonIE ?pr? ?firm? scriptdead corepirate nazi sponsors.
lookout bullow on that won. tell 'em robbIE?
results always reflect the motives. look at the whoreabully infactdead BugWear(tm). still touted as having the ability to create more&more billyonerrors, when, in fact, we already have had more than enough, of that form of felonious execrable.
Moderators are targeting individual users and modding down every comment they post just because they don't agree with their opinions.
For people that claim to love free-speech, you practice censorship an awful lot.
7789
...your mare runs WITHOUT java!
MARES RULE!
You're not going to gain sympathy by infuriating everyone with your annoying posts. Repeated posting suggest that your frustration has gotten the better of you, and that possibly, you deserve the moderation that came your way. If you want to make a real case for this, e-mail the Slashdot editors.
Until then, kindly stop bothering us with this nonsense.
Note to moderators : Do not moderate this post down, if you do then you support the editors stance on censorship and you support the end of free speech and support evil organisations like Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA and laws like the CBTBA and DMCA. Moderating this post will only waste mod points, and will not work!
Sign this petition, let your voice be heard!
Slashdot is using censorship! It is trying to eridicate free and open discussion like we know slashdot to be, it has the following RESTRICTIONS in place to Censor you
They claim they don't, but they do, wonder why their are so many trolls, crapflooders and lamers on slashdot, because they are fighting for their rights! Slashdot is trying to silence the trolls. Remove the filters, the trolls get bored, and slashdot will be troll free!
The "troll" moderation reason is fragmented and broken, why? Because they are trying to use an obsolete usenet term on a realtime discussion, "trolls" can cover a huge blanket of ideas.
Subnet banning, this bans a user unless they email jamie macarthy with their mp5ed ipids. This is unfair, and banning a subnet BLOCKS A WHOLE ISP SOMETIMES, and not that individual user! This can cause chaos! But real trolls use annoymous proxys to get around this so THIS JUST BANS LEGITMATE USERS! Also, they are trying to censor some anoymous proxies, mainly from countrys like africa, so this yet more DISCRIMINATION!
Pink page of Death, This censors people who use legitmate proxys or firewalls.
The Bitchslap! An unethical punishment which is applied to moderators who fight censorship against this site! In addition the Editors use their un-limited mod points to create a communist style censored discussion on slashdot!
But, the issue that concerens us the most, is the COMMENT QUOTA. A discrimatory system that stiffles discussion, cripples the community and will ultimateley destroy slashdot unless it is removed! Annoymous cowards are allowed only 10 posts a day! This is unethical! Users with negative karma only get two! That is DISCRIMINATION! How would you like to only be able to speak once a day, just because of the color of your skin. That would be racism, and slashdot is discrimitating on people just because of a negative number in a database! BOYCOTT SLASHDOT! LET THEM D
While it is good to see Sun embracing linux, isnt it still trying to run things using, what seems like a closed source model?
I mean whats with the crippled liveCD? is even the Live CD going to be available for free public download?
This makes me wonder about how much of the CD is actually GPL? All of the additional bits that sun has added probably arent opensource. How long before we see unofficial ISOs of the GPL'd portion?
The G5 is selling like hot cakes. They can't make enough of them. Porting to x86 wouldn't make the blind bit of difference. 32-bit is going the way of the dodo. The G5 is 64-bit, and IBM has an amazing roadmap going forward. People are going Apple in their droves. Most people want a nice, shiny, easy-to-use, integrated and fast system. That's what Apple is selling. I don't work for Apple :-(
Stick Men