What's a typical price for a quad CPU computer these days? I've got quite a lot of cash to burn right now and I've been thinking about either buying 2-3 rack mounted dual cpu computers or a nice quad cpu machine -- all for myself...
they had to reinvent com as xpcom to get what is basically windows code to work. it is hence SLOWER.
Yes, there is an additional layer to it. That, however, doesn't help your argument. The fact that Mozilla is still faster in Windows just makes X's performance look even worse.
Let's take another example. Why can I sometimes see menus being drawed in X (with GTK/Gnome) whereas in Windows, on the same hardware, everything just snaps into place -- even with effects like scrolling and fading.
And before you blame it on GTK/Gnome, think why there is GTK in the first place. That's right. It's because of the "freedom" (=no standard widget set) X gives you. As a result, everybody's re-inventing the wheel instead of creating a single pretty widget set, eliminating the segregation of X and the widget management and optimizing the widget set in X.
No it's not. Compare Mozilla RC1 in Linux and in W2K on the same hardware. You not only feel but see the difference. 3D drivers (more below) are also much, much slower in X.
elegant (not the code necessarily, the functionality)
What functionality? Oh, I get it. You mean all the wonderful, novel features like anti-aliasing and ClearType-like functionality, you can get enabled if you have the skills and understanding to really write your own XF86Config-4 file. I don't have the time or desire to wade through tons of badly written documentation. Where is the graphical setup system or at least proper documentation spelling out each and every option? It's ridiculous that you have to read on Slashdot that X can do ClearType on LCD screens. That's not elegant.
does 2D, 3D and applications wonderfully
2D is OK, but 3D?
As far as I remember, my GeForce's hardware acceleration didn't work out of the box. I had to download the drivers and even then I have to "recompile" them every time I recompile my kernel. These drivers, of course, get the shit kicked out of them by the Windows drivers.
and is free and fully multiplatform
Ok. That's a true advantage. Don't forget the network transparency either. It's a good thing, although I wish they would prepare a version of X without it. That way it wouldn't be slowing the GUI down on my non-networked computers.
I never did care about people copying my A reports (had them on a public ftp site on the campus network). Some got caught, some didn't.
The fact remains that none of these guys/girls graduated with particularly good grades or showed any sign of creative problem solving abilities late in the studies or (as far as I know) during the career so far.
Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat" and later became an anti-porn advocate, died Monday from injuries she suffered in a car crash. She was 53. She will be sorely missed by the/. crowd. Truly an American icon.
Implement that and watch the majority of Slashdot contributors disappear.
And I am not talking about trolls or crapflooders. I have several karma 50 accounts in addition to this one.
If Slashdot would implement anything like what your propose you'd have a perfect society in The Prisoner sense. Bright colours and "happy" people but no real discussion or dissent. "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
The only difference would be that we all would know who the Number One is.
A former senior AMD employee has filed suit accusing the company of 'wrecking his career' because he was an Arab and a Muslim after the September 11 attacks. More information here.
The 73-year-old former paratrooper, who has described the Holocaust as "a detail of history,"
yesterday won more than 17 per cent of the vote.
Still flushed with success, Le Pen said: "I call on patriots, sovereignists and authentic
republicans to unite around my candidacy, to oppose the technocratic Europe of Brussels
and create a true popular force to defend national independence"
For most of the night, lines of officers used batons and shields to keep a highly volatile
crowd of at least 10,000 protesters from marching toward the presidential palace, but
managed to stop them at the Place de la Concorde.
Demonstrators chanted "Left, Right - we are all against Le Pen," and "first, second, third generation - we are all immigrants!"
That far-right bastard, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is going to the second round in the French presidential elections. Fortunately he'll lose in the second round, but the increasing popularity of the far-right in Europe is becoming a worrying trend.
This is what happens when the turn out gets low enough. Demagogues and populists with extreme policies (stopping immigration and re-establishing death penalty and other draconian penalties) will eventually get to the power.
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
* Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
* Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
* Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practice of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.
Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.
And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.
The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously/anus, but there are others. Militant fags even say 'there is no/opt mount point' because for these dirty perverts faggotry is not optional but a way of life.
More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.
Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!
Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdotof course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.
The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!
The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.
And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.
To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'
A nice article, but I am still bothered by the explicit separation of usability and looks.
To me a major component in usability is that the GUI looks good. If the GUI looks like something violently torn out of the goatse.cx guy's anus (fvwm for instance), I don't find it usable no matter how functional it might be.
Did you read his post? He's using Windows and there's no Windows version of lopster. Hooray for the Open Source project for ignoring the platform that's being used by over 90% of the computer users in the world!
Yeah, and I know about cygwin. I once installed a shitload of cygwin packets on my W2K dual Athlon XP 1700+ machine because I wanted to compile a simple open source program. It choked at the./configure stage. I bet lopster won't compile either.
Created by a Russian programmer known only as 'Yuri'
I must say I am impressed by these guys. Yuri and Sklyarov have exactly the right kind of attitude that's dying in the West because of the draconian laws like DMCA and Bill 2048 (whatever its acronym is these days).
Slashdot Mirror
What's a typical price for a quad CPU computer these days? I've got quite a lot of cash to burn right now and I've been thinking about either buying 2-3 rack mounted dual cpu computers or a nice quad cpu machine -- all for myself...
Yes, there is an additional layer to it. That, however, doesn't help your argument. The fact that Mozilla is still faster in Windows just makes X's performance look even worse.
Let's take another example. Why can I sometimes see menus being drawed in X (with GTK/Gnome) whereas in Windows, on the same hardware, everything just snaps into place -- even with effects like scrolling and fading.
And before you blame it on GTK/Gnome, think why there is GTK in the first place. That's right. It's because of the "freedom" (=no standard widget set) X gives you. As a result, everybody's re-inventing the wheel instead of creating a single pretty widget set, eliminating the segregation of X and the widget management and optimizing the widget set in X.
No it's not. Compare Mozilla RC1 in Linux and in W2K on the same hardware. You not only feel but see the difference. 3D drivers (more below) are also much, much slower in X.
elegant (not the code necessarily, the functionality)
What functionality? Oh, I get it. You mean all the wonderful, novel features like anti-aliasing and ClearType-like functionality, you can get enabled if you have the skills and understanding to really write your own XF86Config-4 file. I don't have the time or desire to wade through tons of badly written documentation. Where is the graphical setup system or at least proper documentation spelling out each and every option? It's ridiculous that you have to read on Slashdot that X can do ClearType on LCD screens. That's not elegant.
does 2D, 3D and applications wonderfully
2D is OK, but 3D?
As far as I remember, my GeForce's hardware acceleration didn't work out of the box. I had to download the drivers and even then I have to "recompile" them every time I recompile my kernel. These drivers, of course, get the shit kicked out of them by the Windows drivers.
and is free and fully multiplatform
Ok. That's a true advantage. Don't forget the network transparency either. It's a good thing, although I wish they would prepare a version of X without it. That way it wouldn't be slowing the GUI down on my non-networked computers.
Mmmm.... Drew Barrymore.
I never did care about people copying my A reports (had them on a public ftp site on the campus network). Some got caught, some didn't.
The fact remains that none of these guys/girls graduated with particularly good grades or showed any sign of creative problem solving abilities late in the studies or (as far as I know) during the career so far.
Intellectual cheating doesn't get you very far.
Then he should get on Prozac. That's what I did.
You've got a fabulous career of pumping gas ahead of you!
I can see it's all been a total waste in your case.
Squirt some sperm of Nat Friedman and perhaps he'll shut up. Spare some for the Icaza too.
Squirt some sperm on this kind of drivel.
Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat" and later became an anti-porn advocate, died Monday from injuries she suffered in a car crash. She was 53. She will be sorely missed by the /. crowd. Truly an American icon.
Natalie Hershlag, you mean?
An American.
And I am not talking about trolls or crapflooders. I have several karma 50 accounts in addition to this one.
If Slashdot would implement anything like what your propose you'd have a perfect society in The Prisoner sense. Bright colours and "happy" people but no real discussion or dissent. "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
The only difference would be that we all would know who the Number One is.
Three words: Class Action Suit.
A former senior AMD employee has filed suit accusing the company of 'wrecking his career' because he was an Arab and a Muslim after the September 11 attacks. More information here.
So, you'd rather have a racist nazi as a president as long as he's not a socialist? You must be an American.
Sayings of Le Pen.
Still flushed with success, Le Pen said: "I call on patriots, sovereignists and authentic republicans to unite around my candidacy, to oppose the technocratic Europe of Brussels and create a true popular force to defend national independence"
For most of the night, lines of officers used batons and shields to keep a highly volatile crowd of at least 10,000 protesters from marching toward the presidential palace, but managed to stop them at the Place de la Concorde.
Demonstrators chanted "Left, Right - we are all against Le Pen," and "first, second, third generation - we are all immigrants!"
This is what happens when the turn out gets low enough. Demagogues and populists with extreme policies (stopping immigration and re-establishing death penalty and other draconian penalties) will eventually get to the power.
CowboyNeal doesn't get any?
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
* Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
* Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
* Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practice of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.
Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.
And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.
The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously /anus, but there are others. Militant fags even say 'there is no /opt mount point' because for these dirty perverts faggotry is not optional but a way of life.
More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.
Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!
Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdotof course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.
The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!
The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.
And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.
To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'
To me a major component in usability is that the GUI looks good. If the GUI looks like something violently torn out of the goatse.cx guy's anus (fvwm for instance), I don't find it usable no matter how functional it might be.
Yeah, and I know about cygwin. I once installed a shitload of cygwin packets on my W2K dual Athlon XP 1700+ machine because I wanted to compile a simple open source program. It choked at the ./configure stage. I bet lopster won't compile either.
I must say I am impressed by these guys. Yuri and Sklyarov have exactly the right kind of attitude that's dying in the West because of the draconian laws like DMCA and Bill 2048 (whatever its acronym is these days).
Kudos to Yuri.