It's good that he is donating money. But we shouldn't all suddenly think how great that is.
Why not? I don't think anyone is suggesting that people should bow down to him and forgive all he has done wrong. But he's doing a good thing and deserves at least some praise for it. That's what I don't understand, is why people have such a big problem with that. It's like praising him for one thing is admitting defeat. Defeat in what, I don't know.
You're like a woman. Something done in the past is brought up anytime something good is done, and what good was done is drowned out by your stubborness to even give a drop of deserved praise.
~$30bn is quite a bit more than "a few checks", but nice tactic, trying to downplay what he has donated.
Who said that it's overshadowing that bad things he has done? Here's how life works: You do something bad, more people will dislike you and scold you. You do something good, you get credit for doing good and possibly even praise. Are you so stupid that you can't differentiate that he's done both good and bad and you should treat each thing seperately?
Yes it is. Why? Because he didn't have to. In fact, giving away 1/10th of what he has would probably gotten him as much praise as he gets now. So why donate as much as he has? Well, maybe he actually cares about the causes.
Even assuming it was 2%. How much did you give? Let's say you make $50k. Have you given $1k to charity each year for at least the past 5 years? My guess is no.
You must be new here. Gates motives are constantly criticized, and generally speaking, suggesting that he might actually care about the causes he donates too and that he should receive praise for his charity are stomped on by the majority slashdot sheep.
How does it alienate or screw the customer at all? It doesn't. Yeah, they may make money off of you, that's what businesses do. But if it's not hurting you, what the fuck do you care?
Wow. Ok, how to dumb this down for you.
Netscape 4, which Firefox is based from, has been around since 1996.
No, netscape4 was scraped. Firefox is based off of the Mozilla/Gecko code-base, which is more like 1998ish.
Now. IE6 has been around since 2001, and all the IE6 vulnerabilities are included in the secunia database.
Firefox has been around since May 2004 (0.x), and 1.0 since Nov 2004, and those are included in the database, and the Mozilla bugs prior to May 2004 are not.
Do you get it yet?
So you can't provide any reliable links, ok.
I write code for a living and I surf the web while I'm doing it sometimes. You really think posting here occasionally takes up all my time?? Hahahahaha.
I'm not an asshole though. Not anywhere but here;)
Really, your attempts at framing what my life is like are cute. Pathetic, but cute. Keep it going, it's good for a laugh.
Ok, 2 sites that I've never heard of with no proof provided, just articles. I DID google and that's the kind of stuff I found. I was hopign you had something more substantial and believable. I'm not saying it's not true, but its kind of hard to trust sources like that.
I do kind of troll here at slashdot. It's already full of trolls and complete morons, so oh well. Yeah, it's wrong of me, but it's/. and I don't care. Call me a kid all you want, but you're way off base there.
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http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/securi ty/holes/story/0,10801,98920,00.html
Idiot
It wasn't an insult, it was a question suggesting that if you can't seperate 2 basic things, you perhaps are not too bright. Keyword: [b]if[/b]
It's good that he is donating money. But we shouldn't all suddenly think how great that is.
Why not? I don't think anyone is suggesting that people should bow down to him and forgive all he has done wrong. But he's doing a good thing and deserves at least some praise for it. That's what I don't understand, is why people have such a big problem with that. It's like praising him for one thing is admitting defeat. Defeat in what, I don't know.
Thank you for further proving my point.
You're like a woman. Something done in the past is brought up anytime something good is done, and what good was done is drowned out by your stubborness to even give a drop of deserved praise.
For all we know, it would be 5 years behind and hardware would still be crazy expensive.
Praising something good he has done does not equate to forgiving everything else he has done in the past. Are you that stupid?
~$30bn is quite a bit more than "a few checks", but nice tactic, trying to downplay what he has donated.
Who said that it's overshadowing that bad things he has done? Here's how life works: You do something bad, more people will dislike you and scold you. You do something good, you get credit for doing good and possibly even praise. Are you so stupid that you can't differentiate that he's done both good and bad and you should treat each thing seperately?
Yes it is. Why? Because he didn't have to. In fact, giving away 1/10th of what he has would probably gotten him as much praise as he gets now. So why donate as much as he has? Well, maybe he actually cares about the causes.
He's given away close to $30billion.
I'm guessing that is slightly more than 2%
Even assuming it was 2%. How much did you give? Let's say you make $50k. Have you given $1k to charity each year for at least the past 5 years? My guess is no.
You must be new here. Gates motives are constantly criticized, and generally speaking, suggesting that he might actually care about the causes he donates too and that he should receive praise for his charity are stomped on by the majority slashdot sheep.
Yes, I said sheep.
That is a terrible analogy. You are breaking the law by stealing their product. In this case, no laws are being broken nor is anyone being hurt.
Try again, troll.
How does it alienate or screw the customer at all? It doesn't. Yeah, they may make money off of you, that's what businesses do. But if it's not hurting you, what the fuck do you care?
Oh, that's right, it's Microsoft.
Like oh my god, someone will know I'm listening to music, or editing my options! THIS IS AN INVASION OF MY PRIVACY.
Um.. it wouldn't. Those are built upon IE components (shdocvw.dll being one)
Apple controls most of the mp3 player market, buddy.
Yeah, I'm sure "a lot" of people are going to care what OS their router is running.
Yeah, Like Microsoft would ever offer anything POSIX compliant (coughSFUcough), like Linux does across the whole system (coughpthreadscough).
You must be new here
perl is still heavily used by nix and is great for sysadmins. It's amazing for writing quick dirty scripts.
As far as using it on larger projects, well, some people just like perl.
Wow. Ok, how to dumb this down for you. Netscape 4, which Firefox is based from, has been around since 1996. No, netscape4 was scraped. Firefox is based off of the Mozilla/Gecko code-base, which is more like 1998ish. Now. IE6 has been around since 2001, and all the IE6 vulnerabilities are included in the secunia database. Firefox has been around since May 2004 (0.x), and 1.0 since Nov 2004, and those are included in the database, and the Mozilla bugs prior to May 2004 are not. Do you get it yet?
Maybe you should read the comment I was addressing. He was saying Vista is an INCREMENTAL update, when I illustrated otherwise.
1) The vulnerabilities for Mozilla prior to Firefox coming out are not counted in the Secunia database 2) IE6 has been around since 2001.
Better Performance. Better productivity in the IDE.
So you can't provide any reliable links, ok. I write code for a living and I surf the web while I'm doing it sometimes. You really think posting here occasionally takes up all my time?? Hahahahaha. I'm not an asshole though. Not anywhere but here ;)
Really, your attempts at framing what my life is like are cute. Pathetic, but cute. Keep it going, it's good for a laugh.
Ok, 2 sites that I've never heard of with no proof provided, just articles. I DID google and that's the kind of stuff I found. I was hopign you had something more substantial and believable. I'm not saying it's not true, but its kind of hard to trust sources like that. I do kind of troll here at slashdot. It's already full of trolls and complete morons, so oh well. Yeah, it's wrong of me, but it's /. and I don't care. Call me a kid all you want, but you're way off base there.