Yes, can we please go back to the daily cycle of Linux, Google, piracy, and random gadget stories? Two stories about a major overhaul of the most popular desktop operating system in the world is way too much.
I love how you intentionally extract fragments of quotes and completely ignore the images posted that show a laptop that absolutely looks like a MacBook Pro, with the same dimensions, chassis design, keyboard font, logo position, colors, and even a mock Apple logo as the default user avatar on the Windows 7 login in order to resemble the OS X startup screen.
Someone on Slashdot used 9/11 to make political points? I'm totally surprised at this turn of events. Next you'll tell me people also argued about how the U.S. writes the date and got modded +5 by calling today "Fuck America Day".
Prepare to get modbombed for not towing 2011 Slashdot's left-of-center worldview. No wonder the traffic these days doesn't compare to that of Slashdot 10 years ago.
So apparently Slashdot's 9/11 memorial article is going to be dominated by anonymous anti-America posts calling it Fuck America Day and getting +5 Insightful. I think there's clearly been a demographic shift in the last ten years on this site as most of the normal readers left for Reddit/Digg/Hacker News and left behind the more chemically imbalanced posters. It's also interesting to note the difference in traffic--a popular post on Slashdot 10 years ago routinely got over 1,000 posts. This article only has about 400 as of this writing, and a large portion of it is anonymous trolling.
I know it makes you feel really enlightened and intellectual to take the contrarian anti-America position on 9/11, but for you to actually claim that the U.S. was a "respected member of the world community" after Vietnam and other mistakes is completely laughable. You also ignore things like the atrocities of Saddam against his people and the mass graves that were discovered. Absolutely nothing is so black-and-white in this world. Who did America force to act in ways that it wants? You don't give any names. Those who chose to act with America did so of their own volition.
It was the day that marked the beginning of the end for the USA.
I wonder how many people have claimed the end of the U.S. was coming in centuries it has existed. People love to be alarmist because it gives them attention, and they love to bash the U.S. because it makes them feel like enlightened intellectuals, especially if they inexplicably also live in the U.S. A lot of people have latched onto modern liberalism and turned it into an excuse to smugly feel superior to "normal" Americans. You see this a lot on sites like DU and DailyKos, where they've constructed a worldview in which they are the enlightened minority who sees the true reality but is surrounded by lesser individuals who just aren't smart enough to understand.
I suspect that a lot of this trolling is from the same couple of anonymous posters and that it signals a bitterness among people on the political left right now who are stinging from a disappointing presidency and want to relive the halcyon days of Bush-bashing and America-bashing. Bashing America doesn't make you smart. You're still just sitting there doing nothing, having no effect on the world.
100,000 civilians died already in that war and you NEVER hear the USA mentioning them.
And how many died under Saddam?
I can't believe this crap is getting +5. Seriously? "Fuck America Day"? The fact it's all getting posted by anonymous cowards should be a red flag. Did most of the normal people leave Slashdot or something, leaving behind the crazies?
Mozilla doesn't want to fix the problem. 'The Problem' is the reason they exist. Without tracking, Google would be far less profitable and would have far less incentive to pay Mozilla anything. If Mozilla actually fixed the problem, they'd cut off their food supply.
Mozilla, Apple, and Opera have all publicly pledged to implement DNT functionality. It's Google who has so far refused to implement DNT in Chrome because ads are Google's core business.
This is what happens when a tech company gets too big and doesn't know what to focus on. Just like Microsoft used to do, they're releasing pet project after pet project after project, hoping one of them sticks.
I'd like to see the old "first to show the damned thing working" system come back. Ideas are one thing, but there's nothing like a working sample. No ambiguity if you can/can't show it, no pie-in-the-sky "inventions" that lay in wait in patent trolls' filing cabinets.
Then Apple would immediately win its patent lawsuits against HTC since they actually invented the technology they're describing, signed by Jobs himself.
That position is far too balanced and rational. I suggest we drive a troupe of vans around the nation, shoveling piles of money at things until the problems go away. Ooh, Dancing With The Stars is on!
On the other hand, I might be interested in what a Nobel laureate in Economics says about Bitcoin. It seems like his conclusion is similar to mine: it's a waste of time.
Just as soon as Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama stops all the wars. Hint--if you're left of center, you tend to win prizes from left of center organizations.
What's funny is that people are finding any reason they can to dismiss the benchmarks (my favorite is claiming the hardware is different, when it's not).
People keep bringing up Gentoo. If you have to compile your entire distro from source to get competitive performance, there's a serious problem. Why is it so hard for people to accept that one UNIX flavor might be a little faster at something than another? Are people really that fanboyish about Linux around here?
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Yes, can we please go back to the daily cycle of Linux, Google, piracy, and random gadget stories? Two stories about a major overhaul of the most popular desktop operating system in the world is way too much.
I love how you intentionally extract fragments of quotes and completely ignore the images posted that show a laptop that absolutely looks like a MacBook Pro, with the same dimensions, chassis design, keyboard font, logo position, colors, and even a mock Apple logo as the default user avatar on the Windows 7 login in order to resemble the OS X startup screen.
No wonder you posted anonymously. Next.
I wonder, will Samsung's tablet completely rip off Apple like they've been doing in every other product?
Someone on Slashdot used 9/11 to make political points? I'm totally surprised at this turn of events. Next you'll tell me people also argued about how the U.S. writes the date and got modded +5 by calling today "Fuck America Day".
Prepare to get modbombed for not towing 2011 Slashdot's left-of-center worldview. No wonder the traffic these days doesn't compare to that of Slashdot 10 years ago.
So apparently Slashdot's 9/11 memorial article is going to be dominated by anonymous anti-America posts calling it Fuck America Day and getting +5 Insightful. I think there's clearly been a demographic shift in the last ten years on this site as most of the normal readers left for Reddit/Digg/Hacker News and left behind the more chemically imbalanced posters. It's also interesting to note the difference in traffic--a popular post on Slashdot 10 years ago routinely got over 1,000 posts. This article only has about 400 as of this writing, and a large portion of it is anonymous trolling.
I know it makes you feel really enlightened and intellectual to take the contrarian anti-America position on 9/11, but for you to actually claim that the U.S. was a "respected member of the world community" after Vietnam and other mistakes is completely laughable. You also ignore things like the atrocities of Saddam against his people and the mass graves that were discovered. Absolutely nothing is so black-and-white in this world. Who did America force to act in ways that it wants? You don't give any names. Those who chose to act with America did so of their own volition.
I wonder how many people have claimed the end of the U.S. was coming in centuries it has existed. People love to be alarmist because it gives them attention, and they love to bash the U.S. because it makes them feel like enlightened intellectuals, especially if they inexplicably also live in the U.S. A lot of people have latched onto modern liberalism and turned it into an excuse to smugly feel superior to "normal" Americans. You see this a lot on sites like DU and DailyKos, where they've constructed a worldview in which they are the enlightened minority who sees the true reality but is surrounded by lesser individuals who just aren't smart enough to understand.
I suspect that a lot of this trolling is from the same couple of anonymous posters and that it signals a bitterness among people on the political left right now who are stinging from a disappointing presidency and want to relive the halcyon days of Bush-bashing and America-bashing. Bashing America doesn't make you smart. You're still just sitting there doing nothing, having no effect on the world.
And how many died under Saddam?
I can't believe this crap is getting +5. Seriously? "Fuck America Day"? The fact it's all getting posted by anonymous cowards should be a red flag. Did most of the normal people leave Slashdot or something, leaving behind the crazies?
At some point, you have to let things go and just accept that people do things differently.
Or, you can spend the 9/11 anniversary article bitching about how the U.S. writes dates. Your choice.
Google, for example, who is the only major browser vendor not to pledge support for implementing DNT. Gee, I wonder why.
Mozilla, Apple, and Opera have all publicly pledged to implement DNT functionality. It's Google who has so far refused to implement DNT in Chrome because ads are Google's core business.
This is what happens when a tech company gets too big and doesn't know what to focus on. Just like Microsoft used to do, they're releasing pet project after pet project after project, hoping one of them sticks.
Then Apple would immediately win its patent lawsuits against HTC since they actually invented the technology they're describing, signed by Jobs himself.
Are you serious?
That position is far too balanced and rational. I suggest we drive a troupe of vans around the nation, shoveling piles of money at things until the problems go away. Ooh, Dancing With The Stars is on!
Just as soon as Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama stops all the wars. Hint--if you're left of center, you tend to win prizes from left of center organizations.
I can't believe anyone would take this silly currency seriously. Dear Bitcoin fans, have fun with your internet fun bucks, I guess.
No, they weren't. Looks like you didn't spend any time reading the article either.
Psst. You're posting to one.
It was not different hardware. For god's sake, would people stop claiming that and just RTFA?
This claim keeps getting repeated, over and over by people who didn't RTFA. IT IS THE SAME HARDWARE. The operating systems report it differently.
As for Phoronix, nobody here seemed to have a problem with their previous benchmark showing Windows games running better on Linux Cedega. Now that Linux is shown to be losing in a benchmark, suddenly there are all these "problems" with the benchmark. This community is so biased.
What's funny is that people are finding any reason they can to dismiss the benchmarks (my favorite is claiming the hardware is different, when it's not).
Meanwhile, nobody seemed to have a problem with Phoronix's previous benchmark showing Wine/Cedega games running faster on Linux than on Windows. The difference now is that Linux is on the losing end of the benchmark, so it simply must be incorrect in some way.
OS bias is a funny and bizarre thing.
It is identical hardware. Apparently, you didn't read the article either.
It is the same hardware. Did anyone RTFA?
Because, unlike the benchmark you linked, Linux is on the losing end of this one, so it simply must be wrong or inaccurate according to Slashdot.
People keep bringing up Gentoo. If you have to compile your entire distro from source to get competitive performance, there's a serious problem. Why is it so hard for people to accept that one UNIX flavor might be a little faster at something than another? Are people really that fanboyish about Linux around here?