Where does the site claim to be a source of unbiased journalistic excellence?
Nowhere. It would be nice though if they stopped requiring the same thing from everyone else, especially anyone who publishes anything that is remotely critical of their pet philosophies.
Slashdot has posted hundreds (if not thousands) of "articles" that anyone with half a brain would consider biased flamebait, and they're almost always punctuated by the ever-insightful "commentary" appended at the end by the "editors".
Slashdot apologists love to dish it out, but they can rarely take it.
That's nice. Can I have your assurance that you'll post this same thing the next time Slashdork posts a "OMFG TEH M$ IEXPLODER IS HAVENING A EXPLOITAITION" story? If so, I'm all for your suggestion.
This is no big deal. I mean, the company has a right to protect its intellectual property and... oh wait - this is Microsoft? Microsoft?? Oh. I thought we were talking about Apple. They seem to do this every other week, and so, well, I thought this was another one of those "Apple did something very stupid but let's all pull together and find ways to exonerate them" Slashpple stories and I wanted to join in. Darn.
Take for example the "Control Panel". Same old Windows crap. Tons of grouped 'wizards' for managing your system. Why not take a page out of Apple's Spotlight book and allow the user to type in what they are wanting to do "add a user", "change desktop wallpaper" and give them the control.
Yeah, when Apple was shipping that turd pile called "System 9" no one was criticizing the "wizards" or the "control panel". Now all of the sudden it's "crap". Funny that.
Why the hell would anyone go to "Start" to logout?
Well, as it is well known here in bashland, Microsoft doesn't actually research or think about the features that go into their OS'es, but you can read this if you want a bit of enlightement. Hope that helps.
MS isn't reaching too far from where their feet are firmly planted
The rest of your dumb rant aside, Microsoft has to cater to several hundred million people with whatever ships in Longhorn. Let me know when you get to that point and we'll talk about how much you suck because you're not making enough changes to your core product that some random guy in Slashdot seems to think are necessary.
That's interesting. I was thinking the same thing the other day, except that I was using the supposed "right" to see the source code to my software as a "convention".
Let's do this: find me a company in an industry that does not engage in lobbying or employ political consultants and I'll stop buying (or taking) their products. How's that?
Let's put it this way: I'd encourage all your car-driving friends to use the bus instead. Oh, wait. Bus companies also lobby. Walking then? Wait, municipal contractors that build the sidewalks also lobby. Hmmm. Floating? Wait, the environmentalists also lobby. Telecommuting? Hmmm. The cable and telecom companies also lobby. Stop using that computer! Computer companies lobby the US government! And that underwear? Fruit of The Loom lobbies as well!! OMFG, we're trapped!!!
Dumb punk.
Oh, and BTW, in the real world, Microsoft aligning with the religious right (assuming you can actually take it that far) would be a reason for a good chunk of americans to stick with Microsoft, not the other way around. It's precisely here that you did not need to use that stupid "example" of why Microsoft is even "more evil".
Where is GNU/Bitkeeper (or "butkeeper" as the ever-funny Alan Cox liked to call it) again? What, no "stop complaining and code one yourself" witty riposte in this case? No, that's apparently reserved for people who complain about substandard crap. That BK was definitely not.
How many years did "the community" have to code a replacement for BK again? Does anyone think that Linus would not have switched to it in a heartbeat if it was "free as in everything" and did what he wanted? No. But where was it?
I love RMS. This is all McVoy's fault. "Look, the evil man has been defeated! yay Free Software!" I guess he forgot that no one held a gun to Linus' head to force him to use BK.
konqueror has done this for a while... I'm not terribly versed in GUI file managers for X, but I'd presume that other programs do it as well...
Actually you could do this in Windows 95 IIRC, it was a registry setting. It wasn't turned on by default because of performance concerns, and in any case it couldn't possibly recognize all file formats (just as Konq and Nautilus can't, either).
I tend to turn it off on Linux because it's a resource hog. Great for screenshot collections, but useless for real work. OS X does it a bit better, IMO, but it will only recognize some documents as well (I assume you're bitching about things other than images, here?).
Microsoft abandons gays? That's a great agline. Just what the doctor ordered, in case there weren't enough things to flame them about.
Now I'll listen to the zealots ticking off the reasons "M$ is teh suxx0rz" and including "they hate fagz" as well, like most of they care.
I have to wonder why this is on the Slashdot front page, and why it's not followed by a list of companies like IBM, Novell, Sun and Red Hat and what their attitude is towards gays and lesbians.
What exactly did you mean by "exporting" to other countries? Do you mean Luxembourg or Costa Rica are somehow obligated to shape their IP laws based on what the US does or doesn't do? Or are you implying that the US somehow forces these things on poor unsuspecting nations?
The big distros (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake et.al) could certainly afford it. Heck, I'm sure the Gentoo fans could scrape enough to do it as well if you gave them a pom-pom and a PayPal account. Ubuntu can certainly afford it via their billionaire sponsor.
The "Joe Schmoe" distros (Slack, DSL, Knoppix, LFS) would not do it and that's fine, they would continue to be used by a lot of people anyway.
Debian would be a problem of course since so many other distros are based on them, and they don't have a lot of money. But maybe Ubuntu could pay their way through?
It looks more to me like the big boys can't be bothered to do it, but not because they can't afford it. Maybe it's a time and resources thing, or maybe LSB is not quite where they want it to be.
Turn it off. You're a "professional" as you imply, you do know how to do that, yes?
indexing service on by default
And some other Slashbot would complain about it being on by default.
all those annoying "common tasks" panes in explorer
Turn them off.
windows media player 9 or 10 always steals back file associations from mplayerc
Bullshit, I use WMP9 and mplayerc and this has *never* happened. Ever.
the reg keys and delete the damn executables and files (oh they come back, like the damn poltergeist).
Because they (the files at least) are protected by the OS. Turn protection off. You do know how to do that, yes?
make an "expert mode" for people who half half a f*ing clue what theyre doing?
You want an expert mode where you have *more* things about which you don't have a clue? More?
try making the default account non-superuser
How about you tell that to Dell, Gateway, IBM and all the other white box makers? There is no such thing as a "default" account in Windows. The OEMs are the ones that ship their boxes with a super account on by default.
Why must all criticism of anything open source must be labeled "bashing"? Every single time someone dares utter a single word of "dissention" about Linux or anything else, they must be "shills" spreading "FUD". Every single time. Hell, even when ESR rants about how CUPS sucks, he's branded a retard. A lot of things in free software suck to high heaven. Just like a lot of commercial software does. But the FOSS unwashed masses really need to get a grip. Not everything is perfect just because it comes with source and a bill of rights.
Slashdot Mirror
Nowhere. It would be nice though if they stopped requiring the same thing from everyone else, especially anyone who publishes anything that is remotely critical of their pet philosophies.
Slashdot has posted hundreds (if not thousands) of "articles" that anyone with half a brain would consider biased flamebait, and they're almost always punctuated by the ever-insightful "commentary" appended at the end by the "editors".
Slashdot apologists love to dish it out, but they can rarely take it.
That's nice. Can I have your assurance that you'll post this same thing the next time Slashdork posts a "OMFG TEH M$ IEXPLODER IS HAVENING A EXPLOITAITION" story? If so, I'm all for your suggestion.
Bwahahahaha.
pPh3^R Slashdot's official 'hacker', he can't tell the difference between IIS and IE.
Subject: Re: Longhorn
Bill,
Because they're not turned on.
Steve
There is nothing "honorable" or "dishonorable" about it. It is illegal.
Um...
HAHAHHA!! OMFG M$ IS TEH SUXX0RZ!!! HAHAHAHA!!
Sorry. Won't happen again.
Or that some other OS (Linux? OS/390? OS X?) is perfectly secure?
Yeah, when Apple was shipping that turd pile called "System 9" no one was criticizing the "wizards" or the "control panel". Now all of the sudden it's "crap". Funny that.
Why the hell would anyone go to "Start" to logout?
Well, as it is well known here in bashland, Microsoft doesn't actually research or think about the features that go into their OS'es, but you can read this if you want a bit of enlightement. Hope that helps.
MS isn't reaching too far from where their feet are firmly planted
The rest of your dumb rant aside, Microsoft has to cater to several hundred million people with whatever ships in Longhorn. Let me know when you get to that point and we'll talk about how much you suck because you're not making enough changes to your core product that some random guy in Slashdot seems to think are necessary.
Funny how that works.
Even if your bullshit drivel was true (which is debatable), that's still half the population of this country.
But let me get this straight. If I use Windows, I must be a religious right-wing nut... eh?
Jeebus, if that isn't one of the biggest leap of faith (no pun intended) generalizations I've seen from this sorry crowd, I don't know what it is.
I suppose next you're going to accuse Windows users of killing baby seals by running them over with their SUVs. Go ahead, you want to.
Let's put it this way: I'd encourage all your car-driving friends to use the bus instead. Oh, wait. Bus companies also lobby. Walking then? Wait, municipal contractors that build the sidewalks also lobby. Hmmm. Floating? Wait, the environmentalists also lobby. Telecommuting? Hmmm. The cable and telecom companies also lobby. Stop using that computer! Computer companies lobby the US government! And that underwear? Fruit of The Loom lobbies as well!! OMFG, we're trapped!!!
Dumb punk.
Oh, and BTW, in the real world, Microsoft aligning with the religious right (assuming you can actually take it that far) would be a reason for a good chunk of americans to stick with Microsoft, not the other way around. It's precisely here that you did not need to use that stupid "example" of why Microsoft is even "more evil".
Holy merciful $DEITY, you people are so retarded.
How many years did "the community" have to code a replacement for BK again? Does anyone think that Linus would not have switched to it in a heartbeat if it was "free as in everything" and did what he wanted? No. But where was it?
I love RMS. This is all McVoy's fault. "Look, the evil man has been defeated! yay Free Software!" I guess he forgot that no one held a gun to Linus' head to force him to use BK.
And the "GNU/Linux" name dropping? Classic.
Great stuff.
Actually you could do this in Windows 95 IIRC, it was a registry setting. It wasn't turned on by default because of performance concerns, and in any case it couldn't possibly recognize all file formats (just as Konq and Nautilus can't, either).
I tend to turn it off on Linux because it's a resource hog. Great for screenshot collections, but useless for real work. OS X does it a bit better, IMO, but it will only recognize some documents as well (I assume you're bitching about things other than images, here?).
We are the Borg
Hahaha, you are too funny.
If you don't like what I'm saying, feel free to shut the fuck up.
So was Microsoft, until today apparently.
Now I'll listen to the zealots ticking off the reasons "M$ is teh suxx0rz" and including "they hate fagz" as well, like most of they care.
I have to wonder why this is on the Slashdot front page, and why it's not followed by a list of companies like IBM, Novell, Sun and Red Hat and what their attitude is towards gays and lesbians.
But wait, actually I don't.
It is if IBM, Novell et.al are pushing it. Your idea of this really kewl guerilla OS sticking it to the man is gone.
Linux can't compete with Microsoft without a large corporation backing it, and it can't play Che Guevara with Mr. Corporate pushing it up the hill.
Of course there'd be a black market in little spray bottles with 100% CERTIFIED GENERIC SPIT THAT WORKS WITH ALL DECODERS!!1! Kinda like cable boxes.
And then there's the question of digitizing that, of course.
Pshhhht. Psshhhht...
What exactly did you mean by "exporting" to other countries? Do you mean Luxembourg or Costa Rica are somehow obligated to shape their IP laws based on what the US does or doesn't do? Or are you implying that the US somehow forces these things on poor unsuspecting nations?
The "Joe Schmoe" distros (Slack, DSL, Knoppix, LFS) would not do it and that's fine, they would continue to be used by a lot of people anyway.
Debian would be a problem of course since so many other distros are based on them, and they don't have a lot of money. But maybe Ubuntu could pay their way through?
It looks more to me like the big boys can't be bothered to do it, but not because they can't afford it. Maybe it's a time and resources thing, or maybe LSB is not quite where they want it to be.
Fuck you - how about you don't attempt to emulate America to begin with.
Turn it off. You're a "professional" as you imply, you do know how to do that, yes?
indexing service on by default
And some other Slashbot would complain about it being on by default.
all those annoying "common tasks" panes in explorer
Turn them off.
windows media player 9 or 10 always steals back file associations from mplayerc
Bullshit, I use WMP9 and mplayerc and this has *never* happened. Ever.
the reg keys and delete the damn executables and files (oh they come back, like the damn poltergeist).
Because they (the files at least) are protected by the OS. Turn protection off. You do know how to do that, yes?
make an "expert mode" for people who half half a f*ing clue what theyre doing?
You want an expert mode where you have *more* things about which you don't have a clue? More?
try making the default account non-superuser
How about you tell that to Dell, Gateway, IBM and all the other white box makers? There is no such thing as a "default" account in Windows. The OEMs are the ones that ship their boxes with a super account on by default.
christ.
Yeah, no shit.
Why must all criticism of anything open source must be labeled "bashing"? Every single time someone dares utter a single word of "dissention" about Linux or anything else, they must be "shills" spreading "FUD". Every single time. Hell, even when ESR rants about how CUPS sucks, he's branded a retard. A lot of things in free software suck to high heaven. Just like a lot of commercial software does. But the FOSS unwashed masses really need to get a grip. Not everything is perfect just because it comes with source and a bill of rights.
Whoa, that'll show them.