Re:time to ditch Microserf XP?
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Yeah, GNOME is great - if you just want to install it, set up an anime wallpaper, and look at it. If you want to use any real applications or play games, XP is where it's at.
Myth: Linux is ready for the desktop. Fact: Linux is not, and never will be, ready for the desktop. If you use
Linux as your desktop choice, you are an anti-social nerd who will never get
laid.
Myth: Open-source is a viable business strategy. Fact:No
it isn't.
Myth: Slashdot is a nice place to go for intelligent conversation
about technology and political issues. Fact: Slashdot is full of 14 year-old fanboys who toe the party line for
the "approval" of people they will never meet and fascist Janitors who resort to
low minded trickery and censorship to further their narrow world-view and
agenda. If you want to read posts that are Insightful and Funny, read at -1.
Myth: Information wants to be free. Fact: Musicians want to be paid.
Myth: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows your
uber-intelligence and good taste. Fact: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows you are a
stuck-up fuckwit with no friends.
Myth: The government is taking away our rights. WAAAAH!! Fact: While you're busy complaining and stuffing your fat face with pork
rinds and cheese puffs, the government is busy keeping you, and the American way
of life, safe from harm.
Myth: Libertarianism is a good solution to our problems. Fact: Libertarianism would result in a worse country than the USSR, with
political and economic instability, horrific human rights violations, and
exploitation of workers of a scale not seen since slavery was outlawed.
Myth: Microsoft is an evil monopoly bent on world domination. Fact: Microsoft is a software company based in Redmond, WA, that produces
fine software and believes that programmers should get paid for their
work.
I don't often see people congratulating you on your work here on Slashdot, which I think is very good. I just wanted to tell you, that, well,...I love you.
Listen, this has been bothering me for a while. Now, as we all know, most of the
people who frequent this site are Libertarians (except for a few socialists - Go
back to France!,) which is a fine and noble lifestyle. The problem is that they
throw their ideals out the window (bad pun) with any issue concerning
Microsoft.
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story
about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and
break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me
folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism.
It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion
about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't
conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need
the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The
market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the
"Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain
market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie
bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding
down all non-group-think. Fuck You!
Listen, this has been bothering me for a while. Now, as we all know, most of the
people who frequent this site are Libertarians (except for a few socialists - Go
back to France!,) which is a fine and noble lifestyle. The problem is that they
throw their ideals out the window (bad pun) with any issue concerning
Microsoft.
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story
about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and
break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me
folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism.
It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion
about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't
conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need
the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The
market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the
"Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain
market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie
bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding
down all non-group-think. Fuck You!
Listen, this has been bothering me for a while. Now, as we all know, most of the
people who frequent this site are Libertarians (except for a few socialists - Go
back to France!,) which is a fine and noble lifestyle. The problem is that they
throw their ideals out the window (bad pun) with any issue concerning
Microsoft.
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story
about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and
break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me
folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism.
It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion
about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't
conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need
the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The
market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the
"Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain
market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie
bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding
down all non-group-think. Fuck You!
Listen, this has been bothering me for a while. Now, as we all know, most of the
people who frequent this site are Libertarians (except for a few socialists - Go
back to France!,) which is a fine and noble lifestyle. The problem is that they
throw their ideals out the window (bad pun) with any issue concerning
Microsoft.
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story
about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and
break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me
folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism.
It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion
about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't
conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need
the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The
market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the
"Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain
market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie
bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding
down all group-think. Fuck You!
[ ] Mario 1
This Mario is the original, kicking off many sidescroller clones, and it arouses
warm feelings of nostalgia among many people. Many of us remember this as one of
our first great games, if not the first. I personally spent many hours as
a young child playing this classic. While the graphics and sound are not
comparable to later games in the series, the gameplay and replay value are big
hits. Plus, it came with an extra game on the cartridge - Duck Hunt, another
surefire classic.
[ ] Mario 2
This is often remembered as the "weird" Mario. Involving different characters
with different abilities, strange enemies and often-times "exotic" dream-induced
settings, it
was a big jump away from Mario 1. The sheer uniqueness of this game gave it many
hours worth of replay value.
[ ] Mario 3
This is the "epic" Mario, with a bigger story, bigger levels, and bigger
enemies. Featuring fast-paced gameplay, varied levels involving swimming and
flying, wonderfully cartoonish graphics and sound and memorable enemies, this is
the last of the powerhouse series for the original NES.
Which is your favorite? Choose wisely, Slashdotters!
I loved Super Mario World for the SNES too, but I was counting the 3 originals as a different "series" from the rest. I would say Super Mario World is pretty damn close to Mario 3, in terms of fun value. Out of all Mario games, Mario Kart would be tied with those two.
[ ] Mario 1
This Mario is the original, kicking off many sidescroller clones, and it arouses
warm feelings of nostalgia among many people. Many of us remember this as one of
our first great games, if not the first. I personally spent many hours as
a young child playing this classic. While the graphics and sound are not
comparable to later games in the series, the gameplay and replay value are big
hits. Plus, it came with an extra game on the cartridge - Duck Hunt, another
surefire classic.
[ ] Mario 2
This is often remembered as the "weird" Mario. Involving different characters
with different abilities, strange enemies and often-times "exotic" dream-induced
settings, it
was a big jump away from Mario 1. The sheer uniqueness of this game gave it many
hours worth of replay value.
[ ] Mario 3
This is the "epic" Mario, with a bigger story, bigger levels, and bigger
enemies. Featuring fast-paced gameplay, varied levels involving swimming and
flying, wonderfully cartoonish graphics and sound and memorable enemies, this is
the last of the powerhouse series for the original NES.
Which is your favorite? Choose wisely, Slashdotters!
[ ] Mario 1
This Mario is the original, kicking off many sidescroller clones, and it arouses
warm feelings of nostalgia among many people. Many of us remember this as one of
our first great games, if not the first. I personally spent many hours as
a young child playing this classic. While the graphics and sound are not
comparable to later games in the series, the gameplay and replay value are big
hits. Plus, it came with an extra game on the cartridge - Duck Hunt, another
surefire classic.
[ ] Mario 2
This is often remembered as the "weird" Mario. Involving different characters
with different abilities, strange enemies and often-times "exotic" dream-induced
settings, it
was a big jump away from Mario 1. The sheer uniqueness of this game gave it many
hours worth of replay value.
[ ] Mario 3
This is the "epic" Mario, with a bigger story, bigger levels, and bigger
enemies. Featuring fast-paced gameplay, varied levels involving swimming and
flying, wonderfully cartoonish graphics and sound and memorable enemies, this is
the last of the powerhouse series for the original NES.
Which is your favorite? Choose wisely, Slashdotters!
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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Yeah, GNOME is great - if you just want to install it, set up an anime wallpaper, and look at it. If you want to use any real applications or play games, XP is where it's at.
Windows XP is still much better!
Yes I know it's Adam Smith. I did that on purpose. I was wondering when someone would finally point that out though. Cheers.
Fact: Linux is not, and never will be, ready for the desktop. If you use Linux as your desktop choice, you are an anti-social nerd who will never get laid.
Myth: Open-source is a viable business strategy.
Fact: No it isn't.
Myth: Slashdot is a nice place to go for intelligent conversation about technology and political issues.
Fact: Slashdot is full of 14 year-old fanboys who toe the party line for the "approval" of people they will never meet and fascist Janitors who resort to low minded trickery and censorship to further their narrow world-view and agenda. If you want to read posts that are Insightful and Funny, read at -1.
Myth: Information wants to be free.
Fact: Musicians want to be paid.
Myth: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows your uber-intelligence and good taste.
Fact: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows you are a stuck-up fuckwit with no friends.
Myth: The government is taking away our rights. WAAAAH!!
Fact: While you're busy complaining and stuffing your fat face with pork rinds and cheese puffs, the government is busy keeping you, and the American way of life, safe from harm.
Myth: Libertarianism is a good solution to our problems.
Fact: Libertarianism would result in a worse country than the USSR, with political and economic instability, horrific human rights violations, and exploitation of workers of a scale not seen since slavery was outlawed.
Myth: Microsoft is an evil monopoly bent on world domination.
Fact: Microsoft is a software company based in Redmond, WA, that produces fine software and believes that programmers should get paid for their work.
Have I missed any?
Good Day.
Personally, I've never put my dick in peanut butter. I prefer mashed potatoes. Do you use crunchy or smooth? I would think smooth.
Enjoy some nice pictures. I stole the link from fark.com!
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism. It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the "Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding down all non-group-think. Fuck You!
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism. It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the "Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding down all non-group-think. Fuck You!
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism. It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the "Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding down all non-group-think. Fuck You!
What exactly do I mean by this? It's easy to see. Any time there is a story about Microsoft, there are 300 posts crying for the government to step in and break MS into two companies, force them to open their code, etc. Excuse me folks, but having the government interfere with the economy is not capitalism. It's communism. I don't want this great nation to end up like Russia, ok?
Another thing that pisses me off: anytime there is a circle-jerk discussion about Mozilla, people whine and bitch about how Internet Explorer doesn't conform to W3C standards, and how unfair it is. Well guess what? We don't need the W3C (government-wannabe of the Internet) forcing companies to do things. The market has decided - Internet Explorer is the standard. That's how the "Invisible Hand of John Smith" works. If you want to gain market share, follow IE's lead. Otherwise, go back to Cuba or China you commie bastards.
BTW, if this gets modded down, you can bet the Liberals are out in force modding down all group-think. Fuck You!
That's impossible because Osama, like *BSD, is for all practical purposes dead.
As a libertarian, shouldn't you be out raising the Confederate flag and shooting off automatic weapons?
It's always nice to see when Randroids put their zealotry for Linux over their zealotry for capitalism.
That just means it's more secure!
My company relies on the stability and power of Microsoft Windows NT!
You all wanted it, but I got it. THIS POST!
unless you're a Buddhist.
This Mario is the original, kicking off many sidescroller clones, and it arouses warm feelings of nostalgia among many people. Many of us remember this as one of our first great games, if not the first. I personally spent many hours as a young child playing this classic. While the graphics and sound are not comparable to later games in the series, the gameplay and replay value are big hits. Plus, it came with an extra game on the cartridge - Duck Hunt, another surefire classic.
[ ] Mario 2
This is often remembered as the "weird" Mario. Involving different characters with different abilities, strange enemies and often-times "exotic" dream-induced settings, it was a big jump away from Mario 1. The sheer uniqueness of this game gave it many hours worth of replay value.
[ ] Mario 3
This is the "epic" Mario, with a bigger story, bigger levels, and bigger enemies. Featuring fast-paced gameplay, varied levels involving swimming and flying, wonderfully cartoonish graphics and sound and memorable enemies, this is the last of the powerhouse series for the original NES.
Which is your favorite? Choose wisely, Slashdotters!
(My vote goes to Mario 3. I still play it!)
I loved Super Mario World for the SNES too, but I was counting the 3 originals as a different "series" from the rest. I would say Super Mario World is pretty damn close to Mario 3, in terms of fun value. Out of all Mario games, Mario Kart would be tied with those two.
This Mario is the original, kicking off many sidescroller clones, and it arouses warm feelings of nostalgia among many people. Many of us remember this as one of our first great games, if not the first. I personally spent many hours as a young child playing this classic. While the graphics and sound are not comparable to later games in the series, the gameplay and replay value are big hits. Plus, it came with an extra game on the cartridge - Duck Hunt, another surefire classic.
[ ] Mario 2
This is often remembered as the "weird" Mario. Involving different characters with different abilities, strange enemies and often-times "exotic" dream-induced settings, it was a big jump away from Mario 1. The sheer uniqueness of this game gave it many hours worth of replay value.
[ ] Mario 3
This is the "epic" Mario, with a bigger story, bigger levels, and bigger enemies. Featuring fast-paced gameplay, varied levels involving swimming and flying, wonderfully cartoonish graphics and sound and memorable enemies, this is the last of the powerhouse series for the original NES.
Which is your favorite? Choose wisely, Slashdotters!
(My vote goes to Mario 3. I still play it!)
I like it!
This Mario is the original, kicking off many sidescroller clones, and it arouses warm feelings of nostalgia among many people. Many of us remember this as one of our first great games, if not the first. I personally spent many hours as a young child playing this classic. While the graphics and sound are not comparable to later games in the series, the gameplay and replay value are big hits. Plus, it came with an extra game on the cartridge - Duck Hunt, another surefire classic.
[ ] Mario 2
This is often remembered as the "weird" Mario. Involving different characters with different abilities, strange enemies and often-times "exotic" dream-induced settings, it was a big jump away from Mario 1. The sheer uniqueness of this game gave it many hours worth of replay value.
[ ] Mario 3
This is the "epic" Mario, with a bigger story, bigger levels, and bigger enemies. Featuring fast-paced gameplay, varied levels involving swimming and flying, wonderfully cartoonish graphics and sound and memorable enemies, this is the last of the powerhouse series for the original NES.
Which is your favorite? Choose wisely, Slashdotters!
(My vote goes to Mario 3. I still play it!)
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
Natalie Portman's boobs. Enjoy.