Huh. well I used windows today. And it never told me anything about "administrator" or that my one account on the system is Admin. It just goes merrily on its way. "laddeeedeeda." no password required, or even suggested. and hey, it's XP "pro". Pro- now thats a laugh.
ummm...IBM? pretty much pays the apache team? Hello?
I think Apache will stay just as cool and have all kinds of new features. But for being a standard, solid, stable web server...it does everything i need it to do right now...
on the desktop, MS can't even touch either xine or mplayer with their programs. You'd think, with all their money, that they would start paying for audio codecs so users wouldn't need to install 5 different media players. You'd also think that they could write fast code so that WiMP doesn't run like a turtle compared to either mplayer OR xine on my 3-year-old hardware. I don't know why MS is "slaying" on the desktop, FAIConcerned, the war is over, and Linux wins hands down. Viruses, Security, Stability, Matching apps (crossover office, if you must, but SO and Textmaker and Abiword and...), Performance...and you can't tell me KDE doesn't look sweet all themed out. You can't tell me that.
If only we could just get users to start with something Linux-y so it isnt' such a jump...
or you can put fs=yes in your.mplayer/config...or when it starts, hit "f".
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Hey, it's the overly critical guy again. I really think you might just be a great, great troll. Either that or just really frustrating. Anyways...response:
For one, groups don't always just get along...I really don't think the xine guys and the mplayer guys would like to just drop everything and work together - both sides have thrown a couple of potshots too many - they don't like each other.
Secondly - competition increases output. It's one of those crazy things about life that two competing groups seem to get farther than only one alone.
Third - more people on a project does not (neccesarily) more code make - adding more developers means you have to merge maintainers, and "people in charge" - etc - it has to be very well organized to get O(n) increase in production... You can't just throw people from well-defined, properly working groups together...it doesn't work! Good people can be left out (and unused)...
Fifth - mplayer and xine do share some libs. I'm almost positive that xine is using some of mplayer's win32 code, but i'm not sure - but the logical thing is that they are both open, and why wouldn't one project "borrow" code from another, if it was great. Emulation is the sincerest form of praise - I think that's how that goes.
Mplayer is a great project, xine - last I checked - was...decent. I think seperately you get _more_ output - and thus having two seperate groups is better for you. *shrug*.
my gun just hopped up, threw off it's lock, and is now shooting at me! AHHHH!!!
Seriously, I totally agree with you. We can't ban sharp pointy things, and banning guns wouldn't really make these kids less crazy. And guns do good things. We couldn't have won WW2 without them. Cops wouldn't mean much against criminals without them. Hey, the US wouldn't be independent if those crazy minutemen didn't have a musket or two. Now you could argue that it would cause less damage if crazy kids didn't have access to guns...
in the meantime, i'm going to try and get my gun tied down so it doesn't hop up for some revenge on me.
Wow. Mi2G sucks, if you believe the reg. it's not like they even got paid by Microsoft. It just looks like they make up cool news to get hits. And probably this paper picked up the story to get...more hits.
I'm not gonna worry about it...I haven't had any of my systems get hit...*shrug*.
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So...ESR is bad in general, because he likes guns, and has a collection. He hasn't really gunned anyone down yet. Nope. Or even really shot at anyone. Or, say, facilitated weapons to other people so THEY could hurt other people. So, really, all the evil he's done is...not much...um...at all? So he likes guns. Guns can kill people, or destroy. But they also can defend. You didn't see anyone fighting Hitler with bows and arrows, did you? so...anyways, guns are not all bad. And having guns doesn't make you bad.
Ok, so if guns don't necessarily make you bad, then i'd say ESR's contributions to Linux are tremendous, and thus he's a pretty cool guy in my book. And the fact that his beliefs aren't those of everyone else in OSS makes me a bit more comfortable hanging out with the slashbots - we aren't all liberal, or all conservative, or all anything else. I think that's cool.
And comparing owning guns and advocating gun owner's rights to raping, ravaging, and defiling children sexually is just idiotic. That's lunacy dude.
as far back as i've been reading slashdot, and even further since i've read old stories-slashdot was pretty anti-ms. About the time Rob got more than just his good friends to read it. Actually, doesn't he mention that he hated win95 and thats why he switched to linux? I don't know...but saying "[slashdot] used to be a cool technology site that posted some great stories, but now [it's an evil ms-bashing site]..." is pretty silly, dontcha think? It's always been ms-bashing...maybe because it's always funny to bash something that has been extremely frustrating to you. A little therapy, ya know?
I've only rm -rf / on one occasion, and it was on a box just to see what happened. w00t...it's fun...deleting...a whole lot of crap...not everything was gone...but ls was...which was kinda funny...try it sometime, on a box you're about to reformat. it's entertaining, and educational.
what about when i boot my non-ms OS, and run my non-MS programs? i have no need for TCPA or palladium. I can shut it off, and ignore it.
You might not have understood all of what i said. Palladium holds nothing for those that don't use it. If it's off, it's off. At least thats what everyone is saying right now. No doubt, if they could get away with it, MS would use it to "break" linux. But I don't think they could...so they won't. We are a little wiser now, perhaps. Maybe. But I do think it will be broken. I think it will be cracked. But that's another story.
C'mon guys. Mod me offtopic, or stupid, but this isn't even a good troll. I could've done one, but this isn't it.
In point of fact, there were approximately 30 people close to clinton who had been tried for felonies while he was president. He was nearly impeached. People close to him died by violent means, be it suicide or murder. He took advantage of an intern working under him.
Sure, we bash bush here. It's the popular thing to do. Although people's comments may anger me, and are obviously just a political blurb to get people mad at the President, I don't mod you guys down.
I guess it's just another example of going against the flow on slashdot. Heaven forbid i say something pro-microsoft, or my karma will be doomed!
It's just another chip, if the OS doesn't use it. If you boot into an insecure OS, you will never notice the difference. Do you think they'd suddenly stop selling x86 hardware that can possibly run linux? good grief. No, Palladium hardware is useless without palladium software. read:OS. As in microsoft.
Now, you're paying for that chip, and non-palladium chipsets might be cheaper...
But the point is that palladium hardware won't affect linux. or bsd. or openXYZ.
I believe you are incorrect...
Last i checked, the way Palladium works is that data is trusted and encryped, not programs...
and no doubt, you can run other OS's on your X86 hardware. To make linux on x86 impossible or harder would be retarded for AMD and intel. This is about securing data. Sure, programs are data...but they don't all have to be secure. You can run unsecured code. You can run a whole "insecure" OS, that just happens to be more secure that win_Palladium. BSD, Linux, will be FINE.
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Huh. well I used windows today. And it never told me anything about "administrator" or that my one account on the system is Admin. It just goes merrily on its way. "laddeeedeeda." no password required, or even suggested. and hey, it's XP "pro". Pro- now thats a laugh.
ummm...IBM? pretty much pays the apache team? Hello?
I think Apache will stay just as cool and have all kinds of new features. But for being a standard, solid, stable web server...it does everything i need it to do right now...
That made me laugh our loud. You hit it on the head. Thanks...
My XT still works...just need to load those dos games back on and here i go. Oh yeah, and Mechwarrior 1 is the best game evar.
classic concentration captain comic chopper command oh baby the dos goodness...
on the desktop, MS can't even touch either xine or mplayer with their programs. You'd think, with all their money, that they would start paying for audio codecs so users wouldn't need to install 5 different media players. You'd also think that they could write fast code so that WiMP doesn't run like a turtle compared to either mplayer OR xine on my 3-year-old hardware. I don't know why MS is "slaying" on the desktop, FAIConcerned, the war is over, and Linux wins hands down. Viruses, Security, Stability, Matching apps (crossover office, if you must, but SO and Textmaker and Abiword and...), Performance...and you can't tell me KDE doesn't look sweet all themed out. You can't tell me that.
If only we could just get users to start with something Linux-y so it isnt' such a jump...
or you can put fs=yes in your .mplayer/config...or when it starts, hit "f".
Hey, it's the overly critical guy again. I really think you might just be a great, great troll. Either that or just really frustrating. Anyways...response:
For one, groups don't always just get along...I really don't think the xine guys and the mplayer guys would like to just drop everything and work together - both sides have thrown a couple of potshots too many - they don't like each other.
Secondly - competition increases output. It's one of those crazy things about life that two competing groups seem to get farther than only one alone.
Third - more people on a project does not (neccesarily) more code make - adding more developers means you have to merge maintainers, and "people in charge" - etc - it has to be very well organized to get O(n) increase in production... You can't just throw people from well-defined, properly working groups together...it doesn't work! Good people can be left out (and unused)...
Fifth - mplayer and xine do share some libs. I'm almost positive that xine is using some of mplayer's win32 code, but i'm not sure - but the logical thing is that they are both open, and why wouldn't one project "borrow" code from another, if it was great. Emulation is the sincerest form of praise - I think that's how that goes.
Mplayer is a great project, xine - last I checked - was...decent. I think seperately you get _more_ output - and thus having two seperate groups is better for you. *shrug*.
+5, classic
my gun just hopped up, threw off it's lock, and is now shooting at me! AHHHH!!!
Seriously, I totally agree with you. We can't ban sharp pointy things, and banning guns wouldn't really make these kids less crazy. And guns do good things. We couldn't have won WW2 without them. Cops wouldn't mean much against criminals without them. Hey, the US wouldn't be independent if those crazy minutemen didn't have a musket or two. Now you could argue that it would cause less damage if crazy kids didn't have access to guns... in the meantime, i'm going to try and get my gun tied down so it doesn't hop up for some revenge on me.
Wow. Mi2G sucks, if you believe the reg. it's not like they even got paid by Microsoft. It just looks like they make up cool news to get hits. And probably this paper picked up the story to get...more hits.
I'm not gonna worry about it...I haven't had any of my systems get hit...*shrug*.
So...ESR is bad in general, because he likes guns, and has a collection. He hasn't really gunned anyone down yet. Nope. Or even really shot at anyone. Or, say, facilitated weapons to other people so THEY could hurt other people. So, really, all the evil he's done is...not much...um...at all? So he likes guns. Guns can kill people, or destroy. But they also can defend. You didn't see anyone fighting Hitler with bows and arrows, did you? so...anyways, guns are not all bad. And having guns doesn't make you bad.
Ok, so if guns don't necessarily make you bad, then i'd say ESR's contributions to Linux are tremendous, and thus he's a pretty cool guy in my book. And the fact that his beliefs aren't those of everyone else in OSS makes me a bit more comfortable hanging out with the slashbots - we aren't all liberal, or all conservative, or all anything else. I think that's cool.
And comparing owning guns and advocating gun owner's rights to raping, ravaging, and defiling children sexually is just idiotic. That's lunacy dude.
as far back as i've been reading slashdot, and even further since i've read old stories-slashdot was pretty anti-ms. About the time Rob got more than just his good friends to read it. Actually, doesn't he mention that he hated win95 and thats why he switched to linux? I don't know...but saying "[slashdot] used to be a cool technology site that posted some great stories, but now [it's an evil ms-bashing site]..." is pretty silly, dontcha think? It's always been ms-bashing...maybe because it's always funny to bash something that has been extremely frustrating to you. A little therapy, ya know?
I've only rm -rf / on one occasion, and it was on a box just to see what happened. w00t...it's fun...deleting...a whole lot of crap...not everything was gone...but ls was...which was kinda funny...try it sometime, on a box you're about to reformat. it's entertaining, and educational.
I was the most computer-oriented kid at my school. No one threatened to beat me up. And we were a "high school exists for football" school, too.
The whole "geeks get beat up" thing is weird to me.
sounds like it's time to dispense some INDISCRIMINATE JUSTICE.
Thank you, starcraft. Oh yeah, and SCREW YOU, vivendi...
"On one 'small' criminal case, just the duplicated information provided to the defense by the prostitution"
Oh baby! they got hookers doing court cases these days? I knew i missed my calling...Back to Law SChool!!!
what about when i boot my non-ms OS, and run my non-MS programs? i have no need for TCPA or palladium. I can shut it off, and ignore it.
You might not have understood all of what i said. Palladium holds nothing for those that don't use it. If it's off, it's off. At least thats what everyone is saying right now. No doubt, if they could get away with it, MS would use it to "break" linux. But I don't think they could...so they won't. We are a little wiser now, perhaps. Maybe. But I do think it will be broken. I think it will be cracked. But that's another story.
there was a thread yesterday wherein many farkers were talking about how this action by MS was frustrating, and that they wanted to switch.
here.
just a not-so geeky viewpoint there.
C'mon guys. Mod me offtopic, or stupid, but this isn't even a good troll. I could've done one, but this isn't it.
In point of fact, there were approximately 30 people close to clinton who had been tried for felonies while he was president. He was nearly impeached. People close to him died by violent means, be it suicide or murder. He took advantage of an intern working under him.
Sure, we bash bush here. It's the popular thing to do. Although people's comments may anger me, and are obviously just a political blurb to get people mad at the President, I don't mod you guys down.
I guess it's just another example of going against the flow on slashdot. Heaven forbid i say something pro-microsoft, or my karma will be doomed!
hrm...wait...clinton isn't president any more?? I don't get it...he had all of the criminals...
It's just another chip, if the OS doesn't use it. If you boot into an insecure OS, you will never notice the difference. Do you think they'd suddenly stop selling x86 hardware that can possibly run linux? good grief. No, Palladium hardware is useless without palladium software. read:OS. As in microsoft.
Now, you're paying for that chip, and non-palladium chipsets might be cheaper...
But the point is that palladium hardware won't affect linux. or bsd. or openXYZ.
I believe you are incorrect... Last i checked, the way Palladium works is that data is trusted and encryped, not programs... and no doubt, you can run other OS's on your X86 hardware. To make linux on x86 impossible or harder would be retarded for AMD and intel. This is about securing data. Sure, programs are data...but they don't all have to be secure. You can run unsecured code. You can run a whole "insecure" OS, that just happens to be more secure that win_Palladium. BSD, Linux, will be FINE.
head on over to www.fark.com -> you be right. +2, correct.
could you name a source on that one? thanks...