Why are you all so in love with a bloated proprietary app whose only real function is to copy plain old files to what should be a plain old portable drive, but is instead another proprietary chunk of hardware?
Where are all the hackers and geeks these days, anyways? I like using my own scripts to copy and file and sort all my data.
Have to say, I had all the delays that people had above, but I was delighted when I got a message saying "can't contact server, but we'll let you play single-player until then". Have other people not had that experience?
Kind of sad that the average slashbots head is so far up Valve's ass that they're "delighted" when the company they just forked 50-100 bucks to (depending on specialness of the edition) "lets" them play online.
Is that actually the phrase they use? "We'll let you play single player"?
Talk about herd mentality. Would slashdot be so forgiving of MSFT if they decided to "let you" play Halo 2, even though Live isnt working?
Mickey was never supposed to be funny by himself, he and Donald were generally a comic foil to others, like Pluto, Goofy, or Chip n' Dale.
And it's no great secret that Disney was always geared more towards children and feature-quality animation, whereas WB were trying to do all-ages animated shorts. Disney toons were always less violent, and less "crass". So it's no surprise that people outgrow the old Disney shorts and not Bugs or Tom and Jerry.
Hell, a passing glance can tell you which set of toons had the better animation. WB was all about cheap laughs after the newsreel.
Just because you dont like the Disney corporation of today, is no reason to diss the work of it's creator, or the early Disney folks.
Imagine you're one of the programmers or artists. Do you still think its dirty and lowdown to have, now, 3 giant corporations fighting it out to see who will pay you most?
So, basically, make it so only the rich can gobble up all patents, and completely destroy the hope of every garage inventor in the nation.
What an absolutely moronic fucking idea.
Yeah, 40k isn't that much money to the guy who works for minumum wage and invented a cool new mousetrap in his garage.
It could take a decade or more to bring a product to retail, so the guy hasn't even seen the first test run come off the assembly line by the time he owes 40k.
The patent system is for everyone, not just the corporations.
Since they lost that patent suit to Kodak, w.r.t Java, does that mean any chance of Java being GPL'ed are null and void because it's now officially patent encumbered?
I'm glad to hear that the courts in California have finally overturned the OJ precedent that made it legal to brutally murder your wife, even if you look really cute on TV.
A robust programmable command line is a great tool, but for completely different reasons than listed.
It's powerful because you can create intelligent scripts to automate tasks. Then you launch those scripts by clicking them.
You aren't going to win anyone over by typing in some esoteric "find ~ blah | fart pipe * & (! exemo!'" command, when you could have just opened the search box and typed "foo". You're just going to look like an elitest dick.
Once upon a time, I knew all those stupid commands and switches and would pipe output through 98 different little apps to find something out.
Now I'm happy as a clam to spend my time and energy doing other things with my computer.
This summary, at least, is all about "using a command line to make simple tasks harder so that you can feel like a real 1337 h4z0r everytime you do something so mundane as count the words in a file"
Windows coerces you to use the GUI. Mac encourages it, but doesn't force it
Please, windows doesn't "force" you to use the GUI any more than Mac does.
And your average user doesn't know how to do it in Mac either. I'm assuming its typing it in/etc/HOSTNAME, or probably - in true Unix fashion, this file is in some other folder and is named something totally differnent, right?
In gentoo, you gotta screw around in/etc/conf.d to set the hostname. Slackware sets it up in one of its/etc/rc.d/* init scripts, etc.
If your kid grows up and becomes some sort of psycho, it's your fault for not disciplining them as a child and teaching boundries.
But then, if you discipline your child, you're running the risk of being accused of "abuse". I've heard of cases where a parent was charged with criminal neglect because they sent their kid to bed without dinner.
Apparently all manner of discipline and rules are bad because they hamper creativity, or some bullshit.
Similarly, if you let your kid run wild on the internet or in the streets, you're an ignorant parent.
And then, if you keep tabs on them, know who their friends are, and what they're doing online, you're "invading their privacy".
It all depends who you're trying to make happy. To a good parent, that person would be their child - and happy as in live a long, healthy life. And all the childless asshole loudmouths can roll it up and cram it.
The reality is, a lot of people like the services AOL provides, the exclusive content, "keywords" that they can remember, even though they only go online once every other month.
No, they don't need AOL, but they'll be willing to pay another 10 bucks to get to that content.
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Why are you all so in love with a bloated proprietary app whose only real function is to copy plain old files to what should be a plain old portable drive, but is instead another proprietary chunk of hardware?
Where are all the hackers and geeks these days, anyways? I like using my own scripts to copy and file and sort all my data.
Have to say, I had all the delays that people had above, but I was delighted when I got a message saying "can't contact server, but we'll let you play single-player until then". Have other people not had that experience?
Kind of sad that the average slashbots head is so far up Valve's ass that they're "delighted" when the company they just forked 50-100 bucks to (depending on specialness of the edition) "lets" them play online.
Is that actually the phrase they use? "We'll let you play single player"?
Talk about herd mentality. Would slashdot be so forgiving of MSFT if they decided to "let you" play Halo 2, even though Live isnt working?
Steam stinks, the very concept of steam stinks.
Mickey was never supposed to be funny by himself, he and Donald were generally a comic foil to others, like Pluto, Goofy, or Chip n' Dale.
And it's no great secret that Disney was always geared more towards children and feature-quality animation, whereas WB were trying to do all-ages animated shorts. Disney toons were always less violent, and less "crass". So it's no surprise that people outgrow the old Disney shorts and not Bugs or Tom and Jerry.
Hell, a passing glance can tell you which set of toons had the better animation. WB was all about cheap laughs after the newsreel.
Just because you dont like the Disney corporation of today, is no reason to diss the work of it's creator, or the early Disney folks.
What's dirty about that?
Imagine you're one of the programmers or artists. Do you still think its dirty and lowdown to have, now, 3 giant corporations fighting it out to see who will pay you most?
Yeah, blah blah blha, TFA, another long winded life story of his illness.
I "cut to the chase" and read "Please call only if you can help get me some high-dose antibiotic treatment."
Which sounds a lot like "PLEASE GIVE ME DRUGS I HAVE NO SCRIPT FOR" to me.
I'll do my part file his Darwin Award submission for trying to be his own cardio-pulmanary specialist.
WTF is this?
A plea to help this guy illegally obtain drugs that he has no subscription for?
WTF is wrong with slashdot, I don't care what the fuck this guy has to do with GPL this or that.
It's almost fucking christmas, a lot of games are launching.
Seriously, chill it with the game launch "stories". We've all known that Halo 2, GTA:SA, and Metroid Prime 2 were coming out.
Unless it's some sort of advertising deal.
The BTX is just a PC form factor - it may help your PC run a bit cooler, but it won't make it any faster.
Only a new paint job and a snazzy window applique can do that!
So, basically, make it so only the rich can gobble up all patents, and completely destroy the hope of every garage inventor in the nation.
What an absolutely moronic fucking idea.
Yeah, 40k isn't that much money to the guy who works for minumum wage and invented a cool new mousetrap in his garage.
It could take a decade or more to bring a product to retail, so the guy hasn't even seen the first test run come off the assembly line by the time he owes 40k.
The patent system is for everyone, not just the corporations.
The article only presents one side of the picture, albeit, the slashbot side.
But, what about the other side? What was the motivation for allowing business method patents? There must have been some reasoning behind it.
Anyone?
Since they lost that patent suit to Kodak, w.r.t Java, does that mean any chance of Java being GPL'ed are null and void because it's now officially patent encumbered?
I'm glad to hear that the courts in California have finally overturned the OJ precedent that made it legal to brutally murder your wife, even if you look really cute on TV.
A robust programmable command line is a great tool, but for completely different reasons than listed.
It's powerful because you can create intelligent scripts to automate tasks. Then you launch those scripts by clicking them.
You aren't going to win anyone over by typing in some esoteric "find ~ blah | fart pipe * & (! exemo!'" command, when you could have just opened the search box and typed "foo". You're just going to look like an elitest dick.
Once upon a time, I knew all those stupid commands and switches and would pipe output through 98 different little apps to find something out.
Now I'm happy as a clam to spend my time and energy doing other things with my computer.
This summary, at least, is all about "using a command line to make simple tasks harder so that you can feel like a real 1337 h4z0r everytime you do something so mundane as count the words in a file"
Or using the find feature, if you want a more esoteric count (wildcards and such).
What if you want to count all the word and excel documents that contain the phrase "unix can jump up my ass"?
Huh, jack? Where's your command line tool for that?
Windows coerces you to use the GUI. Mac encourages it, but doesn't force it
/etc/HOSTNAME, or probably - in true Unix fashion, this file is in some other folder and is named something totally differnent, right?
/etc/conf.d to set the hostname. Slackware sets it up in one of its /etc/rc.d/* init scripts, etc.
Please, windows doesn't "force" you to use the GUI any more than Mac does.
And your average user doesn't know how to do it in Mac either. I'm assuming its typing it in
In gentoo, you gotta screw around in
Think: do you know how to count the words in a Word file?
File->Properties, Statistics tab
Pages, Paragraphs, Lines, Words, Charachters with or Without Spaces.
What's my prize?
Meh, parents are under attack from all sides.
If your kid grows up and becomes some sort of psycho, it's your fault for not disciplining them as a child and teaching boundries.
But then, if you discipline your child, you're running the risk of being accused of "abuse". I've heard of cases where a parent was charged with criminal neglect because they sent their kid to bed without dinner.
Apparently all manner of discipline and rules are bad because they hamper creativity, or some bullshit.
Similarly, if you let your kid run wild on the internet or in the streets, you're an ignorant parent.
And then, if you keep tabs on them, know who their friends are, and what they're doing online, you're "invading their privacy".
It all depends who you're trying to make happy. To a good parent, that person would be their child - and happy as in live a long, healthy life. And all the childless asshole loudmouths can roll it up and cram it.
(Invented? Discovered? Well, whatever, you know what I mean.)
How about stole from Julia?
How about Preperation H topical Benoit-ment?
How is a long, drawn out story about how you got fucked over by company after company "inspiring?"
I guess it could inspire you to just say "fuck it" and throw in the towel and use whatever ships with the computer instead.
Because it has nothing to do with patents, and everything to do with trademark.
I don't know, the sheer boringness of the first paragraph inspired me to post without reading TFA.
The reality is, a lot of people like the services AOL provides, the exclusive content, "keywords" that they can remember, even though they only go online once every other month.
No, they don't need AOL, but they'll be willing to pay another 10 bucks to get to that content.
Or Comcast, who own 21% of TW/AOL.
They were providing broadband in some markets.