as ESR did-- to get branded as a "fanatic" is to speak your mind.
And if when you speak your mind you reveal fanatical views, you should be considered a fanatic. It doesn't require fomenting armed revolution, you really can qualify as a fanatic solely on what you say.
Though, in this case I'm not sure I'd consider him a fanatic. A socially inept, arrogant man with a vastly overinflated ego that really isn't warranted considering his none-too-impressive accomplishments, but probably not a fanatic.
Oh spare us the whining and the condescension. "Hijacking" words? I was going to post a rebuttal to that idiotic proposition but I suddenly realized I shouldn't waste my time responding. So I'll play along, yes, we're hijacking words, and you're going to sit there and take it because you can't do anything about it.
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Show me a single computer company (hell, any company) that's been around for 25 years or so and hasn't made any mistakes.
I never figured out why, but the price difference between online and offline in high-end graphics cards is incredible. Don't know why this is, you don't see that level of difference in any other kind of hardware (except maybe power supplies).
Unfortunately good will really doesn't mean much, a fact which companies learned long ago. And let's be honest, if your consuming one unit of their products, and preventing them for making sales of a thousand units of their product, they don't care if they lose you as a customer.
hy the BoingBoing submitter and Mr. Doctorow are so upset about this I don't know; when you buy software that's dependent on a for-profit company to keep working, what do you expect?
Actually, I don't expect this, it's definitely not a standard industry practice. Oh, sorry, forgot that rationality takes a back seat when it's time to insult proprietary software.
It's cases like this that make me lose faith in the system. Or maybe just in my fellow man.
If you don't like the system, then petition your representatives in Congress to change it. What happened is called jury nullification, and it is a long-established legal right that juries have. I personally think it's a lousy custom, but at the present time it's perfectly legal and part of the system.
My understanding was that the Linux kit was sold out in pre-orders
Selling out in pre-orders is a meaningless statement. How can you "sell out" of an intangible thing? It's just a marketing ploy which you unfortunately seem to have fallen for.
They're really starting to shake up the industry on slashdot, I'm sure this will create a lot of disruption in the massive FORTRAN industrial establishment. Oooh, next they should link an article criticizing ALGOL, that will shake up things even more.
Although the earlier seasons of Deep Space Nine were good, the later seasons made it, without a doubt in my mind, the best of the ST francises.
Actually I think both early and late DS9 weren't good at all. The best were the middle few seasons; I've heard the A-writing team moved in after TNG ended, and the show got really, really good. Then the A-writing team moved to Voyager, and the B-writing team came to DS9 and messed it all up. That last season was a mess.
The funny thing is I can see the original editors having poor grammar, but all the newer editors seem to be the same way. So many unemployed English PhDs they could have hired, but I guess it's cooler to give your grammatically challenged friends cushy jobs where they don't really have to do anything for their salary.
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So, you wanted a 1,42GHz Mac mini but either because of some distribution woes or because of your tight budget you could just get a 1,25GHz ?
No, not really. 1.42 GHz isn't really so much faster than 1.25 to justify voiding the warranty.
No, no, don't you understand that's just liberal commie extremism. You're only allowed to boycott businesses if they offend conservative values.
as ESR did-- to get branded as a "fanatic" is to speak your mind.
And if when you speak your mind you reveal fanatical views, you should be considered a fanatic. It doesn't require fomenting armed revolution, you really can qualify as a fanatic solely on what you say.
Though, in this case I'm not sure I'd consider him a fanatic. A socially inept, arrogant man with a vastly overinflated ego that really isn't warranted considering his none-too-impressive accomplishments, but probably not a fanatic.
Oh spare us the whining and the condescension. "Hijacking" words? I was going to post a rebuttal to that idiotic proposition but I suddenly realized I shouldn't waste my time responding. So I'll play along, yes, we're hijacking words, and you're going to sit there and take it because you can't do anything about it.
Show me a single computer company (hell, any company) that's been around for 25 years or so and hasn't made any mistakes.
Ben and Jerry's.
I never figured out why, but the price difference between online and offline in high-end graphics cards is incredible. Don't know why this is, you don't see that level of difference in any other kind of hardware (except maybe power supplies).
because a tiny niche insignificant internet website says so !!
It's not false information just because a tiny niche insignificant internet website said so.
It's false because marketing people said so.
Unfortunately good will really doesn't mean much, a fact which companies learned long ago. And let's be honest, if your consuming one unit of their products, and preventing them for making sales of a thousand units of their product, they don't care if they lose you as a customer.
Think DMCA and some of the ways it is being utilized to combat undesired behavior due to the broadness of the law.
Of course the flip side can be seen in the deep south in the 50s and 60s.
hy the BoingBoing submitter and Mr. Doctorow are so upset about this I don't know; when you buy software that's dependent on a for-profit company to keep working, what do you expect?
Actually, I don't expect this, it's definitely not a standard industry practice. Oh, sorry, forgot that rationality takes a back seat when it's time to insult proprietary software.
It's cases like this that make me lose faith in the system. Or maybe just in my fellow man.
If you don't like the system, then petition your representatives in Congress to change it. What happened is called jury nullification, and it is a long-established legal right that juries have. I personally think it's a lousy custom, but at the present time it's perfectly legal and part of the system.
The guy has just been arrested and charged wrongly - does he really need people pointing the finger at his family too?
Actually, I think it was YOU!!
Sounds like you're considering entering the publishing world.
My understanding was that the Linux kit was sold out in pre-orders
Selling out in pre-orders is a meaningless statement. How can you "sell out" of an intangible thing? It's just a marketing ploy which you unfortunately seem to have fallen for.
They're really starting to shake up the industry on slashdot, I'm sure this will create a lot of disruption in the massive FORTRAN industrial establishment. Oooh, next they should link an article criticizing ALGOL, that will shake up things even more.
Just send those subversive kids to prison where they belong.
Might appeal to the parent who doesn't want the little bastards around, but doesn't want to spring for expensive boarding schools.
How can they be posting massive earnings and screwing over their workers?
Replace "How can they be" with "They're" and replace "and" with "by".
Them figgerin' machines? That's jest crazy talk.
Although the earlier seasons of Deep Space Nine were good, the later seasons made it, without a doubt in my mind, the best of the ST francises.
Actually I think both early and late DS9 weren't good at all. The best were the middle few seasons; I've heard the A-writing team moved in after TNG ended, and the show got really, really good. Then the A-writing team moved to Voyager, and the B-writing team came to DS9 and messed it all up. That last season was a mess.
What kind of moronic comment is that you idiot!
Hey, if you don't like it then go fork your own thread.
DOES NOT mean they are responsible for spelling and grammar errors.
But...but...they're EDITORS. EDITORS!! Oh god my head's about to explode, too much wrongness in one post!! What's the matter with you?!?
This story is just STUPID!! That's it, I'm starting my own slashdot!
I love when they reply to a post, and don't write a response! Oh No! I'm stereotyping AOL users!
The funny thing is I can see the original editors having poor grammar, but all the newer editors seem to be the same way. So many unemployed English PhDs they could have hired, but I guess it's cooler to give your grammatically challenged friends cushy jobs where they don't really have to do anything for their salary.
Didst writeth?