Look, I did't want to do this but I'm seriously tired of the Firefox biggots. I used to think FF was a nice browser and all - no more after I saw this page. The guy seems to defend IE vs FF, but that's not the point (and anyway he gives Opera some bravos along the way)
Agreed, just because a troop of idiot zealots try to erase all references to FF malfunctions doesn't mean the product is that bad - after all, they all are. But this makes my blood boil to see that these same fuckheads are against "teh Big M$ evil" because they try scare tactics against open source etc. Yet, they do just the same.
As for Opera, I've been using it for quite a few years. I always try to be as open-minded as I can, and stopped to be a product or group or anything-zealot when I turned 15, so even though I was fully satisfied with Opera, when FF came out I tried it. It's still installed today, and I keep updating it when new releases come out. But to summarize my FF experience:
It's a resource hog. I know the memory leak bug is actually a feature; to me it makes it even worse. And putting that particular bug apart, it takes ages to load it on any machine/OS I tried it on
If you use it out-of-the-box, it's just plain uggly. It's all squares and rectangles with awful gray all around.
Also, still out-of-the-box, compared to Opera, it has no interesting feature
That's where extensions come in: you have 14 billions extensions, 75% of which are useless. In the remaining 25%, there are a lot that just do the same, only in a different way. Extension a has this that the b has not and vice-versa. Since you want those 2 features, you should install both extensions, but when you do it explodes.
Then you update your browser with the latest version and BANG! there's ALWAYS a couple of extensions, even sometimes skin, that will break.
There are other little annoyances but these are my main complaints about it. Right now I use FF only for a couple of websites that don't render well in Opera. But if these sites are fixed in Opera 9, then I'll ditch FF forever without any regret.
Before you flame me, I'm not saying FF is a piece of shit (even though it may seem so). It's a good effort to make a nice browser, but it ain't there just yet, and I boycott it moslty because of the zealots hanging around it. I don't care too much about zealots usually (I wouldn't read/. if I did), but here they are hypocrits.
Heh heh...probably that computers don't live and therefore van't get sick:)
Seriously, at the very beginning I would have stared at people wondering what they meant.But by 1996 or so, I wouldn't have been too surprised, really. It were the early days of the Internet, and I thought that for all the good it cuold bring, it would be used to evil ends too - it was only a matter of (a short) time.
(This isn't flamebait, I really want a sincere answer to that question) It seems someone didn't believe you;)
The first computer I touched was an ole good Commodore 64, with tape player. My father bought it and hacked it like hell, adding a reset button IIRC.
Then I think the C64 died, and my dad bought a Schneider CPC6128, which consisted of a keyboard with an embedded 3" diskette drive (not a typo, it was 3") and a monochrome green screen. It talked BASIC and I was old enough (that is, I was 9 or 10) to build some tiny "programs". I remember playing quite a bunch of games on it (Sabotge, Zax...)when daddy bought his first killer PC: BEHOLD THE ATARI PC4!! It was a 286 12 MHz with an EGA (I think) card, a 10 MB HDD, a 5"25 diskette drive and...a COLOR 14" screen. I'm not sure but I think it was the ultimate beast with like 1MB of RAM. It was quite LOUD, like if a Hercules C-130 took off each time we powered it on.
Later we managed to sell the CPC6128 (which was TEH crap at that time) and with the money my father offered me my first real PC. It was a PC clone, an XT (for the young audience, that means it was less powerful than the aforementionned 286) with I think an 8 MHz and a very tiny (in capacity, not size) HDD, a CGA card linked to a 13" amber monochrome display. I played games like Xenon2 on it, and I remember clearly using PC-Tools and Paradox (so-called DBMS).
Later the 286 was dumped for the biggest PC in town at the time: the 486 DX2-66 which came with...TADAAAA a sound card (16-bit SoundBlaster clone because the original was WAY too expensive), and even a 1x CD-ROM reader. It has 4MB RAM and IIRC a 20MB HDD. Always a 5"25 floppy drive, with a 3"5 to hold company. We used to drill holes in the loppies to double their capacity (720KB -> 1.44 MB).
After that when I began my computer sciences studies in Sept. 96 I got a Pentium 75MHz greatly overclocked to run at 90 MHZ. 16MB of RAM was the standard at that time and that's all I got. I installed a powerful OS on it: Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and later Windows 95.
After that, I switched to AMD (K7) and I've been really happy with that ever since.
Today I run a AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 512 MB of RAM and an 100 GB HDD...Thinking about the early days, if someone told me at that time the config I'd had today, it would have been like telling me I was going to fly to Pluto in 2 days today.
Before I get modded as flamebait, I like Firefox too and I don't want to start a war. Yet, I'm bored of always reading the same thing in the FF vs Opera "war": FF is better than Opera because of the extensions. I do not agree:
Useful Firefox extensions are already included in Opera (a lot of FF extensions are created by Opera users frustrated because they lack Opera features)
The other ones are in my opinion useless gadgets
There are so many extensions to search that it generally takes quite a while to find what you want
There are so many extensions that do the same things, some having this feature that another one lacks and vice-versa, and installing both has undesirable effects
When a new release of FF comes out, your beloved extensions, and sometimes even skins, are broken
If an extension is not correctly designed, it can make the whole browser unstable
Now I really agree that Opera lacks an intuitive ad-blocking mechanism (you can avoid ads but it's more complicated than just a right-click). But that's the only thing that it really lacks for me.
In GTA Vice City, you can buy a movie studio. When you buy it, there are 4 or 5 missions all revolving around porn actresses and movies.
This is in the standard game, no mod is needed. It is even necessary to perform these missions if you want to complete the game 100%. In the cinematics of at least 2 of these missions you can clearly see one actress having sex, with sound and all. And yet, nobody complained...
The last mission for the movie studio has you pointing light spots to a giant building, and every night the spots draw a pair of big boobs...It seems the morons complaining with the San Andreas mod are ok with this...
There's also a mission where you must take pictures of that same actress having sex with a political man named Shrub (an obvious hint at Bush...). Even though you don't see sex while you take the pictures, later in the game you can see the pictures in your main hide-out, and they are quite suggestive...You also see posters of the porn movies on the walls.Yet again, nobody complained.
And anyway, there are hookers since GTA3. As it was said several time before, you can pick them up, have sex, and then kill them to get your money back...There are vans that read "Grüp Sechs", which of course reads "Group sex", etc.
In san andreas, there's also a headless statue of a man with his hand clearly positionned for masturbation...but I guess that's okay.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? The sex that you see in this game is the most moral thing, but hey, sex should only be done once a month in missionary position, and only to give birth, right? right? WRONG, bigots.
I don't understand how people can reach that level of stupidity and bigotry. These parents should give a better education to their kids instead of counting on the TV to do it for them, period.
All in all, it's the same with TV: it's okay to show movies where there's a gun every freakin' second, a murder every minute and people sniffing coke every 10 min, but please, no movie where there's SEX! This is wrong! And oh please if they kill people and sell drugs, they could at least be polite and don't call people names, or use the word "fuck"!! (I recently bought the Scarface -which GTA Vice City is clearly an homage to- DVD, and they removed each and every one "fuck" from the original movie when it was shown on TV...)
Frankly, I think porn is a necessity, and hookers too. I think it keeps a bunch of people from going around and rape women because they need a form of sex.
Oh, I just happen to have bought the version 8.0 asome months ago; what I actually meant was "reinstall SuSE 8.0, then upgrade it". Or I could indeed download the 9.0 ISOs.
But the point is just that it's so painful to get Debian work that I'll probably go back to something else - be it Gentoo, SuSE, Slackware or doesn't really matter.
It would definitely NOT be easier. Debian might be rock-solid stable and all, but it's a real pain in the ass to install it, configure it, and have it doing what you want. I'm currently struggling with my home box, and it's a tough struggle.
Nothing works except my LAN card. Can't get X to run, can't get that damn thing understand that my video card is an AGP.
I tried kernel 2.6.0 compilation. At first I succeeded in compiling and booting it. But still no X nor AGP. Worse, when booting 2.6.0, no more network card.
Recently I started all over again, a new install from scratch, installing using the Internet installation in unstable flavour, so I hoped to get the most recent and usable things to make my hardware actually work.
When it was installed, I did that apt-get upgrade thing, then the apt-get dist-upgrade too. It took hours. After that I wanted to retry the kernel-2.6.0 compilation...But then BANG! for some weird reason that damn thing won't compile anymore. Well actually I don't know if it compiles: I can't even configure the kernel. A make menuconfig explodes, giving me error messages from the 4th dimension.
It's not that I have weird or unusual hardware. It's a sweet Asus A7N8X Deluxe for the MB, and a Nvidia GeForce GEFX5600 for the graphics. But still I don't know what to do. Browsing with Lynx is funny for a time, but not for long; I must reboot in Windows to try to find help on Internet. I found some articles talking about running Debian with the A7N8X, others talking about running Debian with the nVidia graphic cards with or without kernel 2.6.0, but what's explained in those is either incomplete or incorrect. It doesn't work, period.
I KNEW it would be hard, but not THAT big pain in the ass!
By the way, if someone could pull me off the moving sand...I guess the next step is getting back to that stinky SuSE 8.0:-(
My employer has the right solution: they bought a coffee machine and they must buy a specific brand of coffee. Man that coffee is just awful. You don't want to drink it.
I don't know if that brand exists in the US, though. It's Red Pelikan or something like that...
I've been reading some posts (I don't have 3 hours to waste reading the 3 billions posts here), and didn't find (in those I read at least) any talking about SCO. Man, that's an historical day:-)
But maybe it's time to talk about them. There was a time when MS didn't care about Linux. Now Linux comes and begins to eat server market share (note by the way that I think we're still light-years away of everyone running a Linux distro at home...I know that for currently fighting with Debian), and then all of a sudden hell breaks lose on Linux community (and GPL) with that damn SCO threat. One might, read well, _MIGHT_ see some 'friendship' between MS and SCO. Maybe it's not the case (I hope it's not, actually, otherwise we might face a MS Linux sooner than we think), but maybe it is. Who can tell?
As of alternatives such as OpenOffice, sorry but as long as they're not 100% compatible with MS Office products, I won't use it. I tried with some Excel spreadsheet we use it as 'time sheet', and all the macros were screwed up in OpenOffice. It's still sitting on my machine, but I never use it, actually.
The article in itself seems a little too enthusiast about Microsoft's collapse, and the author is obviously not on their side. There are betters posts hereunder talking about how wrong and a kind of morron he is, so I won't say more.
That said, have a good 2004 year. And forgive my bad English and typos, too.
If you had had some sense of humor, you wouldn't have posted such an acid attack. And you wouldn't have gotten a +5 mod neither, actually. Maybe there's also a Karma compression on/., as I got a +3 ?
At least there doesn't seem to exist a smartness compression, that would lead people to be more dense...oh wait...
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...of that (bad) movie with (sucker) Jim Carrey (I think it was called 'Liar, liar!' or something), where he was an awful liar, then his son wishes he stopped lying all the time blowing a candle on his birthday cake, and it works (yeah, right. What an intersting movie, huh? but that would be off-topic to discuss longer on that). The rest of the movie consists in the man telling what he really thinks, realizing that it was not what he intended, but he can't control it, and so he sort of screws up everything at his work and with women. It seems that guy here at SCO has some kind of similar problem, like he doesn't want to tell all this shit, but he can't control it. But I guess the wish was made not by his son but by someone from Redmond, and probably not at a birthday party, blowing on a candle, but with a bunch of money under the table...
I think you miss it completely. This isn't about censorship AT ALL! It's about letting people have an somewhat official answer to someone who mistreated them.
And about USA=land of the free blah blah blah, I don't agree with you neiter. How could a country ruled by bigottery morrons where the Church is INSIDE the political government give more freedom to its citizen? Remember what our loving christian friends did to those who didn't think like them some centuries ago??
USA is a kind of Matrix, with politicla power on the surface saying 'Yay dude, here it's freedom liberty land of the free and so on. We rock.', whilst actually, it's all about corrupted bigottry.
That it's a good thing actually? I mean think about it: I have this website, and any guy just comes and tells sooooo bad things on me; it is a chance to have an official answer and to force him to publish it, so everyone knows what I reply to him. It would lead to more discussion than now, because now what I answer will probabyl nit be known by a lot of people.
Watch closely when the left-door window pane goes down: the rolling passese THROUGH it, actually.
And btw the "Okay" crap wasn't Honda, it was Mazda;-)
Pretty good point, dude! I DO agree with this. Wake up, "people" are DUMB! They don't have a clue what a computer is, and claim they do. The example of the guy telling you that the P1 is faster than the Pentium has definitely nothing to do with a Linux distro...
This is the tipycal reacion that will keep Linux down on its knees in front of who-you-know. I mean, come on, you can't claim to become bigger than Goliath on one side and scream on the other side "let's keep 95% of the users out of our way"! Of course an OS isn't a game or a word processor, I agree completely; but still, MS shit installs MUCH easier (and YES, it's MUCH shittier too;-) ), trust me. And about the RTFM, I'm sorry, but at least with some distros, it is of NO help AT ALL. It tells you go to this or that website...How can you manage to go on the Internet if you can't even see the installation screen, damn it?
To summarize my thoughts: either you stop trying "converting" people to Linux, either you make it simpler. But don't try to get more users than MS if you don't want to help them.
The key is, Joe Average user is DUMB, he will click "yes" and "default" every time he sees it. The difference is, in MS you've got 200 confirmations, and if you don't choose the good thing it's not THAT imoprtant after all; do the same in Linux and you loose all you had in 2 seconds. And don't tell about a "backup recovery" to Joe Average...His thoughts will be "that crap screwed up everything, let's throw it away". Period.
Even simpler: Opera, F12, 'Refuse pop-up Windows', and it is packed, their demo crap won't work:-) It says it can take between 1 and 25 seconds; I clicked on the link 3 minutes ago, and still nothing. I just had a small window that blinked for about 1 second, then it was killed by Opera...
The real thing around here is not only about censor, it is also about a more critical thing: separation between political and religious powers! I know in the USA it doesn't seem obvious that these two things must be clearly separated ("In God we trust"), but it is so here in Europe. That kind of story makes me think that I could definitely not live in a country where religion would be on power.
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Agreed, just because a troop of idiot zealots try to erase all references to FF malfunctions doesn't mean the product is that bad - after all, they all are. But this makes my blood boil to see that these same fuckheads are against "teh Big M$ evil" because they try scare tactics against open source etc. Yet, they do just the same.
As for Opera, I've been using it for quite a few years. I always try to be as open-minded as I can, and stopped to be a product or group or anything-zealot when I turned 15, so even though I was fully satisfied with Opera, when FF came out I tried it. It's still installed today, and I keep updating it when new releases come out. But to summarize my FF experience:
- It's a resource hog. I know the memory leak bug is actually a feature; to me it makes it even worse. And putting that particular bug apart, it takes ages to load it on any machine/OS I tried it on
- If you use it out-of-the-box, it's just plain uggly. It's all squares and rectangles with awful gray all around.
- Also, still out-of-the-box, compared to Opera, it has no interesting feature
- That's where extensions come in: you have 14 billions extensions, 75% of which are useless. In the remaining 25%, there are a lot that just do the same, only in a different way. Extension a has this that the b has not and vice-versa. Since you want those 2 features, you should install both extensions, but when you do it explodes.
- Then you update your browser with the latest version and BANG! there's ALWAYS a couple of extensions, even sometimes skin, that will break.
There are other little annoyances but these are my main complaints about it. Right now I use FF only for a couple of websites that don't render well in Opera. But if these sites are fixed in Opera 9, then I'll ditch FF forever without any regret.Before you flame me, I'm not saying FF is a piece of shit (even though it may seem so). It's a good effort to make a nice browser, but it ain't there just yet, and I boycott it moslty because of the zealots hanging around it. I don't care too much about zealots usually (I wouldn't read
Heh heh...probably that computers don't live and therefore van't get sick :)
;)
Seriously, at the very beginning I would have stared at people wondering what they meant.But by 1996 or so, I wouldn't have been too surprised, really. It were the early days of the Internet, and I thought that for all the good it cuold bring, it would be used to evil ends too - it was only a matter of (a short) time.
(This isn't flamebait, I really want a sincere answer to that question)
It seems someone didn't believe you
The first computer I touched was an ole good Commodore 64, with tape player. My father bought it and hacked it like hell, adding a reset button IIRC.
Then I think the C64 died, and my dad bought a Schneider CPC6128, which consisted of a keyboard with an embedded 3" diskette drive (not a typo, it was 3") and a monochrome green screen. It talked BASIC and I was old enough (that is, I was 9 or 10) to build some tiny "programs". I remember playing quite a bunch of games on it (Sabotge, Zax...)when daddy bought his first killer PC: BEHOLD THE ATARI PC4!! It was a 286 12 MHz with an EGA (I think) card, a 10 MB HDD, a 5"25 diskette drive and...a COLOR 14" screen. I'm not sure but I think it was the ultimate beast with like 1MB of RAM. It was quite LOUD, like if a Hercules C-130 took off each time we powered it on.
Later we managed to sell the CPC6128 (which was TEH crap at that time) and with the money my father offered me my first real PC. It was a PC clone, an XT (for the young audience, that means it was less powerful than the aforementionned 286) with I think an 8 MHz and a very tiny (in capacity, not size) HDD, a CGA card linked to a 13" amber monochrome display. I played games like Xenon2 on it, and I remember clearly using PC-Tools and Paradox (so-called DBMS).
Later the 286 was dumped for the biggest PC in town at the time: the 486 DX2-66 which came with...TADAAAA a sound card (16-bit SoundBlaster clone because the original was WAY too expensive), and even a 1x CD-ROM reader. It has 4MB RAM and IIRC a 20MB HDD. Always a 5"25 floppy drive, with a 3"5 to hold company. We used to drill holes in the loppies to double their capacity (720KB -> 1.44 MB).
After that when I began my computer sciences studies in Sept. 96 I got a Pentium 75MHz greatly overclocked to run at 90 MHZ. 16MB of RAM was the standard at that time and that's all I got. I installed a powerful OS on it: Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and later Windows 95.
After that, I switched to AMD (K7) and I've been really happy with that ever since.
Today I run a AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 512 MB of RAM and an 100 GB HDD...Thinking about the early days, if someone told me at that time the config I'd had today, it would have been like telling me I was going to fly to Pluto in 2 days today.
...says the man who wastes his time on /.
Yet, I'm bored of always reading the same thing in the FF vs Opera "war": FF is better than Opera because of the extensions. I do not agree:
- Useful Firefox extensions are already included in Opera (a lot of FF extensions are created by Opera users frustrated because they lack Opera features)
- The other ones are in my opinion useless gadgets
- There are so many extensions to search that it generally takes quite a while to find what you want
- There are so many extensions that do the same things, some having this feature that another one lacks and vice-versa, and installing both has undesirable effects
- When a new release of FF comes out, your beloved extensions, and sometimes even skins, are broken
- If an extension is not correctly designed, it can make the whole browser unstable
Now I really agree that Opera lacks an intuitive ad-blocking mechanism (you can avoid ads but it's more complicated than just a right-click). But that's the only thing that it really lacks for me.In GTA Vice City, you can buy a movie studio. When you buy it, there are 4 or 5 missions all revolving around porn actresses and movies.
This is in the standard game, no mod is needed. It is even necessary to perform these missions if you want to complete the game 100%. In the cinematics of at least 2 of these missions you can clearly see one actress having sex, with sound and all. And yet, nobody complained...
The last mission for the movie studio has you pointing light spots to a giant building, and every night the spots draw a pair of big boobs...It seems the morons complaining with the San Andreas mod are ok with this...
There's also a mission where you must take pictures of that same actress having sex with a political man named Shrub (an obvious hint at Bush...). Even though you don't see sex while you take the pictures, later in the game you can see the pictures in your main hide-out, and they are quite suggestive...You also see posters of the porn movies on the walls.Yet again, nobody complained.
And anyway, there are hookers since GTA3. As it was said several time before, you can pick them up, have sex, and then kill them to get your money back...There are vans that read "Grüp Sechs", which of course reads "Group sex", etc.
In san andreas, there's also a headless statue of a man with his hand clearly positionned for masturbation...but I guess that's okay.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? The sex that you see in this game is the most moral thing, but hey, sex should only be done once a month in missionary position, and only to give birth, right? right? WRONG, bigots.
I don't understand how people can reach that level of stupidity and bigotry. These parents should give a better education to their kids instead of counting on the TV to do it for them, period.
All in all, it's the same with TV: it's okay to show movies where there's a gun every freakin' second, a murder every minute and people sniffing coke every 10 min, but please, no movie where there's SEX! This is wrong! And oh please if they kill people and sell drugs, they could at least be polite and don't call people names, or use the word "fuck"!! (I recently bought the Scarface -which GTA Vice City is clearly an homage to- DVD, and they removed each and every one "fuck" from the original movie when it was shown on TV...)
Frankly, I think porn is a necessity, and hookers too. I think it keeps a bunch of people from going around and rape women because they need a form of sex.
Yes, you were faster than me actually...dang.
I HAD to do that first post thing, too...
THE reference for such matters is Distrowatch
Oh, I just happen to have bought the version 8.0 asome months ago; what I actually meant was "reinstall SuSE 8.0, then upgrade it". Or I could indeed download the 9.0 ISOs.
But the point is just that it's so painful to get Debian work that I'll probably go back to something else - be it Gentoo, SuSE, Slackware or doesn't really matter.
It would definitely NOT be easier. Debian might be rock-solid stable and all, but it's a real pain in the ass to install it, configure it, and have it doing what you want. I'm currently struggling with my home box, and it's a tough struggle.
:-(
Nothing works except my LAN card. Can't get X to run, can't get that damn thing understand that my video card is an AGP.
I tried kernel 2.6.0 compilation. At first I succeeded in compiling and booting it. But still no X nor AGP. Worse, when booting 2.6.0, no more network card.
Recently I started all over again, a new install from scratch, installing using the Internet installation in unstable flavour, so I hoped to get the most recent and usable things to make my hardware actually work.
When it was installed, I did that apt-get upgrade thing, then the apt-get dist-upgrade too. It took hours. After that I wanted to retry the kernel-2.6.0 compilation...But then BANG! for some weird reason that damn thing won't compile anymore. Well actually I don't know if it compiles: I can't even configure the kernel. A make menuconfig explodes, giving me error messages from the 4th dimension.
It's not that I have weird or unusual hardware. It's a sweet Asus A7N8X Deluxe for the MB, and a Nvidia GeForce GEFX5600 for the graphics. But still I don't know what to do. Browsing with Lynx is funny for a time, but not for long; I must reboot in Windows to try to find help on Internet. I found some articles talking about running Debian with the A7N8X, others talking about running Debian with the nVidia graphic cards with or without kernel 2.6.0, but what's explained in those is either incomplete or incorrect. It doesn't work, period.
I KNEW it would be hard, but not THAT big pain in the ass!
By the way, if someone could pull me off the moving sand...I guess the next step is getting back to that stinky SuSE 8.0
My employer has the right solution: they bought a coffee machine and they must buy a specific brand of coffee. Man that coffee is just awful. You don't want to drink it.
I don't know if that brand exists in the US, though. It's Red Pelikan or something like that...
I've been reading some posts (I don't have 3 hours to waste reading the 3 billions posts here), and didn't find (in those I read at least) any talking about SCO. Man, that's an historical day :-)
But maybe it's time to talk about them. There was a time when MS didn't care about Linux. Now Linux comes and begins to eat server market share (note by the way that I think we're still light-years away of everyone running a Linux distro at home...I know that for currently fighting with Debian), and then all of a sudden hell breaks lose on Linux community (and GPL) with that damn SCO threat. One might, read well, _MIGHT_ see some 'friendship' between MS and SCO. Maybe it's not the case (I hope it's not, actually, otherwise we might face a MS Linux sooner than we think), but maybe it is. Who can tell?
As of alternatives such as OpenOffice, sorry but as long as they're not 100% compatible with MS Office products, I won't use it. I tried with some Excel spreadsheet we use it as 'time sheet', and all the macros were screwed up in OpenOffice. It's still sitting on my machine, but I never use it, actually.
The article in itself seems a little too enthusiast about Microsoft's collapse, and the author is obviously not on their side. There are betters posts hereunder talking about how wrong and a kind of morron he is, so I won't say more.
That said, have a good 2004 year. And forgive my bad English and typos, too.
BIGOTRY!
If you had had some sense of humor, you wouldn't have posted such an acid attack. And you wouldn't have gotten a +5 mod neither, actually. Maybe there's also a Karma compression on /., as I got a +3 ?
At least there doesn't seem to exist a smartness compression, that would lead people to be more dense...oh wait...
...do they fit 96 hours in THREE days (72 hours)?
...of that (bad) movie with (sucker) Jim Carrey (I think it was called 'Liar, liar!' or something), where he was an awful liar, then his son wishes he stopped lying all the time blowing a candle on his birthday cake, and it works (yeah, right. What an intersting movie, huh? but that would be off-topic to discuss longer on that).
The rest of the movie consists in the man telling what he really thinks, realizing that it was not what he intended, but he can't control it, and so he sort of screws up everything at his work and with women.
It seems that guy here at SCO has some kind of similar problem, like he doesn't want to tell all this shit, but he can't control it. But I guess the wish was made not by his son but by someone from Redmond, and probably not at a birthday party, blowing on a candle, but with a bunch of money under the table...
I think you miss it completely. This isn't about censorship AT ALL! It's about letting people have an somewhat official answer to someone who mistreated them. And about USA=land of the free blah blah blah, I don't agree with you neiter. How could a country ruled by bigottery morrons where the Church is INSIDE the political government give more freedom to its citizen? Remember what our loving christian friends did to those who didn't think like them some centuries ago?? USA is a kind of Matrix, with politicla power on the surface saying 'Yay dude, here it's freedom liberty land of the free and so on. We rock.', whilst actually, it's all about corrupted bigottry.
That it's a good thing actually? I mean think about it: I have this website, and any guy just comes and tells sooooo bad things on me; it is a chance to have an official answer and to force him to publish it, so everyone knows what I reply to him. It would lead to more discussion than now, because now what I answer will probabyl nit be known by a lot of people.
Watch closely when the left-door window pane goes down: the rolling passese THROUGH it, actually. And btw the "Okay" crap wasn't Honda, it was Mazda ;-)
Pretty good point, dude! I DO agree with this.
Wake up, "people" are DUMB!
They don't have a clue what a computer is, and claim they do. The example of the guy telling you that the P1 is faster than the Pentium has definitely nothing to do with a Linux distro...
This is the tipycal reacion that will keep Linux down on its knees in front of who-you-know. I mean, come on, you can't claim to become bigger than Goliath on one side and scream on the other side "let's keep 95% of the users out of our way"! Of course an OS isn't a game or a word processor, I agree completely; but still, MS shit installs MUCH easier (and YES, it's MUCH shittier too ;-) ), trust me. And about the RTFM, I'm sorry, but at least with some distros, it is of NO help AT ALL. It tells you go to this or that website...How can you manage to go on the Internet if you can't even see the installation screen, damn it?
To summarize my thoughts: either you stop trying "converting" people to Linux, either you make it simpler. But don't try to get more users than MS if you don't want to help them.
The key is, Joe Average user is DUMB, he will click "yes" and "default" every time he sees it. The difference is, in MS you've got 200 confirmations, and if you don't choose the good thing it's not THAT imoprtant after all; do the same in Linux and you loose all you had in 2 seconds. And don't tell about a "backup recovery" to Joe Average...His thoughts will be "that crap screwed up everything, let's throw it away". Period.
Even simpler: Opera, F12, 'Refuse pop-up Windows', and it is packed, their demo crap won't work :-) It says it can take between 1 and 25 seconds; I clicked on the link 3 minutes ago, and still nothing. I just had a small window that blinked for about 1 second, then it was killed by Opera...
I don't get it. How does it happen to have ppl going that MAD over such a stapler? Moreover, the link displayed as web site in the story is broken.
The real thing around here is not only about censor, it is also about a more critical thing: separation between political and religious powers! I know in the USA it doesn't seem obvious that these two things must be clearly separated ("In God we trust"), but it is so here in Europe. That kind of story makes me think that I could definitely not live in a country where religion would be on power.