Comparing OS X to Linux is like comparing a brand new Lamborghini to an old Charger. Yea, they may both be fast, but only one is refined, and only a certain breed of people are going to pick the Charger over the Lambo, given the option.
That's what gets me about Linux. OS X is the power of a BSD with REFINEMENT. Linux? If I have never have to use vi to set up a simple routing configuration again, it will be WAY too soon. If I can't point and click my way to a basic setup, it's not a useful system, and comparing it to something that can do that is ridiculous. I shouldn't have to 'alias' this and 'rm' that and:wq here and 'sudo' there just to get a damn X server running...
And, of course, like the guy in the Charger, the Linux people will extoll the limited virtues of their decision while gleefully ignoring the fact that they're still driving around in something that smells like pee.
How about the vanishing-stories department? Like the Pirate Bay "story" which claimed that thepiratebay.org was raided by some swedish organization. The one with no corroborating links at all that some blogger submitted and you accepted that just mysteriously vanished and was replaced with this story?
I love it how slashdot makes all this effort to try and get rid of a couple guys who post obscene stories about Richard Stallman or an ASCII skull priest, but nobody can be bothered to do anything more than quickly scan submissions to make sure you're not posting half-assed garbage to the front page three and four times a day.
I guess at least we should give you a one-handed clap for taking the story down before it became visible to the plebes, probably after some guy that gave you five bucks did your damn job for you.
In the immortal (or terribly grating, depending on what you thought of the movie, I suppose) words of Napoleon Dynamite:
Apparently it is OK to record TV as long as your aren't sharing it.
No shit, fucknuts. Distribution of copyrighted material is illegal, not owning it. Did you run home from kindygardin just to post this stupid shit to slashdot?
Oh shit. I forgot. I'm on slashdot where people form dumbass opinions on things like this all the time even though they clearly know nothing about the topic of discussion.
And, of course, the editors put this stupid shit up on the front page so you fat, floppy, friendless fucks can sit around screaming and flailing over some perceived injustice (oh noes! They don't want me to steal their hard work!) until you have a thin film of dorito-colored spit coating your screen and a lapful of slurpee.
Oh, really? Well, I'm glad you're here to point out the absolute and inherent truths of the universe like which opinions on how to identify the validity of U.S. administration claims are and are not valid.
After all, were the opinion you made a claim against anything other than an inherent truth of nature, I'd have expected to see some sort of backup for your contrasting view and, call me crazy if you will, but I no see no such thing in your post.
Given that I couldn't figure out how one could by seriously injured by an escalator, short of some mechanical failure or manufacturing defect, I tried to find some information on escalator accidents via google. E.g. - news reports, personal accounts, etc.
Pretty much all I found was a bunch of ambulance chasers looking for suckers to goad into frivolous lawsuits.
Ah, yes, because it was completely logical to state that if children are allowed to see simulations of normal, healthy sexual activity, they will "assuredly" also be allowed to see simulations of gang rape.
And now is the part where, because you can neither back up your original statement nor refute mine, you either go ballistic, ignore me, or continue to claim your argument to this point has been something other than the ridiculously spurious train wreck it has been.
Giving your apparent inability to respond in an intelligent manner to these non-time-sensitive posts on Slashdot, I can only assume your driving skills, which are frequently dictated by your ability to make split-second decisions, fall roughly between this woman's and a cadaver's.
I fear for the safety of the occupants of your vehicle as you display the average judgement of a 13 year old thug in a stolen Celebrity. You are clearly one of the many clueless sods I encounter on a daily basis, and I shall delight in reading the obituary generated when you go flailing off an overpass somewhere because your Omni wasn't able to handle the turn at 80 mph not because it was technically incapable, but because you're clearly utterly clueless behind the wheel.
And, in true slashfashion, they eliminated all context in order to get us stupid plebes to post angrily and jerk off the adserver for them. Here's what he actually said:
That could be one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. It sounds like a good thing, but the trouble is someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it.
Which is a valid point. Even if it turns out that people are willing to pay for all the work that has to go into it and the system works, it's a perfectly valid logistics concern. It just so happens he doesn't have faith that it will work.
Furthermore, there's little context in the article about the comments on cell coverage. I get the impression he's complaining about people who call to whine that the phone doesn't work in certain, limited patches even though it works fine everywhere else. I'd wager that would be a small number of people complaining about lack of service in very limited areas, not a significant problem that he's writing off as being unimportant or below his company to fix.
And I'm posting this as a guy who hates Verizon so much that I go out of my way to avoid using them....
IHBT into giving slashdot revenue.
Oh, wait... no I haven't. Because ads.osdn.com is in my hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1 until the day they stop scatterbanning me on networks I haven't done anything on, and start posting worthwhile, intelligent content to the site rather than this half-assed drivel full of half-truths and misinformation just to get people up in arms.
Of course you disagree. You're a wingman in one of the most spectacular business model failures of open source. What, were you going to get up on your own bloody site and scream from the rooftops that the OS model of software licensing has flaws that could be exploited by people who made it big by exploiting flaws in systems?
Of course, I don't see why you don't just do it. With a 2.38% share drop being less in cash than it costs to buy a piece of Bazooka Joe, it doesn't look like VA Software could really suffer too much more regardless of what you do.
The problem is that you have things like 'rel=next' that expect the user to go to some next "logical" page, but no structure to a site to encourage that logic. You get people upping bandwidth costs and slowing down browsing time because the site maintainer THINKS they'll go to some next page but the site design actually ENCOURAGES them to go to some other, unrelated page.
In OSS, a lot of the maintainers and coders are just "hackers" or college kids contributing bits and pieces of less broad knowledge over a bigger project team, not real software engineers who have been trained to really think through the consequences of certain design decisions. They don't research their target audience to realize that, while the prefetching feature would be great in a perfect world, the world isn't perfect, and it can really cause problems when so many people are moving from professional browsers to more amateur ones that test out these features in what they THINK is a mainly geek-oriented audience.
I could see why someone at Google might think this is a good idea, but I'd expect that a company with the means to do the necessary research wouldn't go about implementing this kind of hackish "feature set" until it had thought things through a little better.
This is just another example of the rampant socialiast mindset that's so pervasive in this country these days. How is there a problem (much less one worthy of a lawsuit) just because this guy saw a demand and filled it? I don't understand how you people can be so anti-trade that you would deny him a legitimate business route to improving his condition just for your own personal ends. Seriously, grow up and join the rest of the world that actually works for a living.
I realize that you don't like spam, but I don't like commercials, but I put up with them to watch free TV.
If you're going to pick technicality nits with word meanings, you probably should make sure you don't suffer the same problems when you do so.
Would you care to explain to me how something which "does not need a purpose" can have a "whole idea"? Unless you're suggesting, I suppose, that evolution is a thinking thing that doesn't NEED x but CHOOSES to have x anyway?
Except there's a difference between written and spoken language.
The points of things like "CYA" and 'l8r' is that they sound the same as "See ya" and 'later', but they're easier to type (arguably l8r is not easier to type, however). There's no benefit to saying 'cya' versus 'see ya' because it comes out, verbally, the same.
The problem is that this sort of thing alters the way we communicate in a written manner. The English language, especially when it's being written, is already muddled enough without inviting new deficincies just because a bunch of fourteen year old kids are too lazy to type or waste too much time IM'ing each other on cell phones.
Evolving a language is fine, but it should be a purpose-driven evolution to the benefit of communication by informed people, not a reversal just because your offspring are too lazy to communicate properly or are having trivial dicsussions over inadequate mediums. Language shouldn't be negatively changing to fit the medium, the medium should be evolving to adequately handle the language.
Rather than continuing to de Icaza drone on and on trying to vindicate his project again, is there anyone here who has actually USED Mono and has something to say about it one way or another? Particularly interesting issues:
- Mono Vs C++ - Mono Vs.NET C# - Mono compatibility claims
Insight from some USERS would probably be more beneficial now than more bickering over what Mono is or whether it should even be.
I'm sorry sir, there's a pedantic dick running around out here and it seems to have gotten itself lodged in my ear somehow. Could you please speak u... oh wait... you're the...
What does Lucas do anyway, just wake up every now and then and think "in what new ways can I rape the fond memories of a younger generation"?
This guy's gone totally batshit insane. I think the best thing anyone could do for the franchise at this point is put the man in a damned straighjacket and throw him off the brooklyn bridge with a lead weight in a backpack on his back.
I can respect that some people may have liked the first two pieces (even if it wasn't my cup of tea, so to speak), and this third one might be okay, but this is a little ridiculous.
PLEASE GEORGE JUST STOP. It was a great idea the first time through with episodes 4-6, and I understand that you had to round it out with the first three parts of the series, but you're just hurting us now. Please.... please stop hurting us.
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Comparing OS X to Linux is like comparing a brand new Lamborghini to an old Charger. Yea, they may both be fast, but only one is refined, and only a certain breed of people are going to pick the Charger over the Lambo, given the option.
:wq here and 'sudo' there just to get a damn X server running...
That's what gets me about Linux. OS X is the power of a BSD with REFINEMENT. Linux? If I have never have to use vi to set up a simple routing configuration again, it will be WAY too soon. If I can't point and click my way to a basic setup, it's not a useful system, and comparing it to something that can do that is ridiculous. I shouldn't have to 'alias' this and 'rm' that and
And, of course, like the guy in the Charger, the Linux people will extoll the limited virtues of their decision while gleefully ignoring the fact that they're still driving around in something that smells like pee.
from the vanishing-tubes dept.?
How about the vanishing-stories department? Like the Pirate Bay "story" which claimed that thepiratebay.org was raided by some swedish organization. The one with no corroborating links at all that some blogger submitted and you accepted that just mysteriously vanished and was replaced with this story?
I love it how slashdot makes all this effort to try and get rid of a couple guys who post obscene stories about Richard Stallman or an ASCII skull priest, but nobody can be bothered to do anything more than quickly scan submissions to make sure you're not posting half-assed garbage to the front page three and four times a day.
I guess at least we should give you a one-handed clap for taking the story down before it became visible to the plebes, probably after some guy that gave you five bucks did your damn job for you.
In the immortal (or terribly grating, depending on what you thought of the movie, I suppose) words of Napoleon Dynamite:
IDIOTS!
I have no idea if this is what you're doing, but it looks like it, and this is slashdot, so I will.
"Conservatives are people who had the conscience to abandon their liberalism." -- Ann Coulter
You'll get more bites. No, AFAIK Ann Coulter never said it.
You're welcome.
I like the cut of his jib.
Apparently it is OK to record TV as long as your aren't sharing it.
No shit, fucknuts. Distribution of copyrighted material is illegal, not owning it. Did you run home from kindygardin just to post this stupid shit to slashdot?
Oh shit. I forgot. I'm on slashdot where people form dumbass opinions on things like this all the time even though they clearly know nothing about the topic of discussion.
And, of course, the editors put this stupid shit up on the front page so you fat, floppy, friendless fucks can sit around screaming and flailing over some perceived injustice (oh noes! They don't want me to steal their hard work!) until you have a thin film of dorito-colored spit coating your screen and a lapful of slurpee.
You're all dumbasses.
Oh noes! I'm facing a master of commentary and informed, enlightened debate! Whatever shall I do, I...
Oh wait.... never mind, you're actually an idiot. Sorry, my mistake.
Oh, really? Well, I'm glad you're here to point out the absolute and inherent truths of the universe like which opinions on how to identify the validity of U.S. administration claims are and are not valid.
After all, were the opinion you made a claim against anything other than an inherent truth of nature, I'd have expected to see some sort of backup for your contrasting view and, call me crazy if you will, but I no see no such thing in your post.
Given that I couldn't figure out how one could by seriously injured by an escalator, short of some mechanical failure or manufacturing defect, I tried to find some information on escalator accidents via google. E.g. - news reports, personal accounts, etc.
Pretty much all I found was a bunch of ambulance chasers looking for suckers to goad into frivolous lawsuits.
I do not think it is a significant concern.
Ah, yes, because it was completely logical to state that if children are allowed to see simulations of normal, healthy sexual activity, they will "assuredly" also be allowed to see simulations of gang rape.
And now is the part where, because you can neither back up your original statement nor refute mine, you either go ballistic, ignore me, or continue to claim your argument to this point has been something other than the ridiculously spurious train wreck it has been.
Giving your apparent inability to respond in an intelligent manner to these non-time-sensitive posts on Slashdot, I can only assume your driving skills, which are frequently dictated by your ability to make split-second decisions, fall roughly between this woman's and a cadaver's.
I fear for the safety of the occupants of your vehicle as you display the average judgement of a 13 year old thug in a stolen Celebrity. You are clearly one of the many clueless sods I encounter on a daily basis, and I shall delight in reading the obituary generated when you go flailing off an overpass somewhere because your Omni wasn't able to handle the turn at 80 mph not because it was technically incapable, but because you're clearly utterly clueless behind the wheel.
And, in true slashfashion, they eliminated all context in order to get us stupid plebes to post angrily and jerk off the adserver for them. Here's what he actually said:
That could be one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. It sounds like a good thing, but the trouble is someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it.
Which is a valid point. Even if it turns out that people are willing to pay for all the work that has to go into it and the system works, it's a perfectly valid logistics concern. It just so happens he doesn't have faith that it will work.
Furthermore, there's little context in the article about the comments on cell coverage. I get the impression he's complaining about people who call to whine that the phone doesn't work in certain, limited patches even though it works fine everywhere else. I'd wager that would be a small number of people complaining about lack of service in very limited areas, not a significant problem that he's writing off as being unimportant or below his company to fix.
And I'm posting this as a guy who hates Verizon so much that I go out of my way to avoid using them....
IHBT into giving slashdot revenue.
Oh, wait... no I haven't. Because ads.osdn.com is in my hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1 until the day they stop scatterbanning me on networks I haven't done anything on, and start posting worthwhile, intelligent content to the site rather than this half-assed drivel full of half-truths and misinformation just to get people up in arms.
Of course you disagree. You're a wingman in one of the most spectacular business model failures of open source. What, were you going to get up on your own bloody site and scream from the rooftops that the OS model of software licensing has flaws that could be exploited by people who made it big by exploiting flaws in systems?
Of course, I don't see why you don't just do it. With a 2.38% share drop being less in cash than it costs to buy a piece of Bazooka Joe, it doesn't look like VA Software could really suffer too much more regardless of what you do.
Prefetching is one of those things that seems like a really great idea on paper, but doesn't hold up so well in practice.
The problem is that you have things like 'rel=next' that expect the user to go to some next "logical" page, but no structure to a site to encourage that logic. You get people upping bandwidth costs and slowing down browsing time because the site maintainer THINKS they'll go to some next page but the site design actually ENCOURAGES them to go to some other, unrelated page.
In OSS, a lot of the maintainers and coders are just "hackers" or college kids contributing bits and pieces of less broad knowledge over a bigger project team, not real software engineers who have been trained to really think through the consequences of certain design decisions. They don't research their target audience to realize that, while the prefetching feature would be great in a perfect world, the world isn't perfect, and it can really cause problems when so many people are moving from professional browsers to more amateur ones that test out these features in what they THINK is a mainly geek-oriented audience.
I could see why someone at Google might think this is a good idea, but I'd expect that a company with the means to do the necessary research wouldn't go about implementing this kind of hackish "feature set" until it had thought things through a little better.
http://www.notacon.org/speakers.html#pakrul
...furthermore one of them tried to get a hand in my pants... ...this just goes to show what happens when you won't blow agent Mulder...
Nice to see the moderators are reading these things before they mod them up....
Electrons ARE light particles.
This is just another example of the rampant socialiast mindset that's so pervasive in this country these days. How is there a problem (much less one worthy of a lawsuit) just because this guy saw a demand and filled it? I don't understand how you people can be so anti-trade that you would deny him a legitimate business route to improving his condition just for your own personal ends. Seriously, grow up and join the rest of the world that actually works for a living.
I realize that you don't like spam, but I don't like commercials, but I put up with them to watch free TV.
.... wtf?
If you're going to pick technicality nits with word meanings, you probably should make sure you don't suffer the same problems when you do so.
Would you care to explain to me how something which "does not need a purpose" can have a "whole idea"? Unless you're suggesting, I suppose, that evolution is a thinking thing that doesn't NEED x but CHOOSES to have x anyway?
And using a hammer to drive in a bolt is just as idiotic as using 1337 speak to write your resume.
QED
Except there's a difference between written and spoken language.
The points of things like "CYA" and 'l8r' is that they sound the same as "See ya" and 'later', but they're easier to type (arguably l8r is not easier to type, however). There's no benefit to saying 'cya' versus 'see ya' because it comes out, verbally, the same.
The problem is that this sort of thing alters the way we communicate in a written manner. The English language, especially when it's being written, is already muddled enough without inviting new deficincies just because a bunch of fourteen year old kids are too lazy to type or waste too much time IM'ing each other on cell phones.
Evolving a language is fine, but it should be a purpose-driven evolution to the benefit of communication by informed people, not a reversal just because your offspring are too lazy to communicate properly or are having trivial dicsussions over inadequate mediums. Language shouldn't be negatively changing to fit the medium, the medium should be evolving to adequately handle the language.
Rather than continuing to de Icaza drone on and on trying to vindicate his project again, is there anyone here who has actually USED Mono and has something to say about it one way or another? Particularly interesting issues:
.NET C#
- Mono Vs C++
- Mono Vs
- Mono compatibility claims
Insight from some USERS would probably be more beneficial now than more bickering over what Mono is or whether it should even be.
I'm sorry sir, there's a pedantic dick running around out here and it seems to have gotten itself lodged in my ear somehow. Could you please speak u... oh wait... you're the...
Never mind.
I'm sorry... I must have missed something. At which point did I say I was going to?
What does Lucas do anyway, just wake up every now and then and think "in what new ways can I rape the fond memories of a younger generation"?
This guy's gone totally batshit insane. I think the best thing anyone could do for the franchise at this point is put the man in a damned straighjacket and throw him off the brooklyn bridge with a lead weight in a backpack on his back.
I can respect that some people may have liked the first two pieces (even if it wasn't my cup of tea, so to speak), and this third one might be okay, but this is a little ridiculous.
PLEASE GEORGE JUST STOP. It was a great idea the first time through with episodes 4-6, and I understand that you had to round it out with the first three parts of the series, but you're just hurting us now. Please.... please stop hurting us.