XP runs just fine...for a while. For whatever reason, Windows 2000 tends to have a longer lasting period when it's under use, and again, for whatever reason(I just call it as I see it, I don't know why things are the way they are), tends to have fewer brutal security holes (remember the link that wipes out c:\? It didn't exist in 2k, for whatever reason). Even more, I've done some clean upgrades to xp from 2k on a few older machines, and it's simply impossible, no many how many services you shut down, hacks you take advantage of, or UI tweaks you slam into the installation, to get the same level of speed. I've had 400mhz laptops with non-trivial amounts of RAM(192MB, 256MB) being embarassingly beaten in speed by Pentium classic 133s with 64 megabytes of ram in Word 2k and IE6.
For whatever reason. Unlike most people, I'm not going to play the smart guy and pretend I understand why it is, but that's the way it is.
You're the one devoutly defending slashdots honor.
I don't even remember where this thread is, but if I responded to you, odds are pretty good that's what you were doing, wheras I am having fun at your expense. I'd say it's you, oh expendible frontline soldier with only one mission(foreward!), who is the pawn. Of course, odds are the subtelties of actually using metaphors is lost on you, so I'll brace myself for another famous "I know you are but what am I?" comeback.
Why are you even bothering to argue with these armchair directors? I for one think that on-line petitions should be banned or something. The last thing we need is a bunch of partially literate bandwagon jumpers telling real directors and producers how to do their jobs.
I think you're mistaken; the vocal "anti M$" trolls have ALWAYS looked pretty stupid. These are the same people who think that Linus Torvalds should devise some grand strategy to "crush micro$oft". They flock to Linux(and no other OS) because they want to be anything but microsoft, oblivious to the people who are using it because it's the right tool for the job(which sometimes it is, obviously). Unlike the people using nearly any other non-microsoft OS, they seem to focus their attention directly at an operating system they aren't even using, of all things(either Linux or Windows, it depends on whether said anti-m$ zealot is an idiot or a hypocrite), instead of just using what they want to use. Perhaps that's why so many would swear to god that Linux is user freindly in all ways; instead of actually looking for something that's easy to use(the correct way to find something user freindly, by the way), they just look for something that isn't MS, and apply whatever qualities they want to it's description, without regard to reality.
Actually, it kind of reminds me of an article on adequecy.org -- how to write satire for geeks.
Anyway, while these people were busy trying to play some sort of strange alpha male act with the largest software company in the world, Microsoft got the picture and started making OSes people could actually use. Go figure. Capitalism is funny that way.
Oh, how terrible. those horrible open source developers aren't acting right. I guess we should just do what this anonymous writer says, I mean, he knows more than any of us do. While we're at it, can we set up a dictatorship of the proleriat, just so we have something communist set up for the MS basher bashers who get up on the soapbox too?
Your celebration of ignorance fills me with a fatherly love. I hope the void is kind. By all means, keep chatting with me. I find it quite amusing. The most hilarious thing is that you honestly think you can escape the void. No-body escapes it. So you keep posting. Let me tell you a secret: The only way to escape the void is to transcend it.
In the end, all slashdotites think they aren't a part of the mob, that their "unique" point of view allows them to keep themselves from being manipulated. In the end, the only people who wholeheartedly support microsoft are the trolls and the newbies. Everyone else thinks they have an opposing opinion, perhaps even you, but it's just part of the mob. Turn against it, and it turns against you. Just remember that filesharing is still illegal, no matter how inconvenient it is for you.
Haven't you figured it out yet? You're not in control.
Since I don't play by your rules, you can't tell me whose won and who has lost, and you just can't seem to wrap your tiny minds around the fact that just because you say something doesn't make it true. What we have here, is pathetic. You probably think you're different than the regular slashdotters; you're no different, you're just as ignorant, just as simple minded, and just as easy to manipulate. I feel for you. Perhaps, if you were willful enough, you'd reach your goal of transcending the average slashdotter. Just pull a 180 and try again.
And you simpetons thing you can do anything than childishly call me names? How cute. I bet you still think santa claus is real too?
I assure you, it's completely different to be predictable and to be understantable. Of course, your pathetic "logic" might not allow you to understand that. Don't worry, I forgive you.
Anyway, I wait with bated breath for your triumphant return and fifth declaration of victory (like that nice Iraqi minister). Actually, I don't. I'm not sure if you understand yet that I don't even have to look at the posts to find responses. I hope you learn about the innards of slashdot sooner or later, that way you can finally understand the void, that none of this matters, perhaps even my master plan.
Also, I should remind you that unlike you ACs, registered users have a list of all their previous posts, so it's easy to see where people responded or moderated. If you're using an efficient web browser, you're already at the page (because you middle clicked on all the ones with new responses), might as well have some fun leading those who like to troll the trolls' trolls around by the nose.:P
If breathing were made illegal tomorrow, breathing would be illegal. If serial murder were made legal tomorrow, it would be made legal, which says nothing about the morality of the situation, but let me assure you that trying to get away with having something without paying for it isn't going to suddenly become moral and ethical because a couple obsessive compulsive downloaders don't think it's convenient for it to be immoral and unethical. It's like I said before. People here have their own "code of the uber-nerd", easily described as a combination of mob rule, convenience, and religious-style "righteousness"(ie. hypocracy). Rest assurred, if breathing WERE outlawed tomorrow, there'd be a big article on slashdot the same day about how Microsoft, the RIAA, SCO, or whoever the minor enemy of the week is, might have to pay hefty fines because it's breaking the law. Rest assurred, you'd see at least one-hundred "yay! Microsoft is getting what they deserve! They shouldn't break the law!" posts.
Anyway, if this is the same guy I was "talking" to earlier, now it seems you are the one creating straw men to knock down. Of course, it doesn't matter, because if you ever cried out "but you're arguement is just a strawman arguement!" outside of the debate club, you'd get a strange look at best(a bullet at worst, but not even you would debate with a carjacker), and they'd either stop the conversation right there, or completely ignore the statement. Don't let me stop you though, please, keep knockin' those guys down. They owe me money.
You're an idiot if you don't think that there ISN'T a "slashdot point of view". Why do you think that OCG gets hammered by flames so often, mostly for points of view that are reasonable, but against that very point of view? It's because the slashdot editors have the entire readership of slashdot wrapped around their baby finger.
Tell me, if I am like a dog returning to it's own vomit, what does that make you?
Anyway, who said I'm even playing the same game you're playing? I've got 50 karma on a site I don't like which happens to be conveniently filled with brainwashed losers who are either wasting their companies bandwidth or wasting their own free time on a site whose content is so simplstic, I don't even think it would qualify as "news". I'm guessing that my agenda would be completely alien to you. Of course, you'd think I was trying to play the "slashdot game" and comletely misinterpet it, even if I explained it in it's entirely. Don't worry, you'll grow out of that someday, probably after you leave your teens.
because watching jackasses like him(you?) run around to defend the slashdot "point of view" is amusing. You'll notice that he's(you've?) put far more emotion into his posts than I have. Most of my responses have advocated only the void.
How does one "win" against the void?
It is impossible. Faced with oblivion, would you waste your final thoughts on a pathetic, useless blog run by 30 year old teenagers? Would your thought be on the "evil" actions of a softwre company of all things? Doubtful. If that is all that lives in your head, your mind will be inevitably drawn to the void, and you will think of nothing, as you too become nothing.
It's a testament to your stupidity that you think you've won. You just don't get it, do you? I cannot lose, because I don't care enough to be capable of "losing". You, on the other hand, seem to be quite passionate. I seem to have gotten a response out of you.
Learn to read. It's a wonderful skill that will get you places in the world.
Even OCG doesn't matter. Nothing does. This is slashdot. Have some fun with it instead of getting all riled up over a couple people with differing opinions. (Since when does the law NOT make music sharing illegal? Oh wait, copyright infringement IS a legal and civil offense, so please, go ahead and discredit that, so I can laugh at your ignorance)
Interesting. You just proved that what I said was absolutely right. Just because you disagree doesn't mean I'm stupid, it doesn't even nessessarily mean I'm wrong. In reality, it's easy to discredit ANY view if you try hard enough. Even creationists and scientologists have 'discredited' evolution and sanity, respectively.
You're a fool for taking any of this seriously. You're a fool for insulting me when you know nothing more than my responses to these posts.
You're a fool for defending slashdot, because slashdot is indeed something that needs to be critisized, or it's path into recession will never be altered.
Now go back to masturbating into the burgers at the McDonalds you work at, you angry, stupid man.
These are the same people who will jump on SCO for copyright infringement. They don't follow the laws of the land, but the "code of the uber-nerd". This is easily described as a combination of mob rule, convenience, and religious-style "righteousness"(ie. thinly veiled hypocracy).
Don't blame them though, they're just being manipulated by the slashdot editors. This site would be quite popular in Soviet Russia or Baathist Iraq, I think.
I'll admit I haven't been following OCG for long, but it seems to me that rather than FUD, he simply presents a point of view that is out of kilter. Just because you don't like what he has to say doesn't mean he's one of "them".
And George W. Bush is a great human being who got to where he is today through hard work, dedication, and an endearing air of confidence.
BWAHAHAHAHA! When you realize that everyone is lying to you about everything happening in the world today, maybe you'll drop the attitude. Americans are just as propogandized as the Iraqis, it's just you're too ignorant to realize it. Admittedly, it's not your fault you're ignorant, since no reputable news organization exists in the US, despite rumors to the contrary.
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XP runs just fine...for a while. For whatever reason, Windows 2000 tends to have a longer lasting period when it's under use, and again, for whatever reason(I just call it as I see it, I don't know why things are the way they are), tends to have fewer brutal security holes (remember the link that wipes out c:\? It didn't exist in 2k, for whatever reason). Even more, I've done some clean upgrades to xp from 2k on a few older machines, and it's simply impossible, no many how many services you shut down, hacks you take advantage of, or UI tweaks you slam into the installation, to get the same level of speed. I've had 400mhz laptops with non-trivial amounts of RAM(192MB, 256MB) being embarassingly beaten in speed by Pentium classic 133s with 64 megabytes of ram in Word 2k and IE6.
For whatever reason. Unlike most people, I'm not going to play the smart guy and pretend I understand why it is, but that's the way it is.
Cable theft is stealing?
Well there goes MY evil plan all shot to shit, thank you very much!
hehehehehehe
You're the one devoutly defending slashdots honor.
I don't even remember where this thread is, but if I responded to you, odds are pretty good that's what you were doing, wheras I am having fun at your expense. I'd say it's you, oh expendible frontline soldier with only one mission(foreward!), who is the pawn. Of course, odds are the subtelties of actually using metaphors is lost on you, so I'll brace myself for another famous "I know you are but what am I?" comeback.
How does it feel being a pawn, my freind?
Why are you even bothering to argue with these armchair directors? I for one think that on-line petitions should be banned or something. The last thing we need is a bunch of partially literate bandwagon jumpers telling real directors and producers how to do their jobs.
I think you're mistaken; the vocal "anti M$" trolls have ALWAYS looked pretty stupid. These are the same people who think that Linus Torvalds should devise some grand strategy to "crush micro$oft". They flock to Linux(and no other OS) because they want to be anything but microsoft, oblivious to the people who are using it because it's the right tool for the job(which sometimes it is, obviously). Unlike the people using nearly any other non-microsoft OS, they seem to focus their attention directly at an operating system they aren't even using, of all things(either Linux or Windows, it depends on whether said anti-m$ zealot is an idiot or a hypocrite), instead of just using what they want to use. Perhaps that's why so many would swear to god that Linux is user freindly in all ways; instead of actually looking for something that's easy to use(the correct way to find something user freindly, by the way), they just look for something that isn't MS, and apply whatever qualities they want to it's description, without regard to reality.
Actually, it kind of reminds me of an article on adequecy.org -- how to write satire for geeks.
Anyway, while these people were busy trying to play some sort of strange alpha male act with the largest software company in the world, Microsoft got the picture and started making OSes people could actually use. Go figure. Capitalism is funny that way.
Oh, how terrible. those horrible open source developers aren't acting right. I guess we should just do what this anonymous writer says, I mean, he knows more than any of us do. While we're at it, can we set up a dictatorship of the proleriat, just so we have something communist set up for the MS basher bashers who get up on the soapbox too?
Hang on. <coughts>
A GREEDY CAPITALIST SPY STOLE MY IDEA, COMRADE!
Oh yeah. That's not bad.
The same could be said for you. Are **YOU** really that hypocritica1?
How nice.
Your celebration of ignorance fills me with a fatherly love. I hope the void is kind. By all means, keep chatting with me. I find it quite amusing. The most hilarious thing is that you honestly think you can escape the void. No-body escapes it. So you keep posting. Let me tell you a secret: The only way to escape the void is to transcend it.
In the end, all slashdotites think they aren't a part of the mob, that their "unique" point of view allows them to keep themselves from being manipulated. In the end, the only people who wholeheartedly support microsoft are the trolls and the newbies. Everyone else thinks they have an opposing opinion, perhaps even you, but it's just part of the mob. Turn against it, and it turns against you. Just remember that filesharing is still illegal, no matter how inconvenient it is for you.
With love,
Haven't you figured it out yet? You're not in control.
Since I don't play by your rules, you can't tell me whose won and who has lost, and you just can't seem to wrap your tiny minds around the fact that just because you say something doesn't make it true. What we have here, is pathetic. You probably think you're different than the regular slashdotters; you're no different, you're just as ignorant, just as simple minded, and just as easy to manipulate. I feel for you. Perhaps, if you were willful enough, you'd reach your goal of transcending the average slashdotter. Just pull a 180 and try again.
And you simpetons thing you can do anything than childishly call me names? How cute. I bet you still think santa claus is real too?
I assure you, it's completely different to be predictable and to be understantable. Of course, your pathetic "logic" might not allow you to understand that. Don't worry, I forgive you.
Anyway, I wait with bated breath for your triumphant return and fifth declaration of victory (like that nice Iraqi minister). Actually, I don't. I'm not sure if you understand yet that I don't even have to look at the posts to find responses. I hope you learn about the innards of slashdot sooner or later, that way you can finally understand the void, that none of this matters, perhaps even my master plan.
With love,
Also, I should remind you that unlike you ACs, registered users have a list of all their previous posts, so it's easy to see where people responded or moderated. If you're using an efficient web browser, you're already at the page (because you middle clicked on all the ones with new responses), might as well have some fun leading those who like to troll the trolls' trolls around by the nose. :P
Riiiiight.
If breathing were made illegal tomorrow, breathing would be illegal. If serial murder were made legal tomorrow, it would be made legal, which says nothing about the morality of the situation, but let me assure you that trying to get away with having something without paying for it isn't going to suddenly become moral and ethical because a couple obsessive compulsive downloaders don't think it's convenient for it to be immoral and unethical. It's like I said before. People here have their own "code of the uber-nerd", easily described as a combination of mob rule, convenience, and religious-style "righteousness"(ie. hypocracy). Rest assurred, if breathing WERE outlawed tomorrow, there'd be a big article on slashdot the same day about how Microsoft, the RIAA, SCO, or whoever the minor enemy of the week is, might have to pay hefty fines because it's breaking the law. Rest assurred, you'd see at least one-hundred "yay! Microsoft is getting what they deserve! They shouldn't break the law!" posts.
Anyway, if this is the same guy I was "talking" to earlier, now it seems you are the one creating straw men to knock down. Of course, it doesn't matter, because if you ever cried out "but you're arguement is just a strawman arguement!" outside of the debate club, you'd get a strange look at best(a bullet at worst, but not even you would debate with a carjacker), and they'd either stop the conversation right there, or completely ignore the statement. Don't let me stop you though, please, keep knockin' those guys down. They owe me money.
Ciao,
You're an idiot if you don't think that there ISN'T a "slashdot point of view". Why do you think that OCG gets hammered by flames so often, mostly for points of view that are reasonable, but against that very point of view? It's because the slashdot editors have the entire readership of slashdot wrapped around their baby finger.
Tell me, if I am like a dog returning to it's own vomit, what does that make you?
Anyway, who said I'm even playing the same game you're playing? I've got 50 karma on a site I don't like which happens to be conveniently filled with brainwashed losers who are either wasting their companies bandwidth or wasting their own free time on a site whose content is so simplstic, I don't even think it would qualify as "news". I'm guessing that my agenda would be completely alien to you. Of course, you'd think I was trying to play the "slashdot game" and comletely misinterpet it, even if I explained it in it's entirely. Don't worry, you'll grow out of that someday, probably after you leave your teens.
hehehe :)
gg
because watching jackasses like him(you?) run around to defend the slashdot "point of view" is amusing. You'll notice that he's(you've?) put far more emotion into his posts than I have. Most of my responses have advocated only the void.
How does one "win" against the void?
It is impossible. Faced with oblivion, would you waste your final thoughts on a pathetic, useless blog run by 30 year old teenagers? Would your thought be on the "evil" actions of a softwre company of all things? Doubtful. If that is all that lives in your head, your mind will be inevitably drawn to the void, and you will think of nothing, as you too become nothing.
It's a testament to your stupidity that you think you've won. You just don't get it, do you? I cannot lose, because I don't care enough to be capable of "losing". You, on the other hand, seem to be quite passionate. I seem to have gotten a response out of you.
YHBT.
YHL.
HAND.
Baka.
Who asked you?
Shut the fuck up, you arrogant piece of shit!
Please don't hurt me, psycho.
Learn to read. It's a wonderful skill that will get you places in the world.
Even OCG doesn't matter. Nothing does. This is slashdot. Have some fun with it instead of getting all riled up over a couple people with differing opinions. (Since when does the law NOT make music sharing illegal? Oh wait, copyright infringement IS a legal and civil offense, so please, go ahead and discredit that, so I can laugh at your ignorance)
I stand by my comment. None of this matters, and it's funny that you think it does.
WRT Microsoft, the name Stacker comes immediately to mind.
Interesting. You just proved that what I said was absolutely right. Just because you disagree doesn't mean I'm stupid, it doesn't even nessessarily mean I'm wrong. In reality, it's easy to discredit ANY view if you try hard enough. Even creationists and scientologists have 'discredited' evolution and sanity, respectively.
You're a fool for taking any of this seriously. You're a fool for insulting me when you know nothing more than my responses to these posts.
You're a fool for defending slashdot, because slashdot is indeed something that needs to be critisized, or it's path into recession will never be altered.
Now go back to masturbating into the burgers at the McDonalds you work at, you angry, stupid man.
These are the same people who will jump on SCO for copyright infringement. They don't follow the laws of the land, but the "code of the uber-nerd". This is easily described as a combination of mob rule, convenience, and religious-style "righteousness"(ie. thinly veiled hypocracy).
Don't blame them though, they're just being manipulated by the slashdot editors. This site would be quite popular in Soviet Russia or Baathist Iraq, I think.
I'll admit I haven't been following OCG for long, but it seems to me that rather than FUD, he simply presents a point of view that is out of kilter. Just because you don't like what he has to say doesn't mean he's one of "them".
And George W. Bush is a great human being who got to where he is today through hard work, dedication, and an endearing air of confidence.
BWAHAHAHAHA! When you realize that everyone is lying to you about everything happening in the world today, maybe you'll drop the attitude. Americans are just as propogandized as the Iraqis, it's just you're too ignorant to realize it. Admittedly, it's not your fault you're ignorant, since no reputable news organization exists in the US, despite rumors to the contrary.