Nice one, but it still doesn't make the Ubuntu team seem any more mature. And I get the joke, but it's still funny... in a very dumb way.
They must not have been trying to be too sarcastic though, considering they were serious enough to close this "bug" after what it was describing became less true...
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Well, I would consider the fact that it needs rebooted every time you fart to be broken by design. And its entire life, started as a single-user system, means the whole damn thing is broken as far as multi-user goes. Sure, that's been shoehorned onto Windows, but at its core Windows was designed for one, all-powerful user on a single, non-network-connected computer. And this shows in its endless list of critical security bugs dumb design decisions.
I said public. I can't see anything at all on that site without a Microsoft Account (which I do have, by the way). It can't even be browsed without special privileges.
And also, I see lots of smaller pieces within Windows there... but what about their entire operating system? Even just one complete OS? Or core parts of one? Is that off-limits to even Microsoft Account holders? Something more than just IE and the Powershell...
That site not only looks closed, but restricted even to those privileged account-holding elite...
For a second I was expecting the "bug" to be some actual major bug or security issue that has existed for years. But all it is... is Microsoft's marketing dominance? I mean, I agree that their monopoly is/was a bad thing, but I find it ironic and funny that it was classified as a bug.
If they want to take control of our machines and make them obey THEM instead of us, then they *should* have to do the extra work... or keep their garbage off the public web in the first place if they want no eyes to see it. All this would do if implemented is add a massive FAILURE right into the HTML5 standard. DRM is practically meant to be broken--this implementation would just be cracked before the final standard is ever even released. And then, companies will continue to use their own proprietary garbage DRM plug-ins... and that's the way it should be. Keep that fucking garbage OUT of the web browser/standards.
Because Microsoft is right, their paying (gouged) customers are always wrong; they know what you want, you don't; and if you don't like it, then you can suck their micro-soft cock. For that is The Microsoft Way.
Want a decent "desktop" operating system that doesn't try to deprecate, you know, the whole desktop aspect of the system? Look elsewhere--because ever since Windows 8, Microsoft is not the provider of such a system. In fact, it's clear that they want the traditional "desktop" dead just as badly as they want Windows XP dead.
Microsoft *knows* damn well what people want when they ask for the "Start menu," and yet they're careful to only acknowledge the "Start button." Which, roughly translated into more detail, is short for: "Sorry, but fuck you all. No, we're not bringing it back, now here, take this Metro UI as we ram it down your throat, even easier to access because it is where your beloved menu button was. Here's a "button" where the Start button was just to pacify you with the illusion that we actually give a shit. Now shut up."
Moral of the story: If you are on an older version of Windows, now's a good time to set up a backup plan to jump ship eventually, because if you want a real desktop, Microsoft is fading into history as a provider of one.
Which might just force some of their users over to Outlook.com instead. But ironically, massive corporations don't seem to care--a few million users is just a drop in the bucket to them.
And then all you have to do is switch to an e-mail provider who values your privacy enough to not leave Texas.
And seriously, who the hell uses their ISP's e-mail service anyway? I prefer to use a service independent of my ISP, so in the likely chance my ISP pisses me off I can just tell them to fuck off and switch to a new one... and not have my e-mail communications interrupted.
No, they won't stop till they've killed 1,125,899,906,842,624 otherwise healthy and innocent animals, all for said animals' own "protection." If they only killed off a nice, even 1,000,000,000,000,000 animals, they'd be cheating themselves out of 125,899,906,842,624 "ethical" animal murders.
Absolutely. Opera 3.6 was outstandingly good in its day, fast, small, and did a pretty good job rendering most sites; it was ridiculously better than Nutscrape 4 and Intestinal Expander 4.
Where are mod points when you need 'em?! That was pretty damn funny.
Eh... you do know that Opera has been the pioneer of web browsing for many years, right? Everyone else--while more popular and claiming all the fame for "their" inventions in the first place as a result--was always scrambling to catch up with them. Unfortunately, Opera rarely received the credit they deserved. I'm not sure about their status the last few years since to be honest I think web browsers have turned to shit with all the dumbing down and I no longer care, but many of what you'd consider a major "modern" feature in Firefox or whatever else was probably a part of Opera in some way first. Fuck, even tabs started in some form with Opera as a complete and fully-configrable multiple-document interface.
I'm really astonished from the bad decisions they are making since Von Tetzchner left the company. They keep dropping useful features from the browsers and dumbing it down. If they keep the current trend chances it will be dead before release. You don;t need to be a genius to understand that if your users wants a Chrome shell, they'll be using ** Chrome in the first place.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the trend all the browser makers are following these days, and unfortunately neither Mozilla or Google is out of business or even hurting yet. And after all their fuck-ups, Mozilla should be hurting like a son of a bitch... but no, they're big and influential enough that they can fuck their long-time users over by dumbing it down endlessly, and it's just business as usual.
I was under the impression from reading TFA that this is about the media companies, Hollywood and friends (okay, assholes is more appropriate...), not software developers. These scumbags are some of the worst for trying to manipulate various laws, including copyright, for their own gain at the expense of everyone else. This is just a new low. And by low, I mean fucking l-o-w. This is ridiculous. It's stealthy trespassing, privacy invasion, vandalism and all kinds of other nasty shit all rolled into one.
I mean, come the fuck on... they want it to be legal to infiltrate people's private networks with worms, trojans, rootkits, etc.? They want to compromise the security of private networks and computers around the world, as long is it's not theirs and it benefits them? They want to be able to legally fucking use my own computer's camera to take pictures of me in my own private property? What the fuck? They can go fuck themselves up the ass, sideways, with a serrated knife.
Seriously, this is the kind of shit that if anyone does, it's an open invitation for the FBI to come knocking on your door, arresting your ass on the spot, and setting you up for some serious charges and prison time. And these companies want to be able to do this themselves without getting caught... but for it to remain illegal for anyone "else" who isn't them? I'm amazed at this bullshit. Everyone that is a part of this idea and the MPAA in general: FUCK YOU.
...there exists a virus that can reproduce and spread from one host to another. What an amazing scientific discovery!
Tests Show That Deadly New Flu Could Spread Among People
Something tells me that they're using the term "deadly" just for sensationalism as usual, in the same way that they're making it seem like such a big deal as if it's breaking news that a virus is capable of spreading from human to human...
Why would you bother to convert anything? Just look at the damn speedometer, it's right in front of you. Maybe you should fail your driving test if you don't know how to read the speedometer correctly... which is labeled with both units of measurements. It's not much different than the majority of thermometers in U.S. stores are dual-labeled with degrees in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
"55 MPH" seems fine to me. I don't have a problem with adding KPH readings to the signs, but if they want to claim that they are truly "bilingual" with measurements, then having both MPH and KPH would make the most sense...
But you see, it was a joke. That game was trash, completely unable to live up to over a decade's worth of expectations. Hell, even if it was released in the early 2000s it would have still sucked.
Done. I just earlier did a search for Jabber's web site to get some more information. Had some serious trouble trying to get logged in with Pidgin (some vague "connection errors"... I accidentally used @jabber.com instead of @jabber.net... duh). Once I tried and got logged in with no problem using Kopete, I finally realized the problem and I'm now able to log in with Pidgin too.
I'll see how this goes. The one advantage Google Talk had was that if a person's e-mail address was known, so was their instant messaging username. While Jabber loses that, it is cool that they don't even ask for an e-mail address upfront. This can come in handy, because I know some people are more likely to be afraid of something and more reluctant to try it out if their e-mail address is required from the start.
They're already probably getting money by throwing some of my personal information in a blender and using it in some way so that it nets them some kind of profit. If they want me to see ads too and force me into specific programs or to use a web page, well... goodbye, Google Talk.
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Nice one, but it still doesn't make the Ubuntu team seem any more mature. And I get the joke, but it's still funny... in a very dumb way.
They must not have been trying to be too sarcastic though, considering they were serious enough to close this "bug" after what it was describing became less true...
Well, I would consider the fact that it needs rebooted every time you fart to be broken by design. And its entire life, started as a single-user system, means the whole damn thing is broken as far as multi-user goes. Sure, that's been shoehorned onto Windows, but at its core Windows was designed for one, all-powerful user on a single, non-network-connected computer. And this shows in its endless list of critical security bugs dumb design decisions.
I said public. I can't see anything at all on that site without a Microsoft Account (which I do have, by the way). It can't even be browsed without special privileges.
And also, I see lots of smaller pieces within Windows there... but what about their entire operating system? Even just one complete OS? Or core parts of one? Is that off-limits to even Microsoft Account holders? Something more than just IE and the Powershell...
That site not only looks closed, but restricted even to those privileged account-holding elite...
That'll be found on Microsoft's public bug tracker. Oh, wait... they don't have one. That's a bug!
For a second I was expecting the "bug" to be some actual major bug or security issue that has existed for years. But all it is... is Microsoft's marketing dominance? I mean, I agree that their monopoly is/was a bad thing, but I find it ironic and funny that it was classified as a bug.
If they want to take control of our machines and make them obey THEM instead of us, then they *should* have to do the extra work... or keep their garbage off the public web in the first place if they want no eyes to see it. All this would do if implemented is add a massive FAILURE right into the HTML5 standard. DRM is practically meant to be broken--this implementation would just be cracked before the final standard is ever even released. And then, companies will continue to use their own proprietary garbage DRM plug-ins... and that's the way it should be. Keep that fucking garbage OUT of the web browser/standards.
Next thing you know, they'll be putting cameras at every urinal to make sure you hold your dick right.
Because Microsoft is right, their paying (gouged) customers are always wrong; they know what you want, you don't; and if you don't like it, then you can suck their micro-soft cock. For that is The Microsoft Way.
Want a decent "desktop" operating system that doesn't try to deprecate, you know, the whole desktop aspect of the system? Look elsewhere--because ever since Windows 8, Microsoft is not the provider of such a system. In fact, it's clear that they want the traditional "desktop" dead just as badly as they want Windows XP dead.
Microsoft *knows* damn well what people want when they ask for the "Start menu," and yet they're careful to only acknowledge the "Start button." Which, roughly translated into more detail, is short for: "Sorry, but fuck you all. No, we're not bringing it back, now here, take this Metro UI as we ram it down your throat, even easier to access because it is where your beloved menu button was. Here's a "button" where the Start button was just to pacify you with the illusion that we actually give a shit. Now shut up."
Moral of the story: If you are on an older version of Windows, now's a good time to set up a backup plan to jump ship eventually, because if you want a real desktop, Microsoft is fading into history as a provider of one.
Which might just force some of their users over to Outlook.com instead. But ironically, massive corporations don't seem to care--a few million users is just a drop in the bucket to them.
And then all you have to do is switch to an e-mail provider who values your privacy enough to not leave Texas.
And seriously, who the hell uses their ISP's e-mail service anyway? I prefer to use a service independent of my ISP, so in the likely chance my ISP pisses me off I can just tell them to fuck off and switch to a new one... and not have my e-mail communications interrupted.
No, they won't stop till they've killed 1,125,899,906,842,624 otherwise healthy and innocent animals, all for said animals' own "protection." If they only killed off a nice, even 1,000,000,000,000,000 animals, they'd be cheating themselves out of 125,899,906,842,624 "ethical" animal murders.
Given the fact that I never heard of either one of those, I doubt that a whole lot of other people have either.
I don't know anyone who's ever used an Amiga and MyIE or whatever it was is the first Trident shell I recall hearing about.
Either my point was meant to be that Firefox has not been the leader in web browsers. That's all.
Absolutely. Opera 3.6 was outstandingly good in its day, fast, small, and did a pretty good job rendering most sites; it was ridiculously better than Nutscrape 4 and Intestinal Expander 4.
Where are mod points when you need 'em?! That was pretty damn funny.
Eh... you do know that Opera has been the pioneer of web browsing for many years, right? Everyone else--while more popular and claiming all the fame for "their" inventions in the first place as a result--was always scrambling to catch up with them. Unfortunately, Opera rarely received the credit they deserved. I'm not sure about their status the last few years since to be honest I think web browsers have turned to shit with all the dumbing down and I no longer care, but many of what you'd consider a major "modern" feature in Firefox or whatever else was probably a part of Opera in some way first. Fuck, even tabs started in some form with Opera as a complete and fully-configrable multiple-document interface.
I'm really astonished from the bad decisions they are making since Von Tetzchner left the company. They keep dropping useful features from the browsers and dumbing it down. If they keep the current trend chances it will be dead before release. You don;t need to be a genius to understand that if your users wants a Chrome shell, they'll be using ** Chrome in the first place.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the trend all the browser makers are following these days, and unfortunately neither Mozilla or Google is out of business or even hurting yet. And after all their fuck-ups, Mozilla should be hurting like a son of a bitch... but no, they're big and influential enough that they can fuck their long-time users over by dumbing it down endlessly, and it's just business as usual.
I was under the impression from reading TFA that this is about the media companies, Hollywood and friends (okay, assholes is more appropriate...), not software developers. These scumbags are some of the worst for trying to manipulate various laws, including copyright, for their own gain at the expense of everyone else. This is just a new low. And by low, I mean fucking l-o-w. This is ridiculous. It's stealthy trespassing, privacy invasion, vandalism and all kinds of other nasty shit all rolled into one.
I mean, come the fuck on... they want it to be legal to infiltrate people's private networks with worms, trojans, rootkits, etc.? They want to compromise the security of private networks and computers around the world, as long is it's not theirs and it benefits them? They want to be able to legally fucking use my own computer's camera to take pictures of me in my own private property? What the fuck? They can go fuck themselves up the ass, sideways, with a serrated knife.
Seriously, this is the kind of shit that if anyone does, it's an open invitation for the FBI to come knocking on your door, arresting your ass on the spot, and setting you up for some serious charges and prison time. And these companies want to be able to do this themselves without getting caught... but for it to remain illegal for anyone "else" who isn't them? I'm amazed at this bullshit. Everyone that is a part of this idea and the MPAA in general: FUCK YOU.
...there exists a virus that can reproduce and spread from one host to another. What an amazing scientific discovery!
Tests Show That Deadly New Flu Could Spread Among People
Something tells me that they're using the term "deadly" just for sensationalism as usual, in the same way that they're making it seem like such a big deal as if it's breaking news that a virus is capable of spreading from human to human...
My old '97 Chevy had both gauges on its speedometer. Maybe that just says something about Ford more than anything...
Which scale? The big one? or the little one?
The one up your ass. If you're trying to be funny, you're failing miserably.
Why would you bother to convert anything? Just look at the damn speedometer, it's right in front of you. Maybe you should fail your driving test if you don't know how to read the speedometer correctly... which is labeled with both units of measurements. It's not much different than the majority of thermometers in U.S. stores are dual-labeled with degrees in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
"55 MPH" seems fine to me. I don't have a problem with adding KPH readings to the signs, but if they want to claim that they are truly "bilingual" with measurements, then having both MPH and KPH would make the most sense...
But you see, it was a joke. That game was trash, completely unable to live up to over a decade's worth of expectations. Hell, even if it was released in the early 2000s it would have still sucked.
Done. I just earlier did a search for Jabber's web site to get some more information. Had some serious trouble trying to get logged in with Pidgin (some vague "connection errors"... I accidentally used @jabber.com instead of @jabber.net... duh). Once I tried and got logged in with no problem using Kopete, I finally realized the problem and I'm now able to log in with Pidgin too.
I'll see how this goes. The one advantage Google Talk had was that if a person's e-mail address was known, so was their instant messaging username. While Jabber loses that, it is cool that they don't even ask for an e-mail address upfront. This can come in handy, because I know some people are more likely to be afraid of something and more reluctant to try it out if their e-mail address is required from the start.
They're already probably getting money by throwing some of my personal information in a blender and using it in some way so that it nets them some kind of profit. If they want me to see ads too and force me into specific programs or to use a web page, well... goodbye, Google Talk.
I won't touch anything that has anything to do with Facebook with a ten-foot pole.