And, seeing as I managed to not read the topic of your post before I went off and posted myself, I misinterpreted what you said.
First of all, Gentoo is good. Second of all, Gentoo isn't the easiest thing to setup. Third of all, it is a matter of taste. And just as we shouldnt judge the general users of GNU/Linux on the mad zealots that shouts the loudest, you shouldnt judge Gentoo on the Gentoo zealots. I use gentoo and I love it. On the other hand, Ive also used pretty much any other distro out there. IMHO, the one that was most pain-like to set up was debian. Though it is, a matter of opinion.
Just cause you thought it was a hassle to setup (which it might be, I dont know since I havent tried it yet) why is it "teenage exageration" to suggest that it should be in the benchmarking too?
Seriously, all he said was "isnt there a free beos", not "OMFG DUDES! There's a free BeOS out now and it pwnz all j00r linux and BSD boxes with its almighty powers of doom! Go get it now! And the reason it isnt in the benchmark is that it would k1ck j00r azzez the instant it touched the computer." Now -that- would be teenage exageration.
I dont mean to sound trollish or be mean to the folks at mandrake. God knows that dist is awesome and probably the most newbie-friendly dist Ive ever tried. However, it is a resource hog. It eats power for breakfast. It's really easy to learn and install and use, but for resources I can understand that estimation because it does run sluggishly on my 1ghz with 256mb ram when I tried it. Running the same configs on gentoo flies fast as heck. (not meant to say that gentoo is better than mandrake, which it might be in some aspects, but is not in others)
Interesting concept. Deny people an AV for a nasty virus that requires you to be stupid to get infected, then watch Survival of the Fittest (tm) in action.
My first thought wasnt exactly "nice". More in the lines of "How the f*ck do they get away with changing Asuka's name to 'Kate Rose'? Someone please stab them repeatedly with a spork."
Oh, and I'm equally horrified by the rest of the name changes. I mean seriously, why is it so impossible to keep the original names?
Actually, I've had the exact same idea for quite some time. Although my idea wasn't made to prevent lawbreakers or the like but to get the computer illiterate bastards that keep clicking "free_strip_tease_britney.avi.exe" in their emails and thus creating work for me cleaning up their mess.
There's nothing wrong with freezing winters. I can't see how people can stand a christmas without snow, I'd go crazy. Without a nice long winter I wouldn't survive.
Now summer however...don't get me started on that...
A Beowulf cluster of the US? Ok, I can see how you were going for "a huge beowulf cluster of humans" and how cool that would be...but for (insert deity of choice here)'s sake, the US?
Couldn't you at least take a country that had somewhat educated people in it? Or were you trying to poke at the monkey thing at the same time? in that case, good job man!
I might be quite off on this, but isn't changing the major number (like 1 to 2, or 2 to 3) supposed to signal breaking backwards compatability of some sort?
Or am I totally out in the blue here? It wouldnt surprise me if I was..
Seriously? Why are people modding me up as funny?
Im being serious over here, I really want an answer to this question. If there was any game that would really benefit from a linux release it would be something like this, correct?
I propose that we all storm Ubisoft and demand one, motivation "You cant hack on a windows box". And dont you dare mod me funny!
If they put really valuable stuff in a house without doors or windows and painted a sign outside it saying "Please do come in and take whatever you want", yes I'd blame they homeowners after laughing at them.
on the other hand, if we talk diseases and biology... We should be happy that we get sick because it trains our immunity system so that we dont die of a common cold. No worms WOULD BE bad because it is a clear impossibility. Everyone would get their guards down and -BANG- someone would write a silly worm that kills the entire world.
Comparing this to killing your neighbours dog and the like? Grow up.
This sounds like a great idea to get funding for all the open source projects out there! First write a virus while telling the community how to patch against it, then cash in the 500000$ and get coding on the real stuff.
I dont know about that. Around here almost everyone runs win2k right now. It's seriously way more stable and less prone to cause strange problems than the alternatives (XP/9x). So they might be an office-standard thing, but Ill tell you that 2kPro is very very viable for home use.
Yeah, you should check out the secret ftp running on 127.0.0.1, thats where BSA stores all the l33t w4r3z that they take from their busts. It's great! Fast download, has nearly everything, really awesome!
You're a moron if you think that just because you never ran into a problem it doesn't exist. You must have gotten all viruses ever created too then, or perhaps they didn't exist either? Right. Bad thing to use as an example, but this is slashdot, I could just go "MS sucks! Stick with the program!" and get modded up to +5 Insightful.
Instead I will tell you about my experiences.
Sadly, my old school ran Office97 all the way through.
Almost none of the students did.
It was a known fact that if you would do anything at home, you'd better save it as pure txt or rtf, otherwise you would be unable to open it or have a very messed up document when you got to school the next day and tried to print it.
XP and 2000, less problems. I admit that. There's still problems though, I've ran into them myself. It's all about what templates you use. As long as you stick to basics (text, bold, underline, italics, size and that kind of stuff) and dont try any fancy stuff like really cool table structures or great templates or math formulas, heck, even footnotes can kill it sometimes, then it works.
But try to go a bit more advanced and you'll get hell just when you really really dont have time to fix the hell that the formats created for you.
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And, seeing as I managed to not read the topic of your post before I went off and posted myself, I misinterpreted what you said.
First of all, Gentoo is good.
Second of all, Gentoo isn't the easiest thing to setup.
Third of all, it is a matter of taste. And just as we shouldnt judge the general users of GNU/Linux on the mad zealots that shouts the loudest, you shouldnt judge Gentoo on the Gentoo zealots.
I use gentoo and I love it. On the other hand, Ive also used pretty much any other distro out there. IMHO, the one that was most pain-like to set up was debian. Though it is, a matter of opinion.
Now, I will go hide under a rock for a month.
So?
Just cause you thought it was a hassle to setup (which it might be, I dont know since I havent tried it yet) why is it "teenage exageration" to suggest that it should be in the benchmarking too?
Seriously, all he said was "isnt there a free beos", not "OMFG DUDES! There's a free BeOS out now and it pwnz all j00r linux and BSD boxes with its almighty powers of doom! Go get it now! And the reason it isnt in the benchmark is that it would k1ck j00r azzez the instant it touched the computer." Now -that- would be teenage exageration.
I dont mean to sound trollish or be mean to the folks at mandrake. God knows that dist is awesome and probably the most newbie-friendly dist Ive ever tried. However, it is a resource hog. It eats power for breakfast. It's really easy to learn and install and use, but for resources I can understand that estimation because it does run sluggishly on my 1ghz with 256mb ram when I tried it. Running the same configs on gentoo flies fast as heck. (not meant to say that gentoo is better than mandrake, which it might be in some aspects, but is not in others)
Not really, if you take Benefit divided by Cost and Cost = 0 then you get a Divide by Zero error. That doesnt count as infinite.
:)
;)
If you take Cost divided by Benefit, then you get 0 divided by some number, which becomes...0! So thats not infinite either
However, I see the point you're trying to make, I just had the urge to troll a bit
Interesting concept.
Deny people an AV for a nasty virus that requires you to be stupid to get infected, then watch Survival of the Fittest (tm) in action.
You know...That would be quite interesting...
My first thought wasnt exactly "nice". More in the lines of "How the f*ck do they get away with changing Asuka's name to 'Kate Rose'? Someone please stab them repeatedly with a spork."
Oh, and I'm equally horrified by the rest of the name changes. I mean seriously, why is it so impossible to keep the original names?
Actually, I've had the exact same idea for quite some time. Although my idea wasn't made to prevent lawbreakers or the like but to get the computer illiterate bastards that keep clicking "free_strip_tease_britney.avi.exe" in their emails and thus creating work for me cleaning up their mess.
There's nothing wrong with freezing winters. I can't see how people can stand a christmas without snow, I'd go crazy. Without a nice long winter I wouldn't survive.
Now summer however...don't get me started on that...
A Beowulf cluster of the US?
Ok, I can see how you were going for "a huge beowulf cluster of humans" and how cool that would be...but for (insert deity of choice here)'s sake, the US?
Couldn't you at least take a country that had somewhat educated people in it?
Or were you trying to poke at the monkey thing at the same time? in that case, good job man!
1) Go to Israel 2) Stock up on OpenOffice cd's to sell on ebay 3) Profit
I might be quite off on this, but isn't changing the major number (like 1 to 2, or 2 to 3) supposed to signal breaking backwards compatability of some sort?
Or am I totally out in the blue here? It wouldnt surprise me if I was..
Seriously? Why are people modding me up as funny?
Im being serious over here, I really want an answer to this question. If there was any game that would really benefit from a linux release it would be something like this, correct?
I propose that we all storm Ubisoft and demand one, motivation "You cant hack on a windows box". And dont you dare mod me funny!
...will there be a linux version of this? or are only the win32 hackers allowed to enter the matrix?
are those the ones that are really furry, excellent spaceship repairmen and breaks your arm off if they lose in a game?
At last!
:D
Now we can get rid of all the filthy Counterstrike players from the LAN parties!
This is a day of joy! Microsoft did something good for once! I almost feel like I should thank them
Now...how do we make all counterstrike players go get XboXes instead of infesting the otherwise decent computergaming society?
I reckon this could create really cool buffer overflows when trying to move like 10k mp3's at once :D
If they put really valuable stuff in a house without doors or windows and painted a sign outside it saying "Please do come in and take whatever you want", yes I'd blame they homeowners after laughing at them.
on the other hand, if we talk diseases and biology...
We should be happy that we get sick because it trains our immunity system so that we dont die of a common cold. No worms WOULD BE bad because it is a clear impossibility. Everyone would get their guards down and -BANG- someone would write a silly worm that kills the entire world.
Comparing this to killing your neighbours dog and the like? Grow up.
This sounds like a great idea to get funding for all the open source projects out there! First write a virus while telling the community how to patch against it, then cash in the 500000$ and get coding on the real stuff.
I dont know about that. Around here almost everyone runs win2k right now. It's seriously way more stable and less prone to cause strange problems than the alternatives (XP/9x). So they might be an office-standard thing, but Ill tell you that 2kPro is very very viable for home use.
You forgot the most important one
"Loads up before you turn 80."
Then run outlook on the test machines that only runs the compiled test code.
Seriously, it's not like they're going to give us a play-by-email option anyway, right?
Oh yes, and then the MPAA could sue them since XXX-1.34.tar.gz must obviously be the movie XXX tarred and gzipped.
Yeah, you should check out the secret ftp running on 127.0.0.1, thats where BSA stores all the l33t w4r3z that they take from their busts. It's great! Fast download, has nearly everything, really awesome!
You're a moron if you think that just because you never ran into a problem it doesn't exist. You must have gotten all viruses ever created too then, or perhaps they didn't exist either? Right. Bad thing to use as an example, but this is slashdot, I could just go "MS sucks! Stick with the program!" and get modded up to +5 Insightful.
Instead I will tell you about my experiences.
Sadly, my old school ran Office97 all the way through.
Almost none of the students did.
It was a known fact that if you would do anything at home, you'd better save it as pure txt or rtf, otherwise you would be unable to open it or have a very messed up document when you got to school the next day and tried to print it.
XP and 2000, less problems. I admit that. There's still problems though, I've ran into them myself. It's all about what templates you use. As long as you stick to basics (text, bold, underline, italics, size and that kind of stuff) and dont try any fancy stuff like really cool table structures or great templates or math formulas, heck, even footnotes can kill it sometimes, then it works.
But try to go a bit more advanced and you'll get hell just when you really really dont have time to fix the hell that the formats created for you.