Blind acceptance will, of course, be mercilessly exploited and the unwashed masses will still end up listening to the likes of [insert music you despise].
I closed my eyes and inserted Nickelback. Seriously, does anyone actually listen to that shit based on any intrinsic merits of the music? Or is it just because it's what the radio plays and who gives a shit that every song sounds exactly the same except for random variations in the lyrics? Hell, in 10 million years Nickleback might manage to evolve and actually create a new piece of music. Darwin would be so proud
Hear hear! I don't know if it's particular to Slashdot but I see so many unreasonably picky people bitching about the tiniest of minutiae. Just pull the pine cone out of your ass and learn to enjoy new things. If a song in your Pandora station sucks, vote it down and go on with your life. Don't burden the rest of us with your irrational discontent.
The hackintards will scream and bitch no matter what. The fact that they now have a false sense of power is more like an added constant term than a multiplier.
Sigh. My friend, while I applaud your brave efforts to break the hyperbolic fools from their stupor I have come to the conclusion that it is a futile task.
You see this kind of brain dead hand wringing is a fundamental human trait. It was always better "back then" than it is "nowadays."
I suspect confirmation bias plays a role in this behavior. That is, the rosy memories of bygone days overpower whatever bad things are happening in current times. It's a sickening mix of nostalgia and a pig headed unwillingness to admit that the world has always had troubles and will always have troubles. As the cliche has it, "The more things change the more they stay the same."
Oh well, I suppose that if one can wake even one person from their nostalgic coma it's worth it. Keep fighting the good fight.
that's ok old man, you just keep your manuals, shiny boxes and shrinkwrap and don't go getting all excited. the rest of us will enjoy our digital downloads and leave you alone in your nostalgic stupor. shhhh, easy now. you know what the doctor said about getting all riled up.
They "improved" the profile page. The first thing you see when you click on your name should be your most recent comments. If you want to see more (crazy, I know) you have to futz around with the "Many more" button on the bottom.
It's pretty much a clusterfuck, like the rest of Slashdot 2.0.
...an update system that works when the user wants.
This is truly the lynch-pin for the year of linux on the desktop. users will only get security updates when they want to. Just like when they got infected because they wanted a set of shiny new mouse cursors.
That's it! If we want users to be more secure we should distribute critical security patches in the form of new mouse cursors, smiley packs or screen savers.
Just think, tell the users "Click here to see the happy kittens" and bam, push the latest security updates on them.
Don't be silly, they're only limited by the width of your terminal. I'm writing this from elinks in a terminal with a width 120 and the text flows to fit the width quite nicely.
Now if only the web wasn't so graphically oriented.
I believe what they are asking for would be equivalent to Draft mode in Word 2007. I think it used to be called something else in previous versions. It's basically a text editor view instead of the simulated page view which shows margins and whatnot.
I can hardly imagine why the lack of such a feature is a "deal breaker."
How is that different than any other software you "buy?" I can go pick up DVD containing Office 2007 but I don't own Office 2007. I own a nice piece of plastic and a license granting me use of the software. At least where commercial software is concerned having it in the cloud or on your own machine is hardly any different.
I don't usually like to get into these sorts of discussions, but being that granting previously unknown freedom to millions is a reasonable investment, why then have we not busted in on some African countries and freed those people? Why are we still hashing over whether it's a genocide in Rwanda or not? Fuck it, just roll in, kick ass and let freedom ring baby!
Except we're not... what exactly is so special about the Iraqis that we chose them for our grand plans of freedom? I don't doubt that Saddam was a complete bastard and that many suffered under his rule. But when you hear the stories coming out of some of the African countries... shit, Saddam was a pussycat.
So why Iraq? Why did they deserve freedom more than some other poor downtrodden country? There has got to be SOME reason.
But that's only because IE6 is an utterly worthless pile of junk which I'm sure the Gmail team is sick to death of supporting. They could say that installing Links would improve your experience and it would still be a true statement.
They also used to put a steaming turd called SonicStage on the Vaio... in fact, now that I think about it all the preloaded Sony stuff was complete garbage.
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Blind acceptance will, of course, be mercilessly exploited and the unwashed masses will still end up listening to the likes of [insert music you despise].
I closed my eyes and inserted Nickelback. Seriously, does anyone actually listen to that shit based on any intrinsic merits of the music? Or is it just because it's what the radio plays and who gives a shit that every song sounds exactly the same except for random variations in the lyrics? Hell, in 10 million years Nickleback might manage to evolve and actually create a new piece of music. Darwin would be so proud
Hear hear! I don't know if it's particular to Slashdot but I see so many unreasonably picky people bitching about the tiniest of minutiae.
Just pull the pine cone out of your ass and learn to enjoy new things. If a song in your Pandora station sucks, vote it down and go on with your life. Don't burden the rest of us with your irrational discontent.
Pwned. Another jackass trying to use legal terminology obviously beyond their ken has bitten the dust. Well played sir, well played.
luckily only a small percentage of those people are retarded enough to want to use OS X on their precious creations.
The hackintards will scream and bitch no matter what. The fact that they now have a false sense of power is more like an added constant term than a multiplier.
That is
P(bitching) = n+C
rather than
P(bitching) = Cn
Where n=1
Sigh. My friend, while I applaud your brave efforts to break the hyperbolic fools from their stupor I have come to the conclusion that it is a futile task.
You see this kind of brain dead hand wringing is a fundamental human trait. It was always better "back then" than it is "nowadays."
I suspect confirmation bias plays a role in this behavior. That is, the rosy memories of bygone days overpower whatever bad things are happening in current times. It's a sickening mix of nostalgia and a pig headed unwillingness to admit that the world has always had troubles and will always have troubles. As the cliche has it, "The more things change the more they stay the same."
Oh well, I suppose that if one can wake even one person from their nostalgic coma it's worth it. Keep fighting the good fight.
They intended for everyone at every step of the way to keep that in mind.
This is naive idealism at its very finest.
with a comma: 25,800
that's ok old man, you just keep your manuals, shiny boxes and shrinkwrap and don't go getting all excited. the rest of us will enjoy our digital downloads and leave you alone in your nostalgic stupor. shhhh, easy now. you know what the doctor said about getting all riled up.
Shhhh.. don't ruin a good gig.
*Ahem.*
Back to the mopping...
no mod points but i LOL'd
So much hand wringing so little time...
That's funny I thought they were one and the same
They "improved" the profile page. The first thing you see when you click on your name should be your most recent comments. If you want to see more (crazy, I know) you have to futz around with the "Many more" button on the bottom.
It's pretty much a clusterfuck, like the rest of Slashdot 2.0.
weird
...an update system that works when the user wants.
This is truly the lynch-pin for the year of linux on the desktop. users will only get security updates when they want to. Just like when they got infected because they wanted a set of shiny new mouse cursors.
That's it! If we want users to be more secure we should distribute critical security patches in the form of new mouse cursors, smiley packs or screen savers.
Just think, tell the users "Click here to see the happy kittens" and bam, push the latest security updates on them.
I should patent that...
They are all limited to a measly 80 characters.
Don't be silly, they're only limited by the width of your terminal. I'm writing this from elinks in a terminal with a width 120 and the text flows to fit the width quite nicely.
Now if only the web wasn't so graphically oriented.
This time, Emacs is fashionable, shiny, massively overpriced, sold by an evil version of Microsoft, and ubiquitous in all media.
I see what you did there... subtle troll is subtle.
I believe what they are asking for would be equivalent to Draft mode in Word 2007. I think it used to be called something else in previous versions. It's basically a text editor view instead of the simulated page view which shows margins and whatnot.
I can hardly imagine why the lack of such a feature is a "deal breaker."
Who the heck is Vram Stoker? Is that someone who stirs up memory chips? I'm confused...
In chrome if you right click in the address bar there's an option called "Edit search engines"
Adding one entails giving it a name, a url and adding a %s in the url where the query is to go.
I added one for the KoLWiki and it works great. Very nice.
It's not your software. It's their software.
How is that different than any other software you "buy?"
I can go pick up DVD containing Office 2007 but I don't own Office 2007. I own a nice piece of plastic and a license granting me use of the software.
At least where commercial software is concerned having it in the cloud or on your own machine is hardly any different.
I don't usually like to get into these sorts of discussions, but being that granting previously unknown freedom to millions is a reasonable investment, why then have we not busted in on some African countries and freed those people? Why are we still hashing over whether it's a genocide in Rwanda or not? Fuck it, just roll in, kick ass and let freedom ring baby!
Except we're not... what exactly is so special about the Iraqis that we chose them for our grand plans of freedom? I don't doubt that Saddam was a complete bastard and that many suffered under his rule. But when you hear the stories coming out of some of the African countries... shit, Saddam was a pussycat.
So why Iraq? Why did they deserve freedom more than some other poor downtrodden country? There has got to be SOME reason.
I just can't put my finger on it.
But that's only because IE6 is an utterly worthless pile of junk which I'm sure the Gmail team is sick to death of supporting.
They could say that installing Links would improve your experience and it would still be a true statement.
They also used to put a steaming turd called SonicStage on the Vaio... in fact, now that I think about it all the preloaded Sony stuff was complete garbage.
What a surprise.