dude, you can get WinXP Pro (not the upgrade edition, not academic license - normal XP Pro) brand new in Canada for $220 or less. That's Canadian dollars too, which equates to approx. 160 of your American bills. Then there's the fact that WinXP service packs are always going to be free. Compare that to Apple, who's charged $129 each for 3 upgrades since March 24, 2001. Sure you can skip an upgrade or two, but you'll pay a serious price in performance.. know anybody still using OSX 10.0 on a G3 machine? LOL! I pity the fool. Alternatively, you can run WinXP on a $1200 whitebox PC from my local computer store down the road (again, Canadian dollars - about $900 US) with a P4-2.66GHz and a gig of DDR-RAM, 800MHz FSB, WinXP Pro, etc. Hardware savings alone negate the US$160 paid for the OS, and PC hardware is easily upgradeable with off-the-shelf parts for the next ~3-5 years or so.
summary: WinXP plus the next 3 service packs == US$160 OSX 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 == US$387 (plus inflation)
Of course, this is all academic unless you can actually afford the hardware, and anybody who wants Apple hardware badly enough will ignore the pricetag completely.
you obviously have no sense of "right" and "wrong" buddy. Copyright infringement isn't wrong. Since when, exactly, does an artist deserve money every time somebody downloads a song? Since never. That's just common sense. The whole model of intellectual 'property' is against the grain of common sense, and should be abolished. Nobody 'owns' information unless they keep it a fricking secret, and nobody deserves money every time a book is read, a song is played, or my computer gets switched on. I realize that this all goes against the grain of your American thinking, and clearly goes against your ridiculous American laws; however, you people think it's OK to terrorize foreign countries every time somebody doesn't kowtow to whichever retard is currently in charge - even a tux-and-cowboy-boots wearing double-speaker who can't read an expensive speech to save his life. Remember when America financed al-Quaeda? Poured money into bin Laden's coffers? I do, and so does everybody else in the world with an inkling of world politics. Remember when Poindexter and his butt-buddy Oliver North barely escaped jail (on technicalities, mind you) when they provided weapons (laundered, mind you, through the Iranians) to Nicaraguan terrorists? Remember who put Saddam Hussein in power in the first place, because he looked like a good puppet at the time? You Yanks have it all backwards, from copyright to terrorism. You and your bovine idiot mentality bother me something fierce. Fuck off, cowboy.
I learned about mid-80's American politics entirely through these comics. Damn.. for once in my life I would be tempted by an online subscription, except for the fact that I've got ALL the books.. Anybody interested in a newsgroup ebook flood?
Why would you pump little boys on your tiny withered dink when you can get pussy? Oh wait, you can't. Hate to bust your cherry kid, but I shit on your head and you just love it.
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Dude, anybody who selects OpenOffice to go on their CD as part of the "best damned GNU shit on the market" is obviously not exactly a discriminating sorta fella. Forever-loading bloatware is not the pinnacle of free software... or is it???
On the other hand, when one goes GNU one does not precisely have an excellent selection of quality software to choose from anyways. What the heck. Go r0x0r 'em boys!
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right behind ya buddy Go Go GO!! Second post out tha gate and closing in fast, it's p00p springing from behind to take the lead! but this race is far from over, as Herr_Nightingale appears to be catching up.. HN snipes second wind and it's Herr_Nightingale first and p00p third by a hair to some relevant bloke dammitall but that's how it goes thanks for coming out guys hope you all had a great time i've got to go now ok goodbye!
Hi! My name is p00p, and I'm an independent consultant whose job it is to check out operating systems; I detect weaknesses for a living, which is why I am particularly glad to have Open Sores crap like Linux on the streets.. but enough about my boring job, I can tell that you are here for the Report! With no further ado, let me break it down for ya homez.
I've checked it once, I've checked it a million times - the numbers don't lie, folks, it appears that Linux on the desktop is an utter failure right out the gate. GNOME is still a floundering fudgepack dependent on the dying kludge-fuck Xfree86, and there's no light at the end of that tunnel as we all know! KDE follows right behind, with a hideous mess built on anti-speed-demon Trolltech's QT toolkit, also filtered through Xfree just like GNOME. Ouch. Like the name, Trolltech, but the toolkit is a boner. Sorry guys! I know you all tried really hard and probably gave up maybe three or four hours of watching gay pr0n to pump that code out , but it looks like the only slots and signals people want are the ones that pay out big bucks in Vegas.
Security is still an issue, but you'd expect that from any amateur Open Sores project. Linux ain't so great, and it appears that the automatic updating mechanism in 90% of Linux installations is nonexistent or broken.. this is probably because Communism is more effective as a political philosophy than programming paradigm.
Moving along, let's look at the appz people want [emphasis on "want" - editor] and see how many have been ported to Linux. Counting the Gimp (a pity vote) and WordPerfect (oh wait - that's dead) we have a grand total of ONE - I repeat ONE semi-popular app. Mozilla is a useless pig, else we'd be delighted to have it aboard just to give a semblance of competition to Mcrosoft. Maybe thirty years from now 'Zilla will be back to take charge eh!;)
Lastly, and perhaps most significantly, it appears that among the children and unemployed hobbyists who currently form the bulk of Open Sores "developers" (term used loosely, no offense intended to legitimate software engineers!) there is a large homosexual contingent that is increasing every year.
The conclusion is inescapable: folks, Linux is officially gay!
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Damn, that IS a nasty one eh! Maybe it's time for something a little choicer... Failing that, just don't fuck the first thing you see after 20 beers next time;D
swinging is for losers who can't get ridiculous quantities of hot, stinky fecal sex with their main bitch. i pity you all.
homosex is for disgusting faggots who want to swallow oversized steaming turds with a light semen sauce propelled by fartgasses, and who don't mind having a man's fist rammed up behind their genitals while sloppy drunk. That's just plain sick. You, sir, are a pervert. Plain and simple.
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Hi there! Just a few words, from a frequent beta tester for Linux on the desktop;
it is painfully obvious that there is no chance that the MS empire will crumble based on the desktop efforts of KDE and GNOME. Latency is still very high, thanks to single-threaded Xfree86, and performance is still low, thanks to resource-hogging KDE/GNOME pigs. In all other areas, Linux remains irrelevant due to a lack of excellent GUI applications. Sorry guys, Koffice doesn't cut it.. people don't use WordPad anymore either, and there's a reason. OpenOffice takes a third of a minute to load on my laptop and shows no sign of lessening - it seems that the OO people still don't understand the cost of loading massive binary files all at once. The API's are still changing with every kernel revision (check out 2.6! woohoo!) but may soon reach stability. I wouldn't bet on it though.. soon there will be open-source API's available only to GPL developers, and a second set only for proprietary software. Welcome to Open Sores, people.
dependency nightmare-inducing libraries aren't going away yet, so I've got to keep three versions of Glibc and practically everything else too. Can you say "STUPID and inconsiderate assholes?" RPM still doesn't work properly, and probably never will. Still waiting for a stable version after - what? five years already? MandrakeLinux, the so-called 'desktop distro,' never quite makes it out of beta testing either, but the package manager urpmi thingy seemed to almost work in the last Mandrake I tried (8.2? no wait, it was broken.. never mind).
One small observation, in fact, has led me to look with distaste upon the whole Open Sores development model. Why do the developers always assume that I've got nothing better to do than compile a fucking kernel just so my sound will work, or tweak directory names just so my libraries don't clobber each other, or other stupid things that are a complete waste of time for anybody besides a developer??? Don't they know ANYthing about releasing "non-beta" software by now? I wonder if anybody in the OSS crowd (besides the sound driver authors) even have working speakers attached to their machines. If it weren't for Mandrake, nobody would have working sound without a non-trivial amount of tweaks. Speaking of tweaks, I think it's about time to string Linus up by the testes. He fucked up.
You know what? Ignoring all the above, I really just want automount to work right. Windows has had that feature for - oh, about 8 years now. Is this so much to ask?
Considering that EVERYthing is dog slow on a Mac, your point is somewhat ineffectual. You should instead try to compare Opera with IE 5 (even slower than your mother) and that other behemoth that takes half a minute to load on the fastest G4 on the planet to really give these elitist nerds an idea what tortures you're going through as a Mac luser.
we fuck you up for maintaining crap like this and helping losers like these karma-whore slashdotters to install WinXP. Fuck you up, baby. That's right. FUCK YOU UP! Uh huh. One more time - we fuck you up!!!!
note to moderators: i'll fuck you up too.
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my immediate thought was "what are all these Trekkie faggots going to jerk off to now that the show's finally gone?" Unfortunately it seems that the show wasn't cancelled, the headline wasn't an euphemism for jacking to Spock in the basement of your parents' house, and my toilet is still made of porcelain - not exactly the solid gold throne I have been pining for.
It's actually kinda funny... those old games kick ass on my old Casio E125! I've got everything from Wolf,Doom,Quake I(1 AND 2! woohoo!) and even Age of Empires:D
The only one that I don't have (and I hope somebody from Blizzard reads this!!!!) is StarCraft..
Actually I'd say that Age of Empires is the best so far. Few sacrifices made - even the music is decent.
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fuckin' eh! oh yeah. and i'd like to thank my neighbor, Mr. Nelson, for being so understanding about the goat incident! This shizznat better get me sum fat karma y'all.
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dude, you can get WinXP Pro (not the upgrade edition, not academic license - normal XP Pro) brand new in Canada for $220 or less. That's Canadian dollars too, which equates to approx. 160 of your American bills. Then there's the fact that WinXP service packs are always going to be free. Compare that to Apple, who's charged $129 each for 3 upgrades since March 24, 2001. Sure you can skip an upgrade or two, but you'll pay a serious price in performance.. know anybody still using OSX 10.0 on a G3 machine? LOL! I pity the fool.
Alternatively, you can run WinXP on a $1200 whitebox PC from my local computer store down the road (again, Canadian dollars - about $900 US) with a P4-2.66GHz and a gig of DDR-RAM, 800MHz FSB, WinXP Pro, etc.
Hardware savings alone negate the US$160 paid for the OS, and PC hardware is easily upgradeable with off-the-shelf parts for the next ~3-5 years or so.
summary:
WinXP plus the next 3 service packs == US$160
OSX 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 == US$387 (plus inflation)
Of course, this is all academic unless you can actually afford the hardware, and anybody who wants Apple hardware badly enough will ignore the pricetag completely.
...or you could grab a lady's boob, and the boob grabs you back! hehehehe
you obviously have no sense of "right" and "wrong" buddy. Copyright infringement isn't wrong. Since when, exactly, does an artist deserve money every time somebody downloads a song? Since never. That's just common sense. The whole model of intellectual 'property' is against the grain of common sense, and should be abolished. Nobody 'owns' information unless they keep it a fricking secret, and nobody deserves money every time a book is read, a song is played, or my computer gets switched on.
I realize that this all goes against the grain of your American thinking, and clearly goes against your ridiculous American laws; however, you people think it's OK to terrorize foreign countries every time somebody doesn't kowtow to whichever retard is currently in charge - even a tux-and-cowboy-boots wearing double-speaker who can't read an expensive speech to save his life.
Remember when America financed al-Quaeda? Poured money into bin Laden's coffers? I do, and so does everybody else in the world with an inkling of world politics. Remember when Poindexter and his butt-buddy Oliver North barely escaped jail (on technicalities, mind you) when they provided weapons (laundered, mind you, through the Iranians) to Nicaraguan terrorists? Remember who put Saddam Hussein in power in the first place, because he looked like a good puppet at the time?
You Yanks have it all backwards, from copyright to terrorism.
You and your bovine idiot mentality bother me something fierce. Fuck off, cowboy.
I learned about mid-80's American politics entirely through these comics. Damn.. for once in my life I would be tempted by an online subscription, except for the fact that I've got ALL the books.. Anybody interested in a newsgroup ebook flood?
you unfortunate turd. You have just wasted one of my two logged-in posts. Twat. Do you accept ASCII pr0n?
Got p00p?
Why would you pump little boys on your tiny withered dink when you can get pussy?
Oh wait, you can't.
Hate to bust your cherry kid, but I shit on your head and you just love it.
Vote p00p for president!!
pumpin' funk outt tha butt onto retards like this mutt since way back when. Dig it.
There are a few of those fuckers I'll gladly launch. I also support testing toxic products on cops. Saves on animals.
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Uhhh... quality matters only to people who don't run Xfree86. Sorry to burst your bubble cliffy.
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Pumpin' funk outt tha butt since before King Tut, baby.
Welcome, friend! On behalf of all trolls, I welcome you with open arms. Now bend over so I can welcome you again.
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Vote p00p for president! p00p - because he cares. And even if he didn't, pretty much anybody is better than that warmongering hick in charge right now, right? Right. So go vote.
Dear Sir,
I applaud your excellent choice of homepage, and welcome you to our humble slashdot community with open arms! Truly, yours is an often-expressed post with some not inconsiderable sentimental value to many in the crowd here today.
Welcome, friend, I invite you to post and post often!
Sincerely,
p00p
PS: Please vote p00p for president! More on my platform as the election nears. Thanks y'all.
Dude, anybody who selects OpenOffice to go on their CD as part of the "best damned GNU shit on the market" is obviously not exactly a discriminating sorta fella. ... or is it???
Forever-loading bloatware is not the pinnacle of free software
On the other hand, when one goes GNU one does not precisely have an excellent selection of quality software to choose from anyways.
What the heck. Go r0x0r 'em boys!
This relevant, timely post was brought you by p00p!!
"p00p for president! Yay!"
SUCK IT BITCHES!!! I don't know what the fuck this article is about, but one thing's for sure... you all want a piece of my p00plog. Well come one come all! POOP for all!
right behind ya buddy Go Go GO!!
Second post out tha gate and closing in fast, it's p00p springing from behind to take the lead!
but this race is far from over, as Herr_Nightingale appears to be catching up.. HN snipes second wind and it's Herr_Nightingale first and p00p third by a hair to some relevant bloke dammitall but that's how it goes thanks for coming out guys hope you all had a great time i've got to go now ok goodbye!
I've checked it once, I've checked it a million times - the numbers don't lie, folks, it appears that Linux on the desktop is an utter failure right out the gate. GNOME is still a floundering fudgepack dependent on the dying kludge-fuck Xfree86, and there's no light at the end of that tunnel as we all know!
KDE follows right behind, with a hideous mess built on anti-speed-demon Trolltech's QT toolkit, also filtered through Xfree just like GNOME. Ouch. Like the name, Trolltech, but the toolkit is a boner. Sorry guys! I know you all tried really hard and probably gave up maybe three or four hours of watching gay pr0n to pump that code out , but it looks like the only slots and signals people want are the ones that pay out big bucks in Vegas.
Security is still an issue, but you'd expect that from any amateur Open Sores project. Linux ain't so great, and it appears that the automatic updating mechanism in 90% of Linux installations is nonexistent or broken.. this is probably because Communism is more effective as a political philosophy than programming paradigm.
Moving along, let's look at the appz people want [emphasis on "want" - editor] and see how many have been ported to Linux. Counting the Gimp (a pity vote) and WordPerfect (oh wait - that's dead) we have a grand total of ONE - I repeat ONE semi-popular app. Mozilla is a useless pig, else we'd be delighted to have it aboard just to give a semblance of competition to Mcrosoft. Maybe thirty years from now 'Zilla will be back to take charge eh!
Lastly, and perhaps most significantly, it appears that among the children and unemployed hobbyists who currently form the bulk of Open Sores "developers" (term used loosely, no offense intended to legitimate software engineers!) there is a large homosexual contingent that is increasing every year.
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Anybody want pictures of Mr. MonTemplar being exploited? I promise not to tell ;)
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Damn, that IS a nasty one eh! Maybe it's time for something a little choicer... Failing that, just don't fuck the first thing you see after 20 beers next time ;D
swinging is for losers who can't get ridiculous quantities of hot, stinky fecal sex with their main bitch. i pity you all.
homosex is for disgusting faggots who want to swallow oversized steaming turds with a light semen sauce propelled by fartgasses , and who don't mind having a man's fist rammed up behind their genitals while sloppy drunk. That's just plain sick. You, sir, are a pervert. Plain and simple.
p00p!!!
Pumpin' funk outt tha butt FOR THE PEOPLE!! p00p for President!!!
Hi there! Just a few words, from a frequent beta tester for Linux on the desktop;
it is painfully obvious that there is no chance that the MS empire will crumble based on the desktop efforts of KDE and GNOME. Latency is still very high, thanks to single-threaded Xfree86, and performance is still low, thanks to resource-hogging KDE/GNOME pigs. In all other areas, Linux remains irrelevant due to a lack of excellent GUI applications. Sorry guys, Koffice doesn't cut it.. people don't use WordPad anymore either, and there's a reason. OpenOffice takes a third of a minute to load on my laptop and shows no sign of lessening - it seems that the OO people still don't understand the cost of loading massive binary files all at once. The API's are still changing with every kernel revision (check out 2.6! woohoo!) but may soon reach stability. I wouldn't bet on it though.. soon there will be open-source API's available only to GPL developers, and a second set only for proprietary software. Welcome to Open Sores, people.
dependency nightmare-inducing libraries aren't going away yet, so I've got to keep three versions of Glibc and practically everything else too. Can you say "STUPID and inconsiderate assholes?" RPM still doesn't work properly, and probably never will. Still waiting for a stable version after - what? five years already? MandrakeLinux, the so-called 'desktop distro,' never quite makes it out of beta testing either, but the package manager urpmi thingy seemed to almost work in the last Mandrake I tried (8.2? no wait, it was broken.. never mind). One small observation, in fact, has led me to look with distaste upon the whole Open Sores development model. Why do the developers always assume that I've got nothing better to do than compile a fucking kernel just so my sound will work, or tweak directory names just so my libraries don't clobber each other, or other stupid things that are a complete waste of time for anybody besides a developer??? Don't they know ANYthing about releasing "non-beta" software by now? I wonder if anybody in the OSS crowd (besides the sound driver authors) even have working speakers attached to their machines. If it weren't for Mandrake, nobody would have working sound without a non-trivial amount of tweaks. Speaking of tweaks, I think it's about time to string Linus up by the testes. He fucked up.
You know what? Ignoring all the above, I really just want automount to work right. Windows has had that feature for - oh, about 8 years now. Is this so much to ask?
hey.. anybody want a beer?
I think the whole point is somewhat immaterial.. these are American kids we're talking about. Who gives a rat's ass about some fucking Yankee redneck pieces of trailer-trash shit? Come on, it's old news. Go back to writing PATRIOT acts and DMCA's, you phony crock of maladapted crap.
Considering that EVERYthing is dog slow on a Mac, your point is somewhat ineffectual. You should instead try to compare Opera with IE 5 (even slower than your mother) and that other behemoth that takes half a minute to load on the fastest G4 on the planet to really give these elitist nerds an idea what tortures you're going through as a Mac luser.
we fuck you up for maintaining crap like this and helping losers like these karma-whore slashdotters to install WinXP. Fuck you up, baby. That's right. FUCK YOU UP! Uh huh. One more time - we fuck you up!!!!
note to moderators: i'll fuck you up too.
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my immediate thought was "what are all these Trekkie faggots going to jerk off to now that the show's finally gone?"
Unfortunately it seems that the show wasn't cancelled, the headline wasn't an euphemism for jacking to Spock in the basement of your parents' house, and my toilet is still made of porcelain - not exactly the solid gold throne I have been pining for.
On the other hand, I am preparing an especially good p00p right now. Expected time of delivery: about one hour.
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It's actually kinda funny... those old games kick ass on my old Casio E125! I've got everything from Wolf, Doom, Quake I(1 AND 2! woohoo!) and even Age of Empires :D
The only one that I don't have (and I hope somebody from Blizzard reads this!!!!) is StarCraft..
Actually I'd say that Age of Empires is the best so far. Few sacrifices made - even the music is decent.
SimCity!!
fuckin' eh! oh yeah. and i'd like to thank my neighbor, Mr. Nelson, for being so understanding about the goat incident! This shizznat better get me sum fat karma y'all.