Anyone else notice how many times in recent memory Bill has thrown out that whole "bet the company" lingo? They sit there with all the power anyone could ask for and sometimes even appear to be "immune" for lack of a better word to even their own mistakes and then talk about how this or that new product is a risk?
New MS releases in almost any area are as close to sure things as anything in IT can get. Whether they deserve to be or not.
1. Windows programs work fine for me out of the box 95% of the time too. I can only speak to the programs I've dealt with and I know lots of people report having trouble with Windows programs but overall I haven't seen much trouble out of them. Of course I don't install every single thing I see that might have some potential to entertain or interest me. A lot of the Windows users I know click everything that says "Ok" even if the text underneath that "Ok" reads something like "May we now please eat your brain" and they get in trouble that way. That I think speaks more to the availability of bad programs for Windows versus same for Linux and the overall intelligence of Windows users than anything else.
2. Generally speaking I've had more problems getting Linux to work with my hardware than Windows. I'll be the first to admit this has everything to do with what particular hardware you're trying to use and what version of Linux or Windows you are trying to put on it but I don't think this is a monster advantage for Linux by any stretch of the imagination. It's just the simple facts that most of the PC hardware out there is aimed at Windows and if they want to make it work with anything at all it's Windows first. Frustrating though. I run into this with my Macs too.
3. You go to Download.com if you want to but it's two different worlds for WIndows and Linux when it comes to "free" software you can download. Maybe you can go grab anything you please for Linux online with a reasonable expectation of getting a good program but it's been my experience that Windows software offered for free is crap. You want Windows software that's not broken or hard to get working then you need to pay for it. It's as simple as that. This seems like comparing apples and oranges to me. The available free software for Windows is mostly cheap crap thrown together to separate rubes from their money. Free software for Linux is the equivilant of paid for product in the Windows world.
4. Sometimes software does require tweaking but the two operating systems are pointed at two totally different audiences. Windows users, or the majority of them don't tweak squat and look at you like you're one of those weird "computer people" if you try. They buy it and use it as is and they're apparently fine with that. Maybe they don't know better, maybe they don't want to know better. Maybe ignorance is bliss but most of the time they don't need to "tweak it" and don't care if they can anyway.
5. If you think Windows software is "no documentation software" then I suggest you go open one of the boxes for once and see for yourself. It's got plenty of documentation and it's easy enough to find out more online thanks to the sheer amount of it someone has almost always been down the road you are on before. They don't have the "uber network" of geeks ready to get you a driver pumped out from Denmark in a half hour but there is enough information out there to survive. Gimmie a break here.
Just a short note to point you back to how life is in this particular world. Get out more man. Look around.
Having said that I don't particularly care for Microsoft products for the most basic of reasons. I can't condone their business practices and think they are a grossly predatory company that needs to have their balls knocked in. That's reason enough, no need to go all propaganda on them and start talking about stuff that doesn't exist or blowing problems out of proportion.
Flamebait indeed but I laughed anyway. Maybe it's because I first thought of South Park when I read the word NAMBLA.
Seriously though it's news I guess but it's not news to anyone who pays any attention to Microsofts SOP. It's completely predicatable and totally expected. The details are the only things that change. Their actions stay the same day to day, year to year, and decade to decade.
I'm more surprised that there is anyone on the planet who honestly thought that Microsoft would do anything for them without trying to make money off of them.
Your lame comments addressed (out of boredom at the moment) in sequence follows:
"You are a mother fucking idiot. It's people like you who give the US it's bad reputation abroad. You are arrogant without reason."
Well I can think of 12,000 reasons called warheads that might be considered cause for arrogance so granted. I'm arrogant. If you say I am then I must be right?
I live in a country that's pretty much capable of doing whatever it wants to in regards to the majority of the rest of the world and I admit it. It's not that I completely agree with it but it's a reality. People who claim it isn't aren't looking at the world around them. We call the shots or can call the shots in more places than any single other nation on earth. Dispute that for me. You can't. It's just true. Arab nations don't want the US to go to war in Iraq. Aside from the yea or nay of it being right you can bet your ass that if we want it then it will happen.
Is it right? Probably not. Will it happen? No doubt about it if the US says so.
Personally I think it's poor tips from tightwads that give the US a bad reputation abroad but that's just me. You might have something there.
"At least I, as an American, am willing to admit that the US doesn't have the power that most dupes have been conned into thinking that we do"
This is stupid. We have the power to level entire nations. We have power your tiny little ass has never even dreamed of. We have the ability to equal the worlds production capability in a pinch and we can cut off the food of hundreds of millions of people around the world in the blink of an eye (or rather the time it takes for one man to sign a piece of paper and/or verbally give an order). Do you have any idea how many countries economies freakin vanish if we pull our citizens off of the teet of cheap gas? Once again man, not necessarily right but almost impossible to refute. Ok, that one simply isn't right. Hell even I can see that. Still true though.
"With fools like you and the current administration jumping around acting like schoolyard bullies and claiming their superiority, things are only going to get worse. We don't deserve to have that kind of power anyway."
My ass never left my seat when I typed that (so you can't say I was jumping around. You can say it but it ain't the truth) and you don't have to be a Republican to think the US is the country pushing the buttons and pulling the levers in the world today. The Democrats take care of it when the Republicans aren't doing it and they do it just as well. Actually if you read the FUCKING NEWSPAPERS or watch the news on the TELEVISION, or even go to a news site on the internet of your choice OTHER THAN SLASHDOT then you would see that no one does any claiming of superiority. It wouldn't do for public consumption and it makes us look, well, just like "schoolyard bullies". The US seems to prefer to take a "we're just one of the guys" approach to world domination and we even go out of our way to pretend that all of these other so called powers get to feel like they are being consulted and part of "the team".
No one is fooled by this, except perhaps you, but it would be poor form to simply come out and say "Everyone get out of our way or prepare to get your ass kicked". What can we say, we don't want anyones feelings hurt over this whole "we got the balls and you got the sack" thing.
Oh and deserve has absolutely nothing to do with it. Never has, never will.
"But, thanks to you we are doomed to have more things like Spet (?) 11th happen. I'll bet you're one of those fucks that drives your sorry ass to work in an SUV as well... You've done far more to further finance terrorism in that fucking monstrosity than any drug dealer has. What a lame ass. You are an embarassment. Leave my sight now."
I caused "Spet 11th"? No shit? Well damn, I'm sorry and I'll do whatever I can to try and make it up to everyone....
Know what? Fuck you instead. I don't own a friggin SUV so by your logic I'm innocent of the whole mess. September 11th was caused by (pay close attention you shaved fucking ape) A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES WHO DECIDED TO KILL PEOPLE. That's the whole story. Nothing more to see here, move along.
Damn near everyone on the planet figures the US is the source of some problem they have. Most of them are wrong but we make a convienient target. We're big, we're bad, and we inspire plenty of fear since we're the biggest and baddest thing on the block.
Knucklehead monkeys praying to Allah (equal opportunity offender here, I think your basic Christian type "God" fellow is just as much of a joke) and living their lives by 12th century rules crack me up. They talk about how bad we are and how we're so friggin evil. If we were as evil as they think we are their countries would be black glass and bones. We'd get the oil the old fashioned way. We'd kill the indigenous population for it and/or enslave them. Just like back in the day when England was leading the pack all the other western nations would line up for their share of the pot too. And just like they all kissed ass up to England then they would be lining up to be our little something special today.
Arrogant, yes. Running the show, yes. More powerful than anything else on this planet, of course. Right, I kind of doubt it. Inevitable, oh yeah.
I make $42,300 per year working for county level goverment and I could leave this country with relative ease.
I pay on a house that ran a little over 123K, sits on 2.8 acres, and that I have financed on a 15 year note. I'm paying $890 month for this privilege. And no folks, it don't have wheels nor is it "doublewide".
I make payments on a 2001 Regal GS that I bought last year at 0% (just doing my part to fight terrorism) and have utilities, groceries, and the standard set of bills that come with being alive in America.
You're doing it wrong kiddo. Not sure in what way but you're without a doubt doing it wrong. I have plenty of money leftover for myself.
It's more like the price you pay for living in America and not knowing how to work your budget correctly. Blame it on the rest of the world, blame it on Dub'Yah, or whatever else you can think of but get one thing straight. If you can't manage to live comfortably on that salary you're the one to blame, no one else.
I think you just don't want to trade in your home and quality used Nissan Sentra for the possibility that your big move abroad might prove nothing more than that you were better off here than you thought and you're a moron.
Note I said "possibility". You might not be a moron. Maybe you bought your house at a high interest rate and live somewhere where 45K ain't enough to rent a decent shopping cart. It's possible.
I got a pack of users that seemingly stepped out of the Twilight Zone. We've been over this how many times already? The "EULA virus" hits the department. and here we go again.
I work in County government so we have this gigantic global address list with every swinging dick who works here on it. It's like 13,000 people so it's the happy hunting ground if you are a virus and want to play with an address list. Outlook is of course our secure, trusty, and reliable mail client since we are bound forever apparently to the Microsoft world. I of course have no say whatsoever in this. It's local government what can I say. Some idiot-fuck-moron I'll never meet decides what the various departments can buy and that's what I get to support.
Minutes after it starts showing up I get three kinds of calls. The first is from the knuckleheads that always call me whenever anything comes into their inbox that they don't understand. These are the same drooling monkeys that call me because they just got an error message stating that their "internet connection is not optimized" So I start going through the "yes this is something you need to delete" speech over and over and over again. In a way these are actually kind of safe because they're scared of the beep sound their computer makes when they start it. I can live with these people.
Then all the dingbats in clerical start calling. Every single one of those ignorant bitches (I don't have a problem with relating to women so chill on my use of the term bitches. I am only applying it to the pack of shaved apes who type in my departments clerical section.) is trying like hell to see the greeting card that's been left for them online. No matter how many times we go over things like this they never get it and never will. They are my networks achillese heel. Anything new and unrecognized by their AV software is getting in. No questions asked. They've all been steadily clicking it since it arrived and aren't calling because it might be a virus. They are calling because "their internet" doesn't work. They can't see the card.
Finally I get the people calling who know better but like to call just to let me know they know better. The "Is this a virus" crowd who ask every time and know the answer (unlike group one who only remember their names because their business card has it written on the front.)
"What the fuck were you thinking?" What I wouldn't give for that to be considered a valid response where I work. If I had my way every one of those mouth breathing, six toed, no learning motherfuckers would be sitting in front of a dumb terminal with a monochrome screen.
"Is this a virus?" Well no shit it's a virus you fucking genius.
If you work all day in county government and your job consists of typing meaningless documents and you never, ever have even met one of the county judges, and your job doesn't require you to interact with any of them at any time for any reason then what are the odds that one of them pulled YOU at random out of the global address list and suddenly decided to leave YOU a greeting card at some web site?
Just let me make it to retirement. Please God? Please?
It's kind of easy to point out how completely insane something is if you can actually have access to it. Showing things from the Nazi era and making them subjects of discussion instead of banishing them from existence sounds like the way to go on this to me. You can really see just how idiotic and dangerous those people were if you have access to all the material.
On a side note you ever notice that you never see people with a mind like Einstein and a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger running around advocating White Supremecy? It's always possibly the least "supreme" white people you can imagine representing that view. They are themselves the best argument against their beliefs. Why censor them at all.
What is it with those guys anyway? Do they have a collection of small flags of other countries in every house so they have one to wave no matter who comes riding by in a tank or what?
...that the particular marketing gimmick in question was extremely effective. Apple made computers that weren't "like every other computer" and sold a bunch of them. Now you look at all the monkeys doing strange things (some functional, others far from it) to differentiate their beige box from everyone elses beige box and ask yourself who understood that different was cool first?
Seven. It was seven times. Very hard and from a height of about 3 feet. That's what your mom was doing wrong. Her whole "as many times as it takes till he blacks out" approach from 5 feet was the problem in your case.
The story is BS but not for the reasons you stated. It's BS because it isn't news to anyone, anywhere. With the possible exception of Linux in it's many flavors EVERYONE is trying to close the OS and EVERYONE will fail at it to one degree or another.
They close things off, someone figures out how to do it anyway, repeat these steps till the end of time.
There are simple enough replacements for Kaleidoscope out there for OSX already and if 10.2 breaks them then no big deal, they get fixed quickly enough.
Well, if they open sourced OSX and released the entire thing to the world at large it wouldn't be very long before you found that you didn't need a Macintosh to run it, or something very much like it.
I can't believe you said that! Do you have any idea what you in all likelyhood have just started? Countless geeks are preparing even as we speak to attempt it. Do you have any idea how much productive time a thoughtless statement like that can waste if you toss it out in THIS crowd?
Oh god, been there and done it and still doing it. Do it enough and you reach a point where if it plugs into a wall it's your responsibility. I've been drafted to fix the dollar bill feeder on the company soda machine at times.
If that isn't bad enough I get people bringing their home machines in for repairs and my boss actually ENCOURAGES it. Only downside to my job is that people have computers at home.
This little thread coming off the correction of the use of the word "moot" is priceless. One of the things that helps to make slashdot worth reading in detail everyday. Wish I had some points to mod it funny.
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Anyone else notice how many times in recent memory Bill has thrown out that whole "bet the company" lingo? They sit there with all the power anyone could ask for and sometimes even appear to be "immune" for lack of a better word to even their own mistakes and then talk about how this or that new product is a risk?
New MS releases in almost any area are as close to sure things as anything in IT can get. Whether they deserve to be or not.
Does anyone else think there could be an argument made that calling MS Office "productive software" might be stretching things a bit?
Hey just making an observation here but....
1. Windows programs work fine for me out of the box 95% of the time too. I can only speak to the programs I've dealt with and I know lots of people report having trouble with Windows programs but overall I haven't seen much trouble out of them. Of course I don't install every single thing I see that might have some potential to entertain or interest me. A lot of the Windows users I know click everything that says "Ok" even if the text underneath that "Ok" reads something like "May we now please eat your brain" and they get in trouble that way. That I think speaks more to the availability of bad programs for Windows versus same for Linux and the overall intelligence of Windows users than anything else.
2. Generally speaking I've had more problems getting Linux to work with my hardware than Windows. I'll be the first to admit this has everything to do with what particular hardware you're trying to use and what version of Linux or Windows you are trying to put on it but I don't think this is a monster advantage for Linux by any stretch of the imagination. It's just the simple facts that most of the PC hardware out there is aimed at Windows and if they want to make it work with anything at all it's Windows first. Frustrating though. I run into this with my Macs too.
3. You go to Download.com if you want to but it's two different worlds for WIndows and Linux when it comes to "free" software you can download. Maybe you can go grab anything you please for Linux online with a reasonable expectation of getting a good program but it's been my experience that Windows software offered for free is crap. You want Windows software that's not broken or hard to get working then you need to pay for it. It's as simple as that. This seems like comparing apples and oranges to me. The available free software for Windows is mostly cheap crap thrown together to separate rubes from their money. Free software for Linux is the equivilant of paid for product in the Windows world.
4. Sometimes software does require tweaking but the two operating systems are pointed at two totally different audiences. Windows users, or the majority of them don't tweak squat and look at you like you're one of those weird "computer people" if you try. They buy it and use it as is and they're apparently fine with that. Maybe they don't know better, maybe they don't want to know better. Maybe ignorance is bliss but most of the time they don't need to "tweak it" and don't care if they can anyway.
5. If you think Windows software is "no documentation software" then I suggest you go open one of the boxes for once and see for yourself. It's got plenty of documentation and it's easy enough to find out more online thanks to the sheer amount of it someone has almost always been down the road you are on before. They don't have the "uber network" of geeks ready to get you a driver pumped out from Denmark in a half hour but there is enough information out there to survive. Gimmie a break here.
Just a short note to point you back to how life is in this particular world. Get out more man. Look around.
Having said that I don't particularly care for Microsoft products for the most basic of reasons. I can't condone their business practices and think they are a grossly predatory company that needs to have their balls knocked in. That's reason enough, no need to go all propaganda on them and start talking about stuff that doesn't exist or blowing problems out of proportion.
Hardly, I felt like writing and bitching and did so. I enjoyed myself too. What's not to love?
Flamebait indeed but I laughed anyway. Maybe it's because I first thought of South Park when I read the word NAMBLA.
Seriously though it's news I guess but it's not news to anyone who pays any attention to Microsofts SOP. It's completely predicatable and totally expected. The details are the only things that change. Their actions stay the same day to day, year to year, and decade to decade.
I'm more surprised that there is anyone on the planet who honestly thought that Microsoft would do anything for them without trying to make money off of them.
I'm not in your sight. I'm on your monitor.
Your lame comments addressed (out of boredom at the moment) in sequence follows:
"You are a mother fucking idiot. It's people like you who give the US it's bad reputation abroad. You are arrogant without reason."
Well I can think of 12,000 reasons called warheads that might be considered cause for arrogance so granted. I'm arrogant. If you say I am then I must be right?
I live in a country that's pretty much capable of doing whatever it wants to in regards to the majority of the rest of the world and I admit it. It's not that I completely agree with it but it's a reality. People who claim it isn't aren't looking at the world around them. We call the shots or can call the shots in more places than any single other nation on earth. Dispute that for me. You can't. It's just true. Arab nations don't want the US to go to war in Iraq. Aside from the yea or nay of it being right you can bet your ass that if we want it then it will happen.
Is it right? Probably not. Will it happen? No doubt about it if the US says so.
Personally I think it's poor tips from tightwads that give the US a bad reputation abroad but that's just me. You might have something there.
"At least I, as an American, am willing to admit that the US doesn't have the power that most dupes have been conned into thinking that we do"
This is stupid. We have the power to level entire nations. We have power your tiny little ass has never even dreamed of. We have the ability to equal the worlds production capability in a pinch and we can cut off the food of hundreds of millions of people around the world in the blink of an eye (or rather the time it takes for one man to sign a piece of paper and/or verbally give an order). Do you have any idea how many countries economies freakin vanish if we pull our citizens off of the teet of cheap gas? Once again man, not necessarily right but almost impossible to refute. Ok, that one simply isn't right. Hell even I can see that. Still true though.
"With fools like you and the current administration jumping around acting like schoolyard bullies and claiming their superiority, things are only going to get worse. We don't deserve to have that kind of power anyway."
My ass never left my seat when I typed that (so you can't say I was jumping around. You can say it but it ain't the truth) and you don't have to be a Republican to think the US is the country pushing the buttons and pulling the levers in the world today. The Democrats take care of it when the Republicans aren't doing it and they do it just as well. Actually if you read the FUCKING NEWSPAPERS or watch the news on the TELEVISION, or even go to a news site on the internet of your choice OTHER THAN SLASHDOT then you would see that no one does any claiming of superiority. It wouldn't do for public consumption and it makes us look, well, just like "schoolyard bullies". The US seems to prefer to take a "we're just one of the guys" approach to world domination and we even go out of our way to pretend that all of these other so called powers get to feel like they are being consulted and part of "the team".
No one is fooled by this, except perhaps you, but it would be poor form to simply come out and say "Everyone get out of our way or prepare to get your ass kicked". What can we say, we don't want anyones feelings hurt over this whole "we got the balls and you got the sack" thing.
Oh and deserve has absolutely nothing to do with it. Never has, never will.
"But, thanks to you we are doomed to have more things like Spet (?) 11th happen. I'll bet you're one of those fucks that drives your sorry ass to work in an SUV as well... You've done far more to further finance terrorism in that fucking monstrosity than any drug dealer has. What a lame ass. You are an embarassment. Leave my sight now."
I caused "Spet 11th"? No shit? Well damn, I'm sorry and I'll do whatever I can to try and make it up to everyone....
Know what? Fuck you instead. I don't own a friggin SUV so by your logic I'm innocent of the whole mess. September 11th was caused by (pay close attention you shaved fucking ape) A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES WHO DECIDED TO KILL PEOPLE. That's the whole story. Nothing more to see here, move along.
Damn near everyone on the planet figures the US is the source of some problem they have. Most of them are wrong but we make a convienient target. We're big, we're bad, and we inspire plenty of fear since we're the biggest and baddest thing on the block.
Knucklehead monkeys praying to Allah (equal opportunity offender here, I think your basic Christian type "God" fellow is just as much of a joke) and living their lives by 12th century rules crack me up. They talk about how bad we are and how we're so friggin evil. If we were as evil as they think we are their countries would be black glass and bones. We'd get the oil the old fashioned way. We'd kill the indigenous population for it and/or enslave them. Just like back in the day when England was leading the pack all the other western nations would line up for their share of the pot too. And just like they all kissed ass up to England then they would be lining up to be our little something special today.
Arrogant, yes. Running the show, yes. More powerful than anything else on this planet, of course. Right, I kind of doubt it. Inevitable, oh yeah.
"How High? - The United Nations when we say jump.
I make $42,300 per year working for county level goverment and I could leave this country with relative ease.
I pay on a house that ran a little over 123K, sits on 2.8 acres, and that I have financed on a 15 year note. I'm paying $890 month for this privilege. And no folks, it don't have wheels nor is it "doublewide".
I make payments on a 2001 Regal GS that I bought last year at 0% (just doing my part to fight terrorism) and have utilities, groceries, and the standard set of bills that come with being alive in America.
You're doing it wrong kiddo. Not sure in what way but you're without a doubt doing it wrong. I have plenty of money leftover for myself.
It's more like the price you pay for living in America and not knowing how to work your budget correctly. Blame it on the rest of the world, blame it on Dub'Yah, or whatever else you can think of but get one thing straight. If you can't manage to live comfortably on that salary you're the one to blame, no one else.
I think you just don't want to trade in your home and quality used Nissan Sentra for the possibility that your big move abroad might prove nothing more than that you were better off here than you thought and you're a moron.
Note I said "possibility". You might not be a moron. Maybe you bought your house at a high interest rate and live somewhere where 45K ain't enough to rent a decent shopping cart. It's possible.
Had you said the same thing about Clinton my response would be no different. It would still fall on the deaf ears of a fool though.
Too many exposures to "The Truth is out there" eh?
You can't manage to get out of America but you make $45,000 a year? If it's financial then I'm sure would could take up a collection or something.
"Yet they believe they can control the world"
We do. it's as simple as that.
Apparently their inventory has been slasdotted. Is this the first time this has happened to a physical object?
I got a pack of users that seemingly stepped out of the Twilight Zone. We've been over this how many times already? The "EULA virus" hits the department. and here we go again.
I work in County government so we have this gigantic global address list with every swinging dick who works here on it. It's like 13,000 people so it's the happy hunting ground if you are a virus and want to play with an address list. Outlook is of course our secure, trusty, and reliable mail client since we are bound forever apparently to the Microsoft world. I of course have no say whatsoever in this. It's local government what can I say. Some idiot-fuck-moron I'll never meet decides what the various departments can buy and that's what I get to support.
Minutes after it starts showing up I get three kinds of calls. The first is from the knuckleheads that always call me whenever anything comes into their inbox that they don't understand. These are the same drooling monkeys that call me because they just got an error message stating that their "internet connection is not optimized" So I start going through the "yes this is something you need to delete" speech over and over and over again. In a way these are actually kind of safe because they're scared of the beep sound their computer makes when they start it. I can live with these people.
Then all the dingbats in clerical start calling. Every single one of those ignorant bitches (I don't have a problem with relating to women so chill on my use of the term bitches. I am only applying it to the pack of shaved apes who type in my departments clerical section.) is trying like hell to see the greeting card that's been left for them online. No matter how many times we go over things like this they never get it and never will. They are my networks achillese heel. Anything new and unrecognized by their AV software is getting in. No questions asked. They've all been steadily clicking it since it arrived and aren't calling because it might be a virus. They are calling because "their internet" doesn't work. They can't see the card.
Finally I get the people calling who know better but like to call just to let me know they know better. The "Is this a virus" crowd who ask every time and know the answer (unlike group one who only remember their names because their business card has it written on the front.)
"What the fuck were you thinking?" What I wouldn't give for that to be considered a valid response where I work. If I had my way every one of those mouth breathing, six toed, no learning motherfuckers would be sitting in front of a dumb terminal with a monochrome screen.
"Is this a virus?" Well no shit it's a virus you fucking genius.
If you work all day in county government and your job consists of typing meaningless documents and you never, ever have even met one of the county judges, and your job doesn't require you to interact with any of them at any time for any reason then what are the odds that one of them pulled YOU at random out of the global address list and suddenly decided to leave YOU a greeting card at some web site?
Just let me make it to retirement. Please God? Please?
It's kind of easy to point out how completely insane something is if you can actually have access to it. Showing things from the Nazi era and making them subjects of discussion instead of banishing them from existence sounds like the way to go on this to me. You can really see just how idiotic and dangerous those people were if you have access to all the material.
On a side note you ever notice that you never see people with a mind like Einstein and a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger running around advocating White Supremecy? It's always possibly the least "supreme" white people you can imagine representing that view. They are themselves the best argument against their beliefs. Why censor them at all.
Well they should be!
What is it with those guys anyway? Do they have a collection of small flags of other countries in every house so they have one to wave no matter who comes riding by in a tank or what?
Well, ok then if that doesn't work then maybe they will try to buy the government of and entire country.
If all else fails maybe they go ahead and buy the entire country?
That's not a hint.
So you are telling me that someone else understood it first and obviously you know something I don't.
Come on, fill me in. Who understood it first.
Seriously, all sarcasm aside I just want to know who it is you are talking about.
Seven. It was seven times. Very hard and from a height of about 3 feet. That's what your mom was doing wrong. Her whole "as many times as it takes till he blacks out" approach from 5 feet was the problem in your case.
Now you know, and knowing is half that battle!
The story is BS but not for the reasons you stated. It's BS because it isn't news to anyone, anywhere. With the possible exception of Linux in it's many flavors EVERYONE is trying to close the OS and EVERYONE will fail at it to one degree or another.
They close things off, someone figures out how to do it anyway, repeat these steps till the end of time.
There are simple enough replacements for Kaleidoscope out there for OSX already and if 10.2 breaks them then no big deal, they get fixed quickly enough.
Well, if they open sourced OSX and released the entire thing to the world at large it wouldn't be very long before you found that you didn't need a Macintosh to run it, or something very much like it.
"You can't Mod a console game"
I can't believe you said that! Do you have any idea what you in all likelyhood have just started? Countless geeks are preparing even as we speak to attempt it. Do you have any idea how much productive time a thoughtless statement like that can waste if you toss it out in THIS crowd?
Yeah ok, whatever you say pal. Just put the crack pipe down ok?
Oh god, been there and done it and still doing it. Do it enough and you reach a point where if it plugs into a wall it's your responsibility. I've been drafted to fix the dollar bill feeder on the company soda machine at times.
If that isn't bad enough I get people bringing their home machines in for repairs and my boss actually ENCOURAGES it. Only downside to my job is that people have computers at home.
This little thread coming off the correction of the use of the word "moot" is priceless. One of the things that helps to make slashdot worth reading in detail everyday. Wish I had some points to mod it funny.