What patents? C# and the CLR are open standards (ECMA-334), the only thing Microsoft could patent would be the objects that make up the.NET framework, and I don't think the patent office is stupid enough to allow 'an object that draws a square' to be patented. Yet.
How do you know Microsoft didn't begin work on something like this a long time ago? They could have been writing this compatibility layer alongside the development of Vista for all you know.
An interesting fact about abacuses (abacii?): abacuses where not invented around 1000 BC as many believe. In fact, they where invented around 5000 BC, but it wasn't until four thousand years later that someone invented the hole, which allowed people to slide things onto other things. Until then, the abacus was just the frame and and metal rods, with some poor soul having to hold the marbles against the rods. It was very hard to use, and serves as a chilling metaphor for the state of Linux on the desktop today.
Several hundred words of insults, loaded language, distortion of the facts and appeals to slashbot mentallity. You're grapsing at straws, you're wrong, and you know it! Fucking quality.
I am fully opposed to police brutality. This however is not an example of it. I'm happy to admit they could have handled things better, but the idea that this is even in the same universe as something like the Rodney King beating is ridiculous. Insult me or armchair psychoanalyse me all you like, but at the end of it all, people like you are sheep crying wolf, you aren't doing yourselves or your cause any favours.
Whoa there, buddy! Carried him off campus? You think he would have let them carry him off campus without kicking and screaming and attracting even more attetion? And without cries of physical assault? And how exactly do you know he was unarmed?
As other people have said, yes, he would have been able to get up quite easily during the minutes between stuns. Even if he couldn't, he could at least have requested they give him some time to recover or ask them to help him up. But instead he chose to stay where he was and hurl abuse at them. Maybe it would have been better to just pick him up and drag him out, but that would just give the story a different headline on Slashdot. Whenever the police are involved, the Slashbots who believe any argument involving authority can be won by conjuring up an Orwell quote will always find a way to play the racism/brutality/Police State us down! card.
Yeah, and then the Slashdot headline would have been 'UCLA Security kidnaps student' or some other provocative tabloid crap. The level of groupthink on this site is stunning, which is especially hilarious when you consider how many posters here label the rest of the world as 'sheep' and go on about Orwell.
If you watch the video, you'll notice that security ask the guy to get up about a hundred times before stunning him. Then they ask another hundred or so times, and he still doesn't move, so they stun him again. Really, the guy got what he deserved, the security where incredibly patient with someone who was blatantly trolling for abuse. It should have been obvious to them that he was just going to keep provoking them until they did something, at which point he would pull the racism/police brutality card...but in those circumstances, what can the police do?
I once visited your shitty excuse for a country, and after a night drinking your shitty excuse for beer (fizzy piss, basically) in a shitty excuse of a nightclub, I was looking forward to visiting Taco Bell. I really don't know what the fuck it was I ordered, but it was what everyone else got. It looked like a rabid mongrel with diahorrea had shat uncontrollably all over what appeared to be the wrinkled, scraggly, labyrinthine labia of an experienced whore that had been stretched out but poorly ironed, with some puss-like cheese substance dribbled over the top. It was fucking disgusting. I forced a single mouthfull down but it was so foul, so rank, that I became immensely angry and had no option but to shoot everyone in the restaraunt.
Yes, forget any of the laws of physics that might be violated here, the primary concern is this breaks the fundamental rule of the universe, the core axiom at the heart of space and time; it would allow people to cheat at the lottery.
Indeed. I fail to see how this affects anyone's kernel hacking, unless of course they were hacking in such a way that it enabled the violation of other Apple licenses, and they intended to release it. If thats what this guy was doing, all I can say is tough shit, hippy.
Fucking hell I thought Mac zealots where bad, but you Linux hippies are just unbelievavble...theres not shortcoming in Linux where you can't find some twisted logic to help yourself believe that its a Good Thing, is there?
I don't understand all you linux geeks who want to buy a PS3 'becuase you can install Linux on it'. I mean, you get Linux on your obscure hardware, but then what do you do with it? You remind me of my Amiga owning friends back in school, who'd make utility disks that where just disks full of utilities for making more utility disks. Utterly pointless.
Nice points. I'm considering buying a Canon 400D or one of its brethren, I've used one of my friends and its really nice. But I'm kinda worried cos the shutter makes a really nice satisfying clunk but it sounds kinda violent at the same time and I'd be worried about it breaking itself...is there any chance of the camera knackering itself?
...theres a little too much vitriol in your post to believe I make you smile:)
Anyways, you completely missed the point of my post. Beebird didn't touch a nerve, his post was just an unbelievably cuntish example of an annoying trend in Slashdot posts to make sweeping generalisations about 'Joe Sixpack'. I'm not an art kid, an iPod ownder, or an asshole - I just take offence to people who think they're superior and that they've got everyone else worked out. You know, people like you.
My fucking God I think this has to be the most sickening example of 'everyones a sheep but not me, I'm elite and see through the bullshit' nerdery I've ever seen. Get over yourself, for fucks sake! Please!
I know loads of people with iPods, and not a single one bought it because it was trendy. They all bought one because they played with someone elses, and decided it did everything they wanted, with a nice interface, good looks, and from a company with a reputation for making good products.
I find it hilarious that you're berating this fashion-whore character you've just created for trying to make himself feel superior by buying trendy gear and drinking coffee at Starbucks, and yet you're doing exactly the same thing by performing a jealousy-riddled psycho-analysis of you're 'consumer sheep'. Comedy gold!
Beagle is quite poor compared to Spotlight, largely due to Lucene. Lucene is *very* easy to use, I'll give it that, but it has lots of stupid limitations. For example, a query containing a range or wildcard is translated into a query containing an OR clause for *every* possible match in the index, which is hilariously retarded. Spotlight supports these types of queries much more efficiently. Spotlight is also faster than Lucene, in fact a relatively naive implementation of a suffix tree search can beat Lucene for many queries. Spotlight is also just as easy to extend, as evidenced by the hundreds of third party indexing plugins on Apple's downloads site. Beagle is not superior to Spotlight in any way, except being Open Source.
So...whats the open source equivalent of CoreData and CoreImage? CoreAudio has been around since the start, btw.
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What patents? C# and the CLR are open standards (ECMA-334), the only thing Microsoft could patent would be the objects that make up the .NET framework, and I don't think the patent office is stupid enough to allow 'an object that draws a square' to be patented. Yet.
How do you know Microsoft didn't begin work on something like this a long time ago? They could have been writing this compatibility layer alongside the development of Vista for all you know.
An interesting fact about abacuses (abacii?): abacuses where not invented around 1000 BC as many believe. In fact, they where invented around 5000 BC, but it wasn't until four thousand years later that someone invented the hole, which allowed people to slide things onto other things. Until then, the abacus was just the frame and and metal rods, with some poor soul having to hold the marbles against the rods. It was very hard to use, and serves as a chilling metaphor for the state of Linux on the desktop today.
Several hundred words of insults, loaded language, distortion of the facts and appeals to slashbot mentallity. You're grapsing at straws, you're wrong, and you know it! Fucking quality.
I am fully opposed to police brutality. This however is not an example of it. I'm happy to admit they could have handled things better, but the idea that this is even in the same universe as something like the Rodney King beating is ridiculous. Insult me or armchair psychoanalyse me all you like, but at the end of it all, people like you are sheep crying wolf, you aren't doing yourselves or your cause any favours.
Whoa there, buddy! Carried him off campus? You think he would have let them carry him off campus without kicking and screaming and attracting even more attetion? And without cries of physical assault? And how exactly do you know he was unarmed?
As other people have said, yes, he would have been able to get up quite easily during the minutes between stuns. Even if he couldn't, he could at least have requested they give him some time to recover or ask them to help him up. But instead he chose to stay where he was and hurl abuse at them. Maybe it would have been better to just pick him up and drag him out, but that would just give the story a different headline on Slashdot. Whenever the police are involved, the Slashbots who believe any argument involving authority can be won by conjuring up an Orwell quote will always find a way to play the racism/brutality/Police State us down! card.
Yeah, and then the Slashdot headline would have been 'UCLA Security kidnaps student' or some other provocative tabloid crap. The level of groupthink on this site is stunning, which is especially hilarious when you consider how many posters here label the rest of the world as 'sheep' and go on about Orwell.
If you watch the video, you'll notice that security ask the guy to get up about a hundred times before stunning him. Then they ask another hundred or so times, and he still doesn't move, so they stun him again. Really, the guy got what he deserved, the security where incredibly patient with someone who was blatantly trolling for abuse. It should have been obvious to them that he was just going to keep provoking them until they did something, at which point he would pull the racism/police brutality card...but in those circumstances, what can the police do?
I once visited your shitty excuse for a country, and after a night drinking your shitty excuse for beer (fizzy piss, basically) in a shitty excuse of a nightclub, I was looking forward to visiting Taco Bell. I really don't know what the fuck it was I ordered, but it was what everyone else got. It looked like a rabid mongrel with diahorrea had shat uncontrollably all over what appeared to be the wrinkled, scraggly, labyrinthine labia of an experienced whore that had been stretched out but poorly ironed, with some puss-like cheese substance dribbled over the top. It was fucking disgusting. I forced a single mouthfull down but it was so foul, so rank, that I became immensely angry and had no option but to shoot everyone in the restaraunt.
Yes, forget any of the laws of physics that might be violated here, the primary concern is this breaks the fundamental rule of the universe, the core axiom at the heart of space and time; it would allow people to cheat at the lottery.
Says you: "The problem isn't what those developers are doing"
Well they've got nothing to worry about then, have they!
What nonsense? They're stopping people from enabling violation of their licenses! For fucks sake, get a grip.
Indeed. I fail to see how this affects anyone's kernel hacking, unless of course they were hacking in such a way that it enabled the violation of other Apple licenses, and they intended to release it. If thats what this guy was doing, all I can say is tough shit, hippy.
Fucking hell I thought Mac zealots where bad, but you Linux hippies are just unbelievavble...theres not shortcoming in Linux where you can't find some twisted logic to help yourself believe that its a Good Thing, is there?
I don't understand all you linux geeks who want to buy a PS3 'becuase you can install Linux on it'. I mean, you get Linux on your obscure hardware, but then what do you do with it? You remind me of my Amiga owning friends back in school, who'd make utility disks that where just disks full of utilities for making more utility disks. Utterly pointless.
Nice points. I'm considering buying a Canon 400D or one of its brethren, I've used one of my friends and its really nice. But I'm kinda worried cos the shutter makes a really nice satisfying clunk but it sounds kinda violent at the same time and I'd be worried about it breaking itself...is there any chance of the camera knackering itself?
...theres a little too much vitriol in your post to believe I make you smile :)
Anyways, you completely missed the point of my post. Beebird didn't touch a nerve, his post was just an unbelievably cuntish example of an annoying trend in Slashdot posts to make sweeping generalisations about 'Joe Sixpack'. I'm not an art kid, an iPod ownder, or an asshole - I just take offence to people who think they're superior and that they've got everyone else worked out. You know, people like you.
My fucking God I think this has to be the most sickening example of 'everyones a sheep but not me, I'm elite and see through the bullshit' nerdery I've ever seen. Get over yourself, for fucks sake! Please!
I know loads of people with iPods, and not a single one bought it because it was trendy. They all bought one because they played with someone elses, and decided it did everything they wanted, with a nice interface, good looks, and from a company with a reputation for making good products.
I find it hilarious that you're berating this fashion-whore character you've just created for trying to make himself feel superior by buying trendy gear and drinking coffee at Starbucks, and yet you're doing exactly the same thing by performing a jealousy-riddled psycho-analysis of you're 'consumer sheep'. Comedy gold!
That attitude is all most geeks on Slashdot have in life, don't take it away from them!
Does that use light focused from an arsecandle?
Yeah! And if they where *really* aligned, they'd give all their software and hardware away for free!
Um...I don't think you understand the concept of 'keywords' (hint: note the plural)
No, Saddam ordered his uranium from Firebox.com.
Beagle is quite poor compared to Spotlight, largely due to Lucene. Lucene is *very* easy to use, I'll give it that, but it has lots of stupid limitations. For example, a query containing a range or wildcard is translated into a query containing an OR clause for *every* possible match in the index, which is hilariously retarded. Spotlight supports these types of queries much more efficiently. Spotlight is also faster than Lucene, in fact a relatively naive implementation of a suffix tree search can beat Lucene for many queries. Spotlight is also just as easy to extend, as evidenced by the hundreds of third party indexing plugins on Apple's downloads site. Beagle is not superior to Spotlight in any way, except being Open Source.
So...whats the open source equivalent of CoreData and CoreImage? CoreAudio has been around since the start, btw.
Troll, or deluded linux hippy?