Are all the people who posted in the last article that "See, piracy doesn't affect gaming and even helps it" going to now revise their opinions? Or are they going to continue to believe every Slashdot headline that comes down the pike that bolster their already formed opinions?
Anyone wonder why it takes 40 million lines of code to do what 5.7 million do?
The Windows kernel, based on VMS, is smaller in size than the monolithic Linux kernel.
And no, that doesn't include "all of Microsoft's applications."
Yes, it does.
What "included applications" were you referring to? Notepad? Gimme a break...
How many lines of code is X-Windows? And GNOME? And all the Linux drivers? Windows is a kernel, a HAL, a graphical subsystem, a desktop environment, a shitload of APIs and DLLs, and basically every other desktop component that currently makes up GNOME/KDE/X-Windows/Linux. Yet the comparison only cited Linux and not the rest.
Linux is written by programmers who obviously love programming, since they work on it in their spare time outside their normal programming jobs.
You are obviously a fanboy. We know what Linux programmers are like.
Windows is written by 24-year-old recent college CS graduates who have no fucking clue how to do anything - managed by "product managers" who have even less clue - managed by corporate execs who are KNOWN ASSHOLES!
Stop by Microsoft sometime for a job interview. We'll see if you stand shoulder to shoulder with Microsoft's engineers. Ever compared the level of desktop Linux to the level of, say, Windows 95 from nine years ago?
Mod me troll, mod this flamebait! Is that all you got, huh? Are you nuts? Come at me!
This place has become the pirate's haven. Anything a copyright holder does to protect their content is evil and wrong (except in "GPL source code theft" articles).
Back in 2000, Napster was being sued, and guess what everyone, including Taco, was saying? They should sue the individual infringers! Now, that is reasonable and it sounds like they must not be pirates because they're supporting the shutdown of pirates, right? This was the Slashdot partyline all throughout the Napster trial, in every single article.
Wrong. People said that because they figured they couldn't do it. How could they enforce a P2P network and sue millions of people? Surely, they could never do it, so I'll just tell them to do something I think is impossible. Well, they just went right out and did it anyway, suing hundreds of thousands of people at a time, exactly like Slashdotters recommended just a few years ago.
And yet, what do we see now? People bitching! This is because the original goal of saying they should sue individual downloaders was not borne out of valid concern for copyright holder rights, it was out of concern for protecting piracy by suggesting they do something we all thought they couldn't do. So when they end up doing it after all, suddenly they're bad guys again.
There is absolutely no legal or moral justification for piracy. Nobody on Slashdot has ever, ever given a valid reason. Most of the "+5 Insightful" posts have been college dorm room kids going on and on about some imagined "culture movement." Instead, what has happened is that a bunch of kids have taken over this site, confused the ideals of "free" with regards to the GNU movement and applied them to the "free" of the commercial world, assuming that we should get EVERYTHING for free just because they downloaded Mandrake for the first time and it didn't cost them a thing. Slashdot tells them that the MPAA is evil, so they go along with it. It's a "news for nerds" site after all. It should know, right?
A lot of today's geeks are basing their worldview entirely on Slashdot headlines. Yet the regulars here know that Slashdot paints a false portrait of reality. There is nothing wrong with going after people who are pirating. And the next time someone "steals" GPL source code, remember that you bitch in the MPAA article that "piracy isn't theft," that "the MPAA are bogeymen," and whatever propaganda phrases you've concocted to convince yourself that you're not a bad person and you're not doing anything wrong.
Wow, that shows how uninformed you are. Outlook Express ships on every version of Windows and comes with Internet Explorer. If you honestly believe Outlook isn't the dominant e-mail client along with IE...well, nothing I can say. Just watch for another major trojan to go around that spreads through Outlook due to its market share and get back to me.
However, many people are so worked up over this election and the results of the last one that I believe we'll see the highest percentage of young voters in a long time. Most younger voters lean more towards the left.
Channel One, which has never failed in predicting elections, had Bush up by 10. Also, Weekly Reader had Bush winning, and they have never been wrong either.
You should never assume which way a demographic will vote. Bush is even up among blacks by twice the amount he was in 2000.
According to Real Clear Politics which averages the results of all recent major polls, Bush has been ahead by at least two points for almost the entire month.
It's typical of a candidate supporter to claim the polls are "skewed" when they're not going a certain way that they like. If the polls showed Kerry up, you wouldn't even be posting this.
As far as cheating/manipulation goes, various liberal groups around the country are being investigated for voter registration fraud, including in Colorado where they sold crack for registrations.
Apparently, every single vote MUST count to Democrats. Well, except if it's a vote for Nader. I should also mention that the Bush camp admitted today that their internal poll numbers show Bush up by three points and that they expect Bush to win by that many. The recent CBS/NewYorkTimes poll also shows Bush +3. The Kerry camp wouldn't reveal their numbers and stated they "don't discuss internal polling."
I remember you quite well, actually (your writing style gives you away). As I recall, I quite easily kicked your ass and even had several mods on my side. Nothing like a little self-delusional compliment to bolster your ego.
It's hilarious that discussion threads like these pop up when you do a search for "Overly Critical Guy."
All studies conducted show that over 80% of journalists report themselves as Democrats. Mary Mapes even contacted the Kerry campaign to put them in touch with the memo source! Come on.
Does anybody outside the niche Gnome/KDE/OSS communities even care about Ogg Theora? It's all about DivX/XVid and WMV from what I'm seeing.
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There aren't any viruses in these scripts, and I doubt they would make it to the front page on Slashdot without someone actually downloading and running them to see what they are.
There isn't a virus in the file, but the more relevant question is--you actually believe Slashdot has an editorial process?
No, but it's a pretty big indicator, seeing as how Google is the biggest search engine on the Internet, and it's such a Linux-oriented company that fanboys love so much.
Nice dodge. Your links didn't answer my questions (not that I expected them to).
Cite a single example of a patch that "ate the registry." Explain why you pretended Automatic Updates didn't exist, and when your ass was called on it, you backtracked and went on a raving rant on patches.
Seriously, it could take pages to answer why the mainstream stays far away from Linux--and that's the section NOT dealing with the fact Windows is a monopoly marketshare installed on new computers by default.
Google Zeitgeist shows Linux usage at 1%. Compare to OS X's 5%. Remember that article claiming Linux desktop usage would overtake the Mac's within the year? Yeah, I quickly forgot about it too.
The summary mentions recent events that would keep you off of Windows, linking to the article about infected Windows machines.
What would someone infecting their computer by opening an attachment or not patching have to do with my running Windows or not? If someone else wants to be ignorant and fuck up their computer, that has nothing to do with me.
Plenty of Linux distros ship with an exploitable sshd, many on by default. So fucking what? I know how to firewall and protect my machine.
The fact that some moron's computer is being used as a spamming zombie doesn't mean I won't use Windows when I need to. Why would it? I don't see how linking to that is supportive of the case.
Even if there is a fair bit of petty squabling, there is a healthy, competitive open source community, and a GREAT deal more hands on/friendly service out there.
Sure, if you call "RTFM" or "Here's a paragraph of arcane command-line text to type, blahblahblah...see? Told you Linux had its own solution for what in Windows takes a single checkbox" hands-on and friendly.
The only place Microsoft is having "serious image problems" is on Slashdot, a fervent anti-Microsoft website. Outside of Slashdot, most people don't know what "M$," "RIAA," or even "Linux" are.
Much of the animosity between Islam and the other "Peoples of the Book" stems from historical incidents in Muhammed's lifetime. Muhammed didn't get too far with the leaders of either religion when he asked them to recognise the kinship of Judaism/Christianity and Islam....
Doesn't seem like Islamic fundamentalists are doing much in the way of playing "kinship" with others these days...
Debian, Gnome, Gentoo, GNU (twice), Savannah, and more all being hacked within the last year might suggest a little validity to my opinions. But you're welcome to disagree...
Please also make sure it's at least as fast as XFree86 (not an easy task)
XFree86 is NOT fast. Holy christ.
, as extensible as X11 (which now makes effective use of hardware features that were undreamed-of 20 years ago)
Congratulations, you got the ability to change resolutions on the fly and are just getting around to translucency! Meanwhile, OS X and Windows are already moving onto full 3D acceleration.
, as easy to program with as GTK and Qt
GTK and QT are far from easy to program, and they are one of some 20 libraries for developing apps. Instead of just one library.
, as portable as XFree86 and supports as many video cards as XFree86.
You're right. Nobody should ever replace anything because you might end up supporting less video cards on your first release! Let's stick with broken technology.
Making it easier to configure would be good, but X.org will probably beat you to that.
I seriously doubt it. After decades of XFree86 development, we've got what--XConfigurator?
Making it less resource-intensive would be good, also
So much for those "fast" claims.
but the various projects working on making X servers that run on tiny hardware platforms will probably beat you to that, too.
Yeah, there are about 50 "various projects" always working on something. We'll wait and see when the 1.0 releases come out, shall we?
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Are all the people who posted in the last article that "See, piracy doesn't affect gaming and even helps it" going to now revise their opinions? Or are they going to continue to believe every Slashdot headline that comes down the pike that bolster their already formed opinions?
And 93% of all statistics are completely made up!
I hereby dub the fantastic term "McMagic" to be the official description of any Hollywood attempts at fantasy. Freakin' great.
People who use the word "posit" so many times desperately need to get laid. At the least, touch a boob.
Okay, kid, I'll bite.
Anyone wonder why it takes 40 million lines of code to do what 5.7 million do?
The Windows kernel, based on VMS, is smaller in size than the monolithic Linux kernel.
And no, that doesn't include "all of Microsoft's applications."
Yes, it does.
What "included applications" were you referring to? Notepad? Gimme a break...
How many lines of code is X-Windows? And GNOME? And all the Linux drivers? Windows is a kernel, a HAL, a graphical subsystem, a desktop environment, a shitload of APIs and DLLs, and basically every other desktop component that currently makes up GNOME/KDE/X-Windows/Linux. Yet the comparison only cited Linux and not the rest.
Linux is written by programmers who obviously love programming, since they work on it in their spare time outside their normal programming jobs.
You are obviously a fanboy. We know what Linux programmers are like.
Windows is written by 24-year-old recent college CS graduates who have no fucking clue how to do anything - managed by "product managers" who have even less clue - managed by corporate execs who are KNOWN ASSHOLES!
Stop by Microsoft sometime for a job interview. We'll see if you stand shoulder to shoulder with Microsoft's engineers. Ever compared the level of desktop Linux to the level of, say, Windows 95 from nine years ago?
Mod me troll, mod this flamebait! Is that all you got, huh? Are you nuts? Come at me!
I guess Flamebait.
This place has become the pirate's haven. Anything a copyright holder does to protect their content is evil and wrong (except in "GPL source code theft" articles).
Back in 2000, Napster was being sued, and guess what everyone, including Taco, was saying? They should sue the individual infringers! Now, that is reasonable and it sounds like they must not be pirates because they're supporting the shutdown of pirates, right? This was the Slashdot partyline all throughout the Napster trial, in every single article.
Wrong. People said that because they figured they couldn't do it. How could they enforce a P2P network and sue millions of people? Surely, they could never do it, so I'll just tell them to do something I think is impossible. Well, they just went right out and did it anyway, suing hundreds of thousands of people at a time, exactly like Slashdotters recommended just a few years ago.
And yet, what do we see now? People bitching! This is because the original goal of saying they should sue individual downloaders was not borne out of valid concern for copyright holder rights, it was out of concern for protecting piracy by suggesting they do something we all thought they couldn't do. So when they end up doing it after all, suddenly they're bad guys again.
There is absolutely no legal or moral justification for piracy. Nobody on Slashdot has ever, ever given a valid reason. Most of the "+5 Insightful" posts have been college dorm room kids going on and on about some imagined "culture movement." Instead, what has happened is that a bunch of kids have taken over this site, confused the ideals of "free" with regards to the GNU movement and applied them to the "free" of the commercial world, assuming that we should get EVERYTHING for free just because they downloaded Mandrake for the first time and it didn't cost them a thing. Slashdot tells them that the MPAA is evil, so they go along with it. It's a "news for nerds" site after all. It should know, right?
A lot of today's geeks are basing their worldview entirely on Slashdot headlines. Yet the regulars here know that Slashdot paints a false portrait of reality. There is nothing wrong with going after people who are pirating. And the next time someone "steals" GPL source code, remember that you bitch in the MPAA article that "piracy isn't theft," that "the MPAA are bogeymen," and whatever propaganda phrases you've concocted to convince yourself that you're not a bad person and you're not doing anything wrong.
Wow, that shows how uninformed you are. Outlook Express ships on every version of Windows and comes with Internet Explorer. If you honestly believe Outlook isn't the dominant e-mail client along with IE...well, nothing I can say. Just watch for another major trojan to go around that spreads through Outlook due to its market share and get back to me.
However, many people are so worked up over this election and the results of the last one that I believe we'll see the highest percentage of young voters in a long time. Most younger voters lean more towards the left.
Channel One, which has never failed in predicting elections, had Bush up by 10. Also, Weekly Reader had Bush winning, and they have never been wrong either.
You should never assume which way a demographic will vote. Bush is even up among blacks by twice the amount he was in 2000.
According to Real Clear Politics which averages the results of all recent major polls, Bush has been ahead by at least two points for almost the entire month.
It's typical of a candidate supporter to claim the polls are "skewed" when they're not going a certain way that they like. If the polls showed Kerry up, you wouldn't even be posting this.
As far as cheating/manipulation goes, various liberal groups around the country are being investigated for voter registration fraud, including in Colorado where they sold crack for registrations.
Apparently, every single vote MUST count to Democrats. Well, except if it's a vote for Nader. I should also mention that the Bush camp admitted today that their internal poll numbers show Bush up by three points and that they expect Bush to win by that many. The recent CBS/NewYorkTimes poll also shows Bush +3. The Kerry camp wouldn't reveal their numbers and stated they "don't discuss internal polling."
I remember you quite well, actually (your writing style gives you away). As I recall, I quite easily kicked your ass and even had several mods on my side. Nothing like a little self-delusional compliment to bolster your ego.
It's hilarious that discussion threads like these pop up when you do a search for "Overly Critical Guy."
Two words--Dan Rather.
All studies conducted show that over 80% of journalists report themselves as Democrats. Mary Mapes even contacted the Kerry campaign to put them in touch with the memo source! Come on.
Scrolling down, I already see a trend.
Everybody who bashes Bush gets modded up "+5 Insightful" or "Interesting." Those opposed get skipped over (or in a few cases modded down).
Hmm. Just pointing out...
Does anybody outside the niche Gnome/KDE/OSS communities even care about Ogg Theora? It's all about DivX/XVid and WMV from what I'm seeing.
There aren't any viruses in these scripts, and I doubt they would make it to the front page on Slashdot without someone actually downloading and running them to see what they are.
There isn't a virus in the file, but the more relevant question is--you actually believe Slashdot has an editorial process?
No, but it's a pretty big indicator, seeing as how Google is the biggest search engine on the Internet, and it's such a Linux-oriented company that fanboys love so much.
Nice dodge. Your links didn't answer my questions (not that I expected them to).
Cite a single example of a patch that "ate the registry." Explain why you pretended Automatic Updates didn't exist, and when your ass was called on it, you backtracked and went on a raving rant on patches.
Next.
What keeps you off of Linux?
Seriously, it could take pages to answer why the mainstream stays far away from Linux--and that's the section NOT dealing with the fact Windows is a monopoly marketshare installed on new computers by default.
Google Zeitgeist shows Linux usage at 1%. Compare to OS X's 5%. Remember that article claiming Linux desktop usage would overtake the Mac's within the year? Yeah, I quickly forgot about it too.
The summary mentions recent events that would keep you off of Windows, linking to the article about infected Windows machines.
What would someone infecting their computer by opening an attachment or not patching have to do with my running Windows or not? If someone else wants to be ignorant and fuck up their computer, that has nothing to do with me.
Plenty of Linux distros ship with an exploitable sshd, many on by default. So fucking what? I know how to firewall and protect my machine.
The fact that some moron's computer is being used as a spamming zombie doesn't mean I won't use Windows when I need to. Why would it? I don't see how linking to that is supportive of the case.
Finnish kung-fu?
Thank god nobody here is a professional comedian. People would be gouging their eyes out to get away.
I haven't seen this much dick-sucking in a porn video.
Even if there is a fair bit of petty squabling, there is a healthy, competitive open source community, and a GREAT deal more hands on/friendly service out there.
Sure, if you call "RTFM" or "Here's a paragraph of arcane command-line text to type, blahblahblah...see? Told you Linux had its own solution for what in Windows takes a single checkbox" hands-on and friendly.
The only place Microsoft is having "serious image problems" is on Slashdot, a fervent anti-Microsoft website. Outside of Slashdot, most people don't know what "M$," "RIAA," or even "Linux" are.
Much of the animosity between Islam and the other "Peoples of the Book" stems from historical incidents in Muhammed's lifetime. Muhammed didn't get too far with the leaders of either religion when he asked them to recognise the kinship of Judaism/Christianity and Islam....
Doesn't seem like Islamic fundamentalists are doing much in the way of playing "kinship" with others these days...
No, "FUD" is the common man's insult here on Slashdot, used to dismiss anything as just a ploy or a falsehood.
I merely point out that it's not "FUD" for a company to discourage piracy of its own product.
Debian, Gnome, Gentoo, GNU (twice), Savannah, and more all being hacked within the last year might suggest a little validity to my opinions. But you're welcome to disagree...
Let us know when you've finished implementing the replacement.
Yes, because you can't bring up criticism of anything unless you're a programmer. That'll bring these projects to the masses.
Don't forget the network transparency.
Y-Windows.
Please also make sure it's at least as fast as XFree86 (not an easy task)
XFree86 is NOT fast. Holy christ.
, as extensible as X11 (which now makes effective use of hardware features that were undreamed-of 20 years ago)
Congratulations, you got the ability to change resolutions on the fly and are just getting around to translucency! Meanwhile, OS X and Windows are already moving onto full 3D acceleration.
, as easy to program with as GTK and Qt
GTK and QT are far from easy to program, and they are one of some 20 libraries for developing apps. Instead of just one library.
, as portable as XFree86 and supports as many video cards as XFree86.
You're right. Nobody should ever replace anything because you might end up supporting less video cards on your first release! Let's stick with broken technology.
Making it easier to configure would be good, but X.org will probably beat you to that.
I seriously doubt it. After decades of XFree86 development, we've got what--XConfigurator?
Making it less resource-intensive would be good, also
So much for those "fast" claims.
but the various projects working on making X servers that run on tiny hardware platforms will probably beat you to that, too.
Yeah, there are about 50 "various projects" always working on something. We'll wait and see when the 1.0 releases come out, shall we?
Anyway, happy hacking!
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