slashdot's continual political pandering is just totally ridiculous...some guy winning an award at Cannes for a documentary is news for nerds now? Give me a freaking break. Donate my karma to someone, I'm done with it and this thinly veiled political garbage site.
Well, if you look at the number of posts for all of the articles, it looks like a pretty dead site. One other thing to remember is that slashdot is not a quaint little nerd site, it's part of a very large corporation (OSDN)...which leads us into OSDN's investments in Linux and why you have to many pro-linux, anti-ms stories, etc etc. It's just a big ad.
Slashdot is so unbiased that they'll take anyone's blog about having troubles with windows and post it as being a credible source. (We won't mention how much money OSDN has at stake with linux for the time being). But this guy isn't a well respected, or even semi respected computer journalist. The site is laid out like its supposed to be a legitimate computer site, but the articles are all written by this latif guy and are few and far between...this site is nothing more than a blog of someone with a hate-on for Microsoft. Naturally, our champions of fair and unbiased reporting have jumped in and posted it as being something newsworthy simply because they can't hide the fact that they are trying to help linux succeed so that their own pockets are enriched.
Seriously, my first thought of gangs isn't everyone sitting around on some web-based chatroom, that all of these rival gang members just happen to frequent at the same time and arrange to get into a fight...which just happens to make it into every paper / news site around. This is more the realm of 'jackass' than some great new trend in crime.
Most companies that provide tech support will not let you remove / delete anything from a user's computer...liability issues if removing spyware ends up borking the whole thing. Then it was tech support that killed the computer and the company is responsible for fixing it.
If you're going after a market dominated by Windows, you try to make it look like Windows. People aren't terribly good with new and unfamiliar things. Don't believe me? Try standing sideways in an elevator while everyone else is facing forward. People around you will get uncomftorable...the same way they will if there's not a "start menu."
That's fine and dandy if all he does is surf the web, read mail, and the like. The problem will be when he wants to, say, run a geneology program, or a financial program like quickbooks, or if he wants to fire up a game he picked up at the store that he thought looked interesting. Not saying your dad in particular is into any of this, but lots of other people's parents are. Until you get some more software support, this is definately not the year of the penguin, and that year is still quite a ways away.
Aside from that, its interesting how none of the OSS programmers are upset about how all of this software that they wrote for the great free linux movement is now being packaged up and sold at a tidy profit. Pretty good business strategy really.
Hopefully since reporting his personal stock buys is newsworthy here, maybe next we can cover what kind of ketchup he uses, or what his wife's bra size is. I mean, that's obviously quite worthy of being a story here now, right?
This is probably something that's merely an oversight on behalf of his broker. Someone with as much money as Bill Gates will have a wide and varied stock portfolio, and I doubt he is able to personally oversee all of it. You see this same sort of thing happen all of the time with celebrities. Too much money and not enough time to track down where every cent goes.
Aside from that, its really sad the level that slashdot has sunk down to in its anti-microsoft smear campaign. I think in the interest of fair journalism, they should go ahead and report to us how much money they, and OSDN as their parent company, have vested in linux, and how much they stand to gain from its success. Notice how they're the first in line to bash SCO for spreading its FUD, when they're just as bad about it? Oh well, they'll just keep going about alienating everyone who isn't a frothing linux zealot and end up digging their own grave.
Okay, so Japan has some of the loudest, most colorful commercials in the world and their children do just fine in school. Nice attempt to blame Bush for giving children short attention spans, but I'd have to say your theory is pretty stupid. If anything, I'd blame you liberals for trying to give everyone an excuse for everything. "Sure, the kid's just lazy and would rather play than do homework, but its obviously the government and business' fault." That's just stupid.
If this has anything to do with their (defunct) Disney deal...are they trying to snuggle up with Hollywood to increase their chances of a studio takeover bid. And if so, your isp being the one in charge of getting you for pirating movies from their studio is pretty scary.
Aside from that, just go buy the stupid movie. A $15 DVD is much cheaper than your bail, court costs, lawyer fee, etc.
I'd go with insightful myself. Companies aren't around to be your socialist / communist best friend and take care of you. I don't know why everyone in this country has slipped into the mindset that everything should just be given to you.
Its funny how you never heard anything about outsourcing when all of the steel mills and textiles plants were closing down due to outsourcing. Now that it has actually hit in your proverbial backyard, it is a great crisis to the country that absolutely has to be stopped. This being an election year I'm sure has nothing to do with the press covering this like it's some brand new thing.
If you want to keep your low skill job, like working tech support or low-level programming, then do what everyone else has and form a union. If you can band together in enough numbers to convince politicians that drafting legislation in your favor will win them votes, then they might pay more attention to you.
Yes, now that the patriot act is out, I see cops running around and beating people on the streets everyday. Its amazing how ever since they passed the patriot act, cops just storm into my house five times a day seizing stuff, along with the FBI, and John Ashcroft is leading the herd, cackling madly about how he loves his job. Don't forget to mention those terrabytle ram disks that, according to your hero michael, are currently being used for the foreginer fingerprint database, the foreigner tip database, the matrix database, various mad projects at the nsa, and several other projects that may or may not exist (not like truth matters to you guys.)
Its funny how you libs will try taking a potshot at that whatever the topic. "Oh wow, blenders are on sale at K-Mart...I doubt I could buy one without the patriot act letting the man come arrest me for it." Random fact: 60% of the american people not only support the patriot act, they feel it isn't strong enough.
your democrat handlers have presented you with another story about how big and bad the patriot act is, so you can whine about how oppressive it is, and how it's taking away all of your freedoms; even though most of you have never read it, nor have any idea what it actually does. But so long as Ted Kennedy and the rest of the libs tell you not to like it, you automatically get in line to oppose it. Being a democrat politician must be cake.
Ahh, it seems that's going by the wayside. Apparently Microsoft has been convicted of backing SCO by slashdot, although all the proof is circumstantial at best. Libel anyone?
egh, do you ever have me pegged wrong. If you look through my post history you'll see I spend an awful lot of time railing against michael (aka raving liberal who uses slashdot as a giant ad for the democratic party.) I just don't care much for lawyers. Like your sig, btw.
like any attorney, he's on his own side. All he cares about is maybe making a little cash, but more importantly, getting his name in the papers. He couldn't care less about what happens to his client...I don't either, but that's beside the point.
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slashdot's continual political pandering is just totally ridiculous...some guy winning an award at Cannes for a documentary is news for nerds now? Give me a freaking break. Donate my karma to someone, I'm done with it and this thinly veiled political garbage site.
I'm still trying to figure out how this is news for nerds. /. should just go ahead and announce that it's merely a branch of moveon.org
Well, if you look at the number of posts for all of the articles, it looks like a pretty dead site. One other thing to remember is that slashdot is not a quaint little nerd site, it's part of a very large corporation (OSDN)...which leads us into OSDN's investments in Linux and why you have to many pro-linux, anti-ms stories, etc etc. It's just a big ad.
Slashdot is so unbiased that they'll take anyone's blog about having troubles with windows and post it as being a credible source. (We won't mention how much money OSDN has at stake with linux for the time being). But this guy isn't a well respected, or even semi respected computer journalist. The site is laid out like its supposed to be a legitimate computer site, but the articles are all written by this latif guy and are few and far between...this site is nothing more than a blog of someone with a hate-on for Microsoft. Naturally, our champions of fair and unbiased reporting have jumped in and posted it as being something newsworthy simply because they can't hide the fact that they are trying to help linux succeed so that their own pockets are enriched.
Seriously, my first thought of gangs isn't everyone sitting around on some web-based chatroom, that all of these rival gang members just happen to frequent at the same time and arrange to get into a fight...which just happens to make it into every paper / news site around. This is more the realm of 'jackass' than some great new trend in crime.
Most companies that provide tech support will not let you remove / delete anything from a user's computer...liability issues if removing spyware ends up borking the whole thing. Then it was tech support that killed the computer and the company is responsible for fixing it.
If you're going after a market dominated by Windows, you try to make it look like Windows. People aren't terribly good with new and unfamiliar things. Don't believe me? Try standing sideways in an elevator while everyone else is facing forward. People around you will get uncomftorable...the same way they will if there's not a "start menu."
format their drive and install a cd of opensource programs that run on windows onto their newly blank drive? Great way to get converts.
Yes, and in other accidents the gas tank could blow up, yada yada. I'm curious about battery acid myself.
they're just doing it so some other company can't patent it later and sue them?
That's fine and dandy if all he does is surf the web, read mail, and the like. The problem will be when he wants to, say, run a geneology program, or a financial program like quickbooks, or if he wants to fire up a game he picked up at the store that he thought looked interesting. Not saying your dad in particular is into any of this, but lots of other people's parents are. Until you get some more software support, this is definately not the year of the penguin, and that year is still quite a ways away.
Aside from that, its interesting how none of the OSS programmers are upset about how all of this software that they wrote for the great free linux movement is now being packaged up and sold at a tidy profit. Pretty good business strategy really.
Hopefully since reporting his personal stock buys is newsworthy here, maybe next we can cover what kind of ketchup he uses, or what his wife's bra size is. I mean, that's obviously quite worthy of being a story here now, right?
This is probably something that's merely an oversight on behalf of his broker. Someone with as much money as Bill Gates will have a wide and varied stock portfolio, and I doubt he is able to personally oversee all of it. You see this same sort of thing happen all of the time with celebrities. Too much money and not enough time to track down where every cent goes.
Aside from that, its really sad the level that slashdot has sunk down to in its anti-microsoft smear campaign. I think in the interest of fair journalism, they should go ahead and report to us how much money they, and OSDN as their parent company, have vested in linux, and how much they stand to gain from its success. Notice how they're the first in line to bash SCO for spreading its FUD, when they're just as bad about it? Oh well, they'll just keep going about alienating everyone who isn't a frothing linux zealot and end up digging their own grave.
I don't see how that's a troll...this has nothing to do with tech news, its just the /. editors taking a swipe at MS.
Okay, so Japan has some of the loudest, most colorful commercials in the world and their children do just fine in school. Nice attempt to blame Bush for giving children short attention spans, but I'd have to say your theory is pretty stupid. If anything, I'd blame you liberals for trying to give everyone an excuse for everything. "Sure, the kid's just lazy and would rather play than do homework, but its obviously the government and business' fault." That's just stupid.
If this has anything to do with their (defunct) Disney deal...are they trying to snuggle up with Hollywood to increase their chances of a studio takeover bid. And if so, your isp being the one in charge of getting you for pirating movies from their studio is pretty scary.
Aside from that, just go buy the stupid movie. A $15 DVD is much cheaper than your bail, court costs, lawyer fee, etc.
I'd go with insightful myself. Companies aren't around to be your socialist / communist best friend and take care of you. I don't know why everyone in this country has slipped into the mindset that everything should just be given to you.
Its funny how you never heard anything about outsourcing when all of the steel mills and textiles plants were closing down due to outsourcing. Now that it has actually hit in your proverbial backyard, it is a great crisis to the country that absolutely has to be stopped. This being an election year I'm sure has nothing to do with the press covering this like it's some brand new thing.
If you want to keep your low skill job, like working tech support or low-level programming, then do what everyone else has and form a union. If you can band together in enough numbers to convince politicians that drafting legislation in your favor will win them votes, then they might pay more attention to you.
Yes, now that the patriot act is out, I see cops running around and beating people on the streets everyday. Its amazing how ever since they passed the patriot act, cops just storm into my house five times a day seizing stuff, along with the FBI, and John Ashcroft is leading the herd, cackling madly about how he loves his job. Don't forget to mention those terrabytle ram disks that, according to your hero michael, are currently being used for the foreginer fingerprint database, the foreigner tip database, the matrix database, various mad projects at the nsa, and several other projects that may or may not exist (not like truth matters to you guys.)
Its funny how you libs will try taking a potshot at that whatever the topic. "Oh wow, blenders are on sale at K-Mart...I doubt I could buy one without the patriot act letting the man come arrest me for it." Random fact: 60% of the american people not only support the patriot act, they feel it isn't strong enough.
Listen to incessant droning of multiple case fans, or incessant droning of neighbor screaming at his kids...tough choice indeed.
your democrat handlers have presented you with another story about how big and bad the patriot act is, so you can whine about how oppressive it is, and how it's taking away all of your freedoms; even though most of you have never read it, nor have any idea what it actually does. But so long as Ted Kennedy and the rest of the libs tell you not to like it, you automatically get in line to oppose it. Being a democrat politician must be cake.
Ahh, it seems that's going by the wayside. Apparently Microsoft has been convicted of backing SCO by slashdot, although all the proof is circumstantial at best. Libel anyone?
egh, do you ever have me pegged wrong. If you look through my post history you'll see I spend an awful lot of time railing against michael (aka raving liberal who uses slashdot as a giant ad for the democratic party.) I just don't care much for lawyers. Like your sig, btw.
like any attorney, he's on his own side. All he cares about is maybe making a little cash, but more importantly, getting his name in the papers. He couldn't care less about what happens to his client...I don't either, but that's beside the point.
they can't find three of them.