You know this for a fact eh? How, by hearing people parrot it all day on/.?
Vista is actually not a nightmare AT ALL. You WANT it to be a nightmare, it makes you feel good, just saying it gives you a sense of power and belonging.
About 99% of all the "nightmare" FUD spread about Vista on/. is complete and utter crap, and it is ROUTINELY debunked ON/.!
And yet you and a god awful nimber of people here continue to believe what they WANT to believe in complete opposition to the facts.
If Vista is a nightmare then then transition from 9x to 2k/xp upgrade was a "nightmare". The trasition from OS 9 to OS X was a nightmare, and the transition from ANY linux distro to any OTHER Linux distro or from any OS TO Linux is also a "nightmare".
So lets all go back to the mainframe UNIX days and live happily ever after never having to deal with upgrades or possibly not finding a driver for a piece of hardware that used to work on our OLD OS just fine...
I will tell you one fact. Macs break down in hardware and software just as often as any other machine does. The total numbers of repairs ore OF COURSE much smaller than PCs. but incidents PER MACHINE they are equal.
Everything else is just plain BS and in every case has been shot down RIGHT HERE. Next time try reading ALL the comments and keep your mind open a crack at least...
How can you "use" GPL2 whern the code you are trying to "use" is all GPL3?
You CANNOT link, talk to, sit next to, or spit at any GPL3 code with any GPL2 code that you may WANT to use or release. As soon as everything moves to GPL3, GPL2 is NOT an option on Linux any more.
When you drop a LiPo battery you are supposed to stop using it. I wonder just how many people do that?
I bet... none.
That's called "Consumer Negligence".
Same with charging laptops buried int the blankets on your bed or immediately after retreiving it from the car where the temp was 140 deg... the list goes on and on and on.
LiPo's and older Li-Ion batteries are SO amazingly unstable outside a very VERY narrow range of temps and charge states not to mention physically "fragile", they probably really shouldn't be allowed to be used by a "consumer" at all...
Google has been evil for years. But as they are like one of the "Darlings of Slashdot" such opinions are rare here, but not elsewhere! Google for "Google is Evil" hand have some fun. THey have done SO MANY evil things so far.. it's just mind boggling. (Yes yes I get it) The street level photography for Google Maps has really been over the edge. Their desktop search and Gmail are INSANELY evil. And before you say that other people do it too, remember, isn't google supposed to "Do no evil?" Does merely SAYING that mean anything they do MUST NOT BE EVIL?
But beyond that they seem to seriously be fragmenting. Their Search engine has become more and more useless as people are gaming it to DEATH and it's now filled bilions of stale stale and useless references. At this point I find Google's results to be more filled with garbage than any other engine.
And while they are off creating useless software bundles for no real reason and trying to buy airwave spectrum, they are completely ignoring their search engine. Been to ask.com lately? Google is going to find itself being left behind as they have lost their way and their one real claim to fame seems to have grown dangerously stagnent.
GUI builders are not IDEs they are one of MANY components to a real IDE.
An actual IDE takes care of GUI design, code editing, debugging, project management, documentation, source control and on and on. And they are scripted environments with plug-in interfaces, compilers and debuggers source control front entds etc. so that you can choose what programs you want to use for what tasks.
That is an Integrated Devlopment Environment. Admitedly IDEs are not for everyone but as this is the subject...
Visual Studio is hardly "perfect" but it is BY FAR in advace of/anything/ I've used on Linux that calls itself an "IDE".
Since when does "Promoting Linux" mean completely ignoring any and all Linux short comings and lying about it's state of usability or interoperability? "Everything is great! Better than everything else in every way!"
If you can't even recognise or admit your own flaws, you will NEVER advance or succeed. This head in the sand philosophy is 10x worse than in the Microsoft camp. Where do you think that will eventually lead?
LinuxWorld could be the very best Linux news/Opion source there is for Linux. Kudos for them to be the ONE PLAYER to tel it like it is. It may be hard to swallow sometimes but you have to listen and observe with an open mind in order to improve.
Wow, someone else that missed the point utterly...
Did even one single person RTFM?
Dude, IBM is USING SL as a buisness tool, they HAVE to have employees going there. They are regulating what the employees are allowed to do there when on as emploees doing their job and representing IBM as a company.
There also apparently happened to be some no-nonsense "good advice" for people tjhat were otherwise completely new to this kind of thing which might help them/if they choose/ when they get on as alternate private characters after work.
They are both giving good advice to their potentially noob employees about how to interact on line at ANY time, but then have specific guidlines that must be followed "When representing the company in a virtual world".
Where is the moderation for the article or better yet, the editor?!?!?
All we can do is rate each other into oblivion,/. should allow us to do the same to them if they had any balls. Article rating -5 Pure Drivel, editor rating -5 Ineffective. It should have dissapeard from the front page in minutes where it never belonged in the first place.
/. has seriously been sliding lately, anti-Vista hysteria is reaching a hysterical level. "First they make fun of you...", it applies both directions.
But I believe this "article" just may be/. jumping the shark. It is pure tin foil hat BS. 100% prime grade A bull flop and/. puts it up like they are the Onion or the National inquirer. It's not 04/01 is it? Grasping for ANY reason to reidicule those we don;t like. Even when it's pure slander.
Maybe we've been trolled? Nah, "Never attribute to malace that which can better be explained by stupidity". Editors are at least supposed to be smart enough to not be taken in by such utter nonsense./., it's your choice, down hill or up from here. This is dangerously low already...
Huh, I think you just proposed a new loop-hole to be closed in GPLv4.
Create an open source stub that links to a GPLed library or other GPL code. Communicate to it through a "settings file" and you've "linked" non-GPLled proprietary appliance code back to GPLEd code without having to release your source again?
You do realize that you are not actually "saving money" right? As far as the ntire system goes, using it is a wash at best. The 2$ you save on one item is taken back on the others being higher priced than they should be.
If you DON'T use the card its more like you are being ripped off severely! So at best you are trading privacy for being screwed at the register.
One common tactic I've noticed on items I buy every week is that when they want to raise the price on somethihing they raise the pricer severely (like 50 cents on a 3 dollar item) then immediately give it a card discount down to maybe 10 cents lower than the original price. Then a week or two later the discount is gone and suddenly the every day price is 50 cents higher than it was before and remains that way till they raise it again.
The store cards are just ways of them playing with you from multiple angles while making you FEEL like you are getting "a deal", NONE of which is good for you in the end:(
You don't need a router, any passive Eathernet hub (or several) will suffice for a smallish (50 or so) multimachine ipv6 network or a network of any other protocol of your choosing. And yeah if you want to connect to the net with an eathernet decvice yes, but if you areusing a machine as a gateway/firewall then yo can have IPv6 internally (you know for fun) and IPv4 externally.
Do you know what "software" is? It is any code, program, text, or data file including music, movies or anything else used on any and all "operating system"s and "embedded device"s including computers, tape players, DVD players or any other similar device.
There are no other use for encrytion keys whatsoever except for use on the "only" use you described as being the one that you would have to give up your keys for! Securing ("restricting") "software" on "devices" or "OSes".
You basicly answered "yes you will have to give up your encryption keys always".
You might want to narrow that statement down to something meaningful...
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Vista is a nightmare?
/.?
/. is complete and utter crap, and it is ROUTINELY debunked ON /.!
You know this for a fact eh? How, by hearing people parrot it all day on
Vista is actually not a nightmare AT ALL. You WANT it to be a nightmare, it makes you feel good, just saying it gives you a sense of power and belonging.
About 99% of all the "nightmare" FUD spread about Vista on
And yet you and a god awful nimber of people here continue to believe what they WANT to believe in complete opposition to the facts.
If Vista is a nightmare then then transition from 9x to 2k/xp upgrade was a "nightmare". The trasition from OS 9 to OS X was a nightmare, and the transition from ANY linux distro to any OTHER Linux distro or from any OS TO Linux is also a "nightmare".
So lets all go back to the mainframe UNIX days and live happily ever after never having to deal with upgrades or possibly not finding a driver for a piece of hardware that used to work on our OLD OS just fine...
I will tell you one fact. Macs break down in hardware and software just as often as any other machine does. The total numbers of repairs ore OF COURSE much smaller than PCs. but incidents PER MACHINE they are equal.
Everything else is just plain BS and in every case has been shot down RIGHT HERE. Next time try reading ALL the comments and keep your mind open a crack at least...
How can you "use" GPL2 whern the code you are trying to "use" is all GPL3?
You CANNOT link, talk to, sit next to, or spit at any GPL3 code with any GPL2 code that you may WANT to use or release. As soon as everything moves to GPL3, GPL2 is NOT an option on Linux any more.
Whee is the OpenGL sound, video, networking and controller APIs? Oh right, there aren't any.
DirectX is 10 times the functionality of OpenGL, it's an entire game development platform.
Game developers would LOVE TO DEATH to use a cross PC platform game development API with the strength and maturity of DirectX... there just isn't one.
When you drop a LiPo battery you are supposed to stop using it. I wonder just how many people do that?
I bet... none.
That's called "Consumer Negligence".
Same with charging laptops buried int the blankets on your bed or immediately after retreiving it from the car where the temp was 140 deg... the list goes on and on and on.
LiPo's and older Li-Ion batteries are SO amazingly unstable outside a very VERY narrow range of temps and charge states not to mention physically "fragile", they probably really shouldn't be allowed to be used by a "consumer" at all...
So "Open Source" now means it has to compile and run on all platforms?!?!?
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Google has been evil for years. But as they are like one of the "Darlings of Slashdot" such opinions are rare here, but not elsewhere! Google for "Google is Evil" hand have some fun. THey have done SO MANY evil things so far.. it's just mind boggling. (Yes yes I get it) The street level photography for Google Maps has really been over the edge. Their desktop search and Gmail are INSANELY evil. And before you say that other people do it too, remember, isn't google supposed to "Do no evil?" Does merely SAYING that mean anything they do MUST NOT BE EVIL?
But beyond that they seem to seriously be fragmenting. Their Search engine has become more and more useless as people are gaming it to DEATH and it's now filled bilions of stale stale and useless references. At this point I find Google's results to be more filled with garbage than any other engine.
And while they are off creating useless software bundles for no real reason and trying to buy airwave spectrum, they are completely ignoring their search engine. Been to ask.com lately? Google is going to find itself being left behind as they have lost their way and their one real claim to fame seems to have grown dangerously stagnent.
GUI builders are not IDEs they are one of MANY components to a real IDE.
/anything/ I've used on Linux that calls itself an "IDE".
An actual IDE takes care of GUI design, code editing, debugging, project management, documentation, source control and on and on. And they are scripted environments with plug-in interfaces, compilers and debuggers source control front entds etc. so that you can choose what programs you want to use for what tasks.
That is an Integrated Devlopment Environment. Admitedly IDEs are not for everyone but as this is the subject...
Visual Studio is hardly "perfect" but it is BY FAR in advace of
What are you talking about?
/.
Linux is rooted ROUTINELY. It just rarely gets reported on in
There was just a giant BSD root festival reported on yesterday.
"Shit like this" happens everywhere and ignoreing it or pretending it doesn't exist on Linux is just plain ignorant.
Heh it's more like how "DVD" used to mean "Digital Video Disk" but got changed to "Digital Versitile Disk" buy the sloaganeering teams...
If you want to trawl though someones personal social pages then the LEAST you can do is sign up for the service. :(
Otherwise you'll have millions of trollers, bots, data harvisters and everything else nasty on the insternet glomming onto it instantly.
But go ahead and build your open social network and see what happens...
Since when does "Promoting Linux" mean completely ignoring any and all Linux short comings and lying about it's state of usability or interoperability? "Everything is great! Better than everything else in every way!"
If you can't even recognise or admit your own flaws, you will NEVER advance or succeed. This head in the sand philosophy is 10x worse than in the Microsoft camp. Where do you think that will eventually lead?
LinuxWorld could be the very best Linux news/Opion source there is for Linux. Kudos for them to be the ONE PLAYER to tel it like it is. It may be hard to swallow sometimes but you have to listen and observe with an open mind in order to improve.
No, the hardware developer might, not the user or the distributer.
Yes but there was NO FUD in the examples given, JUST spin.
So if plain old fasioned Spin is now called FUD, as the article was trying to do, then the OPs comment was spot on.
Wow, someone else that missed the point utterly...
/if they choose/ when they get on as alternate private characters after work.
Did even one single person RTFM?
Dude, IBM is USING SL as a buisness tool, they HAVE to have employees going there. They are regulating what the employees are allowed to do there when on as emploees doing their job and representing IBM as a company.
There also apparently happened to be some no-nonsense "good advice" for people tjhat were otherwise completely new to this kind of thing which might help them
Exactly where did it say it was regulating the private lives of their employees again?
Obviously you didn't RTFM
They are both giving good advice to their potentially noob employees about how to interact on line at ANY time, but then have specific guidlines that must be followed "When representing the company in a virtual world".
It was all very straight forward looking.
Only the client was released, not the sim server (which is prety major) nor the myriad of lesser servers necessary to run a grid.
People are workign on clones but it'll be a very very long road...
Apparently insane intolerance is rule #1 in your perfect world though...
yeah, uh... how?
/. should allow us to do the same to them if they had any balls. Article rating -5 Pure Drivel, editor rating -5 Ineffective. It should have dissapeard from the front page in minutes where it never belonged in the first place.
Where is the moderation for the article or better yet, the editor?!?!?
All we can do is rate each other into oblivion,
/. has seriously been sliding lately, anti-Vista hysteria is reaching a hysterical level. "First they make fun of you...", it applies both directions.
/. jumping the shark. It is pure tin foil hat BS. 100% prime grade A bull flop and /. puts it up like they are the Onion or the National inquirer. It's not 04/01 is it? Grasping for ANY reason to reidicule those we don;t like. Even when it's pure slander.
/., it's your choice, down hill or up from here. This is dangerously low already...
But I believe this "article" just may be
Maybe we've been trolled? Nah, "Never attribute to malace that which can better be explained by stupidity". Editors are at least supposed to be smart enough to not be taken in by such utter nonsense.
Huh, I think you just proposed a new loop-hole to be closed in GPLv4.
Create an open source stub that links to a GPLed library or other GPL code. Communicate to it through a "settings file" and you've "linked" non-GPLled proprietary appliance code back to GPLEd code without having to release your source again?
Quicktime and iTunes for Windows did that LONG ago...
You do realize that you are not actually "saving money" right? As far as the ntire system goes, using it is a wash at best. The 2$ you save on one item is taken back on the others being higher priced than they should be.
:(
If you DON'T use the card its more like you are being ripped off severely! So at best you are trading privacy for being screwed at the register.
One common tactic I've noticed on items I buy every week is that when they want to raise the price on somethihing they raise the pricer severely (like 50 cents on a 3 dollar item) then immediately give it a card discount down to maybe 10 cents lower than the original price. Then a week or two later the discount is gone and suddenly the every day price is 50 cents higher than it was before and remains that way till they raise it again.
The store cards are just ways of them playing with you from multiple angles while making you FEEL like you are getting "a deal", NONE of which is good for you in the end
You don't need a router, any passive Eathernet hub (or several) will suffice for a smallish (50 or so) multimachine ipv6 network or a network of any other protocol of your choosing. And yeah if you want to connect to the net with an eathernet decvice yes, but if you areusing a machine as a gateway/firewall then yo can have IPv6 internally (you know for fun) and IPv4 externally.
"the only keys"?
Do you know what "software" is? It is any code, program, text, or data file including music, movies or anything else used on any and all "operating system"s and "embedded device"s including computers, tape players, DVD players or any other similar device.
There are no other use for encrytion keys whatsoever except for use on the "only" use you described as being the one that you would have to give up your keys for! Securing ("restricting") "software" on "devices" or "OSes".
You basicly answered "yes you will have to give up your encryption keys always".
You might want to narrow that statement down to something meaningful...