MS has stated that the X-Box will have its own proprietary disk format, X-Box games will not run on PCs and visa versa. the USB ports on the X-Box will also not accept non X-Box devices.
Many game companies port once for console, once for PC
right, and this is the big issue.
the X-Box will not be out until Q3/Q4 of 2001.. this means that :
- at this point the X-Box will be at best equal to existing PCs in game performance (but with a smaller HDD, much less ram and a much slower CPU, i am betting 3d hardware for the PC will improve enough to be on par over the next 18 months.)
- MS completely controls what games can or cannot be released for the X-Box, they have stated they will be more restrictive than Sony about this. a lot of developers will not want to be bothered with going through MS.
so buying an X-Box over buying a PC is a terrible idea, the point of buying a game console is that you can play games that you cannot play on the PC,.. or at least, that are better experienced on a console.
this is almost certainly because you have Mesa installed improperly, and it's doing software rendering rather than hardware. i've run into this problem myself... unfortunately Q3A will only run well if you have a good 3d card set up.. so take care of that and it will run like a champ (i played the Q3A demo under linux and it's sweet as all get-out, and i only have a voodoo2!).. ...dave
you're right, it is shorter. i had read old palm articles saying that they weren't going to go colour until they could achieve 'acceptable' battery life. i'm also used to seeing my friends recharging their palms almost daily;D
the fact is, it's all about your wrist/hand position,.. regardless of how the plastic is shaped there is a right and many wrong ways to make use of any device,.. mouse, keyboard, dildo, whatever. using it improperly repeatedly will result in injury.
i have been typing since i was 2 years old, i use standard, run-of-the-mill $12 keyboards, and since i started paying attention to my typing methods, i no longer get carpal tunnel or any other kind of wrist/hand pains.
"ergonomic" keyboards are incomfortable for me, i have large hands and i often mix what keys my index fingers will type.
i urge everyone to avoid "ergonomic" devices as much as possible,.. succumbing to bullshit marketing ploys only sends the message that we're ripe for more. you can't complain about lies in advertisement when you fall for them yourself. ...dave
if you had bothered to read you would see that they've/extended/ battery life. if you knew anything about palm you'd know they didn't want to put in colour screens until they could a) insure it wouldn't add bulk and b) insure that battery life would still be excellent. ...dave
colour == feature. you wanna still have it in black and white? i'm sure there are still 16 shades of grey within that 256c palette. for the rest of us, this is what i've been waiting for, i haven't bought a palm before because i require colour for it to be worth my money,.. i don't wanna look at some gnasty greenish-grey display all day long, or even for more than 15 minutes.
now i can buy a palm IIIc and make some really spiffy games for it,... that's the whole purpose,.. the thing that is and has been great about palms is that they are elegant, they are small.. they work. colour is not a burden, it is not a problem... it is a very, very good feature.
you are correct that for a bit the quality of pictures went down when colour arrived, but who do we have to blame for that? the lazy studios/directors,.. just as you point out. not the camera manufacturers. so if the quality of palm software goes down, who do we have to blame? palm developers,.. such as yourself.
This is what I was going to ask, I (unlike rambone apparently;) read his FAQ, though and found the following gem :
"Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform. Like Windows, it is a proprietary commercial platform. That is, you can write programs for Windows/Intel or Java/JVM, and in each case you are writing code for a platform owned by a single corporation and tweaked for the commercial benefit of that corporation. It has been pointed out that you can write programs in any language for the JVM and associated operating systems facilities. However, the JVM, etc., are heavily biased in favor of Java. It is nowhere near being a general reasonably language-neutral VM/OS. " -- Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ
this is exactly what i've said all along, i really don't like java. i think it's unnecessary, inefficient and slathered with hype. what we need are simply good compilers that adhere to a single standard, with good libraries that carry over from OS to OS,.. or that are at least similar.
but i don't think mr. stroustrup is the person to bother with these issues. ...dave
Software made for the PSX/N64/Dreamcast has to be licensed by their respective manufacturers.. well approved in some fashion (or else the manufacturer gets pissed off and, well, no publisher wants that, so they always submit games for approval.)
so,.. if one were to make a playstation emulator for the Dreamcast,.. Sega would have to approve it first, and they're not going to do that. so they would have to distribute it without Sega's approval.. now they have Sony AND Sega on their ass...
then you think about the fact that if someone owns a Dreamcast/N64/whatever they very well might own a PSX anyway,.. so really it's better to just target the PC market.
but what i want to know is, does anybody have a hack to get a Dual Shock working on a PC and will this emulator make use of it? ...dave
you started off well then you degraded into mindless grumbling..
ok, linux is too complicated for joe q. user, that's fine. but let's not forget that joe q. user doesn't have a clue what he wants, he is uneducated and inexperienced when it comes to computers. he will take whatever you give him if it seems to work for what he wants to do. look at america on-line. *why* is america on-line popular? because they/tell/ you it is easy to use and the uneducated twinks out there believe it, learn to use it and then run with it.
the truth is, aol is actually much more complicated, kludgey, slow, spammy and shitty than any regular PPP connection -- in windows/or/ linux (redhat has some nice utilities for this.)
there are problems on both ends, linux needs to set-up more smoothly and easily.. it needs better auto-detection (though, Red Hat 6.1 had no problems with any of my hardware,..), etc. but 'users' need to be less lazy.
if some dipshit crashes his car into a tree and claims 'well the car is too complicated to use, the wheel isn't labeled, the pedals are hidden under the dash,.. i can't see whether my turn signal is blinking or not unless i look away from the road,... i have to take my hand away from the wheel to change the a/c! etc.' he'd still be at fault for crashing his car because he is expected to know how to use the complex piece of machinery that he has purchased and is trying to operate.
the same should be true for computers. yes, doing many things in linux requires knowledge that is more detailed than the casual user should need to know,.. but at the same time, there's a point beyond which it's ridiculous to try to simplify anymore. features which just should not be necessary (like the stupid talking paperclip guy in M$ office).. users need to take a certain amount of initiative to understand the system they are dealing with.
i mean jesus christ, people like you make it sound like it's a chore to use your brain. ...dave
now could you step off your moral podium so i can look you in the eye and see if you really are as dumb as you seem?
whether or not he's egotistical and whatever purposes he wrote the tools for, he is NOT to blame for the way they were used. the absence of a punishable offender does not mean we go after the person who wrote the tool(s) of their crime.
if i use a cinderblock to bash your head in for effusing such pin-headed opinions on a public forum (and then getting moderated up to the top of the heap!), should we then go find the manufacturer and yell at him for making a weapon that can be used to kill?
ok, so you say 'but dave, this was a specialized tool that could really only be used for one purpose. he knew how it would be used!' so, ok, i build a guilloteine (i slaughtered the spelling, i know..), but you stick your little sister's neck under it and set the blade on its way.. you are the one who did it, not me.
he probably is an egotistical bastard, i have no clue, i don't know the guy. but he is not to blame and if he is as self-centered as you say, then drawing more attention to him is only serving his purposes. ...dave
Are you planning on buying 'banner-space' to advertise the site? While I had supposed that the candidates may create sites, I was not aware which (if any) had,.. nor the addresses. Frankly, even now, I doubt there's anything useful to be found on them. I can see the potential for such sites, especially if they featured writings by the candidate(s) on different subjects, explaining their stance, and detailed reform policies.
Also if you really want traffic and to win people over, I highly suggest a large quantity of photos of the Gore daughters,.. especially on vacation somewhere with beaches -- oi vey!;) ...dave
...and what makes you think starwars.com is reliable? they will deny all information until the movie is released. usually variety (and other such publications) will qualify any of their statements,.. if you go back and look at the 'offending' articles, i'm sure you will see some such disclaimer.
besides which this is not a secret like episode 2 stuff is,.. stop being paranoid. ...dave
as someone who worked at ford for years, i can assure you that as a company, it is nowhere near organized enough to be using this in a sinister way. i've seen engineers and developers sleeping under their desks, in cubicles, not just offices... where anyone could see them.
it really is a laid-back place (for the most part) and after this recent announcement i almost regret not being there anymore;)
it's too bad the main coverage of it here on/. has to be done by mr. katz, who, once again, amazes us all with his child-like writing.
If Ford's initiative spreads - it should - the Net would rise to a completely different level..clip
i wouldn't point that out except that every single one of katz' features on/. contains these kinds of moronic errors. a single proof-read would catch things like this... (i never fail to notice them on my first read through.)
please, i'm begging you, get some writers that can actually fucking write,.. ...dave
no, really,.. there is no inherent value in any domain name. any value assigned to one is an entirely perceived one. a domain name is only worth what one is willing to pay for it.
if that is really what you meant -- i took it to mean that the person who believes in it classifies it as such -- then it's just as dumb as before, but now because it's so patently obvious.
i have read the new testament. christianity is a pile of bullshit created to help morons live their lives the way they are supposed to in the first place. it's to give you a warm little blanket to wrap around yourself so you don't have to face the harsh reality that we really have no fucking clue how we got here or what we're doing here.
as for respecting people in the KKK,..
They're human-beings and I believe they are making a mistake. They've been taught to hate, and they've collapsed into a depressing abyss that they needs help from escaping. Nobody is inherently hateful, they must learn it.
yes, they are making/have made a mistake; they're ignorant, racist, red-neck, dumbfucks. maybe there are some little kids who've been brought up in the KKK but for the most part, the retards in it are adults. they are responsible for their own horrible attitude. it's very sad that you try to make excuses for it.
children "learn" hate, but once you're an adult, there is no excuse. there's no force keeping you a racist asshole, you can choose. especially in our society where all outside pressure is against it.
i suggest you give up, you're going to lose this argument. i've studied these things a lot more than you have. ...dave
The difference between a mythology and a religion, is that the individual classifies it as such.
this is an ignorant statement. do you think the ancient greeks and romans classified their beliefs as 'mythology'? no. neither did the egyptians or the mayans, et cetera... they believed in their heaping piles of bull manure as much as you do yours.
Katz should have just a slight amount of respect for other religions.
exactly who are you to tell people what they should respect? i really despise jon katz the writer -- because he has absolutely no skill at what he does for a living, and if i were as inept at my job as he is at his, i would be living under a bridge. but, i still won't tell him what he should and should not respect.
i don't respect the KKK, and i definately don't respect christianity (in any form.)
People who make uninformed decisions deserve what they get.
i agree, but the LinuxOne folks do not deserve lots of money for their hoax, and the Linux community does not deserve to be tainted with such a ridiculous scam.
It is futile to try to teach those who dont' want to learn, why bother.
again, i agree, and again, you have missed the point of this whole discussion.
The stupid, immature, public school, god help the workforce part is really classic. Vague allusions to the quality of my post really don't prove anything, and are just useful for distraction.
no, they don't, and i'm not saying to take them to court over it. my point was (and this has grown into a much bigger deal than it deserves) that not including them with the product should not be dismissed as simply as the original author of this thread did.
this is LinuxOne not some trustworthy company who has made source available on their site in the past. their "product" is just a prop anyway! why are you gimps arguing about this?
the source not being there is yet another flaw among the myriad of problems with everything that LinuxOne does.
Quit calling others trolls... it seemed you were the troll, making arguments such as "what if you don't believe in phones?"...
apparently sarcasm is no longer understood. ...dave
Well hey, at least I don't resort to baseless and unimaginative insults against those I don't know. Your point would have been much better if 1) it hadn't been made before and 2) you had actually tried to stick to the issues.
by 'better' you mean, you would have liked it more:) no, that's ok, i am happy with the way it came out, thanks. i was hoping to annoy you enough to get a response, and see whether you were just a slashdot basher or actually had conviction in what you were saying.
My point was that many of us here on Slashdot need to step back sometimes and stop pouncing on every little tidbit that may or may not point to even the most insignificant wrongdoing by Microsoft.
first of all, that was not insignificant. maybe you don't know enough morons, but people listen to polls like that and form their own opinions based on them. there are a lot more stupid people in the world than people like you and i. so, when mikkkrosoft (or any company) tries to pull a bullshit stunt like that, it needs to be pointed out and ridiculed.
I'm afraid I also have to comment on your suggestion that I go form my own non-MS-bashing version of Slashdot. I should point out that the snowball effect could quickly result in thousands of mini-slashdots, which would defeat the whole purpose. The point is the interaction, and you can't interact if you're segregated.
no, read what i said again, i said go form your own non-slashdot-bashing version. i encourage people who like mikkkrosoft to try to justify their insanity,.. if nothing else, it's entertaining. ...dave
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It might very run existing PC games,
MS has stated that the X-Box will have its own proprietary disk format, X-Box games will not run on PCs and visa versa. the USB ports on the X-Box will also not accept non X-Box devices.
Many game companies port once for console, once for PC
right, and this is the big issue.
the X-Box will not be out until Q3/Q4 of 2001.. this means that :
- at this point the X-Box will be at best equal to existing PCs in game performance (but with a smaller HDD, much less ram and a much slower CPU, i am betting 3d hardware for the PC will improve enough to be on par over the next 18 months.)
- MS completely controls what games can or cannot be released for the X-Box, they have stated they will be more restrictive than Sony about this. a lot of developers will not want to be bothered with going through MS.
so buying an X-Box over buying a PC is a terrible idea, the point of buying a game console is that you can play games that you cannot play on the PC,.. or at least, that are better experienced on a console.
the X-box is a pile of crap.
...dave
this is almost certainly because you have Mesa installed improperly, and it's doing software rendering rather than hardware. i've run into this problem myself... unfortunately Q3A will only run well if you have a good 3d card set up.. so take care of that and it will run like a champ (i played the Q3A demo under linux and it's sweet as all get-out, and i only have a voodoo2!)..
...dave
you're right, it is shorter. i had read old palm articles saying that they weren't going to go colour until they could achieve 'acceptable' battery life. i'm also used to seeing my friends recharging their palms almost daily
anyway, yeah it is shorter,..
...dave
the fact is, it's all about your wrist/hand position,.. regardless of how the plastic is shaped there is a right and many wrong ways to make use of any device,.. mouse, keyboard, dildo, whatever. using it improperly repeatedly will result in injury.
i have been typing since i was 2 years old, i use standard, run-of-the-mill $12 keyboards, and since i started paying attention to my typing methods, i no longer get carpal tunnel or any other kind of wrist/hand pains.
"ergonomic" keyboards are incomfortable for me, i have large hands and i often mix what keys my index fingers will type.
i urge everyone to avoid "ergonomic" devices as much as possible,.. succumbing to bullshit marketing ploys only sends the message that we're ripe for more. you can't complain about lies in advertisement when you fall for them yourself.
...dave
i'm sure higher res and better screens, thinner display, more memory, longer battery, faster performance, etc. etc. are all in the works.
patience grasshopper.
...dave
if you had bothered to read you would see that they've
...dave
christ on a crutch man, give it a break.
colour == feature. you wanna still have it in black and white? i'm sure there are still 16 shades of grey within that 256c palette. for the rest of us, this is what i've been waiting for, i haven't bought a palm before because i require colour for it to be worth my money,.. i don't wanna look at some gnasty greenish-grey display all day long, or even for more than 15 minutes.
now i can buy a palm IIIc and make some really spiffy games for it,... that's the whole purpose,.. the thing that is and has been great about palms is that they are elegant, they are small.. they work. colour is not a burden, it is not a problem... it is a very, very good feature.
you are correct that for a bit the quality of pictures went down when colour arrived, but who do we have to blame for that? the lazy studios/directors,.. just as you point out. not the camera manufacturers. so if the quality of palm software goes down, who do we have to blame? palm developers,.. such as yourself.
quit'cher bitchin'.
...dave
the only reason for having a Palm is playing spiffy games on it! of course colour is necessary! sheesh!
...dave
This is what I was going to ask, I (unlike rambone apparently
"Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform. Like Windows, it is a proprietary commercial platform. That is, you can write
programs for Windows/Intel or Java/JVM, and in each case you are writing code for a platform owned by a single corporation and
tweaked for the commercial benefit of that corporation. It has been pointed out that you can write programs in any language for the
JVM and associated operating systems facilities. However, the JVM, etc., are heavily biased in favor of Java. It is nowhere near
being a general reasonably language-neutral VM/OS. " -- Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ
this is exactly what i've said all along, i really don't like java. i think it's unnecessary, inefficient and slathered with hype. what we need are simply good compilers that adhere to a single standard, with good libraries that carry over from OS to OS,.. or that are at least similar.
but i don't think mr. stroustrup is the person to bother with these issues.
...dave
both are owned by nintendo,... hell-o.
...dave
Software made for the PSX/N64/Dreamcast has to be licensed by their respective manufacturers.. well approved in some fashion (or else the manufacturer gets pissed off and, well, no publisher wants that, so they always submit games for approval.)
so,.. if one were to make a playstation emulator for the Dreamcast,.. Sega would have to approve it first, and they're not going to do that. so they would have to distribute it without Sega's approval.. now they have Sony AND Sega on their ass...
then you think about the fact that if someone owns a Dreamcast/N64/whatever they very well might own a PSX anyway,.. so really it's better to just target the PC market.
but what i want to know is, does anybody have a hack to get a Dual Shock working on a PC and will this emulator make use of it?
...dave
let's say i made it just 'coz i wanted to build one,.. i have the right. it doesn't matter why.
i think it might be a good way of fitting weiner-dogs in normal-sized carriers! (ok ok that was a little twisted...
...dave
you started off well then you degraded into mindless grumbling..
ok, linux is too complicated for joe q. user, that's fine. but let's not forget that joe q. user doesn't have a clue what he wants, he is uneducated and inexperienced when it comes to computers. he will take whatever you give him if it seems to work for what he wants to do. look at america on-line. *why* is america on-line popular? because they
the truth is, aol is actually much more complicated, kludgey, slow, spammy and shitty than any regular PPP connection -- in windows
there are problems on both ends, linux needs to set-up more smoothly and easily.. it needs better auto-detection (though, Red Hat 6.1 had no problems with any of my hardware,..), etc. but 'users' need to be less lazy.
if some dipshit crashes his car into a tree and claims 'well the car is too complicated to use, the wheel isn't labeled, the pedals are hidden under the dash,.. i can't see whether my turn signal is blinking or not unless i look away from the road,... i have to take my hand away from the wheel to change the a/c! etc.' he'd still be at fault for crashing his car because he is expected to know how to use the complex piece of machinery that he has purchased and is trying to operate.
the same should be true for computers. yes, doing many things in linux requires knowledge that is more detailed than the casual user should need to know,.. but at the same time, there's a point beyond which it's ridiculous to try to simplify anymore. features which just should not be necessary (like the stupid talking paperclip guy in M$ office).. users need to take a certain amount of initiative to understand the system they are dealing with.
i mean jesus christ, people like you make it sound like it's a chore to use your brain.
...dave
now could you step off your moral podium so i can look you in the eye and see if you really are as dumb as you seem?
whether or not he's egotistical and whatever purposes he wrote the tools for, he is NOT to blame for the way they were used. the absence of a punishable offender does not mean we go after the person who wrote the tool(s) of their crime.
if i use a cinderblock to bash your head in for effusing such pin-headed opinions on a public forum (and then getting moderated up to the top of the heap!), should we then go find the manufacturer and yell at him for making a weapon that can be used to kill?
ok, so you say 'but dave, this was a specialized tool that could really only be used for one purpose. he knew how it would be used!' so, ok, i build a guilloteine (i slaughtered the spelling, i know..), but you stick your little sister's neck under it and set the blade on its way.. you are the one who did it, not me.
he probably is an egotistical bastard, i have no clue, i don't know the guy. but he is not to blame and if he is as self-centered as you say, then drawing more attention to him is only serving his purposes.
...dave
Are you planning on buying 'banner-space' to advertise the site? While I had supposed that the candidates may create sites, I was not aware which (if any) had,.. nor the addresses. Frankly, even now, I doubt there's anything useful to be found on them. I can see the potential for such sites, especially if they featured writings by the candidate(s) on different subjects, explaining their stance, and detailed reform policies.
Also if you really want traffic and to win people over, I highly suggest a large quantity of photos of the Gore daughters,.. especially on vacation somewhere with beaches -- oi vey!
...dave
...and what makes you think starwars.com is reliable? they will deny all information until the movie is released. usually variety (and other such publications) will qualify any of their statements,.. if you go back and look at the 'offending' articles, i'm sure you will see some such disclaimer.
besides which this is not a secret like episode 2 stuff is,.. stop being paranoid.
...dave
as someone who worked at ford for years, i can assure you that as a company, it is nowhere near organized enough to be using this in a sinister way. i've seen engineers and developers sleeping under their desks, in cubicles, not just offices... where anyone could see them.
it really is a laid-back place (for the most part) and after this recent announcement i almost regret not being there anymore
it's too bad the main coverage of it here on
If Ford's initiative spreads - it should - the Net would rise to a completely different level..clip
i wouldn't point that out except that every single one of katz' features on
please, i'm begging you, get some writers that can actually fucking write,..
...dave
42!
no, really,.. there is no inherent value in any domain name. any value assigned to one is an entirely perceived one. a domain name is only worth what one is willing to pay for it.
end of story
...dave
if that is really what you meant -- i took it to mean that the person who believes in it classifies it as such -- then it's just as dumb as before, but now because it's so patently obvious.
i have read the new testament. christianity is a pile of bullshit created to help morons live their lives the way they are supposed to in the first place. it's to give you a warm little blanket to wrap around yourself so you don't have to face the harsh reality that we really have no fucking clue how we got here or what we're doing here.
as for respecting people in the KKK,..
They're human-beings and I believe they are making a mistake. They've been taught to hate, and they've collapsed into a depressing abyss that they needs help from escaping. Nobody is inherently hateful, they must learn it.
yes, they are making/have made a mistake; they're ignorant, racist, red-neck, dumbfucks. maybe there are some little kids who've been brought up in the KKK but for the most part, the retards in it are adults. they are responsible for their own horrible attitude. it's very sad that you try to make excuses for it.
children "learn" hate, but once you're an adult, there is no excuse. there's no force keeping you a racist asshole, you can choose. especially in our society where all outside pressure is against it.
i suggest you give up, you're going to lose this argument. i've studied these things a lot more than you have.
...dave
The difference between a mythology and a religion, is that the individual classifies it as such.
this is an ignorant statement. do you think the ancient greeks and romans classified their beliefs as 'mythology'? no. neither did the egyptians or the mayans, et cetera... they believed in their heaping piles of bull manure as much as you do yours.
Katz should have just a slight amount of respect for other religions.
exactly who are you to tell people what they should respect? i really despise jon katz the writer -- because he has absolutely no skill at what he does for a living, and if i were as inept at my job as he is at his, i would be living under a bridge. but, i still won't tell him what he should and should not respect.
i don't respect the KKK, and i definately don't respect christianity (in any form.)
in my mind, they are on equal turf.
...dave
quite! but i do think this has a lot of potential, if they can get it to work. more storage space means more pr0n means less time downloading!
...dave
(p.s. 'if i went around saying i was king just because some moistened bit lobbed a scimitar at me-- they'd put me away!')
People who make uninformed decisions deserve what they get.
i agree, but the LinuxOne folks do not deserve lots of money for their hoax, and the Linux community does not deserve to be tainted with such a ridiculous scam.
It is futile to try to teach those who dont' want to learn, why bother.
again, i agree, and again, you have missed the point of this whole discussion.
The stupid, immature, public school, god help the workforce part is really classic. Vague allusions to the quality of my post really don't prove anything, and are just useful for distraction.
i don't think they were all that vague.
...dave
You don't understand I have different goals then you.
uhh, yes i do. i even addressed them in the response but i guess you don't bother to read, you just reply based on subject.
They have already found significant evidence that they are not a developer/supplier for Linux stuff.
all evidence is relevant. it is naive and just plain stupid to say 'oh, well that's enough, we should stop looking and taking notes.'
the rest of your response is equally immature so i'm not going to bother addressing it.
i'm guessing you're still in public school,.. if you're not, god help the workforce.
...dave
no, they don't, and i'm not saying to take them to court over it. my point was (and this has grown into a much bigger deal than it deserves) that not including them with the product should not be dismissed as simply as the original author of this thread did.
this is LinuxOne not some trustworthy company who has made source available on their site in the past. their "product" is just a prop anyway! why are you gimps arguing about this?
the source not being there is yet another flaw among the myriad of problems with everything that LinuxOne does.
Quit calling others trolls... it seemed you were the troll, making arguments such as "what if you don't believe in phones?"...
apparently sarcasm is no longer understood.
...dave
Well hey, at least I don't resort to baseless and unimaginative insults against those I don't know. Your point would have been much better if 1) it hadn't been made before and 2) you had actually tried to stick to the issues.
:) no, that's ok, i am happy with the way it came out, thanks. i was hoping to annoy you enough to get a response, and see whether you were just a slashdot basher or actually had conviction in what you were saying.
by 'better' you mean, you would have liked it more
My point was that many of us here on Slashdot need to step back sometimes and stop pouncing on every little tidbit that may or may not point to even the most insignificant wrongdoing by Microsoft.
first of all, that was not insignificant. maybe you don't know enough morons, but people listen to polls like that and form their own opinions based on them. there are a lot more stupid people in the world than people like you and i. so, when mikkkrosoft (or any company) tries to pull a bullshit stunt like that, it needs to be pointed out and ridiculed.
I'm afraid I also have to comment on your suggestion that I go form my own non-MS-bashing version of Slashdot. I should point out that the snowball effect could quickly result in thousands of mini-slashdots, which would defeat the whole purpose. The point is the interaction, and you can't interact if you're segregated.
no, read what i said again, i said go form your own non-slashdot-bashing version. i encourage people who like mikkkrosoft to try to justify their insanity,.. if nothing else, it's entertaining.
...dave