So why did people upgrade to windows 98? They believed it will be y2k tolerant. what they got is nothing except being forced to use IE4.
Yet again, they continue to amaze me. They call it "second edition" when it's not even a bugfix. what it does? this time it forces IE5! (yet again making people think it is y2k tolerant)
people pay MORE MONEY to get LESS CHOICE. they expect people to pay by an interval of 1 year. "Just rent the goddamn thing!!!!"
but, they're shooting into they're own ass. people will think: "If I have to upgrade (and obviously i do, since MS is admitting that windows98 is incomplete) I'll just upgrade to Linux, or BeOS!"
I know they won't recognize my thoughts, (maybe one: "Damn, windows sucks", that's a very common thought) but I would hate to bluescren my brain. I can imagine talking to someone, and he will say "Illegal operation, I must be shut down". And what about slowness? That would be rather funny, to see people to see thinking "as fast as windows". "hello" - "h.. e... llo..."
About language recognition, ever heard the phrase "there is one computer language, the microsoft language"? Be afraid, be very afraid.
And yes. I'm terrified of Microsoft. that one day i will have to use their products, that they will steal the internet. I want to be free, and Microsoft's goal is to take freedom from people. (GUIDs, no choice in products, bill brother IS watching you!)
1. You're off-topic posts were repetition of the other off-topics, and you should have been on their thread. (moderators tend not to lower the score of big threads)
2. Have you ended all of your comments' subjects in the word "sucks"?;-)
People with stupid comments, that may have had good ones before, can expolit the system. (intentionaly or unintentionaly).
I have a good idea. For every point someone's comment have got, he will get half a point on the pool. When he posts a comment, he can boost it up according to his pool. If someone wants to say something stupid, like "agreed, blah blah", he can choose the score for the comment to stay 1. but, if he had an enlightenment, and has a very good point (and he knows it), he can pull from the pool, and get attention.
but, if the moderators thinks the comment is bad, they can lower it down, thus lowering the amount of score in his pool to spend at other times. (and ofcourse, when he posts the comment, he lowers the pool by himself).
negative pools will FORCE users to post at bad score of 0 (no choice for the user). the user will rely on moderator to give him thumbs-up to normal score and higher his pool. he will get a score for the act of posting, if a poster post "this is meant to higher my score" he will get thumbsdown, and it won't change anything.
however, positive pools cannot be set for such a thing, and may not recieve score in such a way.
also, an extra 1/2 point should be given to a user who got 4 points. a point for going to 5 points, and -1 points for getting to -1. (and the reverse on the opposite direction)
mp3 CDs and zip media.
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I think, mp3 portable machines should go in all shapes and sizes. or as much as an ordinary pc computer can use.
many people have cd burners, and when burning 650Mb of mp3s, it can hold every song you like, so you won't have to "recharge" the thing or get new meida. a simple program would make an image out of the mp3s you desire and burn it on the cd.
same goes for iomega zip media, (or the syquest equivalent) it's portable, it has a large capacity, and every pc can be conneted to one. the only problem is they are proprietary, but so are many other devices. (maybe even the rio, i have no idea)
I saw a program on tv about these poeple, they are quite fanatic. their purposes are to legaly fuck all the banks and credit card companies, phone services and every other capitalist company, by owing money to them.
but when nobody cooporates (most of the world is lazy otomatron window-using suits), it really is useless...
(if i remeber correctly, during a visit to london i heard one of them at speakers' corner he attracted a crowd, and had many good points, he even trashed bill gates and windows, and recommended linux, but I dont know if he's affiliated with them)
The FBI is upset? The FBI scared out of "malicious hackers"?
The FBI, should be scared out of itself. What a stupidy. There are so many levels that it the FBI's FAULT,
1. They use MS Office (which is known to have security faults) 2. They opened up the message with the suspicious subject 3. They opened the doc attachment with word 4. They agreed to use the macro.
they had 4 mistakes, leading to the virus. don't blame the cracker, blame yourselves, you were idiots enough to be infected, you are going to pay for this.
(yes bluescreens are the users fault, they DID buy windows)
I have an idea. lets expose a major security hole in one of our products, to let everyone see that GUID is a good thing. hell, they made security holes in purpose to make GUID useful.
They planned it all along, ofcourse, they knew GUID would be exposed, so made it possible for them to say: "You need GUID because our products are bad and have many exploits for crackers to play with"
it reminds me when Microsoft bragged that NT servers had failsafe modes, and when a server crashes, another server can replace it. If NT servers didnt crash so often nobody would care.
why would anyone want windows? it's a big bloated mess. I think MS will be glad to get rid of that junk. and "start a new technology".
this a nice excuse for them to stop supporting it, "it's not our anymore", and sell a (suppose to be) better product instead. "bugs in windows? not our fault [anymore] contact xxx-sucker that baught windows from us, and buy our new 'walls' OS, guarenteed to work better".
A company would not rush to buy that thing anyway. After all that linux hype, it's a suicide. they can get the source of a good OS for free.
I think windows is a dead weight. it cant be developed anymore without backwords compatibility. MS will be so glad to have an excuse to drop it off.
Every mind can be changed, give it time. As much as people say that "UNIX is 20 years ago technology" In twenty years we will hear that "Windows? God, thats an old piece of crap" (today it's a new piece of crap)
The current hype, is in favor of Linux, and it leeks into people's minds, They begin to question Microsoft.
No matter how "I'll always use windows" drones act, they won't use windows, they'll use what everyone else is using, may it be windows, may it be BeOS, may it be Linux.
Yes, I admit, there are some people that wait until I say "god I just had to recompile a kernel", and say "I told you windows is better". (saying "how many BSoD's have you got while i compiled it" shut them down for awhile) they will fade. Fashion comes, fashion goes, but even if it's not trendy, Linux is fun to use, and has a warm place in our hearts.
Come on. Anybody who reads Slashdot already knows why Linux is good. Posts on "Linux development is better" are pointless since we dont have a crowd. For us Bill Gates' articles are as much as Troll Flamebait posts, there is no point stating the benefits of OSS development.
Everyone is hyped up, thinking Billy's going to read Slashdot, but infact we're just stating the obvious to ourselves. This have been discussed a hundred times before.
Personally I think Bill Gates is running out of ammo. FUD's not going to hold againt OSS. soon enough he's just going to join with MS-Linux. then he would just slowly sink to the death of Microsoft, or as Alan Cox said it "Corporate Suicide".
I dont like this idea at all. moderators will choose only subjects they like. I'd rather see moderators removing stories that were sended twice, or dead links, or hoaxes. Moderators should not be allowed to post on the main page.
and, moderators need a number, so when a moderator abuses his power to demote good messages that he doesnt agree with, he will cease to be a moderator.
Minimum value is bad because: I would like a destinction between Flamebait and Offtopic versus "First", "Meept", and "This message is intended to suck moderation points"
Maximum values are bad too: There must be many levels of messages. this will help the "10 best comments" on the HOF page. Even the rating will lose, I'd like a better 5-pointer to go before the other 5-pointers.
MP3 is the reason that CD sales are declining? Audio Cassettes existed long before MP3s and, PC, or even CDs, and people record CDs on them. They can be heard on any normal Stereo System, or on a cheap walkman.
The reason you don't sell CDs, is because you don't produce good ones. In the last year I havn't seen any good new CD. And I already have the CDs that I like (Beatles).
Don't blame bad sales on us. Some MP3s are actually helping the sales. People listen to music and decide to buy the CD.
I'll have to assume that aslot of slashdot reader do read linuxtoday, or the quicky batches. If they're not reading it, they can make it appear in their little slashbox.
Regarding the starwars, I just turn them off. It would be a whole lot better to have a kernel subject (with a corn kernel picture), or sofware updates subject, and i would turn it off happily.
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So why did people upgrade to windows 98?
They believed it will be y2k tolerant.
what they got is nothing except being forced to use IE4.
Yet again, they continue to amaze me.
They call it "second edition" when it's not even a bugfix.
what it does? this time it forces IE5!
(yet again making people think it is y2k tolerant)
people pay MORE MONEY to get LESS CHOICE.
they expect people to pay by an interval of 1 year.
"Just rent the goddamn thing!!!!"
but, they're shooting into they're own ass.
people will think: "If I have to upgrade (and obviously i do, since MS is admitting that windows98 is incomplete) I'll just upgrade to Linux, or BeOS!"
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I think we need a slashdot vote for that.
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I know they won't recognize my thoughts,
(maybe one: "Damn, windows sucks", that's a very common thought)
but I would hate to bluescren my brain.
I can imagine talking to someone, and he will say "Illegal operation, I must be shut down".
And what about slowness?
That would be rather funny, to see people to see thinking "as fast as windows".
"hello" - "h.. e... llo..."
About language recognition,
ever heard the phrase "there is one computer language, the microsoft language"?
Be afraid, be very afraid.
And yes.
I'm terrified of Microsoft.
that one day i will have to use their products,
that they will steal the internet.
I want to be free, and Microsoft's goal is to take freedom from people.
(GUIDs, no choice in products, bill brother IS watching you!)
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They fooled you all.
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My guesses:
;-)
1. You're off-topic posts were repetition of the other off-topics,
and you should have been on their thread.
(moderators tend not to lower the score of big threads)
2. Have you ended all of your comments' subjects in the word "sucks"?
---
People with stupid comments, that may have had good ones before, can expolit the system.
(intentionaly or unintentionaly).
I have a good idea.
For every point someone's comment have got,
he will get half a point on the pool.
When he posts a comment,
he can boost it up according to his pool.
If someone wants to say something stupid, like "agreed, blah blah",
he can choose the score for the comment to stay 1.
but, if he had an enlightenment, and has a very good point (and he knows it), he can pull from the pool,
and get attention.
but, if the moderators thinks the comment is bad, they can lower it down, thus lowering the amount of score in his pool to spend at other times.
(and ofcourse, when he posts the comment, he lowers the pool by himself).
negative pools will FORCE users to post at bad score of 0 (no choice for the user).
the user will rely on moderator to give him thumbs-up to normal score and higher his pool.
he will get a score for the act of posting,
if a poster post "this is meant to higher my score" he will get thumbsdown,
and it won't change anything.
however, positive pools cannot be set for such a thing, and may not recieve score in such a way.
also, an extra 1/2 point should be given to a user who got 4 points.
a point for going to 5 points,
and -1 points for getting to -1.
(and the reverse on the opposite direction)
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Think.
Microsoft has the money, and the will to pull such a thing.
Check the milk cartons...
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what about qwerty tutors?
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I think,
mp3 portable machines should go in all shapes and sizes.
or as much as an ordinary pc computer can use.
many people have cd burners,
and when burning 650Mb of mp3s,
it can hold every song you like,
so you won't have to "recharge" the thing or get new meida.
a simple program would make an image out of the mp3s you desire and burn it on the cd.
same goes for iomega zip media, (or the syquest equivalent)
it's portable,
it has a large capacity,
and every pc can be conneted to one.
the only problem is they are proprietary,
but so are many other devices.
(maybe even the rio, i have no idea)
---
I saw a program on tv about these poeple,
they are quite fanatic.
their purposes are to legaly fuck all the banks and credit card companies,
phone services and every other capitalist company,
by owing money to them.
but when nobody cooporates (most of the world is lazy otomatron window-using suits),
it really is useless...
(if i remeber correctly,
during a visit to london i heard one of them at speakers' corner
he attracted a crowd,
and had many good points,
he even trashed bill gates and windows,
and recommended linux,
but I dont know if he's affiliated with them)
---
The FBI is upset?
The FBI scared out of "malicious hackers"?
The FBI, should be scared out of itself.
What a stupidy.
There are so many levels that it the FBI's FAULT,
1. They use MS Office (which is known to have security faults)
2. They opened up the message with the suspicious subject
3. They opened the doc attachment with word
4. They agreed to use the macro.
they had 4 mistakes, leading to the virus.
don't blame the cracker, blame yourselves,
you were idiots enough to be infected,
you are going to pay for this.
(yes bluescreens are the users fault, they DID buy windows)
---
I have an idea.
lets expose a major security hole in one of our products,
to let everyone see that GUID is a good thing.
hell, they made security holes in purpose to make GUID useful.
They planned it all along, ofcourse,
they knew GUID would be exposed, so made it possible for them to say:
"You need GUID because our products are bad and have many exploits for crackers to play with"
it reminds me when Microsoft bragged that NT servers had failsafe modes,
and when a server crashes,
another server can replace it.
If NT servers didnt crash so often nobody would care.
---
why would anyone want windows?
it's a big bloated mess.
I think MS will be glad to get rid of that junk.
and "start a new technology".
this a nice excuse for them to stop supporting it, "it's not our anymore",
and sell a (suppose to be) better product instead.
"bugs in windows? not our fault [anymore] contact xxx-sucker that baught windows from us,
and buy our new 'walls' OS, guarenteed to work better".
A company would not rush to buy that thing anyway.
After all that linux hype, it's a suicide.
they can get the source of a good OS for free.
I think windows is a dead weight.
it cant be developed anymore without backwords compatibility.
MS will be so glad to have an excuse to drop it off.
---
Timezones should be GMT +/- X istead of an initial.
I'm from Israel, i have no idea which timezone it is (GMT+2)
the hour format should have 23:00 26/9/99 too. (my favorite)
the comment bar (that apeard above comments) should have all the features,
(comment spill, highlight, etc.)
keep up the great work, rob.
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Every mind can be changed, give it time.
As much as people say that "UNIX is 20 years ago technology"
In twenty years we will hear that "Windows? God, thats an old piece of crap"
(today it's a new piece of crap)
The current hype, is in favor of Linux,
and it leeks into people's minds,
They begin to question Microsoft.
No matter how "I'll always use windows" drones act,
they won't use windows, they'll use what everyone else is using,
may it be windows, may it be BeOS, may it be Linux.
Yes, I admit, there are some people that wait until I say "god I just had to recompile a kernel",
and say "I told you windows is better".
(saying "how many BSoD's have you got while i compiled it" shut them down for awhile)
they will fade.
Fashion comes, fashion goes,
but even if it's not trendy, Linux is fun to use, and has a warm place in our hearts.
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Come on.
Anybody who reads Slashdot already knows why Linux is good.
Posts on "Linux development is better" are pointless since we dont have a crowd.
For us Bill Gates' articles are as much as Troll Flamebait posts,
there is no point stating the benefits of OSS development.
Everyone is hyped up,
thinking Billy's going to read Slashdot,
but infact we're just stating the obvious to ourselves.
This have been discussed a hundred times before.
Personally I think Bill Gates is running out of ammo.
FUD's not going to hold againt OSS.
soon enough he's just going to join with MS-Linux.
then he would just slowly sink to the death of Microsoft,
or as Alan Cox said it "Corporate Suicide".
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Try to use a nested view instead of threaded.
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I dont like this idea at all.
moderators will choose only subjects they like.
I'd rather see moderators removing stories that were sended twice, or dead links, or hoaxes.
Moderators should not be allowed to post on the main page.
and,
moderators need a number,
so when a moderator abuses his power to demote good messages that he doesnt agree with,
he will cease to be a moderator.
---
This is generally a bad idea.
Minimum value is bad because:
I would like a destinction between Flamebait and Offtopic versus "First", "Meept", and
"This message is intended to suck moderation points"
Maximum values are bad too:
There must be many levels of messages.
this will help the "10 best comments" on the HOF page.
Even the rating will lose, I'd like a better 5-pointer to go before the other 5-pointers.
---
MP3 is the reason that CD sales are declining?
Audio Cassettes existed long before MP3s and, PC, or even CDs,
and people record CDs on them.
They can be heard on any normal Stereo System, or on a cheap walkman.
The reason you don't sell CDs,
is because you don't produce good ones.
In the last year I havn't seen any good new CD.
And I already have the CDs that I like (Beatles).
Don't blame bad sales on us.
Some MP3s are actually helping the sales.
People listen to music and decide to buy the CD.
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Now only if we could get a refund for MacOS...
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I'll have to assume that aslot of slashdot reader do read linuxtoday,
or the quicky batches.
If they're not reading it, they can make it appear in their little slashbox.
Regarding the starwars, I just turn them off.
It would be a whole lot better to have a kernel subject (with a corn kernel picture),
or sofware updates subject,
and i would turn it off happily.
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All right,
They got a bad review,
what's now?
Now they'll sell SP1.
This fixes many typos,
and makes the book a little bit more interesting.
These fixes will be out on April and expected to sell at $10 a pop.
MS President Steve Balmer reports it will fix the "Snooze" and "Sleepy" issues.
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They are hype.
The current trend is to bash Microsoft,
and they're just hopping on the wagon.
A year ago Linux was ridiculed and laughed at by ZDNet,
Now they have sections on "why should I use it".
We shall not forgive and not forget.
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New kernel, whoohoo,
Let's dance, sing, and parade.
Why should Slashdot announce kernel updates?
If anything this is an item for linuxtoday, or maybe the quicky batches.
Anyone except for me thinks this is redundant?
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