I am afraid you sound just like another Linux fanboy. Listen, your approach has not worked that well in 10 years! Apple came in with a new platform and kicked your *you know what* in terms of penetration.
No, they didn't. Apple still hasn't achieved more market share than Linux and Linux is getting a much bigger boost right now here in Europe.
And who the fuck cares about compatibility? You think all your Win95 programs work in Vista or vice-versa? Or a program compiled for Linux 0.99 works in Ubuntu 8.10? If you go with the times, buy a new PC. With OS X and iLife come most programs the average user will need in his lifetime, safe maybe for an Office Suite.
And who's the fanboi here ej? You're just spouting logical fallacies and crap around. at_slashdot didn't post any flamebait...
Yeah, nice try. Only too bad DirectX is dead now, only Direct3D still survives now. All the other crap like DirectPlay, DirectMusic, DirectInput and so on have been deprecated over the last five years. With Windows Vista, they removed one of the three remaining API's, DirectSound. Game developers write most of this themselves anyway and use libraries that have proven their worth over the ages for the rest.
(I'm not saying Direct3D is crap, the rest was though.)
Linux does the same, using memory not used by programs as cache. But unlike in Vista, the System monitor in Ubuntu gives you the memory used by programs and not the silly and meaningless total used memory like in Vista.
One argument for the OS X panic message is that it doesn't replace the entire screen, meaning that whatever you may have been working on is still potentially recoverable. With a full-screen BSOD, where technical details essentially fill the screen, this doesn't happen.
Honestly? Instead of using an OS that lets you recuperate 1/4 of a page of a letter you're writing, use a text writer that has a recovery system.
Isn't that what you deserve for using Gentoo. I installed Gentoo once and while it helped me understanding how a Linux distro works and how everything fits together, I never intented to use it as my OS. If you do, you can expect stuff like this. Nobody every said Gentoo was for normal, non-pro users.
I never said that. I'm perfectly fine with watching child porn, how odd this may sound. But of course I will oppose anyone molesting or raping a kid. The recordings have been made anyways so if some of people get their kicks from it, why not let them? It's even positive for the children, if those perverts have their material, they will have less incentive to take a real kid.
In the same way, one can try censor all non-fiction violent videos. We all agree killing innocents is wrong, but the images shouldn't be illegal.
I was just saying that for some strange reason, child porn brings up very serious reactions and no matter how logical your arguments, nobody would listen to you. People can argue about racism, hate, murder etc... but kiddie porn, no, "that's just wrong".
Very illegal I guess. I'm sorry but I have never been involved in such a case:) Still Child porn is something different as it is still a very sensitive thing.
Excuse me, but don't they have free speech in the UK?
There is content that should just not be available to be viewed.
Don't tell me they can do that? I'm pretty sure that would be completely unconstitutional here in Belgium. And why do these idiots keep messing with our internet. You don't like, don't visit it. I friggin' hate Modern Art and that's why I stay away from museums.
So you want to destroy the very mindset that created Linux in the first place? The kernel is released often and early. And that's great! Because bugs are squashed so much faster and features are tested immediately. It's up to distributions to act like a "buffer" between this and the end users.
Besides, there are absolutely no ABI problems with open-source programs. And if you respond by saying that Linux needs this closed-source binaries then again, you would understand Linux wrong. We manage pretty good ourselves.
Damn, mother nature is really infinitely more inventive than every sci-fi movie director or write in the world. I mean, this is something I would expect to find on some alien planet or something.
I understand what you mean. There is a parallel somewhere with animal rights here. Somehow, I secretly hope this will get nowhere during my lifetime. And yet, next year I will take AI as my specialization...
I fear not. Most likely, people will have linked "stem cells" with "babykilling" a long, long time ago. It'll take a lot of hammering to get that one out.
Great idea, absolutely but is it really necessary? When I want to try out a package, I immediately just type the name into Google Images and get a good impression that way. But it's of course great for Linux-newbs to see it. It's probably more eyecandy than useful.
Sometimes an astronaut loses some tools: big news! Seriously, if there is no mechanism to keep the bags safe, like with magnets, this is only to be expected. With all the other crap in space, nobody is going to mind.
I'm sorry if I take a test that gives Windows and Linux the same security rating not very seriously. Also, how can they test this? The only way to properly test something like this is to let it out in the wild for a decade or two. That's not something you can imitate in a testing room.
Sorry,the energy you get from the antimatter, if you can collect every single bit, it still even lower than the energy needed to fire the laser. That's conservation of energy for ya.
You know, everyone getting all wound up when Twitter responds to himself is really getting old. Just leave it, everybody either knows or doesn't care. And for whatever the way he posts may be, he sometimes makes a really good point.
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Pedobeard, you mean.
Of course it's great!
But part of me wants Microsoft to fail again, because that could drive them over the edge.
Competition's great and that's why without one monolithic company controlling 90% of the OS market, the consumer would be better off.
I'm afraid Microsoft will have felt the warm breath of the FOSS community in its fat neck, so I predict Windows 7 will actually be pleasant to use.
Ever tried Nethack?
So what? He made an interesting post, unlike yours.
Then what's the difference between this and the GPL?
I am afraid you sound just like another Linux fanboy. Listen, your approach has not worked that well in 10 years! Apple came in with a new platform and kicked your *you know what* in terms of penetration.
No, they didn't. Apple still hasn't achieved more market share than Linux and Linux is getting a much bigger boost right now here in Europe.
And who the fuck cares about compatibility? You think all your Win95 programs work in Vista or vice-versa? Or a program compiled for Linux 0.99 works in Ubuntu 8.10? If you go with the times, buy a new PC. With OS X and iLife come most programs the average user will need in his lifetime, safe maybe for an Office Suite.
And who's the fanboi here ej? You're just spouting logical fallacies and crap around. at_slashdot didn't post any flamebait...
Yeah, nice try.
Only too bad DirectX is dead now, only Direct3D still survives now. All the other crap like DirectPlay, DirectMusic, DirectInput and so on have been deprecated over the last five years. With Windows Vista, they removed one of the three remaining API's, DirectSound.
Game developers write most of this themselves anyway and use libraries that have proven their worth over the ages for the rest.
(I'm not saying Direct3D is crap, the rest was though.)
Linux does the same, using memory not used by programs as cache. But unlike in Vista, the System monitor in Ubuntu gives you the memory used by programs and not the silly and meaningless total used memory like in Vista.
One argument for the OS X panic message is that it doesn't replace the entire screen, meaning that whatever you may have been working on is still potentially recoverable. With a full-screen BSOD, where technical details essentially fill the screen, this doesn't happen.
Honestly? Instead of using an OS that lets you recuperate 1/4 of a page of a letter you're writing, use a text writer that has a recovery system.
Isn't that what you deserve for using Gentoo.
I installed Gentoo once and while it helped me understanding how a Linux distro works and how everything fits together, I never intented to use it as my OS.
If you do, you can expect stuff like this. Nobody every said Gentoo was for normal, non-pro users.
I never said that. I'm perfectly fine with watching child porn, how odd this may sound. But of course I will oppose anyone molesting or raping a kid.
The recordings have been made anyways so if some of people get their kicks from it, why not let them? It's even positive for the children, if those perverts have their material, they will have less incentive to take a real kid.
In the same way, one can try censor all non-fiction violent videos. We all agree killing innocents is wrong, but the images shouldn't be illegal.
I was just saying that for some strange reason, child porn brings up very serious reactions and no matter how logical your arguments, nobody would listen to you. People can argue about racism, hate, murder etc... but kiddie porn, no, "that's just wrong".
Very illegal I guess. I'm sorry but I have never been involved in such a case :)
Still Child porn is something different as it is still a very sensitive thing.
There is content that should just not be available to be viewed.
Don't tell me they can do that? I'm pretty sure that would be completely unconstitutional here in Belgium. And why do these idiots keep messing with our internet. You don't like, don't visit it.
I friggin' hate Modern Art and that's why I stay away from museums.
So you want to destroy the very mindset that created Linux in the first place? The kernel is released often and early.
And that's great! Because bugs are squashed so much faster and features are tested immediately. It's up to distributions to act like a "buffer" between this and the end users.
Besides, there are absolutely no ABI problems with open-source programs. And if you respond by saying that Linux needs this closed-source binaries then again, you would understand Linux wrong. We manage pretty good ourselves.
Isn't an abortion a lot cheaper? I mean, with these genetic misfits being somehow a part of society, we could be doing some damage to our gene pool.
Damn, mother nature is really infinitely more inventive than every sci-fi movie director or write in the world. I mean, this is something I would expect to find on some alien planet or something.
I understand what you mean. There is a parallel somewhere with animal rights here. Somehow, I secretly hope this will get nowhere during my lifetime.
And yet, next year I will take AI as my specialization...
I fear not. Most likely, people will have linked "stem cells" with "babykilling" a long, long time ago. It'll take a lot of hammering to get that one out.
Great idea, absolutely but is it really necessary? When I want to try out a package, I immediately just type the name into Google Images and get a good impression that way.
But it's of course great for Linux-newbs to see it. It's probably more eyecandy than useful.
A magnet on a string?
Sometimes an astronaut loses some tools: big news!
Seriously, if there is no mechanism to keep the bags safe, like with magnets, this is only to be expected. With all the other crap in space, nobody is going to mind.
I'm sorry if I take a test that gives Windows and Linux the same security rating not very seriously.
Also, how can they test this? The only way to properly test something like this is to let it out in the wild for a decade or two. That's not something you can imitate in a testing room.
Sorry,the energy you get from the antimatter, if you can collect every single bit, it still even lower than the energy needed to fire the laser. That's conservation of energy for ya.
You know, everyone getting all wound up when Twitter responds to himself is really getting old. Just leave it, everybody either knows or doesn't care.
And for whatever the way he posts may be, he sometimes makes a really good point.