What makes you think a Slashdot forum is supposed to constitute "journalism" in the first place?
Slashdot puts the drinks on the bar -- it's up to the users to decide what to do with them.
Also, unless I'm mistaken, all of the deficienies of recent Open Source software had been discussed ad nausium on Slashdot already. If you really pine for Open Source bad news, read the archives.
I'm a 42-year old returning to get my bachelors degree. Believe me, without that "ass-wipe" you don't get past the morons in the human resources department.
Without that "ass-wipe", you get no interviews. Without that "ass-wipe" you have to shake down your friends for leads -- and they have none to give to anyone without "ass-wipe".
"but the U.S. Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire" because of a number of things. They stopped travellers and demanded to see ID/papers/etc. The U.S. is doing that now. They controlled information flow and communications. The U.S. is doing that now."
My main machine is an x86 running Red Hat but I also have an old Mac running Mac OS X.
While I love Linux for its moral integrity and openess, I know that its usability absolutely pales in comparison to the Mac. (Windows does, too, just not as much.)
There has been a lot written recently about why Linux has struggled on the desktop, what areas it has experienced success in, and what the future could be like.
Linux is staggering under the incipid design of the X windowing environment. X has created more problems than it has solved and it has forced developers into all sorts of application kludges and likewise forced users to expect trouble.
It's as though Linux developers are carrying an elephant on their backs. It's a huge burden when compared to Macintosh or Windows developers.
My dream? All those hard working XFree86 developers design a new system from scratch. They're very talented and hard working. They could easily produce something MUCH better than X if they even gave it half a try.
Can someone explain why, with the exception of one singe photograph, I can't see the plane's wings on the booster?
In one shot it's sitting on the launchpad. I know that the wings have a metallic finish and the rocket engines produce a lot of glare, but there are a lot of good clear shots of this thing as it is spiriling oiut of control and in none of the those shots are they visible, even poorly.
I recently went shopping for a new keyboard for my HP Kayak running Red Hat Linux.
I'm a old-school touch typist, so I'm really anal about keyboards.
I spend a lot of time at a CompUSA and a huge Fry's and I got a chance to play with a lot of keyboards.
Short story: Macally iKey (USB).
I know it's a "Mac" keyboard, but the key pitch, throw, and sculpting is the best out there right now.
The only improvement they could make is if they make it white. (I prefer to work in low light.) Also, a touch more "click" feedback would be nice, but all the other boards have as little or less. Macally does make a white ADB keyboard in the same case as the USB, so maybe I'll get my wish someday.
I fucking wish every fucking mother fucker wouldn't fucking use the fucked up fucking word "fuck" so fucking often.
Fuck, I some-fucking-times would fucking like to fucking invite my fucked up friends and fucker relatives to read a fucking slashdot fucking article every fucking now and fucking then, but fuck -- there's too fucking much fucking profanity.
Okay, I've noticed lots of people saying "There will be others that say X sucks..." but no one has, so I will.
X sucks.
X is probably the biggest factor suppressing the flowering of Unix and Linux and their worldwide adoption -- for all the reasons that anyone who has used it already knows about.
It X wasn't around, something much better would be. That is my point.
Omniweb: Used it in the past and found it too slow, although its rendering is gorgeous. I loved the sophisticated control mechanisms it offered for ads, cookies, etc.
I heard that the most recent release was very fast so I downloaded it and tried it today.
It screams!
I certainly beats Internet Explorer and Mozilla.
And the content controls have only improved further. It is without peer.
The topic of this discussion thread concerns me not, at least on my Mac OS X machine.
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There's no record of Darwin ever saying or writing the phrase "survival of the fittest."
Any any rate, he would have been incorrect if he had.
Correct: Survival of the fit enough.
--Richard
>> Jesus fucking Christ.
Lemme guess...
You want to cut into the front of the line going to hell.
What makes you think a Slashdot forum is supposed to constitute "journalism" in the first place?
Slashdot puts the drinks on the bar -- it's up to the users to decide what to do with them.
Also, unless I'm mistaken, all of the deficienies of recent Open Source software had been discussed ad nausium on Slashdot already. If you really pine for Open Source bad news, read the archives.
This is most excellent news...
We knew that this was waiting to happen. As ludicrous as at seems, we all knew that -- sooner or later -- this sort of law suit would be filed.
Legal precidence for this has been establish in the U.S. courts already and the news was very, very good.
I love this. Let's just get this bit of sillyness over and done with.
--Richard
"...a piece of paper valuable only as ass-wipe."
I'm a 42-year old returning to get my bachelors degree. Believe me, without that "ass-wipe" you don't get past the morons in the human resources department.
Without that "ass-wipe", you get no interviews. Without that "ass-wipe" you have to shake down your friends for leads -- and they have none to give to anyone without "ass-wipe".
--Richard
I think that you are right. Apple isn't on Motorola's roadmap anymore - they're only interested in the embedded market.
Even if they were, Motorola's so absolutely fucked up it woundn't be good news for Apple.
--Richard
Puleeeze...
99% of the country couldn't possibly care less that MacWorld is in New York.
What, again?!
A this moment, there's a good selection of PCI video cards to choose from. Go to Fry's.
"Oh well, that's what I get for buying the cheapest hard drive I could find."
Yes, that is exactly what you get. Everyone should learn your lesson: You get what you pay for. Period.
No one will.
I can't wait to get one and hook it up to my Mac!
Huh? Oh, I can't wait to get one to hook to my Linux box!
What?
I guess I can wait.
Yeah, so are sooo right.
The US today is just like cold-war USSR.
I agree.
My main machine is an x86 running Red Hat but I also have an old Mac running Mac OS X.
While I love Linux for its moral integrity and openess, I know that its usability absolutely pales in comparison to the Mac. (Windows does, too, just not as much.)
There has been a lot written recently about why Linux has struggled on the desktop, what areas it has experienced success in, and what the future could be like.
Linux is staggering under the incipid design of the X windowing environment. X has created more problems than it has solved and it has forced developers into all sorts of application kludges and likewise forced users to expect trouble.
It's as though Linux developers are carrying an elephant on their backs. It's a huge burden when compared to Macintosh or Windows developers.
My dream? All those hard working XFree86 developers design a new system from scratch. They're very talented and hard working. They could easily produce something MUCH better than X if they even gave it half a try.
--Richard
A month or two I checked out Bolo, too. I played a game with a friend in Dallas. Before we were done, another guy joined our game.
So, there ARE people still playing.
Bolo is a great game for the same reason all great games are great games: Sound fundamental concept/design.
--Richard
After a long bout of Tetris-playing, it was not unusual for me to dream about playing it the next night.
I asked around and several of my coworkers experienced the same thing. In fact, I think there was a study done of that phenomena.
Can someone explain why, with the exception of one singe photograph, I can't see the plane's wings on the booster?
In one shot it's sitting on the launchpad. I know that the wings have a metallic finish and the rocket engines produce a lot of glare, but there are a lot of good clear shots of this thing as it is spiriling oiut of control and in none of the those shots are they visible, even poorly.
--Richard
I recently went shopping for a new keyboard for my HP Kayak running Red Hat Linux.
I'm a old-school touch typist, so I'm really anal about keyboards.
I spend a lot of time at a CompUSA and a huge Fry's and I got a chance to play with a lot of keyboards.
Short story: Macally iKey (USB).
I know it's a "Mac" keyboard, but the key pitch, throw, and sculpting is the best out there right now.
The only improvement they could make is if they make it white. (I prefer to work in low light.) Also, a touch more "click" feedback would be nice, but all the other boards have as little or less. Macally does make a white ADB keyboard in the same case as the USB, so maybe I'll get my wish someday.
--Richard
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Jordan is not Apple's bitch. He's a grown man. Apple didn't make him do anything - he made up his own mind.
You can grouse about it all you want.
--Richard
I fucking wish every fucking mother fucker wouldn't fucking use the fucked up fucking word "fuck" so fucking often.
Fuck, I some-fucking-times would fucking like to fucking invite my fucked up friends and fucker relatives to read a fucking slashdot fucking article every fucking now and fucking then, but fuck -- there's too fucking much fucking profanity.
It's so fucking irritating.
--Richard
Okay, I've noticed lots of people saying "There will be others that say X sucks..." but no one has, so I will.
X sucks.
X is probably the biggest factor suppressing the flowering of Unix and Linux and their worldwide adoption -- for all the reasons that anyone who has used it already knows about.
It X wasn't around, something much better would be. That is my point.
--Richard
Excellent!
--RP
I just don't see what the problem is here.
Tape the Windows CD-ROM to the bottom of the stupid computer and forget about it!
--Richard
Will I still have to buy the mandatory basic cable television service that I never fucking watch?
--Richard
Omniweb: Used it in the past and found it too slow, although its rendering is gorgeous. I loved the sophisticated control mechanisms it offered for ads, cookies, etc.
I heard that the most recent release was very fast so I downloaded it and tried it today.
It screams!
I certainly beats Internet Explorer and Mozilla.
And the content controls have only improved further. It is without peer.
The topic of this discussion thread concerns me not, at least on my Mac OS X machine.
--Richard