Trolling is generally sort of saying outlandish bullshit to get a reaction. Saying that Linux will never take hold because the current implementation isn't feasable for most users smacks of someone who last tried a distro around FC1, which had big promise, little delivery. Hell, even Ubuntu 5 was sort of crappy IMO.
dl the liveCD for Ubuntu 5 and compare it to 7.04. On several machines. That's two years worth of progress. What has MS done in two years? Let's see, they moved from 98 to Me... And (dear lord, how ingenious) from office 2000 to office 2002. Vista took 6 years. Yep. Win 2000 took, what, 4 years since the latest version of NT? I know, you can throw service packs out there, but really. Someone's a troll, here.
Who's to say they're not just posturing in the name of "freedom" now and won't do something horribly evil once they get their piece of the pie?
Yeah, I've been saying that for years. Then I finally stopped, because it's been, up to this point, like waiting for the apocalypse: every few years, people start screaming about the end of times, then nothing happens, and people are quiet for a little while.
When the hell is it going to happen? I've been waiting for it to happen for a long time. I'm sure someday it will, but criticizing them for doing something positive because they MAY be posturing to pull an Anakin Skywalker all over the little children is kind of weird. I mean, they keep posturing for the thrust, but it never comes. Isn't that why Steve Ballmer said Google had no business plan? Not enough thrusting?
The RIAA wants to use MTV and radio as an advertisement for CDs and DVDs Yes, but they charge for every play, then pocket the money. They're full of it, and treat consumers and artists (their suppliers) like shit. The reason why MTV and VH1 don't play music videos anymore is because the RIAA decided that music videos were no longer valuable as promotion (WHAT!!!?), and so they started charging per play. So MTV examined their books, and said fuck it, we're running Real World.
And it's been that way ever since.
The artists want to use the CDs and DVDs as an advertisement for live performances.
Some of the artists care about making music, too.
The radio stations want to use music as a filler between their own advertisements.
That's why I don't listen to the radio.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but I don't watch MTV because they don't have music videos, and if a radio station talks over a goddamn song, it's OVER. So thank you, RIAA.
PS: Oh, and RIAA? I know I may be the minority, but when Napster was around, and you guys hadn't enlightened me to the fact that you're total assholes, I purchased an average of 1 CD a week. Because of music downloads.
Actually Dutch language seems to have the same word ("te") for too and to. And it doesn't really seem to cause them any trouble, just as it doesn't cause you any trouble while you are speaking.
Yes, and the Dutch language evolved that way, so their language is designed to be clear with that rule. AND, there are about (give or take) 330M native English speakers world-wide. Should we send out a memo? Who's in charge of this to thing? When should we translate our textbooks?
The other problem with changing words' spellings is that etymology is very important in English, since it's got such a diverse range of borrowed words. The etymologies of to and too are intertwined, but still.
Plus, writing is different from speaking. Which is why I don't enunciate all the punctuation I write.
And I have little sympathy for those who cannot see the simpler solution... change the spelling of too to to, or add another set of definitions to to.
To whom it may concern, I miss the old spelling of to and to. It's not to-the-point. It's to complicated, to confusing, and darn it, to me it's clearly to be to ambiguous. To many times have we spent upwards of to days, to long to apply myself to to many to-tiered projects. Now back to my to points--to many come up, and I to have made sacrifices, paring them back to to--to point out what to you're try to talk about is to hard.
Yours is to simple an answer for to complicated a problem. Examine the following albeit slangy phrase: "You are to clumsy!"
I imagine petitions that represent a consumer base for the target audience are the most effective. Generally, though, I think that online petitions trying to affect policy change are ineffective, because unless you have a large percentage of the population, you can assume that more than half the people disagree with the petition. Or at least don't care about it. It's nearly impossible to get enough people to affect change in the US. If a policy petition got 100 million signatures from valid addresses in the US, then maybe it would sway someone's opinion. Otherwise, forget about it.
In other words, consumer-based petitions where there are no antagonists seem most likely to succeed, since there is no hidden factor.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. I hear that there are alternative (?) distribution methods out there. Something about "hoisting the flag" and all that?
If they're allowed to show it to their parents and friends, it should be no problem getting it on Bittorrent and eDonkey (hint:use emule or amule, double hint:they're free) untraceably. I'm sure if you accidentally dropped the DVD at a few LAN parties, you'd be well on your way to hassle-free distribution.
AND, they could put a donations button on their site. Fucking genius. -Nathan
Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed, too. Actually, I read through the post without thinking much of it, because I used this neat little decoder thing I have, called 'my brain' to understand what he was saying, then noticed people were making fun of him, THEN went back and checked.
In Mexico I learned Spanish being made fun of the whole time, and I think it's probably natural. The posters could have said something constructive and without malice, though.
Plus, on T-Mobile, internet service that is not routed through their laggy-ass proxy is $20. The Wifi thing is cool, because you would still need to get a $30/mo 20minute/mo plan ANYWAY. So why do they care about wifi? They should ask consumers if they have computers, and if they do, charge them extra money for cutting into their profits.
I've seen Spybot take years to fix false positives that have been brought to their attention. By "Spybot," do you mean "Patrick Kolla?" I know now he's got help, but how many years ago did these "years" occur?
Plus, it's still part of THE best passive/manual protection you can get:
1. Spybot w. Hosts list & immunize 2. Spywareblaster 3. IESPYADS 4. Firefox 5. WRT54G 6. Merijn's BugOff
I know a router probably isn't really passive, but to the PC it is. Oh, and besides the router, this is all free. My 2 cents.
He didn't say he reinstalled it in a few months, he said that Windows got screwed up enough for a non-geek to think, "Screw this," and reboot into Ubuntu. If this doesn't sound reasonable to you, you don't fix computers for a living. Or a hobby.
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Trolling is generally sort of saying outlandish bullshit to get a reaction. Saying that Linux will never take hold because the current implementation isn't feasable for most users smacks of someone who last tried a distro around FC1, which had big promise, little delivery. Hell, even Ubuntu 5 was sort of crappy IMO.
dl the liveCD for Ubuntu 5 and compare it to 7.04. On several machines. That's two years worth of progress. What has MS done in two years? Let's see, they moved from 98 to Me... And (dear lord, how ingenious) from office 2000 to office 2002. Vista took 6 years. Yep. Win 2000 took, what, 4 years since the latest version of NT? I know, you can throw service packs out there, but really. Someone's a troll, here.
you're talking about e. e. cummings again, aren't you?
Yeah, I've been saying that for years. Then I finally stopped, because it's been, up to this point, like waiting for the apocalypse: every few years, people start screaming about the end of times, then nothing happens, and people are quiet for a little while.
When the hell is it going to happen? I've been waiting for it to happen for a long time. I'm sure someday it will, but criticizing them for doing something positive because they MAY be posturing to pull an Anakin Skywalker all over the little children is kind of weird. I mean, they keep posturing for the thrust, but it never comes. Isn't that why Steve Ballmer said Google had no business plan? Not enough thrusting?
bwahahahahaha
but, really, good point.
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Yes, and the Dutch language evolved that way, so their language is designed to be clear with that rule. AND, there are about (give or take) 330M native English speakers world-wide. Should we send out a memo? Who's in charge of this to thing? When should we translate our textbooks?
The other problem with changing words' spellings is that etymology is very important in English, since it's got such a diverse range of borrowed words. The etymologies of to and too are intertwined, but still.
Plus, writing is different from speaking. Which is why I don't enunciate all the punctuation I write.
how many waning hairs left in your shiny baldspot, hunh douchebag?
Why, ALL of them!
To whom it may concern,
I miss the old spelling of to and to. It's not to-the-point. It's to complicated, to confusing, and darn it, to me it's clearly to be to ambiguous. To many times have we spent upwards of to days, to long to apply myself to to many to-tiered projects. Now back to my to points--to many come up, and I to have made sacrifices, paring them back to to--to point out what to you're try to talk about is to hard.
Yours is to simple an answer for to complicated a problem. Examine the following albeit slangy phrase: "You are to clumsy!"
Thank you,
Nathan Curry
like to pees in a pod
I imagine petitions that represent a consumer base for the target audience are the most effective. Generally, though, I think that online petitions trying to affect policy change are ineffective, because unless you have a large percentage of the population, you can assume that more than half the people disagree with the petition. Or at least don't care about it. It's nearly impossible to get enough people to affect change in the US. If a policy petition got 100 million signatures from valid addresses in the US, then maybe it would sway someone's opinion. Otherwise, forget about it.
In other words, consumer-based petitions where there are no antagonists seem most likely to succeed, since there is no hidden factor.
I do all my illegal activities on an Abacus.
Red bead attempting to slide right.
Cancel or Allow?
1. Why...Google...bad guy?
He's making an anal sex joke.
2. Why...comment modded up?
He's making an anal sex joke.
Yeah, but it's easier to use. See? One mouse button.
If they're allowed to show it to their parents and friends, it should be no problem getting it on Bittorrent and eDonkey (hint:use emule or amule, double hint:they're free) untraceably. I'm sure if you accidentally dropped the DVD at a few LAN parties, you'd be well on your way to hassle-free distribution.
AND, they could put a donations button on their site. Fucking genius.
-Nathan
You misspelled billionaire.
Oh. I thought he misspelled Paris Hilton.
Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed, too. Actually, I read through the post without thinking much of it, because I used this neat little decoder thing I have, called 'my brain' to understand what he was saying, then noticed people were making fun of him, THEN went back and checked.
In Mexico I learned Spanish being made fun of the whole time, and I think it's probably natural. The posters could have said something constructive and without malice, though.
Plus, on T-Mobile, internet service that is not routed through their laggy-ass proxy is $20. The Wifi thing is cool, because you would still need to get a $30/mo 20minute/mo plan ANYWAY. So why do they care about wifi? They should ask consumers if they have computers, and if they do, charge them extra money for cutting into their profits.
My personal favorite, and the one I most often perform is:
*type*
ENTER
"GAAAH! Fuck!"
UP
TAB
*type*
*stop*
*correct typo*
ENTER
"GAAAH! Fuck"
And so on
O MFING RLY? Good intentions? I disagree! I unconcur!
I've seen Spybot take years to fix false positives that have been brought to their attention.
By "Spybot," do you mean "Patrick Kolla?" I know now he's got help, but how many years ago did these "years" occur?
Plus, it's still part of THE best passive/manual protection you can get:
1. Spybot w. Hosts list & immunize
2. Spywareblaster
3. IESPYADS
4. Firefox
5. WRT54G
6. Merijn's BugOff
I know a router probably isn't really passive, but to the PC it is. Oh, and besides the router, this is all free. My 2 cents.
If an ex-microsoft user simply must have the Start Button (menu, really) at bottom left, s/he can be accommodated. :P
Or you can recommend OpenSuse.
He didn't say he reinstalled it in a few months, he said that Windows got screwed up enough for a non-geek to think, "Screw this," and reboot into Ubuntu. If this doesn't sound reasonable to you, you don't fix computers for a living. Or a hobby.
What, do you bunt too?