Step 1, post a few sentences that bears some semblance to the story:
"Rhinobird writes: "I was just catching up on some stuff and ran across this article on New Scientist. It describes a new Hitachi wearable computer which is planned for a release of Christmas 2001. More info can be found at Hitachi's site here(1) and here(2).""
Step 2, obviously post some anti-MS rhetoric. Slashdot readers love that:
"These will come with Windows CE officially, but unofficially, how long could it take to make them run other OSes as well?"
Step 3, post some mildly amusing but ultimately annoying "dept." comment:
""from the stop-wincing-in-disbelief dept.""
Wrap it up with another anti-Microsoft spiel if you can. We post at least one Microsoft article daily, and a majority of our readers use IE, so it'd be best to piss them off. Don't worry about the sub-100,000 userID's: those guys will defend us. They never leave.
I like some Anime, but I don't like Cowboy Bebop. Yet, I have to *constantly* hear CmdrTaco griping how they aren't enough episodes in America. So should I bitch and moan that I can't turn off just the Cowboy Bebop shit?
Do what I do. Turn off the people and sections you may *remotely* not have an interest in (for example, "movies"). Then, when you see the movie icon on the very top of the homepage (which is there regardless if you turned the section off or not) you can decide if you want to take your chances, click it, and read what might be a review. Otherwise, do what I do: every so often choose that topic and look at the past months' "missed" articles. There are all kinds of things that don't make the homepage.
Nevertheless, if you miss a "great epic" by John Katz in the process of ditching his reviews, the world won't end, your body won't cave in, and your eyebrows won't sear off. It's a fucking website.
"Great to see Linux to become the source for a whole bunch of free SDL games (some of them with commercial-level quality)"
Ahem. *cough*:) Someone's been going to the school of CmdrTaco's all-inclusive non-objective statements. I would hardly call a majority of the SDL games commercial quality. A majority are playful diversions (like minesweeper) and the few that are commercial quality ARE commercial (like Loki's wares).
Don't get me wrong: I think SDL is a step in the right direction. But are you going to get Joe User to play these games when for $20 used you can get a decent copy of Final Fantasy for PS?
Don't these "video walls" remind you of the ones from Fahrenheit 451? The ones that people would stare at to watch TV, and consider the lifesize people there "family"?
I don't know... huge video screens, like VR, kind of freaks me out. Too much of an opportunity to forego reality.
It might have something to do with the fact that most people have better things to do on Sundays than wait to make "first posts" on Slashdot. Just a thought.
By the way, I take Jon Katz's reviews with everyone else's. The more opinions, the better. If I can take the opinion of a technical movie by a friend who until just recently thought Linux was permanently damaging her modem, I sure as hell can take Jon Katz.
Isn't it always funny how we completely and utterly rip on companies that procure ridiculous and insipid lawsuits, but if it has to do with Star Wars we on Slashdot let it go? Personally, I think that foot icon should be used for most of the Rambus articles on this site.
Oh, by the way, George Lucas is a total asshole. Sorry to let you guys know. Although, I'm sure Slashdot will be one of the first to tell the coming of Star Wars II.
Actually a majority of their programs (including IE) are more standards-based than even Netscape. When the W3C proposes a standard, MS (perhaps from previous bad experience) makes the necessary changes quickly.
One point is a little offbase in the article. I happen to love Amazon, but I get unsolicited mail from them all the time, much of which I have to manually opt-out of. It began about a year ago and has been a steady stream since.
Sorry, but if I don't ask for movie showtimes, and I rarely every buy any DVD's, why are you telling me about them?
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I might try to hack it in assembler on my TI-99/4A.:)
By the way, what exactly do we win if we have the best entry?
"It's good to see ISPs like Verizon reject such pressure from big label companies."
*Groan*. Right. That's like saying "it's good to see convenience store robbers get away all the time."
What are we fighting for here, exactly? I want to be able to place copies of music and videos I own on my own devices. That's what's called "legal". Everybody else, or so it seems, wants to share the music and videos with a million other people on the internet that don't pay. That's what's called "illegal".
The hacker/techie/music pirates always seem to walk this fine line between legal and illegal, slipping over on each side from time to time. Yes, the argument that we should be allowed to keep copies of the same music in various parts of our house is a sound one (legal side). But no, we shouldn't be allowed to share it with a million people on the internet (illegal side).
I was about to say this but I'm glad someone else brought this up: what's the problem with recording the things to tape? I mean really... you're losing some quality, but people have been doing it for years. Clearly, if people want digital, unprotected copies, nine times out of ten they want to send them around the internet.
When it comes to digital copies, I use Windows Media Player (whose default is to copy-protect the songs). Do I notice a difference in my music playing? Not at all. I have no need to send commercial music around the web, and I think if most people thought logically about it, they wouldn't either.
It's my understanding that Hotmail accounts are full-fledged Passport accounts. Hotmail accounts also required no real authentication, allowing any user (including myself) to set up some arbitrary ones with the name "Joe User" and the address "123 Anwhere Street".
So how in the hell are they going to look up your name and trace your footprints regarding who downloads what, when all they really have (using reasonable security with cookies turned off) is your IP address? Sounds like a false alarm on the legal front to me.
Do I intend to download the source? Absolutely. I'd love to see how they code embedded devices (which essentially have to be as tight code as you can get). Do I plan to use the source and redistribute it? No. Do I plan to think more about the more creative code and use highly-changed variations myself? Absolutely. There's only so many ways you can write cout I think I'm going to make it a habit to shoot down alarmists on Slashdot, because there seem to be a great number of them (including the editors).
Why? Because your choice doesn't happen to be one on the list, and you'd like to force your code choice on the other 95% yourself? I'd prefer that Windows XP included Perl and g++, but I can't have that. And my guess is most people would never use any of the environments anyway.
There's a reason why MS is even honoring the notion that they can drop Java, and it isn't just the war between Sun and itself. So few sites use Java nowadays that most Windows users never touch it. If it were a different story (like the AOL debacle) MS would be more or less forced to provide it because of the sheer numbers.
Face it. The war is over. Java was a great academic language, and it's "fun" to code in, but it's not going to take over c++ on the desktop and HTML on the web anytime soon.
"As Microsoft has said they won't be including Java in WinXP, but are cool with "letting" OEMs put in other programs, let's see the manufacturers strike a blow for competition, and compatibility, and including a non-"extended and embraced" JRE."
Right. So I can ruin an already fragile (yet functioning) Windows XP with even more restriction-bashing code. Give me a break.
These are the same people who argue against bloat by MS, but when it's bloat by a 3rd-party company (other than AOL), and it might wreck even further hell on the system's stability, they're all for it.
Why don't we throw g++ in there, while we're at it? And Perl? Let's fill the whole hard drive with interpreters and engines.
Can't mix code, huh? I guess Konqueror (KDE) and Netscape are screwed. Konqueror, of course, adds browser functionality to the OS like IE, and Netscape has always net you browse local files (however awkwardly).
"More than that, like others have already said, they're reluctant to install software."
I beg to differ. Think how many saps CometCursor has bagged by having their software "automatically install"? I know more than a few people, some of my family members included, that don't bother to read the privacy notice when IE flashes it up on the screen (the one that designates the provider of the content).
1.5 minutes. That's how long it took me to download the Java VM in Windows XP. Internet Explorer automatically pops up a windows the first page you go to with Java, you click OK, and the page runs. No restarting the computer or the browser. 6 megs total for the VM.
Explain to me again why we're worried? Windows XP also doesn't have support for RealVideo (Windows never has) so that involved me downloading a 5 minute download from Real. The Java download was completely and utterly automatic (similar to downloading Shockwave for Windows).
This is another fine example of people making mountains out of Microsoft molehills.
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And if he WAS talking about Windows, what's the problem?
I think this stuff is hilarious. Mojo Dojo from Powerpuff Girls is another example.
Step 1, post a few sentences that bears some semblance to the story:
"Rhinobird writes: "I was just catching up on some stuff and ran across this article on New Scientist. It describes a new Hitachi wearable computer which is planned for a release of Christmas 2001. More info can be found at Hitachi's site here(1) and here(2).""
Step 2, obviously post some anti-MS rhetoric. Slashdot readers love that:
"These will come with Windows CE officially, but unofficially, how long could it take to make them run other OSes as well?"
Step 3, post some mildly amusing but ultimately annoying "dept." comment:
""from the stop-wincing-in-disbelief dept.""
Wrap it up with another anti-Microsoft spiel if you can. We post at least one Microsoft article daily, and a majority of our readers use IE, so it'd be best to piss them off. Don't worry about the sub-100,000 userID's: those guys will defend us. They never leave.
Do what I do. Turn off the people and sections you may *remotely* not have an interest in (for example, "movies"). Then, when you see the movie icon on the very top of the homepage (which is there regardless if you turned the section off or not) you can decide if you want to take your chances, click it, and read what might be a review. Otherwise, do what I do: every so often choose that topic and look at the past months' "missed" articles. There are all kinds of things that don't make the homepage.
Nevertheless, if you miss a "great epic" by John Katz in the process of ditching his reviews, the world won't end, your body won't cave in, and your eyebrows won't sear off. It's a fucking website.
And Mr. Levine, if you don't like Katz's articles, TURN THEM OFF.
Ahem. *cough* :) Someone's been going to the school of CmdrTaco's all-inclusive non-objective statements. I would hardly call a majority of the SDL games commercial quality. A majority are playful diversions (like minesweeper) and the few that are commercial quality ARE commercial (like Loki's wares).
Don't get me wrong: I think SDL is a step in the right direction. But are you going to get Joe User to play these games when for $20 used you can get a decent copy of Final Fantasy for PS?
I don't know... huge video screens, like VR, kind of freaks me out. Too much of an opportunity to forego reality.
That is just about the dumbest, most biased statement I've ever read, even for Slashdot. :)
If I wanted something other than a Jon Katz review, why would I have come to Slashdot?
By the way, I take Jon Katz's reviews with everyone else's. The more opinions, the better. If I can take the opinion of a technical movie by a friend who until just recently thought Linux was permanently damaging her modem, I sure as hell can take Jon Katz.
Oh, by the way, George Lucas is a total asshole. Sorry to let you guys know. Although, I'm sure Slashdot will be one of the first to tell the coming of Star Wars II.
Actually a majority of their programs (including IE) are more standards-based than even Netscape. When the W3C proposes a standard, MS (perhaps from previous bad experience) makes the necessary changes quickly.
Sorry, but if I don't ask for movie showtimes, and I rarely every buy any DVD's, why are you telling me about them?
By the way, what exactly do we win if we have the best entry?
*Groan*. Right. That's like saying "it's good to see convenience store robbers get away all the time."
What are we fighting for here, exactly? I want to be able to place copies of music and videos I own on my own devices. That's what's called "legal". Everybody else, or so it seems, wants to share the music and videos with a million other people on the internet that don't pay. That's what's called "illegal".
The hacker/techie/music pirates always seem to walk this fine line between legal and illegal, slipping over on each side from time to time. Yes, the argument that we should be allowed to keep copies of the same music in various parts of our house is a sound one (legal side). But no, we shouldn't be allowed to share it with a million people on the internet (illegal side).
When it comes to digital copies, I use Windows Media Player (whose default is to copy-protect the songs). Do I notice a difference in my music playing? Not at all. I have no need to send commercial music around the web, and I think if most people thought logically about it, they wouldn't either.
Totally, utterly, completely unnecessary. Why not just run PocketPC? In some ways it's a superior GUI.
Great, XML. Now MS can use it in the next version of Office. :P
So how in the hell are they going to look up your name and trace your footprints regarding who downloads what, when all they really have (using reasonable security with cookies turned off) is your IP address? Sounds like a false alarm on the legal front to me.
Do I intend to download the source? Absolutely. I'd love to see how they code embedded devices (which essentially have to be as tight code as you can get). Do I plan to use the source and redistribute it? No. Do I plan to think more about the more creative code and use highly-changed variations myself? Absolutely. There's only so many ways you can write cout I think I'm going to make it a habit to shoot down alarmists on Slashdot, because there seem to be a great number of them (including the editors).
But has anyone gotten GRUB to boot NT partitions?
There's a reason why MS is even honoring the notion that they can drop Java, and it isn't just the war between Sun and itself. So few sites use Java nowadays that most Windows users never touch it. If it were a different story (like the AOL debacle) MS would be more or less forced to provide it because of the sheer numbers.
Face it. The war is over. Java was a great academic language, and it's "fun" to code in, but it's not going to take over c++ on the desktop and HTML on the web anytime soon.
Right. So I can ruin an already fragile (yet functioning) Windows XP with even more restriction-bashing code. Give me a break.
These are the same people who argue against bloat by MS, but when it's bloat by a 3rd-party company (other than AOL), and it might wreck even further hell on the system's stability, they're all for it.
Why don't we throw g++ in there, while we're at it? And Perl? Let's fill the whole hard drive with interpreters and engines.
Can't mix code, huh? I guess Konqueror (KDE) and Netscape are screwed. Konqueror, of course, adds browser functionality to the OS like IE, and Netscape has always net you browse local files (however awkwardly).
I beg to differ. Think how many saps CometCursor has bagged by having their software "automatically install"? I know more than a few people, some of my family members included, that don't bother to read the privacy notice when IE flashes it up on the screen (the one that designates the provider of the content).
Explain to me again why we're worried? Windows XP also doesn't have support for RealVideo (Windows never has) so that involved me downloading a 5 minute download from Real. The Java download was completely and utterly automatic (similar to downloading Shockwave for Windows).
This is another fine example of people making mountains out of Microsoft molehills.