You cannot bitch at Microsoft for stealing ideas (I thought you couldn't "steal" intangibles...right, Slashdot? That's what I hear every RIAA article...), when the OSS community has stolen everything under the sun.
You probably typed your post from KDE using a taskbar, start menu, integrated filesystem/net browser (hello, Windows 98), similar print dialogs...hell, even the concept of windows themselves are rip-offs of MacOS, Windows, and everything else before it.
Don't complain about lack of innovation from others while you're using a Linux desktop. That's all I'm saying.
Clearly you haven't met any 'softies, either in person or online.
Clearly, neither have you.
The level of vitriol toward Microsoft on this site has gotten ridiculous--it's almost sunk to the level of discrimination, like racism but toward employees of a company. "Oh, they're all evil. They're all sheep."
This coming from someone who is posting a reply in a Slashdot discussion--the Internet king of groupthink and propaganda.
I guess I'm just one of the few left in the world who believes that people are people, and that some guy working at Microsoft who suggests Mozilla take advantage of some Windows technologies that are out in the developer betas now ISN'T something to get worked up over--it's not even newsworthy. Only on Slashdot is this some sort of issue. Look at the sheep baaing, "Embrace and extend, embrace and extend!" over Mozilla possibly using some, dare I say it, XAML in its Windows version.
Your Kool-Aid comment was just ridiculous--like the rest of your post.
Only on raving, pro-Linux Slashdot were they the "devil." In the Linux tech community there were merely annoying, and in the IT industry at large they were just another company trying to enforce what it considered intellectual property it owned.
These people lost their jobs. Do you work, or are you a college student?
You people need to get out more and here formal business language. That's how businesses speak.
He didn't say the claims had merit. He merely commented that SCO should concentrate its business on those intellectual property claims--it's all they've got.
We already knew the labels were wanting a price increase, because Slashdot already posted this. It was the RIAA's "nasty Easter surprise," which is how Slashdot referred to it last time around Easter weekend.
Didn't you know that Bill Gates said something about 640KB, Linux usage is going to overtake Mac usage, the iPod Mini is a failure...oh, yeah, and everyone is allowed to violate copyright holder rights and pirate everything "just because?"
Everyone else understands that copyright holders have the rights to the distribution of their works. But Slashdot doesn't care about what artists want--they just care about furthering piracy for selfish reasons, ripping people off.
Consumers have adopted a system by which multiple redundant backups are constantly made and remade.
Should read:
Consumers have adopted a system by which copyrighted materials are illegally distributed, thereby stomping over copyright holder rights, under the guise that they have the right to do it.
You don't need P2P to make digital backups. Get real. Why would you bother with a lossy ripped version anyway when you could make your own APE file? Of course, with the bandwidth these days, people are pirating entire APE files now. But that doesn't matter to Slashdotters, the more the merrier, right?
I have CDs I burned last decade that still work. I just keep them in a CD case and use them when I need to.
Is it just me?
I had one CD go bad once, where it looked like a pinprick whole in the data layer and I could see light coming through the other side...I ran my fingernail along the other side and easily created new holes, like the layer had gotten thinner. But this was a really used CD that I carted around a lot and was just a working backup I used in a ton of computers.
People didn't react badly to the anthropomorphizing, they reacted badly to the patronizing tone.
No, Slashdot geeks reacted badly to the patronizing tone--just as they do to anything a company does to make things easier and friendly for non-techies, because geeks need to feel superior about everything.
Everyone else was fine with Clippy. You make it sound like there was a mass revolt, but there wasn't. It only existed on Slashdot.
I do tech support for my company, and the realtors just love the "cute little dog" that "digs at the ground" when I do a search for some document that they can't find. They don't find it intrusive or patronizing in any way at all, because they don't approach it with that mindset. It's just some fun little thing the computer does while they search. Slashdot nerds have this tone of, "How dare they assume I'm an idiot!" when all you have to do is tell the goddamned thing to go away, and it will never return. It's like the girth of your penis is tied to how knowledgable you can prove that you are to the computer.
Basically, it's the ego of the Comic Book Guy, but applied to computers. "How dare you..."
I don't know the whole history of this Rambus thing. Could someone explain what they did so wrong? I keep hearing about "what they did at that technology conference."
I have 640MB of RDRAM, and it is FAST. The installation-in-pairs thing is annoying, though.
After all, people don't assign programmers to different tasks--all organizations are one-track minds. When a kernel changelog releases spelling changes in the source code, they could have spent that time improving file I/O! Oh, that's right, people actually work on different things at the same time.
we tend to vehemently react against it--witness Microsoft's attempts with the much-loathed Bob and Clippy.
We managed to slip in an anti-"M$" jab even in an article about emotional bonding with fucking space probes.
Bob was over 10 years ago, and Clippy hasn't even been in a default install since the beginning of the decade. A simple click of "Hide" got rid of him way back when. Can we please get over Clippy already? The damn neverending light bulb in OpenOffice is much, much worse...
The Gamecube's discs are tiny like the PSP's. Why doesn't Nintendo just design a portable handheld based on the Gamecube for '06 or '07 or whenever they plan a new Gameboy release?
That way you'd already have an entire game catalogue as well as developers with experience writing for it, and you wouldn't have to waste resources designed a whole new architecture. In addition, the standard cartridge slot should be on it somewhere for backwards compatibility with all previous Gameboy games.
I would kill for portable Metroid Prime or Windwaker (I wouldn't even mind all the damn sailing sequences!).
People always say this, yet Windows corpoate usage remains the same, despite "pointy-haired management types" who might see it. Pointy-haired management types like Windows.
Google Zeitgeist shows Linux at 1%. However, the place Linux has made the most headway is Unix server and workstation markets. There isn't this mass exodus away from Windows happening--even though we hear in every article discussion about "pointy-haired management types" who might see the latest Slashdot-linked anti-"M$" study.
Windows has the apps (and the sane API to develop them for).
This costs money for a CD from Microsoft. If the user tries to download the service pack instead of buying the CD, the user will probably get hit with Blaster or Sasser while trying to download the service pack itself, as the size of the service pack exceeds what a dial-up user can download within the time it takes for Blaster or Sasser to shut down the computer.
I've never had this happen, and besides, I doubt your business is going to be running on dialup.
Seriously, I've been putting off buying a DVD burner until these new dual-layers came out.
First thing I'm gonna do is backup my Extended Edition LOTR DVDs (all 8 of 'em...soon to be 12 when ROTK comes out). I'm sick of fumbling with those big foldout booklets, and the collector's geek in me doesn't want to be handling all that stuff all the time and instead keep it in the box.
Honestly, I only use it to strip out what I don't need to make an uncompressed backup. Then I fire up Intervideo DVD Copy to shrink down and burn--it has absolutely the best compression I've ever seen. Often times you can't tell the difference between the original and the copy. Not to mention, it's much faster than DVD Shrink's "Deep Analysis."
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You cannot bitch at Microsoft for stealing ideas (I thought you couldn't "steal" intangibles...right, Slashdot? That's what I hear every RIAA article...), when the OSS community has stolen everything under the sun.
You probably typed your post from KDE using a taskbar, start menu, integrated filesystem/net browser (hello, Windows 98), similar print dialogs...hell, even the concept of windows themselves are rip-offs of MacOS, Windows, and everything else before it.
Don't complain about lack of innovation from others while you're using a Linux desktop. That's all I'm saying.
Does that make them professional Linux trolls?
Where's your code?
Or is your opinion just as baseless as his?
In this community, talk is cheap.
Indeed.
Clearly you haven't met any 'softies, either in person or online.
Clearly, neither have you.
The level of vitriol toward Microsoft on this site has gotten ridiculous--it's almost sunk to the level of discrimination, like racism but toward employees of a company. "Oh, they're all evil. They're all sheep."
This coming from someone who is posting a reply in a Slashdot discussion--the Internet king of groupthink and propaganda.
I guess I'm just one of the few left in the world who believes that people are people, and that some guy working at Microsoft who suggests Mozilla take advantage of some Windows technologies that are out in the developer betas now ISN'T something to get worked up over--it's not even newsworthy. Only on Slashdot is this some sort of issue. Look at the sheep baaing, "Embrace and extend, embrace and extend!" over Mozilla possibly using some, dare I say it, XAML in its Windows version.
Your Kool-Aid comment was just ridiculous--like the rest of your post.
Give me a fucking break.
Only on raving, pro-Linux Slashdot were they the "devil." In the Linux tech community there were merely annoying, and in the IT industry at large they were just another company trying to enforce what it considered intellectual property it owned.
These people lost their jobs. Do you work, or are you a college student?
You people need to get out more and here formal business language. That's how businesses speak.
He didn't say the claims had merit. He merely commented that SCO should concentrate its business on those intellectual property claims--it's all they've got.
What part of "desktop market" don't you understand?
An X-Box 2 is not a desktop computer.
We already knew the labels were wanting a price increase, because Slashdot already posted this. It was the RIAA's "nasty Easter surprise," which is how Slashdot referred to it last time around Easter weekend.
It was just as silly then.
Didn't you know that Bill Gates said something about 640KB, Linux usage is going to overtake Mac usage, the iPod Mini is a failure...oh, yeah, and everyone is allowed to violate copyright holder rights and pirate everything "just because?"
Everyone else understands that copyright holders have the rights to the distribution of their works. But Slashdot doesn't care about what artists want--they just care about furthering piracy for selfish reasons, ripping people off.
Consumers have adopted a system by which multiple redundant backups are constantly made and remade.
Should read:
Consumers have adopted a system by which copyrighted materials are illegally distributed, thereby stomping over copyright holder rights, under the guise that they have the right to do it.
You don't need P2P to make digital backups. Get real. Why would you bother with a lossy ripped version anyway when you could make your own APE file? Of course, with the bandwidth these days, people are pirating entire APE files now. But that doesn't matter to Slashdotters, the more the merrier, right?
I have CDs I burned last decade that still work. I just keep them in a CD case and use them when I need to.
Is it just me?
I had one CD go bad once, where it looked like a pinprick whole in the data layer and I could see light coming through the other side...I ran my fingernail along the other side and easily created new holes, like the layer had gotten thinner. But this was a really used CD that I carted around a lot and was just a working backup I used in a ton of computers.
Fair enough.
People didn't react badly to the anthropomorphizing, they reacted badly to the patronizing tone.
No, Slashdot geeks reacted badly to the patronizing tone--just as they do to anything a company does to make things easier and friendly for non-techies, because geeks need to feel superior about everything.
Everyone else was fine with Clippy. You make it sound like there was a mass revolt, but there wasn't. It only existed on Slashdot.
I do tech support for my company, and the realtors just love the "cute little dog" that "digs at the ground" when I do a search for some document that they can't find. They don't find it intrusive or patronizing in any way at all, because they don't approach it with that mindset. It's just some fun little thing the computer does while they search. Slashdot nerds have this tone of, "How dare they assume I'm an idiot!" when all you have to do is tell the goddamned thing to go away, and it will never return. It's like the girth of your penis is tied to how knowledgable you can prove that you are to the computer.
Basically, it's the ego of the Comic Book Guy, but applied to computers. "How dare you..."
I don't know the whole history of this Rambus thing. Could someone explain what they did so wrong? I keep hearing about "what they did at that technology conference."
I have 640MB of RDRAM, and it is FAST. The installation-in-pairs thing is annoying, though.
Okay, where's your great emotionally-bonding software to prove that you know what you're talking about?
Or should we believe your anonymous Slashdot opinion over focus group tested implementations?
After all, people don't assign programmers to different tasks--all organizations are one-track minds. When a kernel changelog releases spelling changes in the source code, they could have spent that time improving file I/O! Oh, that's right, people actually work on different things at the same time.
we tend to vehemently react against it--witness Microsoft's attempts with the much-loathed Bob and Clippy.
We managed to slip in an anti-"M$" jab even in an article about emotional bonding with fucking space probes.
Bob was over 10 years ago, and Clippy hasn't even been in a default install since the beginning of the decade. A simple click of "Hide" got rid of him way back when. Can we please get over Clippy already? The damn neverending light bulb in OpenOffice is much, much worse...
The Gamecube's discs are tiny like the PSP's. Why doesn't Nintendo just design a portable handheld based on the Gamecube for '06 or '07 or whenever they plan a new Gameboy release?
That way you'd already have an entire game catalogue as well as developers with experience writing for it, and you wouldn't have to waste resources designed a whole new architecture. In addition, the standard cartridge slot should be on it somewhere for backwards compatibility with all previous Gameboy games.
I would kill for portable Metroid Prime or Windwaker (I wouldn't even mind all the damn sailing sequences!).
People always say this, yet Windows corpoate usage remains the same, despite "pointy-haired management types" who might see it. Pointy-haired management types like Windows.
Google Zeitgeist shows Linux at 1%. However, the place Linux has made the most headway is Unix server and workstation markets. There isn't this mass exodus away from Windows happening--even though we hear in every article discussion about "pointy-haired management types" who might see the latest Slashdot-linked anti-"M$" study.
Windows has the apps (and the sane API to develop them for).
This costs money for a CD from Microsoft. If the user tries to download the service pack instead of buying the CD, the user will probably get hit with Blaster or Sasser while trying to download the service pack itself, as the size of the service pack exceeds what a dial-up user can download within the time it takes for Blaster or Sasser to shut down the computer.
I've never had this happen, and besides, I doubt your business is going to be running on dialup.
Apparently, I'm being targetted for my opinions in previous posts.
I've got the karma to burn in asking this.
This new handheld isn't the successor to the GBA. Nintendo has yet to unveil anything regarding the next Gameboy.
Though they are coming out with a cool-as-shit NES-themed GBA in June, complete with a release of old emulated NES games like SMB and Zelda.
Whew, good thing you specified which century. I was totally confusing our discussion with the bomb-making Internet of the late 1890s.
Seriously, I've been putting off buying a DVD burner until these new dual-layers came out.
First thing I'm gonna do is backup my Extended Edition LOTR DVDs (all 8 of 'em...soon to be 12 when ROTK comes out). I'm sick of fumbling with those big foldout booklets, and the collector's geek in me doesn't want to be handling all that stuff all the time and instead keep it in the box.
DvdShrink's quality is awful.
Honestly, I only use it to strip out what I don't need to make an uncompressed backup. Then I fire up Intervideo DVD Copy to shrink down and burn--it has absolutely the best compression I've ever seen. Often times you can't tell the difference between the original and the copy. Not to mention, it's much faster than DVD Shrink's "Deep Analysis."