1.) Somehow, Microsoft is "forcing" you to click a link. 2.) This link you claim to be forced into clicking is something you don't even know exists or where.
How about because it's Microsoft's damn business what browser they decide to launch when a user clicks a music shopping link? Windows is their product. Users are free to use other browsers or operating systems if they'd like and NOT click their link. Nobody is holding anyone at gunpoint to click their link.
This is bogus. Konquerer is somehow okay to be used everywhere in KDE, but if Microsoft launches IE on a music-shopping link, they're "HIJACKING MUSIC-SHOPPING!"
Ah, you're of the camp that thinks the hokey cheese of the prequel trilogy is the same as the hokey cheese of the first trilogy.
I hate to burst your bubble, but it is absolutely, 100% not. Believe it or not, those first three movies had good acting, good dialogue, and stories we cared about! I don't care about blue-screened political meetings or CG ninja Yodas.
I, on the other hand, have no problem letting ANOTHER person tell HIS story the way he sees fit. I either like it or dislike it - I don't take it as a personal attack on my childhood.
Which means that you like whatever crap he turns out because it's "HIS." As if that absolves it of criticism.
Just last year, Linus said 2003 would be a year for desktop Linux.
Besides, 2.6 was also geared for server use, with its SMP and other improvements. We got some new schedulers that happened to snap things up for XFree86, but I haven't noticed a difference.
No, it's not. LANs are completely different from Linux being on the desktop. LANs were the next technological step in networking. Linux is behind two other major desktop systems--Windows and MacOS.
People keep saying it will be the year of the Linux desktop without explaining why or how. And they seem to pretend Windows and MacOS are magically going to halt progress or disappear in the meantime. People said Linux would take over when Longhorn's release date was pushed ahead, yet XP shows no signs of disappearing, and SP2 is even due out soon.
In 2010 when everyone is running Windows Longhorn's successor, I'll be sure to remember khasim's post predicting total Linux domination in six years. Microsoft and Apple are supposed to just magically disappear during all this, and all Windows progress is supposed to halt.
Look at all the people who proclaimed that Linux would "take over" now that Longhorn is a late '05 product. Yet, XP is clearly here to stay, with a major SP2 release coming up soon. It's amusing.
The problems of RPM-based systems are too numerous to list, but the fact that people love to throw out one-word solutions as though the problem is solved is what holds back desktop Linux.
Basically, what Slashdot is saying with this article summary is that articles that are pro-Linux are good and truthful, and articles that aren't pro-Linux and point things out are misguided and false and simply must be uneducated.
Bill Gates and Microsoft have freely stated they have everything from Solaris machines to Apple machines to Linux machines running in their company. It's not earth-shattering news.
Don't overestimate it, either. Windows 9x got along for years with a shitty DOS kernel, but the interface worked consistently and applications ran nicely.
You know, I hear that argument quite a bit. But Windows 9x -> XP had a learning curve.
What learning curve? Our XP boxes at work look exactly like Win98 boxes, aside from a Tahoma font on everything instead of whatever it was they used before.
Control Panel, My Computer, Recycle Bin--everything's in the same place and works like it always has. What are you talking about?
Look, people, Slashdot for some bizarre reason is making this into Disney shutting down a 2D studio. That's not why it's shut down. Eisner is a micro-managing freak and doesn't want to have to deal with managing a distant studio. They want to keep everything at home in one building.
This has nothing to do with "Disney shutting down a 2D studio!" 2D isn't the issue here. It's a management issue.
All this means is that Disney is shutting down the studio because they want all their animators in the same building, so Eisner can micro-manage them. This is well-known in the animation community. Disney wants to keep making animated pictures, it just wants to keep everything at home and not have to try to micro-manage to death a studio that's far away from them. Eisner's known to be an overbearing freak.
I never really understood why people bash slashdot on slashdot.
It's the same reason people living in a country can bash their government.
I mean, you've got nearly 2000 posts, yet you gladly call the site a "dork website"
So? Is dork an insult to you?
Slashdotters are not the majority, yet it is assumed that slashdotters make up the majority of slashdot, thusly we can relate to still playing with legos.
We're talking about Lego's future marketing plans. They have to cater to the majority, not the majority of Slashdot only. Think a little.
If he was giving serious advice, I'd be with you, but give the guy a chance to expres himself without bashing his hobby with the club of the almighty dollar.
Or, you can relax and realize nobody is "bashing" anybody's hobbies. Heaven forbid I express an opinion, 'lest I harm someone's fragile ego.
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hey mods. insightful does not mean insiteful.
And "insiteful" doesn't mean inciteful.
What are you saying, that he should be downmodded because you disagree with him for not holding the majority opinion around here?
Let me summarize your post:
1.) Somehow, Microsoft is "forcing" you to click a link.
2.) This link you claim to be forced into clicking is something you don't even know exists or where.
You're kidding, the defendant in a case doesn't proclaim from the rooftops that they're guilty? Who'd have thunk of it?
How about because it's Microsoft's damn business what browser they decide to launch when a user clicks a music shopping link? Windows is their product. Users are free to use other browsers or operating systems if they'd like and NOT click their link. Nobody is holding anyone at gunpoint to click their link.
This is bogus. Konquerer is somehow okay to be used everywhere in KDE, but if Microsoft launches IE on a music-shopping link, they're "HIJACKING MUSIC-SHOPPING!"
This has to be the most biased, propagandaistic headline I've ever seen run on Slashdot.
OMG! It launches IE! That's HIJACKING MUSIC-SHOPPING!
Jesus, get a girlfriend.
Ah, you're of the camp that thinks the hokey cheese of the prequel trilogy is the same as the hokey cheese of the first trilogy.
I hate to burst your bubble, but it is absolutely, 100% not. Believe it or not, those first three movies had good acting, good dialogue, and stories we cared about! I don't care about blue-screened political meetings or CG ninja Yodas.
I, on the other hand, have no problem letting ANOTHER person tell HIS story the way he sees fit. I either like it or dislike it - I don't take it as a personal attack on my childhood.
Which means that you like whatever crap he turns out because it's "HIS." As if that absolves it of criticism.
Just last year, Linus said 2003 would be a year for desktop Linux.
Besides, 2.6 was also geared for server use, with its SMP and other improvements. We got some new schedulers that happened to snap things up for XFree86, but I haven't noticed a difference.
This is really insightful.
No, it's not. LANs are completely different from Linux being on the desktop. LANs were the next technological step in networking. Linux is behind two other major desktop systems--Windows and MacOS.
People keep saying it will be the year of the Linux desktop without explaining why or how. And they seem to pretend Windows and MacOS are magically going to halt progress or disappear in the meantime. People said Linux would take over when Longhorn's release date was pushed ahead, yet XP shows no signs of disappearing, and SP2 is even due out soon.
In 2010 when everyone is running Windows Longhorn's successor, I'll be sure to remember khasim's post predicting total Linux domination in six years. Microsoft and Apple are supposed to just magically disappear during all this, and all Windows progress is supposed to halt.
Look at all the people who proclaimed that Linux would "take over" now that Longhorn is a late '05 product. Yet, XP is clearly here to stay, with a major SP2 release coming up soon. It's amusing.
The burden is on Linux because it all works in Windows. That's what users care about. Next question.
The problems of RPM-based systems are too numerous to list, but the fact that people love to throw out one-word solutions as though the problem is solved is what holds back desktop Linux.
Basically, what Slashdot is saying with this article summary is that articles that are pro-Linux are good and truthful, and articles that aren't pro-Linux and point things out are misguided and false and simply must be uneducated.
And people accuse Microsoft of bias.
You honestly think "up2date -u in a cron job" compares with having a nice, organized website that lets you choose updates to install (Windows Update)?
Man, Linux is never going to win at this with the UNIX legacy-heads obsessing over the command line even in the year 2004.
Bill Gates and Microsoft have freely stated they have everything from Solaris machines to Apple machines to Linux machines running in their company. It's not earth-shattering news.
Try plugging in a simple USB camera and see how that goes.
The human interface design has a lot more to do with a GUI than the kernel beneath it. Example: Windows 98.
Don't overestimate it, either. Windows 9x got along for years with a shitty DOS kernel, but the interface worked consistently and applications ran nicely.
You know, I hear that argument quite a bit. But Windows 9x -> XP had a learning curve.
What learning curve? Our XP boxes at work look exactly like Win98 boxes, aside from a Tahoma font on everything instead of whatever it was they used before.
Control Panel, My Computer, Recycle Bin--everything's in the same place and works like it always has. What are you talking about?
Bill Gates never said that. He's refuted it numerous times.
Besides, in 1982, that was probably true. In 1982, nobody would ever need more than 640kb.
This is yet another article on "the state of Linux on the desktop," and yet again, we're told this year will be "the year."
I've been hear that since at least 1998, every year.
Where did they "hint that they are killing Mindstorm?" Oh, they didn't--only Slashdot did? I see.
Look, people, Slashdot for some bizarre reason is making this into Disney shutting down a 2D studio. That's not why it's shut down. Eisner is a micro-managing freak and doesn't want to have to deal with managing a distant studio. They want to keep everything at home in one building.
This has nothing to do with "Disney shutting down a 2D studio!" 2D isn't the issue here. It's a management issue.
All this means is that Disney is shutting down the studio because they want all their animators in the same building, so Eisner can micro-manage them. This is well-known in the animation community. Disney wants to keep making animated pictures, it just wants to keep everything at home and not have to try to micro-manage to death a studio that's far away from them. Eisner's known to be an overbearing freak.
I never really understood why people bash slashdot on slashdot.
It's the same reason people living in a country can bash their government.
I mean, you've got nearly 2000 posts, yet you gladly call the site a "dork website"
So? Is dork an insult to you?
Slashdotters are not the majority, yet it is assumed that slashdotters make up the majority of slashdot, thusly we can relate to still playing with legos.
We're talking about Lego's future marketing plans. They have to cater to the majority, not the majority of Slashdot only. Think a little.
If he was giving serious advice, I'd be with you, but give the guy a chance to expres himself without bashing his hobby with the club of the almighty dollar.
Or, you can relax and realize nobody is "bashing" anybody's hobbies. Heaven forbid I express an opinion, 'lest I harm someone's fragile ego.