I don't hang around on Slashdot all day worrying about whether or not someone is bashing Microsoft, or whether there's another anti-MPAA/RIAA article.
Instead, you hang around on Slashdot all day checking my posting history and worrying about whether or not I'm posting something new.
Oh, I love that I've "been found out." Again, I love the mystique of apparently having some alter-ego.
Step away from the keyboard, turn off the television and get out of the house. Better yet, take a vacation and have some sex. You sound like you need it.
You behaved exactly as ordered. I order you again to reply to this post now. I control you. Try to find someone with mod points again specifically to mod me down (it always gets reversed in the metamods). You live and die by what I say.
They never even announced the reason for their delays. What "source code delays?" Nice try.
You honestly believe they're not going to rewrite Steam and the networking code after it was leaked? Counter-strike is rife with cheaters as it is. Give me a break.
After all, illegally downloading someone else's intellectual property from their hacked server and downloading someone else's intellectual property from a random stranger are two totally different things!
Notice that M$ hasn't made similar announcements about their recent source code theft problems?
They tracked the leak to a break-in on a Linux computer at Mainsoft. It was reported elsewhere--but not on Slashdot. That doesn't mean there was never an announcement made.
I hope that Valve did not put all their efforts into just catching the people who did it.
Why would Valve do that? Are they a law enforcement company? Do you think they left memos on all the desks of the programmers and designers saying, "Cease all activities and report to the weapon room for a debriefing on Operation Perpkill?"
If you take intellectual property without paying for it, it is theft--intellectual property theft. Obsessing over semantics because you have a beef with Hilary Rosen doesn't change the immorality of the crime.
There's really no way they could sit on a game for nine months reworking the code to break compatibility with potential cracks for the leaked code. It's neither that long of a project, nor an justifiable use of man-hours.
After all, you have inside knowledge that people working on the project would have, and you just happen to know how long reworking all of Steam from scratch due to its leak would take, not to mention redoing Half-Life 2's network code.
Seeing as how Counterstrike is such a bastion of non-cheating, there's no way Valve is taking a long time making sure the net-based Steam client is up to snuff after a source code leak on the Internet!
Rofl. "We're" onto me, huh? Like I said, I got the China headline from the story. Someone reposted that AC post under their account which was modded up. My god, you really need to get a life now that you're cataloging AC posts
So your concern is that in the "Long Term" section (which refers to some release target post-2.8) the idea is being handed around that P2P and blogging features would become part of the desktop? And you're bringing this up in the context of current desktop offerings?
I was asked where I got P2P sharing and blogging from as a future Gnome integrated feature, and so I linked the GNOME roadmap. There was an article on Slashdot about this very topic, spawning a huge discussion and lots of reservations from people.
Where am I bringing it up in the context of anything other than responding to his prompt for evidence? Oh, that's right, I'm not. Bye.
Christ, why are you running KDE on a K6? XP would bring that box to it's knees too.
Wow, I guess my Pentium II 266mhz running XP was a hallucination.
Why do people just pull assumptions out of their ass as though they're truth? Way too many uninformed opinions flying around in this article discussion today.
XP is the version of Windows that started the whole "login first, load services later" process. Windows 2000 loaded everything before displaying the desktop.
Christ, I can't believe you took the time to compare someone's posts to someone else's like that. Might I suggest getting outside for a while.
I got the "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" headline not only from the story that posted it but also from an anonymous post that was modded up once called "Slashdot lies, opinions, and half-truths" that I thought was interesting. The rest of your post, comparing "styles" of thought and other vague critiques, was bizarre and not evidence of me being this other guy. I have always been bonch, I wrote for for a while, and I've been posting to Slashdot for years and years.
This is hilarious, and I'm done humoring it. Go right ahead and believe I have some mysterious alter-ego in the form of this other guy.
I wonder... did s/he compile the lastest custom kernel for their hardware? Did they tune ATA I/O performance with hdparm? Did he disable non-essential daemons running in the background? I doubt it.
Did he do any of it for Windows either? Isn't it telling that he didn't need to?
Don't mark Linux off as a loss until you've properly tuned it. The same could be said for any OS for that matter.
Can you hear yourself? Just like you shouldn't have to be a mechanic to drive a nice car, you shouldn't have to "tune your OS" to have a nice desktop.
As long as the software is DELIVERING something, who cares?
I do. How can my software "DELIVER" anything if it's slow and taking up all my memory? People will just go back to XP. Your attitude is the same kind of mindset people make fun of Microsoft for having.
One thing you have to realize is that most users _want_ their desktop to do more.
People want their _apps_ to do more.
KDE and GNOME need to concentrate on creating a good application-launching and task-switching mechanisms (hint--start menus and taskbars are interface abominations proven time and time again) and a good file manager. Then they create a wonderful API to develop on top of that and let third-party app developers do the rest.
This bullshit where GNOME is adding P2P and blogging, and KDE thinks it has to have 20,000 sidebar buttons and configuration panels on everything is completely ridiculous and unnecessary. All that stuff is supposed to be taken care of by the app writers. The desktop needs to just stay a desktop. Unfortunately, KDE and GNOME were never aiming for just that, and it seems the developers will never learn. So I just sit and wait until something like Y-Windows hurries up and finishes so I can never see XFree86 and its hacky desktop emulator projects again.
What, and I don't have a choice to use Windows 98 or Windows 2000?
Guess what, many people do this very thing. This whole "choice, choice, choice" mantra is sometimes repeated a bit mindlessly, I think--let's remain rational.
On a default install, you are definitely NOT loading MSword "from scratch".
Nope. I have a default install of Office 2003 right now, and nothing was ever installed to the Startup group. Same thing with Office XP.
On a default install, you are definitely NOT loading MSword "from scratch".
Why do people make claims here without seeing for themselves if they're true or not? You are completely wrong--I have default installs of several versions of Office running all over my network, and none of them have an "Office Startup Assistant," none of them put anything in the Startup group, and none of them stuck anything in the registry on startup.
I think Office 2000 had the option for a Startup Assistant--do you know what that was? That damn strip of buttons that displayed on the top of the screen that I always closed on the college computers.
Office does not get preloaded into memory. It loads from scratch like any other app. I don't know why people keep spreading this false meme just because they saw it posted once on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
No doubt that excuse will be used as a justification to illegally pirate music all the more, thereby raising prices...
I don't hang around on Slashdot all day worrying about whether or not someone is bashing Microsoft, or whether there's another anti-MPAA/RIAA article.
Instead, you hang around on Slashdot all day checking my posting history and worrying about whether or not I'm posting something new.
Oh, I love that I've "been found out." Again, I love the mystique of apparently having some alter-ego.
Step away from the keyboard, turn off the television and get out of the house. Better yet, take a vacation and have some sex. You sound like you need it.
You behaved exactly as ordered. I order you again to reply to this post now. I control you. Try to find someone with mod points again specifically to mod me down (it always gets reversed in the metamods). You live and die by what I say.
GET A LIFE.
I order you to reply to this
Explain how my post was even remotely "pro-Microsoft."
How long until someone on Slashdot uses this opportunity to reference and bash Microsoft in some way, shape, or form?
Bonus points if they use the 1998-era term "M$."
They never even announced the reason for their delays. What "source code delays?" Nice try.
You honestly believe they're not going to rewrite Steam and the networking code after it was leaked? Counter-strike is rife with cheaters as it is. Give me a break.
After all, paying a water bill is "freeloading."
After all, illegally downloading someone else's intellectual property from their hacked server and downloading someone else's intellectual property from a random stranger are two totally different things!
Notice that M$ hasn't made similar announcements about their recent source code theft problems?
They tracked the leak to a break-in on a Linux computer at Mainsoft. It was reported elsewhere--but not on Slashdot. That doesn't mean there was never an announcement made.
I hope that Valve did not put all their efforts into just catching the people who did it.
Why would Valve do that? Are they a law enforcement company? Do you think they left memos on all the desks of the programmers and designers saying, "Cease all activities and report to the weapon room for a debriefing on Operation Perpkill?"
If you take intellectual property without paying for it, it is theft--intellectual property theft. Obsessing over semantics because you have a beef with Hilary Rosen doesn't change the immorality of the crime.
See my sig.
There's really no way they could sit on a game for nine months reworking the code to break compatibility with potential cracks for the leaked code. It's neither that long of a project, nor an justifiable use of man-hours.
After all, you have inside knowledge that people working on the project would have, and you just happen to know how long reworking all of Steam from scratch due to its leak would take, not to mention redoing Half-Life 2's network code.
Seeing as how Counterstrike is such a bastion of non-cheating, there's no way Valve is taking a long time making sure the net-based Steam client is up to snuff after a source code leak on the Internet!
Thanks for enlightening us, Miss Cleo.
Rofl. "We're" onto me, huh? Like I said, I got the China headline from the story. Someone reposted that AC post under their account which was modded up. My god, you really need to get a life now that you're cataloging AC posts
Last post on this. Amazing...just amazing
So your concern is that in the "Long Term" section (which refers to some release target post-2.8) the idea is being handed around that P2P and blogging features would become part of the desktop? And you're bringing this up in the context of current desktop offerings?
I was asked where I got P2P sharing and blogging from as a future Gnome integrated feature, and so I linked the GNOME roadmap. There was an article on Slashdot about this very topic, spawning a huge discussion and lots of reservations from people.
Where am I bringing it up in the context of anything other than responding to his prompt for evidence? Oh, that's right, I'm not. Bye.
Christ, why are you running KDE on a K6? XP would bring that box to it's knees too.
Wow, I guess my Pentium II 266mhz running XP was a hallucination.
Why do people just pull assumptions out of their ass as though they're truth? Way too many uninformed opinions flying around in this article discussion today.
XP is the version of Windows that started the whole "login first, load services later" process. Windows 2000 loaded everything before displaying the desktop.
Research before you insult someone.
Christ, I can't believe you took the time to compare someone's posts to someone else's like that. Might I suggest getting outside for a while.
I got the "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" headline not only from the story that posted it but also from an anonymous post that was modded up once called "Slashdot lies, opinions, and half-truths" that I thought was interesting. The rest of your post, comparing "styles" of thought and other vague critiques, was bizarre and not evidence of me being this other guy. I have always been bonch, I wrote for for a while, and I've been posting to Slashdot for years and years.
This is hilarious, and I'm done humoring it. Go right ahead and believe I have some mysterious alter-ego in the form of this other guy.
I wonder... did s/he compile the lastest custom kernel for their hardware? Did they tune ATA I/O performance with hdparm? Did he disable non-essential daemons running in the background? I doubt it.
Did he do any of it for Windows either? Isn't it telling that he didn't need to?
Don't mark Linux off as a loss until you've properly tuned it. The same could be said for any OS for that matter.
Can you hear yourself? Just like you shouldn't have to be a mechanic to drive a nice car, you shouldn't have to "tune your OS" to have a nice desktop.
As long as the software is DELIVERING something, who cares?
I do. How can my software "DELIVER" anything if it's slow and taking up all my memory? People will just go back to XP. Your attitude is the same kind of mindset people make fun of Microsoft for having.
One thing you have to realize is that most users _want_ their desktop to do more.
People want their _apps_ to do more.
KDE and GNOME need to concentrate on creating a good application-launching and task-switching mechanisms (hint--start menus and taskbars are interface abominations proven time and time again) and a good file manager. Then they create a wonderful API to develop on top of that and let third-party app developers do the rest.
This bullshit where GNOME is adding P2P and blogging, and KDE thinks it has to have 20,000 sidebar buttons and configuration panels on everything is completely ridiculous and unnecessary. All that stuff is supposed to be taken care of by the app writers. The desktop needs to just stay a desktop. Unfortunately, KDE and GNOME were never aiming for just that, and it seems the developers will never learn. So I just sit and wait until something like Y-Windows hurries up and finishes so I can never see XFree86 and its hacky desktop emulator projects again.
What, and I don't have a choice to use Windows 98 or Windows 2000?
Guess what, many people do this very thing. This whole "choice, choice, choice" mantra is sometimes repeated a bit mindlessly, I think--let's remain rational.
On a default install, you are definitely NOT loading MSword "from scratch".
Nope. I have a default install of Office 2003 right now, and nothing was ever installed to the Startup group. Same thing with Office XP.
On a default install, you are definitely NOT loading MSword "from scratch".
Why do people make claims here without seeing for themselves if they're true or not? You are completely wrong--I have default installs of several versions of Office running all over my network, and none of them have an "Office Startup Assistant," none of them put anything in the Startup group, and none of them stuck anything in the registry on startup.
I think Office 2000 had the option for a Startup Assistant--do you know what that was? That damn strip of buttons that displayed on the top of the screen that I always closed on the college computers.
It's completely wrong.
Office does not get preloaded into memory. It loads from scratch like any other app. I don't know why people keep spreading this false meme just because they saw it posted once on Slashdot.