The sad thing is that Rob and Company do better on this day. The stories are better written, there are no dupes, and Rob seems to be having fun.
Which is an interesting change from the contempt he has for this site and his customers on most days.
Reading Slashdot is like watching Terri Schiavo die: The head was dead long ago, but the body keeps flopping around imitating the life that was once there.
It's like Linux. You stumble around and beat your head against it until you get the hang of it, then you act all elite and superior on message boards around the internet when you talk about it. After a few days worth of head-scratching on your part, you can arrogantly tell the n00bs to READ THE FUCKING FAQ.
If you're an especially gifted ass, you can write a couple of cryptic HOWTOs that assume that you know EVERYTHING except the subject of the HOWTO.
Down with intuitive interfaces and documentation! This is Open Source. Make sure your neck can support your head.
What would be the best way to illustrate what a software engineer does to a group of primary school kids?
To illustrate, I'd draw a picture of an overweight, pale man with bad facial hair. Next to that, I draw several hundred children with looks of repulsion and disgust, then one kid with glasses with a longing, wistful look on his face.
Then I'd color it with bright primary colors and cel-shade it because cel-shading is fucking RAD.
See, this hurts Microsoft, who is BAD. But it's a Patent, which is BAD.
I'm just trying to figure out what to say so that I agree with CmdrTaco and his friends so that I can have positive karma. Because if I happen to disagree, someone will find all of my posts and mod them down using "overrated" so that they can't be filtered out by meta-mod.
So really, to actually say anything, you need to agree with CmdrTaco, and I'm confused on this one.
I could be completely stupid, but isn't one of the jobs of the BIOS the configuration of the chipset and any embedded devices? For instance, an embedded AGP chipset that "Shares" some of the system RAM for video RAM, or a southbridge with several optional devices that may or may not actually be used on the motherboard.
The many and myriad chipsets out there all have quirks and special setup needs, even in really simple configurations. Chipsets have many registers that may need to be configured based on the layout of the traces on the motherboard - I've seen older VIA chipsets with registers for timing delays and (I think) slew rates on IO pins.
This would require a small army (or a company like, say... oh, I don't know... PHOENIX) to not only sift through the mountains of often crappy documentation to squeeze the most out of the chipset, while keeping the board stable.
If it's a choice between a stable, well-tweaked CLOSED BIOS and an unstable, lowest-common-performance-denominator OPEN BIOS, I'll pick the closed one, thanks.
You're comparing an open-source package (gtkpod) to the commercial distro of ITunes. They're different, but I hope you enjoy the karma for your FUD anyway.
Why is this under "Linux"?
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This applies to a broad range of OSes. It has very little to do with Linux directly.
Wait, oh, now it's better. Reload... oh, it sucks again... reload... oh it's better now.
Christ, for a whining pro-open-souce bitch, you sure suck at web coding.
Why I think I'll give you money so that I can read dupes and your retarded biased editing! Oh, and have to refresh pages so they are readable! Yes! That sounds like a great idea!
You've become the Fox News of the internet. Your "news articles" could be plugs for your own personal bias (or to line the pockets of your advertisers), and the quality of the editing (duplicate stories, broken and untested links) continues to decline.
Perhaps if you guys spent less time using your unlimited mod points to sqash opposing points of view (we all know it's you guys modding things down as "overrated"), and more time actually dupe-checking and proofreading your news "articles", you might actually become relevant?
But I suppose when your parent company, in dire financial straits, forces you to hamfistedly type up an "article" so that their executives can drive the BMWs for three more days this month, you have no choice but to obey.
Good going, guys. I'm glad all the money you guys are getting for "subscribers" is going to good use.
Why don't you just start DELETING posts and BANNING users you don't like? Do you really believe you're not censoring them? This site is one big biased circlejerk anyway... why not go the whole way and start purging the "trolls" (your cute name for "PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE")?
It runs an Open Source OS, and still doesn't include Ogg Vorbis support. Way to go, iRiver!
You're really iPissing off the iNerds with your iPod-iKiller, iRiver! You'd better iCut it iOut!
This thing smacks of conspicuous consumption - even more than iPods-as-status-symbols.
We don't need color screens. We don't need gimmicks. We want a simple, relatively cheap music player that supports a broad range of popular formats (and is extensible). Put one together for $100, and you'll sell a billion.
Actually, Einstein encouraged the US to develop an atomic bomb, because he feared the Germans were far ahead of the Americans. While he did not approve of its use, he saw the deterrent value of an atomic weapon, and was well aware that it would probably be used eventually.
It turns out the Germans had sqandered their lead in atomic research, allowing the Americans to develop and test an atomic bomb first. After Germany's collapse, and the realization that Japan would never surrender (fighting with religious fervor to the last man, woman and child), the Americans decided to use the weapon in the Pacific to force Japan to unconditional surrender.
Joe Gamer will be told to fix the patch himself, or encounter condescending jerks telling him everything but a workable solution on forums across the web. He may find a HOWTO, but will be discouraged when he realizes all the HOWTOs are written for computer science majors who are familiar with every other aspect of GNU/Lunix EXCEPT the subject of the HOWTO.
So instead of being able to use Lunix as he wishes, he'll have to deal with an annoying kluge until he either gets tired of it and gives up or the weekly version upgrade of package X and dependent package Y stumble on a fix.
That comment was both witty and completely unpredictable. You should've logged in to post it so that you could bathe in the +1 moderation points you so richly deserve.
Thanks to you and posters like you, this site is a relevant and innovative utopian ideal that puts the lie to the argument that Lunix nerds are unfunny, emotionally-stunted zealots.
This wasn't a quote from any leader; its from a retired Navy airman who was hit in the eye with a laser during a recon mission and is arguing with the Navy Appeals committee to try and get a purple heart for it.
In other words, he has a vested interest in making the incident sound as scary and threatening as possible.
So he'll be running for president in, oh, about 30 years then as a "Decorated War Hero". Cool.
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"Red Hat and Novell... will help qualify and distribute the superset RealPlayer 10 with their upcoming Linux desktop offerings. "
I can only assume that means that RealPlayer and its horribly bloated, slow, and low-quality codecs will be freely available for even Lunix now. If the player is GPLed, some of its shittastic behavior will be removed, but in the end it's still Real, and will NEVER EVER find its way onto another one of the machines I control.
Now I can have a bloated, shitty piece of software on my Lunix machine too! I sure hope Real puts software in 10,000 different folders all across my file system, since I love it's crappy codec so.
Instead of the "security through obscurity" (using a niche OS) way you've gone.
How about a NATting router? They're really cheap, and you could use the time you spent selecting packages and dealing with dependencies giving her a quick education on how to properly use email and the web.
Well said. I'm sorry that your karma will take a beating for it.
Slashdot has long since stopped being a positive force for OSS, and has become a bunch of elitist nerds bashing on Microsoft. It's impossible to get anything like a rational discussion about this -- might as well have posted it under Humor instead.
Rob and Company are just in it for the FUD now, apparently. I've got the karma to prove it.
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The sad thing is that Rob and Company do better on this day. The stories are better written, there are no dupes, and Rob seems to be having fun.
Which is an interesting change from the contempt he has for this site and his customers on most days.
Reading Slashdot is like watching Terri Schiavo die:
The head was dead long ago, but the body keeps flopping around imitating the life that was once there.
Pull the tube, Rob.
It's like Linux. You stumble around and beat your head against it until you get the hang of it, then you act all elite and superior on message boards around the internet when you talk about it. After a few days worth of head-scratching on your part, you can arrogantly tell the n00bs to READ THE FUCKING FAQ.
If you're an especially gifted ass, you can write a couple of cryptic HOWTOs that assume that you know EVERYTHING except the subject of the HOWTO.
Down with intuitive interfaces and documentation! This is Open Source. Make sure your neck can support your head.
Then I'd color it with bright primary colors and cel-shade it because cel-shading is fucking RAD.
Holy crap, dude. Is your apartment like Gluttony Guy's in Se7en?
See, this hurts Microsoft, who is BAD. But it's a Patent, which is BAD.
I'm just trying to figure out what to say so that I agree with CmdrTaco and his friends so that I can have positive karma. Because if I happen to disagree, someone will find all of my posts and mod them down using "overrated" so that they can't be filtered out by meta-mod.
So really, to actually say anything, you need to agree with CmdrTaco, and I'm confused on this one.
I could be completely stupid, but isn't one of the jobs of the BIOS the configuration of the chipset and any embedded devices? For instance, an embedded AGP chipset that "Shares" some of the system RAM for video RAM, or a southbridge with several optional devices that may or may not actually be used on the motherboard.
The many and myriad chipsets out there all have quirks and special setup needs, even in really simple configurations. Chipsets have many registers that may need to be configured based on the layout of the traces on the motherboard - I've seen older VIA chipsets with registers for timing delays and (I think) slew rates on IO pins.
This would require a small army (or a company like, say... oh, I don't know... PHOENIX) to not only sift through the mountains of often crappy documentation to squeeze the most out of the chipset, while keeping the board stable.
If it's a choice between a stable, well-tweaked CLOSED BIOS and an unstable, lowest-common-performance-denominator OPEN BIOS, I'll pick the closed one, thanks.
I think you mis-spelled "devolved", unless "evolving" can mean "getting progressively lazier and crappier as time goes on".
Why the everliving FUCK would anyone pay to read this shittastically-run site?
You're comparing an open-source package (gtkpod) to the commercial distro of ITunes. They're different, but I hope you enjoy the karma for your FUD anyway.
This applies to a broad range of OSes. It has very little to do with Linux directly.
Wait, oh, now it's better. Reload... oh, it sucks again... reload... oh it's better now.
Christ, for a whining pro-open-souce bitch, you sure suck at web coding.
Why I think I'll give you money so that I can read dupes and your retarded biased editing! Oh, and have to refresh pages so they are readable! Yes! That sounds like a great idea!
You're a useless piece of shit, Rob.
Great job, Rob and Hemos!
You've become the Fox News of the internet. Your "news articles" could be plugs for your own personal bias (or to line the pockets of your advertisers), and the quality of the editing (duplicate stories, broken and untested links) continues to decline.
Perhaps if you guys spent less time using your unlimited mod points to sqash opposing points of view (we all know it's you guys modding things down as "overrated"), and more time actually dupe-checking and proofreading your news "articles", you might actually become relevant?
But I suppose when your parent company, in dire financial straits, forces you to hamfistedly type up an "article" so that their executives can drive the BMWs for three more days this month, you have no choice but to obey.
Good going, guys. I'm glad all the money you guys are getting for "subscribers" is going to good use.
Why don't you just start DELETING posts and BANNING users you don't like? Do you really believe you're not censoring them? This site is one big biased circlejerk anyway... why not go the whole way and start purging the "trolls" (your cute name for "PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE")?
You're an imbicile, Rob.
It runs an Open Source OS, and still doesn't include Ogg Vorbis support. Way to go, iRiver!
You're really iPissing off the iNerds with your iPod-iKiller, iRiver! You'd better iCut it iOut!
This thing smacks of conspicuous consumption - even more than iPods-as-status-symbols.
We don't need color screens. We don't need gimmicks. We want a simple, relatively cheap music player that supports a broad range of popular formats (and is extensible). Put one together for $100, and you'll sell a billion.
Actually, Einstein encouraged the US to develop an atomic bomb, because he feared the Germans were far ahead of the Americans. While he did not approve of its use, he saw the deterrent value of an atomic weapon, and was well aware that it would probably be used eventually.
It turns out the Germans had sqandered their lead in atomic research, allowing the Americans to develop and test an atomic bomb first. After Germany's collapse, and the realization that Japan would never surrender (fighting with religious fervor to the last man, woman and child), the Americans decided to use the weapon in the Pacific to force Japan to unconditional surrender.
The way they always do: arrogantly.
Joe Gamer will be told to fix the patch himself, or encounter condescending jerks telling him everything but a workable solution on forums across the web. He may find a HOWTO, but will be discouraged when he realizes all the HOWTOs are written for computer science majors who are familiar with every other aspect of GNU/Lunix EXCEPT the subject of the HOWTO.
So instead of being able to use Lunix as he wishes, he'll have to deal with an annoying kluge until he either gets tired of it and gives up or the weekly version upgrade of package X and dependent package Y stumble on a fix.
You realize it's the UV rays that cause the tanning in the first place, right?
I hate to be pedantic, but on Slashdot it's a requirement. When in Rome...
That comment was both witty and completely unpredictable. You should've logged in to post it so that you could bathe in the +1 moderation points you so richly deserve.
Thanks to you and posters like you, this site is a relevant and innovative utopian ideal that puts the lie to the argument that Lunix nerds are unfunny, emotionally-stunted zealots.
Bravo.
Leaving Windows is like going Gay (Mac) or Asexual (Linux). Have fun in the sexual fringes, writing-a-letter-to-your-OS-guy.
So he'll be running for president in, oh, about 30 years then as a "Decorated War Hero". Cool.
Ground Floor, people
Not Enough bugs.
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Hey, now YOU'RE mucking with the timeline. Berman's Disease is spreading! Lock up your cats!
Well they say
... will help qualify and distribute the superset RealPlayer 10 with their upcoming Linux desktop offerings. "
"Red Hat and Novell
I can only assume that means that RealPlayer and its horribly bloated, slow, and low-quality codecs will be freely available for even Lunix now. If the player is GPLed, some of its shittastic behavior will be removed, but in the end it's still Real, and will NEVER EVER find its way onto another one of the machines I control.
Now I can have a bloated, shitty piece of software on my Lunix machine too! I sure hope Real puts software in 10,000 different folders all across my file system, since I love it's crappy codec so.
Instead of the "security through obscurity" (using a niche OS) way you've gone.
How about a NATting router? They're really cheap, and you could use the time you spent selecting packages and dealing with dependencies giving her a quick education on how to properly use email and the web.
WHAT
Well said. I'm sorry that your karma will take a beating for it.
Slashdot has long since stopped being a positive force for OSS, and has become a bunch of elitist nerds bashing on Microsoft. It's impossible to get anything like a rational discussion about this -- might as well have posted it under Humor instead.
Rob and Company are just in it for the FUD now, apparently. I've got the karma to prove it.