is what we've been calling it for some months now, here's a couple of recent favourites:
Reconstruct your male friend and you will love the changes. You won't find even the traces of your small miserable and retarded friend in pants.
More strength, length, and pleasure with less efforts... He temperate? of But. And fix be identical. Which in 'we'll glints God. At injury TWISTED, pausing.
Everyone is frustrtated with software. But claiming that Linux as a whole lacks critics is just FUD. The internet is crawling with critics, but the arguments in the article and in comments here are just variations of "I can't have x therefore Linux is bad". No amount of dressing up changes the core reality that FOSS is for and largely by coders, not users. There will be exceptions of course. But you're missing the point if you think your criticism should carry weight, it never will. Noone cares.
The care factor is all-important to ongoing development in the FOSS world: if the developer doesn't care about feature x it doesn't happen. No amount of whining and complaining or so-called "constructive criticism" will make any difference if it isn't on the developers agenda. The commercial vendors would have you believe that this is solved by throwing money at developers. Wrong again. Commercial vendors, in addition to the care factor, have a financial stake in NOT caring too. Near enough is good enough for market dominance. It wasn't FOSS who thought up software patents.
Is this arrogance? So what if it is? Care factor zero.
Any company with a sufficiently advanced market control is indistinguishable from monopoly. All public companies have the monopolistic mindset.
You can make excuses for Apple as much as you want, I have *never* seen any evidence to the contrary that they did not have the same monopolistic aims as Microsoft, it's only an accident of history that their positions are otherwise. Just because the Borg has a different face makes it no less Borg.
How stupid are you people? Wittering on about irrelevancies such as developer programs and application lockdown, those are just symptoms just like ecosystems make it look like there isn't a dominant species. We're now being told we don't even own what we bought, apparently you can't make enough money that way.
Hopefully, the picture has changed too much for Apple to get away with such practices, they aren't big enough to bend the market to their will, and people will not stand by and be dictated to over their own property. But it won't happen by ranting on a webpage, you actually have to do something about it.
...where the government distrusts its citizens and snoops upon them, and citizens take steps to protect themselves from the government, and the government gets more power to snoop more intrusively, and so on ad absurdum.
As we have seen, massive data collection is useless without the wit to mine that data (as per 9/11). This will not prevent another 9/11, this will merely give little men power too big for them. And we are simply not doing enough to stop this.
Although the potential man-in-the-middle attack is a problem, this was used with great success in WW2 with normal messages - even the losses from German anti-pigeon falcons were minimized!
Because history shows that a negative public reaction will make them think twice. The whole point of this "leak" is to test that public opinion, and allows MPs to avoid thorny questions. Frankly, being called a paranoid kook is preferable to being on a database.
"You should never forget what a fundamentally strong position we are in. We are like the sexiest girl in the world. And all of this bad behavior on the Dentist's part is just his way of showing that he wants to mate with us."
"And control us."
*shakes head* Well I've been here longer than you son, and it still amazes me how such self-serving ignorant dribble could be modded "Insightful". Since you couldn't be bothered reading the article before launching into your hysterical defence, here's a portion of the email from the eyewitness:
This is the true story of the PlayStation 3 debut in Japan. This is the kind of expose that Japanese media are prevented to run because of their nationalism and close ties with big business. While it's honorable to not smear their own countrymen (Sony) for their botched launch, the truth must be told.
...
Sony should be scolded for staging a national launch event with 80,000 units. An extreme lack of supply ignited an extreme surge of demand - that of which poor Chinese and opportunistic Japanese took full advantage of today.
If Sony and major retailers like Bic Camera or Yodobashi Camera are going to participate in launch day festivities like today, police need to be present.
If measures aren't taken to try and curb rampant scalping of hardware through online auctions, then retailers must address their customers - Mandarin-speaking Chinese. Don't bother having your employees shout into megaphones all morning long - nobody understands a word they are saying.
If you want to throw rocks, throw them at the originator instead of the editor.
Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
First, its Forbes which has a track record of providing ideological comfort versus harsh reality for its readers. Then its a Daniel Lyons article which typifies the depth of ignorant PR masquerading as op-ed to which much journalism has sunk. It's not enough to disagree with the man, he has to be vilified as an 'anarchist' (what a quaint old phrase, but 'communist' would sound dated, wouldn't it), then confuses the FSF with Linux quite deliberately.
It's neither informative, coherently argued, or more than simple preaching to a converted radical fringe.
What Hannum obviously longs for is a looser central organization, the current one is crippling NetBSD development. Some of the responses to his post indicate a slavish servitude to the structure instead of finding a structure that serves the project. Here's a clue, guys: Linux-bashing may be cathartic, but it merely frames your irrelevance. In Linux, code gets done, not pretty. Stop using Linux to excuse your own faults, it's lame.
That Apple Developer Reality Distortion Field is so strong the dude's only now managed to tell us about his Cool Trip. Like Wow, man Apple is gonna take over the WORLD man. Forget that Lan-Lon-Lin-Lunix shit, they're NOWHERESVILLE.
No wonder Cringley left InfoWorld with stellar talent like that biting his heels.
Here's something ironic: a local Australian newspaper noted that the faculty under which Terence got his degrees no longer exists. In Australia, we give you our smart people and whatever else we can dig up.
1. Network code takes years to secure. There is no shortcut. 2. Vista supposedly ships early next year. 3. ??? 4. Security firms (oh i forgot, Microsoft too) and blackhats profit.
Now back to your Mac vs XP playground squabble....
those who can, use linux those who can't, use windows those who want both, use mac.
in an ideal world the interface would be a personal choice and the OS would be the same. what's the point in trying to sell one over the other now? just go with what feels right and works. only you can decide. ignore everything else, noone knows what they're talking about.
Because a great deal of the programs you mention are generally ported to Windows by the SAME DEVELOPERS. Microsoft isn't leveraging anything, quite the opposite. FOSS tends to undercut MS's flagship products on the same platform. Microsoft CANNOT use GPL-compatible sourcecode, their employees are forbidden to even look at it. They prefer to take BSD source, which is no great benefit, since everyone else can too.
Slashdot Mirror
is what we've been calling it for some months now, here's a couple of recent favourites:
Reconstruct your male friend and you will love the changes.
You won't find even the traces of your small miserable and retarded friend in pants.
More strength, length, and pleasure with less efforts...
He temperate? of But. And fix be identical.
Which in 'we'll glints God. At injury TWISTED, pausing.
Everyone is frustrtated with software. But claiming that Linux as a whole lacks critics is just FUD. The internet is crawling with critics, but the arguments in the article and in comments here are just variations of "I can't have x therefore Linux is bad". No amount of dressing up changes the core reality that FOSS is for and largely by coders, not users. There will be exceptions of course. But you're missing the point if you think your criticism should carry weight, it never will.
Noone cares.
The care factor is all-important to ongoing development in the FOSS world: if the developer doesn't care about feature x it doesn't happen. No amount of whining and complaining or so-called "constructive criticism" will make any difference if it isn't on the developers agenda. The commercial vendors would have you believe that this is solved by throwing money at developers. Wrong again. Commercial vendors, in addition to the care factor, have a financial stake in NOT caring too. Near enough is good enough for market dominance. It wasn't FOSS who thought up software patents.
Is this arrogance? So what if it is? Care factor zero.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki won an Ignoble Prize in 2002 for his great Belly Button Lint Survey
I refer you to the theories page for prior research in this area.
oh wait there isn't a difference at all.
Any company with a sufficiently advanced market control is indistinguishable from monopoly.
All public companies have the monopolistic mindset.
You can make excuses for Apple as much as you want, I have *never* seen any evidence to the contrary that they did not have the same monopolistic aims as Microsoft, it's only an accident of history that their positions are otherwise. Just because the Borg has a different face makes it no less Borg.
How stupid are you people? Wittering on about irrelevancies such as developer programs and application lockdown, those are just symptoms just like ecosystems make it look like there isn't a dominant species. We're now being told we don't even own what we bought, apparently you can't make enough money that way.
Hopefully, the picture has changed too much for Apple to get away with such practices, they aren't big enough to bend the market to their will, and people will not stand by and be dictated to over their own property. But it won't happen by ranting on a webpage, you actually have to do something about it.
I thought it was just my nethack patches search that was doing it...
...where the government distrusts its citizens and snoops upon them, and citizens take steps to protect themselves from the government, and the government gets more power to snoop more intrusively, and so on ad absurdum.
As we have seen, massive data collection is useless without the wit to mine that data (as per 9/11). This will not prevent another 9/11, this will merely give little men power too big for them. And we are simply not doing enough to stop this.
Although the potential man-in-the-middle attack is a problem, this was used with great success in WW2 with normal messages - even the losses from German anti-pigeon falcons were minimized!
Because history shows that a negative public reaction will make them think twice. The whole point of this "leak" is to test that public opinion, and allows MPs to avoid thorny questions. Frankly, being called a paranoid kook is preferable to being on a database.
he wants the chairs.
Space Lawyer sues YOU!
...they're using pawns to capture a queen, and playing on the enemy's board.
"You should never forget what a fundamentally strong position we are in. We are like the sexiest girl in the world. And all of this bad behavior on the Dentist's part is just his way of showing that he wants to mate with us."
"And control us."
*shakes head* Well I've been here longer than you son, and it still amazes me how such self-serving ignorant dribble could be modded "Insightful". Since you couldn't be bothered reading the article before launching into your hysterical defence, here's a portion of the email from the eyewitness:
...
This is the true story of the PlayStation 3 debut in Japan. This is the kind of expose that Japanese media are prevented to run because of their nationalism and close ties with big business. While it's honorable to not smear their own countrymen (Sony) for their botched launch, the truth must be told.
Sony should be scolded for staging a national launch event with 80,000 units. An extreme lack of supply ignited an extreme surge of demand - that of which poor Chinese and opportunistic Japanese took full advantage of today.
If Sony and major retailers like Bic Camera or Yodobashi Camera are going to participate in launch day festivities like today, police need to be present.
If measures aren't taken to try and curb rampant scalping of hardware through online auctions, then retailers must address their customers - Mandarin-speaking Chinese. Don't bother having your employees shout into megaphones all morning long - nobody understands a word they are saying.
If you want to throw rocks, throw them at the originator instead of the editor.
Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
I'm really not surprised, but I am saddened.
First, its Forbes which has a track record of providing ideological comfort versus harsh reality for its readers. Then its a Daniel Lyons article which typifies the depth of ignorant PR masquerading as op-ed to which much journalism has sunk. It's not enough to disagree with the man, he has to be vilified as an 'anarchist' (what a quaint old phrase, but 'communist' would sound dated, wouldn't it), then confuses the FSF with Linux quite deliberately.
It's neither informative, coherently argued, or more than simple preaching to a converted radical fringe.
Computerworld: The Search For Relevance
What Hannum obviously longs for is a looser central organization, the current one is crippling NetBSD development. Some of the responses to his post indicate a slavish servitude to the structure instead of finding a structure that serves the project. Here's a clue, guys: Linux-bashing may be cathartic, but it merely frames your irrelevance. In Linux, code gets done, not pretty. Stop using Linux to excuse your own faults, it's lame.
That Apple Developer Reality Distortion Field is so strong the dude's only now managed to tell us about his Cool Trip. Like Wow, man Apple is gonna take over the WORLD man. Forget that Lan-Lon-Lin-Lunix shit, they're NOWHERESVILLE.
No wonder Cringley left InfoWorld with stellar talent like that biting his heels.
Here's something ironic: a local Australian newspaper noted that the faculty under which Terence got his degrees no longer exists. In Australia, we give you our smart people and whatever else we can dig up.
But don't take my word for it, read what Steve and Leo say:
http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-051.htm
Here's the short version:
1. Network code takes years to secure. There is no shortcut.
2. Vista supposedly ships early next year.
3. ???
4. Security firms (oh i forgot, Microsoft too) and blackhats profit.
Now back to your Mac vs XP playground squabble....
Whole continents are unaware of this. Perhaps it should be your mission in life, o great sage.
Crate Review System
Now she is paid to have the opposite opinion, that's all.
those who can, use linux
those who can't, use windows
those who want both, use mac.
in an ideal world the interface would be a personal choice and the OS would be the same. what's the point in trying to sell one over the other now? just go with what feels right and works. only you can decide. ignore everything else, noone knows what they're talking about.
The only thing making sense for me is:
bwahahaha, you see, NOONE can stop us now!!!1111
That anything of this gets out at all convinces me they're on a trophy hunt and are keen to beat their chests about it.
Because a great deal of the programs you mention are generally ported to Windows by the SAME DEVELOPERS. Microsoft isn't leveraging anything, quite the opposite. FOSS tends to undercut MS's flagship products on the same platform. Microsoft CANNOT use GPL-compatible sourcecode, their employees are forbidden to even look at it. They prefer to take BSD source, which is no great benefit, since everyone else can too.