Lawyers are there to defend people that hire them. Do you want to be unable to hire someone to defend you in court while you have no knowledge about laws and regulations to defend yourself? Didn't think so either.
What we need is to send corrupted people with a lot of power to the bottom of the ocean. Along with the faulty parts of the human instinct and then get rid of goverments, get together and live a peaceful live where we dedicate ourselves to art, science and other communistic, hippy and anarchy style stuff.
Yes, I am serious. Yes I know that with our current instincts this ideal is impossible.
The problem with Microsoft products is that everybody can set it up, but almost no-one that does that knows how to configure it the right way. Defaults? Rofl...
Microsoft? Delivering a quality product? Mod be troll all you want (and frankly I don't care because after many unfair troll ratings my karma is still excellent), but seriously, if you disagree, name one product that Microsoft ever made that is quality software.
If a piece of Microsoft software fails than computers suck. When people don't get Linux right away because it everything is tidied up, then Linux is not ready for X.
Why do we still even talk about Microsoft? Not a single piece of 'news' about that company has ever been correct, except for it's shipped products and that was always negative. For good and valid reasons too.
Windows sucks. It isn't ready for anything at all. Linux is to it's fullest ready for everything from servers, desktops and embedded devices to even watches and toasters... the problem people have is that they can't do Windows on Linux. Care? Linux has more features than Windows. It can even run about 50% of all Windows software perfectly.
When will the day come that this piece of Winblows is thrown through a Window right into the trash bin... for good?
I haven't had that problem either... What a piece of bull.
You know what's funny? When you upgrade to a higher version of MS Office then your older MS Office documents opens up equally shitty, often shittyer than opening that same document or presentation with the latest OpenOffice.org.
Who knows what the hell it took after a cleanWinXP install to get that beamer working, especially in Vista, but putting only 1/4 of that effort into Ubuntu to get it work? No? What a bunch of retards... Buying Vista pc's says more about them than about Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org -_-'
Which puts Microsoft in a nasty situation... Or are you going to suggest product locking? If that's the case then Microsoft needs to be fined again and rightfully so for illegal practices or having a monopoly, which is gonna suck for them...
In any other situation, losing the freedom of action over your property is grounds for police intervention against the perpetrator. What is different here?
That Microsoft is not selling property but licenses. I would love to be able to own Microsoft Office by paying the price they charge for consumer licenses.
Exactly. The person or company who made the product owns it until they sell it. That is called private property, and is a right required for a person to make rational decisions to benefit his life and his values
Since when are we in for putting corporations above citizens? Isn't capitalism supposed to make the world the least-worse place for modern society?
Germany: "Hey I am a country and I have created a market with certain rules" Microsoft: "Hey I'd like to enter that market" Germany: "You did not follow the rules, so your profit will be (largely?) undone with this fine" Microsoft: "Ok here's 9 million and we don't care" Germany: "Ok then that's settled then"
Please specify what sounds more ridiculous to you here...
People only need Microsoft as long as it's alive. When/if the company goes bankrupt, then would be no Windows, therefore no more Windows apps created, therefore Apple/Linux apps created, therefore Wine would be catching up to the Win32 API and everything, therefore nobody would need it anymore.
It's anti-competitive because practises like these whiped out every single retail competitor out there and blocks new opportunities for possible future competitors to enter the market.
Every time a sequel for a popular game comes out, fans (and detractors) will cry out if it uses the same gameplay as the previous game. "There's nothing new!" But if the developers change it up, then the fans will cry foul, saying they're "ruining the experience" or "fixing what isn't broken".
Well maybe you shouldn't make a sequal of it then! If the game isn't (rightfully) praised for it's story (like Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life) then just create a different game! Otherwise just make an expension pack instead of a reskinned sequal or a gameplay-destroyer...
99/100 times sequals suck compared to the original and this doesn't limit itself to games...
Yes there is criticism everywhere. There is innovation everywhere. There is high quality code everywhere. Linux is a community everywhere.
Point is: Linux isn't commercial but a joint venture of every coder donating code. This is a community project. You don't like what people build together? No? Did you pay for it? No? Can everyone contribute? Yes? So fsck off if you don't like it. Fuck off if you bash a group of people for what they do if you don't participate.
We don't need you criticism. In fact, we don't need anything. We'd love it if you'd joined us, or gave us good advice or share your ideas and/or mockups, but we don't need "This sucks!".
Have you ever played any sport or some kind of game? Have you ever seen people do something that they enjoyed? Did you ever walk up to them just to tell them that they did this bad and that bad and that they needed to do that? Fsck that!
If we'd wanted you criticism then we'd ask!
Just fscking get of our lawn if you don't plan to play along!
People do care. A lot of them do. Take a look at NoScript, the FireFox extension that let's you block or unblock scripts.
Ok so maybe others and I do it for security, but FLOSS is security to me. I wouldn't care about prprietary firmware in my ATI card, beacause it doesn't touches the intarwebs. I do care about my ATI driver, but FLOSS alternatives still suck for gaming. I also care about my BIOS, because after you've booted into your favorite OS, then your BIOS is still in memory and is able to acces the interwebs as well.
I think that what RMS does is a little extreme. Instead of fully proprietary to fully FLOSS I'd rather choose to switch gradualy, so that onces everybody can switch, and do, proprietary software can be fully extinguished. My dad for example wouldn't touch Linux if I couldn't run MS Office 2003 in Wine for him, but now he tells his colleges at work how awesome Ubuntu is compared to Windows.
However what RMS does is good. Call him insane. Call him a crazy hippy, but what he does and accomplishes is great. For example take GNASH (the flash alternative). Who wouldn't want a version of Flash in a year or so that is not putting the CPU to 100%? Etc. When FLOSS works than it works, and offers a much better experience because the FLOSS model integrates so well with other FLOSS projects. Ok maybe not all of them simply because they're FLOSS, but software in Ubuntu is awesome at what it does.
The entire idea of multi-core is not that your performance increases, but that performance doesn't decrease.
I want every thread to run simultaniously instead of timesharing. Imagine all your apps are devided in multiple threads, then you'r all timesharing again and boy, don't you just hate it when your entire computer slows down to a crawl?
I mean look at the succes of 3D window management; you'll lose a little performance overall but when a single process jumps to 100% CPU reservation then at least there's no 2D WM lockup.
I fail to see why Linux isn't ready for the desktop. The only problem I see is that we're in a OS multiverse, that has a parallel Windows and Linux universe, both with the same (read serious real world) functionalities, but not realy good traveling tunnels between them.
Ofcourse that's being worked on, but sadly only on one side; the Linux universe. The Windows universe just tries to fsck everything up.
So much for the balance of creating and destroying...
But what ever happened to Moore's law? Are we already outside of its prediction? Has the chain been broken?
Effectively, yes.
What the hell are you talking about? Moore's Law say that performance will double each year and it still does. Even if it doubles by packing more cores, then it still does.
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Here you have it in PDF, the full video specs, straifght from www.adobe.com; http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flv/pdf/video_file_format_spec_v9.pdf
Now that we got the obvious out of the way... GIVE MEH MAH EVOLVED TELEVIZIONS NOW! MOAR!!111
Not if you also get rid of certain instincts... like the call to power...
Lawyers are there to defend people that hire them. Do you want to be unable to hire someone to defend you in court while you have no knowledge about laws and regulations to defend yourself? Didn't think so either.
What we need is to send corrupted people with a lot of power to the bottom of the ocean. Along with the faulty parts of the human instinct and then get rid of goverments, get together and live a peaceful live where we dedicate ourselves to art, science and other communistic, hippy and anarchy style stuff.
Yes, I am serious. Yes I know that with our current instincts this ideal is impossible.
The problem with Microsoft products is that everybody can set it up, but almost no-one that does that knows how to configure it the right way. Defaults? Rofl...
Reality check:
Microsoft? Delivering a quality product? Mod be troll all you want (and frankly I don't care because after many unfair troll ratings my karma is still excellent), but seriously, if you disagree, name one product that Microsoft ever made that is quality software.
If a piece of Microsoft software fails than computers suck. When people don't get Linux right away because it everything is tidied up, then Linux is not ready for X.
Why do we still even talk about Microsoft? Not a single piece of 'news' about that company has ever been correct, except for it's shipped products and that was always negative. For good and valid reasons too.
Windows sucks. It isn't ready for anything at all. Linux is to it's fullest ready for everything from servers, desktops and embedded devices to even watches and toasters... the problem people have is that they can't do Windows on Linux. Care? Linux has more features than Windows. It can even run about 50% of all Windows software perfectly.
When will the day come that this piece of Winblows is thrown through a Window right into the trash bin... for good?
/rant
I haven't had that problem either... What a piece of bull.
You know what's funny? When you upgrade to a higher version of MS Office then your older MS Office documents opens up equally shitty, often shittyer than opening that same document or presentation with the latest OpenOffice.org.
Who knows what the hell it took after a cleanWinXP install to get that beamer working, especially in Vista, but putting only 1/4 of that effort into Ubuntu to get it work? No? What a bunch of retards... Buying Vista pc's says more about them than about Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org -_-'
Yes yes Ubuntu, here we gooooo!
Which puts Microsoft in a nasty situation... Or are you going to suggest product locking? If that's the case then Microsoft needs to be fined again and rightfully so for illegal practices or having a monopoly, which is gonna suck for them...
Dude, this is Slashdot. Of course Microsoft is guilty.
Dude, this is Microsoft. Of course Slashdot finds them guilty.
In any other situation, losing the freedom of action over your property is grounds for police intervention against the perpetrator. What is different here?
That Microsoft is not selling property but licenses. I would love to be able to own Microsoft Office by paying the price they charge for consumer licenses.
Exactly. The person or company who made the product owns it until they sell it. That is called private property, and is a right required for a person to make rational decisions to benefit his life and his values
Since when are we in for putting corporations above citizens? Isn't capitalism supposed to make the world the least-worse place for modern society?
Germany: "Hey I am a country and I have created a market with certain rules"
Microsoft: "Hey I'd like to enter that market"
Germany: "You did not follow the rules, so your profit will be (largely?) undone with this fine"
Microsoft: "Ok here's 9 million and we don't care"
Germany: "Ok then that's settled then"
Please specify what sounds more ridiculous to you here...
People only need Microsoft as long as it's alive. When/if the company goes bankrupt, then would be no Windows, therefore no more Windows apps created, therefore Apple/Linux apps created, therefore Wine would be catching up to the Win32 API and everything, therefore nobody would need it anymore.
It's anti-competitive because practises like these whiped out every single retail competitor out there and blocks new opportunities for possible future competitors to enter the market.
Microsoft isn't exactly a stupid company.
Every time a sequel for a popular game comes out, fans (and detractors) will cry out if it uses the same gameplay as the previous game. "There's nothing new!" But if the developers change it up, then the fans will cry foul, saying they're "ruining the experience" or "fixing what isn't broken".
Well maybe you shouldn't make a sequal of it then! If the game isn't (rightfully) praised for it's story (like Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life) then just create a different game! Otherwise just make an expension pack instead of a reskinned sequal or a gameplay-destroyer...
99/100 times sequals suck compared to the original and this doesn't limit itself to games...
Hey! My ASUS EeePC has that feature switch in the bios!
Linux can run on more computers than Vista, Windows7 and every version of Mac OS together. Who has the real driver issues here?
nVidia and Ati have driver issues.
Yes there is criticism everywhere. There is innovation everywhere. There is high quality code everywhere. Linux is a community everywhere.
Point is: Linux isn't commercial but a joint venture of every coder donating code. This is a community project. You don't like what people build together? No? Did you pay for it? No? Can everyone contribute? Yes? So fsck off if you don't like it. Fuck off if you bash a group of people for what they do if you don't participate.
We don't need you criticism. In fact, we don't need anything. We'd love it if you'd joined us, or gave us good advice or share your ideas and/or mockups, but we don't need "This sucks!".
Have you ever played any sport or some kind of game? Have you ever seen people do something that they enjoyed? Did you ever walk up to them just to tell them that they did this bad and that bad and that they needed to do that? Fsck that!
If we'd wanted you criticism then we'd ask!
Just fscking get of our lawn if you don't plan to play along!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7VAhzPcZ-s
Are you using Windows? Do you think that without Richard Stallman, and therefore Linux distros, Windows 7 would be the way it is now?
Maybe you do not directly see what he has accomplished, but indirectly we all benifit. Why is FireFox so awesome?
People do care. A lot of them do. Take a look at NoScript, the FireFox extension that let's you block or unblock scripts.
Ok so maybe others and I do it for security, but FLOSS is security to me. I wouldn't care about prprietary firmware in my ATI card, beacause it doesn't touches the intarwebs. I do care about my ATI driver, but FLOSS alternatives still suck for gaming. I also care about my BIOS, because after you've booted into your favorite OS, then your BIOS is still in memory and is able to acces the interwebs as well.
I think that what RMS does is a little extreme. Instead of fully proprietary to fully FLOSS I'd rather choose to switch gradualy, so that onces everybody can switch, and do, proprietary software can be fully extinguished. My dad for example wouldn't touch Linux if I couldn't run MS Office 2003 in Wine for him, but now he tells his colleges at work how awesome Ubuntu is compared to Windows.
However what RMS does is good. Call him insane. Call him a crazy hippy, but what he does and accomplishes is great. For example take GNASH (the flash alternative). Who wouldn't want a version of Flash in a year or so that is not putting the CPU to 100%? Etc. When FLOSS works than it works, and offers a much better experience because the FLOSS model integrates so well with other FLOSS projects. Ok maybe not all of them simply because they're FLOSS, but software in Ubuntu is awesome at what it does.
The entire idea of multi-core is not that your performance increases, but that performance doesn't decrease.
I want every thread to run simultaniously instead of timesharing. Imagine all your apps are devided in multiple threads, then you'r all timesharing again and boy, don't you just hate it when your entire computer slows down to a crawl?
I mean look at the succes of 3D window management; you'll lose a little performance overall but when a single process jumps to 100% CPU reservation then at least there's no 2D WM lockup.
I fail to see why Linux isn't ready for the desktop. The only problem I see is that we're in a OS multiverse, that has a parallel Windows and Linux universe, both with the same (read serious real world) functionalities, but not realy good traveling tunnels between them.
Ofcourse that's being worked on, but sadly only on one side; the Linux universe. The Windows universe just tries to fsck everything up.
So much for the balance of creating and destroying...
But what ever happened to Moore's law? Are we already outside of its prediction? Has the chain been broken?
Effectively, yes.
What the hell are you talking about? Moore's Law say that performance will double each year and it still does. Even if it doubles by packing more cores, then it still does.