Especially since there is no relation between sex and morality. It's just so common to use that lie that the churches use to make their believers sinners forever, that everybody thinks there is.
I think in Germany "Staatsuntreue" (disloyalty to the state) is a major crime, on the level of murder. Except that I can't remember a single case where somebody actually got sued.
I also believe, that in many countries, you actually get shot when behaving in such a way. Either by law... or much more likely... by the revolutionizers, army or opposition, when the laws got ignored for too long.
I really hope the revolution comes quick and clean. Unfortunately, that's not how it usually works. More like bloody anarchy for a decade.:\
I trust the Chinese government as well as the US government to handle this. You just have to know how to handle them.
The Chinese you simply tell, that they have a second child that they conceived while listening to anti-communistic music, cross the street when the light is green, and read American news sites.
The US you tell, that they just "pirated" the latest hit album from Osama Bin Laden for their karaoke machine while wearing this shirt.
I'm joking. You could really tell both governments anything that includes "they could be bad". They will "find" something themselves as soon as they know you exist anyway.
Does it matter? Because they are on drugs anyway. You could switch off the screen, and they still would see the pretty oozing colors of...ehem... "Photoshop"...
I thought it was standard Slashdot knowledge that those projects were personal children of Melinda Gates, the secretary Bill fell in love with and married. As far as I heard, she came up with MS Bob, Clippy, and so on. (Female urge to help. Good intention. Bad execution.) And because he loved her so much, he could not tell her what a load of crap she produced. So he tried to help an support her. You can go real big, if your man has 100 billion, is the boss of a huge company, and does everything for you.
And that's how little Bob and Clippy were born.
Luckily, there came a time, when he was able to tell her. It's strange, imagining this side of Bill... At least he got a girl. Imagine an SM relationship with Ballmer instead. THAT would make for a fucked up version of Windows and Office.
The fact that copyright is completely fucked up in the us, does not make it a bad idea the way it originally was intended.
One nice thing here in Germany is, that you can't give away your copyright (Urheberrecht to be exact. It's a bit different). At all. The protection of copyright is specifically given by the people of the nation, and no basic right you can expect at all.
Within reasonable terms and with a non-criminal administrative organization, it's a good thing.
Embrace the idiots, for they are easy to influence and blind in their following. Behind every evil genius stands an army of idiots. (You can quote me on this one:)
Why should a good genius not have an army of idiots too? Get yourself a book on mass psychology, another one on neuro-linguistic programming, and become really good at the psychology of emotions. A rhetorics book can broaden your target group.
I personally prefer an underwater lair under a volcano, the male idiots out there, and the female idiots in my bed. (We germans have a saying: "Dumm fickt gut". "Stupid fucks good":)
You mean ARM processors? Those nice low-power processors used is the Gameboy... Advance... and most mobile phones? If yes, then did you just say "Gameboy" instead, because that sounded better? If yes, you're pathetic.:P
...light foot fetish. To us it's like if all girls would run around (nearly) topless on every occasion they could get, and be perfectly normal about it.:D
Transparent diamond shoes... perfect! Only completely barefoot beats that.
Did you know that diamonds come in many different colors?
Exactly. Which is in no way related to what they want.:)
Best example: "I want the nice guy that makes me laugh."... said she, before dating another ass that only wants to fuck her and then threat her like crap. If that was true, we'd all have girlfriends fighting for us right now.
...as long as the root cause - epidemic religious schizophrenia - has not been quenched.
Why else would a group of grown up, educated people make a "dirty" taboo out of one of the two only things that we could not possibly exist without (sex), and everything related, while not only allowing, but actively promoting to kill non-believers.
But what can you do, when 80%+ of a nation need a therapy to not fall back to the middle ages? We can't leave them to themselves. They're humans too, after all.
Now wonder how many countries you can apply this comment to.;)
Everything using that hellhole of I rendering engine called Trident should be shot, quartered, fed to dogs, burned, buried, dug up, defiled, burned again, and spread to all four quadrants of the galaxy wherever there are evil aliens to extinguish. In that order.
I wish, users would experience the horrors that Trident puts us trough themselves. But for this, every major site would have to code to the standard and ignore all quirks and bugs in it. I bet, if the top 10 sites on the net would put a message on their front page, to make it clear, that the bugs that the users see, come from their Browser being a load of crap, IE would be gone in hours.
But they seem to like more, to rant all day long, that their users don't switch. Idiots.
I, for one, have sworn, never to write Trident workarounds again. Ever! Even if I am shot, quartered, fed to dogs, burned, buried, dug up, defiled, burned again, and spread to all four quadrants of the galaxy while still being alive in some way.
Sorry, but the writer of that article lost me in the first section.
Mr Kingsley-Hughes gives five essential points to explain what is so bad about Linux that it can't even succeed for free
What he means is "Five things that Microsoft does to hinder Linux's success, and that I personally dislike because I've got no fuckin' clue." His main point being in the headline "Windows is free" (eg. via torrent). This is nothing Linux has done wrong, is it? Yet he writes it in that way in the whole large section.
Too many different versions of Linux.
Again one of those retards who still think in terms of "software product versions", despite calling themselves "experts". There are no "versions". There are packagers. Companies, and other groups. A living, breathing, healthy concurrency. Each group with their own philosophy. There is not even a "product" "Linux". It's like he would say that there are too many different versions of candy bars, so he rather wants ice cream, despite there only being 3 versions of two products from one single company. This is a giant major advantage of Linux. Him not being used to it does not make it wrong. It means he's even too lazy to try to understand this, despite calling himself an "expert".
I see GNU/Linux as a kind of meta-OS. You create your very own OS out of it. Some people have done this for you to some extend.
People want certainty that hardware and software will work.
Well. Linux does this better than any new Windows version. Install Linux, and all supported hardware is there. Install Windows, and then go hunt for drivers. Signed drivers. I bet he drags the drivers of those companies into the spotlight, that refuse to create a Linux driver, partially because MS told them to do so, and partially because they have something shady to hide (like their most expensive product and their cheapest product only differing in the driver code).
As far as most people are concerned, the command line has gone the way of the dinosaur.
This guy really calls himself anything?? How incompetent can you be? The whole point of having a computer, is to be able to automate things. This is mostly done trough writing programs. But then you have programs, and the OS, and you want them to work together in a specific way. A comforting little automation there... an quick rename of just those files, while replacing a word inside them... let two tools work together for more comfort... All this glue in between is filled with shell scripting, or as he calls it "the command line".
If you can't do that, you're not really using the computer. If there would be a computer license, this would be the major thing you would have to be able to do. When you're only being able to eat pre-chewed food, you're dead, every time the pre-chewer has a problem.
When I came from Windows, this "glue" scripts, and the little automation of repetitive tasks, including the use of DBUS, and even Greasemonkey, were the first thing that made me say "Wow, I love Linux". All this shit that I had to work countless hours on on Windows... and all this comfort that I previously could not even imagine... dissolved into some small shell scripts. Everything was so easy. And most importantly: Everything suddenly was possible.
The day where shell scripting dies, is the day where the computer dies, is a day where I will long be dead and gone.
Linux is still too geeky.
Translation: "I don't like you. I've never learned to know you. I've not worked with you. But, hell, I don't like you!" I bet he has not even tried Ubuntu.
I'm sorry, but with this EPIC FAIL of an article introduction, I will not throw away my time to read this, but use it to save others from going down that dirty pipe with him.
Despite the hatred against Microsoft, commercial or large-scale cloning of MS-products is not ok.
The right thing to do, is to destroy Microsoft completely, burn Bill and his EEE (extend,...) and marketing team in hell and nuke everything from orbit, just to be sure.;)
I think nuclear reactors (and maybe, later, fusion reactors) are the main thing putting us trough a volcanic ice age. This could go so far that we could heat big domes for plants to grow.
Of course, I'm for a "clean up the atmosphere project" too, because it's always better to remove the earliest cause that you still can influence. If the atmosphere is full of crap anyway, it's much simpler to come up with something to add to it.;)
(Yeah, I'm heavily drunk, it's 07:09 AM, and I'm posting on Slashdot. I bet that's not what the inventors of Red Bull intended. I bet the girls miss me. *hic*)
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Rather the year of OpenBSD at all.
Will never happen... ;)
...and how many religions, traditions, ethnic groups/tribes/castes there are?
India is the farthest away from monolithic that you can get.
Especially since there is no relation between sex and morality. It's just so common to use that lie that the churches use to make their believers sinners forever, that everybody thinks there is.
I think in Germany "Staatsuntreue" (disloyalty to the state) is a major crime, on the level of murder. Except that I can't remember a single case where somebody actually got sued.
I also believe, that in many countries, you actually get shot when behaving in such a way. Either by law... or much more likely... by the revolutionizers, army or opposition, when the laws got ignored for too long.
I really hope the revolution comes quick and clean. Unfortunately, that's not how it usually works. More like bloody anarchy for a decade. :\
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I trust the Chinese government as well as the US government to handle this. You just have to know how to handle them.
The Chinese you simply tell, that they have a second child that they conceived while listening to anti-communistic music, cross the street when the light is green, and read American news sites.
The US you tell, that they just "pirated" the latest hit album from Osama Bin Laden for their karaoke machine while wearing this shirt.
I'm joking. You could really tell both governments anything that includes "they could be bad". They will "find" something themselves as soon as they know you exist anyway.
For the load of crap that OOo is, this is actually a very good number. Maybe it's, because MS office is not much better.
I really miss Lotus SmartSuite. (The latest edition is just way too outdated.) :(
Wow. Then the shit stolen on the high seas should become rapidly less.
I heard, UAC in "Windows 7 for pirate ships" is especially naggy.
Mmmmmhhh.... moose! Tasty!
Does it matter? Because they are on drugs anyway. You could switch off the screen, and they still would see the pretty oozing colors of...ehem... "Photoshop"...
I thought it was standard Slashdot knowledge that those projects were personal children of Melinda Gates, the secretary Bill fell in love with and married. As far as I heard, she came up with MS Bob, Clippy, and so on. (Female urge to help. Good intention. Bad execution.) And because he loved her so much, he could not tell her what a load of crap she produced. So he tried to help an support her. You can go real big, if your man has 100 billion, is the boss of a huge company, and does everything for you.
And that's how little Bob and Clippy were born.
Luckily, there came a time, when he was able to tell her.
It's strange, imagining this side of Bill... At least he got a girl.
Imagine an SM relationship with Ballmer instead. THAT would make for a fucked up version of Windows and Office.
The fact that copyright is completely fucked up in the us, does not make it a bad idea the way it originally was intended.
One nice thing here in Germany is, that you can't give away your copyright (Urheberrecht to be exact. It's a bit different). At all.
The protection of copyright is specifically given by the people of the nation, and no basic right you can expect at all.
Within reasonable terms and with a non-criminal administrative organization, it's a good thing.
Embrace the idiots, for they are easy to influence and blind in their following. :)
Behind every evil genius stands an army of idiots. (You can quote me on this one
Why should a good genius not have an army of idiots too?
Get yourself a book on mass psychology, another one on neuro-linguistic programming, and become really good at the psychology of emotions. A rhetorics book can broaden your target group.
I personally prefer an underwater lair under a volcano, the male idiots out there, and the female idiots in my bed. (We germans have a saying: "Dumm fickt gut". "Stupid fucks good" :)
Where do you think those colorful hand-painted bottles of cheap liquor come from? ;)
You mean ARM processors? Those nice low-power processors used is the Gameboy... Advance... and most mobile phones? :P
If yes, then did you just say "Gameboy" instead, because that sounded better?
If yes, you're pathetic.
There will be no one left to tell. Fundies decay to ashes when rays of gayness fall upon them. Didn't ya know?
...light foot fetish. To us it's like if all girls would run around (nearly) topless on every occasion they could get, and be perfectly normal about it. :D
Transparent diamond shoes... perfect! Only completely barefoot beats that.
Did you know that diamonds come in many different colors?
Exactly. Which is in no way related to what they want. :)
Best example: "I want the nice guy that makes me laugh."... said she, before dating another ass that only wants to fuck her and then threat her like crap.
If that was true, we'd all have girlfriends fighting for us right now.
...as long as the root cause - epidemic religious schizophrenia - has not been quenched.
Why else would a group of grown up, educated people make a "dirty" taboo out of one of the two only things that we could not possibly exist without (sex), and everything related,
while not only allowing, but actively promoting to kill non-believers.
But what can you do, when 80%+ of a nation need a therapy to not fall back to the middle ages? We can't leave them to themselves. They're humans too, after all.
Now wonder how many countries you can apply this comment to. ;)
Sorry, wrong link. Of course I meant driving a Ford Model T with that nickname. Not anyone of that band. ;)
Oh well... I'm still too hungover. At least there's an explanation of the source of the band name in the article about the band.
Actually, it IS! But how could someone with a Thin Lizzy understand how driving a "Tumbler" Batmobile feels like?
Because of all the add-ons, browsing with Firefox is not even in the same dimension as browsing with the IE.
Everything using that hellhole of I rendering engine called Trident should be shot, quartered, fed to dogs, burned, buried, dug up, defiled, burned again, and spread to all four quadrants of the galaxy wherever there are evil aliens to extinguish. In that order.
I wish, users would experience the horrors that Trident puts us trough themselves. But for this, every major site would have to code to the standard and ignore all quirks and bugs in it. I bet, if the top 10 sites on the net would put a message on their front page, to make it clear, that the bugs that the users see, come from their Browser being a load of crap, IE would be gone in hours.
But they seem to like more, to rant all day long, that their users don't switch. Idiots.
I, for one, have sworn, never to write Trident workarounds again. Ever! Even if I am shot, quartered, fed to dogs, burned, buried, dug up, defiled, burned again, and spread to all four quadrants of the galaxy while still being alive in some way.
Sorry, but the writer of that article lost me in the first section.
Mr Kingsley-Hughes gives five essential points to explain what is so bad about Linux that it can't even succeed for free
What he means is "Five things that Microsoft does to hinder Linux's success, and that I personally dislike because I've got no fuckin' clue."
His main point being in the headline "Windows is free" (eg. via torrent). This is nothing Linux has done wrong, is it? Yet he writes it in that way in the whole large section.
Too many different versions of Linux.
Again one of those retards who still think in terms of "software product versions", despite calling themselves "experts".
There are no "versions". There are packagers. Companies, and other groups. A living, breathing, healthy concurrency. Each group with their own philosophy.
There is not even a "product" "Linux". It's like he would say that there are too many different versions of candy bars, so he rather wants ice cream, despite there only being 3 versions of two products from one single company.
This is a giant major advantage of Linux. Him not being used to it does not make it wrong. It means he's even too lazy to try to understand this, despite calling himself an "expert".
I see GNU/Linux as a kind of meta-OS. You create your very own OS out of it. Some people have done this for you to some extend.
People want certainty that hardware and software will work.
Well. Linux does this better than any new Windows version. Install Linux, and all supported hardware is there. Install Windows, and then go hunt for drivers. Signed drivers.
I bet he drags the drivers of those companies into the spotlight, that refuse to create a Linux driver, partially because MS told them to do so, and partially because they have something shady to hide (like their most expensive product and their cheapest product only differing in the driver code).
As far as most people are concerned, the command line has gone the way of the dinosaur.
This guy really calls himself anything?? How incompetent can you be?
The whole point of having a computer, is to be able to automate things.
This is mostly done trough writing programs. But then you have programs, and the OS, and you want them to work together in a specific way.
A comforting little automation there... an quick rename of just those files, while replacing a word inside them... let two tools work together for more comfort...
All this glue in between is filled with shell scripting, or as he calls it "the command line".
If you can't do that, you're not really using the computer. If there would be a computer license, this would be the major thing you would have to be able to do.
When you're only being able to eat pre-chewed food, you're dead, every time the pre-chewer has a problem.
When I came from Windows, this "glue" scripts, and the little automation of repetitive tasks, including the use of DBUS, and even Greasemonkey, were the first thing that made me say "Wow, I love Linux". All this shit that I had to work countless hours on on Windows... and all this comfort that I previously could not even imagine... dissolved into some small shell scripts. Everything was so easy. And most importantly: Everything suddenly was possible.
The day where shell scripting dies, is the day where the computer dies, is a day where I will long be dead and gone.
Linux is still too geeky.
Translation: "I don't like you. I've never learned to know you. I've not worked with you. But, hell, I don't like you!"
I bet he has not even tried Ubuntu.
I'm sorry, but with this EPIC FAIL of an article introduction, I will not throw away my time to read this, but use it to save others from going down that dirty pipe with him.
Despite the hatred against Microsoft, commercial or large-scale cloning of MS-products is not ok.
The right thing to do, is to destroy Microsoft completely, burn Bill and his EEE (extend, ...) and marketing team in hell and nuke everything from orbit, just to be sure. ;)
You're a bit pessimistic.
I think nuclear reactors (and maybe, later, fusion reactors) are the main thing putting us trough a volcanic ice age.
This could go so far that we could heat big domes for plants to grow.
Of course, I'm for a "clean up the atmosphere project" too, because it's always better to remove the earliest cause that you still can influence. ;)
If the atmosphere is full of crap anyway, it's much simpler to come up with something to add to it.
(Yeah, I'm heavily drunk, it's 07:09 AM, and I'm posting on Slashdot. I bet that's not what the inventors of Red Bull intended. I bet the girls miss me. *hic*)