Because as we all know, the person that bragged about all that software they've pirated is exactly the same person in the next thread defending the GPL and crying out against it's violators.
It's people like you that see immigrants arrested on the news and therefore assume all immigrants are criminals.
Huh? Because I'm agreeing with the guy that Slashdot has a double standard, all of a sudden I think all immigrants are criminals? Um...where are you making that huge leap?
Not unlike voluntary taxing when you buy a lottery ticket.
But still, set up a dummy gmail/yahoo/hotmail account to send all this stuff, it may be worthwhile if you're really interested. That way you can sift through the stuff that you're interested in and won't get put on some spam list that is sure to follow.
Microsoft's efforts to preempt any single manufacturer from dominating the online video market.
I think he means "any OTHER single manufacturer". I'm sure Microsoft will be just find and dandy if THEY were the single dominating online video provider.
I liked the Hulk. Thought it was great. And honestly, it's one of those bandwagon jumping things where "everyone says it's bad because everyone says it's bad" type of things.
It was a great movie. Don't know why people had a problem with it and when asked they really can't give a good reason other than "it sucked" or "he looked green like Shrek". Um...in the comic he was green. Hello?
Oh well, does anyone really care? I like it and you don't. Who cares.
I don' buy that...I'm thinking a lot of people WILL care.
For instance...right now the average Joe would be more apt to buy a Windows base machine because this is the one that "runs the stuff he wants" like games and other stuff. I've talked to many people to see if they would switch to OSX or Linux and the first things out of their mouths are "but does will it run _____". Once they understand that DRM will constrict everything they do like "hey man, that machine you got if you get a movie and you don't have the right monitor, the movie will look like shit...you have to buy a pre-approved monitor yo which costs more yo" (I threw in the "yo's"...average Joe's use that today).
I don't see this flying well with consumers at all. Because it may come with the appropriate monitor for that manufacturer, it's the CONTENT people that get to decide what is an appropriate monitor. "Oh, we have a partnership with Sony and you have an NEC monitor...sorry, downsampling for you!"
All the sites you list mean nothing...if it's NOT on the screen it's NOT on the screen. There is no "subplot" of mecha in the movie because it wasn't IN the movie. There was also no subplot of mecha in the original story.
I don't care about interviews with people that give their interpretations of what happened on the screen...a movie has to stand by itself and NOT have to be explained via some back story and as it stands with this movie: The creatures at the end the the movie were aliens.
Also Deckard in "Blade Runner" was NOT a replicant no matter what Ridley Scott says 20 years later either. See my point?
Another one: In "Revenge of the Sith" General Grievous is always coughing and hacking as if he has a bad cold or bronchitis. 90% of everyone that saw that had no idea why. So does this mean they, as you say, "shouldn't even mention the film until you understand the subplot"? Of course not...there's no mention of it in the film at all so therefore it really has no bearing on anything! It's only if you saw the last "Clone Wars" animated series that you would understand. And not a huge amount of people saw that. Doesn't mean they can't criticize the movie.
You must have seen a different movie then. There were aliens at the end that found David (doesn't matter if they were robot aliens or not...they were far too advanced to be thrown into a "robot" category. Perhaps living robots would be more appropriate). No indication...no not even that quote from Gigolo Joe...says they were Earth robots or anything else. "when the end comes, all that will be left is us" is all fine, but still that doesn't mean the aliens were robots from Earth. So when the end comes the only thing left in the ENTIRE universe are the robots that were made on Earth? They were aliens. End of story.
I hate it when people, that have no understanding of a movie or movies in general, try to throw things in that simply were not on the screen.
The end was pure Spielberg that's for sure. To me, the end should have been with David down at the bottom of the ocean staring at the "blue fairy" for ever...caught in a loop.
Camera pulls out. Screen Goes black. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
This WAS Kubricks pet project for a long long time. He's the one that developed the story/screenplay from the short story. But it was also said that a long time ago he decided not to direct it and always had Spielberg in mind to direct it while he produced it.
From the IMDB: "Stanley Kubrick worked on the project for 12 years before his death, but along the way decided to let Steven Spielberg direct saying it was "closer to his sensibilities". The two collaborated for years, resulting in Kubrick giving Spielberg a complete treatment and lots of conceptual art for the film prior to his death."
But in the end, you're right, it wasn't a Kubrick movie, it was a Spielberg movie and perhaps it would have turned out a tad different if Stanley was alive during the production. But who knows, everyone can play the "what if" game till the cows come home to roost or whatever.
I was using the Internet way before the commercialization of it...back in the days when "The Internet" consisted mainly of Usenet, IRC and FTP.
Gopher was a new thing also, but not very big and when Mosaic came out with their World Wide Web I said over and over again how it wasn't ever going to catch on, that it was just a fad.
I read the blog and sorry, never heard of Asa before so he has no reputation to me. You see, reputation is in the eyes of the beholder. And nothing in his blog changes that fact in my eyes.
He didn't really say anything. He goes on about migration to Linux when in fact you don't migrate to Windows. When you buy a new machine loaded with Windows you don't, as he put it, "carry over all or nearly all of the user's data and settings". Data I can see...and it's easy to transfer your data over to Linux. User settings? Who transfers user settings to a new machine? You buy the machine and copy your documents or pictures or movies or what-have-you and you go from there. You may install a program or two but in the 26 years I've been involved with computers I've never copied "user settings" to a new computer! This is a non-issue and he lists it as a major one.
His next beef is with no consistent way to load in an application. Well, he may be somewhat right for some distros. But if you bought a computer with Gentoo or Debian pre-installed, installing new apps is pretty much a breeze as it tells you right up front what's going on and what you need and it installs it for you. KDE is a "stable" API (don't you like how he words that...so someone who may be interested in Linux and is skimming the blog will just see "issue with stability" instead of just saying "no universal API" or something along those lines...but when you're spreading FUD it's good to put those points at the beginning of sentences). There is a consistent API...two of them if you want. You could use KDE and never ever even know anything about API's or what-not.
And sorry, his last points with re-writing Linux to make it match the habits of Windows is just idiotic. Linux isn't Windows. Why doesn't he deride OSX and say it should be re-written to match the habits of Windows? Just because there are a ton of Windows machines out there doesn't mean everyone has to copy them. Linux should go it's own way...it's different from Windows just as OSX is different from Windows.
Linux should be aspiring to have a better interface than Windows, but short-sighted people keep writing blogs about how Linux needs to be "more like Windows" to succeed. That's bullshit.
And since when does a fricken blog rate enough to be included here as "news"? It's a blog...which is just random masturbation of words for the amusement of the blogger himself.
There's blogs out there that still claim the world is flat and that NASA faked the moon landings...let's put them on here too! Let Slashdot become the fucking Art Bell of the internet!
Might as well. I hope Taco is enjoying all the cash that OSDN is paying him. He doesn't seem to care what goes on here anymore.
Really...and how do they determine it's "not ready for the desktop"?
How about setting up someone with Linux already installed on a system? Much like Windows systems that are pre-installed on machines? I know I was the one that always had to go and reinstall windows on many people's machine because it was too confusing for them...so does this mean since people can install Windows that it's not "ready for the desktop"? The same can be said for OSX.
Any person not familiar with a computer will be confused on any system...be it OSX/Windows/KDE/Gnome. No one that's never touched a computer before will be able to just sit down and run one of them without a little reading/training. Sorry folks, but that's the truth. Each system usually has a "getting started" tutorial to get people up to speed.
Linux is as ready for the desktop as any other system out there. And all this article is just BS. It's just this guys feelings. He's not doing any tests or research. He didn't go out and test 50 grandmothers and sat them down in front of a computer and see what would happen. It's just this guys feelings and opinion.
Well, I'm using a DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR which is layed out a little differently than a normal ATX configured board. For one thing the RAM slots are horizontal rather than vertical...so the air from the Crossflow blows in between them. And yes, from shutting off the fan (I have to unplug the fan as I don't have the little control switch for it hooked up) does make the board heat up a few more degrees. Is it a huge difference? Not really, but every little bit helps.
And yeah, having 3 120mm fans really do move the air around. If I had 3 fans like that, I doubt the Crossflow would make much difference, but I only have the one so far.
But I agree with you, I honestly think this thing isn't ugly either...but others that have seen it do. Hehe...some even say it's big enough to ride if you wanted.
This is the case I made my new system around. Yeah, it's a big ugly chunk of metal...but it's SO cool. Especially with it's big CrossFlow fan that blows across the entire motherboard. Plus the 90mm fans front and back. The 80mm on top. This baby ain't gettin hot. And since it's under the table, the noise isn't bad at all.
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Lighten up...the original guy was joking around and I was agreeing with the joke.
Sheesh, Slashdot takes itself too seriously.
What? I'm joking...when you give me that look: I'm joking.
Because as we all know, the person that bragged about all that software they've pirated is exactly the same person in the next thread defending the GPL and crying out against it's violators.
It's people like you that see immigrants arrested on the news and therefore assume all immigrants are criminals.
Huh? Because I'm agreeing with the guy that Slashdot has a double standard, all of a sudden I think all immigrants are criminals? Um...where are you making that huge leap?
mod this up as +5 informative/insightful.
I really liked the "unless the specific copyright you violate is the GPL, then it's worse than murder."
Ain't that the truth.
I mean, go to IGE or simular and just buy all your gold if you really want to buy your epic mount. You're a fricken millionaire right?
I mean, if you're just going to do an exploit to get your gold what's the difference? Hell, just buy an account with a couple of level 60 characters.
Not unlike voluntary taxing when you buy a lottery ticket.
But still, set up a dummy gmail/yahoo/hotmail account to send all this stuff, it may be worthwhile if you're really interested. That way you can sift through the stuff that you're interested in and won't get put on some spam list that is sure to follow.
Sheesh, sorry for the total raping of the spelling of voluntary. Was going to spell-check this but was in too much of a hurry.
Sorry sorry. I'm an idiot, don't expect much.
Not unlike volentary taxing when you buy a lottery ticket.
But still, set up a dummy gmail/yahoo/hotmail account to send all this stuff, it may be worthwhile if you're really interested.
Microsoft's efforts to preempt any single manufacturer from dominating the online video market.
I think he means "any OTHER single manufacturer". I'm sure Microsoft will be just find and dandy if THEY were the single dominating online video provider.
I liked the Hulk. Thought it was great. And honestly, it's one of those bandwagon jumping things where "everyone says it's bad because everyone says it's bad" type of things.
It was a great movie. Don't know why people had a problem with it and when asked they really can't give a good reason other than "it sucked" or "he looked green like Shrek". Um...in the comic he was green. Hello?
Oh well, does anyone really care? I like it and you don't. Who cares.
True...but you know Shatner has made a name for himself outside of Trek now. Even won and Emmy.
That name? Denny Crane.
Lol...this isn't even a good troll. Don't they teach you kids how to troll anymore? I've seen better trolls on a myg0t forum.
Waiting for the witty comeback...
I don' buy that...I'm thinking a lot of people WILL care.
For instance...right now the average Joe would be more apt to buy a Windows base machine because this is the one that "runs the stuff he wants" like games and other stuff. I've talked to many people to see if they would switch to OSX or Linux and the first things out of their mouths are "but does will it run _____". Once they understand that DRM will constrict everything they do like "hey man, that machine you got if you get a movie and you don't have the right monitor, the movie will look like shit...you have to buy a pre-approved monitor yo which costs more yo" (I threw in the "yo's"...average Joe's use that today).
I don't see this flying well with consumers at all. Because it may come with the appropriate monitor for that manufacturer, it's the CONTENT people that get to decide what is an appropriate monitor. "Oh, we have a partnership with Sony and you have an NEC monitor...sorry, downsampling for you!"
All the sites you list mean nothing...if it's NOT on the screen it's NOT on the screen. There is no "subplot" of mecha in the movie because it wasn't IN the movie. There was also no subplot of mecha in the original story.
I don't care about interviews with people that give their interpretations of what happened on the screen...a movie has to stand by itself and NOT have to be explained via some back story and as it stands with this movie: The creatures at the end the the movie were aliens.
Also Deckard in "Blade Runner" was NOT a replicant no matter what Ridley Scott says 20 years later either. See my point?
Another one: In "Revenge of the Sith" General Grievous is always coughing and hacking as if he has a bad cold or bronchitis. 90% of everyone that saw that had no idea why. So does this mean they, as you say, "shouldn't even mention the film until you understand the subplot"? Of course not...there's no mention of it in the film at all so therefore it really has no bearing on anything! It's only if you saw the last "Clone Wars" animated series that you would understand. And not a huge amount of people saw that. Doesn't mean they can't criticize the movie.
There were no aliens! Ugh!
You must have seen a different movie then. There were aliens at the end that found David (doesn't matter if they were robot aliens or not...they were far too advanced to be thrown into a "robot" category. Perhaps living robots would be more appropriate). No indication...no not even that quote from Gigolo Joe...says they were Earth robots or anything else. "when the end comes, all that will be left is us" is all fine, but still that doesn't mean the aliens were robots from Earth. So when the end comes the only thing left in the ENTIRE universe are the robots that were made on Earth? They were aliens. End of story.
I hate it when people, that have no understanding of a movie or movies in general, try to throw things in that simply were not on the screen.
The end was pure Spielberg that's for sure. To me, the end should have been with David down at the bottom of the ocean staring at the "blue fairy" for ever...caught in a loop.
Camera pulls out. Screen Goes black. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
No aliens, no cloned mother. Ambiguous ending.
This WAS Kubricks pet project for a long long time. He's the one that developed the story/screenplay from the short story. But it was also said that a long time ago he decided not to direct it and always had Spielberg in mind to direct it while he produced it.
From the IMDB: "Stanley Kubrick worked on the project for 12 years before his death, but along the way decided to let Steven Spielberg direct saying it was "closer to his sensibilities". The two collaborated for years, resulting in Kubrick giving Spielberg a complete treatment and lots of conceptual art for the film prior to his death."
But in the end, you're right, it wasn't a Kubrick movie, it was a Spielberg movie and perhaps it would have turned out a tad different if Stanley was alive during the production. But who knows, everyone can play the "what if" game till the cows come home to roost or whatever.
I was using the Internet way before the commercialization of it...back in the days when "The Internet" consisted mainly of Usenet, IRC and FTP.
Gopher was a new thing also, but not very big and when Mosaic came out with their World Wide Web I said over and over again how it wasn't ever going to catch on, that it was just a fad.
Meh...I never said I was a visionary.
I read the blog and sorry, never heard of Asa before so he has no reputation to me. You see, reputation is in the eyes of the beholder. And nothing in his blog changes that fact in my eyes.
He didn't really say anything. He goes on about migration to Linux when in fact you don't migrate to Windows. When you buy a new machine loaded with Windows you don't, as he put it, "carry over all or nearly all of the user's data and settings". Data I can see...and it's easy to transfer your data over to Linux. User settings? Who transfers user settings to a new machine? You buy the machine and copy your documents or pictures or movies or what-have-you and you go from there. You may install a program or two but in the 26 years I've been involved with computers I've never copied "user settings" to a new computer! This is a non-issue and he lists it as a major one.
His next beef is with no consistent way to load in an application. Well, he may be somewhat right for some distros. But if you bought a computer with Gentoo or Debian pre-installed, installing new apps is pretty much a breeze as it tells you right up front what's going on and what you need and it installs it for you. KDE is a "stable" API (don't you like how he words that...so someone who may be interested in Linux and is skimming the blog will just see "issue with stability" instead of just saying "no universal API" or something along those lines...but when you're spreading FUD it's good to put those points at the beginning of sentences). There is a consistent API...two of them if you want. You could use KDE and never ever even know anything about API's or what-not.
And sorry, his last points with re-writing Linux to make it match the habits of Windows is just idiotic. Linux isn't Windows. Why doesn't he deride OSX and say it should be re-written to match the habits of Windows? Just because there are a ton of Windows machines out there doesn't mean everyone has to copy them. Linux should go it's own way...it's different from Windows just as OSX is different from Windows.
Linux should be aspiring to have a better interface than Windows, but short-sighted people keep writing blogs about how Linux needs to be "more like Windows" to succeed. That's bullshit.
And since when does a fricken blog rate enough to be included here as "news"? It's a blog...which is just random masturbation of words for the amusement of the blogger himself.
There's blogs out there that still claim the world is flat and that NASA faked the moon landings...let's put them on here too! Let Slashdot become the fucking Art Bell of the internet!
Might as well. I hope Taco is enjoying all the cash that OSDN is paying him. He doesn't seem to care what goes on here anymore.
Really...and how do they determine it's "not ready for the desktop"?
How about setting up someone with Linux already installed on a system? Much like Windows systems that are pre-installed on machines? I know I was the one that always had to go and reinstall windows on many people's machine because it was too confusing for them...so does this mean since people can install Windows that it's not "ready for the desktop"? The same can be said for OSX.
Any person not familiar with a computer will be confused on any system...be it OSX/Windows/KDE/Gnome. No one that's never touched a computer before will be able to just sit down and run one of them without a little reading/training. Sorry folks, but that's the truth. Each system usually has a "getting started" tutorial to get people up to speed.
Linux is as ready for the desktop as any other system out there. And all this article is just BS. It's just this guys feelings. He's not doing any tests or research. He didn't go out and test 50 grandmothers and sat them down in front of a computer and see what would happen. It's just this guys feelings and opinion.
Welcome to America. A place where showing a nipple on TV makes the biggest uproar in years yet anything violent is basically ignored.
I see this turning into this years "Nipple-Gate".
Well, I'm using a DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR which is layed out a little differently than a normal ATX configured board. For one thing the RAM slots are horizontal rather than vertical...so the air from the Crossflow blows in between them. And yes, from shutting off the fan (I have to unplug the fan as I don't have the little control switch for it hooked up) does make the board heat up a few more degrees. Is it a huge difference? Not really, but every little bit helps.
And yeah, having 3 120mm fans really do move the air around. If I had 3 fans like that, I doubt the Crossflow would make much difference, but I only have the one so far.
But I agree with you, I honestly think this thing isn't ugly either...but others that have seen it do. Hehe...some even say it's big enough to ride if you wanted.
Sorry, 120mm fans front and back..not 90mm.
This is the case I made my new system around. Yeah, it's a big ugly chunk of metal...but it's SO cool. Especially with it's big CrossFlow fan that blows across the entire motherboard. Plus the 90mm fans front and back. The 80mm on top. This baby ain't gettin hot. And since it's under the table, the noise isn't bad at all.
The CrossFlow is really nice and quiet anyway.
Thought "The Escapist" was a magazine for escape artists and enthusiasts. Was going to say wow, they have a fricken magazine for EVERYTHING!