Seriously, why do people keep modding this guy up? He posts these kinds of comments all the time!
The Jamie and Adam do indeed have "engineering backgrounds". They do "engineering" for a living, as several people have pointed out by now.
If you could only take the time to at least check the facts before posting you would at least come across as somewhat reasonable, CyricZ. As it is now you are just spewing out posts at an alarming rate, and usually making completely obvious comments, or you are missing the point or spreading misinformation as in this case.
I had to say it. I've got plenty of karma, so I'll take my chance here in the hope that more people discover what kind of person Cyric is. Just look at the amount of comments he makes!
And yet again you prove what a moron you are. You are so busy spamming Slashdot that you don't even know what people are talking about. Do you even bother to read before posting, or do you just stab in the dark? My guess is the latter.
Look at his posting history. He literally spams Slashdot with loads of comments every day, most of which are completely useless and either pointing out the obvious or twisting someone else's words to misrepresent what they said.
Are you a bit thick? I was commenting on his claim that "Firefox usage is quite a bit higher than people think", and he was basing that on sites that are not representative of the general public.
If you are going to stalk me, at least try to pay attention before posting. You are making yourself look like the complete fool that you are.
"Spoken like a true Mac cultist. Those who know a lot about technology build their own machines and, nowadays, are putting GNU/Linux and other free software OSes on them."
Really? Aren't even the Slashdot editors bragging about their shiny new Macs? I see former Linux users talking about how they switched to Mac all the time here on Slashdot.
"Apple computers have never been geared toward the tech savvy; they have always been marketed to the artistic technophobe."
If you conveniently ignore the fact that Mac OS X is built on FreeBSD and has a command line interface and all... Well...
Anyway, I won't pretend to know what most "tech writers" know. But I do know that Dvorak is nothing but a troll, and writes whatever gets him page hits and lots of flames. That's what pays his bills. He's full of shit, to be completely frank, and claiming that Mac users are incompetent because they don't use Windows is so far beyond stupid that this guy would have received a million death senetnces if stupidity was punishable by death.
"I think Firefox usage is quite a bit higher than people think."
"Granted, blog readers tend to be somewhat more ahead of the curve than Joe or Jane Sixpack, but they're also indicative of where the market will be a few years down the road."
Firefox usage is higher today because some blogs that are used by more tech-savvy people indicate what they future might hold?
Sorry, but that doesn't really make sense to me. You can't base stats from sites used by tech-savvy people and claim that "this probably means that Firefox has more users". Maybe it could indicate the future, as you mention, but it is completely illogical to expand that to the present.
"Why do you want to spam FBI with useless phone calls? I agree that people have to express what they thing, but this is ridiculous, just imagine the poor guys over there responding to the avalanche of phone calls..."
That depends, now doesn't it? If someone is used to getting yelled at through the phone all day, it might be a real pleasure to actually have someone just call to say "thank you, you are doing a great job". Actually, it can make someone's day.
Then again, I have no idea if the people staffing the FBI's phones are in a situation where they need a positive boost:)
For all I know, Slashdotting their phone might deter them from busting spammers in the future. "Dude, this guy's a spammer. If we bust him our phone system will be flooded with people again. Let's move on to something else."
If you are going to post nonsensical posts all over the place, at least stay away from me.
And in case you didn't notice, my sig doesn't link to my posts.
You seem to be on Slashdot all the time and spamming the site with stupid posts. Get a life. Stop stalking me. Stop living your live on Slashdot. Get laid. Oh, you can't... Sorry.
The MySQL/SCO "partnership" is blown way out of proportions. And rather than actually trying to understand what is going on, people are all over MySQL.
As I understand it, what this deal with SCO is basically is about is that a lot of people are still using SCO products, whether we like it or not, and they are relying on MySQL. MySQL could take the "moral high ground" of screwing their customers and leave it at that. Instead, they decided to accept money from SCO to maintain MySQL for SCO's platforms, for the benefit of their customers.
One of the MySQL people even posted a comment about this back when the story about the partnership was posted on Slashdot.
You are making an excellent point: Lots of "non-evil" software is available for the "evil" Windows. Heck, most Slashdotters are Windows users. Why aren't they all over Apache, Mozilla, etc. for the Windows versions of their software?
This SCO thing is almost like mentioning child porn. The moment you do, people throw rational thought out the window and start acting like pre-programmed robots who are incapable of processing rational thoughts.
I think SCO sucks as much as the next guy, but the deal was done because it benefitted MySQL's customers, and MySQL got money from SCO for doing it, which basically means that there's less money in SCO's treasury to use for lawsuits.
Some apparently think that it's OK to screw their own customers. Who cares if Apple releases broken hardware? It's not like customers matter anyway, right?
Let's just ignore the fact that businesses have relationships with their customers, and some businesses actually don't want to make life hard for those who are paying them money...
Because Microsoft has Macs, that means that Gates and Ballmer use and prefer Macs?! Wow, that's quite a leap of logic you've got there!
Look, I'm as much of a hater of Microsoft's stuidity at times as anyone else, but going from "Macs at Microsoft" to "Microsoft execs prefer Mac" is just insane. Didn't you even read the Slashdot story about the Mac@Microsoft pictures? The guy was apparently fired for publishing pictures from an area he wasn't supposed to take pictures of, much less publish for the entire world to see!
You even linked to a page which explains the whole thing:
"To my mind, it's an innocuous post. The presence of Macs on the Microsoft campus isn't a secret (for everything from graphic design work to the Mac Business Unit), and when I took the picture, I made sure to stand with my back to the building so that nothing other than the computers and the truck would be shown no building features, no security measures, and no Microsoft personnel. However, it obviously wasn't enough."
See the parts in bold? They explain that:
It is well known that Microsoft has Macs. It's no secret.
He took the pictures without permission, and he knew he wasn't supposed to do so.
But hey, I'm all for a nice silly theory every now and then. I mean, what's the point in boring theories about the Mac purchase, such as Microsoft actually working on Mac apps, and wanting to keep an eye on the competition. No, easy answers are never right! So it must be Gates and Ballmer that ordered them for themselves since they prefer Mac OS over Windows!
"Indeed, it did look terrible for that particular rogue KOffice developer to go around insulting longtime users of the KOffice and KDE software."
Indeed? Stop acting like I agree with you. I don't. You are a troll, and I disagree strongly with your pathetic behaviour and lies.
"And then to blame his indiscretion on a headache? That's not a valid excuse for such behaviour. Any McDonalds worker pulling a similar stunt would've been fired instantly."
Who cares? You were caught with your pants down, lying about these people's work. You deserved a beating, and you got one.
"Opera mini like almost every other light web browser that do reformating (with the notable exception of Mozilla) uses a proxy server."
Mozilla doesn't even have a proper mobile browser. Minimo is horribly bloated and slow. Opera, on the other hand, has Opera Mobile, which does not use a proxy, but does the reformatting itself. And it uses the same core as on the desktop, so it's got a fully capable JS-engine.
Opera Mini is an alternative for people with low-end phones, and for content delivery solutions.
"The problem with mythbusters, and they do this often, is they only did one test to see if it would work in one way. They only aligned the mirrors in one direction, every single one of them at the same degree, meaning that the light that hit the center mirrors wouldnt reflect on the same spot the top mirrors did."
While it may be true that they didn't hit the same spot (I don't remember), they certainly did not align all the mirrors at the same degree. They had screws to adjust them so that they didn't all align at the same angle. They tried to make the center mirrors hit the same spot as the top ones.
"Go through CyricZ's post history. You'll find it chock full of vague refernces to things that he has absolutely no idea about. Yet 9 times out of 10 it gets modded insightful. He takes a holier-than-thou approach despite the fact that he truly hasn't a clue."
I'm with you, dude... I've found myself becoming increasingly annoyed by his holier-than-thou attitude, but I do suspect that he's nothing but a troll. After all, he frequently misrepresents people's opinions and pretends in his replies that people who strongly disagree with his nonsense actually agreed.
I'll probably take a hit for this too, but people really need to stop modding the clueless troll CyricZ up!
"You are correct in stating that the KOffice developer was completely wrong to throw out such insults like that in public."
He never stated such a thing.
Clearly, you are nothing but a troll. You post at a rapid rate, misrepresenting what other people are saying, and generally being a pest. In addition to this, you pretend to be on a moral high ground.
And you bring up the time when the KOffice developer owned your ass in front of everyone all the time. It seems that others are on to you as well. Rest assured that you will continue to be exposed as long as you keep trolling and posting lies.
I don't know why your comment was mostly moderated funny. It is actually very insightful, and explains exactly how this things works.
Basically, we have an industry which makes loads of cash by preventing their customers from using technology to make things cheaper and more efficient. It is in the industry's interest to make sure that we download expensive ring tones and backgrounds from them, rather than simply using an MP3 or an image downloaded from the web.
In other words: This industry artificially maintains its profits by using what I consider to be highly immoral methods. If they did not have this choke hold on the market, the industry would shrink a lot and lots of people (investors, content owners...) would probably lose a whole lot of money.
It is almost like a cartel where various companies (content owners, mobile makers, etc.) get together to agree on how to squeeze the most money out of people and maximizing their own profits. Something like price fixing.
I am kind of wondering why no mobile maker has released a phone which lets the user do anything. Do they depend on content owners and network operators to make money?
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"Actually the link I submitted was a physorg one."
Apparently that link is not the link he actually submitted.
The Jamie and Adam do indeed have "engineering backgrounds". They do "engineering" for a living, as several people have pointed out by now.
If you could only take the time to at least check the facts before posting you would at least come across as somewhat reasonable, CyricZ. As it is now you are just spewing out posts at an alarming rate, and usually making completely obvious comments, or you are missing the point or spreading misinformation as in this case.
I had to say it. I've got plenty of karma, so I'll take my chance here in the hope that more people discover what kind of person Cyric is. Just look at the amount of comments he makes!
And yet again you prove what a moron you are. You are so busy spamming Slashdot that you don't even know what people are talking about. Do you even bother to read before posting, or do you just stab in the dark? My guess is the latter.
Look at his posting history. He literally spams Slashdot with loads of comments every day, most of which are completely useless and either pointing out the obvious or twisting someone else's words to misrepresent what they said.
If you are going to stalk me, at least try to pay attention before posting. You are making yourself look like the complete fool that you are.
Anyway, I won't pretend to know what most "tech writers" know. But I do know that Dvorak is nothing but a troll, and writes whatever gets him page hits and lots of flames. That's what pays his bills. He's full of shit, to be completely frank, and claiming that Mac users are incompetent because they don't use Windows is so far beyond stupid that this guy would have received a million death senetnces if stupidity was punishable by death.
Sorry, but that doesn't really make sense to me. You can't base stats from sites used by tech-savvy people and claim that "this probably means that Firefox has more users". Maybe it could indicate the future, as you mention, but it is completely illogical to expand that to the present.
"Navel-gazing (Score:5, Insightful)"
That's what I see at the moment anyway.
Then again, I have no idea if the people staffing the FBI's phones are in a situation where they need a positive boost :)
For all I know, Slashdotting their phone might deter them from busting spammers in the future. "Dude, this guy's a spammer. If we bust him our phone system will be flooded with people again. Let's move on to something else."
If you are going to post nonsensical posts all over the place, at least stay away from me.
And in case you didn't notice, my sig doesn't link to my posts.
You seem to be on Slashdot all the time and spamming the site with stupid posts. Get a life. Stop stalking me. Stop living your live on Slashdot. Get laid. Oh, you can't... Sorry.
The MySQL/SCO "partnership" is blown way out of proportions. And rather than actually trying to understand what is going on, people are all over MySQL.
As I understand it, what this deal with SCO is basically is about is that a lot of people are still using SCO products, whether we like it or not, and they are relying on MySQL. MySQL could take the "moral high ground" of screwing their customers and leave it at that. Instead, they decided to accept money from SCO to maintain MySQL for SCO's platforms, for the benefit of their customers.
One of the MySQL people even posted a comment about this back when the story about the partnership was posted on Slashdot.
You are making an excellent point: Lots of "non-evil" software is available for the "evil" Windows. Heck, most Slashdotters are Windows users. Why aren't they all over Apache, Mozilla, etc. for the Windows versions of their software?
This SCO thing is almost like mentioning child porn. The moment you do, people throw rational thought out the window and start acting like pre-programmed robots who are incapable of processing rational thoughts.
I think SCO sucks as much as the next guy, but the deal was done because it benefitted MySQL's customers, and MySQL got money from SCO for doing it, which basically means that there's less money in SCO's treasury to use for lawsuits.
Some apparently think that it's OK to screw their own customers. Who cares if Apple releases broken hardware? It's not like customers matter anyway, right?
Let's just ignore the fact that businesses have relationships with their customers, and some businesses actually don't want to make life hard for those who are paying them money...
You are mistakenly assuming that everything "low-carb" is Atkins.
Because Microsoft has Macs, that means that Gates and Ballmer use and prefer Macs?! Wow, that's quite a leap of logic you've got there!
Look, I'm as much of a hater of Microsoft's stuidity at times as anyone else, but going from "Macs at Microsoft" to "Microsoft execs prefer Mac" is just insane. Didn't you even read the Slashdot story about the Mac@Microsoft pictures? The guy was apparently fired for publishing pictures from an area he wasn't supposed to take pictures of, much less publish for the entire world to see!
You even linked to a page which explains the whole thing:
See the parts in bold? They explain that:But hey, I'm all for a nice silly theory every now and then. I mean, what's the point in boring theories about the Mac purchase, such as Microsoft actually working on Mac apps, and wanting to keep an eye on the competition. No, easy answers are never right! So it must be Gates and Ballmer that ordered them for themselves since they prefer Mac OS over Windows!
Opera Mini is an alternative for people with low-end phones, and for content delivery solutions.
Yes, it supports JavaScript. And of course it reformats normal web pages to fit your smaller screen.
Priceless :)
Meanwhile, the guy who lied to bring America to war is still in power...
I'll probably take a hit for this too, but people really need to stop modding the clueless troll CyricZ up!
Clearly, you are nothing but a troll. You post at a rapid rate, misrepresenting what other people are saying, and generally being a pest. In addition to this, you pretend to be on a moral high ground.
And you bring up the time when the KOffice developer owned your ass in front of everyone all the time. It seems that others are on to you as well. Rest assured that you will continue to be exposed as long as you keep trolling and posting lies.
Basically, we have an industry which makes loads of cash by preventing their customers from using technology to make things cheaper and more efficient. It is in the industry's interest to make sure that we download expensive ring tones and backgrounds from them, rather than simply using an MP3 or an image downloaded from the web.
In other words: This industry artificially maintains its profits by using what I consider to be highly immoral methods. If they did not have this choke hold on the market, the industry would shrink a lot and lots of people (investors, content owners...) would probably lose a whole lot of money.
It is almost like a cartel where various companies (content owners, mobile makers, etc.) get together to agree on how to squeeze the most money out of people and maximizing their own profits. Something like price fixing.
I am kind of wondering why no mobile maker has released a phone which lets the user do anything. Do they depend on content owners and network operators to make money?