Your post ignores the subject of SEVERAL lawsuits in which microsoft was convicted and punished, including licensing shenanegans which have to this day given hundreds of useless copies of windows to linux users who got it with their new computer.
Please wake up. This is a long debated discussion topic which has more facets than the hope diamond, and your childish simplification only serves to damage your own completely tangental arguement.
And bitching about moderation is mature and oh-so level headed, eh? Replying to a complaint about a said moderation to complain about how juvinille the community is, very grown up.
By the way, half his sentences were nearly gibberish thanks to basic grammar mistakes. If I don't know everything about grammar, then the parent knows next to nothing(Meaning: I don't have perfect spelling and grammar, but at least I've tried on a basic level). It was only "well said" if you give up on any reasonable standards in determining what is well said, and change the meaning to simply mean "I agree".
DAmn straight. By demoninzing Gates in all situations, even donating money to save children, slashdotters/anti microsofters just prove that they're just as stubborn and stupid as many companies, like the member companies of the RIAA and MPAA or SCO, who get under *OUR* skin.
My home will always be in the middle of nowhere, tucked between five hundred kilometers of forest in every direction......but I can't believe you ranted for a whole page about such stupid shit.
omg lol wtf r u tlaking about!!!!111 slshadot englsh is gret i dont know hwo you guys cud nock it!!!!11
Yeah...
Linux is a community made of of mostly literate folks who generally understand the language well enough to be understood. Zealots complaining about the use of apostrophe 's' as a possessive, you can do worse than slashdot in terms of grammar, easily.
That said, only pedants can claim perfect spelling and grammar at all times, ever.
I was going to respond to each of your points, but why bother? Think you're secure? Fine by me. Hell, go ahead and think that you're superior to all of us who decided to just use something else. So skin off my ass.
I'm not going to have to rebuild your system if it gets hit with a virus, nor am I going to have to listen to you gripe about how slow your computer is because it's clandestinely loaded itself full of spyware.
When it happens though, I'll point and laugh at you just like I'll point and laugh at the next guy using phpbb who gets insta-hacked.
You'd be suprised how easy it is to just tell your visitors "hey, use this, or you're going to get a slighly fuckupified experience". I did that on my site because I wanted to use transparent pngs, and now the majority of my site visits are from non-ie. In december, mozilla actually outdid explorer by a few percentage points.
It's taking a stand for your code, but in my experience, many users are willing to give the alternative a shot if you're giving something worth seeing.
(Actually, I don't know anything about you, but the number of "you're wrong! Douchebag!" replies means I have to go with the crowd, regardless of whether they're right or wrong.:)
Beyond that, some tags work differently from version to version. I recall a person I was helping out whose page didn't work in mozilla -- turned out that the tag worked differently in ie4, ie5, ie5.5, ie for mac, ie6, and ie6sp2, but worked the same in opera and mozilla.
Do you REALLY want to risk your business on such a standard?
Well. One reboot for the kernel, but I think it still proves you're wrong. Sorry man.
That said, I use XP, and I'll be using uClinux to compile games in linux using freebasic without needing another partition, or a reboot.:P
Actually, using SP2 slipstreamed onto an xp machine running firefox, I don't need to worry about patching or reboots either, thanks to built-in firewall.
Maybe I'm just 31337er than you are(basic language aside)?:P
Sorry man, I was busy here playing commerical games made by EA and bullfrog and ubisoft on windows xp, but I saw your post on firefox and opened it as a tab so I could reply to it later, but I've forgotten what I was going to say...
Wait...was it something about you being a fucktard stuck in his own world? Yes, I think it was.
Yeah, how horrible, how ethically challenged, to oppose a program which represents security holes so huge you can ( and many COMPANIES have ) drive a truck through them.
I think you need to inspect your priorities.
Granted, I'm probably biased, but I'm biased by having to repair machines which didn't need to be repaired after installing firefox. Simple as that. Will firefox someday be insecure? Probably, but right now, it's a salve for the disease infesting the internet. Any questions?
That's like saying "forcing people to take the aids vaccine is the same as forcing people to inject hiv into themselves". Yes they're both forcing something, but calling them ethical equivilants is so stupid the english language doesn't even have a word to describe it's stupidity.
I'd have to say that either your security settings were abnormally high or you just didn't use the internet in the sense that most people would. Many free webspace providers include ads which clandestinely install spyware, many links on google actually point to sites which will try to compromise ie without your help, and all in all, just browsing is a threat.
Compare that to firefox/mozilla/opera/kmeleon/other, where it doesn't happen. You're comparing apples to grenades in terms of what's safe to eat here.
I want you to realize how stupid what you said is.
there is no parallel in the modern world.
"I use modern humans on all our computers but you never know when they'll get a cold that will cause you to use cro-magnon humans(who could get herpes by looking at a rock, or the flu by looking at the sky wrong) besides is it rally[sic] that big of a deal to have the icon on your desktop"
Doesn't even get it across correctly. One is nearly immune and may be compromised by some particularly powerful bugs designed specifically for it. The other is immune to NOTHING and may be compromised by a strong breeze.
Everyone in my family uses Firefox or mozila or k-meleon, not by my choice. I couldn't enforce so many households, by a long shot. They use it because it works, and it eliminates the problems, and your sentence contradicts reality so much that my brain is fractured just trying to piece together such horrible logic.
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No, he's donating windows XP disks to inject into children.
"AH! MY VEINS! PLEASE STOP! I CAN'T SEE!"
Your post ignores the subject of SEVERAL lawsuits in which microsoft was convicted and punished, including licensing shenanegans which have to this day given hundreds of useless copies of windows to linux users who got it with their new computer.
Please wake up. This is a long debated discussion topic which has more facets than the hope diamond, and your childish simplification only serves to damage your own completely tangental arguement.
And bitching about moderation is mature and oh-so level headed, eh? Replying to a complaint about a said moderation to complain about how juvinille the community is, very grown up.
By the way, half his sentences were nearly gibberish thanks to basic grammar mistakes. If I don't know everything about grammar, then the parent knows next to nothing(Meaning: I don't have perfect spelling and grammar, but at least I've tried on a basic level). It was only "well said" if you give up on any reasonable standards in determining what is well said, and change the meaning to simply mean "I agree".
You can make a good point and still be a troll. Tone is a non-trivial part of writing.
DAmn straight. By demoninzing Gates in all situations, even donating money to save children, slashdotters/anti microsofters just prove that they're just as stubborn and stupid as many companies, like the member companies of the RIAA and MPAA or SCO, who get under *OUR* skin.
Bahh.. Go get a real life.
...but I can't believe you ranted for a whole page about such stupid shit.
My home will always be in the middle of nowhere, tucked between five hundred kilometers of forest in every direction...
"At least us commoners have common sense"
If you think that moron born with a silver spoon in his mouth is common, you've just proven your statement WRONG.
omg lol wtf r u tlaking about!!!!111 slshadot englsh is gret i dont know hwo you guys cud nock it!!!!11
Yeah...
Linux is a community made of of mostly literate folks who generally understand the language well enough to be understood. Zealots complaining about the use of apostrophe 's' as a possessive, you can do worse than slashdot in terms of grammar, easily.
That said, only pedants can claim perfect spelling and grammar at all times, ever.
Wait a week; I'll be compiling it on linux when I get my new machine next week, I'll let you know then (probably in this thread)
I was going to respond to each of your points, but why bother? Think you're secure? Fine by me. Hell, go ahead and think that you're superior to all of us who decided to just use something else. So skin off my ass.
I'm not going to have to rebuild your system if it gets hit with a virus, nor am I going to have to listen to you gripe about how slow your computer is because it's clandestinely loaded itself full of spyware.
When it happens though, I'll point and laugh at you just like I'll point and laugh at the next guy using phpbb who gets insta-hacked.
code for the standard though and 99.9% of the time it works for everything. Code for IE and 99.9% of the time you'll be treading on thin ice at best.
A punch in the arm is superior to a kick in the balls, but neither is perfect.
:)
Realistically, if all you have is that choice, it's retarded to choose the kick in the balls because neither are perfect.
You'd be suprised how easy it is to just tell your visitors "hey, use this, or you're going to get a slighly fuckupified experience". I did that on my site because I wanted to use transparent pngs, and now the majority of my site visits are from non-ie. In december, mozilla actually outdid explorer by a few percentage points.
It's taking a stand for your code, but in my experience, many users are willing to give the alternative a shot if you're giving something worth seeing.
That's 'cause you're a douchebag. :P
:)
(Actually, I don't know anything about you, but the number of "you're wrong! Douchebag!" replies means I have to go with the crowd, regardless of whether they're right or wrong.
It's cool that you have FreeBASIC in your wiki. Check out the beta of my game written in that language:
http://www.qbxl.net/downloads/SP.zip
^ ^
The fact that the globe and mail is canadian makes your sig hilarious. :P
Beyond that, some tags work differently from version to version. I recall a person I was helping out whose page didn't work in mozilla -- turned out that the tag worked differently in ie4, ie5, ie5.5, ie for mac, ie6, and ie6sp2, but worked the same in opera and mozilla.
Do you REALLY want to risk your business on such a standard?
I'm on broadband too, and some servers just suck. :P The option to resume on shitty servers which drop your connection would be nice, no?
Um...no?
:P
:P
apt-get dist-upgrade
Well. One reboot for the kernel, but I think it still proves you're wrong. Sorry man.
That said, I use XP, and I'll be using uClinux to compile games in linux using freebasic without needing another partition, or a reboot.
Actually, using SP2 slipstreamed onto an xp machine running firefox, I don't need to worry about patching or reboots either, thanks to built-in firewall.
Maybe I'm just 31337er than you are(basic language aside)?
Sorry man, I was busy here playing commerical games made by EA and bullfrog and ubisoft on windows xp, but I saw your post on firefox and opened it as a tab so I could reply to it later, but I've forgotten what I was going to say...
Wait...was it something about you being a fucktard stuck in his own world? Yes, I think it was.
Yeah, how horrible, how ethically challenged, to oppose a program which represents security holes so huge you can ( and many COMPANIES have ) drive a truck through them.
I think you need to inspect your priorities.
Granted, I'm probably biased, but I'm biased by having to repair machines which didn't need to be repaired after installing firefox. Simple as that. Will firefox someday be insecure? Probably, but right now, it's a salve for the disease infesting the internet. Any questions?
I hope someone like me gets paid 80 dollars per hour to save someone like you from yourself.
From an ethical standpoint??
Do you even LISTEN to yourself anymore? Jesus!
That's like saying "forcing people to take the aids vaccine is the same as forcing people to inject hiv into themselves". Yes they're both forcing something, but calling them ethical equivilants is so stupid the english language doesn't even have a word to describe it's stupidity.
I'd have to say that either your security settings were abnormally high or you just didn't use the internet in the sense that most people would. Many free webspace providers include ads which clandestinely install spyware, many links on google actually point to sites which will try to compromise ie without your help, and all in all, just browsing is a threat.
Compare that to firefox/mozilla/opera/kmeleon/other, where it doesn't happen. You're comparing apples to grenades in terms of what's safe to eat here.
I want you to realize how stupid what you said is.
there is no parallel in the modern world.
"I use modern humans on all our computers but you never know when they'll get a cold that will cause you to use cro-magnon humans(who could get herpes by looking at a rock, or the flu by looking at the sky wrong) besides is it rally[sic] that big of a deal to have the icon on your desktop"
Doesn't even get it across correctly. One is nearly immune and may be compromised by some particularly powerful bugs designed specifically for it. The other is immune to NOTHING and may be compromised by a strong breeze.
Everyone in my family uses Firefox or mozila or k-meleon, not by my choice. I couldn't enforce so many households, by a long shot. They use it because it works, and it eliminates the problems, and your sentence contradicts reality so much that my brain is fractured just trying to piece together such horrible logic.