MyWindowsMate: Linux, is shit shit shit. It's the spawn of satan. Windows is the OS of the Holy. Me: I don't believe you. Can I come round to your house and check it out (turn it to the dark side)? MyWindowsMate: Yes, I've got this web browser which is so much better than Netscape. It gets Service Packs all the time.
I went round to his house, he ran Windows for me and put on this web browser (I can't remember the name but it's adventurous). Less than one minute and it brought the computer to life, which then proceeded to eat all his children, splattering blood everywhere.
MyWindowsMate: Err...it never usually becomes demonic Me: Do you actually make sacrifices to this infernal machine? MyWindowsMate: No, but I installed Service Pack 1. Me: Do you ever see a shining halo above your computer? MyWindowsMate: Err...no, but it's holier than the Angel Gabriel.
Conclusion: BOLLOCKS, If I used windows as much as I used Linux then I would have it opening portals to the nether world allowing demons through every minute. Windows is evil. Fact. Programs released are all version 6.66. Fact.
Like the guy above says, there are plenty of auto-mount things out there. Anyway, if they were using, say, KDE then it's mounted when they double click on the 'Floppy disk' icon. Having to unmount before removing the disk is a Good Thing. The amount of times I've seen people taking the disk out while they still had the file open in Word, and then wondering why their files get screwed up....if they had clear directions on "Always unmount before removing the disk" it would make them be a bit more careful, I think...
YOU LOSERS SHOULD USE WINDOWS, THE GREATEST OS OF ALL TIME!!! LINUX IS FOR NERDS WHO HAVE NO LIFE!!!
Well, you got the ALL CAPS bit right...and multiple exclamation marks are good, but you spelt "losers" correctly! Try "loosers" for that proper ranting feel.
You might also want to throw in random apostrophes like "is for nerd's" or something....so, overall not bad, but you could do better...
Umm...if you're serious about 90 secs to launch, then there's something wrong. Takes about 10 secs on my P90, 48 Meg RAM.....actually, a friend had a similar problem, but that was cos he didn't have mem= set at boot, so Linux wasn't seeing all his memory (only saw about 16 tho he had 90), and was running mostly from swap....if you have more than 64 meg you need this set (I think)....if you were exaggerating and already know all this, just ignore me:-)
Wasn't that the same as a ZX81 over here (UK)? If so, there was a 16K RAM pack that you could slot in, though it tended to wobble a bit, so you should really tape it in. Then you could play games like Jet Set Willy, and I think Hungry Horace was a 16K game. Games used to say on the tape cover whether they were 16K or 48K (I have a ZX Spectrum 48K)....I remember when you could walk into John Menzies or Woolworths and see the shelves filled with games for Spectrum, Commodore64 and Amstrad.
If Slashdot had been around then, you would have had ACs posting "Commie64 sux" followed up with "Go play with your rubber keyed beer mat while we use a *real* computer"...the only thing everyone agreed on was that Amstrad was crap:-)
Of course they won't buy it. Linux users never pay for anything. All those QuakeWorld servers running on Linux are pirated copies, it's just that id software let them off with it. After all, if Linux people ever paid money for anything, then RedHat wouldn't be stuggling financially the way they are.....
So is Alan the one with the beard? If so he looks like a looser.
I'm sure he is....but looser than what? Was he supposed to be tight? Or are you just a semi-literate moron who thinks that everyone in the world should look and act the same?
OK, that's a bit harsh, but c'mon: this is the Internet. Is there really a good excuse for having such a tiny mind?
Does it need to be court tested? It's not as if it's a new law, it's just a copyright statement. If I wrote some code, and retained my copyright on it, what makes you think that any court would decide that HP could legally use it without my permission?
This is all the GPL says: "My code. My copyright. I say how it can be used." Nothing ambiguous in that.
Well, I can see where you're coming from, but...."If not all your predictions come true, then never write again." Is that what you're saying? Who's gonna tell Arthur C. Clarke?:-)
You are a highly complex probabilistic information processor. Modern science does not allow for anything as foggy as "free will".
Yes it does. We don't live in a clockwork universe you know....those ideas are out of date. Oh, and free will does exist. Just because you can mimic the behaviour to a limited extent in artificial systems, doesn't mean that that's all there is.....
Of course, you can't prove this one way or the other (yet!), but I don't like to see opinion being represented as somehow scientific, just because you throw a computer and a chessboard into your examples.....I hope this doesn't come out sounding like a flame....
You mean someone drank it?! Damn! I was saving that for later...
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Read the script:
MyWindowsMate: Linux, is shit shit shit. It's the spawn of satan. Windows is the OS of the Holy.
Me: I don't believe you. Can I come round to your house and check it out (turn it to the dark side)?
MyWindowsMate: Yes, I've got this web browser which is so much better than Netscape. It gets Service Packs all the time.
I went round to his house, he ran Windows for me and put on this web browser (I can't remember the name but it's adventurous). Less than one minute and it brought the computer to life, which then proceeded to eat all his children, splattering blood everywhere.
MyWindowsMate: Err...it never usually becomes demonic
Me: Do you actually make sacrifices to this infernal machine?
MyWindowsMate: No, but I installed Service Pack 1.
Me: Do you ever see a shining halo above your computer?
MyWindowsMate: Err...no, but it's holier than the Angel Gabriel.
Conclusion: BOLLOCKS, If I used windows as much as I used Linux then I would have it opening portals to the nether world allowing demons through every minute. Windows is evil. Fact. Programs released are all version 6.66. Fact.
dylan_-
ps. This really happened.
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Like the guy above says, there are plenty of auto-mount things out there. Anyway, if they were using, say, KDE then it's mounted when they double click on the 'Floppy disk' icon. Having to unmount before removing the disk is a Good Thing. The amount of times I've seen people taking the disk out while they still had the file open in Word, and then wondering why their files get screwed up....if they had clear directions on "Always unmount before removing the disk" it would make them be a bit more careful, I think...
IMHO, of course.
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YOU LOSERS SHOULD USE WINDOWS, THE GREATEST OS OF ALL TIME!!! LINUX IS FOR NERDS WHO HAVE NO LIFE!!!
Well, you got the ALL CAPS bit right...and multiple exclamation marks are good, but you spelt "losers" correctly! Try "loosers" for that proper ranting feel.
You might also want to throw in random apostrophes like "is for nerd's" or something....so, overall not bad, but you could do better...
dylan_-
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Umm...if you're serious about 90 secs to launch, then there's something wrong. Takes about 10 secs on my P90, 48 Meg RAM.....actually, a friend had a similar problem, but that was cos he didn't have mem= set at boot, so Linux wasn't seeing all his memory (only saw about 16 tho he had 90), and was running mostly from swap....if you have more than 64 meg you need this set (I think)....if you were exaggerating and already know all this, just ignore me
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So you can at least get a server going
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A tad grumpy this morning, eh? I assume he was trying to imply that Dennis Ritchie is God. A harmless exaggeration at worst...
More revealing is your approach to opinions that differ from your own. You piss on them. Good to see your education was completely wasted on you.
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Serves the colonies right for leaving in the first place...
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Oops....well, I never had a ZX81....I thought with the 16K pack it could run the same games the Speccy could....well, you live and learn
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Being "free-vms" it is, of course, www.free-vms.org not
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Wasn't that the same as a ZX81 over here (UK)? If so, there was a 16K RAM pack that you could slot in, though it tended to wobble a bit, so you should really tape it in. Then you could play games like Jet Set Willy, and I think Hungry Horace was a 16K game. Games used to say on the tape cover whether they were 16K or 48K (I have a ZX Spectrum 48K)....I remember when you could walk into John Menzies or Woolworths and see the shelves filled with games for Spectrum, Commodore64 and Amstrad.
If Slashdot had been around then, you would have had ACs posting "Commie64 sux" followed up with "Go play with your rubber keyed beer mat while we use a *real* computer"...the only thing everyone agreed on was that Amstrad was crap :-)
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What's the Travelling Salesman problem?
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Of course they won't buy it. Linux users never pay for anything. All those QuakeWorld servers running on Linux are pirated copies, it's just that id software let them off with it. After all, if Linux people ever paid money for anything, then RedHat wouldn't be stuggling financially the way they are.....
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So is Alan the one with the beard? If so he looks like a looser.
I'm sure he is....but looser than what? Was he supposed to be tight? Or are you just a semi-literate moron who thinks that everyone in the world should look and act the same?
OK, that's a bit harsh, but c'mon: this is the Internet. Is there really a good excuse for having such a tiny mind?
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do a little testing before a mojor release?
I guess their mojor isn't working....hoho...uhh..mojo....mojor....umm...I'll get back to work now...
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Well, OK....yeah...but at least it tells you it's going to crash.
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Wow!
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...and they're difficult to grep....
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Does it need to be court tested? It's not as if it's a new law, it's just a copyright statement. If I wrote some code, and retained my copyright on it, what makes you think that any court would decide that HP could legally use it without my permission?
This is all the GPL says: "My code. My copyright. I say how it can be used." Nothing ambiguous in that.
dylan_-
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Well, I can see where you're coming from, but...."If not all your predictions come true, then never write again." Is that what you're saying? Who's gonna tell Arthur C. Clarke? :-)
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You are a highly complex probabilistic information processor. Modern science does not allow for anything as foggy as "free will".
Yes it does. We don't live in a clockwork universe you know....those ideas are out of date. Oh, and free will does exist. Just because you can mimic the behaviour to a limited extent in artificial systems, doesn't mean that that's all there is.....
Of course, you can't prove this one way or the other (yet!), but I don't like to see opinion being represented as somehow scientific, just because you throw a computer and a chessboard into your examples.....I hope this doesn't come out sounding like a flame....
dylan_-
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You mean someone drank it?! Damn! I was saving that for later...
dylan_-
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Slashdot is actually a competition. You get extra points for confusing your discussion opponent, spotting a troll, or getting the first comment to a particular article.
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..and, of course, "hart less" should be "heartless"...I've seen that one a few times...I guess it's difficult cos it slips thru the spell checker.
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...uhuh...
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