So despite nearly two years of daily usage, numerous bug reports, and generally just being helpful to anyone I can with my admittedly limited skills, I'm too lazy and incompetent to use Linux? Nice attitude.
My attitude? You mean one of "The user is just as important as the developer, because without one you have no use for the other"? Yeah, that's a bad attitude to have. Horrible. It might lead to software becoming user friendly, and that's apparently not something the geek brethren can stand. Whatever.
I would like to personally invite you and everyone that agrees with your last statement to nuzzle my scrotum. I'm not a fucking consumer of other people's work, I'm a USER. Software is about USERS. What is the point of making software if there is nobody to use it? Other than mental masturbation and a virtual handjob from other geeks for a job well done, there aren't any. No, I'm not a developer. If I contributed to anything, I would break it. I can't code my way out of a FOR loop. Instead, I just use the software. When I run into problems I submit what bug reports I can and move on. Jackasses like you are a large part of the reason I haven't bothered getting any of my non-techie friends into Linux.
Morals have fuckall to do with software and copyrights. As a copyright holder you have every right to say "I will let these infringements pass since they're small businesses that don't make many, if any, alterations to my code. I will, however, put pressure on this larger company to ensure that what improvements they make, and they are significant, are properly released."
Don't doubt Proyas. The Crow and Dark City could easily be chopped up into a trailer that makes them look like brainless action films (and, IIRC, they were), but both are quite deep.
It's directed by the same guy that did The Crow (the good one) and Dark City. I don't put ANYTHING past him with that kind of track record. Both of those movies managed to touch on some quite deep subjects, but still appeal to most moviegoers (The Crow more than Dark City, obviously).
It has nothing to do with attention span, and R-Type isn't that hard. I'm not a fan of horizontal shooters, especially slow ones. Pulstar is about the same speed, but about a thousand times harder, and I like that one. Blazing Star is faster and, IMO, better. R-Type Leo is amazing, and finally managed to speed up R-Type just enough that it's still a pattern-based shooter but those of us that prefer twitch-style shmups can enjoy it.
Yes, I was around to appreciate how much less stupid a name Genesis was.;) I was a hardcore Sega fanboy back then. Hell, I still am. I still hug my Dreamcast every day, and hope beyond hope that Sega will pull a rabbit out of their ass and bring us the DREAMCAST 2!
Yeah, it probably won't happen but... I can dream. *sniff*
Exactly how is this different from the multitude of patches to fix things in the Linux kernel? Or patches in ANY OSS project? Are you trying to tell me that there has never been a security patch to any Linux kernel ever?
I seem to recall a/. story just a short while back about a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel that was patched and te resulting posts were nothing but a bunch of open source taint nuzzling. When MS fixes a problem on the other hand, it's a bad thing.
Like R-Type needs to be any slower. It's so bloody slow already I can't play it. If you're into shooters, check out DoDonPachi. Now THAT is where you want the slowdown.;)
If the guy had said "Look, I need to make some money off of this. I can't continue hosting this site and webmastering it (is that even a word?) for free. Either start paying me or I'll have to shut it down and turn it over to someone else." then you have a point.
But this guy apparently demanded $300,000 in back payment for work he agreed to do for free, THEN sold the domain name to some random dude. WTF?!?
It's very easy to see a Mac-based 3d pipeline. Maya Complete may not be available to the PUBLIC on OSX, but I'm pretty sure that Pixar doesn't get the same shit everyone else does.
No, moron. He said he'd provide the service for free. Nobody forced him. When he tried to BACKCHARGE them $300,000, they charged his ass with extortion. If he'd asked to be compensated for future work, they probably would have agreed.
Insightful my balls, this moron mentions THE EXACT FUCKING REASON for the disparity of interest from the cops and still has no clue why the hell it's there.
"In my parent's town (small town Kansas)"
SMALL TOWN, DUMBASS. San Diego is a large area with far more criminals than police. In small towns there are far fewer crimes in general to handle so the police have more time to work on robery cases. Our house is in a fairly new addition to the city we live in (pop. 50,000 or so, but we're a suburb of a much larger city) and we've had shit stolen on three occasions. Each time we called the cops and each time they did nothing. Was I pissed? Fuck no. They have better shit to worry about than my guitars. How about instead of bitching about what a shitty job the cops do, go join the force. If you think you could manage better, you're free to do so.
This is so fucking stupid I'm not sure why I'm replying to it, but I think the power of sanity compels me...
No, it's not hard to think of why it takes up 400MB on disk. Windows isn't a fucking command-line based hardcore sysadmin funtime OS. It is designed to be everything to everyone. There is an old saying you obviously haven't heard that goes something like this "90% of users will only use 10% of an application, but those 90% will each use a DIFFERENT 10%."
Anyone that pines for the days of VMS should be legally restricted from bitching about current operating systems.
I FUCKING HATE THAT! Sweet zombie jesus, that pisses me off. I don't have Photoshop on my computer, of course, so I have to use my dad's WinXP box anytime I need Photoshop (first person that says "Gimp" gets punched in the face). If a reboot is neccesary, it takes longer for his computer to get to a USABLE state than my Linux box does. Kind of wrong, when you think about it.
I'm a fluxbox user too, but I wouldn't dare put it on the computer of any non-techie I know. Non-techies like icons (I hate them), and don't need to screw around with configuring menus. Everything has to be as obvious as possible, and as pretty as possible. We are not the target user for Gnome, KDE, or XP. We're okay with giving up the obviousness in favor of increased system speed and lower memory usage because we don't need to have everything pointed out to us. The average XP user does.
It's always nice to run across another fluxbox user. That makes... uh... two I know of. Including me.;)
"If a cracker has to write 2 viruses, which one are they more likely to spend time writing and testing properly: the one that will be used on 95% of desktops or the one that will be used on 5% of desktops?"
Still want to claim it as a myth that Windows has more viruses because it's more popular? More targets, more possibility of damage. Who would it hurt if a OSX worm got out into the public? A fuckload of graphic designers, and a few weirdos that are using Macs as web servers.
Well, if they provided a service to you for free for three years, then demanded you pay them for it, and shut off your gas/light/phone until you did, yeah I'd consider that extortion.
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So despite nearly two years of daily usage, numerous bug reports, and generally just being helpful to anyone I can with my admittedly limited skills, I'm too lazy and incompetent to use Linux? Nice attitude.
My attitude? You mean one of "The user is just as important as the developer, because without one you have no use for the other"? Yeah, that's a bad attitude to have. Horrible. It might lead to software becoming user friendly, and that's apparently not something the geek brethren can stand. Whatever.
Nice try, but you could have at least changed the last sentence so it made some more sense. Nice effort. Loved the use of parasitism.
I would like to personally invite you and everyone that agrees with your last statement to nuzzle my scrotum. I'm not a fucking consumer of other people's work, I'm a USER. Software is about USERS. What is the point of making software if there is nobody to use it? Other than mental masturbation and a virtual handjob from other geeks for a job well done, there aren't any. No, I'm not a developer. If I contributed to anything, I would break it. I can't code my way out of a FOR loop. Instead, I just use the software. When I run into problems I submit what bug reports I can and move on. Jackasses like you are a large part of the reason I haven't bothered getting any of my non-techie friends into Linux.
Morals have fuckall to do with software and copyrights. As a copyright holder you have every right to say "I will let these infringements pass since they're small businesses that don't make many, if any, alterations to my code. I will, however, put pressure on this larger company to ensure that what improvements they make, and they are significant, are properly released."
Don't doubt Proyas. The Crow and Dark City could easily be chopped up into a trailer that makes them look like brainless action films (and, IIRC, they were), but both are quite deep.
It's directed by the same guy that did The Crow (the good one) and Dark City. I don't put ANYTHING past him with that kind of track record. Both of those movies managed to touch on some quite deep subjects, but still appeal to most moviegoers (The Crow more than Dark City, obviously).
It has nothing to do with attention span, and R-Type isn't that hard. I'm not a fan of horizontal shooters, especially slow ones. Pulstar is about the same speed, but about a thousand times harder, and I like that one. Blazing Star is faster and, IMO, better. R-Type Leo is amazing, and finally managed to speed up R-Type just enough that it's still a pattern-based shooter but those of us that prefer twitch-style shmups can enjoy it.
Yes, I was around to appreciate how much less stupid a name Genesis was. ;) I was a hardcore Sega fanboy back then. Hell, I still am. I still hug my Dreamcast every day, and hope beyond hope that Sega will pull a rabbit out of their ass and bring us the DREAMCAST 2!
Yeah, it probably won't happen but... I can dream. *sniff*
Exactly how is this different from the multitude of patches to fix things in the Linux kernel? Or patches in ANY OSS project? Are you trying to tell me that there has never been a security patch to any Linux kernel ever?
/. story just a short while back about a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel that was patched and te resulting posts were nothing but a bunch of open source taint nuzzling. When MS fixes a problem on the other hand, it's a bad thing.
I seem to recall a
Like R-Type needs to be any slower. It's so bloody slow already I can't play it. If you're into shooters, check out DoDonPachi. Now THAT is where you want the slowdown. ;)
Like Mega Drive is some brilliant marketing move itself.
HA! Celebrity Jeopardy kicks ass.
If the guy had said "Look, I need to make some money off of this. I can't continue hosting this site and webmastering it (is that even a word?) for free. Either start paying me or I'll have to shut it down and turn it over to someone else." then you have a point.
But this guy apparently demanded $300,000 in back payment for work he agreed to do for free, THEN sold the domain name to some random dude. WTF?!?
It's very easy to see a Mac-based 3d pipeline. Maya Complete may not be available to the PUBLIC on OSX, but I'm pretty sure that Pixar doesn't get the same shit everyone else does.
*punches you in the face*
I have been meaning to try Gimp 2, but haven't got around to it. I hear there's quite a few improvements.
No, moron. He said he'd provide the service for free. Nobody forced him. When he tried to BACKCHARGE them $300,000, they charged his ass with extortion. If he'd asked to be compensated for future work, they probably would have agreed.
If it's so open and shut, then your coworker should be filing a small claims suit against the guy's daughter's boyfriend.
Insightful my balls, this moron mentions THE EXACT FUCKING REASON for the disparity of interest from the cops and still has no clue why the hell it's there.
"In my parent's town (small town Kansas)"
SMALL TOWN, DUMBASS. San Diego is a large area with far more criminals than police. In small towns there are far fewer crimes in general to handle so the police have more time to work on robery cases. Our house is in a fairly new addition to the city we live in (pop. 50,000 or so, but we're a suburb of a much larger city) and we've had shit stolen on three occasions. Each time we called the cops and each time they did nothing. Was I pissed? Fuck no. They have better shit to worry about than my guitars. How about instead of bitching about what a shitty job the cops do, go join the force. If you think you could manage better, you're free to do so.
This is so fucking stupid I'm not sure why I'm replying to it, but I think the power of sanity compels me...
No, it's not hard to think of why it takes up 400MB on disk. Windows isn't a fucking command-line based hardcore sysadmin funtime OS. It is designed to be everything to everyone. There is an old saying you obviously haven't heard that goes something like this "90% of users will only use 10% of an application, but those 90% will each use a DIFFERENT 10%."
Anyone that pines for the days of VMS should be legally restricted from bitching about current operating systems.
I FUCKING HATE THAT! Sweet zombie jesus, that pisses me off. I don't have Photoshop on my computer, of course, so I have to use my dad's WinXP box anytime I need Photoshop (first person that says "Gimp" gets punched in the face). If a reboot is neccesary, it takes longer for his computer to get to a USABLE state than my Linux box does. Kind of wrong, when you think about it.
I'm a fluxbox user too, but I wouldn't dare put it on the computer of any non-techie I know. Non-techies like icons (I hate them), and don't need to screw around with configuring menus. Everything has to be as obvious as possible, and as pretty as possible. We are not the target user for Gnome, KDE, or XP. We're okay with giving up the obviousness in favor of increased system speed and lower memory usage because we don't need to have everything pointed out to us. The average XP user does.
;)
It's always nice to run across another fluxbox user. That makes... uh... two I know of. Including me.
Because it's interesting. It might use 500 megs of ram right now, but how good will it look if it's released and will run smoothly on 256MB machines?
"If a cracker has to write 2 viruses, which one are they more likely to spend time writing and testing properly: the one that will be used on 95% of desktops or the one that will be used on 5% of desktops?"
Still want to claim it as a myth that Windows has more viruses because it's more popular? More targets, more possibility of damage. Who would it hurt if a OSX worm got out into the public? A fuckload of graphic designers, and a few weirdos that are using Macs as web servers.
Then do it. Sell it. Make a fortune.
Well, if they provided a service to you for free for three years, then demanded you pay them for it, and shut off your gas/light/phone until you did, yeah I'd consider that extortion.