An unknowing visitor at the airport would get a hell of a sock at the warriars and dragons etc. leering down at them.
Warriors and dragons are handing out clothing now? It better be really evil clothing, or else its not even worth it. I can get normal clothing at trade shows and cons, and the people there are usually not dressed up as warriors or dragons, although it might be an improvement for them.
I find it really strange that everyone found mplayer that hard to install back in the day. I remember grabbing it when there were hate quotes about the GPL on their front page and they were selling anti-GPL merchandice, and even back then it took maybe five minutes to start it compiling, and five more to track down and download the win32 codecs. IIRC, there was just some script, like script/build.sh or something that did everything for you.
I'm pretty sure I'm not just talking about a later version than the one Joe Barr reviewed last time, either. I remember reading his review when it first came out and thinking to myself how strange it was that he had such trouble installing it.
As nice as it would be to know when our doom will come, I don't think it'll help us much. Bruce Willis isn't the badass asteroid-smacking guy he once was, unfortunately.
Just a reminder, you're also still in real life when the computer is on. The only difference is that you look a lot funnier hunched over staring at some glowing square in front of you.
Wait, that doesn't make sense. If you get binoculars and there are really transparent screens on the horizon, you won't be able to tell that they're there anyways!
Well, unless they're displaying something. Then you could kinda tell, unless that something was clouds.
Bah! This game is the reason I got one hour of sleep last night. I was watching bricks dry, and I was STILL glued to the screen. I even had a nice little brick psuedo-factory going but then this thing got posted on Slashdot and it was all over.
I've needed a good laugh for a while now. Try getting your WinXP to run on a 486DX with 16 megs of ram. I've got one of those running right next to me, and works quite alot better than Win98 on my Athlon.
I'm not even gonna start on the rest of the post. I'm gonna go die laughing.
> Lots of graphical config tools with eye-andy
> which modify files without even telling you!
And that would be a good candidate for the definition of "user friendly". I for one hate it when my system does things without asking me if it can breathe first. (I'm on a windows box right now and I have foam coming out of my mouth).
Well, I don't know if Microsoft feeds them source code, but I'd doubt it. Besides, the only way you can have a mean lean secure machine is by having millions of people test it for holes having all the resources available to them (which only happens with open source software).
Not at all. I don't think Søren is sitting in his room cursing M$, and neither are the developer(s) that made the mistake. What the Slashdot community is doing is discussing, not fixing. There is a big difference between the people who are officially involved in remeding this and the people who just voice their opinions. We happen to be the latter.
What you just reffered to deals with software, not source copying. However, if you wanna apply that to this:
2 days ago Linux Kernel 2.4.10 was released. Already this problem has been caught and is being dealt with. I would say that that's pretty dang quick, wouldn't you? Imagine that a close-source company released some binary files that had code in it that they had "stolen". How long do you think it'd be before that problem was revealed? Definitely not 2 days.
Imagine for a second that its 5am in the morning, you've been up all night coding, cutting crap out and pasting other crap in. Your hand with the mouse twitches (or you do:d5l instead of:d3l), and the copyright notice that you had put in there is accidently deleted. You're half asleep so you don't notice, never look at the code again untill the release.
Everyone makes mistakes, the important thing is fixing them.
The only instances that I (and this is very rarely) have Linux crash on me are when I'm killing X (and only on my P100 laptop w/ 16 megs of ram). Windows dies on me when I get up to take a dump (and on my 750mhz Athlon w/ 512 megs of ram). I am a great guy and all, but OS's really shouldn't freeze up just by having me leave them to tend to bodily needs. The floor doesn't shake or anything when I stand up, either.
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On the contrary, there was a pretty steady decline in the quali--
Heeey! I liked Lexus Locklear!
An unknowing visitor at the airport would get a hell of a sock at the warriars and dragons etc. leering down at them.
Warriors and dragons are handing out clothing now? It better be really evil clothing, or else its not even worth it. I can get normal clothing at trade shows and cons, and the people there are usually not dressed up as warriors or dragons, although it might be an improvement for them.
I demand that Quest for Glory be put on that first list!
I find it really strange that everyone found mplayer that hard to install back in the day. I remember grabbing it when there were hate quotes about the GPL on their front page and they were selling anti-GPL merchandice, and even back then it took maybe five minutes to start it compiling, and five more to track down and download the win32 codecs. IIRC, there was just some script, like script/build.sh or something that did everything for you.
I'm pretty sure I'm not just talking about a later version than the one Joe Barr reviewed last time, either. I remember reading his review when it first came out and thinking to myself how strange it was that he had such trouble installing it.
As nice as it would be to know when our doom will come, I don't think it'll help us much. Bruce Willis isn't the badass asteroid-smacking guy he once was, unfortunately.
All those people running SELinux might want to reconsider when the next release includes a kernel patched with this. To combat terrorism, of course!
Yes, the courage to say it as an Anonymous Coward
Andrew Glassner *had* a cool page on virtual cinema. Then it was slashdotted.
Just a reminder, you're also still in real life when the computer is on. The only difference is that you look a lot funnier hunched over staring at some glowing square in front of you.
Wait, that doesn't make sense. If you get binoculars and there are really transparent screens on the horizon, you won't be able to tell that they're there anyways!
Well, unless they're displaying something. Then you could kinda tell, unless that something was clouds.
Bah! This game is the reason I got one hour of sleep last night. I was watching bricks dry, and I was STILL glued to the screen. I even had a nice little brick psuedo-factory going but then this thing got posted on Slashdot and it was all over.
Blah, took to long to type :-)
Hmm, I hope we still get to see cheap good AMD desktop processors.
BTW, fp!
S.E.L.F: Sentient Engine Liberation Front
:-)
Pat on the back for anyone who can tell me what game that's from
L O L
I've needed a good laugh for a while now. Try getting your WinXP to run on a 486DX with 16 megs of ram. I've got one of those running right next to me, and works quite alot better than Win98 on my Athlon.
I'm not even gonna start on the rest of the post. I'm gonna go die laughing.
> Lots of graphical config tools with eye-andy
> which modify files without even telling you!
And that would be a good candidate for the definition of "user friendly". I for one hate it when my system does things without asking me if it can breathe first. (I'm on a windows box right now and I have foam coming out of my mouth).
Well, I don't know if Microsoft feeds them source code, but I'd doubt it. Besides, the only way you can have a mean lean secure machine is by having millions of people test it for holes having all the resources available to them (which only happens with open source software).
Nah. Linux is good for everything :-)
*Linux-powered door opens, Linux-powered robot walks in and gives Linux-powered Zardus some Linux-powered soda*
Not at all. I don't think Søren is sitting in his room cursing M$, and neither are the developer(s) that made the mistake. What the Slashdot community is doing is discussing, not fixing. There is a big difference between the people who are officially involved in remeding this and the people who just voice their opinions. We happen to be the latter.
What you just reffered to deals with software, not source copying. However, if you wanna apply that to this:
2 days ago Linux Kernel 2.4.10 was released. Already this problem has been caught and is being dealt with. I would say that that's pretty dang quick, wouldn't you? Imagine that a close-source company released some binary files that had code in it that they had "stolen". How long do you think it'd be before that problem was revealed? Definitely not 2 days.
My comment. (I really didn't feel like rewriting it.)
Imagine for a second that its 5am in the morning, you've been up all night coding, cutting crap out and pasting other crap in. Your hand with the mouse twitches (or you do :d5l instead of :d3l), and the copyright notice that you had put in there is accidently deleted. You're half asleep so you don't notice, never look at the code again untill the release.
Everyone makes mistakes, the important thing is fixing them.
Windows? Stable? I must be dreaming.
The only instances that I (and this is very rarely) have Linux crash on me are when I'm killing X (and only on my P100 laptop w/ 16 megs of ram). Windows dies on me when I get up to take a dump (and on my 750mhz Athlon w/ 512 megs of ram). I am a great guy and all, but OS's really shouldn't freeze up just by having me leave them to tend to bodily needs. The floor doesn't shake or anything when I stand up, either.
Even millions of watchful eyes can't peer into every corner.