And the people who need to be enlightened are by being blocked from the site on Sunday? Wow. That's a really enlightened website.
Re:More than once compiler... Good? Bad?
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Having a new commonly used compiler for Linux would be a good thing. It would force GCC to better comply with the ANSI standards. As it stands, there are a number of 'minor' embrace-extend features of GCC that many coders aren't even aware of. Having to write their code to compile on multiple compilers shakes some of that kind of stuff out.
because of Mp3.com, everyone uses mp3s now, and people know Mp3s can be profitable.
I'm not sure you can draw that coorelation. MP3 audio compression existed before MP3.COM, and I don't know that it would be any more or less popular if the mp3.com domain had never been registered.
Yeah, but if it killed a half dozen eggberts in their little runt cars during a little accident (shall we call it that?) on the freeway, it would have redeeming social value.
Doubly so if the little eggbert cars have four or more bumper stickers on them.
Re:I resent the underlying sexism of your comment.
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Actaully, large sections of the rest of the world (i.e. China) are excempt from most of the guidelines designed to 'reduce greenhouse gasses.'
Re:I resent the underlying sexism of your comment.
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We humans managed, more or less, to survive for several hundreds of thousands of years without electricity.
Turn it off, dude. The homeless people will be by in a few hours to strip the copper out of your walls. Don't give us any crap about needing that wiring.
Your right to have electricity ends where those homeless people's right to have money for wine from selling scrap copper begins.
Well, all forms of property are artificial notions that come from government. I wish people would get over the idea that it's an act of government benevolence that I'm allowed to have some control over the creative work that I produce.
I'm sorry that I don't see it as any form of a 'crisis' that the last free dictionary is from 1913. Why would 'the people' gain a great deal? Furthermore, why should it matter wether 'the people' benefit or not?
And thus, a famous saying by one of the old Unix pioneers should become common knowledge: 'The bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes is incredible' (badly paraphrased, I am sure).
Don't be stupid and download your Linux ISOs. Go to Cheapbytes and spend six bucks. Only one of you on each Dorm floor has to do that anyway.
I guess that messes up all the apt-get people, though.
Well, somebody still has to have guns, and police enforcement, and state power.
Otherwise, when I give away a binary version of a program that I wrote, or that I augmented from some code that someone else 'GPLd', I can say 'shove it' when someone asks for my source code.
So nothing has really changed. Instead of the state apparatus being used to enforce X's copyright, it is now used to enforce Y's copyright.
I wonder how much Apple paid to be able to slap that formerly good brand name (Harmon-Kardon) on the iMac?
It's pure brand-name strip mining.
I have a steel-chassis American-made vaccum tube Harmon-Kardon integrated amplifier in my sound system, from the 60's. It's quality. The new Jap H-K is shit by comparison.
It's sad how Apple can slap a bunch of brand names on their crap and get a sheen of quality. It's doubly sad that that sheen gets them any traction on a seemingly technically literate site like Slashdot.
proprietary enough to evade 99% of all viruses and 99% of all dumbware.
So, what you're saying is 'we know better than you what should be installed on your computer.'
It's really ironic, this attitude having so much credibility here on a geek site. It's almost like all of you went to Novell school and learned the evil IT attitude.
Where would you all be if ten years ago someone had copped that attitude with you?
Except for the detached keyboard, the iMac looks so close to the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A that those of us from the old days had to chuckle when we first saw it. So no, it's not an enclosure design that Apple originated.
Hell, there are DEC VT-series terminals (I think the 22x series) that look even closer to the iMac than the Lear-Siegler.
Let's be real. Almost nothing Apple has done is really new or innovative in case design.
Actually, as is dangled out as a carrot in front of programmers to get them to release their code for free, 'Free Software' tech support is supposed to cost money, and in fact is how businesses like Red Hat expect to get their revenue.
Don't count on many people considering Linux free. If it ever does take off in a big way the 'root' account will be owned by some help desk drone who logs in once a day to make sure the user hasn't screwed things up. For a monthly fee.
Big deal. People have been spending under $150 on game consoles for years and then buying hundreds of dollars worth of games to play on them. People do that with CD players too. Why is there some magic breakover thing with an operating system?
The first time they hear about the 'Red Hat Support Fee' their friend is paying monthly to keep his linux box up and running, they'll be glad they bought a Microsoft OS that three of their nephews are capable of fixing every time it does something odd.
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Hey tard.
He didn't say 'evil.'
He clearly said he thought it was stupid.
Get a clue, guy.
Forged News?
Why did they pick that for the name of a web site?
It's boggling that they wouldn't know how people feel about forged news.
And the people who need to be enlightened are by being blocked from the site on Sunday? Wow. That's a really enlightened website.
Having a new commonly used compiler for Linux would be a good thing. It would force GCC to better comply with the ANSI standards. As it stands, there are a number of 'minor' embrace-extend features of GCC that many coders aren't even aware of. Having to write their code to compile on multiple compilers shakes some of that kind of stuff out.
because of Mp3.com, everyone uses mp3s now, and people know Mp3s can be profitable.
I'm not sure you can draw that coorelation. MP3 audio compression existed before MP3.COM, and I don't know that it would be any more or less popular if the mp3.com domain had never been registered.
Yeah, but if it killed a half dozen eggberts in their little runt cars during a little accident (shall we call it that?) on the freeway, it would have redeeming social value.
Doubly so if the little eggbert cars have four or more bumper stickers on them.
Legend has it that one of the Stanford buildings was spray painted 'Knuth's secretary uses WordStar' at some point back in the early 80's.
*crunch*!
Haw!
Actaully, large sections of the rest of the world (i.e. China) are excempt from most of the guidelines designed to 'reduce greenhouse gasses.'
We humans managed, more or less, to survive for several hundreds of thousands of years without electricity.
Turn it off, dude. The homeless people will be by in a few hours to strip the copper out of your walls. Don't give us any crap about needing that wiring.
Your right to have electricity ends where those homeless people's right to have money for wine from selling scrap copper begins.
Soccer Moms don't drive SUVs. Soccer Moms drive shitty little vans.
Well, all forms of property are artificial notions that come from government. I wish people would get over the idea that it's an act of government benevolence that I'm allowed to have some control over the creative work that I produce.
I'm sorry that I don't see it as any form of a 'crisis' that the last free dictionary is from 1913. Why would 'the people' gain a great deal? Furthermore, why should it matter wether 'the people' benefit or not?
Linux ISO's still take a while though ;-)
And thus, a famous saying by one of the old Unix pioneers should become common knowledge: 'The bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes is incredible' (badly paraphrased, I am sure).
Don't be stupid and download your Linux ISOs. Go to Cheapbytes and spend six bucks. Only one of you on each Dorm floor has to do that anyway.
I guess that messes up all the apt-get people, though.
Umm, I remember back when certain courses had expensive textbooks. I still took the courses, and paid for the textbooks.
And I'm sorry. Wizzy-wig multimedia stuff for fine arts/sociology/theatre majors sounds like hype to me.
Mucho bandwidth does not equal a good education. Sometimes a good education just means a good solid library with wooden tables and chairs.
Wake up kiddies.
You're paying the $10,000 for an education, not to download movies and tunez.
Why shouldn't the copyright extend to perpetuity.
The work that is copyrighted, if it has value, should hold that value.
Otherwise, it's like you're saying that if I build a house, and my descendents inherit it, it becomes state property in 70 years.
That just doesn't make sense.
Oh, it does to some people, I understand. Luckily most of them don't have a hell of a lot of clout anymore.
Well, somebody still has to have guns, and police enforcement, and state power.
Otherwise, when I give away a binary version of a program that I wrote, or that I augmented from some code that someone else 'GPLd', I can say 'shove it' when someone asks for my source code.
So nothing has really changed. Instead of the state apparatus being used to enforce X's copyright, it is now used to enforce Y's copyright.
Nothing magic, nothing new.
Same old police state.
Could 'getting things Done' be rephrased: 'Making The Trains Run On Time'?
I wonder how much Apple paid to be able to slap that formerly good brand name (Harmon-Kardon) on the iMac?
It's pure brand-name strip mining.
I have a steel-chassis American-made vaccum tube Harmon-Kardon integrated amplifier in my sound system, from the 60's. It's quality. The new Jap H-K is shit by comparison.
It's sad how Apple can slap a bunch of brand names on their crap and get a sheen of quality. It's doubly sad that that sheen gets them any traction on a seemingly technically literate site like Slashdot.
proprietary enough to evade 99% of all viruses and 99% of all dumbware.
So, what you're saying is 'we know better than you what should be installed on your computer.'
It's really ironic, this attitude having so much credibility here on a geek site. It's almost like all of you went to Novell school and learned the evil IT attitude.
Where would you all be if ten years ago someone had copped that attitude with you?
Except for the detached keyboard, the iMac looks so close to the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A that those of us from the old days had to chuckle when we first saw it. So no, it's not an enclosure design that Apple originated.
Hell, there are DEC VT-series terminals (I think the 22x series) that look even closer to the iMac than the Lear-Siegler.
Let's be real. Almost nothing Apple has done is really new or innovative in case design.
Actually, as is dangled out as a carrot in front of programmers to get them to release their code for free, 'Free Software' tech support is supposed to cost money, and in fact is how businesses like Red Hat expect to get their revenue.
Don't count on many people considering Linux free. If it ever does take off in a big way the 'root' account will be owned by some help desk drone who logs in once a day to make sure the user hasn't screwed things up. For a monthly fee.
Big deal. People have been spending under $150 on game consoles for years and then buying hundreds of dollars worth of games to play on them. People do that with CD players too. Why is there some magic breakover thing with an operating system?
The first time they hear about the 'Red Hat Support Fee' their friend is paying monthly to keep his linux box up and running, they'll be glad they bought a Microsoft OS that three of their nephews are capable of fixing every time it does something odd.
The gist of computers functioning as 'multimedia machines' is for them to become further enhanced as communications devices.
Sure, if you have a hobby writing programs to calculate Pi or square roots a machine with a keyboard and ascii screen is sufficient.
Most people these days buy home computers to act as communications terminals for the culture out on the net.
I would call KDE or Gnome 'a Windows 3.1 like GUI' at best. Not that there are as many apps available for them as there are for Windows 3.1.