In an office where people earn > $ 100 per hour...
WTF office is that?!?! Dude, that's approx. $208,000/year, very few people make that kind of money. According to the 2000 census, median US income is around $22,000 / yr...
Really... go do a few chin-ups, then ponder that a 500 lb. gorilla can effortlessly swing his bulk around all day long, more gracefully than an olympic gymnast.
Not really. They're doing the wrong kinds of games. The 3d thing is saturated now anyway, and most of the games are awful. Games don't need good graphics... say it a thousand times. Does chess have good graphics? Illuminati?
Has anyone ever designed a computer game with the same design principles that go into board games? (replayability, consistency, good rule sets, etc) Nope. Computer games don't even publish any rules because they're only meant to last 2 months anyway. Seems like there some kind of market there.
Probably because many admins are installing ad busting proxies in workplaces (it can conserve quite a lot of bandwidth and is a nice courtesy to the users).
So one ad busting proxy can protect thousands of people from ads all day... who may otherwise click on them.
It's quite possible that the RIAA et. al. knows this - DVD encryption is a joke. The people who designed it had to have known that.
They probably don't care one hoot whether you crack their encryption. What they wanted was laws, and their crackable encryption gave them a good excuse to lobby for more laws.
They contaminate organic crops. In one case this happened and Monsanto tried to sue the farmers because they weren't paying royalties on the contaminated crops.
They're patented, and usually barren. This is the biggest problem. If you think software patents are bad, well bio patents are a million times worse.
Like everyone else who says this, you completely miss the point. As far as production machines go, testing and unstable are absolute, I mean complete, no - no's. No way. Not at all, no fucking goddamn way would anyone in their right mind use testing or unstable on a machine that other people depended on. I've been running unstable for 3 years, and I'll be damned if I would use it in a production environment.
You are wrong, entirely, about testing. That is not what it's for. It's for the developers to work out problems in unstable, not for users who want a "middle ground" between unstable and stable. It is not by any means a "middle ground". If you think it is, just wait till it goes frozen, and your system stays broken for over a month while they work out bugs. They never, ever told people testing was a "milder unstable". That is NOT what it is.
No, he is meglomaniacal, and a cursory reading of the material on his website is demonstrative enough of his hysteria.
His software could comply with the FHS, but he wants his own/djbdns and/svc and all sort of other crap because he is a fucking freak. he regularly used to post to the bind9-users list accusing the bind developers of trying to ruin his reputation, which is ridiculous.
I've run bind for years and never had a security problem, thanks.
Bernstein is a certifiable loon. He regularly flames people on the bind9-users list, and if there was any doubt that he is a complete DWEEB, read this. He goes to St Petersburg and complains about the hotel and eats at Burger King. Whatever. The guy is a nut. A smart nut, but a nut.
His software also has onerous restrictions on it, and djbdns does not support as many record types and such as bind does. His rantings about bind are full tilt hysterical conspiracy theory level paranoia.
Red Hat apparently takes the errata pages down for distros that are no longer supported. This is a real PITA and is just unforgivable, I dealt with this the other day, trying to figure out whether a RH 7.3 box was vulnerable or not. The only errata i could find was for RH9 and the enterprise series. If you can tell me where the errata pages are for older versions I'll shit a brick, 'cause they don't seem to be indexed by the search engine and if they're there, they're buried somewhere.
Debian is just so much easier and are so much more polite to their users. Not to mention they keep up with advisories much better than RH.
Though I doubt this figure (it seems more like 90% of email is spam), snail mail has far more spam, nearly 100% of my snail mail is spam, the rest is bills.
Dumbshit - it means they now have JOBS doing what they like, as opposed to jobs working on some POS like windows, or flipping burgers at McDonalds. Who the hell do you think these companies hire? Nobodies? Or do they try to recruit the people who've been hacking the drivers for the last few years? Get it? Do you realize how important it is to have a job doing something you love doing? If not, watch "Office Space" at least ten thousand times.
In most cases, they're getting a lot for their contributions, you're just not thinking of everything.
They still have wings, dude. They swim with their wings. Well you can call them flippers if you want, but since it's a bird, they're actually wings, and you would be committing a taxonomical abomination.
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but I'll give you one for using *nix:
I want my computer to do what I tell it, not ask me what I want.
WTF office is that?!?! Dude, that's approx. $208,000/year, very few people make that kind of money. According to the 2000 census, median US income is around $22,000 / yr ...
that isn't a lazy teenager abbreviation .. that's a marketroid abbreviation, the same folks who brought us "lite", etc
How about stainless steel pan(s), stock pot, good chef's knife, etc before we move on to gadgetry, huh?
Really ... go do a few chin-ups, then ponder that a 500 lb. gorilla can effortlessly swing his bulk around all day long, more gracefully than an olympic gymnast.
Oh my! You did learn history from Civilization! Evidently so did the person who modded you up. What are you, 10 years old?
Just what we need, more crap glorifying empires. Now if there were only some way to remove ideology from teaching history ...
Not really. They're doing the wrong kinds of games. The 3d thing is saturated now anyway, and most of the games are awful. Games don't need good graphics ... say it a thousand times. Does chess have good graphics? Illuminati?
Has anyone ever designed a computer game with the same design principles that go into board games? (replayability, consistency, good rule sets, etc) Nope. Computer games don't even publish any rules because they're only meant to last 2 months anyway. Seems like there some kind of market there.
It's old, and it's called syndicalism.
god, just unplug the cable until it boots up (and start dhcp manually) - still, this is pathetic ...
Care to explain why? You are relying on the (completely false) assumption that windows gets hit more simply because it is more ubiquitous.
This whole argument is fundamentally disingenuous. The windows architecture itself is what causes these problems in the first place.
If you can enumerate exactly WHY linux (or any other unix) could possibly have these sorts of problems I'm all ears.
Probably because many admins are installing ad busting proxies in workplaces (it can conserve quite a lot of bandwidth and is a nice courtesy to the users).
... who may otherwise click on them.
So one ad busting proxy can protect thousands of people from ads all day
It's quite possible that the RIAA et. al. knows this - DVD encryption is a joke. The people who designed it had to have known that.
They probably don't care one hoot whether you crack their encryption. What they wanted was laws, and their crackable encryption gave them a good excuse to lobby for more laws.
If a spammer were to start a linux distro, it would be a lot like Linspire.
The guy who owns Lindows is a confirmed scammer. I really wish this company would just go away.
* cheesy, stupid names
* raping debian's bandwidth
* taking much, not giving back anything
* uninspired, copycat mentality
* loudmouth
* no attention to security (everyone runs as root)
Can anyone name anything good about these people?
They contaminate organic crops. In one case this happened and Monsanto tried to sue the farmers because they weren't paying royalties on the contaminated crops.
They're patented, and usually barren. This is the biggest problem. If you think software patents are bad, well bio patents are a million times worse.
This whole concept is pretty alien to linux users, most everything you want is already installed when the OS is.
So was 2.4. Ooops.
Like everyone else who says this, you completely miss the point. As far as production machines go, testing and unstable are absolute, I mean complete, no - no's. No way. Not at all, no fucking goddamn way would anyone in their right mind use testing or unstable on a machine that other people depended on. I've been running unstable for 3 years, and I'll be damned if I would use it in a production environment.
You are wrong, entirely, about testing. That is not what it's for. It's for the developers to work out problems in unstable, not for users who want a "middle ground" between unstable and stable. It is not by any means a "middle ground". If you think it is, just wait till it goes frozen, and your system stays broken for over a month while they work out bugs. They never, ever told people testing was a "milder unstable". That is NOT what it is.
No, he is meglomaniacal, and a cursory reading of the material on his website is demonstrative enough of his hysteria.
/djbdns and /svc and all sort of other crap because he is a fucking freak. he regularly used to post to the bind9-users list accusing the bind developers of trying to ruin his reputation, which is ridiculous.
His software could comply with the FHS, but he wants his own
I've run bind for years and never had a security problem, thanks.
Bernstein is a certifiable loon. He regularly flames people on the bind9-users list, and if there was any doubt that he is a complete DWEEB, read this. He goes to St Petersburg and complains about the hotel and eats at Burger King. Whatever. The guy is a nut. A smart nut, but a nut.
His software also has onerous restrictions on it, and djbdns does not support as many record types and such as bind does. His rantings about bind are full tilt hysterical conspiracy theory level paranoia.
Red Hat apparently takes the errata pages down for distros that are no longer supported. This is a real PITA and is just unforgivable, I dealt with this the other day, trying to figure out whether a RH 7.3 box was vulnerable or not. The only errata i could find was for RH9 and the enterprise series. If you can tell me where the errata pages are for older versions I'll shit a brick, 'cause they don't seem to be indexed by the search engine and if they're there, they're buried somewhere.
Debian is just so much easier and are so much more polite to their users. Not to mention they keep up with advisories much better than RH.
Though I doubt this figure (it seems more like 90% of email is spam), snail mail has far more spam, nearly 100% of my snail mail is spam, the rest is bills.
Dumbshit - it means they now have JOBS doing what they like, as opposed to jobs working on some POS like windows, or flipping burgers at McDonalds. Who the hell do you think these companies hire? Nobodies? Or do they try to recruit the people who've been hacking the drivers for the last few years? Get it? Do you realize how important it is to have a job doing something you love doing? If not, watch "Office Space" at least ten thousand times.
In most cases, they're getting a lot for their contributions, you're just not thinking of everything.
They still have wings, dude. They swim with their wings. Well you can call them flippers if you want, but since it's a bird, they're actually wings, and you would be committing a taxonomical abomination.
What? That is complete bullshit ... who modded that up?