On another note, Slashdot editors, please stop using the word "stealing" for immaterial right infringements.
On another note, just let it go. The meaning of words change, it's a fact of life. Everyone knows that when someone is accused of "stealing" music acquired digitally, all they did was copy some files, but by the wider community it's still called and classified as stealing. Copyright infringement is perhaps the legal definition of what happened, but as far as definitions go with the layman, it's called stealing and is the least confusing word to use.
Same with hacking vs. cracking. You try subbing in the word "cracking" with what society has defined the word "hacking" to represent and you'll just confuse people unnecessarily.
In other words, since EVERYONE knows what's going on with the usage of the word stealing, even if it's a non-physical product which was copied, there's really nothing to "fix"./mark me Troll if you don't agree, it's the Slashdot way
Spellchecking? Shit, I have a habit of typing the wrong WORD often enough, something a spellchecker doesn't pick up. Besides, if someone focuses on your spelling instead of the content of your post (particularly if it's just one simple mistake), they don't have anything worthwhile to contribute anyway. Plus sometimes the best spelling mistakes make for funny posts.:)
Don't worry about it. Now that I think about it more, this is precisely the dumb UI stuff that Windows SHOULD be bashed about. Normally I'm a bit of a defender of Windows (particularly 7) because it works very well for me and doesn't deserve quite so much criticism, but since I'm used to it I'm perhaps more forgiving if I encounter such crap design decisions.
It's sad to see art become a money game. It destroys everything art is. If you're not doing what to do because you love it and because you feel a deep desire to create something amazing, then you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Art isn't a clock punching cash machine. If that's what someone wants, then, like you said, they should do something else.
I tend to agree. Particularly with gaming, we've seen various titles and game series destroyed and had the life sucked out of them (particularly Call of Duty) because of the corporate business nature of a lot of games these days. But how can you blame them? The CoD games rack up millions of bling bling for Activision - I doubt the suits there give a fuck if they're seen as purveyors of soulless gaming, they'd just turn around and point out (legitimately) that they wouldn't be making such money if no-one was buying them.
You're the one who's full of shit. Microsoft does fix Windows issues - you think those monthly windows updates are just full of zero-bytes? The Ribbon is very popular with non-geeks when used in suitable programs (e.g. Office). Complete denial you guys are. Why do you think Linux use has remained stagnant? YOU IGNORE REALITY.
Meh, they'll be at best ignored and at worst marked "WONTFIX".
The Linux community is probably the worst community you'll find on the net, despite thinking themselves one of the bets. The level of closed-mindedness there is frightning. To think I believed Linux actually had a chance on the desktop with these idiots!
Really? What the fuck are people doing that causes their machines to become so infected these days? My wife never, EVER has viruses or malware or any such bullshit because she learnt the value of being sensible on the net, letting things like Adobe Flash allow themselves to be updated when prompted (and not just click cancel to get rid of the window quicker), and etc.
Viruses aren't a problem at all if you employ some common sense. I agree that common sense with computers is rather rare, but it can be learnt and as such I have a low tolerance for anyone who can't seem to remain uninfected. Even my parents don't get infected and I set all three of them with Windows 7. Are you saying the people in your life are idiots?
As for drivers/anti-virus, all you have to do is organize your shit. Put aside a folder for installers, drivers and keys, so that in the event of a reformat you have everything you need. Very clean and efficient, and then you can get back to gaming in an operating system that actually supports the games you want to play!:)
If you're ready to calm down and stop raging for a moment, I can give you your answer:
Right click desktop -> Personalize -> Window Color (bottom of window) -> Advanced appearance settings...
So there you go - Windows 7 still has the feature to change individual font sizes. People like to bash Windows before actually bothering to investigate if there's a solution. Having said that I will give you the benefit of the doubt here - there's absolutely no reason why the method for changing system fonts should be accessed through a button marked "Window Color". Very bad design there.
I think most people are aware that Linux Mint is just a customized version of Ubuntu. Nothing special in that regard. However, the reason Mint is so popular is because it has something very important that a lot of people desire - sensible defaults.
Sure, you can take a stock Ubuntu installation and replace Unity with MATE/Cinnamon, install additional codecs, move the window buttons to the left so that you don't have to readjust your muscle memory and so on, but Linux Mint has this performed for you out of the box. It also has other changes like an absence of purple in the GRUB, Plymouth and login/desktop screens, which might seem petty but the Mint color scheme whilst grey and somewhat boring, feels far more professional and less garish. Once again, chances you can make if you know how with Ubuntu, but Mint is already preset with them for you.
Mint feels like a distro where the developers aren't interested in futzing around with challenging traditional UI perceptions, and would instead rather provide a distro based on a (reasonably) solid foundation which anyone can use which still looks nice and doesn't force you to relearn how to perform efficiently in a foreign UI. The motivation for Canonical is to be on as many devices as possible - the motivation for the Mint team is to make a usable Linux distro for computers with as few hindrances as possible.
Indeed. The haters like to pull out the Ernie Ball story every now and then to show someone standing up to Microsoft, but the pathetic thing is that it's the only real high-profile story out there. Maybe there's a reason for that.
Meh. The story is specifically about pirating software, not media. I bet most people who don't pirate software anymore and are proud of their F/OSS habits are probably big piraters of movies, music and TV shows (because you know, the MPAA/RIAA suck and so they deserve it apparently). But I'm just a bit irritated by that group so my apologies if I seem like a dick.
Simple - why settle for "good-enough" when you can get the best by pirating? Why bother to learn the GIMP and have limited support for the scattering of users out there when you can obtain Photoshop and be a part of the largest community around. Why settle for LibreOffice when you can use Office 2010 and not have to worry ever again about compatibility of file formats used by the overwhelming majority of people? And for what it's worth, you still can't vertically align in LibreOffice easily whereas in Word it's a couple of clicks. Why deal with the bullshit of Linux distros when I can pirate Windows 7 and enjoy something with far more polish and support?
The way you phrased your comment, you're stating something as fact and without any basis. There are a LOT of deficiencies in free software, not that there aren't plenty of people who would rather ignore this because they personally haven't come across them./fucking Slashdot, you're all idiots
The editors here at Slashdot know a lot of people here don't like Facebook for various reasons. It's one thing to put a post regarding the Facebook IPO, but putting such a non-story like this here suggests Slashdot editors either don't know their audience... or that they DO know their audience and expect a flamewar, increasing comment count and hence views and so on.
This is what other shitty websites do to keep getting attention. Surely Slashdot doesn't have to troll as well.
Oh and to paraphrase Sideshow Bob, I'm aware of the irony of posting on Slashdot in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
I use Xming and PuTTy for a similar role. Basically the only real reason I do it is because I'm too lazy to walk over to the lab to run the Linux tools myself.:)
This story sounds kinda like it was posted on Slashdot basically to get people to say "Go Google! Suck on that Microsoft!", thereby retaining the status quo and ensuring continued readership.
I have been a/.er for a long time but the rubbish AC comments and the Redmond Shills have made me not want to read here often anymore.
I have been a/. for a long time (first anon, now with accounts that get thrown away after a while and new ones created for various reasons), but the rubbish AC comments and the Linux Zealots who don't listen to complaints about their precious little OS and are completely detached from reality, have made me not want to read here often anymore.
But there ARE some people who do post who are intelligent, and those comments are worth browsing. But I only do so at 4+ moderation.
How does a hardware vendor provide drivers for a kernel with a driver ABI that breaks every 6 months? How the hell does that hardware vendor even know what version of the kernel the target users will even be running?
Well now, the typical response from the FOSS advocate would be that the hardware vendor should stop supplying proprietary binary blobs and instead open source their drivers such that they can be included in the kernel.
Of course, this requires extra work and effort (plus having to get legal to determine what is in the code which cannot be open sourced due to the use of external code from another source), work that they don't have to worry about with Windows and OS X, and for such a tiny market share they'd be hard pressed to wonder why they'd bother.
...and yet it's still perfectly fine for 95% of users.
I bet most of those people don't know any better. Once you get used to Windows 7 and are shown by someone knowledgeable about how it can do things better, you realize how old-tech XP really is. I have yet to meet anyone in the flesh (i.e. anyone apart from Linux nerds) who actually prefers XP over 7. Just my experience.
Pornography is nice. It's one of the basic human instincts.
Yes, but unfortunately the pornographic industry is rather, well, scummy and sleazy. Oh sure they've got their rules and regulations and try to keep their performers clean, but it is known to be an industry which will take the young and pretty and squeeze the life out of them, progressively making them do worse and worse things if they want to continue being a part of the industry and, ultimately, finding themselves worn out and undesirable and with significant problems once they leave and try to get a real career.
Having said that, like most people I'm aware of this but am able to compartmentalize things, so it doesn't bother me enough to not look at porn.
"Now mostly retired, but doing a little video work for Slashdot" A little eh? I have nothing against you Rob, you can make these videos as often as you like, but since you're now affiliated with Slashdot could you please request on behalf of its (remaining) users to have these videos put in the Slashdot TV section, where they belong? Virtually everyone hates them here because they're basically ads, and so any redeeming qualities go out the window.
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People didn't forget anything. Windows 7 just doesn't have the bloatness and sluggishness that Vista...
Oh, you're trolling. My bad.
On another note, just let it go. The meaning of words change, it's a fact of life. Everyone knows that when someone is accused of "stealing" music acquired digitally, all they did was copy some files, but by the wider community it's still called and classified as stealing. Copyright infringement is perhaps the legal definition of what happened, but as far as definitions go with the layman, it's called stealing and is the least confusing word to use.
Same with hacking vs. cracking. You try subbing in the word "cracking" with what society has defined the word "hacking" to represent and you'll just confuse people unnecessarily.
In other words, since EVERYONE knows what's going on with the usage of the word stealing, even if it's a non-physical product which was copied, there's really nothing to "fix". /mark me Troll if you don't agree, it's the Slashdot way
Spellchecking? Shit, I have a habit of typing the wrong WORD often enough, something a spellchecker doesn't pick up. Besides, if someone focuses on your spelling instead of the content of your post (particularly if it's just one simple mistake), they don't have anything worthwhile to contribute anyway. Plus sometimes the best spelling mistakes make for funny posts. :)
Off topic, but I think the above post is an excellent example of how the lack of Unicode support in Slashdot is still retarded.
Don't worry about it. Now that I think about it more, this is precisely the dumb UI stuff that Windows SHOULD be bashed about. Normally I'm a bit of a defender of Windows (particularly 7) because it works very well for me and doesn't deserve quite so much criticism, but since I'm used to it I'm perhaps more forgiving if I encounter such crap design decisions.
I tend to agree. Particularly with gaming, we've seen various titles and game series destroyed and had the life sucked out of them (particularly Call of Duty) because of the corporate business nature of a lot of games these days. But how can you blame them? The CoD games rack up millions of bling bling for Activision - I doubt the suits there give a fuck if they're seen as purveyors of soulless gaming, they'd just turn around and point out (legitimately) that they wouldn't be making such money if no-one was buying them.
You're the one who's full of shit. Microsoft does fix Windows issues - you think those monthly windows updates are just full of zero-bytes? The Ribbon is very popular with non-geeks when used in suitable programs (e.g. Office). Complete denial you guys are. Why do you think Linux use has remained stagnant? YOU IGNORE REALITY.
Heh, OK I take it back. In terms of COMPUTER-related communities then.
Meh, they'll be at best ignored and at worst marked "WONTFIX".
The Linux community is probably the worst community you'll find on the net, despite thinking themselves one of the bets. The level of closed-mindedness there is frightning. To think I believed Linux actually had a chance on the desktop with these idiots!
Really? What the fuck are people doing that causes their machines to become so infected these days? My wife never, EVER has viruses or malware or any such bullshit because she learnt the value of being sensible on the net, letting things like Adobe Flash allow themselves to be updated when prompted (and not just click cancel to get rid of the window quicker), and etc.
Viruses aren't a problem at all if you employ some common sense. I agree that common sense with computers is rather rare, but it can be learnt and as such I have a low tolerance for anyone who can't seem to remain uninfected. Even my parents don't get infected and I set all three of them with Windows 7. Are you saying the people in your life are idiots?
As for drivers/anti-virus, all you have to do is organize your shit. Put aside a folder for installers, drivers and keys, so that in the event of a reformat you have everything you need. Very clean and efficient, and then you can get back to gaming in an operating system that actually supports the games you want to play! :)
If you're ready to calm down and stop raging for a moment, I can give you your answer:
Right click desktop -> Personalize -> Window Color (bottom of window) -> Advanced appearance settings...
So there you go - Windows 7 still has the feature to change individual font sizes. People like to bash Windows before actually bothering to investigate if there's a solution. Having said that I will give you the benefit of the doubt here - there's absolutely no reason why the method for changing system fonts should be accessed through a button marked "Window Color". Very bad design there.
Fucking amateurs. Seriously?
I think most people are aware that Linux Mint is just a customized version of Ubuntu. Nothing special in that regard. However, the reason Mint is so popular is because it has something very important that a lot of people desire - sensible defaults.
Sure, you can take a stock Ubuntu installation and replace Unity with MATE/Cinnamon, install additional codecs, move the window buttons to the left so that you don't have to readjust your muscle memory and so on, but Linux Mint has this performed for you out of the box. It also has other changes like an absence of purple in the GRUB, Plymouth and login/desktop screens, which might seem petty but the Mint color scheme whilst grey and somewhat boring, feels far more professional and less garish. Once again, chances you can make if you know how with Ubuntu, but Mint is already preset with them for you.
Mint feels like a distro where the developers aren't interested in futzing around with challenging traditional UI perceptions, and would instead rather provide a distro based on a (reasonably) solid foundation which anyone can use which still looks nice and doesn't force you to relearn how to perform efficiently in a foreign UI. The motivation for Canonical is to be on as many devices as possible - the motivation for the Mint team is to make a usable Linux distro for computers with as few hindrances as possible.
Indeed. The haters like to pull out the Ernie Ball story every now and then to show someone standing up to Microsoft, but the pathetic thing is that it's the only real high-profile story out there. Maybe there's a reason for that.
Meh. The story is specifically about pirating software, not media. I bet most people who don't pirate software anymore and are proud of their F/OSS habits are probably big piraters of movies, music and TV shows (because you know, the MPAA/RIAA suck and so they deserve it apparently). But I'm just a bit irritated by that group so my apologies if I seem like a dick.
Simple - why settle for "good-enough" when you can get the best by pirating? Why bother to learn the GIMP and have limited support for the scattering of users out there when you can obtain Photoshop and be a part of the largest community around. Why settle for LibreOffice when you can use Office 2010 and not have to worry ever again about compatibility of file formats used by the overwhelming majority of people? And for what it's worth, you still can't vertically align in LibreOffice easily whereas in Word it's a couple of clicks. Why deal with the bullshit of Linux distros when I can pirate Windows 7 and enjoy something with far more polish and support?
The way you phrased your comment, you're stating something as fact and without any basis. There are a LOT of deficiencies in free software, not that there aren't plenty of people who would rather ignore this because they personally haven't come across them. /fucking Slashdot, you're all idiots
The editors here at Slashdot know a lot of people here don't like Facebook for various reasons. It's one thing to put a post regarding the Facebook IPO, but putting such a non-story like this here suggests Slashdot editors either don't know their audience... or that they DO know their audience and expect a flamewar, increasing comment count and hence views and so on.
This is what other shitty websites do to keep getting attention. Surely Slashdot doesn't have to troll as well.
Oh and to paraphrase Sideshow Bob, I'm aware of the irony of posting on Slashdot in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
I use Xming and PuTTy for a similar role. Basically the only real reason I do it is because I'm too lazy to walk over to the lab to run the Linux tools myself. :)
This story sounds kinda like it was posted on Slashdot basically to get people to say "Go Google! Suck on that Microsoft!", thereby retaining the status quo and ensuring continued readership.
I have been a /. for a long time (first anon, now with accounts that get thrown away after a while and new ones created for various reasons), but the rubbish AC comments and the Linux Zealots who don't listen to complaints about their precious little OS and are completely detached from reality, have made me not want to read here often anymore.
But there ARE some people who do post who are intelligent, and those comments are worth browsing. But I only do so at 4+ moderation.
Well now, the typical response from the FOSS advocate would be that the hardware vendor should stop supplying proprietary binary blobs and instead open source their drivers such that they can be included in the kernel.
Of course, this requires extra work and effort (plus having to get legal to determine what is in the code which cannot be open sourced due to the use of external code from another source), work that they don't have to worry about with Windows and OS X, and for such a tiny market share they'd be hard pressed to wonder why they'd bother.
So in 2016 does this mean Rio de Janeiro's gonna have to one-up the Brits? Maybe have a few tactical nukes on standby as a deterrent?
I bet most of those people don't know any better. Once you get used to Windows 7 and are shown by someone knowledgeable about how it can do things better, you realize how old-tech XP really is. I have yet to meet anyone in the flesh (i.e. anyone apart from Linux nerds) who actually prefers XP over 7. Just my experience.
Yes, but unfortunately the pornographic industry is rather, well, scummy and sleazy. Oh sure they've got their rules and regulations and try to keep their performers clean, but it is known to be an industry which will take the young and pretty and squeeze the life out of them, progressively making them do worse and worse things if they want to continue being a part of the industry and, ultimately, finding themselves worn out and undesirable and with significant problems once they leave and try to get a real career.
Having said that, like most people I'm aware of this but am able to compartmentalize things, so it doesn't bother me enough to not look at porn.
According to Rob's personal site: http://www.roblimo.com/
"Now mostly retired, but doing a little video work for Slashdot"
A little eh? I have nothing against you Rob, you can make these videos as often as you like, but since you're now affiliated with Slashdot could you please request on behalf of its (remaining) users to have these videos put in the Slashdot TV section, where they belong? Virtually everyone hates them here because they're basically ads, and so any redeeming qualities go out the window.