Shut the fuck up you idiots
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Most of the posts around here are just dumb. Which is pretty much par for the course whenever there's a Mandrake topic:
"I installed something and now I can't find it!"
"I used GUI configuration wizard and now nothing works!"
"Linux gots a long way to go!"
I'm tired of all this bullshit. You guys are just dumb. Linux is not going to be like Windows. Or like MacOS (which has the best desktop). The only reason why you're running Linux is because you have some irrational hatred of Microsoft, or because --in an attempt to be cool-- you got a lot more than you bargained for and now you're lost. Because everything you guys say shows that you are completely in the dark as to what's going on.
So why don't you shut up. Linux is a UNIX platform for research, hobbyism and programming. It will never be easy-to-use because that makes research, hobbyism and programming harder. Get that through your heads, start coding, or wipe your partition and enjoy Windows XP. Or anything, I don't care, whatever keeps you from posting moronic comments on Slashdot.
Re:Please, Deep Blue is not AI, chess is a limited
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Anyway, I do believe Deep Blue had intelligence, just in a very narrow way. Why? Because humans playing chess is seen as a sign of intelligence in humans, because before we built a chess playing computer we thought it would be an intelligent thing for a computer to do.
Argh. This has all gotten terribly out of hand.
Look, it's not that hard. Humans devised chess to have a good time and to use it as a yardstick to measure (not immediately obvious) characteristics in other humans. Such as the capacity to sit still for long periods of time and the capacity to plan ahead, among others.
This is the nature of almost all games and it is human nature to enjoy that sort of thing. But the yardstick of chess is only valid when applied to humans. The metric of "chess" is meaningless when applied to non-people.
The intelligence of humans lies in their propensity to come up with games for both fun and profit. Therefore a human who plays and enjoys chess demonstrates intelligence. But a computer that plays chess does not (necessarily).
Blah blah blah. Apple apologists always find a way to spin the story in favor of Apple.
That doesn't make it true.
Apple has a long standing tradition of punishing their customers and charging them through the nose for even the most basic services. Here's another true story.
On Classic MacOS you used to have a program called "Hard Drive Setup" for formatting hard drives and to install disk drivers onto them (yes, Mac disks come with a driver partition). Of course, it would only work on Apple-branded hard drives, refusing to format or otherwise touch other drives. This left you with the choice between spending money on overpriced Apple drives, or spending money on (unsupported, less stable) third-party disk tools and drivers.
That was then. This is now. Apple today is still the same old sucks. And the new generation of Mac loving geeks are the same old suckers.
"The ideal of equality in freedom--the good above all that liberalism seeks to promote--may nurture a tyrannical tendency. Once it has a grip on our souls, freedom grows dissatisfied with being first among goods and sets out to become the one and only good, the good pure and simple. In its quest for unchallenged sway in our hearts and our heads, it can make us soft and selfish, averse to the constraints of that discipline whereby we defer the gratification of some desires for the sake of the satisfaction of higher and better desires, and whereby we show respect for others because it is in our enlightened self-interest to do so." -- Peter Berkowitz
The ISP could adjust its pricing to account for the biggest bandwidth leeches but then costs would skyrocket and nobody would buy broadband service. It would make the entire business proposition unfeasible.
So ISPs oversell their bandwidth based on fairly reasonable assumptions about average and peak bandwidth usage and this compromise is what leads to the best arrangement for the largest number of people.
The question is what constitutes reasonable use of the network. By your reasoning, since spammers are paying for their network connection, they should be allowed to spam everybody to oblivion. But realistically they cannot be allowed to do so, for reasons both pragmatic and principled. Equally bandwidth leeches must be curtailed so they do not spoil the service for everybody else, either through rising prices or diminishing throughput.
I think your comment reflects the attitude of many Slashdot readers. Personally, I think you are dead wrong, not just in the sense that your beliefs are incongruent with reality (since your connection is neither "yours" nor "unlimited") but in a deeper moral or ethical sense as well. Peter Berkowitz said it better than I could ever hope to, so I'll let him speak for himself:
"The ideal of equality in freedom--the good above all that liberalism seeks to promote--may nurture a tyrannical tendency. Once it has a grip on our souls, freedom grows dissatisfied with being first among goods and sets out to become the one and only good, the good pure and simple. In its quest for unchallenged sway in our hearts and our heads, it can make us soft and selfish, averse to the constraints of that discipline whereby we defer the gratification of some desires for the sake of the satisfaction of higher and better desires, and whereby we show respect for others because it is in our enlightened self-interest to do so."
Why? Because Slashdot is run by a couple of kneejerking retards who'll parrot anything that seems fashionable or "cool". These guys are not clever, technical or creative -- they're a bunch of oblivious media addicts who get by on instant opinion and couldn't think an original thought to save their lives.
I'm runing hundreds of different programs on my windows machine. If any one of these programs is subverted by a malicious user, all of the information on my machine is vulnerable.
"My life is conjoined with thousands of different people in society. If any one of these people is a subversive, all of us are in danger."
technology iw not going anywhere... 3d gfx are still progressing and Cpus are forever getting faster... the politicians simply got scared.. but the genie is out of the bottle.. they can't stop us... technolgoy is here to stay...
I know this is cool and all... but still... we have so many problems on our own earth... shouldn't we solve those first?
I mean i have no prolbem with a bunch of scientists playing with taxpayer money but shouldn't the common men get seomthing out of it as well??
I am looking to have sexual intercourse with a woman. Lacking that I would like to be anally violated or look at pictures of same. Which of the following ThinkGeek lubricants should I consider?
it's fuckheads like you that make this site suck so hard. why do you come here ruining it for everybody? you should be ashamed. i hope you grow up. at which point i might have some cheap whores on offer for you. as it is right now i wouldn't trust you with my dog. or with the shithouse that is this website.
Slashdot is supposedly a place where people come to worry about standards. If Slashdot can't be bothered, then who can?
Further, you seem to define "bad code" as code "not approved by W3C". That's exactly the kind of semantics game I have come to expect from adherents to the anemic institution that is the W3C.
In reality there is no "bad C++ code", just stupid applications. The whole notion that everybody should be able to communicate with everybody and that everything should work everywhere is an ideological fantasy with very little grounding in reality or technical necessity.
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Have you ever run a business?
Most of the posts around here are just dumb. Which is pretty much par for the course whenever there's a Mandrake topic:
"I installed something and now I can't find it!"
"I used GUI configuration wizard and now nothing works!"
"Linux gots a long way to go!"
I'm tired of all this bullshit. You guys are just dumb. Linux is not going to be like Windows. Or like MacOS (which has the best desktop). The only reason why you're running Linux is because you have some irrational hatred of Microsoft, or because --in an attempt to be cool-- you got a lot more than you bargained for and now you're lost. Because everything you guys say shows that you are completely in the dark as to what's going on.
So why don't you shut up. Linux is a UNIX platform for research, hobbyism and programming. It will never be easy-to-use because that makes research, hobbyism and programming harder. Get that through your heads, start coding, or wipe your partition and enjoy Windows XP. Or anything, I don't care, whatever keeps you from posting moronic comments on Slashdot.
Argh. This has all gotten terribly out of hand.
Look, it's not that hard. Humans devised chess to have a good time and to use it as a yardstick to measure (not immediately obvious) characteristics in other humans. Such as the capacity to sit still for long periods of time and the capacity to plan ahead, among others.
This is the nature of almost all games and it is human nature to enjoy that sort of thing. But the yardstick of chess is only valid when applied to humans. The metric of "chess" is meaningless when applied to non-people.
The intelligence of humans lies in their propensity to come up with games for both fun and profit. Therefore a human who plays and enjoys chess demonstrates intelligence. But a computer that plays chess does not (necessarily).
Blah blah blah. Apple apologists always find a way to spin the story in favor of Apple.
That doesn't make it true.
Apple has a long standing tradition of punishing their customers and charging them through the nose for even the most basic services. Here's another true story.
On Classic MacOS you used to have a program called "Hard Drive Setup" for formatting hard drives and to install disk drivers onto them (yes, Mac disks come with a driver partition). Of course, it would only work on Apple-branded hard drives, refusing to format or otherwise touch other drives. This left you with the choice between spending money on overpriced Apple drives, or spending money on (unsupported, less stable) third-party disk tools and drivers.
That was then. This is now. Apple today is still the same old sucks. And the new generation of Mac loving geeks are the same old suckers.
Correction: creative sheeple's platform
Oh please. Tell that to your Thai hooker.
So ISPs oversell their bandwidth based on fairly reasonable assumptions about average and peak bandwidth usage and this compromise is what leads to the best arrangement for the largest number of people.
The question is what constitutes reasonable use of the network. By your reasoning, since spammers are paying for their network connection, they should be allowed to spam everybody to oblivion. But realistically they cannot be allowed to do so, for reasons both pragmatic and principled. Equally bandwidth leeches must be curtailed so they do not spoil the service for everybody else, either through rising prices or diminishing throughput.
Why? Because Slashdot is run by a couple of kneejerking retards who'll parrot anything that seems fashionable or "cool". These guys are not clever, technical or creative -- they're a bunch of oblivious media addicts who get by on instant opinion and couldn't think an original thought to save their lives.
That's pretty sad stuff dude. So what else do you hide from your spouse?
And your solution is to abolish society??
technology iw not going anywhere... 3d gfx are still progressing and Cpus are forever getting faster... the politicians simply got scared.. but the genie is out of the bottle.. they can't stop us... technolgoy is here to stay...
Damn brother! You should've just paid!
I know this is cool and all... but still... we have so many problems on our own earth... shouldn't we solve those first? I mean i have no prolbem with a bunch of scientists playing with taxpayer money but shouldn't the common men get seomthing out of it as well??
Fucking tool.
What you need is some cheap whores.
oh the humanity
have some cheap whores, thrifty motherfucker. capitalism forever!
it's fuckheads like you that make this site suck so hard. why do you come here ruining it for everybody? you should be ashamed. i hope you grow up. at which point i might have some cheap whores on offer for you. as it is right now i wouldn't trust you with my dog. or with the shithouse that is this website.
Further, you seem to define "bad code" as code "not approved by W3C". That's exactly the kind of semantics game I have come to expect from adherents to the anemic institution that is the W3C.
In reality there is no "bad C++ code", just stupid applications. The whole notion that everybody should be able to communicate with everybody and that everything should work everywhere is an ideological fantasy with very little grounding in reality or technical necessity.
Standard schmandard. Not even /. HTML complies with the W3C standards. W3C is a morgue.
All it requires is the burning desire to soothe those raging hormones. Yeah, well. Whatever. uIP is cool though. The rest is just a mess.
Jezus. So they conquered the computer! Grunt grunt. Very impressive. Fucking neaderthals.