Yay. This joke appears in every single Slashdot article now. You just change "For $699, SCO will sell you *item*" to whatever, and the mods will fall over themselves trying to set you up into the "+5 Funny" stratosphere.
Every Windows release has been grossly overhyped and called "revolutionary." Before WinXP came out, I heard people saying the same goddamn thing: "WinXP will be as big a change as Win95 was from 3.1!" It wasn't. It simply wasn't a major improvement or change from currently existing software.
Completely and utterly wrong.
Windows XP was intended to get home users off of the DOS kernel and onto the NT kernel. It was as big a change--if not bigger--than the move from Windows 3.1 to 95. Just because it wasn't a visual change doesn't mean it wasn't a technological one.
I don't see any point in being polite here. You're swallowing the entire load. You're a fucking cockchoker, just as bad as the "l00nix!!! penguin power" fucknuts and the frothing Apple zealots.
You seem to have some chip on your shoulder toward me simply because I point out the obvious truth that new versions of products offer improvements over their old ones. Longhorn will be a major improvement. Read up on it.
OS zealotry is refusing to see limitations.
When did I say Windows didn't have limitations?
Linux zealots say "WITH WINEX YOU CAN NOW ALMOST PLAY MORROWWIND AND IT ONLY CRASHES EVERY 2 MINUTES!!!" Apple zealots say "OS X IS UNIX BASED AND THE MOST POWERFUL OS EVER AND THE G5 IS THE FASTEST COMPUTER EVER AND STEVE JOBS IS HUNG LIKE A HORSE!!!" And Microsoft zealots say "THE NEW WINDOWS RELEASE WILL IMPROVE EVERYONE'S LIFE AND CURE CANCER!!! JUST LIKE.NET!!" Fucking morons, every one.
I know you're trying to play it tough and cool with the mocking overuse of caps and gratuitious profanity, but it really makes you come off as a lame idiot.
Right, because China will be so forthcoming with its own source code. It will follow the GPL to the letter. And there will be a way to stop it if it doesn't.
We're too busy playing "enlightened liberal" and trying to feel superior because we're against the grain by being overly critical of American actions and ignoring the atrocities of foreign countries! Stopping WWII after being attacked out of the blue (so much for isolationist America) is now an aggressive evil.
It's okay for Saddam to have stayed in power and continued torturing and stealing from his own people, because then we wouldn't have gone in "illegally" to overthrow their government.
Actually, the NT kernel is considered a very advanced piece of technology. I'd heard many developers blast the Linux kernel in comparison. It's all the cruft written on top that sometimes causes problems (just like in Linux, amusingly).
I'm not sure. The writing style and tone of the books is so different from the movies that the books take on a world of their own in my mind. The plots are more or less the same and the characters sometimes say the same things, but somehow it's different in context when I read the original books. Tolkien had a distinct writing style, particularly with the dialogue.
Playing Ogg Vorbis files via a plugin is how Winamp plays them. Winamp uses input plugins for various formats. It just happens to ship with support for Ogg Vorbis.
Sounds like a standard 50/50 indie split with no publishing monies available. They may not own the publishing (the record label) but they can prevent the artist from collecting mechanicals from them.
Also it's advertised they license the music for film/tv etc. It mentions it close to the 50% comment. If they license at 50% then it's a co-publishing deal and bets are there was little to no advance going for it.
Personally I don't think this label is anything innovative or revolutionary. It's a standard indie label situation. I don't want to comment on the quality of the artists or the obvious heavy weight given to public domain uses (how many classical artists are signed?)
I wish I didnt have to be negative about it but It's a poor attempt at cashing in on RIAA frustrations. They don't have enough acts or the quality of acts to fill the gap of any RIAA affiliated label.
My opinions on the "Creative Common" license is that it's a smoke screen. It provides rights that most US citizens have without it.
I can make derivitive works, perform it, display it (a class assignment of how I recorded a song with finished product played in class) and do most things the license explains as long as I don't profit commercially from it or some other gain (just like the license states).
The only thing that a Creative Common license from Magnatune allows for more than normal rights is distribution. I guarantee the second an artist on this label starts to sell real numbers that copy and distribution clause will disappear.
Smoke screen. Magnatune doesnt rip off artists because they don't make money to distribute back.
Sounds to me like you want as OS project that is open and free, that doesn't suck, that has all the resources and talent that MS has, that's not like Windows, that's secure, that's full of cool new technology and fits your particular way of doing things. Did I forget anything?
You're saying it's not surprising I got modded down for that? If so, it's reflective of one of the major flaws of the Linux community attitude. How dare I suggest something better than what we have.
Also almost all bugs referenced in your sig are for user applications and would not be considered part of the OS except in the Linux world.
If a distro ships holes, that distro has holes. It's called a distribution because it ships all that stuff under its name.
Apparently, you want me to ignore all the holes in OSS software, and just wait for the next "Microsoft hole" article so we can all bitch away.
Next.
Try comparing your list to all the security related bugs associated with all the popular Windows apps, utilities and games. Nobody even attempts to do that.
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Yay. This joke appears in every single Slashdot article now. You just change "For $699, SCO will sell you *item*" to whatever, and the mods will fall over themselves trying to set you up into the "+5 Funny" stratosphere.
I haven't seen a bluescreen in over six years. I stayed away from the 9x/DOS kernel.
Honestly, the whole "Windows always needs reboots" thing is done and over with. It died with the last decade.
So you're pissed that Hitler almost took over Europe, yet you're pissed that we took Hussein out of the Middle East.
Make up your mind regarding insane dictators.
Been there, done that AGES before Win95 was even considered.
Yep. It was called Windows 1.0. Oops.
Next.
The post was some obsessive anecdotes and something about "eye steak," as if something being called eye candy meant anything.
Visual cues are a standard, important requirement of modern graphical user interfaces. Decades of user research concludes so.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
.NET!!" Fucking morons, every one.
Every Windows release has been grossly overhyped and called "revolutionary." Before WinXP came out, I heard people saying the same goddamn thing: "WinXP will be as big a change as Win95 was from 3.1!" It wasn't. It simply wasn't a major improvement or change from currently existing software.
Completely and utterly wrong.
Windows XP was intended to get home users off of the DOS kernel and onto the NT kernel. It was as big a change--if not bigger--than the move from Windows 3.1 to 95. Just because it wasn't a visual change doesn't mean it wasn't a technological one.
I don't see any point in being polite here. You're swallowing the entire load. You're a fucking cockchoker, just as bad as the "l00nix!!! penguin power" fucknuts and the frothing Apple zealots.
You seem to have some chip on your shoulder toward me simply because I point out the obvious truth that new versions of products offer improvements over their old ones. Longhorn will be a major improvement. Read up on it.
OS zealotry is refusing to see limitations.
When did I say Windows didn't have limitations?
Linux zealots say "WITH WINEX YOU CAN NOW ALMOST PLAY MORROWWIND AND IT ONLY CRASHES EVERY 2 MINUTES!!!" Apple zealots say "OS X IS UNIX BASED AND THE MOST POWERFUL OS EVER AND THE G5 IS THE FASTEST COMPUTER EVER AND STEVE JOBS IS HUNG LIKE A HORSE!!!" And Microsoft zealots say "THE NEW WINDOWS RELEASE WILL IMPROVE EVERYONE'S LIFE AND CURE CANCER!!! JUST LIKE
I know you're trying to play it tough and cool with the mocking overuse of caps and gratuitious profanity, but it really makes you come off as a lame idiot.
Next.
So you'd rather the government be dependent on Linux systems where all the source code to everything is ALWAYS available to foreign nationals?
You'll bitch if it's Windows but you'll praise if it's Linux.
Right, because China will be so forthcoming with its own source code. It will follow the GPL to the letter. And there will be a way to stop it if it doesn't.
Laptops.
I have yet to even find another IDE that touches VS's debugger.
I haven't seen a bluescreen in four years.
We're too busy playing "enlightened liberal" and trying to feel superior because we're against the grain by being overly critical of American actions and ignoring the atrocities of foreign countries! Stopping WWII after being attacked out of the blue (so much for isolationist America) is now an aggressive evil.
It's okay for Saddam to have stayed in power and continued torturing and stealing from his own people, because then we wouldn't have gone in "illegally" to overthrow their government.
Actually, the NT kernel is considered a very advanced piece of technology. I'd heard many developers blast the Linux kernel in comparison. It's all the cruft written on top that sometimes causes problems (just like in Linux, amusingly).
"Insightful?" Crackhead mods, I swear.
I'm not sure. The writing style and tone of the books is so different from the movies that the books take on a world of their own in my mind. The plots are more or less the same and the characters sometimes say the same things, but somehow it's different in context when I read the original books. Tolkien had a distinct writing style, particularly with the dialogue.
Yeah, except that screens are either cropped or scaled, making the games visually awful and often unreadable.
The Gamecube has a carrying handle and is the smallest, lightest console out there. It's portable.
No, they won't. You can't put in something you didn't film.
Someone asks this in every LOTR article.
For the last time, Peter Jackson announced years ago that there would be no Scouring. They included an homage to it in the Mirror of Galadriel scene.
The reason is because he didn't want another story after the main climax.
Playing Ogg Vorbis files via a plugin is how Winamp plays them. Winamp uses input plugins for various formats. It just happens to ship with support for Ogg Vorbis.
Sounds like a standard 50/50 indie split with no publishing monies available. They may not own the publishing (the record label) but they can prevent the artist from collecting mechanicals from them.
Also it's advertised they license the music for film/tv etc. It mentions it close to the 50% comment. If they license at 50% then it's a co-publishing deal and bets are there was little to no advance going for it.
Personally I don't think this label is anything innovative or revolutionary. It's a standard indie label situation. I don't want to comment on the quality of the artists or the obvious heavy weight given to public domain uses (how many classical artists are signed?)
I wish I didnt have to be negative about it but It's a poor attempt at cashing in on RIAA frustrations. They don't have enough acts or the quality of acts to fill the gap of any RIAA affiliated label.
My opinions on the "Creative Common" license is that it's a smoke screen. It provides rights that most US citizens have without it.
I can make derivitive works, perform it, display it (a class assignment of how I recorded a song with finished product played in class) and do most things the license explains as long as I don't profit commercially from it or some other gain (just like the license states).
The only thing that a Creative Common license from Magnatune allows for more than normal rights is distribution. I guarantee the second an artist on this label starts to sell real numbers that copy and distribution clause will disappear.
Smoke screen. Magnatune doesnt rip off artists because they don't make money to distribute back.
Well, that was a pointless reply with no coherent thought.
What does that matter? You know about and use Linux because you're a hobbyist.
Most people have no idea what Linux even is.
It doesn't matter if you use Linux for everything.
You know about Linux and use it because you are a hobbyist.
Most people don't even know what Linux is.
Sounds to me like you want as OS project that is open and free, that doesn't suck, that has all the resources and talent that MS has, that's not like Windows, that's secure, that's full of cool new technology and fits your particular way of doing things. Did I forget anything?
You're saying it's not surprising I got modded down for that? If so, it's reflective of one of the major flaws of the Linux community attitude. How dare I suggest something better than what we have.
Also almost all bugs referenced in your sig are for user applications and would not be considered part of the OS except in the Linux world.
If a distro ships holes, that distro has holes. It's called a distribution because it ships all that stuff under its name.
Apparently, you want me to ignore all the holes in OSS software, and just wait for the next "Microsoft hole" article so we can all bitch away.
Next.
Try comparing your list to all the security related bugs associated with all the popular Windows apps, utilities and games. Nobody even attempts to do that.
People do it with IIS, Office, etc. all the time.