If you (or your good(but not so brilliant) friend think that by picking up an IDE that it will teach you how to really program, then you both need counseling.
Do you not close your parentheses when coding too, or is it just a convention for rants?
OpenDocument is not "already" the required document format for Massachusetts. The requirement to save all files in OpenDocument only takes effect from January 1, 2007.
Well what's he supposed to do? Say "Good job for ignoring all the warnings and expecting it work anyway"? Sometimes, installing certain tools requires you to know what you're doing. Heaven forbid that you learn something when using a computer! Honestly, installing Cygwin isn't something that your average user is going to do. I would assume, and I think justly so, that anyone doing this is a power user, and able to recognize the need to read the freaking manual sometimes.
On the other hand, if he'd been doing the same thing in, say, Ubuntu, he would almost certainly have found the package in universe or multiverse, selected it to install, and watched it do its thing without breaking anything. So don't let's start with the idea that installing software on Windows is better/easier.
The whole article looks like it was written by someone with only a minimal knowledge of English. I mean, they spelled "definitely" as "definatelly", and didn't use an apostrophe on "users'" either.
Surely it wouldn't hurt for Slashdot's "editors" to read what they're posting, or at least to run a sodding spellchecker over their front page.
I think Theo is going about this entirely the wrong way. He appears unable to act reasonably with people, especially when he feels (rightly or wrongly) that they're being unreasonable with him. The FreeBSD-questions mailing list has recently had a large spate of emails between Theo, Scott Long, and other developers and members, and the ability of the people involved to get over their petty differences and try to discuss the situation like grownups was poor at best.
If this is how Theo is dealing with the Adaptec, it's not surprising he isn't getting far. He's like a child throwing his toys out the cot because he can't get an open source implementation from them. Now don't get me wrong; I support Theo's view on the matter, and I agree that having a free (as in speech) implementation is a Good Thing(tm), and I would much prefer this to the current solution being used in FreeBSD. However, Adaptec have already promised an SDK in four months. Sure, it's annoying that we have to wait four months, but at least they've promised something. Frankly, I think Theo is being impatient and hotheaded. Mod me down if you want, but I've seen the dozens of emails come through the FreeBSD-questions list the last few days, and the antagonism on both sides is pathetic. Sure, it's a good thing that people care enough to become emotional, but you sort of expect adults to be able to work through their problems like...well...adults.
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Right, so that's the practical mentality that brought about the rewrite of Windows, I suppose? Perhaps I'm wrong, but wouldn't rewriting IE be a pretty trivial task compared to what Microsoft are undertaking with Longhorn? And, wouldn't it seem like a logical step to take?
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No kidding eh...
Are they basing it on the IE6 code? If so, why? If they're completely rebuilding the Windows code for Longhorn, wouldn't it be smart to do the same with IE?
So you find it silly to be a fan of a corporation, but you don't find it silly to hold a grudge against one? You haven't forgiven AMD for marketing BS, yet you have chosen to ignore entirely similar BS from AMD? And you think that $20-$40, which amounts to around what, 10%-20% of a CPU's price, is a minimal difference? Where did you get that figure from anyway? I just checked the cheapest prices listed in New Zealand (where I live), and Intel offerings are over $100 more expensive than equivalent AMD ones.
Not entirely true. Very often, people don't realize that it doesn't have to be like that. A lot of Windows users think that having to get their system cleaned by a computer shop every six months is normal. If you can increase awareness that it's not, people might start considering alternatives more. You can't consider an alternative that you don't know exists.
I guess you haven't seen Gnome recently then. And what graphical glitches are you talking about in Lindows. There's ots of fluff in your comment, but no actual arguments.
Isn't this illegal in the UK? I'm in NZ, so it's not like I keep up with UK news much, but I recall some web standards law being passed stating that sites must be accessible to all users. It was specifically targeted to disabled users, but wouldn't browser fascism be covered too?
Wouldn't a simple print-screen copy the text and diagrams into a format which can be freely distributed? If you want to turn it into an OpenOffice document, you could print out the PNG and scan it using OCR. I'm not sure how DRM is supposed to protect against this. If it can be read, it can be copied.
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If you (or your good(but not so brilliant) friend think that by picking up an IDE that it will teach you how to really program, then you both need counseling.
Do you not close your parentheses when coding too, or is it just a convention for rants?
OpenDocument is not "already" the required document format for Massachusetts. The requirement to save all files in OpenDocument only takes effect from January 1, 2007.
Not being very "with it", as it were, I had to read through a few comments before I was convinced this wasn't a joke.
On the other hand, if he'd been doing the same thing in, say, Ubuntu, he would almost certainly have found the package in universe or multiverse, selected it to install, and watched it do its thing without breaking anything. So don't let's start with the idea that installing software on Windows is better/easier.
Why, exactly? Stop animation looks like models, but you don't groan at that, surely? Interesting comparison.
No. Crazy people almost invariably come in groups.
Surely it wouldn't hurt for Slashdot's "editors" to read what they're posting, or at least to run a sodding spellchecker over their front page.
It's modded funny coz it's true...?
If this is how Theo is dealing with the Adaptec, it's not surprising he isn't getting far. He's like a child throwing his toys out the cot because he can't get an open source implementation from them. Now don't get me wrong; I support Theo's view on the matter, and I agree that having a free (as in speech) implementation is a Good Thing(tm), and I would much prefer this to the current solution being used in FreeBSD. However, Adaptec have already promised an SDK in four months. Sure, it's annoying that we have to wait four months, but at least they've promised something. Frankly, I think Theo is being impatient and hotheaded. Mod me down if you want, but I've seen the dozens of emails come through the FreeBSD-questions list the last few days, and the antagonism on both sides is pathetic. Sure, it's a good thing that people care enough to become emotional, but you sort of expect adults to be able to work through their problems like...well...adults.
Right, so that's the practical mentality that brought about the rewrite of Windows, I suppose? Perhaps I'm wrong, but wouldn't rewriting IE be a pretty trivial task compared to what Microsoft are undertaking with Longhorn? And, wouldn't it seem like a logical step to take?
Are they basing it on the IE6 code? If so, why? If they're completely rebuilding the Windows code for Longhorn, wouldn't it be smart to do the same with IE?
Very consistent logic. Well done. Fanboy.
Hence, BSD is not Unix.
MacOS (or, at least, Darwin), is not UNIX; it's BSD. A minor difference, to be sure, but we are talking about proprietary, "actual" UNIX.
"Mo-dem speeds"? Wassat?
Not entirely true. Very often, people don't realize that it doesn't have to be like that. A lot of Windows users think that having to get their system cleaned by a computer shop every six months is normal. If you can increase awareness that it's not, people might start considering alternatives more. You can't consider an alternative that you don't know exists.
How would you pronounce that? "April firtht"?
I guess you haven't seen Gnome recently then. And what graphical glitches are you talking about in Lindows. There's ots of fluff in your comment, but no actual arguments.
Or both.
Are you suggesting that what actors do is worth millions a year, compared to teachers, doctors and sundry others?
What a whiner.
Roger that; thanks. Had the wrong end of the stick.
Isn't this illegal in the UK? I'm in NZ, so it's not like I keep up with UK news much, but I recall some web standards law being passed stating that sites must be accessible to all users. It was specifically targeted to disabled users, but wouldn't browser fascism be covered too?
Wouldn't a simple print-screen copy the text and diagrams into a format which can be freely distributed? If you want to turn it into an OpenOffice document, you could print out the PNG and scan it using OCR. I'm not sure how DRM is supposed to protect against this. If it can be read, it can be copied.
What do Slashdot's editors do again?