It isn't. It's a different crowd, which has a different opinion than the crowd you were hearing from last time. Both of these crowds happen to post on Slashdot.
I'm getting sick of constantly pointing this out. At least you didn't use that "same crowd" fallacy to insult Slashdot as a whole like the "hypocrisy trolls" do, though. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
You're a bit confused here about how copyrights work. You're assuming that everything is public domain by default, which is simply wrong. Everything is copyrighted by default. If you don't read a license that lets you copy it, such as the GPL, you have no right to copy it at all. That's how the GPL is different from shrink-wrap licenses, because the GPL gives you more rights instead of taking them away. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
You know, that post you're responding to just MIGHT have been humor... apparently four moderators thought that way, at least. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I'd be all for a technology that could make people smarter. Yeah, so some people wouldn't be completely human anymore, but there would be that many less morons in the world.:)
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Wow. Most leaders of software projects/companies would have to settle for being hit by a bus, but Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer get to have a plane crash for THEIR hypothetical deaths. I guess money does go places...
(if you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm referring to the question "What would happen to Linux if Linus Torvalds were hit by a bus?") -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
So, how'd you get this amazing ability to tell from a screenshot how stable and fast a program is? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
One of my pet hates about gmc is that you can't make the tool-bar icons at the top small.
Um... why not?
GNOME Control Center - User Interface - Applications - uncheck "Toolbars have text labels"
Yes, I'm aware these ARE development shots. I'm just saying look out!
Translation: "I'm aware these ARE development shots, but I will make assumptions about the way the interface works from them, and use them as well as FUD-laden terms like 'look out' to get attention." -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
If it works with Redhat only, then it sounds they'll have a bit of a problem using Caldera as their distro...
Seriously, I never saw any advantage to using Caldera. It doesn't really offer any special features that other distros don't have. They hype the Caldera Open Adminstration System, their configuration tool, but at least on 2.2 that program failed to do important things such as actually change configuration - most of the time it would just disappear without changing anything. They've got an X configuration tool that only works on installation and never works again - I was stuck in a painful, shimmering screen mode until I figured out how to change the Modeline. Their RPM system fails most of the time, unless you're using RPMs designed specifically for Caldera.
So I'd assume IBM's porting their winmodem driver to Caldera as well. That would just suck, because it means you can't switch to a decent distribution. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
That's an interesting rant about the FFT, but it seems to me that the Fourier Transform was invented by Gauss in the 1800's, while the Fast Fourier Transform is what was invented in the 60's. Given that you use the two interchangably, I don't know how much of your comment to believe. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Okay, might as well correct myself before someone else gets to it. I looked in m-w and it does have "spelt" as an alternate form of "spelled". -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
If serious science magazines are so great, why are you reading Slashdot?:) (Seriously, just get used to the fact that 90% of the science stuff on Slashdot is complete speculation.)
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Um... MandrakeUpdate doesn't update NEARLY as many packages as are upgraded between distributions. Since the time I installed Mandrake, I've only seen a couple dozen packages on there, ever. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I've been involved in a situation like this. I used to run a web site for a humorous newsletter that two of my friends published and distributed around school. I'm reluctant to actually mention the name of the newsletter now, so for the sake of obfuscation I'll call it "M.L.", especially since those two letters were nowhere to be found in the newsletter's title.
M.L. was almost always filled with completely random sentences and weird rants. It acquired a few dozen dedicated readers.
So then, in an extra-large issue for the Millennium, they decided to take the names of everyone in the sophomore class from the yearbook, and put one of their classic random thoughts next to each name. The problem was, word got around that this issue had a comment about everyone in the class, and even though they only managed to publish 7 copies of that issue, they got around to basically the entire sophomore class, 90% of whom had never read M.L. before.
The sentences without the names next to them would have been basically meaningless. In fact, that was what the issue was going to be in the first place, just meaningless funny sentences like all other issues, and they inserted the names later. But the names made everyone try and read into those sentences. Practically everyone was insulted. Various students even went so far as to report it to the school administrators as a "hit list", and that idea was fueled by the fear left over from Columbine.
The most extreme case I can remember is when "Open All Night" fell next to a girl's name.
So the two students who wrote M.L. got suspended for 5 days, with a threat that it would be extended to 20 days if they tried to dispute it. They tried to publish an apology issue (a few paragraphs explaining the situation, and "Sorry." next to everyone's name), but the school had already decreed that they could never ever write another issue or else they'd be expelled. And I had to take down the entire web page, not just the page for that issue, meaning that nobody could even read the archives to get an idea of what M.L. was like before the "Millennium Issue".
The school sent them to counseling sessions, they recieved a few death threats from fellow students, and then Christmas break came and everyone pretty much forgot the situation, except the fans of M.L. who were now deprived of the only thing they could look forward to on a Monday morning.
I suppose I should be glad it didn't turn into a situation like this article describes, though. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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Yow. Slashdot's HTML source is horrendous, but I found the message. Clever.:)
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Why can't they? They didn't abuse monopoly power and they didn't violate agreements they had made. Microsoft did. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Hey, I wouldn't mind if Microsoft bought out the state of New York - it couldn't possibly make the government any *more* corrupt. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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There's a log of one time this actually worked at http://www.theplunger.com/idiot/. The log is long, but quite funny. It probably helps to know what a MUSH/MUX is, but it's not necessary.
A choice quote from the log: ('You' is the person giving the "help", and Oronde is the idiot)
You say "Type 'ls' and tell me what you see." Oronde says "okay now what?" Oronde pages: nothing... You say "oops. I guess rm *is* the deleting files and 'del' isn't." You say "Wow. What a mistake *I* made! I must have not read the manual!" -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Why would you buy a TI-92 anyway? Get a TI-89, which is the same thing except the size of a normal calculator, and without a QWERTY keyboard. It has the same features as the TI-92 Plus. It sells for $150 or less.
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* Why do you assume that the people who are posting in one particular article represent the "majority"? The majority of Linux users don't read Slashdot. The majority of those who do read Slashdot don't post in any given article. What you're reading is the opinion of the subset who feels strongly enough about the issue to post about it. They're more likely to post if they disagree. So in response to something that says "Linux is not currently viable..." or something of the sort, people who think it is post. And in response to something that says Linux is already good enough to rival MS, those who think it isn't post.
You read these and assume it's the same group of people posting both times, as if every single Slashdotter posts on every article, and decide to call them "hypocrates".
* When were these elections? I don't remember them. BTW, the people who decide what articles go on the site are CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, and hemos, and I'm fairly certain they weren't elected.
* Regarding the misspelling: I honestly thought you were a troll deliberately misspelling it to sound like all the other "hypocrisy" posts.
* Insinuating that Linux users are communists: the whole thing about "waving flags" and "chanting" and opposing the great American company, Microsoft, who stands for all that is capitalism. That may not be what you meant, but it's what you sounded like.
* Being nicer than themselves in other situations: They charge up the wazzu for software, then when they lower their prices to something reasonable for educational use, you praise them. Microsoft is restricting the availability of software. RedHat doesn't need to donate software because the software is free in the first place. (You'll mention support. I know it. Do you honestly believe that Microsoft gives free support to the places it so "nicely" donates its software?)
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Wow, this has all of the standard elements of the hypocrisy troll.
1) Taking a large group and assuming that everyone in that group has the same opinion 2) Taking the most vocal members of a group to represent the entire group 3) Misspelling "hypocrisy"
Also, it works in the general troll element of insinuating that Linux users are communists.
Plus, the part where you praise Microsoft because they're being nicer than... well, themselves in other situations... that's a completely new one. Caught me completely by surprise.
Heck, you even brought "the children" into it.
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.u'i mi nelci lenu do pilno la lojban lo mupli :)
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It isn't. It's a different crowd, which has a different opinion than the crowd you were hearing from last time. Both of these crowds happen to post on Slashdot.
I'm getting sick of constantly pointing this out. At least you didn't use that "same crowd" fallacy to insult Slashdot as a whole like the "hypocrisy trolls" do, though.
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You're a bit confused here about how copyrights work. You're assuming that everything is public domain by default, which is simply wrong. Everything is copyrighted by default. If you don't read a license that lets you copy it, such as the GPL, you have no right to copy it at all. That's how the GPL is different from shrink-wrap licenses, because the GPL gives you more rights instead of taking them away.
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You know, that post you're responding to just MIGHT have been humor... apparently four moderators thought that way, at least.
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Directions: take with one grain of sodium chloride.
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Wow. Most leaders of software projects/companies would have to settle for being hit by a bus, but Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer get to have a plane crash for THEIR hypothetical deaths. I guess money does go places...
(if you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm referring to the question "What would happen to Linux if Linus Torvalds were hit by a bus?")
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So, how'd you get this amazing ability to tell from a screenshot how stable and fast a program is?
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Um... why not?
GNOME Control Center - User Interface - Applications - uncheck "Toolbars have text labels"
Yes, I'm aware these ARE development shots. I'm just saying look out!
Translation: "I'm aware these ARE development shots, but I will make assumptions about the way the interface works from them, and use them as well as FUD-laden terms like 'look out' to get attention."
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If it works with Redhat only, then it sounds they'll have a bit of a problem using Caldera as their distro...
Seriously, I never saw any advantage to using Caldera. It doesn't really offer any special features that other distros don't have. They hype the Caldera Open Adminstration System, their configuration tool, but at least on 2.2 that program failed to do important things such as actually change configuration - most of the time it would just disappear without changing anything. They've got an X configuration tool that only works on installation and never works again - I was stuck in a painful, shimmering screen mode until I figured out how to change the Modeline. Their RPM system fails most of the time, unless you're using RPMs designed specifically for Caldera.
So I'd assume IBM's porting their winmodem driver to Caldera as well. That would just suck, because it means you can't switch to a decent distribution.
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That's nice, except you aren't actually the original poster, are you?
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That's an interesting rant about the FFT, but it seems to me that the Fourier Transform was invented by Gauss in the 1800's, while the Fast Fourier Transform is what was invented in the 60's. Given that you use the two interchangably, I don't know how much of your comment to believe.
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Okay, might as well correct myself before someone else gets to it. I looked in m-w and it does have "spelt" as an alternate form of "spelled".
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Heck, while you're at it, neither is "spelt". (It's spelled "spelled".)
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If serious science magazines are so great, why are you reading Slashdot? :)
(Seriously, just get used to the fact that 90% of the science stuff on Slashdot is complete speculation.)
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Um... MandrakeUpdate doesn't update NEARLY as many packages as are upgraded between distributions. Since the time I installed Mandrake, I've only seen a couple dozen packages on there, ever.
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I've been involved in a situation like this. I used to run a web site for a humorous newsletter that two of my friends published and distributed around school. I'm reluctant to actually mention the name of the newsletter now, so for the sake of obfuscation I'll call it "M.L.", especially since those two letters were nowhere to be found in the newsletter's title.
M.L. was almost always filled with completely random sentences and weird rants. It acquired a few dozen dedicated readers.
So then, in an extra-large issue for the Millennium, they decided to take the names of everyone in the sophomore class from the yearbook, and put one of their classic random thoughts next to each name. The problem was, word got around that this issue had a comment about everyone in the class, and even though they only managed to publish 7 copies of that issue, they got around to basically the entire sophomore class, 90% of whom had never read M.L. before.
The sentences without the names next to them would have been basically meaningless. In fact, that was what the issue was going to be in the first place, just meaningless funny sentences like all other issues, and they inserted the names later. But the names made everyone try and read into those sentences. Practically everyone was insulted. Various students even went so far as to report it to the school administrators as a "hit list", and that idea was fueled by the fear left over from Columbine.
The most extreme case I can remember is when "Open All Night" fell next to a girl's name.
So the two students who wrote M.L. got suspended for 5 days, with a threat that it would be extended to 20 days if they tried to dispute it. They tried to publish an apology issue (a few paragraphs explaining the situation, and "Sorry." next to everyone's name), but the school had already decreed that they could never ever write another issue or else they'd be expelled. And I had to take down the entire web page, not just the page for that issue, meaning that nobody could even read the archives to get an idea of what M.L. was like before the "Millennium Issue".
The school sent them to counseling sessions, they recieved a few death threats from fellow students, and then Christmas break came and everyone pretty much forgot the situation, except the fans of M.L. who were now deprived of the only thing they could look forward to on a Monday morning.
I suppose I should be glad it didn't turn into a situation like this article describes, though.
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Yow. Slashdot's HTML source is horrendous, but I found the message. Clever. :)
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And what would that fate be? Increasing acceptance?
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Why can't they? They didn't abuse monopoly power and they didn't violate agreements they had made. Microsoft did.
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Hey, I wouldn't mind if Microsoft bought out the state of New York - it couldn't possibly make the government any *more* corrupt.
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Obviously, AtheOS is trying to compete with Jesux.
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A choice quote from the log: ('You' is the person giving the "help", and Oronde is the idiot)
You say "Type 'ls' and tell me what you see."
Oronde says "okay now what?"
Oronde pages: nothing...
You say "oops. I guess rm *is* the deleting files and 'del' isn't."
You say "Wow. What a mistake *I* made! I must have not read the manual!"
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Why would you buy a TI-92 anyway? Get a TI-89, which is the same thing except the size of a normal calculator, and without a QWERTY keyboard. It has the same features as the TI-92 Plus. It sells for $150 or less.
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* Why do you assume that the people who are posting in one particular article represent the "majority"? The majority of Linux users don't read Slashdot. The majority of those who do read Slashdot don't post in any given article. What you're reading is the opinion of the subset who feels strongly enough about the issue to post about it. They're more likely to post if they disagree.
So in response to something that says "Linux is not currently viable..." or something of the sort, people who think it is post. And in response to something that says Linux is already good enough to rival MS, those who think it isn't post.
You read these and assume it's the same group of people posting both times, as if every single Slashdotter posts on every article, and decide to call them "hypocrates".
* When were these elections? I don't remember them. BTW, the people who decide what articles go on the site are CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, and hemos, and I'm fairly certain they weren't elected.
* Regarding the misspelling: I honestly thought you were a troll deliberately misspelling it to sound like all the other "hypocrisy" posts.
* Insinuating that Linux users are communists: the whole thing about "waving flags" and "chanting" and opposing the great American company, Microsoft, who stands for all that is capitalism. That may not be what you meant, but it's what you sounded like.
* Being nicer than themselves in other situations: They charge up the wazzu for software, then when they lower their prices to something reasonable for educational use, you praise them. Microsoft is restricting the availability of software. RedHat doesn't need to donate software because the software is free in the first place.
(You'll mention support. I know it. Do you honestly believe that Microsoft gives free support to the places it so "nicely" donates its software?)
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1) Taking a large group and assuming that everyone in that group has the same opinion
2) Taking the most vocal members of a group to represent the entire group
3) Misspelling "hypocrisy"
Also, it works in the general troll element of insinuating that Linux users are communists.
Plus, the part where you praise Microsoft because they're being nicer than... well, themselves in other situations... that's a completely new one. Caught me completely by surprise.
Heck, you even brought "the children" into it.
Excellent troll.
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