.... How could this article be defined as anything but FUD? Stereotyping an entire class of software as 'unreliable' is just dumb. Go FUD, go!! Let's keep trying to fool the fools, that'll keep them buying our stuff for longer.
I say we let nature take it's course. Let's just forget about it, there's nothing we can do about it anyway. Who's gonna fight (and win) against the NSA??? Who *can*?? Seriously. Laws are being broken at the top of the chain here, and the things people are discovering and trying to uncover are being held back due to "National Security concerns" and "If this is released it will help the terrorists hurt America".
Fuck it. It's not like 90% of the fucking US cares about every action being monitored anyway. It's not like 90% of the fucking US even UNDERSTANDS what's going on. When you work with people whos' eyes glaze over when you ask them to drop to a command prompt, do you really think they're gonna understand anything about major Internet backbone engineering and fiber optic splitter technology??? Yeah, fucking, right.
Here's my response:
FUCK YOU, NSA. FUCK YOU, AT&T. How DARE you violate our right to human privacy. You should be ashamed of yourselves for what you're doing, and if the bulk of the American people understood what you were doing to them on a daily basis they'd start a civil war.
That's all we can do. They're "better" than us; they're "above" us in every aspect of the word besides physically. What can we do, legally, that would change a mother fucking thing? Nothing.
Congradulations to Portugal!! I'm sure that this is a tremendous improvement over their previous, wired-aircraft, which always had that annoying issue once the cord reached it's length and suddenly snapped mid-air from the airport.
"Wireless blah productivity blah low-cost blah blah company blah..." How about something that pertains to the headline of "Wireless Security Attacks and Defenses" instead of a press release about the wonders of wireless networks?/me feels the wrath of the mod-monsters
Nothing says natural and intuitive to a non-technical user like "sudo tar -C/opt -x -z -v -f firefox-1.5.0.3.tar.gz
It's not fair to compare the newest version of a specific application being added to a distro-wide repository to a single.exe install package - I challenge you to give me the equivelant functionality of an apt-get install in Windows at all! With Windows, you still have to manually go to a website, download the install, and follow the instructions - I'd wager if you're savvy enough to want a specific version of a piece of software, you're inclined enough to be able to follow some simple instructions. Otherwise, you probably won't even know the difference between v1.0.8 and v1.5.
+1 Smart ass +1 Pro Linux -1 Corporatism -1 Proprietarism (is that a word? Happy 4:20..sorry)
And...of course
+1 CowboyNeal
Disregarding the above blabber, this software sounds so flippin' cool. I've always thought about the overall mood of people, and if there's relation between it and a certain period of time. Like a website that simply asks "Are you happy right now?" or "Are you sad right now?" Very useful information! *gazes up at sky*
For fuck's sake, stop being 13 years old. If saying "Ubuntu" is enough to make you feel like a jackass, you've got some issues.
Not if you're trying to convince a company to use Ubuntu you don't... To the non-Linux crowd (99% of the population), telling your public relations people that you just "Uninstalled Windows XP Professional" and installed "Ubuntu Dapper Drake", they're gonna get a mental image of a Dapper Dan doll in the woods or something.
I agree that the names could be better - but it all depends on who you're talking to. Engineers love weird names like that, it promotes a sense of fun and optimism instead of something mundane and "work"ish. I don't see anything worse about the name "Ubuntu" than "Google" or "Yahoo" at all, at least Ubuntu means something significant.
So "Ubuntu 6.06" to the marketing types, and "Dapper Drake" to everyone who's not trying to fit the mold I guess.
I don't know if it's been said already, but using the hosts file to reliably "block" anything is a very stupid idea to begin with.
I don't know if it's been said already, but anybody that tries to change the subject from the simple matter of "This functionality is broken, on purpose, with no documentation" is avoiding the issue.
Microsoft INTENTIONALLY altered an otherwise fully functional resolver system and tailored it to meet THEIR needs, at the expense of system and network administrators. I don't give a crap if "it's a dumb idea to use the hosts file", I give a crap if it took me 2 hours to figure something like this out and the end user is pissed because I TOOK SO LONG. I can't tell you how many times I've had this happen to me, not only by things Windows does that is NOT logical but other large software companies as well. No monopolous software company respects the user anymore - they just want to fill their wallets. And it makes me SICK.
The more popular GNU/Linux gets, the more proprietary software companies and programmers will revolt. It's a simple clash of "classical" non-free software and open source software which we have seen glimpses of so far with SCO and other companies, but I'm afraid it's going to get worse.
The good part about this is, however, that in a way, Steve Ballmer was right - Open Source software IS like cancer. Not in the harmful way as he had hoped his audience to invision, however, but in the sense that it will become bigger and bigger, and "infect" more corporate networks in which MS has a stronghold on today. The good thing that open source has going for it is that Microsoft cannot compete with it with their current business model. Microsoft is dabbling in "shared source" and other small initiatives to test the waters, but at the same time their ultimate decisions will come from their shareholders, who focus on one primary goal - profit.
With these two largely different motives, Open Source will slip into companies Microsoft can't put a firewall up against. The bigger it gets, the more MS will realise that their business model is obsolete.
Imagine how this will EXPLODE on the laptop market! Can you just imagine the FIRE in the eyes of who sees this? How about the PAIN existing latpop battery makers will face once this product FLUSHES through, like a HOTCAKE!!
ANY voting system, whether electronic or not, *NEEDS* a redundant verification system. Electing the next leader of ANY nation, let alone one of the most powerful on EARTH, *REQUIRES* a verification system so we can feel as though the right person was chosen.
1) Paper reciepts
2) Third-party, independent logging systems (a website to enter a code/checksum which was calculated by the voting machine which printed it as well as your choices individually entered to tally and check against voting machine logs)
Shit. I am so scared that somehow, either intentionally or by mistake, the wrong president was elected...and many major decisions were made by the wrong person.
How can this world afford to gamble on such a blatantly broken voting system? How did we allow this?
1) Whoever pirates Windows won't bother pirating anything but the "Ultimate" version, whatever that will be.
2) Legit users will get frustrated when they find out feature X is not included in their version of Vista. They will want to know why and will become angry. This anger will soon make them want to change to something more simple.
3) Something more simple will eventually win the hearts of legit users.
4) Whoever pirates Windows will follow whatever is the most popular/compatible OS.
You probably won't hear this, but underneath all the Wintendo themes and bubbles and hiding inactive icons and personalized menus... XP is actually pretty stable. And you can turn all that stuff off and get the security and functionality of a NOT 6 year old OS which runs pretty much just as fast as it's predecessors... I know, it takes time to disable all that crap...but still, isn't it worth it, so you don't get hit by a 2 year old virus?
I'm an Ubuntu person myself... but when I have to use Windows (I.E. my clients), XP really isn't that bad (once you turn off all the crap). You just have to know where to turn it off. It's still 2k underneath!
What is wrong with all (most) of you?? All I see are flames here, toward GNUCash, how blah blah, it's unstable, blah blah, use KMyMoney, blah blah, the code is lame... I've been using it for 2 years straight and haven't had a problem ONCE. No database corruption, no corruption of any kind. THERE is your proof that GNUCash won't fuck up your finances.
I've learned so much about finances with GNUCash it's amazing - much more, I'm sure, than using some other program. The layout is very LOGICAL - maybe not the easiest, or prettiest (1.9 will probably fix the prettiness though) but crap... aren't we all about the functionality? Using "accounts" instead of "categories" is really cool IMHO - it allows so much more flexibility with what you're doing and doesn't corner you into doing things one certain way - it just teaches you how things are done.
Give me the name of another financial program that's able to track BUSINESS finances (not just personal), other than GNUCash. Now sit down, shut up and eat your beans!
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"Cars are not reliable or dependable"
.... How could this article be defined as anything but FUD? Stereotyping an entire class of software as 'unreliable' is just dumb. Go FUD, go!! Let's keep trying to fool the fools, that'll keep them buying our stuff for longer.
"Airplanes tend to crash into buildings"
"Musicians do drugs"
I don't get why the hardware requirements for an M$ OS & graphical environment nearly double every time they release a new product.
The Linux/Gnome folks seem to be focused on making their environments run FASTER with each release on the same hardware, not SLOWER.
Fire Windows, hire Linux.
I say we let nature take it's course. Let's just forget about it, there's nothing we can do about it anyway. Who's gonna fight (and win) against the NSA??? Who *can*?? Seriously. Laws are being broken at the top of the chain here, and the things people are discovering and trying to uncover are being held back due to "National Security concerns" and "If this is released it will help the terrorists hurt America".
Fuck it. It's not like 90% of the fucking US cares about every action being monitored anyway. It's not like 90% of the fucking US even UNDERSTANDS what's going on. When you work with people whos' eyes glaze over when you ask them to drop to a command prompt, do you really think they're gonna understand anything about major Internet backbone engineering and fiber optic splitter technology??? Yeah, fucking, right.
Here's my response:
FUCK YOU, NSA. FUCK YOU, AT&T. How DARE you violate our right to human privacy. You should be ashamed of yourselves for what you're doing, and if the bulk of the American people understood what you were doing to them on a daily basis they'd start a civil war.
That's all we can do. They're "better" than us; they're "above" us in every aspect of the word besides physically. What can we do, legally, that would change a mother fucking thing? Nothing.
Actually those are very useful... maybe you should have said "Solar powered nightlight in a cave that gets no direct sunlight during the day"?
*doosh*
Congradulations to Portugal!! I'm sure that this is a tremendous improvement over their previous, wired-aircraft, which always had that annoying issue once the cord reached it's length and suddenly snapped mid-air from the airport.
Oh, THAT kind of wireless...gotcha.
"Wireless blah productivity blah low-cost blah blah company blah..." How about something that pertains to the headline of "Wireless Security Attacks and Defenses" instead of a press release about the wonders of wireless networks? /me feels the wrath of the mod-monsters
Nothing says natural and intuitive to a non-technical user like "sudo tar -C /opt -x -z -v -f firefox-1.5.0.3.tar.gz
.exe install package - I challenge you to give me the equivelant functionality of an apt-get install in Windows at all! With Windows, you still have to manually go to a website, download the install, and follow the instructions - I'd wager if you're savvy enough to want a specific version of a piece of software, you're inclined enough to be able to follow some simple instructions. Otherwise, you probably won't even know the difference between v1.0.8 and v1.5.
It's not fair to compare the newest version of a specific application being added to a distro-wide repository to a single
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1/3 of it for network stuff, 1/3 for power, 1/3 for random widgets. Subdivide into network(PDA,laptop) and different power sources
;) ...And what a flippin co incidence. My wordimage verification for this reply is "chronic".
Wow. I want some of what you're smoking!!
...Do this for the good ole' US of A? We *need* this. It's gotten to the point where art is directed by non-artists, and that's WRONG.
+1 Smart ass
+1 Pro Linux
-1 Corporatism
-1 Proprietarism (is that a word? Happy 4:20..sorry)
And...of course
+1 CowboyNeal
Disregarding the above blabber, this software sounds so flippin' cool. I've always thought about the overall mood of people, and if there's relation between it and a certain period of time. Like a website that simply asks "Are you happy right now?" or "Are you sad right now?" Very useful information! *gazes up at sky*
Ubuntu 5.10 is a good sounding name, I prefer it to Fedora Core 5, Red Hat Enterprise Edition 10, Debian Woody, etc.
Yes, much much much better for the professional crowd than "Woody". =p
For fuck's sake, stop being 13 years old. If saying "Ubuntu" is enough to make you feel like a jackass, you've got some issues.
Not if you're trying to convince a company to use Ubuntu you don't... To the non-Linux crowd (99% of the population), telling your public relations people that you just "Uninstalled Windows XP Professional" and installed "Ubuntu Dapper Drake", they're gonna get a mental image of a Dapper Dan doll in the woods or something.
I agree that the names could be better - but it all depends on who you're talking to. Engineers love weird names like that, it promotes a sense of fun and optimism instead of something mundane and "work"ish. I don't see anything worse about the name "Ubuntu" than "Google" or "Yahoo" at all, at least Ubuntu means something significant.
So "Ubuntu 6.06" to the marketing types, and "Dapper Drake" to everyone who's not trying to fit the mold I guess.
The cores thread YOU!
I don't know if it's been said already, but using the hosts file to reliably "block" anything is a very stupid idea to begin with.
I don't know if it's been said already, but anybody that tries to change the subject from the simple matter of "This functionality is broken, on purpose, with no documentation" is avoiding the issue.
Microsoft INTENTIONALLY altered an otherwise fully functional resolver system and tailored it to meet THEIR needs, at the expense of system and network administrators. I don't give a crap if "it's a dumb idea to use the hosts file", I give a crap if it took me 2 hours to figure something like this out and the end user is pissed because I TOOK SO LONG. I can't tell you how many times I've had this happen to me, not only by things Windows does that is NOT logical but other large software companies as well. No monopolous software company respects the user anymore - they just want to fill their wallets. And it makes me SICK.
Instead of using EGroupware or PHPGroupware, we should just start using using silent communications like cockroaches...
....HEY!"
"...So does that mean I'm #1, or
The more popular GNU/Linux gets, the more proprietary software companies and programmers will revolt. It's a simple clash of "classical" non-free software and open source software which we have seen glimpses of so far with SCO and other companies, but I'm afraid it's going to get worse.
;)
The good part about this is, however, that in a way, Steve Ballmer was right - Open Source software IS like cancer. Not in the harmful way as he had hoped his audience to invision, however, but in the sense that it will become bigger and bigger, and "infect" more corporate networks in which MS has a stronghold on today. The good thing that open source has going for it is that Microsoft cannot compete with it with their current business model. Microsoft is dabbling in "shared source" and other small initiatives to test the waters, but at the same time their ultimate decisions will come from their shareholders, who focus on one primary goal - profit.
With these two largely different motives, Open Source will slip into companies Microsoft can't put a firewall up against. The bigger it gets, the more MS will realise that their business model is obsolete.
See, obsolete isn't such a bad word after all.
Also, check out mutt.
If there was a reality show called Slashdot, they'd use you to say something like that right before they go to a commercial, to be witty.
You clod.
Imagine how this will EXPLODE on the laptop market! Can you just imagine the FIRE in the eyes of who sees this? How about the PAIN existing latpop battery makers will face once this product FLUSHES through, like a HOTCAKE!!
HA! HA!.....uuugh....
ANY voting system, whether electronic or not, *NEEDS* a redundant verification system. Electing the next leader of ANY nation, let alone one of the most powerful on EARTH, *REQUIRES* a verification system so we can feel as though the right person was chosen.
1) Paper reciepts
2) Third-party, independent logging systems (a website to enter a code/checksum which was calculated by the voting machine which printed it as well as your choices individually entered to tally and check against voting machine logs)
Shit. I am so scared that somehow, either intentionally or by mistake, the wrong president was elected...and many major decisions were made by the wrong person.
How can this world afford to gamble on such a blatantly broken voting system? How did we allow this?
1) Whoever pirates Windows won't bother pirating anything but the "Ultimate" version, whatever that will be.
2) Legit users will get frustrated when they find out feature X is not included in their version of Vista. They will want to know why and will become angry. This anger will soon make them want to change to something more simple.
3) Something more simple will eventually win the hearts of legit users.
4) Whoever pirates Windows will follow whatever is the most popular/compatible OS.
adsf
Come on, you just ruined his whole point! How dare you! =p
You probably won't hear this, but underneath all the Wintendo themes and bubbles and hiding inactive icons and personalized menus... XP is actually pretty stable. And you can turn all that stuff off and get the security and functionality of a NOT 6 year old OS which runs pretty much just as fast as it's predecessors... I know, it takes time to disable all that crap...but still, isn't it worth it, so you don't get hit by a 2 year old virus?
I'm an Ubuntu person myself... but when I have to use Windows (I.E. my clients), XP really isn't that bad (once you turn off all the crap). You just have to know where to turn it off. It's still 2k underneath!
What is wrong with all (most) of you?? All I see are flames here, toward GNUCash, how blah blah, it's unstable, blah blah, use KMyMoney, blah blah, the code is lame... I've been using it for 2 years straight and haven't had a problem ONCE. No database corruption, no corruption of any kind. THERE is your proof that GNUCash won't fuck up your finances.
I've learned so much about finances with GNUCash it's amazing - much more, I'm sure, than using some other program. The layout is very LOGICAL - maybe not the easiest, or prettiest (1.9 will probably fix the prettiness though) but crap... aren't we all about the functionality? Using "accounts" instead of "categories" is really cool IMHO - it allows so much more flexibility with what you're doing and doesn't corner you into doing things one certain way - it just teaches you how things are done.
Give me the name of another financial program that's able to track BUSINESS finances (not just personal), other than GNUCash. Now sit down, shut up and eat your beans!
GO NINERS! =p