It's not that blocking popups has officially been declared theft or anything, the company is simply selling a service and presenting it in the best possible light. "Sick of users not looking at your ads? Force them to!" would decidedly not work. Until someone actually important takes this stance, as the case is with media giants, I'll hold my breath.
I don't even care that the media giants say not watching ads is stealing, let alone some lame website.
It's official. Microsoft now confirms. MS-DOS is dead.
Popularized in the 80's beyond academic circles due to the exploding popularity of the IBM PC's and the ability to make cheap, compatible hardware, MS-DOS has lost marketshare steadily throughout the decade of the 90's.
Since the release of Windows '95, more and more powerful computers have been required to run the "latest and greatest software," and as a result, older computers often get tucked away in the attic with old Apple IIe machines.
Those that are still in use are generally used by part-time hackers and developers, who use modern UNIX-variants, such as *BSD (also dying) and GNU/Linux (commonly referred to as Linux), which have had support for 386-based machines for over a decate.
It's time we accepted this simple fact: MS-DOS is DYING.
We're trained at a young age to worship sports figures as our heroes, and accept our mediocre lives because those guys on tv are too.
Our men are physically becoming more and more impotent, as our per capita sperm count is dropping dramatically. How can we stand up and fight if we can't even 'stand up?'
The Orwellian future is here my friends. Only he couldn't even conceive the degree to which we are sinking.
It's not in CVS yet (server down, other issues), but Linux from Scratch builds GCC 3.2.1 for most people out of the box with the same commands as 3.2. Also, many have reported that they have built LFS with glibc 2.3.1, and have experienced huge speed increases. I know a few on the IRC channels who have successfully built glibc 2.3.1 with no changes to the commands used in LFS 4.0. Note that GCC 3.2.1 is required for glibc 2.3.1.
Yah, but keep in mind that he wants to keep the old project name and assume control of development. I think there is a distinction between that and a fork; a big one. "Project foo is now being actively maintained by me" requires a lot more tying of loose ends than "Project foo is derived from the abandoned bar, and is picking up where it left off."
This just goes to show how our values are superimposed collectively onto the silly left-right perspective. The Democrats are "for" civil liberties, but tighter reins on corporations. The Republicans are "for" tax cuts, letting businesses have their way more, and also morality laws. Both sides have huge problems.
For instance, ever consider how tough the Democrats have made it to do business in this country? No wonder everyone's leaving! And as for the Republicans, I think we've all had enough of privacy abuse and basic civil rights infringement.
I say support a third party candidate who thinks outside of the confinements of media-blips and dried-up dead-horse issues.
Yah it was a typo--being that there are 50 states and 2 Senators a pop. Still, I fail to see how Ted's voting record on this issue means anything here.
So naive--you think the Democrats are any better? Ever heard of the Kennedy family? The answer to these problems is not partisan politics at all. They set up this phony left-right paradigm to get us quabbling over really lame issues while really scary stuff gets passed without much media attention. Take this bill that just passed 90-0. The Democrats voted for it too.
This is the hole I put my faith in What about the information?
He also backed out of secret plans to goad the US into war by orchestrating a Reichstag at burning a few months before he was assassinated. Fudgepacker.
> In the Brave New World we've been slowly creeping towards, the trend is that the wants of the Consumer should be shaped around the demands of the market, rather than vice versa.
Exactly! No one's interested in my CD's anymore? Go to Congress and force people back to a crappy, overpriced alternative. People not buying broadband? Let's (the government) make the deal more...appealing...to folks out there!
First off, let me say that I have hit the final straw with geek-politics on Slashdot.
> Liberals are not always Democrats, and most Democrats are only Liberals when a poll tells them to be, but Republicans are evil facists, oligarchs, and theocrats 100% of the time.
Ok, you first try to tell us what the 'real' definition of a Democrat and a Liberal is, and why they differ. You make some huge jumps there, but nothing prepared me for the 'correct' definition of a Republican. I, too, dislike where the party is going, but this, sir, is complete flamebait. I don't think they are evil facists, oligarchs, and theocrats 100% of the time. Not even close. Look at Senator McCain's reaction and front against the Telecommunications Act, where he fought against a bicamerally-supported bill that gave the media giants more power and monopoly room, and less mandate for disclosure. He fought hard against a law that I'd bet (judging from your other posts) you'd also disagree with. 100% of the time? Get real, pal.
> Even the worst democrat would at least be the lesser of two evils, but maybe it is time for progressives and labor to start a new party.
That statement would be a monumentally unsoud leap even if the premises in the previous statement were true. You want "progress?" Where to? Where are we now? You don't seem to have much of a clue where to begin... The Democrats have been hacking away at tax dollars, increasing the size and power of the domestic government since FDR, while the Republicans are now beginning to start their own "war on liberties," and have consistently increased the "defense" budget to mammoth porportions. Of course, since I'm arguing with you, I don't need to back this up at all.
> Greens and libertarians aren't it!
I disagree. I think the Libertarians are "it." I'd love to tell you why I think that, but you don't actually have anything to say about it!
> From what I've read, it appears they're seeking specific examples on how the law restricts research or inhibits the marketplace.
What about specific examples about how the law restricts or inhibits freedom? Or do only the marketplaces (i.e. MPAA/MIAA) count here? I hope they make a new forum, because I don't give a damn that the DMCA 'cripples' the marketplaces when I think about what it does to freedom!
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If I were smarter, I would have emailed as if I were really into it, waited for their response, and then sent 'em the link. Then they would have flagged me as a potential victim, and so they might have actually visited the link. As it stands, I concede victory on the basis of getting the thrill of a real response;)
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I got a Nigerian money scam today with a yahoo address in the header.
I replied with a cheap goatse.cx link. It went something like "Sure, I'll do it--but can you please check my [a href="http://goatse.cx"]website[/a] tomorrow--I will post a picture of an open door to indicate that you have been granted the go-ahead. If not, it will mean I need another day for my paperwork to be prepared. I have been having troubles with my bank lately, and they might be looking into me, but fortunately I have the right friends. I think email is much too insecure for this." I guess trolls do provide something useful for the community.
I don't use menu transparency, so I wouldn't know. In fact, I'd venture to say that the real issue is that no one really tests them out much because no one else uses them. They look fine in screenshots, but even correctly done transparent menus look and behave silly.
That being said, Mosfet tends to shift focus from many projects at a time, so it's not uncommon that a few quirks can stick around for a few releases.
Still, since transparency is an "extra" feature built on top of an "extra" ui engine, I don't think this needs to be criticized too heavily.
> I'm way off topic now, but i hope you see what I mean. Leaving a bank based on its browser support is not treating the problem. It is treating a symptom.
Ok, I see your point, and I raise it;)
Suppose I have a demand, X, from service provider Y, who provides Z. The demand may be legit to you, and it may be ridiculous to you. We can both agree that it is a legitimate concern to me, however (in this scenario; I personally don't give a crap). Hence, I ask my fellow friends, many of whom I can expect to have had the same demand, X, in the past, some of whom went through company Y to get Z. I am hoping that someone will show me a similar company, but will meet demand X, and therefore I can give my business to the company that supports my interests.
You say the question is bogus, but I'm of the mind that no matter how bogus the individual's standards are, he has a right to demand whatever he pleases, however ludicrous it may be. And you know what? I can think of a lot more bogus things than this. Imagine you didn't have any Windows machines period? I don't, and being that I just installed a fresh system from scratch, suppose I don't really want to bother installing WINE or wrestle with IE in Linux.
Plenty of people at Slashdot have experienced this issue first hand. Maybe not you or I, but lets let those folks that have help the guy out a bit.
Exactly--a consumer's power is his choice. His free-market vote, if you will. If it is acceptable that people vote third-party to voice their opinion despite impossible odds, it should be cool to change banks/software vendor/service provider/anything-you-damn-well-want.
The level of cynicism that Ask Slashdotters receive is absolutely outrageous. Give the guy a break.
I support consumers setting their own standards, and not accepting corporate bottom lines. That being said, we can safely say that browser-based boycotting is ineffective at best.
Read the article again, and you'll see that he merely asks the Slashdot crowd for alternative companies that won't lock him in to Internet Explorer. He does not attempt to thrust any form of digital politics into the limelight, or attempt to gain sympathy from the tech-savvy crowd here. Notice he does not splurge out a long tirade about the evils of IE or the importance of standards; he merely asks for an alternative. Choice in the free market (or semi-free, as the case may be) is like a vote--ever wonder why people vote for third party candidates?
I'm sorry for ranting, but I'm sick of how Ask Slashdot is being done. Most people don't have an "answer," so they criticize the question. Or in other cases, they attempt to give the obvious answer, regardless of being covered in one of the links! People don't Ask Slashdot to get majorly dissed.
Well, this rant has turned into less about you and more about Ask Slashdot in general. Perhaps this should've gone in my journal.
First off, I compiled KDE from scratch using prelinking and a good amount of optimizations. I also compiled Mosfet's hi-perfomance liquid style engine. The ui looks better than Windows, but that's not what we're debating. I haven't installed Windows on this and never will, so I can't compare, but KDE runs fine for me.
As for the pre-emptive patch, that doesn't mean Linux is slow, it merely increases how often the kernel processes messages, so for example the 'networking' latency involved with moving windows around in X is reduced. Is this the patch you're talking about? It did get merged into the devel source tree iirc. If not, you know a nice kernel buzzword to impress people on Slashdot with (but speed is not pertinent here; merely KDE not being a Windows clone).
Anyways, your point (which you now claim I bolstered) was that KDE is trying to be like Windows, but fails because it's too slow. I showed it to be untrue first of all because KDE is made to look like Windows in distros, and can really look and behave like almost anything you want it to. That was enough to show that the point was moot. As for the slowness, I didn't seriously address it beyond giving my testimonial, since speed is relative to the machine and user. KDE is fast *for me*, but maybe that's because I have 512mb ram and 2 1ghz p3s.
Your post then goes on to refute my consideration of slowness, because I did not intend to construct an argument on that (nor could I effectively). You don't even mention the real meat of my original post. You took what you felt you could argue easily and ran with it.
Even if I were to give up on the speed thing, the fact remains that saying KDE is a slow Windows look-alike is complete fucking bullshit because KDE is not a Windows look-alike.
Furthermore, to me, KDE is just an imitation of Windows desktop, only a lot slower.
Complete and utter shit, my friend. KDE is far more themeable than you obviously realize. Distros theme KDE to look and feel like Windows so that 'cl00less n00bs' feel more at home. What do they get in return? MS cheerleaders saying KDE looks too much like Windows (hence, it's trying to be Windows; hence, it is inferior--somewhere along the line 'Linux' gets confused for KDE).
By the way, there are way more Aqua/OSX themes for KDE than for XP, and there are a number of completely unique themes. Keep in mind that themes are more than just Winamp 'skins'--they can overhaul the look of the entire widget set. With respect to KDE being slower, that again is the distro's "fault" for building without prelinking and being forced to build for depracated architectures (i.e. 586 and below).
You, my friend, are completely full of shit on your second point. As far as Windows being stable (first point), it seems both Linux and Windows have mixed reviews. I haven't used Windows in like 4 years so I don't know much about it.
I'm sure you've seen worse, but isn't it oh so fun to flame?
I made the Gentoo comment because if I didn't, I would get a few replies that say "if you need to customize the installation from source, check out gentoo [gentoo.org]." Gentoo is great, it's developers are great, and most of it's users are fine. There are just a few zealots that piss the hell outta me going around the web and making plugs for Gentoo. I wonder how a Gentoo zealot would like every plug-post to be followed with a "or if you want more control, try LFS [linuxfromscratch.org]. I've been using it for years, and you can tailor every component to your needs. Hell, you don't even need glibc." It is a FACT that you get more control with LFS, but I am content that most people don't use it. Rather, I don't care.
Besides, I'll take./configure and editing host.def or mozilla's equivalent over emerge any day:P
P.S. I'm sorry for going on the Gentoo rant. My 'dumb' comment was a botched attempt to prevent Gentoo-zealot-plugs. It ended up that I got mad, decent Gentoo users pissed of at me.
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I don't even care that the media giants say not watching ads is stealing, let alone some lame website.
Popularized in the 80's beyond academic circles due to the exploding popularity of the IBM PC's and the ability to make cheap, compatible hardware, MS-DOS has lost marketshare steadily throughout the decade of the 90's.
Since the release of Windows '95, more and more powerful computers have been required to run the "latest and greatest software," and as a result, older computers often get tucked away in the attic with old Apple IIe machines.
Those that are still in use are generally used by part-time hackers and developers, who use modern UNIX-variants, such as *BSD (also dying) and GNU/Linux (commonly referred to as Linux), which have had support for 386-based machines for over a decate.
It's time we accepted this simple fact: MS-DOS is DYING.
We're trained at a young age to worship sports figures as our heroes, and accept our mediocre lives because those guys on tv are too.
Our men are physically becoming more and more impotent, as our per capita sperm count is dropping dramatically. How can we stand up and fight if we can't even 'stand up?'
The Orwellian future is here my friends. Only he couldn't even conceive the degree to which we are sinking.
FUD (f-uh-d) (n) - Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
PS. *BSD is DYING.
Guys pay no attention to this, I meant to post it to the gcc 3.2.1 release article. Sorry for the mess up.
LFS is in the lead, Gentoo is in a distant second, and everyone else is, well, everyone else.
It's not in CVS yet (server down, other issues), but Linux from Scratch builds GCC 3.2.1 for most people out of the box with the same commands as 3.2. Also, many have reported that they have built LFS with glibc 2.3.1, and have experienced huge speed increases. I know a few on the IRC channels who have successfully built glibc 2.3.1 with no changes to the commands used in LFS 4.0. Note that GCC 3.2.1 is required for glibc 2.3.1.
Yah, but keep in mind that he wants to keep the old project name and assume control of development. I think there is a distinction between that and a fork; a big one. "Project foo is now being actively maintained by me" requires a lot more tying of loose ends than "Project foo is derived from the abandoned bar, and is picking up where it left off."
For instance, ever consider how tough the Democrats have made it to do business in this country? No wonder everyone's leaving! And as for the Republicans, I think we've all had enough of privacy abuse and basic civil rights infringement.
I say support a third party candidate who thinks outside of the confinements of media-blips and dried-up dead-horse issues.
Yah it was a typo--being that there are 50 states and 2 Senators a pop. Still, I fail to see how Ted's voting record on this issue means anything here.
This is the hole I put my faith in
What about the information?
He also backed out of secret plans to goad the US into war by orchestrating a Reichstag at burning a few months before he was assassinated. Fudgepacker.
Exactly! No one's interested in my CD's anymore? Go to Congress and force people back to a crappy, overpriced alternative. People not buying broadband? Let's (the government) make the deal more...appealing...to folks out there!
Ok, you first try to tell us what the 'real' definition of a Democrat and a Liberal is, and why they differ. You make some huge jumps there, but nothing prepared me for the 'correct' definition of a Republican. I, too, dislike where the party is going, but this, sir, is complete flamebait. I don't think they are evil facists, oligarchs, and theocrats 100% of the time. Not even close. Look at Senator McCain's reaction and front against the Telecommunications Act, where he fought against a bicamerally-supported bill that gave the media giants more power and monopoly room, and less mandate for disclosure. He fought hard against a law that I'd bet (judging from your other posts) you'd also disagree with. 100% of the time? Get real, pal.
That statement would be a monumentally unsoud leap even if the premises in the previous statement were true. You want "progress?" Where to? Where are we now? You don't seem to have much of a clue where to begin... The Democrats have been hacking away at tax dollars, increasing the size and power of the domestic government since FDR, while the Republicans are now beginning to start their own "war on liberties," and have consistently increased the "defense" budget to mammoth porportions. Of course, since I'm arguing with you, I don't need to back this up at all.
I disagree. I think the Libertarians are "it." I'd love to tell you why I think that, but you don't actually have anything to say about it!
What about specific examples about how the law restricts or inhibits freedom? Or do only the marketplaces (i.e. MPAA/MIAA) count here? I hope they make a new forum, because I don't give a damn that the DMCA 'cripples' the marketplaces when I think about what it does to freedom!
If I were smarter, I would have emailed as if I were really into it, waited for their response, and then sent 'em the link. Then they would have flagged me as a potential victim, and so they might have actually visited the link. As it stands, I concede victory on the basis of getting the thrill of a real response ;)
I replied with a cheap goatse.cx link. It went something like "Sure, I'll do it--but can you please check my [a href="http://goatse.cx"]website[/a] tomorrow--I will post a picture of an open door to indicate that you have been granted the go-ahead. If not, it will mean I need another day for my paperwork to be prepared. I have been having troubles with my bank lately, and they might be looking into me, but fortunately I have the right friends. I think email is much too insecure for this." I guess trolls do provide something useful for the community.
Talk about Ask Slashdot answers you never really want. Though it seems to be the only viable solution that doesn't involved getting a Dell.
That being said, Mosfet tends to shift focus from many projects at a time, so it's not uncommon that a few quirks can stick around for a few releases.
Still, since transparency is an "extra" feature built on top of an "extra" ui engine, I don't think this needs to be criticized too heavily.
Ok, I see your point, and I raise it ;)
Suppose I have a demand, X, from service provider Y, who provides Z. The demand may be legit to you, and it may be ridiculous to you. We can both agree that it is a legitimate concern to me, however (in this scenario; I personally don't give a crap). Hence, I ask my fellow friends, many of whom I can expect to have had the same demand, X, in the past, some of whom went through company Y to get Z. I am hoping that someone will show me a similar company, but will meet demand X, and therefore I can give my business to the company that supports my interests.
You say the question is bogus, but I'm of the mind that no matter how bogus the individual's standards are, he has a right to demand whatever he pleases, however ludicrous it may be. And you know what? I can think of a lot more bogus things than this. Imagine you didn't have any Windows machines period? I don't, and being that I just installed a fresh system from scratch, suppose I don't really want to bother installing WINE or wrestle with IE in Linux.
Plenty of people at Slashdot have experienced this issue first hand. Maybe not you or I, but lets let those folks that have help the guy out a bit.
Exactly--a consumer's power is his choice. His free-market vote, if you will. If it is acceptable that people vote third-party to voice their opinion despite impossible odds, it should be cool to change banks/software vendor/service provider/anything-you-damn-well-want.
I support consumers setting their own standards, and not accepting corporate bottom lines. That being said, we can safely say that browser-based boycotting is ineffective at best.
Read the article again, and you'll see that he merely asks the Slashdot crowd for alternative companies that won't lock him in to Internet Explorer. He does not attempt to thrust any form of digital politics into the limelight, or attempt to gain sympathy from the tech-savvy crowd here. Notice he does not splurge out a long tirade about the evils of IE or the importance of standards; he merely asks for an alternative. Choice in the free market (or semi-free, as the case may be) is like a vote--ever wonder why people vote for third party candidates?
I'm sorry for ranting, but I'm sick of how Ask Slashdot is being done. Most people don't have an "answer," so they criticize the question. Or in other cases, they attempt to give the obvious answer, regardless of being covered in one of the links! People don't Ask Slashdot to get majorly dissed.
Well, this rant has turned into less about you and more about Ask Slashdot in general. Perhaps this should've gone in my journal.
As for the pre-emptive patch, that doesn't mean Linux is slow, it merely increases how often the kernel processes messages, so for example the 'networking' latency involved with moving windows around in X is reduced. Is this the patch you're talking about? It did get merged into the devel source tree iirc. If not, you know a nice kernel buzzword to impress people on Slashdot with (but speed is not pertinent here; merely KDE not being a Windows clone).
Anyways, your point (which you now claim I bolstered) was that KDE is trying to be like Windows, but fails because it's too slow. I showed it to be untrue first of all because KDE is made to look like Windows in distros, and can really look and behave like almost anything you want it to. That was enough to show that the point was moot. As for the slowness, I didn't seriously address it beyond giving my testimonial, since speed is relative to the machine and user. KDE is fast *for me*, but maybe that's because I have 512mb ram and 2 1ghz p3s.
Your post then goes on to refute my consideration of slowness, because I did not intend to construct an argument on that (nor could I effectively). You don't even mention the real meat of my original post. You took what you felt you could argue easily and ran with it.
Even if I were to give up on the speed thing, the fact remains that saying KDE is a slow Windows look-alike is complete fucking bullshit because KDE is not a Windows look-alike.
Complete and utter shit, my friend. KDE is far more themeable than you obviously realize. Distros theme KDE to look and feel like Windows so that 'cl00less n00bs' feel more at home. What do they get in return? MS cheerleaders saying KDE looks too much like Windows (hence, it's trying to be Windows; hence, it is inferior--somewhere along the line 'Linux' gets confused for KDE).
By the way, there are way more Aqua/OSX themes for KDE than for XP, and there are a number of completely unique themes. Keep in mind that themes are more than just Winamp 'skins'--they can overhaul the look of the entire widget set. With respect to KDE being slower, that again is the distro's "fault" for building without prelinking and being forced to build for depracated architectures (i.e. 586 and below).
You, my friend, are completely full of shit on your second point. As far as Windows being stable (first point), it seems both Linux and Windows have mixed reviews. I haven't used Windows in like 4 years so I don't know much about it.
4) Have you, or a family member, ever tried to get the "first post?" Note: Admission of guilt is not necessarily a universal disqualifier.
I made the Gentoo comment because if I didn't, I would get a few replies that say "if you need to customize the installation from source, check out gentoo [gentoo.org]." Gentoo is great, it's developers are great, and most of it's users are fine. There are just a few zealots that piss the hell outta me going around the web and making plugs for Gentoo. I wonder how a Gentoo zealot would like every plug-post to be followed with a "or if you want more control, try LFS [linuxfromscratch.org]. I've been using it for years, and you can tailor every component to your needs. Hell, you don't even need glibc." It is a FACT that you get more control with LFS, but I am content that most people don't use it. Rather, I don't care.
Besides, I'll take ./configure and editing host.def or mozilla's equivalent over emerge any day :P
P.S. I'm sorry for going on the Gentoo rant. My 'dumb' comment was a botched attempt to prevent Gentoo-zealot-plugs. It ended up that I got mad, decent Gentoo users pissed of at me.