You're all units in my game of Civilization IV. Those "pirates" were the barbarian Galleon unit trying to take on my uber destroyer unit. I used my Future Tech to take it out.
Yeah, and we call those "different attitudes" for different situations moral relativism, a.k.a. a double-standard. Complain about "stolen GPL code," but claim "piracy isn't theft!" Gotta love it.
The big complaint is that the beta testers were telling Microsoft, "Hey, there are still major issues here." And Microsoft shipped anyway to meet a shipping date and please shareholders instead of CUSTOMERS.
Now we see some Microsoft tools replying and breathlessly posting talking points as if that means anything. "Yeah, but VS2005 compiles the following list of architectures." It's like, what the hell does that have to do with the topic of this thread? We're not talking about the damn compiler anyway. The IDE is fucked up.
Let's examine your post. Instead of addressing the crashing and bugs mentioned in Mini's blog you:
1.) List the types of applications VS can compile, as if that has anything to do with anything 2.) List the architectures it can compile, as if that has anything to do with anything 3.) Breathlessly declare that we can try it free with the crippled Express Editions 4.) Decide all the criticism is just "blind hatred" without addressing any of it
And this gets upmodded to +5? My theory that militant Microsoft defenders are invading Slashdot is proven correct.
VS2005 is getting a service pack. Face it, you were fucking WRONG. You're a tool listing marketing talking points.
Thankfully, there's a culture of excellence in software design on the Mac (and a thriving shareware market you can actually make money in, unlike on Windows). If by crapware, though, you're referring to spyware, I dispute the claim that Windows' saturation is the cause of its woes. For instance, OS X has no open ports by default and doesn't even enable the root account. However, Windows users got to suffer through, for instance, Blaster as it took advantage of full access to RPC. Windows is a poorly designed system that everyone was hoping would get a rewrite with Longhorn. Unfortunately, that did not happen. It looks like the registry is never, ever going to die. That's too bad, because the consumers suffer because of it.
It's just that spyware and trojans just don't have anywhere to go on OS X, due mostly to built-in UNIX security measures. You can't even install something or have an app modify system settings without a quick password prompt.
You see, in every Apple article on Slashdot, someone always makes a typo when writing three simple letters: OS X. Scientists are divided as to why it's so difficult for Slashdotters to correctly spell this very simple combination of letters (pronounced "Oh Ess Ten," the tenth version of Mac OS).
Common typo variations are:
1.) OS-X 2.) OS/X 3.) OSx 4.) OSX 5.) OSX86
Related typos include: 6.) MAC (instead of Mac)
Yours, sir, is the first insane typo of many in the comments to come when it comes to typing three simple letters: OS X. Be grateful in your glorious splendor! You are a scholar and a gentleman. Good day.
The BSD subsystem is less relevant to the end user experience. OS X is really OpenStep APIs and other new technologies. OpenStep was originally designed as a sort of spec API set that could be installed on any operating system (it was even on Windows NT at one time).
As for malware, OS X actually has security measures, unlike Windows, which still has people using admin accounts in the year 2005. It's sad that the public has no IT knowledge and doesn't realize how insane and hilarious that is, especially after their computers started rebooting by themselves when Blaster made the rounds. It's actually kind of shocking how the American economy came to rely on something so...unreliable.
These are interesting times to be a Mac user. It's incredible to say it, but Apple is actually on the upswing after a decade of total Windows dominance. Dell's revenues and sales are down while Apple's keep growing beyond the industry average.
As a Mac user myself, I'll just say this. I don't want an Apple monopoly dominating computing; I would just like an Apple marketshare at around 35%-45% again. It would make for a much healthier market and would mean a lot more applications for Mac, instead of waiting a year later for a third-party port.
So before you Mac-hating Linux kids start flaming another Apple article, most of us just want less Windows domination. That wretched pile of crap has wasted more time and money on reboots, endless "configuration wizards," registry cleanings, spyware cleanings, resource-sucking antivirus software, and so on. It's so bad that a lot of normal people are afraid of computers and their difficulty--they don't realize it's Windows that is difficult. Computers don't have to be.
As we have already seen, the GPL is under attack from evil forces known as "pirates." These shadowy folk silently steal source code and violate the GPL, infringing on the rights of GPL authors. They are nothing more than thieves getting a free ride off the work of others, and I for one am disgusted at the idea of it. As you can see in the previous article, clearly Slashdot is also sickened by the idea of copyright infringement and piracy.
Some have even called for a lawsuit against these pirate thieves. Suing individual infringers has always been a position that Slashdot and its readership has supported, so it's only fair that the original GPL authors protect their rights and safeguard their material from being stolen in the future. I think we should all support any lawsuits against these infringers to protect the rights of GPL authors everywhere.
I applaud Slashdot and its readers for always taking a proactive stance against piracy and copyright infringement in general, and I would like to join the cause against this "source code theft." Piracy is a major threat facing OSS today. Thankfully, Slashdot always seems to take the side of content creators and never on the side of pirates, freeloaders, and other thieves.
Harsh words? Well, as little as twelve years ago, there was a "silver age" of computer gaming where--for the most part--graphics were second place to gameplay, and cool multimedia (what they used to call "digital media") was just icing on the cake. That was back when most gamers were true geeks. Now most gamers are jocks and spoiled hobbyists who buy into graphics hype, and visuals are given top priority right up with gameplay, which often takes a hit (see Black & White and its sequel, or Doom 3) because those non-geek jerks have all the money. Yay.
I can't believe we live in a world where there is no Bullfrog, Westwood Studios, etc., and we're paying as much for our video cards as we are for whole new computers. This isn't the fun PC gaming I remember from the last decade. Remember when Command & Conquer and Warcraft II were the coolest things ever? Remember how life-changing Doom was? The games themselves were a blast to play. There was a lot more humor and brightness in games back then, too (even Doom...remember the bunny head?). Now everything is so damned macabre and super-serious.
I tried F.E.A.R. this weekend. It ran on my X800 XL pretty nicely. But I realized I was spending the whole game just marveling over visuals. The actual game sucks. It's a warehouse level repeated for the whole game, fighting the same troopers over and over, with Max Payne slowdown added in. But the visuals are pretty cool, so it will sell, and the cycle will continue.
This is the site that has the capability to cache links and not destroy people's bandwidth fees but just won't do it. Decency? Ha, you're asking the wrong people.
Whenever someone says "The iPod's screen is too small," I just remind them of the Gameboy Advance, which kids and adults alike don't seem to mind staring at for hours at a time.
I think it's just a mental paradigm shift for a lot of people to adjust from turning on a TV and flipping through channels to catch something, to downloading what you want to see and watching it whenever you want.
The reason is that Intel-based Macs will be able to run Windows. Think about that. Apple is now competing not just against Microsoft as a platform supplier, but against Dell as a hardware supplier for Windows. People who had platform-reliance reasons for not going Mac (for instance, real estate agents...there aren't any MLS apps on Mac) suddenly don't have them anymore. There is the great possibility of running Windows applications virtually in OS X (a recently reported Apple patent makes references to doing this), so you might not even have to dual-boot. And gamers will be able to play Half-Life 2.
By going Intel, Macs finally have a foot in the door. They're already growing in marketshare this year, so just think of what could happen when they're suddenly able to run Windows, the most dominant operating system in the world. Imagine the reliable hardware that is the PowerMac running Exchange in a business's server room. You get the idea now?:)
So, is anyone else getting tired of these Slashvertisement product announcements on the/. front page?
Geez, go to Digg.com for all the up to the minute tech news that you're missing if you only stick around here (the press is already labeling it a "Slashdot killer").
Thanks, guys. Seriously. Way to be responsible members of the internet community.
Is Zonk seriously suggesting that Slashdot is some sort of responsible member of the Internet community?
Christ, even Linus Torvalds hates you guys. You post false or exaggerated news, dupes, and you kill everybody's webservers and don't give any crap at all because you're busy getting money from page hits for your corporate employer, OSTG.
If only there were more non-Mac users like you around that time. For 10 years, Mac users had to listen to "You don't have a real operating system because there's no command prompt." When Windows 95 came out, all the sudden the GUI mattered, and then it was all about the Mac's marketshare and how they had few games.
If you ever wondered why so many Mac users are so snobby and elitist, it's because they've been listening to 15 years of crap from PC users who think it's normal to have to install antispyware and antivirus software to be "safe from the Web."
15% of the world's computers is barely having your foot in the door? Are you serious? Over 95% of the music you hear was recorded on a Mac. A growing number of feature films are being edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac. Apple's sales figures are the highest they've ever been, and this is before the Intel switch where suddenly Apple will be competing DIRECTLY with Dell--since Intel Macs will be able to run Windows.
Why would you buy a crippled Dell PC that can only run Windows when you could buy a Mac that could run both?
Dell sells music players, too. Both companies make computers and music players, so it's completely valid to compare them both.
Incidentally, Macs have been growing year over year more than Dell. In fact, Dell's financial future isn't so good since they missed predictions.
BTW, if Mac market share was any lower it would practically be a rounding error. That's a fact.
4.3% and growing. Install base of 15% according to IDC.
You're never going to see a Dell in a high-end photography room, an L.A. recording studio, a film editing room, etc.
They've had good fortune with the iPod line. And I'll give them credit for that. But there's no guarantee that that margin will last more than a year or two.
This same stupid thing has been said every year since the release of the iPod, the iMac, etc. Yet revenues keep on growin'. Why are there so many people absolutely ADAMANT that Apple "lose" in some way? Is it a disease? Something in the water?
Anyone remember when the cool TechTV channel started getting more and more gamer-oriented until it changed its name to G4? I'm curious when this "News For Nerds" site will finally change to "News For Gamers." The news quality is already piss-poor (gotta go to Digg.com just to get any relevant tech news). So I guess all that's left is Zonk's weekly gamer reviews, always 8/10.
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Somehow, Windows and OS X manage it.
You mean like how Outlook worms get called Windows worms on Slashdot?
You're all units in my game of Civilization IV. Those "pirates" were the barbarian Galleon unit trying to take on my uber destroyer unit. I used my Future Tech to take it out.
Yeah, and we call those "different attitudes" for different situations moral relativism, a.k.a. a double-standard. Complain about "stolen GPL code," but claim "piracy isn't theft!" Gotta love it.
The big complaint is that the beta testers were telling Microsoft, "Hey, there are still major issues here." And Microsoft shipped anyway to meet a shipping date and please shareholders instead of CUSTOMERS.
Now we see some Microsoft tools replying and breathlessly posting talking points as if that means anything. "Yeah, but VS2005 compiles the following list of architectures." It's like, what the hell does that have to do with the topic of this thread? We're not talking about the damn compiler anyway. The IDE is fucked up.
Let's examine your post. Instead of addressing the crashing and bugs mentioned in Mini's blog you:
1.) List the types of applications VS can compile, as if that has anything to do with anything
2.) List the architectures it can compile, as if that has anything to do with anything
3.) Breathlessly declare that we can try it free with the crippled Express Editions
4.) Decide all the criticism is just "blind hatred" without addressing any of it
And this gets upmodded to +5? My theory that militant Microsoft defenders are invading Slashdot is proven correct.
VS2005 is getting a service pack. Face it, you were fucking WRONG. You're a tool listing marketing talking points.
Thankfully, there's a culture of excellence in software design on the Mac (and a thriving shareware market you can actually make money in, unlike on Windows). If by crapware, though, you're referring to spyware, I dispute the claim that Windows' saturation is the cause of its woes. For instance, OS X has no open ports by default and doesn't even enable the root account. However, Windows users got to suffer through, for instance, Blaster as it took advantage of full access to RPC. Windows is a poorly designed system that everyone was hoping would get a rewrite with Longhorn. Unfortunately, that did not happen. It looks like the registry is never, ever going to die. That's too bad, because the consumers suffer because of it.
It's just that spyware and trojans just don't have anywhere to go on OS X, due mostly to built-in UNIX security measures. You can't even install something or have an app modify system settings without a quick password prompt.
Hello, you've won the "Slashdot OS X Typo" award.
You see, in every Apple article on Slashdot, someone always makes a typo when writing three simple letters: OS X. Scientists are divided as to why it's so difficult for Slashdotters to correctly spell this very simple combination of letters (pronounced "Oh Ess Ten," the tenth version of Mac OS).
Common typo variations are:
1.) OS-X
2.) OS/X
3.) OSx
4.) OSX
5.) OSX86
Related typos include:
6.) MAC (instead of Mac)
Yours, sir, is the first insane typo of many in the comments to come when it comes to typing three simple letters: OS X. Be grateful in your glorious splendor! You are a scholar and a gentleman. Good day.
The BSD subsystem is less relevant to the end user experience. OS X is really OpenStep APIs and other new technologies. OpenStep was originally designed as a sort of spec API set that could be installed on any operating system (it was even on Windows NT at one time).
As for malware, OS X actually has security measures, unlike Windows, which still has people using admin accounts in the year 2005. It's sad that the public has no IT knowledge and doesn't realize how insane and hilarious that is, especially after their computers started rebooting by themselves when Blaster made the rounds. It's actually kind of shocking how the American economy came to rely on something so...unreliable.
These are interesting times to be a Mac user. It's incredible to say it, but Apple is actually on the upswing after a decade of total Windows dominance. Dell's revenues and sales are down while Apple's keep growing beyond the industry average.
As a Mac user myself, I'll just say this. I don't want an Apple monopoly dominating computing; I would just like an Apple marketshare at around 35%-45% again. It would make for a much healthier market and would mean a lot more applications for Mac, instead of waiting a year later for a third-party port.
So before you Mac-hating Linux kids start flaming another Apple article, most of us just want less Windows domination. That wretched pile of crap has wasted more time and money on reboots, endless "configuration wizards," registry cleanings, spyware cleanings, resource-sucking antivirus software, and so on. It's so bad that a lot of normal people are afraid of computers and their difficulty--they don't realize it's Windows that is difficult. Computers don't have to be.
One thing threatening Open Source today--piracy.
As we have already seen, the GPL is under attack from evil forces known as "pirates." These shadowy folk silently steal source code and violate the GPL, infringing on the rights of GPL authors. They are nothing more than thieves getting a free ride off the work of others, and I for one am disgusted at the idea of it. As you can see in the previous article, clearly Slashdot is also sickened by the idea of copyright infringement and piracy.
Some have even called for a lawsuit against these pirate thieves. Suing individual infringers has always been a position that Slashdot and its readership has supported, so it's only fair that the original GPL authors protect their rights and safeguard their material from being stolen in the future. I think we should all support any lawsuits against these infringers to protect the rights of GPL authors everywhere.
I applaud Slashdot and its readers for always taking a proactive stance against piracy and copyright infringement in general, and I would like to join the cause against this "source code theft." Piracy is a major threat facing OSS today. Thankfully, Slashdot always seems to take the side of content creators and never on the side of pirates, freeloaders, and other thieves.
Wink, nudge, etc.
Gamers are idiots. They've ruined the industry.
Harsh words? Well, as little as twelve years ago, there was a "silver age" of computer gaming where--for the most part--graphics were second place to gameplay, and cool multimedia (what they used to call "digital media") was just icing on the cake. That was back when most gamers were true geeks. Now most gamers are jocks and spoiled hobbyists who buy into graphics hype, and visuals are given top priority right up with gameplay, which often takes a hit (see Black & White and its sequel, or Doom 3) because those non-geek jerks have all the money. Yay.
I can't believe we live in a world where there is no Bullfrog, Westwood Studios, etc., and we're paying as much for our video cards as we are for whole new computers. This isn't the fun PC gaming I remember from the last decade. Remember when Command & Conquer and Warcraft II were the coolest things ever? Remember how life-changing Doom was? The games themselves were a blast to play. There was a lot more humor and brightness in games back then, too (even Doom...remember the bunny head?). Now everything is so damned macabre and super-serious.
I tried F.E.A.R. this weekend. It ran on my X800 XL pretty nicely. But I realized I was spending the whole game just marveling over visuals. The actual game sucks. It's a warehouse level repeated for the whole game, fighting the same troopers over and over, with Max Payne slowdown added in. But the visuals are pretty cool, so it will sell, and the cycle will continue.
So ends this week's Overly Critical Rant.
This is the site that has the capability to cache links and not destroy people's bandwidth fees but just won't do it. Decency? Ha, you're asking the wrong people.
Whenever someone says "The iPod's screen is too small," I just remind them of the Gameboy Advance, which kids and adults alike don't seem to mind staring at for hours at a time.
I think it's just a mental paradigm shift for a lot of people to adjust from turning on a TV and flipping through channels to catch something, to downloading what you want to see and watching it whenever you want.
Why don't you take a look at this comment and get back to me?
Hi, Bill!
The reason is that Intel-based Macs will be able to run Windows. Think about that. Apple is now competing not just against Microsoft as a platform supplier, but against Dell as a hardware supplier for Windows. People who had platform-reliance reasons for not going Mac (for instance, real estate agents...there aren't any MLS apps on Mac) suddenly don't have them anymore. There is the great possibility of running Windows applications virtually in OS X (a recently reported Apple patent makes references to doing this), so you might not even have to dual-boot. And gamers will be able to play Half-Life 2.
:)
By going Intel, Macs finally have a foot in the door. They're already growing in marketshare this year, so just think of what could happen when they're suddenly able to run Windows, the most dominant operating system in the world. Imagine the reliable hardware that is the PowerMac running Exchange in a business's server room. You get the idea now?
So, is anyone else getting tired of these Slashvertisement product announcements on the /. front page?
Geez, go to Digg.com for all the up to the minute tech news that you're missing if you only stick around here (the press is already labeling it a "Slashdot killer").
Haha, you're pissed because Slashdot got FUCKING OWNED YET AGAIN.
This site is in the dumper. Go visit Digg.com for actual up to the minute tech news, where they now get 6 million visitors and growing.
Thanks, guys. Seriously. Way to be responsible members of the internet community.
Is Zonk seriously suggesting that Slashdot is some sort of responsible member of the Internet community?
Christ, even Linus Torvalds hates you guys. You post false or exaggerated news, dupes, and you kill everybody's webservers and don't give any crap at all because you're busy getting money from page hits for your corporate employer, OSTG.
If only there were more non-Mac users like you around that time. For 10 years, Mac users had to listen to "You don't have a real operating system because there's no command prompt." When Windows 95 came out, all the sudden the GUI mattered, and then it was all about the Mac's marketshare and how they had few games.
If you ever wondered why so many Mac users are so snobby and elitist, it's because they've been listening to 15 years of crap from PC users who think it's normal to have to install antispyware and antivirus software to be "safe from the Web."
Wow! CastrTroy on Slashdot says that's all this means! It must be true.
Meanwhile, Apple hardware kicks the butt of Dell's "break in nine months" el cheapo crap.
15% of the world's computers is barely having your foot in the door? Are you serious? Over 95% of the music you hear was recorded on a Mac. A growing number of feature films are being edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac. Apple's sales figures are the highest they've ever been, and this is before the Intel switch where suddenly Apple will be competing DIRECTLY with Dell--since Intel Macs will be able to run Windows.
Why would you buy a crippled Dell PC that can only run Windows when you could buy a Mac that could run both?
Dell sells music players, too. Both companies make computers and music players, so it's completely valid to compare them both.
Incidentally, Macs have been growing year over year more than Dell. In fact, Dell's financial future isn't so good since they missed predictions.
BTW, if Mac market share was any lower it would practically be a rounding error. That's a fact.
4.3% and growing. Install base of 15% according to IDC.
You're never going to see a Dell in a high-end photography room, an L.A. recording studio, a film editing room, etc.
They've had good fortune with the iPod line. And I'll give them credit for that. But there's no guarantee that that margin will last more than a year or two.
This same stupid thing has been said every year since the release of the iPod, the iMac, etc. Yet revenues keep on growin'. Why are there so many people absolutely ADAMANT that Apple "lose" in some way? Is it a disease? Something in the water?
Anyone remember when the cool TechTV channel started getting more and more gamer-oriented until it changed its name to G4? I'm curious when this "News For Nerds" site will finally change to "News For Gamers." The news quality is already piss-poor (gotta go to Digg.com just to get any relevant tech news). So I guess all that's left is Zonk's weekly gamer reviews, always 8/10.