Oops, you said something that is not allowed here! Naughty naughty! Although we here at slashdot support freedom of speech, we would prefer if you would exercise this by insulting the RIAA, Microsoft, or SCO instead. Insulting Linux is, quite simply, anti-freedom, anti-progress, anti-good, and pro-evil, and therefore it cannot be tolerated. Just to clarify, we support freedom of speech! Just don't criticize Linux, Slashdot, open-source software, or Ogg Vorbis. Thanks!
3-4 screens to find out how to make a link or a folder? How about just type "mkdir" and mkdir spews out a few lines of help, like "you forgot to type in the name of the folder you want to make, try it again like 'mkdir ____'". And why oh why is hard linking the default. Nobody makes hard links, certainly not newbies. Make ln default to soft linking for godsakes. Oops, can't do that, it will ruin a bunch of legacy Unix crap. Unix sucks shit for newbies, it truly does, and making it better for them is going to take a lot of work. Once the help system is fixed, nine or so years from now, we will be able to move on to explaining to the then-reasonably-adept former-newbies why bitmapped X11R6.9 is so much better than the resolution-independent hardware DX/OpenGL-accelerated vector GUIs of OS X and Windows.
Problem is, would this lead to a tyranny of the majority? If something like Wikipedia were around in Gallileo's time, would it ever say that the earth is round?
Just to prove your point for you - Wikipedia IS around today, and would it ever say that, for example, open-source software is shit? Indeed it does not and would not. Nevermind the FACT that far more people believe this is true than not - you may have the pretenses of 'free speech' and 'free press' but you are in no way allowed to criticize your geek masters, who happen to control the encyclopedias and the discourse within.
Unless you're Darl McBride on Slashdot. Obviously his bodyguards must not have been licensed. Also, I notice his time of departure and time of arrival to work one day last week were quite close together - obviously he must have been speeding at least part of the way and I think it's time that we, the open-sores community stood up and said We're not gonna take your reckless law-breaking anymore, Darl!
Most people who visit here don't read the comments and most of the jerkoffs who agree with Slashdot's highly slanted writeups are not going to have their minds changed by ANYTHING. Slashdot and journalism do not belong in the same sentence without "is certainly fucking not" between them. Slashdot is the web's largest bastion of raving sycophantic lunatics. Criticize open sores software and you are going down. Criticize the wild, paranoid conspiracy theories like "M$/Diebold/whoever is trying to track our every move and control us" and you will be moderated flamebait. Criticize libertarianism and you will be smacked with great prejudice by the legions of pimply-faced depressed white male OSS freak teenagers for whom there is just not enough time in the day to masturbate to images of patriotic bald eagles wrapped in stars and stripes. Actually the flamebait mod is very appropriate for such a closed-minded set as this: It means that anything disagreeable to the majority is not acceptable and must be censored. Slashdot likes to think of itself as "more intelligent" than the rest of the web but in doing so is only revealing its own arrogance - it is literally as intellectually dead as Free Republic and Indymedia.
Macromedia appears to be following in the footsteps of such great moves as as Redhat (on the desktop), all Loki games, all Corel software, and Eazel. Linux to commercial software companies who try to sell end-user apps is like King Midas but with feces instead.
Boo hoo hoo, the world doesn't revolve around you, and you can't post to any Mac-related websites as a part-time Apple retail employee! What a VILE TOTALITARIAN FASCIST your employer is! Watching your every move like the NSA, constantly breathing down your neck, Big Brother's boot on your face, refusing to allow your innate freedom to burst forth from its cell of oppression and take flight! But you're stronger than that - you, part-time Apple Store clerk #3728, will RESIST the loathesome dictators and FIGHT their Orwellian policies. Fight the FUCKING power!
Are you telling me that a $9500 stereo system could be considered "moderate"? Tell me also, you say AAC has a lack of fullness but I am curious about its texture and flavor. Was it especially rough or chewy, somewhat fruity or bitter?
It will face an uphill battle trying to find a name even stupider than Ogg Vorbis. Then again, I've made the mistake of underestimating the open-source community before...
Big Brother can't look out for you with your GPS device that only receives signals and doesn't send them. It's a good idea, obviously it would be an optional private service and not run by the government.
Geek: "It's pronounced, 'asterisk-U-G, or just U-G for short."
"Um, I'll use U-G then... so what does it mean."
"'*UG' is shorthand for referring to a user's group. The asterisk (*) indicates a wildcard expression."
"What is a wildcard expression?"
"A wildcard expression is a symbolic expression used to compare characters or sets of characters. In this case, the asterisk is equivalent to any given string of characters.
"Um... okay..."
"A character is a letter or symbol. Common character encoding methods are ASCII or Unicode."
"What in the hell happened to you to make you get like this?"
"In this case we use an asterisk because there are several different variants of the Unix Operating System, so saying '*nix' would be ambiguous. Also, the name '*nix' is trademarked, so we would like to avoid any legal issues."
"What the fuck is asterisk-nix?"
"I can't tell you, I would have to violate the trademark."
(And with a blood-curdling YELP! the scrawny ponytailed unix fag gets his testicles ripped off by his rightfully pissed off interviewer.)
Opening up new horizons is part of fixing the problems on Earth. Not only is the space program generating research that is highly applicable to current Earthly problems*, it is also providing for an eventual safety valve where disaffected members of society can go off to a Moon or Mars colony to start a new life rather than remaining on crowded Earth.
Finally someone has the balls to say it - all this mars posturing is mainly the product of a bunch of disaffected middle-class male teens and 20-somethings who don't quite fit in and want to go somewhere where they can get away from all the people who just don't understand them. Well, good riddance, I say, enjoy the lovely weather and beautiful landscapes of your new mother planet. Although I can't fathom why you wouldn't choose the slightly less expensive route of drugs and counseling, I can't say I'm anything less than completely supportive of your planned endeavor. Have a safe trip now, and don't forget the metric-imperial conversions.
"Why is the sky blue? There's just no reason it should be, after all, air is clear and the sun is orange, if anything the sky ought to be orange or summat. I guess we're not ready to handle the truth."
Rockets don't need to function under those terrible conditions. The Venus landers didn't have rockets, they had aerobrakes, which work rather well at 90 atmospheres. Why on earth would they have had rockets? To crash at hyper speed into the surface?The Venera landers were basically big insulated titanium pressure-resistant shells that were designed to work for a few minutes before their insides got fried. If it makes you feel better, none of the crafts that reached the surface of Venus ever escaped.
Now of course we have no free speech because when we try to tell the world that Verizon are a bunch of assholes they censor us. Wait, no they don't. It's only when we go to slashdot and say "open sores software is fucking shit" that we get censored. Funny how that is
It sets a precedent for software being crippled to suit the government.
That precedent has already been set.
This is no different in principle from having an email program that alerts the department of homeland security when you send emails that advocate terrorism.
That's a good idea, hopefully they will start working on it soon.
It's our right to have all of the finest tools for breaking every law imaginable so long as we do not exercise them. That means owning guns, copies of the anarchist's cookbook, whatever.
It's bad because it's a slippery slope to the complete domination of our very beings by evil megacorps and totalitarian government!!!!!!! Don't you see????? Don't you get it???? Our very FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake!!!! The same freedom and liberty that our ancestors SPILLED THEIR BLOOD for!!!!
You must be living on Venus where the day is 243 earth days long. Here a day is 24 hours and nobody has enough time to do all that auditing shit on millions of lines of code. Have fun doing what you're doing though, and don't forget the sunscreen
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Oops, you said something that is not allowed here! Naughty naughty! Although we here at slashdot support freedom of speech, we would prefer if you would exercise this by insulting the RIAA, Microsoft, or SCO instead. Insulting Linux is, quite simply, anti-freedom, anti-progress, anti-good, and pro-evil, and therefore it cannot be tolerated. Just to clarify, we support freedom of speech! Just don't criticize Linux, Slashdot, open-source software, or Ogg Vorbis. Thanks!
3-4 screens to find out how to make a link or a folder? How about just type "mkdir" and mkdir spews out a few lines of help, like "you forgot to type in the name of the folder you want to make, try it again like 'mkdir ____'". And why oh why is hard linking the default. Nobody makes hard links, certainly not newbies. Make ln default to soft linking for godsakes. Oops, can't do that, it will ruin a bunch of legacy Unix crap. Unix sucks shit for newbies, it truly does, and making it better for them is going to take a lot of work. Once the help system is fixed, nine or so years from now, we will be able to move on to explaining to the then-reasonably-adept former-newbies why bitmapped X11R6.9 is so much better than the resolution-independent hardware DX/OpenGL-accelerated vector GUIs of OS X and Windows.
Problem is, would this lead to a tyranny of the majority? If something like Wikipedia were around in Gallileo's time, would it ever say that the earth is round?
Just to prove your point for you - Wikipedia IS around today, and would it ever say that, for example, open-source software is shit? Indeed it does not and would not. Nevermind the FACT that far more people believe this is true than not - you may have the pretenses of 'free speech' and 'free press' but you are in no way allowed to criticize your geek masters, who happen to control the encyclopedias and the discourse within.
Unless you're Darl McBride on Slashdot. Obviously his bodyguards must not have been licensed. Also, I notice his time of departure and time of arrival to work one day last week were quite close together - obviously he must have been speeding at least part of the way and I think it's time that we, the open-sores community stood up and said We're not gonna take your reckless law-breaking anymore, Darl!
news at 11
ESR called, he says he really appreciates your enthusiasm but he would like you to remove his penis from your mouth at this time.
I hope you sysadmin fucks choke on your own phlegm and burn in Hell, you worthless holier-than-thou scumbags.
Most people who visit here don't read the comments and most of the jerkoffs who agree with Slashdot's highly slanted writeups are not going to have their minds changed by ANYTHING. Slashdot and journalism do not belong in the same sentence without "is certainly fucking not" between them. Slashdot is the web's largest bastion of raving sycophantic lunatics. Criticize open sores software and you are going down. Criticize the wild, paranoid conspiracy theories like "M$/Diebold/whoever is trying to track our every move and control us" and you will be moderated flamebait. Criticize libertarianism and you will be smacked with great prejudice by the legions of pimply-faced depressed white male OSS freak teenagers for whom there is just not enough time in the day to masturbate to images of patriotic bald eagles wrapped in stars and stripes. Actually the flamebait mod is very appropriate for such a closed-minded set as this: It means that anything disagreeable to the majority is not acceptable and must be censored. Slashdot likes to think of itself as "more intelligent" than the rest of the web but in doing so is only revealing its own arrogance - it is literally as intellectually dead as Free Republic and Indymedia.
Macromedia appears to be following in the footsteps of such great moves as as Redhat (on the desktop), all Loki games, all Corel software, and Eazel. Linux to commercial software companies who try to sell end-user apps is like King Midas but with feces instead.
I just peed in the toilet. And in about 2 hours I'm gonna do it again!
Some have been saying in this thread that Audacity is a piece of garbage. I disagree. The differences are quite obvious.
COST
Audacity: free
garbage: virtually free
NEW VERSIONS COMING OUT ALL THE TIME:
Audacity: yes
garbage: yes
UNPLEASANT TO HAVE AROUND
Audacity: yes
garbage: yes
CAN BE USED TO EDIT AUDIO
Audacity: not really
garbage: dig through and you might find an old Amiga
There you have it.
Boo hoo hoo, the world doesn't revolve around you, and you can't post to any Mac-related websites as a part-time Apple retail employee! What a VILE TOTALITARIAN FASCIST your employer is! Watching your every move like the NSA, constantly breathing down your neck, Big Brother's boot on your face, refusing to allow your innate freedom to burst forth from its cell of oppression and take flight! But you're stronger than that - you, part-time Apple Store clerk #3728, will RESIST the loathesome dictators and FIGHT their Orwellian policies. Fight the FUCKING power!
Are you telling me that a $9500 stereo system could be considered "moderate"? Tell me also, you say AAC has a lack of fullness but I am curious about its texture and flavor. Was it especially rough or chewy, somewhat fruity or bitter?
It will face an uphill battle trying to find a name even stupider than Ogg Vorbis. Then again, I've made the mistake of underestimating the open-source community before...
Big Brother can't look out for you with your GPS device that only receives signals and doesn't send them. It's a good idea, obviously it would be an optional private service and not run by the government.
Public: "How do you pronounce that?"
Geek: "It's pronounced, 'asterisk-U-G, or just U-G for short."
"Um, I'll use U-G then... so what does it mean."
"'*UG' is shorthand for referring to a user's group. The asterisk (*) indicates a wildcard expression."
"What is a wildcard expression?"
"A wildcard expression is a symbolic expression used to compare characters or sets of characters. In this case, the asterisk is equivalent to any given string of characters.
"Um... okay..."
"A character is a letter or symbol. Common character encoding methods are ASCII or Unicode."
"What in the hell happened to you to make you get like this?"
"In this case we use an asterisk because there are several different variants of the Unix Operating System, so saying '*nix' would be ambiguous. Also, the name '*nix' is trademarked, so we would like to avoid any legal issues."
"What the fuck is asterisk-nix?"
"I can't tell you, I would have to violate the trademark."
(And with a blood-curdling YELP! the scrawny ponytailed unix fag gets his testicles ripped off by his rightfully pissed off interviewer.)
Omigod, you're not actually advertising your tech gadgets, are you? That's really sad.
Opening up new horizons is part of fixing the problems on Earth. Not only is the space program generating research that is highly applicable to current Earthly problems*, it is also providing for an eventual safety valve where disaffected members of society can go off to a Moon or Mars colony to start a new life rather than remaining on crowded Earth.
Finally someone has the balls to say it - all this mars posturing is mainly the product of a bunch of disaffected middle-class male teens and 20-somethings who don't quite fit in and want to go somewhere where they can get away from all the people who just don't understand them. Well, good riddance, I say, enjoy the lovely weather and beautiful landscapes of your new mother planet. Although I can't fathom why you wouldn't choose the slightly less expensive route of drugs and counseling, I can't say I'm anything less than completely supportive of your planned endeavor. Have a safe trip now, and don't forget the metric-imperial conversions.
"Why is the sky blue? There's just no reason it should be, after all, air is clear and the sun is orange, if anything the sky ought to be orange or summat. I guess we're not ready to handle the truth."
Rockets don't need to function under those terrible conditions. The Venus landers didn't have rockets, they had aerobrakes, which work rather well at 90 atmospheres. Why on earth would they have had rockets? To crash at hyper speed into the surface?The Venera landers were basically big insulated titanium pressure-resistant shells that were designed to work for a few minutes before their insides got fried. If it makes you feel better, none of the crafts that reached the surface of Venus ever escaped.
Saw what? A big lump of dirt? I can't even tell because the foreground is so underexposed...
Now of course we have no free speech because when we try to tell the world that Verizon are a bunch of assholes they censor us. Wait, no they don't. It's only when we go to slashdot and say "open sores software is fucking shit" that we get censored. Funny how that is
It sets a precedent for software being crippled to suit the government.
That precedent has already been set.
This is no different in principle from having an email program that alerts the department of homeland security when you send emails that advocate terrorism.
That's a good idea, hopefully they will start working on it soon.
It's our right to have all of the finest tools for breaking every law imaginable so long as we do not exercise them. That means owning guns, copies of the anarchist's cookbook, whatever.
And hydrogen bombs... obviously
It's bad because it's a slippery slope to the complete domination of our very beings by evil megacorps and totalitarian government!!!!!!! Don't you see????? Don't you get it???? Our very FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake!!!! The same freedom and liberty that our ancestors SPILLED THEIR BLOOD for!!!!
Finally, criminalizing a group of people who will actually ENJOY being raped in prison.
You must be living on Venus where the day is 243 earth days long. Here a day is 24 hours and nobody has enough time to do all that auditing shit on millions of lines of code. Have fun doing what you're doing though, and don't forget the sunscreen