You are the proverbial man chained in the cave only seeing shadows cast on the wall.
That's nice, but first off, I have no way to verify that you ever worked at MSFT. Or for that matter, that you've played chess with the Dalai Lama. Second, I've had SIE (maybe you'll know what that is) do evaluations on existing systems and come off impressed, actually interested in seeing some of the stuff we'd done with some of their own technologies.
That *some* companies are handicapped by the lack of skilled employees and have substandard setups as a result is not something I'd argue. But to claim that Microsoft has some sort of occult knowledge about their own systems that nobody else has access to is ridiculous. If I have the time, money and resources, I can do as well, if not better, than them. And no, I don't need to "see the code" for that.
You use the words "truth" and "absolute" with alarming ease.
And BTW, you're kidding yourself if Lafayette and Rochambeau were helping the continental army kick Cornwallis' butt out of the kindness of their dear hearts. They were doing it to stick it to the man, no more no less. Go brush up on your history. At least Roosevelt didn't liberate France (from the Germans and the nice Vichy folks) because he had a beef with Hitler.
Show me where I lied in the above post. If you're just trying to make a point, make it without going down the "americans suck" path, because you have exactly *zero* say in what americans drive, eat, spit or fuck. Period. And I am honestly sick and tired of hearing people like you excercise their freedom of speech (largely made possible by America) to bash America, and then complain when someone calls them on their bullshit. Are you complaining? Or do you have something constructive to say?
Why are you so angry, because it's the truth ?
No, I'm not angry. You know what happens to people when americans get angry at them, don't you? I'm being quite amicable. And what's "the truth"? That we drive incredibly inefficient cars? That we have an inefficient electric grid? So what? What's it to you?
Take 10 minutes and click on the link in my signature
Bwahahahaha. That does it, let's fold up people. We'll deactivate the military, swear allegiance to her majesty the Queen, give you the Louisiana territories back in a few days and bend over. We're sorry we exist. *snort*
We do not drive SUV that can't do better than 10 mpg per gallon...
That's because your roads look like they were built by the WinkyToy Corporation (TM). Six feet across, yay! It's difficult to drive a Ford Explorer in France without occasionally hitting houses. I know, I tried it once (well, truth be told it was a Ford Fiesta).
Blah blah blah we europeans are zo much bettar than ze warmongering uncouth imperialistic amerikans blah blah blah. pass ze foie gras, sivuplez.
Of course, if it wasn't for the warmongering uncouth americans you'd still be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Third Reich and your prime minister's last name would be Von Dickendorf. So please shut the fuck up.
I think we can take it with a huge grain of salt, because if it wasn't the Blaster worm you'd be making rationalizations about something else that could be tied to Microsoft. Perhaps an "inside scoop" on how one of their employees was playing Solitaire at the time the Unix box went down, hmmmm? Anything other than what actually happened. I mean, this wasn't "M$" fault? That's unpossible!!
You can talk about black helicopters 'till you're blue in the face, but that doesn't change what's in the report. Do you really believe that you're smarter than the people who wrote that up? That they, in their obvious technical incompetence (compared to your evidently superior intellect) ignored the "fact" that increased RPC traffic is what took down the Unix server?
Their IT infrastructure is outdated and it sucks, the box crashed, get over it and take it like a man.
It does now. But it didn't officially support it when you tried, apparently, and so therefore that must validate your claim that Apple is crap and nobody should buy their products. Right? Or did you mean something else by "Don't buy Apple products". While we're at it, would you care to explain what style and substance have to do with your unsuccessful foray into running X on a Mac? Inquiring minds want to know.
I bought an iMac and tried to get X running on it... what a pain
Wait, is that like trying to get Linux running on an XBox? DOn't you have something better to do? Why is it that all you people consider anything that does not run your favorite OS a "piece of shit"? And why on earth do you keep trying and -more importantly - bitching and whining when things don't work the way you want them to? Who gives a flying fart if you can't get X to run on an iMac?? I mean, for fuck's sake.
Should have bought a Dell and put linux on it... probably serves me right.
Yes, yes!
That was the first and last time I buy anything from Apple
I'm sure they are devastated by your rejection, especially given your reason to do so.
I honestly can't fathom why things like these get modded up. Oh wait, I can.
As in, when Mandrake makes a claim about what their software is doing, we can easily go check the source and see if they're telling the truth. When Microsoft makes a similar claim, it would take some serious reverse engineering kung fu to verify(or discount) it
Nope. No kung-fu. Windows does not fry these drives. That's about as much proof as I need.
Look at it this way. A "destroyed" drive is not really fried and fucked, it's "destroyed". If Windows had fried and fucked a CD drive for exactly the same reason and under the same circumstances, the submission would read like this:
Microsoft has issued a patch for Windows that fixes the fatal flaw which destroyed all those CD drives and cost thousands of dollars in damages to so many unsuspecting users. Microsoft claims that "the drives are not ATAPI-compliant", but since we can't see the code, who knows? In any case, this is small consolation to all those who had their hardware fried. Yet another reason to use Open Source software. This would have been caught by the millions of volunteers who routinely scan the Linux distros for flaws.
Of course there would be the obligatory retarded "editorial" comment by the Slashbork editor to the tone of "Well, I use OS X so this is not a problem for me, but I do feel for everyone who lost a drive this way".
In the original story there were people claiming that "hey, LG drives are shit anyway" and "well, CDRs are so cheap nowadays, why not just get another". I mean, WTF??
FUD is wonderful, especially when used by the very people who complain its used so much against them. Victims, I tell you, all of them.
This is just an unfortunate bug, nothing more and nothing less. But when if you spin it, maybe you can make it look like the blame falls squarely in the manufacturer's lap, and Mandrake gets off like shit off a shiny shovel. $deity forbid Microsoft or anyone else that is not a Linux distro tried to do this.
But hey, I use Windows 2000 and XP. So far they haven't destroyed - or "destroyed" - any of my hardware. Sometimes it's even detected, too!
That must have been one interesting heck of a poll. I wonder how they worded it.
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Don't be fucking stupid, the worm spoofs the From address with random entries in the infected computer's contact list. It's random and it wasn't written specifically to fuck ~you~ over.
Wrong answer. You're not a developer, so stop trying to come across as one. Nobody that writes code for a living would reply with "I have in fact written code".
I have this nagging suspicion that you've never written a single line of code in your life.
It may be because you seem to think that software, when developed the way you consider "righteous" is perfect, and anything else will have bugs because it's not developed (or sold, marketed, etc) the "right" way.
Sure, but in this case that's the *only* thing in the body. Surely your mail filters support regular expressions to a certain extent? It's fairly easy to process them so.
My $deity. Just block based on the body "please see attached file..." or whatever. I haven't goten a single one since I blocked with that at the domain level. Not a single one to any of the ~50 or so addresses/aliases inside.
I don't know if you're an Astroturfer or you are just trolling
"I don't like what you say, so you must be a troll"
Just desperate for something to whine about at all costs?
Au contraire, I'm not the one whining. Just about every other comment in this article does whine about how "it's going to be slow" or "it's too much fluff" or "the colors suck" or whatever. If these were screenshots of KDE, everyone would be oooohing and aaaahhhing. Well, except the GNOMEs.
If Linux is "not ready for desktop" because it does thing "needlessly differently from what people are used to"
Copying the look != attaining the functionality. There are Mitsubishi cars that look like a BMW. That doesn't make them a BMW.
I mean... if you have a great job that pays well, you should probably not rock the boat... who pays the bills? Stay home, make some dough and pay for a trip every 20 days or whatever you guys need.
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Thanks for playing.
That's nice, but first off, I have no way to verify that you ever worked at MSFT. Or for that matter, that you've played chess with the Dalai Lama. Second, I've had SIE (maybe you'll know what that is) do evaluations on existing systems and come off impressed, actually interested in seeing some of the stuff we'd done with some of their own technologies.
That *some* companies are handicapped by the lack of skilled employees and have substandard setups as a result is not something I'd argue. But to claim that Microsoft has some sort of occult knowledge about their own systems that nobody else has access to is ridiculous. If I have the time, money and resources, I can do as well, if not better, than them. And no, I don't need to "see the code" for that.
Really now. When was the last time you saw my network that you can make such a sweeping, generalizing statement?
And BTW, you're kidding yourself if Lafayette and Rochambeau were helping the continental army kick Cornwallis' butt out of the kindness of their dear hearts. They were doing it to stick it to the man, no more no less. Go brush up on your history. At least Roosevelt didn't liberate France (from the Germans and the nice Vichy folks) because he had a beef with Hitler.
No, as opposed to the entire French land transport infrastructure. If you must nitpick, at least come up with a good point of reference.
And if it wasn't for the French, perhaps most notably M. LaFayette, you Americans would still be a British colony.
Debatable and a bit revisionist, but OK. Where are you from? I'm sure I can go back in time and make a similar argument. Funny how that works, eh?
Show me where I lied in the above post. If you're just trying to make a point, make it without going down the "americans suck" path, because you have exactly *zero* say in what americans drive, eat, spit or fuck. Period. And I am honestly sick and tired of hearing people like you excercise their freedom of speech (largely made possible by America) to bash America, and then complain when someone calls them on their bullshit. Are you complaining? Or do you have something constructive to say?
Why are you so angry, because it's the truth ?
No, I'm not angry. You know what happens to people when americans get angry at them, don't you? I'm being quite amicable. And what's "the truth"? That we drive incredibly inefficient cars? That we have an inefficient electric grid? So what? What's it to you?
Take 10 minutes and click on the link in my signature
Bwahahahaha. That does it, let's fold up people. We'll deactivate the military, swear allegiance to her majesty the Queen, give you the Louisiana territories back in a few days and bend over. We're sorry we exist. *snort*
That's because your roads look like they were built by the WinkyToy Corporation (TM). Six feet across, yay! It's difficult to drive a Ford Explorer in France without occasionally hitting houses. I know, I tried it once (well, truth be told it was a Ford Fiesta).
Blah blah blah we europeans are zo much bettar than ze warmongering uncouth imperialistic amerikans blah blah blah. pass ze foie gras, sivuplez.
Of course, if it wasn't for the warmongering uncouth americans you'd still be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Third Reich and your prime minister's last name would be Von Dickendorf. So please shut the fuck up.
You can talk about black helicopters 'till you're blue in the face, but that doesn't change what's in the report. Do you really believe that you're smarter than the people who wrote that up? That they, in their obvious technical incompetence (compared to your evidently superior intellect) ignored the "fact" that increased RPC traffic is what took down the Unix server?
Their IT infrastructure is outdated and it sucks, the box crashed, get over it and take it like a man.
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It does now. But it didn't officially support it when you tried, apparently, and so therefore that must validate your claim that Apple is crap and nobody should buy their products. Right? Or did you mean something else by "Don't buy Apple products". While we're at it, would you care to explain what style and substance have to do with your unsuccessful foray into running X on a Mac? Inquiring minds want to know.
Wait, is that like trying to get Linux running on an XBox? DOn't you have something better to do? Why is it that all you people consider anything that does not run your favorite OS a "piece of shit"? And why on earth do you keep trying and -more importantly - bitching and whining when things don't work the way you want them to? Who gives a flying fart if you can't get X to run on an iMac?? I mean, for fuck's sake.
Should have bought a Dell and put linux on it... probably serves me right.
Yes, yes!
That was the first and last time I buy anything from Apple
I'm sure they are devastated by your rejection, especially given your reason to do so.
I honestly can't fathom why things like these get modded up. Oh wait, I can.
Nope. No kung-fu. Windows does not fry these drives. That's about as much proof as I need.
Define "unreasonable". This is a bug in the hardware, correct? Or are you impliying that a vendor would fry hardware just for the heck of it?
And so mandrake carries greater credibility than microsoft.
Hmmmm. Define "credibility". I mean, outside of people who really don't care about looking at the source but just want the thing to work. Thanks!
Look at it this way. A "destroyed" drive is not really fried and fucked, it's "destroyed". If Windows had fried and fucked a CD drive for exactly the same reason and under the same circumstances, the submission would read like this:
Of course there would be the obligatory retarded "editorial" comment by the Slashbork editor to the tone of "Well, I use OS X so this is not a problem for me, but I do feel for everyone who lost a drive this way".
In the original story there were people claiming that "hey, LG drives are shit anyway" and "well, CDRs are so cheap nowadays, why not just get another". I mean, WTF??
FUD is wonderful, especially when used by the very people who complain its used so much against them. Victims, I tell you, all of them.
This is just an unfortunate bug, nothing more and nothing less. But when if you spin it, maybe you can make it look like the blame falls squarely in the manufacturer's lap, and Mandrake gets off like shit off a shiny shovel. $deity forbid Microsoft or anyone else that is not a Linux distro tried to do this.
But hey, I use Windows 2000 and XP. So far they haven't destroyed - or "destroyed" - any of my hardware. Sometimes it's even detected, too!
That must have been one interesting heck of a poll. I wonder how they worded it.
Don't be fucking stupid, the worm spoofs the From address with random entries in the infected computer's contact list. It's random and it wasn't written specifically to fuck ~you~ over.
Wrong answer. You're not a developer, so stop trying to come across as one. Nobody that writes code for a living would reply with "I have in fact written code".
Thanks for playing.
It may be because you seem to think that software, when developed the way you consider "righteous" is perfect, and anything else will have bugs because it's not developed (or sold, marketed, etc) the "right" way.
Oh, and your analogy sucks.
"Fresh news"!
Sure, but in this case that's the *only* thing in the body. Surely your mail filters support regular expressions to a certain extent? It's fairly easy to process them so.
My $deity. Just block based on the body "please see attached file..." or whatever. I haven't goten a single one since I blocked with that at the domain level. Not a single one to any of the ~50 or so addresses/aliases inside.
"I don't like what you say, so you must be a troll"
Just desperate for something to whine about at all costs?
Au contraire, I'm not the one whining. Just about every other comment in this article does whine about how "it's going to be slow" or "it's too much fluff" or "the colors suck" or whatever. If these were screenshots of KDE, everyone would be oooohing and aaaahhhing. Well, except the GNOMEs.
If Linux is "not ready for desktop" because it does thing "needlessly differently from what people are used to"
Copying the look != attaining the functionality. There are Mitsubishi cars that look like a BMW. That doesn't make them a BMW.
Actually, I think that's what KDE will look like, given that they simply copy whatever Microsoft does.
Your post would have been halfway insightful if you didn't insist on doing the 'M$' thing so much.
I mean... if you have a great job that pays well, you should probably not rock the boat... who pays the bills? Stay home, make some dough and pay for a trip every 20 days or whatever you guys need.