So Bill Gates is being knighted and the media is aghast. This whole situation can be remedied quickly. When you donate $26 freakin' billion dollars for charitable causes, like Mr. Gates has, you may complain.
26... billion... dollars...
That's WELL over half of his liquid worth, and it nears 3/4 of his liquid wealth, which is currently sitting somewhere near $40-42 billion. And he's the "anti-christ"?
Your neighbor recieves this message, addressed to you, but sent to them by accident:
Dear Valued Customer,
Our records show that on 1/6/04 you purchased 14 bottles of AstroGlide at our store in Portland. It has come to our attention that these bottles of AstroGlide may have come from a suspect supplier, and there's a chance they may have been tainted with shards of glass. You are welcome to return your purchase to the store for store credit, whereupon it will be destroyed.
Additionally, our records show that on the same date, you purchased a 1 large green cucumber. It has come to our attention that this product may be tainted with e.coli.
I fully expect to see all the people complaining about Microsoft's (former) decision to end support for Windows 98 to complain here, also. To not, would be hypocritical, and this is Slashdot, the place thats devoid of hypocrites.
After all, these versions of Red Hat are much newer. And now, Microsoft is extending support for Windows 98.
Luckily, you won't have to be surprised. SFU is based on a product that predates Cygwin by a number of years. It was formerly called OpenNT, and later, Interix. Microsoft then bought it and called it SFU. It has been around for quite a number of years.
unlike (the excellent) Cygwin, it is an actual subsystem of the operating system (similar to the OS/2 and posix subsystems that used to be included by default in the NT OS's).
It's not a troll. It seems you are trolling, as you obviously didn't pay attention to my post.
I don't know if you've noticed, but Vorbis is popular enough that it actually is supported by some consumer-grade hardware vendors.
Obviously, I did notice, which is why I suggested he buy an MP3 player that supports Ogg Vorbis. But the whole point here is that its still unpopular enough that the iPod doesn't support it.
So, YOU wake up and smell the coffee. MY coffee smells fine: I have an iPod, and I ripped all of my CDs using a supported format. My coffee tastes pretty good.
Jesus, so don't buy an iPod. The rest of the world uses the MP3 format, so that's what Apple supports.
You shouldn't have picked some smalltime format to encode everything in. It doesn't make good financial sense to support every little "eleet" latest fad format that the relatively small population of Linux geeks whine about this week. Next week, it'll be "GNU KewlAudio" or something.
Apple has heard you and they obviously don't care (as Ogg Vorbis support still isn't there). So, buy something else and stop whining.
Quit hogging up all the bandwidth, or schedule your heavy transfers for late at night. Or, continue pissing bandwidth away, screwing over your neighbors and forcing your cable company to upgrade its network, which in turn, ups costs for customers.
You probably ARE using too much bandwidth. Go ride a bike, or read a book for awhile.
My experience with Comcast has been very pleasant. Great service. Incredibly fast speeds, except when the occasional neighborhood Kazaa leech goes at it. And they just doubled my downstream bandwidth for free. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
They force too much upon me. It's my hardware, not theirs.
Oh please, they're not forcing anything upon you. You said you're using Linux, so what are they "forcing" on you? Their licensing terms? Big deal, GNU software "forces" its licensing terms on you as well. Stop whining and just use what you want and stfu.
It's free?!? Great! Tell me where I can obtain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (the Linux distro that bigtimers like Oracle support, so Debian and Gentoo are useless) for free. I go to Red Hat's site, but all I see are these 3 digit dollar prices for this "free" product.
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So Bill Gates is being knighted and the media is aghast. This whole situation can be remedied quickly. When you donate $26 freakin' billion dollars for charitable causes, like Mr. Gates has, you may complain.
26... billion... dollars...
That's WELL over half of his liquid worth, and it nears 3/4 of his liquid wealth, which is currently sitting somewhere near $40-42 billion. And he's the "anti-christ"?
Your neighbor recieves this message, addressed to you, but sent to them by accident:
Dear Valued Customer,
Our records show that on 1/6/04 you purchased 14 bottles of AstroGlide at our store in Portland. It has come to our attention that these bottles of AstroGlide may have come from a suspect supplier, and there's a chance they may have been tainted with shards of glass. You are welcome to return your purchase to the store for store credit, whereupon it will be destroyed.
Additionally, our records show that on the same date, you purchased a 1 large green cucumber. It has come to our attention that this product may be tainted with e.coli.
Sincerely,
Maybe females should learn about the awesome powers of pricewatch.com and newegg.com, instead of buying those expensive Apple computers.
That would explain the recent massive gains in my deadlift weights... damned georgyforgov.com photo gallery...
Still, it's always good to include masturbation as a part of your fitness regime, for a couple reasons:
1.) It builds strong forearm muscles (Make sure to swap hands, occasionally for equal development of both forearms. Hey, it's "like a new lover!").
2.) Good for the prostrate and related muscles.
Even walking a half hour a day has significant health benefits, so you don't even have to jog.
I fully expect to see all the people complaining about Microsoft's (former) decision to end support for Windows 98 to complain here, also. To not, would be hypocritical, and this is Slashdot, the place thats devoid of hypocrites.
After all, these versions of Red Hat are much newer. And now, Microsoft is extending support for Windows 98.
Actually, if you had bothered to look at anything concerning the release they are talking about, 3.5 is supposed to bring a large speed increase.
But this is Slashdot, we don't expect you to read the article.
Luckily, you won't have to be surprised. SFU is based on a product that predates Cygwin by a number of years. It was formerly called OpenNT, and later, Interix. Microsoft then bought it and called it SFU. It has been around for quite a number of years.
unlike (the excellent) Cygwin, it is an actual subsystem of the operating system (similar to the OS/2 and posix subsystems that used to be included by default in the NT OS's).
Actually, you're wrong. While there are numerous tools from the various BSD's in SFU, there is also GPL'd software in the distribution, such as gcc.
Uhm, why would they migrate away from Windows in this scenario? They're using the industry standard Desktop, and can also use most UNIX apps, to boot.
I guess if they didn't like a usable desktop and the plethora of applications, they'd switch...
I can think of plenty of private uses of RFID which I would not want Verisign to be involved in, in the slightest.
You just keep that to yourself. Nobody wants anything to do with your pleeasure-seeking shaved cyborg gerbils.
Jesus has about a billion hours of Enya and Gregorian chants in his head, he doesn't need an iPod.
It's not a troll. It seems you are trolling, as you obviously didn't pay attention to my post.
I don't know if you've noticed, but Vorbis is popular enough that it actually is supported by some consumer-grade hardware vendors.
Obviously, I did notice, which is why I suggested he buy an MP3 player that supports Ogg Vorbis. But the whole point here is that its still unpopular enough that the iPod doesn't support it.
So, YOU wake up and smell the coffee. MY coffee smells fine: I have an iPod, and I ripped all of my CDs using a supported format. My coffee tastes pretty good.
Jesus, so don't buy an iPod. The rest of the world uses the MP3 format, so that's what Apple supports.
You shouldn't have picked some smalltime format to encode everything in. It doesn't make good financial sense to support every little "eleet" latest fad format that the relatively small population of Linux geeks whine about this week. Next week, it'll be "GNU KewlAudio" or something.
Apple has heard you and they obviously don't care (as Ogg Vorbis support still isn't there). So, buy something else and stop whining.
Who is the dumb dickhead who modded this Offtopic? If people started to write coherent articles, we might all care to read them more.
Nice job with the random placement of commas, it really adds to the flow of your words!
Quit hogging up all the bandwidth, or schedule your heavy transfers for late at night. Or, continue pissing bandwidth away, screwing over your neighbors and forcing your cable company to upgrade its network, which in turn, ups costs for customers.
You probably ARE using too much bandwidth. Go ride a bike, or read a book for awhile.
My experience with Comcast has been very pleasant. Great service. Incredibly fast speeds, except when the occasional neighborhood Kazaa leech goes at it. And they just doubled my downstream bandwidth for free. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Anyone know what the ETA is for Gimp 2.0 on Win32? Can't wait to get my hands on it.
Weird, we never get Dell quotes as .DOC files. They're always .HTML
They force too much upon me. It's my hardware, not theirs.
Oh please, they're not forcing anything upon you. You said you're using Linux, so what are they "forcing" on you? Their licensing terms? Big deal, GNU software "forces" its licensing terms on you as well. Stop whining and just use what you want and stfu.
Cool, a great answer without the zealous Linux trolling. This looks very useful and I'll have to mess it with, thanks for the tip.
It's free?!? Great! Tell me where I can obtain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (the Linux distro that bigtimers like Oracle support, so Debian and Gentoo are useless) for free. I go to Red Hat's site, but all I see are these 3 digit dollar prices for this "free" product.
Had to do a doubletake there, "Agile Software Development with Scrotum".
Hell, I can barely type using all my fingers, let alone develop software by mashing my scrotum on the keyboard...
Ok well, maybe I could develop a VB app that way...
I am.
Such as?
A lot of the new API is currently vaporware. So I wouldnt call those features (yet)