...not killing off the nerds in your action-movies and letting the jocks survive?
...not giving people monetary incentives to make them educate themselves in throwing a ball?
...not teaching how life didn't come around in school?
...not watching Oprah?
...generally not watching tv, except for Discovery Channel (which has also gone down-hill btw. It's all about big bikes and tatoos now, screw that shit I want space, sharks and vira).
...not having to pay for your education? Yep we got that here in Denmark, it rules. In fact we get paid money by our parliamentary-government to study.
...not giving out guns like candy to make up for your kids feeling sucky at school?
All you have to do is refrain from doing something ffs, how fscking hard is it?
That depends on what you call "sustainable". Nuclear is not "sustainable". Our sun is not "sustainable". The universe will die of heat-death and is not "sustainable". Nothing is "sustainable". Two or three hundred years of oil combined with a sensible usage & conservation policy should be sufficient to see us start to harvest comets and other off-planet resources for hydrocarbons.
And so the cosmic law of expected hostility from extra-terrestrial civilizations arose: Since oil and the universe is not sustainable, and since oil is organic, there is a high likelihood that any extra-terrestrials possessing the technology to visit Earth will do so with the motive of converting us into oil.
Perhaps if the OS'es competed on technical merit alone you'd be right.
However, this isn't so. You have to add advertizing (accepted practice, but basically a dirty trick that says nothing about the merit of the product), FUD-slinging, vendor lock-in, people who are "used to Windows, ergo it's better", and a gazillion other factors which has nothing to do with the ACTUAL PRODUCT'S technical merits in itself.
On the bright side, Linux and Open Source can't die like MS can (bankruptcy). All the BFG's in the world wont make a licking difference if you've pressed IDDQD and are chipping away with your knuckles one bit at a time.
1) Don't act as if users of other operating systems are less intelligent than you. It turns out that Linux-advocacy isn't the entire world, and that leaders in different fields (or even this one!) might be using Windows. They're not "lusers", they just have priorities different from your own.
Slashdot is not "teh Linux-community". It's the cauldron of criticism, the purgatory of sarcasm, the end of beliefs. Hello Kitty would come in in one end, and five minutes later exit in the other end feeling like a suicidal whore. THAT'S Slashdot. And some of us like it this way.
2) Don't act as if Linux hasn't had equally stupid stuff happen to it. Yes, it's a different process altogether, and I would dare say that bugs are less likely due to its open source nature, but they still happen. One that I can remember off the top of my head is Debian's guessable SSL keys.
Difference being that black-box development is asking for it, while whitebox-development actually tries to provide the best environment for stuff like that not to happen.
3) Tryâ"for ten minutesâ"to give the impression that half of your time isn't devoted to bashing an OS you believe is irrelevant.
*I step away from the screen to not bash an OS I find irrelevant*
4) For good measure try cutting out the xkcd worship and meme-spouting. We might be able to relate to you people if you acted as if you weren't cut from the same distasteful mold.
What's wrong with advanced humor and the soul of the Internet? It is you "people" who are hard to relate to, you so-called breadwinners who are exceptionally caught up in the mundane with priorities like mortgage and corporeal phallos-symbols of a certain value (counted in pieces of paper and metal that SOMEONE made up a long time ago to ease the process of trade, but which in these days have become an end unto itself) taking first place over *unimportant stuff* like blatant misuse monopoly, personal freedoms etc.
Get some hard skin, grow a spine and bitch in a clever way like the rest of us. You're not going to get a Ferrari anyway.
Free (as in freedom) doesn't give me anything I need, want, or care about for my day to day use. If you want to get my attention, solve my problems. DRM is not my problem.
Please punch yourself in the face for that statement you selfish git.
Yeah go on, mod me flamebait. You know the world is going to hell in a handbasket because sentiments like these.
I don't know what's funnier - your comment or the fact that it was modded 'Informative'
Some people just found out that their apartment is much bigger once they get out of the closet. I'd be appreciative of such info myself, alas all I find when I open the doors is either a stairwell or a balcony.
Each party/candidate should get an official homepage where they could go all out however they want to. They should also be required to submit a detailed description of their values, goals and how to get there (then a compendium "Election 2009" would be published containing all these plans for the public to discuss).
Other than that they should stay the hell out of the media, off the billboards, off the news, off any kind of promotion that can be bought for money.
Meh...democracies suck. Make me emperor and I'll make this world a better place.
Copyright-abolition! Linux everywhere! Flying cars! Duke Nukem Forever! Fusion-power! Abolition of organized religion! Phat tubes for everyone! Mandatory p2p! Holo-porn and omgpony-races!
ZarathustraDK 2009
Whatever happened to just taking hike to closest Mt. Doom and throwing disk to molten lava hole?
I would, but disregarding the occasional unpredictable eruptions and the grey little fucker that keeps bothering me whenever I go near, I just can't seem to let go of the disk when it comes down to it.
If you don't like the smell stay out of the kitchen.
Nobody is forcing you to use GPL except your own infatuation with certain GPL'ed libraries, so suck it down, or code it yourself.
The whining is tantamount to you creating a chassis for a car, then bitching at the local car-dealership because they refuse to let you sell their cars with your new chassis for your own profit.
In many ways, Windows 7 is essentially Windows Vista but with a lot of improved code optimization and some interface improvements. I've tried the public RC build and it is fast and impressively stable.
BUT, it's still evil.
Or rather, Open Source is good, proprietary is indifferent.
Linux is philanthropic and intrinsically good in its conception.
Windows is not.
That ought to be enough reason for people to choose Linux. Your actions is, and should be, guided by your ethics; but people rather want to put on their blindfold and play Crysis because they're used to technology being a field devoid of ethics.
And don't play the "Well, when you want some REAL work done..."-card or the "Food on the table"-card, if the need for personal integrity does not trumph those, then this world is going to hell in a handbasket.
Of course they're excited. Vista was a huge letdown, so it's basically lowering the bar of expectation.
All Win7 has to do is be better than Vista, because that is what people focus on.
What people should ask themselves is "Do I need Win7 if I got XP?".
The people I support generally have a heart-attack if I change the background of their desktop (OMG IT'S DIFFERENT!). Please, don't hype Win7 anymore, it'll be genocide! ^-^
How can you claim that 'closed-source software' is the cause of all the ills you mentioned?
If the code is open then everyone can find and fix vulnerabilities, not just a comparably few developers who just happen to be working on that aspect of a given program. Sure, Microsoft may be big, but their bug-triage is sorely lacking when compared to popular open source projects, they simply lack the (authorized) manpower to do that sort of thing.
I'm starting to like this financial crisis-thingy.
It drives up the price on Windows, it flushes out a lot of bad bank-decisions along with their inventors, it pummels the prices on housing (I'm renting my appartment, so nice market for me now), it makes people switch to Linux because it's free.
Really, it should be called "Financial Happy Times" or something.
Hobbits, Gimli & Legolas : The people who got cheated out of their vote.
Boromir : Some weak polititian.
Gandalf & Aragorn : Mir Hossein Moussavi.
Saruman : Ahmadinejad.
Sauron : Khameini.
Orcs : The revolution guard.
Other supporting villains : Basij militia.
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Now I can get leucemia AND cytokine storm at the same time!
...not killing off the nerds in your action-movies and letting the jocks survive?
...not giving people monetary incentives to make them educate themselves in throwing a ball?
...not teaching how life didn't come around in school?
...not watching Oprah?
...generally not watching tv, except for Discovery Channel (which has also gone down-hill btw. It's all about big bikes and tatoos now, screw that shit I want space, sharks and vira).
...not having to pay for your education? Yep we got that here in Denmark, it rules. In fact we get paid money by our parliamentary-government to study.
...not giving out guns like candy to make up for your kids feeling sucky at school?
All you have to do is refrain from doing something ffs, how fscking hard is it?
That's sugar-coating it. not the material you need for a nice decisive finish.
Or you could just shake hands and make Chinamerica.
Nah bollocks, rather start WWIII than join territories, they are the bad guys after all.
What DOES America export?
Things I can think of: Microsoft, Hollywood-stuff, Weapons, McDonalds, patents, death of popstars, hmmm...
Come to think of it, it's been ages since I've seen "Made in America" anywhere except on TV.
That depends on what you call "sustainable". Nuclear is not "sustainable". Our sun is not "sustainable". The universe will die of heat-death and is not "sustainable". Nothing is "sustainable". Two or three hundred years of oil combined with a sensible usage & conservation policy should be sufficient to see us start to harvest comets and other off-planet resources for hydrocarbons.
And so the cosmic law of expected hostility from extra-terrestrial civilizations arose: Since oil and the universe is not sustainable, and since oil is organic, there is a high likelihood that any extra-terrestrials possessing the technology to visit Earth will do so with the motive of converting us into oil.
Perhaps if the OS'es competed on technical merit alone you'd be right.
However, this isn't so. You have to add advertizing (accepted practice, but basically a dirty trick that says nothing about the merit of the product), FUD-slinging, vendor lock-in, people who are "used to Windows, ergo it's better", and a gazillion other factors which has nothing to do with the ACTUAL PRODUCT'S technical merits in itself.
On the bright side, Linux and Open Source can't die like MS can (bankruptcy). All the BFG's in the world wont make a licking difference if you've pressed IDDQD and are chipping away with your knuckles one bit at a time.
1) Don't act as if users of other operating systems are less intelligent than you. It turns out that Linux-advocacy isn't the entire world, and that leaders in different fields (or even this one!) might be using Windows. They're not "lusers", they just have priorities different from your own.
Slashdot is not "teh Linux-community". It's the cauldron of criticism, the purgatory of sarcasm, the end of beliefs. Hello Kitty would come in in one end, and five minutes later exit in the other end feeling like a suicidal whore. THAT'S Slashdot. And some of us like it this way.
2) Don't act as if Linux hasn't had equally stupid stuff happen to it. Yes, it's a different process altogether, and I would dare say that bugs are less likely due to its open source nature, but they still happen. One that I can remember off the top of my head is Debian's guessable SSL keys.
Difference being that black-box development is asking for it, while whitebox-development actually tries to provide the best environment for stuff like that not to happen.
3) Tryâ"for ten minutesâ"to give the impression that half of your time isn't devoted to bashing an OS you believe is irrelevant.
*I step away from the screen to not bash an OS I find irrelevant*
4) For good measure try cutting out the xkcd worship and meme-spouting. We might be able to relate to you people if you acted as if you weren't cut from the same distasteful mold.
What's wrong with advanced humor and the soul of the Internet? It is you "people" who are hard to relate to, you so-called breadwinners who are exceptionally caught up in the mundane with priorities like mortgage and corporeal phallos-symbols of a certain value (counted in pieces of paper and metal that SOMEONE made up a long time ago to ease the process of trade, but which in these days have become an end unto itself) taking first place over *unimportant stuff* like blatant misuse monopoly, personal freedoms etc.
Get some hard skin, grow a spine and bitch in a clever way like the rest of us. You're not going to get a Ferrari anyway.
Free (as in freedom) doesn't give me anything I need, want, or care about for my day to day use. If you want to get my attention, solve my problems. DRM is not my problem.
Please punch yourself in the face for that statement you selfish git.
Yeah go on, mod me flamebait. You know the world is going to hell in a handbasket because sentiments like these.
I don't know what's funnier - your comment or the fact that it was modded 'Informative'
Some people just found out that their apartment is much bigger once they get out of the closet. I'd be appreciative of such info myself, alas all I find when I open the doors is either a stairwell or a balcony.
I hope it'll be here on Friday.
I expect to get it on Monday.
I fear it'll arrive broken.
We know you are gay and broken.
Each party/candidate should get an official homepage where they could go all out however they want to. They should also be required to submit a detailed description of their values, goals and how to get there (then a compendium "Election 2009" would be published containing all these plans for the public to discuss).
Other than that they should stay the hell out of the media, off the billboards, off the news, off any kind of promotion that can be bought for money.
Meh...democracies suck. Make me emperor and I'll make this world a better place.
Copyright-abolition! Linux everywhere! Flying cars! Duke Nukem Forever! Fusion-power! Abolition of organized religion! Phat tubes for everyone! Mandatory p2p! Holo-porn and omgpony-races! ZarathustraDK 2009
Whatever happened to just taking hike to closest Mt. Doom and throwing disk to molten lava hole?
I would, but disregarding the occasional unpredictable eruptions and the grey little fucker that keeps bothering me whenever I go near, I just can't seem to let go of the disk when it comes down to it.
If you don't like the smell stay out of the kitchen.
Nobody is forcing you to use GPL except your own infatuation with certain GPL'ed libraries, so suck it down, or code it yourself.
The whining is tantamount to you creating a chassis for a car, then bitching at the local car-dealership because they refuse to let you sell their cars with your new chassis for your own profit.
I too believe in "technology over politics".
I just happen to believe in "philosophy over technology" too. Nothing incompatible about that.
In many ways, Windows 7 is essentially Windows Vista but with a lot of improved code optimization and some interface improvements. I've tried the public RC build and it is fast and impressively stable.
BUT, it's still evil.
Or rather, Open Source is good, proprietary is indifferent.
Same result for me though...
Linux is philanthropic and intrinsically good in its conception.
Windows is not.
That ought to be enough reason for people to choose Linux. Your actions is, and should be, guided by your ethics; but people rather want to put on their blindfold and play Crysis because they're used to technology being a field devoid of ethics.
And don't play the "Well, when you want some REAL work done..."-card or the "Food on the table"-card, if the need for personal integrity does not trumph those, then this world is going to hell in a handbasket.
And yes IAA philosopher.
Of course they're excited. Vista was a huge letdown, so it's basically lowering the bar of expectation.
All Win7 has to do is be better than Vista, because that is what people focus on.
What people should ask themselves is "Do I need Win7 if I got XP?".
The people I support generally have a heart-attack if I change the background of their desktop (OMG IT'S DIFFERENT!). Please, don't hype Win7 anymore, it'll be genocide! ^-^
I'm pretty sure I'm samemory of the independence day uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
and Sirous Nourgostar of Iran to work
Did George Lucas get offspring in Iran or something?
How can you claim that 'closed-source software' is the cause of all the ills you mentioned?
If the code is open then everyone can find and fix vulnerabilities, not just a comparably few developers who just happen to be working on that aspect of a given program. Sure, Microsoft may be big, but their bug-triage is sorely lacking when compared to popular open source projects, they simply lack the (authorized) manpower to do that sort of thing.
I'm starting to like this financial crisis-thingy.
It drives up the price on Windows, it flushes out a lot of bad bank-decisions along with their inventors, it pummels the prices on housing (I'm renting my appartment, so nice market for me now), it makes people switch to Linux because it's free.
Really, it should be called "Financial Happy Times" or something.
Hobbits, Gimli & Legolas : The people who got cheated out of their vote.
Boromir : Some weak polititian.
Gandalf & Aragorn : Mir Hossein Moussavi.
Saruman : Ahmadinejad.
Sauron : Khameini.
Orcs : The revolution guard.
Other supporting villains : Basij militia.
Is it an african or european eagle?
I mean, going by the median they apparantly just can't get pissed off when somebody treats them like trash.