Can we please get off of the lame BSOD jokes? The majority of Windows users haven't seen a BSOD since late 1999. Why does most of Slashdot still seem to be stuck in the mid-90s? It makes the community look immature and behind the times.
(Yes, I'm aware a few of you will probably post your anecdotal stories about some driver issue that gave you a BSOD. Drivers can do that...)
"Distracted?" How is releasing a developer preview of their next product distracting anybody? Is that Microsoft's fault?
I think people's bias is showing. It's amusing to read all these criticisms the Slashdot pseudo-experts have levelled against Longhorn, when it's not out for another two to three years.
You complain about a four year old operating system, you list off a bunch of complaints, and then you say you will ignore Longhorn, which fixes all those complaints. With Longhorn, you can even write your own XML-based installation scripts.
I'm just trying to point out that if you're going to wait, wait for something worth waiting for. I personally don't see longhorn adding anything that justifies the expense.
I'm sorry, but you're an idiot if you don't think.NET, WinFS, Avalon, and the rest of the Longhorn technologies aren't better than crappy old 2k.
Sounds like you're frustrated that you got schooled.
Critical faults weren't occuring at "too high a privilege level." Please. And if you're blaming it on drivers, it's not a problem with Windows XP, is it?
It's probably best you just never respond to this.
God, you're a dumbass. Nobody is "misunderstanding" you. There is no blue screen because you have auto-restart on. You never bothered to turn it off?
You're dreaming if you think the anecdotal, fanatical "NT4 is better than 2000" experiences of your co-workers are worth a damn. 2000 completely crushes everything about NT4, and then some.
The day I can load up a VSTi plug-in for my drums, click up a few MIDI tracks, record some audio in there, and then run my Ozone mastering plug-in on it all like I can in Cakewalk Sonar is the day I switch.
I couldn't even get Linux to boot up half the time on my laptop, much less get asynchronous recording actually working. This was across multiple distributions.
They don't want people downloading mp3s--so they're going to actually RESTRICT their CDs even more?
They're simply giving me even more of an incentive to download a cracked (and these are always "cracked" in some way) version so I can burn my own, fully-functioning CD.
Pirates everywhere are outraged that the hard work they put into downloading, spreading, and cracking Windows XP in order to install SP1 has resulted in another bizarre Microsoft bug.
"I sat and ran my key generator for up to 20 minutes before I was able to get a valid key! Then I had to reactive Windows and change the key to install SP1," said one anonymous source. "But if errors like this are the results of all the effort I put into providing slipstreamed SP1 installs on eMule and USENET, Microsoft has definitely lost another customer."
Efforts are underway to convert pirated Windows installations to free alternatives in order to reduce costs and save time. "I don't have to download BlueKey to upgrade a few RPMS. Once XP's SP2 beta leaks onto the net, you can bet I won't be so forgiving next time when I crack it."
The problem is that the "critiques" of her reviews don't usually address the issues in the article but instead attack her spelling, or the fact that she ran a BeOS site, etc.
I always figured the irrational hatred toward Eugenia resulted from the fact that she isn't afraid to point out all the goofy UI problems and less-than-perfect features of Linux distros. Devotees of that particular distribution get uppity and defensive and make excuses while criticizing her spelling or something, when she's actually right. I guess people are too used to reading Linux reviews from Linux sites, instead of Linux reviews from a site that's not immediately pro-anything-running-Linux.
By the way, she's criticized BeOS before; for instance, 5's poor font rendering.
I actually hope it plays the opposite way--Gollum gets the ring, Smeagol hesitates and desperately tries to reject, but in the struggle, they stumble off the edge. To me, it would seem a more fitting, tragic ending to the character rather than the martyrdom you suggest. Plus, I don't think even Smeagol could resist the power of the ring in his possession and willfully destroy it like that (if Peter Jackson decides to stay accurate to the overwhelming and corrupting powers of the ring he's been displaying in the first two films).
He's talking character-wise. Obviously, they've played a bit with Gollum's psychosis compared to the books. I imagine he doesn't want to reveal how Gollum's mindset has been fleshedout in the final film, and how he acted it as a result.
As usual, the people who bitch about X are going to have to find some new reason to bitch about X.
Whenever Slashdot posts an X article that fosters some critical discussion, the cheerleaders come out and condescendingly bring people down. Face it, X is not the future of the Linux desktop. Not by a long shot.
And you're dreaming if you think X is in anyway optimally responsive. Did you miss the article on actually kernel-tweaking to make the damned thing faster? To this day, on every system I have ever tried, from those I've configured to those set up by experienced sysadmins, the environment has never been as snappy and responsive as Windows 3.1 was on my old 66mhz. I'm not trolling when I say that, I mean it--the Windows 3.1 GUI was more responsive, and it had DOS running under it. Now, maybe you've had the lucky experience of getting the perfect configuration environment in which your X is suddenly the end-all for Linux GUIs, but for the rest of the world who doesn't just run xterms, Emacs, and xchat (or anything else beginning with a lowercase 'x'), X will never be enough in its current state, and at the rate it's taken for standard modern OS features to be implemented, it will be quite a while.
Reply or mod me accordingly, but I think X downright sucks ass.
Sadly, I think it's just another case of a good theory but less-than-great implementation.
I think alot of people have the misconception that having more layers between applications and the hardware slows things down.
This statement, though, just seems downright silly. Of course more layers will be slower than less layers...and I think the sort of integration people are calling for in their minds involves a seamless integration of things, which would streamline it all the more.
I would like a low-level graphics subsystem that IS the toolkit/environment. I want things integrated, though customizable (i.e., skin it if you want, whatever).
I'm just tired of all the layers, libraries, conflicting interfaces, and general slowness because of all the cruft that is supported for those few power users who always chime in on/. articles like this about how incredibly friggin' useful network transparency is to them. Fine, stick with X, but the standard desktop users, who comprise a MUCH MUCH LARGER majority, need something different.
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Can we please get off of the lame BSOD jokes? The majority of Windows users haven't seen a BSOD since late 1999. Why does most of Slashdot still seem to be stuck in the mid-90s? It makes the community look immature and behind the times.
(Yes, I'm aware a few of you will probably post your anecdotal stories about some driver issue that gave you a BSOD. Drivers can do that...)
"Distracted?" How is releasing a developer preview of their next product distracting anybody? Is that Microsoft's fault?
I think people's bias is showing. It's amusing to read all these criticisms the Slashdot pseudo-experts have levelled against Longhorn, when it's not out for another two to three years.
You complain about a four year old operating system, you list off a bunch of complaints, and then you say you will ignore Longhorn, which fixes all those complaints. With Longhorn, you can even write your own XML-based installation scripts.
.NET, WinFS, Avalon, and the rest of the Longhorn technologies aren't better than crappy old 2k.
I'm just trying to point out that if you're going to wait, wait for something worth waiting for. I personally don't see longhorn adding anything that justifies the expense.
I'm sorry, but you're an idiot if you don't think
It says Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX, but the 2004 versions were recently released. Does it work with Dreamweaver MX 2004?
Xine doesn't even have a simple "Open" button. I doubt it will ever gain mainstream popularity in its current state.
Sounds like you're frustrated that you got schooled.
Critical faults weren't occuring at "too high a privilege level." Please. And if you're blaming it on drivers, it's not a problem with Windows XP, is it?
It's probably best you just never respond to this.
Just becase you were wrong is no reason to have an anonymous temper tantrum.
God, you're a dumbass. Nobody is "misunderstanding" you. There is no blue screen because you have auto-restart on. You never bothered to turn it off?
You're dreaming if you think the anecdotal, fanatical "NT4 is better than 2000" experiences of your co-workers are worth a damn. 2000 completely crushes everything about NT4, and then some.
The day I can load up a VSTi plug-in for my drums, click up a few MIDI tracks, record some audio in there, and then run my Ozone mastering plug-in on it all like I can in Cakewalk Sonar is the day I switch.
I couldn't even get Linux to boot up half the time on my laptop, much less get asynchronous recording actually working. This was across multiple distributions.
The reason was to remove a government that safeguarded terrorists. Being over there to hunt out Bin Laden was a nice bonus.
How many "in other news" posts is this article going to receive?
This is what I don't understand.
They don't want people downloading mp3s--so they're going to actually RESTRICT their CDs even more?
They're simply giving me even more of an incentive to download a cracked (and these are always "cracked" in some way) version so I can burn my own, fully-functioning CD.
Revel in the logic!
Not on my old 266mhz. ;)
Pirates everywhere are outraged that the hard work they put into downloading, spreading, and cracking Windows XP in order to install SP1 has resulted in another bizarre Microsoft bug.
"I sat and ran my key generator for up to 20 minutes before I was able to get a valid key! Then I had to reactive Windows and change the key to install SP1," said one anonymous source. "But if errors like this are the results of all the effort I put into providing slipstreamed SP1 installs on eMule and USENET, Microsoft has definitely lost another customer."
Efforts are underway to convert pirated Windows installations to free alternatives in order to reduce costs and save time. "I don't have to download BlueKey to upgrade a few RPMS. Once XP's SP2 beta leaks onto the net, you can bet I won't be so forgiving next time when I crack it."
The problem is that the "critiques" of her reviews don't usually address the issues in the article but instead attack her spelling, or the fact that she ran a BeOS site, etc.
Oh, yeah? I learned Linux on an LFS system! My penis is now bigger by 3 inches! ;)
I always figured the irrational hatred toward Eugenia resulted from the fact that she isn't afraid to point out all the goofy UI problems and less-than-perfect features of Linux distros. Devotees of that particular distribution get uppity and defensive and make excuses while criticizing her spelling or something, when she's actually right. I guess people are too used to reading Linux reviews from Linux sites, instead of Linux reviews from a site that's not immediately pro-anything-running-Linux.
By the way, she's criticized BeOS before; for instance, 5's poor font rendering.
You hear all the time about how bad X is, but when you ask what exactly is wrong with X, you get nothing but - silence.
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I guess you didn't read that article on the X fork about a week ago.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/222
I actually hope it plays the opposite way--Gollum gets the ring, Smeagol hesitates and desperately tries to reject, but in the struggle, they stumble off the edge. To me, it would seem a more fitting, tragic ending to the character rather than the martyrdom you suggest. Plus, I don't think even Smeagol could resist the power of the ring in his possession and willfully destroy it like that (if Peter Jackson decides to stay accurate to the overwhelming and corrupting powers of the ring he's been displaying in the first two films).
He's talking character-wise. Obviously, they've played a bit with Gollum's psychosis compared to the books. I imagine he doesn't want to reveal how Gollum's mindset has been fleshedout in the final film, and how he acted it as a result.
The books came out way earlier than the 60s. They only really caught on in that decade.
Heck, the stories of the Silmarillion were started way back when Tolkien was in the trenches of WW1...
Gee! You're right! We should let Saddam stay in power because of that! What a world! Let's bring up something totally unrelated!
What about the opportunity Palestine was given to set up a state...and rejected?
Next.
As usual, the people who bitch about X are going to have to find some new reason to bitch about X.
Whenever Slashdot posts an X article that fosters some critical discussion, the cheerleaders come out and condescendingly bring people down. Face it, X is not the future of the Linux desktop. Not by a long shot.
And you're dreaming if you think X is in anyway optimally responsive. Did you miss the article on actually kernel-tweaking to make the damned thing faster? To this day, on every system I have ever tried, from those I've configured to those set up by experienced sysadmins, the environment has never been as snappy and responsive as Windows 3.1 was on my old 66mhz. I'm not trolling when I say that, I mean it--the Windows 3.1 GUI was more responsive, and it had DOS running under it. Now, maybe you've had the lucky experience of getting the perfect configuration environment in which your X is suddenly the end-all for Linux GUIs, but for the rest of the world who doesn't just run xterms, Emacs, and xchat (or anything else beginning with a lowercase 'x'), X will never be enough in its current state, and at the rate it's taken for standard modern OS features to be implemented, it will be quite a while.
Reply or mod me accordingly, but I think X downright sucks ass.
Sadly, I think it's just another case of a good theory but less-than-great implementation.
I think alot of people have the misconception that having more layers between applications and the hardware slows things down.
This statement, though, just seems downright silly. Of course more layers will be slower than less layers...and I think the sort of integration people are calling for in their minds involves a seamless integration of things, which would streamline it all the more.
But maybe I'm dumb.
I would like a low-level graphics subsystem that IS the toolkit/environment. I want things integrated, though customizable (i.e., skin it if you want, whatever).
/. articles like this about how incredibly friggin' useful network transparency is to them. Fine, stick with X, but the standard desktop users, who comprise a MUCH MUCH LARGER majority, need something different.
I'm just tired of all the layers, libraries, conflicting interfaces, and general slowness because of all the cruft that is supported for those few power users who always chime in on