Yeah, but have you used their desktop? It's hideous. I love Solaris and all, and I don't recall Gnome sucking as much as the Solaris re-brand, but since my choices are their versions of Gnome and CDE, I'd have to say I agree that Linus has a point, Solaris isn't a strong Desktop contender right now. (leaving out Nexenta of course)
I'll agree with that to an extent, the part where my opinion diverges is where the crowds *want* to the see the blood, *want* to watch someone die. They want the real thing.
The other part is warfare, you brought up the military, which is irrelevant when we're talking about violence on the street and in schools. There is no separation or abstraction, is a kid at a school pulls a gun or a knife or a shiv and kills another student or teacher or goes on a rampage, they are *there* they are living it, breathing it, seeing the blood on the floor.
I can't imagine how much more "damaging" video games are with fake blood and real-time rendered graphics are compared to the public executions and coliseum games of centuries past (or not even past, in some places).
I played Aliens Vs Predator 2 online for 36 hours, then my friend came by and we went out for a bit, all the while I'm seeing Xenomorphs ("Alien"s) in shadows and running across rooftops. Nothing like sleep deprivation to incite a little visual hallucination.
I respect teaching as a profession, and I've had a couple absolutely amazing teachers. But, you know what made those teachers so great? You know what made me learn and remember? They broke the rules, they had to.
The American Public School System is a joke, and they knew it, the students knew it. Today's students know it! I can't defend the school system, I can't say I learned much of anything in school, during school hours, with school materials, for a grade.
Most people memorized what they needed for tests, and a few others learned outside of school. People who run on 100% public school are generally those people who we all hate, they're idiots.
Man, if a 90 pound linux hacker tries to join the football team, he gets what he deserves. Seriously. I'm all about being a geek, but if your expertise lies in another field and you haven't prepared yourself for the new environment, someone should come to you and go "dude, you're not even trying, you're going to get yourself hurt". It should be the same way, sure, Joe Sixpack wants to get online and hit on girls on Myspace, and it's okay if he turns his computer into a steaming pile of feces because he decides to click the wrong link, gets his computer zombied and we have to get 500 more pieces of spam a day for it?
I don't get what he's on about. He *did* write one of the most amazing Cyberpunk books of all time (Neuromancer) he *did* predict a big chuck of our present and maybe even our future back in the early 80s. He wrote the damn thing on a typewriter without owning a computer. But I can't say he predicted it intentionally. And I can't really say he's that great of a writer anymore. Maybe he's trying too hard to best his best.
It's just silly to claim he can't predict the future anymore, he shouldn't feel he has to, he's not a deity, he's a writer, make shit up, create a world, enjoy yourself. If you can't do that, maybe you shouldn't be writing.
Hrm, you may be right about the story title, I just didn't see it that way after reading the article itself. Then again, who RTFA anyway..
I do blame the yellow press for this phenomenon, it makes them money, money is success.. right? right? No? Well damn. People seem to be dreadfully short sighted.
Interesting, I wasn't aware it was solely up to the editor's discretion.
Adblock doesn't stop stupid stories, only stupid advertising.
FTFA, "Copying a motion picture from a theater performance is a felony under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, punishable by up to three years in a federal prison."
IANAL, but.. Not usually. There's crimes against a person and then there's crimes against the state. If it's against a person (theft, rape, assault), it's usually up the the person whether or not to press charges. A corporation falls under the category of person. If it was a crime against the state, then I think it's up to the prosecuting attorney.
I didn't interpret that quite the same way, since it was a question (indicated by the question mark at the end), it seemed to be asking if that eventuality was fair or not.
As an aside.. I've noticed people bitch about/. a lot, hell, I've bitched at/about/., however, here's the thing, if they post an inflammatory story, they get more comments, maybe even more pageviews, what does that translate into? Ad revenue! If we *really* have a problem with it, we can do two huge things.
One, submit better stories.. or Two, go read Digg.. yeah I didn't think so.
Hrm, I can't think of a situation where Zero-Tolerance Policies haven't caused problems.
Okay, lets make one up. Murder. Lets make killing someone a zero-tolerance offense, you kill someone, you get the chair. I can hear you saying "Uh, but xybre sir, it's murder.. ya know.. it's not like it's legal to kill people." True enough. But take this instance, someone breaks into your house, they have a weapon and intent to kill, you have a weapon and kill them first. There's something called "self-defense" that comes into play. Zero-Tolerance means you either choose to let the guy kill you and your family, or you kill him and get the chair. What joy, you can't protect yourself with deadly force anymore, better buy a tranq gun.
Real life examples of Zero-Tolerance not working? Stories from the Hellmouth anyone? Mandatory sentences?
For 20 seconds of a clip?? Really? How is this helping you MPAA? You're going to go all RIAA and start suing people who were never even at the theatre, who've never seen the movie? Amish parents? A dog who wandered in?
He seems to completely miss the way things work. As stated in some other comments, the dotcom bubble was because everyone had crazy investor backing, but no product and no income. Todays web is all about income, very few investors, it's very DIY, if someone's site goes under, that just means Bob Web keeps working IT at Farstuck's corporate office or whatever, and no one is really the wiser.
I will say that "Web 2.0" is more of a design thing than a business model, I mean, more and more concepts are being tied into it, and yes, the look is silly, and I hope it blows over soon, but thats no reason to assume we're going to see a major IT collapse. The reason the dotcom bust affected IT s because so many people and so much money was thrown into it. Few remember or care about the word processor wars or the CD-ROM manufacturers, it didn't involve everyone. Businesses in all fields have spurts of competition and failures. Most of those companies were bought up or gave up because of poor businesses practices or management, we don't see it the same way right now.
Hey, maybe tomorrow everyone will go "Eh, screw this 'internet' crap, I'm going to burn my computer and become Amish."
Companies maintain the belief that people "vote with their wallets", consumers are starting to realize this and therefore when a company does things they don't like they shrug and take their business elsewhere.
On another note, US cars are all over the world. They're not the same cars we see, because it's totally different market in the rest of the world. They love motorized shoeboxes, and Ford has a massive market over in Europe. I don't think American car manufacturers care if their US designed cars are illegal in other countries, almost no one would buy them anyway. Petrol in Europe costs anywhere from three to five times what it costs here in the US.
The lobbyists who fought for weaker fuel restrictions were petrol companies, not consumers. Where exactly were you heading with that comment?
I hate to continue this discussion, but Power Rangers didn't make it to english-speaking television until 1993, and Captain Planet was aired first in 1990.
I somehow feel like less of a person for going through wikipedia for these tidbits. Maybe if I just change the date of Captain Planet's pilot episode to 1951 I can win this one.. hrm..
Over the past several years in IT I have personally seen many new adoptions of linux and mac, and the "phasing out" of windows servers and workstations, in business and in home use, I believe my experiences to be a decent industry cross-section, enough to gauge the overall direction of the market.
Now this is just skewed data on par with the Vista vs Mac OS statistics in the article. If you were to compare Red Hat to Vista, for instance, queries involving Red Hat show an obvious decline, while there was a sharp spike in Vista queries the day of it's release. Not news either. And thats the point.
I have observed in my personal experience that non-Windows OSes are very slowly gaining ground, and Vista seems to be encouraging that trend, at least for now.
Whats with all the MS/Vista FUD on Slashdot? I mean, I use Windows, Macs, and Linux all the time, and I know Mac and Linux are growing and a lot of people have said screw Vista for a variety of reasons. There have been many articles disproving the "growth" of Vista adoption.
To further skew the results, some users are upgrading from Windows XP, there isn't a new version of OS X out yet, so why would people be upgrading to it? It just doesn't make any sense. MS isn't gaining any new users here, while Linux and Mac obviously are. Whats with the BS?
I know, this is Slashdot and no one RTFA, but the article did state that Vaio had a lot of those features first, and Apple later copied them. Is this really a surprise?
Additionally, the specs for this laptop, what with the solid state drive, the led backlighting, and the carbon fiber construction, Apple has nothing that compares, their machines are different, but they'd be at least as expensive if they used all these features, and I'm sure more.
Keep in mind I'm typing this from an iMac and I have a boycott going for Sony.;)
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Yeah, but have you used their desktop? It's hideous. I love Solaris and all, and I don't recall Gnome sucking as much as the Solaris re-brand, but since my choices are their versions of Gnome and CDE, I'd have to say I agree that Linus has a point, Solaris isn't a strong Desktop contender right now. (leaving out Nexenta of course)
I'll agree with that to an extent, the part where my opinion diverges is where the crowds *want* to the see the blood, *want* to watch someone die. They want the real thing.
The other part is warfare, you brought up the military, which is irrelevant when we're talking about violence on the street and in schools. There is no separation or abstraction, is a kid at a school pulls a gun or a knife or a shiv and kills another student or teacher or goes on a rampage, they are *there* they are living it, breathing it, seeing the blood on the floor.
I can't imagine how much more "damaging" video games are with fake blood and real-time rendered graphics are compared to the public executions and coliseum games of centuries past (or not even past, in some places).
I played Aliens Vs Predator 2 online for 36 hours, then my friend came by and we went out for a bit, all the while I'm seeing Xenomorphs ("Alien"s) in shadows and running across rooftops. Nothing like sleep deprivation to incite a little visual hallucination.
What political agenda? It links to a CNN article.
9:30? Heh heh, right. See you at noon, after I take a nap.
I respect teaching as a profession, and I've had a couple absolutely amazing teachers. But, you know what made those teachers so great? You know what made me learn and remember? They broke the rules, they had to.
The American Public School System is a joke, and they knew it, the students knew it. Today's students know it! I can't defend the school system, I can't say I learned much of anything in school, during school hours, with school materials, for a grade.
Most people memorized what they needed for tests, and a few others learned outside of school. People who run on 100% public school are generally those people who we all hate, they're idiots.
Man, if a 90 pound linux hacker tries to join the football team, he gets what he deserves. Seriously. I'm all about being a geek, but if your expertise lies in another field and you haven't prepared yourself for the new environment, someone should come to you and go "dude, you're not even trying, you're going to get yourself hurt". It should be the same way, sure, Joe Sixpack wants to get online and hit on girls on Myspace, and it's okay if he turns his computer into a steaming pile of feces because he decides to click the wrong link, gets his computer zombied and we have to get 500 more pieces of spam a day for it?
I don't get what he's on about. He *did* write one of the most amazing Cyberpunk books of all time (Neuromancer) he *did* predict a big chuck of our present and maybe even our future back in the early 80s. He wrote the damn thing on a typewriter without owning a computer. But I can't say he predicted it intentionally. And I can't really say he's that great of a writer anymore. Maybe he's trying too hard to best his best.
It's just silly to claim he can't predict the future anymore, he shouldn't feel he has to, he's not a deity, he's a writer, make shit up, create a world, enjoy yourself. If you can't do that, maybe you shouldn't be writing.
Hrm, you may be right about the story title, I just didn't see it that way after reading the article itself. Then again, who RTFA anyway..
I do blame the yellow press for this phenomenon, it makes them money, money is success.. right? right? No? Well damn.
People seem to be dreadfully short sighted.
Interesting, I wasn't aware it was solely up to the editor's discretion.
Adblock doesn't stop stupid stories, only stupid advertising.
FTFA, "Copying a motion picture from a theater performance is a felony under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, punishable by up to three years in a federal prison."
Misdemeanor?
Country jail is not the same thing as Prison. With a capital P. "Federal pound me in the ass prison."
Terms of less than 365 days are in county jails.
IANAL, but..
Not usually. There's crimes against a person and then there's crimes against the state.
If it's against a person (theft, rape, assault), it's usually up the the person whether or not to press charges.
A corporation falls under the category of person. If it was a crime against the state, then I think it's up to the prosecuting attorney.
I didn't interpret that quite the same way, since it was a question (indicated by the question mark at the end), it seemed to be asking if that eventuality was fair or not.
/. a lot, hell, I've bitched at/about /., however, here's the thing, if they post an inflammatory story, they get more comments, maybe even more pageviews, what does that translate into? Ad revenue! If we *really* have a problem with it, we can do two huge things.
.. yeah I didn't think so.
As an aside.. I've noticed people bitch about
One, submit better stories.. or
Two, go read Digg
Hrm, I can't think of a situation where Zero-Tolerance Policies haven't caused problems.
Okay, lets make one up.
Murder. Lets make killing someone a zero-tolerance offense, you kill someone, you get the chair.
I can hear you saying "Uh, but xybre sir, it's murder.. ya know.. it's not like it's legal to kill people."
True enough. But take this instance, someone breaks into your house, they have a weapon and intent to kill, you have a weapon and kill them first. There's something called "self-defense" that comes into play. Zero-Tolerance means you either choose to let the guy kill you and your family, or you kill him and get the chair. What joy, you can't protect yourself with deadly force anymore, better buy a tranq gun.
Real life examples of Zero-Tolerance not working?
Stories from the Hellmouth anyone?
Mandatory sentences?
For 20 seconds of a clip??
Really?
How is this helping you MPAA?
You're going to go all RIAA and start suing people who were never even at the theatre, who've never seen the movie? Amish parents? A dog who wandered in?
He seems to completely miss the way things work. As stated in some other comments, the dotcom bubble was because everyone had crazy investor backing, but no product and no income. Todays web is all about income, very few investors, it's very DIY, if someone's site goes under, that just means Bob Web keeps working IT at Farstuck's corporate office or whatever, and no one is really the wiser.
I will say that "Web 2.0" is more of a design thing than a business model, I mean, more and more concepts are being tied into it, and yes, the look is silly, and I hope it blows over soon, but thats no reason to assume we're going to see a major IT collapse. The reason the dotcom bust affected IT s because so many people and so much money was thrown into it. Few remember or care about the word processor wars or the CD-ROM manufacturers, it didn't involve everyone. Businesses in all fields have spurts of competition and failures. Most of those companies were bought up or gave up because of poor businesses practices or management, we don't see it the same way right now.
Hey, maybe tomorrow everyone will go "Eh, screw this 'internet' crap, I'm going to burn my computer and become Amish."
But I doubt it.
Companies maintain the belief that people "vote with their wallets", consumers are starting to realize this and therefore when a company does things they don't like they shrug and take their business elsewhere.
On another note, US cars are all over the world. They're not the same cars we see, because it's totally different market in the rest of the world. They love motorized shoeboxes, and Ford has a massive market over in Europe. I don't think American car manufacturers care if their US designed cars are illegal in other countries, almost no one would buy them anyway. Petrol in Europe costs anywhere from three to five times what it costs here in the US.
The lobbyists who fought for weaker fuel restrictions were petrol companies, not consumers. Where exactly were you heading with that comment?
Maybe it's because they're Swedish?
http://www.medison.se/
I hate to continue this discussion, but Power Rangers didn't make it to english-speaking television until 1993, and Captain Planet was aired first in 1990.
I somehow feel like less of a person for going through wikipedia for these tidbits. Maybe if I just change the date of Captain Planet's pilot episode to 1951 I can win this one.. hrm..
I'm ubernerding here, but..
.. what is that, Power Rangers?
"With your power combined" is from Captain Planet.
I thinks this bridges the generation gap between Voltron and
Over the past several years in IT I have personally seen many new adoptions of linux and mac, and the "phasing out" of windows servers and workstations, in business and in home use, I believe my experiences to be a decent industry cross-section, enough to gauge the overall direction of the market.
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If you want statistics that are on par with the article, take a look at these:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=windows+xp%2C+ubun
From this graph you can easily see that Ubuntu will pass Windows in Google searches by 2008.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=windows+xp%2C+mac
And in this graph Mac OS X has already passed Windows!
Now this is just skewed data on par with the Vista vs Mac OS statistics in the article. If you were to compare Red Hat to Vista, for instance, queries involving Red Hat show an obvious decline, while there was a sharp spike in Vista queries the day of it's release. Not news either. And thats the point.
Here are some "unbiased" statistics. Note that the w3schools site says the stats are unreliable, much like the ones mentioned in this article.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/spreadsheet/10004
I have observed in my personal experience that non-Windows OSes are very slowly gaining ground, and Vista seems to be encouraging that trend, at least for now.
Whats with all the MS/Vista FUD on Slashdot? I mean, I use Windows, Macs, and Linux all the time, and I know Mac and Linux are growing and a lot of people have said screw Vista for a variety of reasons. There have been many articles disproving the "growth" of Vista adoption.
To further skew the results, some users are upgrading from Windows XP, there isn't a new version of OS X out yet, so why would people be upgrading to it? It just doesn't make any sense. MS isn't gaining any new users here, while Linux and Mac obviously are. Whats with the BS?
They're totally screwing you every chance they get.
;)
I was more putting the question out there into the blue nowhere rather than disagreeing with your comment.
Africa isn't a country. Oh wait, you went to American public schools? I feel your pain.
I know, this is Slashdot and no one RTFA, but the article did state that Vaio had a lot of those features first, and Apple later copied them. Is this really a surprise?
;)
Additionally, the specs for this laptop, what with the solid state drive, the led backlighting, and the carbon fiber construction, Apple has nothing that compares, their machines are different, but they'd be at least as expensive if they used all these features, and I'm sure more.
Keep in mind I'm typing this from an iMac and I have a boycott going for Sony.