. . . some of those pills from Charles Elton that turn water into gasoline. I was going to use it in my car with a Charles Nelson Pogue carburetor. Get a bazillion miles to the gallon. Put them A-rabs out of business. But the GOVERNMENT agents stole my stuff and deny everything!
This is gonna be as interesting as Browser benchmarks are. Chrome, IE9, FF and Opera all win in their own benchmark. What does it mean to the enduser? Nothing.
What it means is that they are so similar in performance so as to be indistinguishable to the user.
When 'winning' a benchmark is counted in a measurement too small to be perceived by a human, that is really a 'tie'.
But you can't do any marketing with that kind of result, so we get these biased and inflated 'benchmarks' to create an artificially significant difference.
After the lawyers, let's shoot the marketing people.
Stephan Thompson of the Republican Party of Wisconsin has done an anti-American thing by stifling free speech. No surprise from the state that gave us Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
Now that they have control of it, can they send the infected computers orders to delete the malware that makes them part of the botnet?
Also, even though that would be a Good Thing, are there legal implications in doing so?
Probably, but who would care?
"Can you re-enable the malware so I can get my spinng cursor back?", clueless grandma ---- IGNORE "My entire network crashed when you disabled infected computers." , lazy sysadmin ---- FIRE "Our entire security and defense network crashed", M. Khadaffi ---- DERP
They'll probably wind up like 'calling cards' that were left in a small silver tray in the entrance hall of the person to whom you had paid a social visit, where you picked up their card so you could have the correct information to send your 'Thank You" note.
Given that Idi Amin could be considered the 'most ethical' head of state if you massage the criteria sufficiently, what were the criteria for this selection?
What interest does the Ethisphere Institute have in making such a selection?
Who are Ethisphere Institute and where does their funding come from?
Who are Ethisphere Institute's leaders and what is their background, their expertise and interest in ethics?
These are all reasonable questions to be asked and without satisfactory answers, the selection of any company for this honor is questionable.
Microsoft is good/evil. IE 9 is wonderful/terrible. Opera/Safari/Firefox is better/worse. The best OS is Windows/Mac/Linux. Sun rises in East/West. The sun does not 'rise' you insensitive clod.
Of course. Slashdotters are not interested in a beej, just math.
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For fuck's sake, can we all please stop insisting that a particular arbitrary way to represent dates is better? It's pretty asinine how this gets brought up so much.
Sure. We can argue over which way the toilet paper goes or 'vi vs. emacs' or any number of pointless, non-winnable arguments that fuel the growth of civilisation.
Also, I would not want to be "modded down" in the workplace for my political views. Slashdot people love free speech - as long as it agrees with theirs.
Slashdot Mirror
Ted, we've read your screed and you made it to the frontpage of Slashdot.
Now tell us what you've learned by posting here.
As harsh as they can be, the folks here actually can offer some good advice.
Wazzup Ted?
. . . some of those pills from Charles Elton that turn water into gasoline. I was going to use it in my car with a Charles Nelson Pogue carburetor. Get a bazillion miles to the gallon. Put them A-rabs out of business. But the GOVERNMENT agents stole my stuff and deny everything!
Science fantsasy now becomes science fact.
Or did it?
A tablet from a Kindle is like the I-Opener fad of the late 90s.
It is akin to [car analogy ahead] putting chrome rims on a Volkswagen Beetle: Looks nice, feels good, but still runs like crap.
The only thing I would like to see is a free software/free driver challenge between the two. Everything else does not matter.
But will you and the three other guys that it matters to actually read the article on the challenge, or just wait for the synopsis on Slashdot?
This is gonna be as interesting as Browser benchmarks are. Chrome, IE9, FF and Opera all win in their own benchmark. What does it mean to the enduser? Nothing.
What it means is that they are so similar in performance so as to be indistinguishable to the user.
When 'winning' a benchmark is counted in a measurement too small to be perceived by a human, that is really a 'tie'.
But you can't do any marketing with that kind of result, so we get these biased and inflated 'benchmarks' to create an artificially significant difference.
After the lawyers, let's shoot the marketing people.
... doesn't make it right.
Stephan Thompson of the Republican Party of Wisconsin has done an anti-American thing by stifling free speech. No surprise from the state that gave us Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
It's slashdotes, a more evolved life form that does not dwell in basements, nor subsist on Cheetos and actually has real relationships.
No extant forms have been discovered.
Since when is Canada not a state in the U.S.? :)
Since we were on top. ;)
That leaves Mexico on the bottom.
[insert inappropriate humor below]
Just more douchebaggery, obfuscation and flimflamization on the part of lawyers.
And redundant.
Lawyers.
Now that they have control of it, can they send the infected computers orders to delete the malware that makes them part of the botnet?
Also, even though that would be a Good Thing, are there legal implications in doing so?
Probably, but who would care?
"Can you re-enable the malware so I can get my spinng cursor back?", clueless grandma ---- IGNORE
"My entire network crashed when you disabled infected computers." , lazy sysadmin ---- FIRE
"Our entire security and defense network crashed", M. Khadaffi ---- DERP
They'll probably wind up like 'calling cards' that were left in a small silver tray in the entrance hall of the person to whom you had paid a social visit, where you picked up their card so you could have the correct information to send your 'Thank You" note.
Quaint is quaint.
Is it just me or is Florian Mueller's writing just nonsensical?
Because Google stripped comments from the source code, all the software (other-licensed and proprietary) becomes GPL'ed?
The only hope now for Google is to use some mysterious code called glibc?
Does Miller know (or even suspect) what a farktard he is?
It's not a proud thing to be the most honest of all thieves.
It is if you're a thief; there's usually no honor among them.
Given that Idi Amin could be considered the 'most ethical' head of state if you massage the criteria sufficiently, what were the criteria for this selection?
What interest does the Ethisphere Institute have in making such a selection?
Who are Ethisphere Institute and where does their funding come from?
Who are Ethisphere Institute's leaders and what is their background, their expertise and interest in ethics?
These are all reasonable questions to be asked and without satisfactory answers, the selection of any company for this honor is questionable.
I'm not sure it isn't that Zuckerberg doesn't get it. I think it's more that he is paid millions and millions of dollars to *not* get it.
He gets it, but he doesn't make money off of 'getting it'.
Microsoft is good/evil.
IE 9 is wonderful/terrible.
Opera/Safari/Firefox is better/worse.
The best OS is Windows/Mac/Linux.
Sun rises in East/West.
The sun does not 'rise' you insensitive clod.
Actually, I've just had a better idea
Steak and Pi Day
(Come on, this is /. after all)
Of course. Slashdotters are not interested in a beej, just math.
For fuck's sake, can we all please stop insisting that a particular arbitrary way to represent dates is better? It's pretty asinine how this gets brought up so much.
Sure. We can argue over which way the toilet paper goes or 'vi vs. emacs' or any number of pointless, non-winnable arguments that fuel the growth of civilisation.
Your choice.
for solving crimes. Ask any cop.
in lynx.
Can we get the IE9 and FF4 benchmarks for this? It's important.
Google only took it this far because they wanted 'their way' to be true.
The dream is for geeks to be ruled only by geeks because only geeks 'get it'.
Sadly, the truth is that people skills are always important when working with other people.
At Google, they just forgot to read the People HOWTO first.
Also, I would not want to be "modded down" in the workplace for my political views. Slashdot people love free speech - as long as it agrees with theirs.
You are wrong again.
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Note that the submission states "An anonymous reader writes . . .".
So it's all BS and a mistake for Slashdot to run it.
Do I really have to do what Vista buyers did at some point and install an older OS to keep working?
KDE 3.x was pretty sweet. It's a shame that KDE4 had to kill it off to be accepted. Likewise with GNOME.
Both desktop environments are doomed. I abandoned both for icewm and LXDE and suggest you do the same.