yeah no shit develop linux into something that the developer will want to develop and that will be incredibly robust and useful for people that know what they're doing. trying to dumb stuff down for people who won't contribute back to the project is sort of a dead end goal. help it be more attractive for the people who are into it.
well, if mozilla didn't take 2 fuckin' minutes to start up, i would be happy as a clam. pages are starting to load faster, but it's a little insane waiting so long when you want to check out a website or check your mail.
fuck staroffice/openoffice (for now... way too buggy, crashes too much). i use abiword, a damn fine program, for everyday word processing tasks, and i love the thing.
i can use mplayer to watch all kinds of windows only media formats, asf, avi, wmf, you name it. i still can't watch quicktime, but i haven't really looked around too much.
there are plenty of file sharing clones, and if you can't find the one you want, get a job and buy vmware, which runs those damn things all day long if you ask it nicely (and don't try to do too much interaction... it's a little slow). of course, running windows is sort of a cop out, but honest to christ i don't care at all because it can crash all it wants and i can give it the finger and restart the vm.
and hell yeah linux is stable, i can load shit up, load usb stuff, compile mad shit, have mozilla day after day and everything works like cake for 18 days (until i try to switch out of X w/nvidia driver to my framebuffer console and have the display get corrupted... which sort of confuses me since i can switch back and forth hundreds of times before i have a problem)
basically, who gives a rat's ass if other people use linux? do what feels goooood and use what you want. tell people about linux, tell them that you can do crazy shit for 18, 20, 50 days without rebooting, but tell them that they have to want to do it, that they can't just pust OK, Cancel, and Reboot and hope for the best. if they aren't into it, who friggin' cares. kernel development will continue, mozilla development may or may not continue, openoffice development.. has it started yet? (kidding, they're doing a great job.).
I always use Slackware now, I have never used unix before, i never use any package management system, and I am so very, very happy. I guess more than anything I like slack's layout because I really can't imagine installing a slack update due to the fact that I can update everything about it by myself.
I went for this shit, too, until I saw video (from Spanish television no less) showing women beaten in the streets for not fully covering their bodies and being shot in their soccer stadium-cum-executionary. Maybe Bin Laden didn't do this, and maybe Afghanistan is the poorest nation in the world. But Bin Laden is a dick and he's definitely fucked with us enough to warrant a good shoe to the ass. And the Taliban doesn't seem to really have healthy economic development as a high priority. Get rid of their misled oppression and maybe someone else could try a little harder to make a working nation.
I'm not sure if you've ever gone to college or whatever... but my computer programming classes were pretty much taught out of a course pack designed by the instructor and sold at a copy center a few blocks from the university. I didn't even buy the damn book... (I bought K&R for 142 and Stroustrup for 143 instead.)
The point is that the course material *isn't* in the textbooks. Most everything you read in the textbooks is duplicated in lecture through slides or transparencies.
You guys... really... the whole idea behind the web is hypertext. Hypertext with hyperlinks. I mean good god, you're going to http://www.efnet.org/index.html or something, and you'll notice that http and html are both acronyms that deal with hypertext. Hypertext with hyperlinks. Like the one that michael or whoever the hell put on the article that he posted. If efnet's servers can't handle the "/. effect" then they should take the fuckin' things offline. That's just how the world wide web works... by one hypertext page linking to another, and it makes no sense to leave out a link because the guy at the other end can't handle it.
And one more thing... if there's anything it's not, it's not poor journalism. Journalism has nothing to do with being considerate to the other guy by not linking to his stupid website. Slashdot is making things easier for it's users by putting in a damn hyperlink, and you can't deal with it.
What is with you idiots always saying shit like "oooohh look at me say something. let's see how fast it gets modded down." if there was a gaping ass in your post, maybe that would be relevant, but seriously fuckin' get over it.
Who is going to sue them? With the 2600/Ford thing, 2600 is doing something, and Ford is pissed. Nobody gives a damn about Sony making up some movie reviewer (except consumers), and they really don't care enough to sue. The point is that Sony is doing this to themselves, stupid bastards that they are.
my favorite argument for the lack of consideration for efficiency in the qwerty design is the fact that all the letters in the word "typewriter" can be found in the top row.
Actually i use dvorak and do a fair deal of typing in spanish. It's very nice for that, too. I believe i read somewhere that dvorak was designed for all european languages (with compatible character sets) with an emphasis on english. (meaning that other languages were considered in the design)
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damn, you're good! you didn't even realize that there isn't any "article" at all!
i hope not! wouldn't want to ruin it for them, because i'm a UW student and i plan to reserve natural relief for these two fuckers.
yeah no shit develop linux into something that the developer will want to develop and that will be incredibly robust and useful for people that know what they're doing. trying to dumb stuff down for people who won't contribute back to the project is sort of a dead end goal. help it be more attractive for the people who are into it.
You know, that's really the truth. I tried installing Debian, and I ended up using *Slackware* because it was EASIER.
well, if mozilla didn't take 2 fuckin' minutes to start up, i would be happy as a clam. pages are starting to load faster, but it's a little insane waiting so long when you want to check out a website or check your mail.
fuck staroffice/openoffice (for now... way too buggy, crashes too much). i use abiword, a damn fine program, for everyday word processing tasks, and i love the thing.
i can use mplayer to watch all kinds of windows only media formats, asf, avi, wmf, you name it. i still can't watch quicktime, but i haven't really looked around too much.
there are plenty of file sharing clones, and if you can't find the one you want, get a job and buy vmware, which runs those damn things all day long if you ask it nicely (and don't try to do too much interaction... it's a little slow). of course, running windows is sort of a cop out, but honest to christ i don't care at all because it can crash all it wants and i can give it the finger and restart the vm.
and hell yeah linux is stable, i can load shit up, load usb stuff, compile mad shit, have mozilla day after day and everything works like cake for 18 days (until i try to switch out of X w/nvidia driver to my framebuffer console and have the display get corrupted... which sort of confuses me since i can switch back and forth hundreds of times before i have a problem)
basically, who gives a rat's ass if other people use linux? do what feels goooood and use what you want. tell people about linux, tell them that you can do crazy shit for 18, 20, 50 days without rebooting, but tell them that they have to want to do it, that they can't just pust OK, Cancel, and Reboot and hope for the best. if they aren't into it, who friggin' cares. kernel development will continue, mozilla development may or may not continue, openoffice development.. has it started yet? (kidding, they're doing a great job.).
*weeping with joy* you guys... seriously. i love you guys.
I always use Slackware now, I have never used unix before, i never use any package management system, and I am so very, very happy. I guess more than anything I like slack's layout because I really can't imagine installing a slack update due to the fact that I can update everything about it by myself.
I went for this shit, too, until I saw video (from Spanish television no less) showing women beaten in the streets for not fully covering their bodies and being shot in their soccer stadium-cum-executionary. Maybe Bin Laden didn't do this, and maybe Afghanistan is the poorest nation in the world. But Bin Laden is a dick and he's definitely fucked with us enough to warrant a good shoe to the ass. And the Taliban doesn't seem to really have healthy economic development as a high priority. Get rid of their misled oppression and maybe someone else could try a little harder to make a working nation.
A-MEN
i think "Mongo" pointed that out before you did.
I'm not sure if you've ever gone to college or whatever... but my computer programming classes were pretty much taught out of a course pack designed by the instructor and sold at a copy center a few blocks from the university. I didn't even buy the damn book... (I bought K&R for 142 and Stroustrup for 143 instead.)
The point is that the course material *isn't* in the textbooks. Most everything you read in the textbooks is duplicated in lecture through slides or transparencies.
i can't even get the damn toolbar to show up
you must not spend much time looking at porn..
I excluded this blabbering idiot from my homepage on purpose, yet his shit still shows up. What is the deal with that?
1273498134 post!!!
You guys... really... the whole idea behind the web is hypertext. Hypertext with hyperlinks. I mean good god, you're going to http://www.efnet.org/index.html or something, and you'll notice that http and html are both acronyms that deal with hypertext. Hypertext with hyperlinks. Like the one that michael or whoever the hell put on the article that he posted. If efnet's servers can't handle the "/. effect" then they should take the fuckin' things offline. That's just how the world wide web works... by one hypertext page linking to another, and it makes no sense to leave out a link because the guy at the other end can't handle it.
And one more thing... if there's anything it's not, it's not poor journalism. Journalism has nothing to do with being considerate to the other guy by not linking to his stupid website. Slashdot is making things easier for it's users by putting in a damn hyperlink, and you can't deal with it.
VERY poor complaint, dude.
yeah now that they've got everything else working perfectly (???)
What is with you idiots always saying shit like "oooohh look at me say something. let's see how fast it gets modded down." if there was a gaping ass in your post, maybe that would be relevant, but seriously fuckin' get over it.
i know that the student legal aid at our university (university of washington) is restricted from action against the university.
Who is going to sue them? With the 2600/Ford thing, 2600 is doing something, and Ford is pissed. Nobody gives a damn about Sony making up some movie reviewer (except consumers), and they really don't care enough to sue. The point is that Sony is doing this to themselves, stupid bastards that they are.
"The tribe has spoken. You will be required to leave the space station immediately."
Ouch.
man, i think it's pretty much an unspoken rule that you're not supposed to say that you eat that shit.
and plenty in the same color can...
my favorite argument for the lack of consideration for efficiency in the qwerty design is the fact that all the letters in the word "typewriter" can be found in the top row.
Actually i use dvorak and do a fair deal of typing in spanish. It's very nice for that, too. I believe i read somewhere that dvorak was designed for all european languages (with compatible character sets) with an emphasis on english. (meaning that other languages were considered in the design)