Yeah, I've never understood this. I guess there are a lot more people out there who use Linux because they hate microsoft than because they like Linux. I've always found it easy and comfortable to hate apple and microsoft for both their corporate practices and shoddy products.
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It's a fraud. Don't worry yourself over it. But if you're interested I'll sell you some very special homeopathic remedies. I've currently got Dasani and Aquafini brands, but I should be getting a big shipment of Kirkland in next week.
I guess it depends on how you define controversy. There aren't any real controversies surrounding these topics but there sure as fuck are a lot of idiots who think that there are. I think most rational people would have slightly less disrespect for believers in homeopathy than creationists because at least water actually exists.
Virtual Console appeals to the 30 (and plus) year olds who get to play the games they remember.
This is what I was responding to, emphasis added. Please work on your reading comprehension. How you managed to think that the only people who "remember" these games were ones who had an NES the day it was released is way beyond me. Also, even if that were relevant, recall that the NES was no in full release in North America until 1986.
Someone born in 1981 and received an NES at age 6 (1987) would be 25 or 26 as of this morning. Born in 1982 they would have received it in 1988 and be 24 or 25 today. Born in 1983 they would have an NES in 1989 and be 23 or 24.
Please let me how these people would not remember these games or how 23 does not qualify as "low/mid-20s." Remember, when your intuition fails you, critical thinking is a handy tool.
Oh how I wish that microsoft would integrate this into windows. I doubt even the most pointy headed idiot there would be stupid enough. Not even if Ballmer cracked his skull with a chair and replaced the brain with sweat. But one can dream!
30+? You've got to be kidding. The cut off for kids who grew up playing these games is in the low/mid-20s. Even for NES you're looking at no older than 24 or 25 for the tale end. Well, at least for the kids whose parents loved them... or had friends who were loved by their parents. Come to think of it, lack of loving parents is probably responsible for the current popularity of halo. If only those parents had hugged little Jimmy more and then given him an NES we could have all been saved from such horrible games!
Depends on if it continues to be the only platform with games. You'll see a ton of home users switching to other platforms if a significant number of new games are released natively.
As usual this seems a bit unfair to the paying customers. Why can't they get an option to run windows without a desktop?!?
I guess you need to learn to read first, then you can move on to grammar, dick:
Sure, everybody "gets shit wrong".
Just "Linux" won in the marketplace of ideas. The fact that your examples happen to be idiotic does seem to indicate that you don't actually understand the discussion, though.
Well I'm sure yours is lying around here somewhere, since you've clearly lost it. I'll take that as confirmation that I've "won" this argument without even trying. I'm sorry that you're such a crying little bitch and a sissy. It must feel horrible that the only thing you have to look forward to after a long day of sobbing into your blanket is crying yourself to sleep.
You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Some other things you've missed:
1) No one thinks that "everything" open source is some magical fairy sky beard's gift to anything. miguel has put out a lot of open source and it's all rubbish, upon which almost all of us agree.
2) Linux is easier to use than windows, period.
3) You confused "familiarity" with "games." I can see how you might do that since the second and third letters of each are "am."
You didn't have to, you already gave us gnome. Why can't you just stop making crap since you're obviously incapable of making anything good? Fuck, I've done more for Free Software just by not writing any than you ever will. Just go ask uncle billy if you can play in the corner of his office when you're done sucking his cock already.
As much as I agree that we need to get rid of him, I've been thinking about it tonight and I don't think that we can. Think of all the joy that is brought to the world by having miguel there to flame? It's so easy and yet so satisfying. Unlike other topics (such as anything that apple does) you also don't stand against an army of trolls and their ill-gotten mod points, because we have our own army of anti-miguel trolls with mod points.
Seriously, it's like contemplating the world without Captain Hook... if Captain Hook weren't so fucking awesome. Think of the children, man! Would you want to live in a world where you would never see a child's face light up the first time that they get modded +4 Insightful for calling miguel a "twat?" I for one do not want to live in a world so lacking in beauty and wonder.
So run free miguel. Keep up your crusade to poorly copycat every piece of microsoft garbage. But please, just do it on their side of the tracks. No one will notice when you crap in that landfill and the piles you've dumped over here are getting pretty ripe.
Oh, I don't care about "threats" from patents. I just don't like crap. I also don't like a bunch of sissy whining because someone doesn't want to add someone group's dumb name on to the front of the name of something else. In general I like the FSF. They've definitely got the right idea a lot of the time. Copying mono isn't one of them, and neither is going around complaining that people don't say "GNU/Linux." The "GOLD" Linux is just fine.
It's nice that you want, like everyone else on slashdot, knows how to say "ad hominem." But that doesn't give your "argument" any more credibility. In fact, what was your argument again? That being a whining little bitch is nice or that copying, poorly at that, every piece of microsoft trash is the "wave of the future" for Free Software?
Using microsoft software has never gotten us very far and copying it has gotten us no where at all. All it does is lock us in to the low standard of quality they put forth and forever frame our ideas of what computing not only should be, but can be.
Allow me to be the first to say that the gnu folks get a ton of shit wrong all the time, too. Just because they're doing something that miguel is also doing doesn't in any way vindicate miguel, it just condemns gnu. That's the reason that I pronounce Linux like "Linux" and not like "gnu."
You do know that there is a huge and dedicated group of anti-miguel homeboys on slashdot, don't you? And they tend to have mod points as often as mac fanboys. It also doesn't hurt that talking shit about miguel is almost always insightful if not also informative. The guy's a complete microsoft fanboy troll who's trying to destroy Linux and Free Software in general. Someone should ride him out of town on a rail, rip the rail up, and beat him senseless with it.
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Yeah, I've never understood this. I guess there are a lot more people out there who use Linux because they hate microsoft than because they like Linux. I've always found it easy and comfortable to hate apple and microsoft for both their corporate practices and shoddy products.
"largely settled matters"... in 1404, a flat Earth was a "largely settled matter"
orly?
It's a fraud. Don't worry yourself over it. But if you're interested I'll sell you some very special homeopathic remedies. I've currently got Dasani and Aquafini brands, but I should be getting a big shipment of Kirkland in next week.
If only we could combine the two. Then we could sell them Jesus Water and make a mint!
I guess it depends on how you define controversy. There aren't any real controversies surrounding these topics but there sure as fuck are a lot of idiots who think that there are. I think most rational people would have slightly less disrespect for believers in homeopathy than creationists because at least water actually exists.
No, but a lot of people have claimed that he did. Personally I like to think that I created the Internet.
Virtual Console appeals to the 30 (and plus) year olds who get to play the games they remember.
This is what I was responding to, emphasis added. Please work on your reading comprehension. How you managed to think that the only people who "remember" these games were ones who had an NES the day it was released is way beyond me. Also, even if that were relevant, recall that the NES was no in full release in North America until 1986.
Someone born in 1981 and received an NES at age 6 (1987) would be 25 or 26 as of this morning. Born in 1982 they would have received it in 1988 and be 24 or 25 today. Born in 1983 they would have an NES in 1989 and be 23 or 24.
Please let me how these people would not remember these games or how 23 does not qualify as "low/mid-20s." Remember, when your intuition fails you, critical thinking is a handy tool.
Oh how I wish that microsoft would integrate this into windows. I doubt even the most pointy headed idiot there would be stupid enough. Not even if Ballmer cracked his skull with a chair and replaced the brain with sweat. But one can dream!
30+? You've got to be kidding. The cut off for kids who grew up playing these games is in the low/mid-20s. Even for NES you're looking at no older than 24 or 25 for the tale end. Well, at least for the kids whose parents loved them... or had friends who were loved by their parents. Come to think of it, lack of loving parents is probably responsible for the current popularity of halo. If only those parents had hugged little Jimmy more and then given him an NES we could have all been saved from such horrible games!
Yeah, no kidding.
Plus they're all desensitized to the violence so we'll be seeing harder hits and more injuries, which will undoubtedly increase television ratings!
You should be careful where you do that. Those things are likely to back up if you fill them with crap.
Depends on if it continues to be the only platform with games. You'll see a ton of home users switching to other platforms if a significant number of new games are released natively.
As usual this seems a bit unfair to the paying customers. Why can't they get an option to run windows without a desktop?!?
Why should anyone else apologize for your poor grammar? That's your fucking problem.
Just "Linux" won in the marketplace of ideas. The fact that your examples happen to be idiotic does seem to indicate that you don't actually understand the discussion, though.
Well I'm sure yours is lying around here somewhere, since you've clearly lost it. I'll take that as confirmation that I've "won" this argument without even trying. I'm sorry that you're such a crying little bitch and a sissy. It must feel horrible that the only thing you have to look forward to after a long day of sobbing into your blanket is crying yourself to sleep.
You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Some other things you've missed:
1) No one thinks that "everything" open source is some magical fairy sky beard's gift to anything. miguel has put out a lot of open source and it's all rubbish, upon which almost all of us agree.
2) Linux is easier to use than windows, period.
3) You confused "familiarity" with "games." I can see how you might do that since the second and third letters of each are "am."
You didn't have to, you already gave us gnome. Why can't you just stop making crap since you're obviously incapable of making anything good? Fuck, I've done more for Free Software just by not writing any than you ever will. Just go ask uncle billy if you can play in the corner of his office when you're done sucking his cock already.
You're right. It's multiplied his credibility. Too bad for him that it dropped below zero a long, long time ago.
As much as I agree that we need to get rid of him, I've been thinking about it tonight and I don't think that we can. Think of all the joy that is brought to the world by having miguel there to flame? It's so easy and yet so satisfying. Unlike other topics (such as anything that apple does) you also don't stand against an army of trolls and their ill-gotten mod points, because we have our own army of anti-miguel trolls with mod points.
Seriously, it's like contemplating the world without Captain Hook... if Captain Hook weren't so fucking awesome. Think of the children, man! Would you want to live in a world where you would never see a child's face light up the first time that they get modded +4 Insightful for calling miguel a "twat?" I for one do not want to live in a world so lacking in beauty and wonder.
So run free miguel. Keep up your crusade to poorly copycat every piece of microsoft garbage. But please, just do it on their side of the tracks. No one will notice when you crap in that landfill and the piles you've dumped over here are getting pretty ripe.
Oh, I don't care about "threats" from patents. I just don't like crap. I also don't like a bunch of sissy whining because someone doesn't want to add someone group's dumb name on to the front of the name of something else. In general I like the FSF. They've definitely got the right idea a lot of the time. Copying mono isn't one of them, and neither is going around complaining that people don't say "GNU/Linux." The "GOLD" Linux is just fine.
It's nice that you want, like everyone else on slashdot, knows how to say "ad hominem." But that doesn't give your "argument" any more credibility. In fact, what was your argument again? That being a whining little bitch is nice or that copying, poorly at that, every piece of microsoft trash is the "wave of the future" for Free Software?
Using microsoft software has never gotten us very far and copying it has gotten us no where at all. All it does is lock us in to the low standard of quality they put forth and forever frame our ideas of what computing not only should be, but can be.
BTW, the period goes inside the quotation mark.
Allow me to be the first to say that the gnu folks get a ton of shit wrong all the time, too. Just because they're doing something that miguel is also doing doesn't in any way vindicate miguel, it just condemns gnu. That's the reason that I pronounce Linux like "Linux" and not like "gnu."
You do know that there is a huge and dedicated group of anti-miguel homeboys on slashdot, don't you? And they tend to have mod points as often as mac fanboys. It also doesn't hurt that talking shit about miguel is almost always insightful if not also informative. The guy's a complete microsoft fanboy troll who's trying to destroy Linux and Free Software in general. Someone should ride him out of town on a rail, rip the rail up, and beat him senseless with it.
Dear Miguel,
Please stop trying to ruin Linux and Free Software.
-The Whole World
PS Stop being such a twat.
Well he's definitely doing well for himself. I don't think I'd call throwing free software under the bus "support" though.