Yeah, just make everyone upgrade. Make everyone pay thousands upon thousands of pounds to upgrade all their computers and on new OSes.
Never mind the fact that they work well enough in the first place, and get the job done well. Just line the pockets of Microsft and hardware manufacturers for the mere sake of it.
Nope. With package management, programs don't just come with their own installers that can put themselves whereever they want. The packages are put together (preferably) by the distribution, so they can control what the programs do.
How dare you. People have spent hundreds of pounds upgrading to 95, 98, 98SE and ME. And now you're telling them they're all shit and they have to fork out AGAIN for a newer version that isn't shit?
Because email spam can be deleted in a fraction of a second, and costs you merely the odd second of bandwidth. Fax spam uses up all your paper and ink, and takes ages to print, and is a nusiance to get rid of.
The reason no-one cares is because the Olypmics are boring. Who wants to sit on a crap seat all day watching sports like running and the long-jump? All the decent sports like football are taken up by the World Cup etc, so only the crap sports are left.
Yes, the Olypics has football etc, but only worthless friendly tournaments. The trouble with including so many sports, is that there's no real focus, no excitement. Whereas other sports have standalone tournaments, the Olypmics has loads of little sports, so there's nothing to really get excited about.
And as for the traditional sports such as athletics, they have their own tournaments anyway. The Olympics is pointless. And then they have the cheek to charge fucking extortionate amounts to get in. The Commonweath Games (A sort of cut-down version of the Olympics for Commonwealth counties) are in Manchester soon, and for the same reasons I won't be going to see them.
... and what is more spectacular than the Olympics?
Erm, the World Cup? The European Championships? The FA Cup final? Face it, the Olympics is shit. People only watch it because of the hype. Who wants to sit there for hours on end watching countless rounds of long jump and 400m? Why does the Olympics revolve round such dull sports?
No-one ever rushes out to buy a paper, and flicks to the back page to find out who won the latest game of javelin or 100m hurdles. How can people get so excited about something they'd rank lower than paint drying the rest of the year?
How about Gnome? How disability friendly is the latest build of StarOffice? Mozilla?
If you were reading carefully, you would have learnt that he was talking about Braille/blindness. Why would they use GUI apps when they were using a braille display?
How can it be inefficient? Apart from the odd bit of sound, nearly all of the electricity going in is going to end up as heat, one way or another. It's almost as efficient as an electric heater.
1) CDs are much more expensive than what they were going to charge.
2) CDs are no-where near as portable as MP3s. Most MP3 players are smaller than CDs themselves.
3) Why buy a CD when you can get it for free?
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Yeah, have a changeable mode. What a great idea.
Until some prankster switches it around during the night, and you turn up to work 5 months late...
If you have that much karma, you need to get out more.
But if you wanted it, you could just upgrade it for free.
It isn't technically possible for ext3 in kernel 1.1. It is technically possible for Microsoft not to shit on Windows 95 users.
Yeah, just make everyone upgrade. Make everyone pay thousands upon thousands of pounds to upgrade all their computers and on new OSes.
Never mind the fact that they work well enough in the first place, and get the job done well. Just line the pockets of Microsft and hardware manufacturers for the mere sake of it.
Support? That's like "supporting" a cripple by smashing up his wheelchair.
Hmmm...that's why nearly every PC sold for the last 5 years has had some version of it installed.
I will not "ignore" 9x. How dare you tell me to ingore something MS has cooerced me into paying hundreds of pounds for.
Are you INSANE? What a disorderly and messy way of doing things. Haven't you ever heard of a package manager?
What happens to all the other files in other directories? What about shared libraries, system configuration files etc?
When you have a decent package management system (like dpkg), there is no excuse for this dirty way of uninstalling programs.
Nope. With package management, programs don't just come with their own installers that can put themselves whereever they want. The packages are put together (preferably) by the distribution, so they can control what the programs do.
How dare you. People have spent hundreds of pounds upgrading to 95, 98, 98SE and ME. And now you're telling them they're all shit and they have to fork out AGAIN for a newer version that isn't shit?
No wonder so many people hate Microsoft.
Because email spam can be deleted in a fraction of a second, and costs you merely the odd second of bandwidth. Fax spam uses up all your paper and ink, and takes ages to print, and is a nusiance to get rid of.
Why would anyone want to read articles? Articles are boring. Posting to Slashdot is fun.
It seems every other post starting a new thread has been moderated to 5, and most of them are shite. What is going on?
Maybe, but Quicktime is the slowest, most bloated piece of garbage I've ever had the displeasure to have on my computer.
So what would you use instead? "Pirch"? mIRC is the only decent IRC client on Windows there is.
Who the fuck uses their initials as an extension?
How many hours have been saved thanks to MS products, that wouldn't have been saved by any alternatives?
How many products have had a chance? None. MS's vice-like grip on the market means it's like no competitors will EVER get a chance.
You're all stuck with Windows and it's viruses for life.
Have fun.
Americans are famous for their misspelling. I have never come across an American who could spell "colour" or "favour" correctly.
(Score: +5, Ironic) -- If I have spelt anything wrong in this post!
The reason no-one cares is because the Olypmics are boring. Who wants to sit on a crap seat all day watching sports like running and the long-jump? All the decent sports like football are taken up by the World Cup etc, so only the crap sports are left.
Yes, the Olypics has football etc, but only worthless friendly tournaments. The trouble with including so many sports, is that there's no real focus, no excitement. Whereas other sports have standalone tournaments, the Olypmics has loads of little sports, so there's nothing to really get excited about.
And as for the traditional sports such as athletics, they have their own tournaments anyway. The Olympics is pointless. And then they have the cheek to charge fucking extortionate amounts to get in. The Commonweath Games (A sort of cut-down version of the Olympics for Commonwealth counties) are in Manchester soon, and for the same reasons I won't be going to see them.
... and what is more spectacular than the Olympics?
Erm, the World Cup? The European Championships? The FA Cup final? Face it, the Olympics is shit. People only watch it because of the hype. Who wants to sit there for hours on end watching countless rounds of long jump and 400m? Why does the Olympics revolve round such dull sports?
No-one ever rushes out to buy a paper, and flicks to the back page to find out who won the latest game of javelin or 100m hurdles. How can people get so excited about something they'd rank lower than paint drying the rest of the year?
It's completely absurd.
Riiight, but can they read or write email?
Ever heard of X-mail? Mutt? Pine?
How about Gnome? How disability friendly is the latest build of StarOffice? Mozilla?
If you were reading carefully, you would have learnt that he was talking about Braille/blindness. Why would they use GUI apps when they were using a braille display?
How can it be inefficient? Apart from the odd bit of sound, nearly all of the electricity going in is going to end up as heat, one way or another. It's almost as efficient as an electric heater.
Then you link up your Windows sound card to your Linux sound card, and proceed as normal.
Do you know each other in real life? If not, how do you know he uses Windows ME and Windows XP?
OK, so when the sound is coming out of the sound card, you feed it into another sound card and turn it into an MP3.
If there is sound coming out of your soundcard, you can record it.
1) CDs are much more expensive than what they were going to charge.
2) CDs are no-where near as portable as MP3s. Most MP3 players are smaller than CDs themselves.
3) Why buy a CD when you can get it for free?