There's a reason why I watch less and less TV; because there's less and less worth watching. If it isn't repeats, it's new comedy series that are just embarassingly bad to watch. As the number of channels increases, the number of filler programs have to include increases, and these are just crap.
So we have been pointing fingers at NASA, criticising them for their recent disasters, resulting from budget cuts. Now all of a sudden we're seeing lots of stories about "water on Mars". "Hey look, we think we found water on MARS! We need more money to go investigate further!". Is this a case of using the ends to justify the means?
God help us all. I hereby renounce by British citizenship. Though not officially if anyone from immigration is reading this!
I guess it's no surprise; it just shows that if you're rich enough you can get anything you want, no matter how often you lie in court, break the law or act immorally.
Simply put, only if it's worth it, and so far it ain't.
I don't pay for Slashdot; I don't read it enough and I don't get enough from it to make it worth my while.
The same goes for other websites. Some gaming sites have gone to a paid subscription and I stopped visiting them. Why? Because I can get the same information elsewhere, and often at a higher quality. Why pay for gamespot.com when I can go to BluesNews and find reviews elsewhere. Besides the gamespot site is HORRIBLE.
I don't pay for Fileplanet because they still offer free downloads. When new demos come out I don't rush to download them because I know the free servers will be overloaded. So I wait until the hype has died down and then I download at high speed. I don't need to be part of the "must download this TODAY" crowd.
If you want me to part with my money, you have to make it worth my while. When I go to restaurants, I only tip well if the service and food is worth it. I sometimes don't leave a tip (well except maybe 10-25c) because it was crap.
I'd send my developers back to comment their code. Maintainability is much more important to me than how many lines of code they can crank out. I don't know what industry you work in, but I'm in the Air Traffic Management field, and maintainability is hugely important where systems that are written may well be live for a number of years.
This is typical marketing tactics from Microsoft. They start bashing competitors' products and starting touting their own long before their product makes it to the market. Haven't we seen this before?
I was just wondering if this SCO fiasco has anything to do with Linus deciding to work full time on the kernel. Maybe Linus is thinking that he could re-write the areas that SCO are concerned about and make this whole sordid affair go away?
I'd moderate you up if I could. Isn't it about time we buried for good the "all your base" comments? Come on; they're boring and just plain crap. Oh and it gets worse now that SCO is appearing in posts in response to almost every story.
These people are obviously talented so surely there must be something that they could that would be much, much, much more beneficial to the computer world than this. Like another poster asked (in my words) "why is Windows so big if they can do this on such an old machine?".
BIll Gates must be sitting back in his $5000 leather chair, with his feet up on his $10000 mahogany (oak, teak or whatever) desk, smiling a smile bigger than the cheshire cat and thanking his lucky stars that those stupid Linux developers adopted the GPL.
God I hope not. Apple's desktops are much nicer than those of Linux. Linux desktops and applications lack cohesion; even a pure KDE desktop is a pain to use. For example, I tried to download a zipped trailor movie for a game. I double clicked the ZIP file in Konqueror file manager and double clicked the movie file inside. When MPlayer tried to load the file it couldn't because it didn't exist; Ark didn't extract it to a temporary file.
It's basic (staple) things like this that Linux fails so badly on. I know I'm going to start a flame war and get lots of hateful messages but one of the reasons that Linux fails in this area is because there are so many desktop environments and so many applications that don't work together.
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Wow, everyone completely missed the humour in my post!
I refuse to read a review on a page, where only 10% of the content is the review and the rest is ads or links elsewhere.
Wow a wise Canadian company! Who'd a thunk it!?
And lo, thousands of people suddenly decided to call themselves excellent programmers!
There's a reason why I watch less and less TV; because there's less and less worth watching. If it isn't repeats, it's new comedy series that are just embarassingly bad to watch. As the number of channels increases, the number of filler programs have to include increases, and these are just crap.
So we have been pointing fingers at NASA, criticising them for their recent disasters, resulting from budget cuts. Now all of a sudden we're seeing lots of stories about "water on Mars". "Hey look, we think we found water on MARS! We need more money to go investigate further!". Is this a case of using the ends to justify the means?
A troll? You bet!
Just call me the drole troll!
Do you mean the James Reason model (can't remember the exact name of it - causation?)?
God help us all. I hereby renounce by British citizenship. Though not officially if anyone from immigration is reading this!
I guess it's no surprise; it just shows that if you're rich enough you can get anything you want, no matter how often you lie in court, break the law or act immorally.
Besides e-Payments, the AT&T patent purports to cover e-Voting, e-Auctions, e-Gifts, e-Donations, e-Wishlists and e-Referrals. e-Gad! e-Yikes!
This is the funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in years. Come to think of it, it's the only funny thing I've read on Slashdot in years!
Just kidding!!
Maybe CDs burnt at higher speeds have a shorter lifespan.
"It's like having an ugly girlfriend. You can put all the makeup on her you want, but she's still ugly".
Quoted from an NFL player commenting on a particular team's astro-turf I believe. I can't remember the player nor the team in question.
Simply put, only if it's worth it, and so far it ain't.
I don't pay for Slashdot; I don't read it enough and I don't get enough from it to make it worth my while.
The same goes for other websites. Some gaming sites have gone to a paid subscription and I stopped visiting them. Why? Because I can get the same information elsewhere, and often at a higher quality. Why pay for gamespot.com when I can go to BluesNews and find reviews elsewhere. Besides the gamespot site is HORRIBLE.
I don't pay for Fileplanet because they still offer free downloads. When new demos come out I don't rush to download them because I know the free servers will be overloaded. So I wait until the hype has died down and then I download at high speed. I don't need to be part of the "must download this TODAY" crowd.
If you want me to part with my money, you have to make it worth my while. When I go to restaurants, I only tip well if the service and food is worth it. I sometimes don't leave a tip (well except maybe 10-25c) because it was crap.
I'd send my developers back to comment their code. Maintainability is much more important to me than how many lines of code they can crank out. I don't know what industry you work in, but I'm in the Air Traffic Management field, and maintainability is hugely important where systems that are written may well be live for a number of years.
You'll probably find that your story wasn't sensational enough for it to be accepted, rather than the one that was.
This is typical marketing tactics from Microsoft. They start bashing competitors' products and starting touting their own long before their product makes it to the market. Haven't we seen this before?
I was just wondering if this SCO fiasco has anything to do with Linus deciding to work full time on the kernel. Maybe Linus is thinking that he could re-write the areas that SCO are concerned about and make this whole sordid affair go away?
Kenneth Cowpland? Don't you mean Michael Cowpland and his plastic wife and pink dog?
This isn't Sourceforge; this is the GameDev.net forums!
I've always stated that "crime does pay".
Quick and dirty seems to win most often; look at Microsoft!
I'd moderate you up if I could. Isn't it about time we buried for good the "all your base" comments? Come on; they're boring and just plain crap. Oh and it gets worse now that SCO is appearing in posts in response to almost every story.
BORING!!!!
These people are obviously talented so surely there must be something that they could that would be much, much, much more beneficial to the computer world than this. Like another poster asked (in my words) "why is Windows so big if they can do this on such an old machine?".
BIll Gates must be sitting back in his $5000 leather chair, with his feet up on his $10000 mahogany (oak, teak or whatever) desk, smiling a smile bigger than the cheshire cat and thanking his lucky stars that those stupid Linux developers adopted the GPL.
I don't care; I got modded to +3, so for once someone somewhere must like what I said.
You can't hate what you don't know, so move on.
God I hope not. Apple's desktops are much nicer than those of Linux. Linux desktops and applications lack cohesion; even a pure KDE desktop is a pain to use. For example, I tried to download a zipped trailor movie for a game. I double clicked the ZIP file in Konqueror file manager and double clicked the movie file inside. When MPlayer tried to load the file it couldn't because it didn't exist; Ark didn't extract it to a temporary file.
It's basic (staple) things like this that Linux fails so badly on. I know I'm going to start a flame war and get lots of hateful messages but one of the reasons that Linux fails in this area is because there are so many desktop environments and so many applications that don't work together.