I'm sorry, but there is not excuse for a bad release. Zero.
Any decent software is Open Source, and has TONS of developers examining the code. Further, as an Open Source program, there should be constant SVNs and betas for end users to test.
There is no reason for a bad release. What is this 1987 and you are Microsoft?
I don't know.... Seems to me the random bloggings of modern day humans is far more relevant than the delusional mutterings of sheep herding cavemen in the desert.
For a minute..... iPhone and ipod users will upgrade to better/cheaper devices as soon as Apple falls behind on open video standards. And rightly so. Why would anyone try to promote Apple's obvious push for vendor lock in? This is obviously bad for EVERYONE except Apple.
Let's hope to god that YouTube (Google) does the right thing and axes flash in favor of Ogg. This would be a giant step forward for humanity, in the long run.
Totally. Firefox is winning the browser wars already, and if it plays YouTube the best out of the box, it will be game over for all competing browsers that don't follow suit.
Fuck this proprietary crap. Now is our chance to promote freedom and stymie these greasy bastards once and for all!
I'd just assume Adobe, MS, Apple, and Sony all fold and go under. Good riddance. Not one has innovated a damn thing since 1990 at the latest. Sure Apple brought the iphone to market, but the idea had been there for years already.
Bullshit. Apple is doing everything it can to make it's super-closed business model still work, despite being bested by MS 20 years ago.
They think they have a new chance with ipods and iphones, but cheaper androids that play unDRMed crap is still going to beat them.
Ditto their bullshit QT and AAC. I know many, many people who refuse to use Apple products because of their price and because of their vendor lock-in.
Fuck Apple. Just because they lost to MS 20 years ago doesn't make them any less evil. If anything they are MORE evil. The iTunes model rapes musicians. Fuck APPLE!
Yeah, but it doesn't suck. Sumatra PDF tools Adobe Acrobat. Firefox tools every other browser. The GIMP uses way less resources than photoshop and for everything *I* need is a drop in replacement.
7zip absolutely schools every compression program ever written.
I even like Open Office Writer more than Word, though I'd forgive dissenting opinions on this one.
The ONLY non FOSS I use is Nero. I use a portable version I got on bitjunkie.
I have tried Win 7. It has about half the performance of XP. Similar to Vista, actually. They just barely removed enough cruft to make it SEEM slightly faster.
It's really not though. Do your own benchmarks, and find one where it beats XP x64!!!
One more format upon which I do not want their bloated, buggy, crappy rerelease of Vista.
I'll stick with Linux and XP still. Wake me up when MS pulls their head out of their ass and I don't lose FPS in whatever crap video game I still keep XP around for.
I used to be on the environmentalist side of the global warming debate.
But now the same guys that installed a Monsanto guy as head of Department of Agriculture are telling me global warming is real.
Suddenly I'm doubting the whole thing, and suspect this is more about stripping individuals of their rights further, which seems to be the primary task of both the Republican and Democratic parties and the corporations that run them.
An open source wifi phone. Hardware, Software, everything controllable and redesignable by the consumer. With a standard USB port for charging and computer connection.
Every house having a wifi router, all connected to each other in an adhoc p2p network replacing the existing corporate infrastructure.
Everyone could have free anonymous and uncensored internet and phone calls anywhere, at any time.
The last 8 years free of collapsing steel buildings would also seem to indicate the rationality of modern physics, and implicate inside involvement in 9/11. But you mention that on/. and you will be modded into oblivion.
Despite many SCIENTIST CLAIMS to have found nano-particle thermite residue in the wreckage of WTC 1,2, and most damning of all BUILDING 7, which was not hit by a plane.
Slashdot Mirror
If they make the gameplay identical to Civ 2 it will be better than ANY civ!
This is true, but for the showstoppers:
Firefox
Gimp
Pidgin
Dolphin
Open Office
Deluge
There is a lot going on, and plenty of people making constant reports and updates. As it should be.
I'm sorry, but there is not excuse for a bad release. Zero.
Any decent software is Open Source, and has TONS of developers examining the code. Further, as an Open Source program, there should be constant SVNs and betas for end users to test.
There is no reason for a bad release. What is this 1987 and you are Microsoft?
Ludicrous.
Every high ranking member of our government has been criminal since they shot JFK in the face.
The public is subsequently drugged into complacency, but even the drugged out losers know:
This government is a fascist police state, and Obama is just the latest puppet, served up as a media distraction.
I don't know.... Seems to me the random bloggings of modern day humans is far more relevant than the delusional mutterings of sheep herding cavemen in the desert.
For a minute..... iPhone and ipod users will upgrade to better/cheaper devices as soon as Apple falls behind on open video standards. And rightly so. Why would anyone try to promote Apple's obvious push for vendor lock in? This is obviously bad for EVERYONE except Apple.
Let's hope to god that YouTube (Google) does the right thing and axes flash in favor of Ogg. This would be a giant step forward for humanity, in the long run.
Totally. Firefox is winning the browser wars already, and if it plays YouTube the best out of the box, it will be game over for all competing browsers that don't follow suit.
Fuck this proprietary crap. Now is our chance to promote freedom and stymie these greasy bastards once and for all!
I'd just assume Adobe, MS, Apple, and Sony all fold and go under. Good riddance. Not one has innovated a damn thing since 1990 at the latest. Sure Apple brought the iphone to market, but the idea had been there for years already.
Bullshit. Apple is doing everything it can to make it's super-closed business model still work, despite being bested by MS 20 years ago.
They think they have a new chance with ipods and iphones, but cheaper androids that play unDRMed crap is still going to beat them.
Ditto their bullshit QT and AAC. I know many, many people who refuse to use Apple products because of their price and because of their vendor lock-in.
Fuck Apple. Just because they lost to MS 20 years ago doesn't make them any less evil. If anything they are MORE evil. The iTunes model rapes musicians. Fuck APPLE!
Open Office is bloated.
There, I've said it.
That being said, the portable apps version runs nicely, and at least it doesn't hijack my registry and everything else!!
portableapps.com
Now we don't have to move at all!
Yeah, but it doesn't suck. Sumatra PDF tools Adobe Acrobat. Firefox tools every other browser. The GIMP uses way less resources than photoshop and for everything *I* need is a drop in replacement.
7zip absolutely schools every compression program ever written.
I even like Open Office Writer more than Word, though I'd forgive dissenting opinions on this one.
The ONLY non FOSS I use is Nero. I use a portable version I got on bitjunkie.
Oh yeah, and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.
I have tried Win 7. It has about half the performance of XP. Similar to Vista, actually. They just barely removed enough cruft to make it SEEM slightly faster.
It's really not though. Do your own benchmarks, and find one where it beats XP x64!!!
I didn't know Hans Reiser could still post on /.!!!
After the first few people, even my cheap USB keyboard has enough sharp edges to cause some damage!
One more format upon which I do not want their bloated, buggy, crappy rerelease of Vista.
I'll stick with Linux and XP still. Wake me up when MS pulls their head out of their ass and I don't lose FPS in whatever crap video game I still keep XP around for.
Color me Skeptical.
I used to be on the environmentalist side of the global warming debate.
But now the same guys that installed a Monsanto guy as head of Department of Agriculture are telling me global warming is real.
Suddenly I'm doubting the whole thing, and suspect this is more about stripping individuals of their rights further, which seems to be the primary task of both the Republican and Democratic parties and the corporations that run them.
Who killed JFK, and what happened to Building 7?
Our government is totally better.
Corporations doing something evil AGAINST humanity?!?!?! THAT NEVER HAPPENS!!!!
I have a dream for REAL digital freedom:
An open source wifi phone. Hardware, Software, everything controllable and redesignable by the consumer. With a standard USB port for charging and computer connection.
Every house having a wifi router, all connected to each other in an adhoc p2p network replacing the existing corporate infrastructure.
Everyone could have free anonymous and uncensored internet and phone calls anywhere, at any time.
Fuck wire tapping, fuck Cox, fuck Charter, fuck Apple, and fuck Verizon.
Well OK, but Britannica is still bette...... wait, what?
Well I read "sake" as Sake, the popular rice wine served at sushi bars. So the "Sake of Travel" seems pretty fun to me.
Despite every bit of screaming for the US to enter further into fascism, including the REAL ID, the real scientific facts are indisputable:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8182697765360042032
Do your homework. Do at least a small modicum of research.
Figure out HOW and WHY giant steel building fall down.
9/11 was an inside job! Fight fascism at every point, including REAL ID!!!!
Nor would it have stopped Dick Cheney from carrying out 9/11.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8182697765360042032
Please respond with SCIENCE!!
Maybe after you find out and expose publicly who killed JFK.
The last 8 years free of collapsing steel buildings would also seem to indicate the rationality of modern physics, and implicate inside involvement in 9/11. But you mention that on /. and you will be modded into oblivion.
Despite many SCIENTIST CLAIMS to have found nano-particle thermite residue in the wreckage of WTC 1,2, and most damning of all BUILDING 7, which was not hit by a plane.