Why do I get the feeling that if Linux had some major malfunction, people would be defending it as not liable? Remember the series of major flaws in the 2.4.x series, including the filsystem corrupter?
Should we get rid of speeding laws? Drinking and driving? Any other crimes? A "sizable percentage of the population" does a lot of stuff, but that still doesn't give you the right to decide for artists how they present their music, and not compensate them for it.
"But they make their money in concert sales!" That's not your right to decide for them (and it's blatantly false anyway, a battlecry for people who need to justify downloading music in their minds).
Let's not forget that SCO is trying to hijack the work of thousands.
It's volunteer work. Get over it. Nobody is hurting over this. If all those thousands were making a living doing this, that'd be a different beast entirely. Even so, the point is moot because it's ridiculous to expect people to quit because of some silly Linux battle.
You people are so out of touch. You have no perspective. Months of daily SCO articles has affected you to the point of foaming-at-the-mouth fanatics who think this is the biggest epic corporate battle there ever was. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but very, very few people even give much of a shit about this. It's not that legendary, it won't have major consequences (if SCO wins, people will just change the infringing code and go on), and it's not that big a deal.
They are trying to collect from all Linux users. That's rather disturbing. It's a little different than a smear campaign against Linux.
It's still no reason to have your kids starve. You do realize that jobs are scarce, right? I bet you're not married, don't have children, and probably haven't even gotten out of college yet, or at the least have had only a few jobs. Sorry, but you're being ignorant.
Also, let's not forget that Chrisd is not required to hire you just because you worked at SCO.
Nobody said he was. What's your point? It's still childish for him to not hire if you've worked at SCO.
His note doesn't say whether he has actually had any SCO applicants either. No one at SCO is going to go hungry because Chris isn't hiring.
Doesn't change the point made that it is childish.
In fact, this whole stupid GPL battle is quite silly. And it's insane that people think they should leave their jobs over Darl's stupidity. This isn't the Third Reich or anything.
Christ, you fucks. Get some perspective. I GUARANTEE all of you who are criticizing aren't married, don't have children, and most likely aren't even out of college yet, or have just landed your first job. Your tune will change in the real world.
Rock on. I will definitely be trying the new KDE then (and the new GNOME) because I want to give them a chance. I'm particularly interested in the progress of kicker's replacement, Slicker, which looks to be the first actually innovative, non-copycat desktop feature for Linux that I've seen.
Though someone thinks my parent post is "Flamebait," it's not. Longhorn is due out late 2004/early 2005. It's dangerous to think Microsoft is just sitting on its thumbs as OSS gains ground, and it's silly to think current desktop environments and apps are "good enough." Microsoft is already moving forward into future territory, progressing beyond today's 2D environments that we've had since the 80s.
Oh, please. Microsoft is busy hardware-accelerating their desktop, adding complete vector scaling, replacing Win32 with.NET, and creating a much-talked-about new photorealistic interface called Aero that nobody knows anything about yet. There are so many revolutionary new features of Longhorn that I can't list them all, from XML scripted modular installs to WinFS (which kicks the crap out of BeOS' pseudo-database filesystem).
I'm sorry, but Visual Studio.NET 2003 is still the absolute best IDE out there for development. The debugging capabilities alone are fantastic. Last I tried KDevelop, it kept crying for the documentation packages, which my distro didn't install because you apparently need the source code to have them. Bizarre.
As a desktop, KDE is very slow for me, so I use GNOME which is only a little better. KDE is too busy adding tons more crappy K-something apps to that mess of a menu while Microsoft is busy implementing the next generation of desktops. Maybe in another five years, KDE will finally catch up.:P
Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank, it'll give you a false sense of security in this country with the highest crime rates in the developed world.
Actually, we're lower than England. And criminals have a higher chance of being prosecuted here.
If you make guns illegal, only criminals will have them. They won't care about "gun laws."
Give Linux the insane amount of marketshare Windows has and we'll see how many buffer overflows and remote code exploits we find in all the Linux distros after just a month. Read my sig. Or install Red Hat 9 sometime and marvel at the errata security fix list.
Yes, that's right. No OS is 100% secure. Especially not Linux. Maybe OpenBSD.;)
This is after about a week of Windows Update not working because at some point it screwed itself-- the "New Windows Update Software required" dialog kept coming up in place of anything useful.
Whatever. It's been working for me and all machines I administer.
This was the most moronic thing I've read. Figures it'd get modded up.
If you gave away 10,000 copies, why would anybody buy it? They already have it, and they got it without paying for it.
File-sharing isn't a medium for marketing. It's copyright infringement. Nobody gave permission for you to be trading artists' material, and you DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT to decide for them, either. Legally...or morally.
Of course you think file-sharing has more positives than negatives. You obviously are a downloader, used to the convenience of years of mp3-downloading. Meanwhile, you're grabbing people's music without compensation. I'm sure they don't share your appreciation for that idea, seeing as how they make they're living and all through it.
People have twisted file-sharing into some anti-RIAA movement, trying to push out the artist in the equation, forgetting that it's their material you're getting for free, illegally. That's why you see so many anti-RIAA posts. It's everyone trying to justify this thing in their minds. It's sad. It degenerates to the point where you get crap like what you wrote--file-sharing being another form of "marketing." Yeah, some marketing. They've already gotten the product!
Amusingly enough, Keanu Reeves gave up millions of his salary to the special effects team on the Matrix sequels when the studio was concerned that ticket sales wouldn't cover the cost.
Perhaps it doesn't look real because a thousand copies of the same guy battling a helicopter-spinning guy in a trenchcoat doesn't look very real to start with.
Nothing is really supposed to look all that real in the Matrix.
But they were too busy trying to top their CGI that they forgot to come up with a good plot.
The plot was there. It was very, very symbolic. We've been told Revolutions caps it all off.
Seriously, visit some Matrix forums and find out all the symbolism behind every scene, including the action.
Matrix Reloaded is just one big setup for the third film, the "true" sequel we've been waiting for since the first one, the battle between the humans and machines.
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It's call intellectual property theft, moron. It's what this whole thing's about.
Declare it bullshit because you disagree. The Slashbot way.
First, there's no WAY you were running Windows XP "just fine" on 64MB.
Compaq 500mhz, 64MB of RAM, 5GB hard drive. I later upgraded to 128MB of RAM three months later.
No modern OS, be it Linux, FreeBSD, or Windows XP, can run with a full graphical interface and still be "just fine" on 64MB of RAM.
That must be a reflection on the resource-hogging of Linux desktop environments then because I did it just fine. I don't know what else to tell you. It was quite usable. I even used it to run 3D Studio Max 3.1.
If the Major Lables start reacting to what the public is actualy listening to...
Um, guess what people are buying? Why do you think certain artists appear in top 10 spots? Because people buy that shit. Regardless of whether or not the geek clique at Slashdot approves of it or not....instead of trying to convince people to buy a product thaey have produced.
It's called advertising and distribution. You did realize that's what record labels are for, right?
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Why do I get the feeling that if Linux had some major malfunction, people would be defending it as not liable? Remember the series of major flaws in the 2.4.x series, including the filsystem corrupter?
But when it's Microsoft...well, you know.
Should we get rid of speeding laws? Drinking and driving? Any other crimes? A "sizable percentage of the population" does a lot of stuff, but that still doesn't give you the right to decide for artists how they present their music, and not compensate them for it.
"But they make their money in concert sales!" That's not your right to decide for them (and it's blatantly false anyway, a battlecry for people who need to justify downloading music in their minds).
Yeah. We haven't heard this "joke" before, countless times before, in endless SCO articles.
Oh, but you posted it as the Darl McBride account. So you get modded up because that's so funny!
Let's not forget that SCO is trying to hijack the work of thousands.
It's volunteer work. Get over it. Nobody is hurting over this. If all those thousands were making a living doing this, that'd be a different beast entirely. Even so, the point is moot because it's ridiculous to expect people to quit because of some silly Linux battle.
You people are so out of touch. You have no perspective. Months of daily SCO articles has affected you to the point of foaming-at-the-mouth fanatics who think this is the biggest epic corporate battle there ever was. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but very, very few people even give much of a shit about this. It's not that legendary, it won't have major consequences (if SCO wins, people will just change the infringing code and go on), and it's not that big a deal.
They are trying to collect from all Linux users. That's rather disturbing. It's a little different than a smear campaign against Linux.
It's still no reason to have your kids starve. You do realize that jobs are scarce, right? I bet you're not married, don't have children, and probably haven't even gotten out of college yet, or at the least have had only a few jobs. Sorry, but you're being ignorant.
Also, let's not forget that Chrisd is not required to hire you just because you worked at SCO.
Nobody said he was. What's your point? It's still childish for him to not hire if you've worked at SCO.
His note doesn't say whether he has actually had any SCO applicants either. No one at SCO is going to go hungry because Chris isn't hiring.
Doesn't change the point made that it is childish.
Next.
SCO isn't selling dangerous chemicals.
In fact, this whole stupid GPL battle is quite silly. And it's insane that people think they should leave their jobs over Darl's stupidity. This isn't the Third Reich or anything.
Christ, you fucks. Get some perspective. I GUARANTEE all of you who are criticizing aren't married, don't have children, and most likely aren't even out of college yet, or have just landed your first job. Your tune will change in the real world.
Rock on. I will definitely be trying the new KDE then (and the new GNOME) because I want to give them a chance. I'm particularly interested in the progress of kicker's replacement, Slicker, which looks to be the first actually innovative, non-copycat desktop feature for Linux that I've seen.
Though someone thinks my parent post is "Flamebait," it's not. Longhorn is due out late 2004/early 2005. It's dangerous to think Microsoft is just sitting on its thumbs as OSS gains ground, and it's silly to think current desktop environments and apps are "good enough." Microsoft is already moving forward into future territory, progressing beyond today's 2D environments that we've had since the 80s.
I loved Xen. The levels were beautiful, bizarre, and abstract. I never knew it was so hated until I read about it online.
You actually see Link. You hear his voice as you play. I don't think Freeman even made a noise when you got hit by an enemy in Half-Life.
Stop whining. It WON'T happen.
Fine, then stop whining when Linux gains only miniscule desktop market share as a result.
Oh, please. Microsoft is busy hardware-accelerating their desktop, adding complete vector scaling, replacing Win32 with .NET, and creating a much-talked-about new photorealistic interface called Aero that nobody knows anything about yet. There are so many revolutionary new features of Longhorn that I can't list them all, from XML scripted modular installs to WinFS (which kicks the crap out of BeOS' pseudo-database filesystem).
.NET 2003 is still the absolute best IDE out there for development. The debugging capabilities alone are fantastic. Last I tried KDevelop, it kept crying for the documentation packages, which my distro didn't install because you apparently need the source code to have them. Bizarre.
:P
I'm sorry, but Visual Studio
As a desktop, KDE is very slow for me, so I use GNOME which is only a little better. KDE is too busy adding tons more crappy K-something apps to that mess of a menu while Microsoft is busy implementing the next generation of desktops. Maybe in another five years, KDE will finally catch up.
Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank, it'll give you a false sense of security in this country with the highest crime rates in the developed world.
Actually, we're lower than England. And criminals have a higher chance of being prosecuted here.
If you make guns illegal, only criminals will have them. They won't care about "gun laws."
Give Linux the insane amount of marketshare Windows has and we'll see how many buffer overflows and remote code exploits we find in all the Linux distros after just a month. Read my sig. Or install Red Hat 9 sometime and marvel at the errata security fix list.
;)
Yes, that's right. No OS is 100% secure. Especially not Linux. Maybe OpenBSD.
This is after about a week of Windows Update not working because at some point it screwed itself-- the "New Windows Update Software required" dialog kept coming up in place of anything useful.
Whatever. It's been working for me and all machines I administer.
Look at my sig.
What does that have to do with anything? We're not talking illegal copies here. They can break illegal copies if they want to.
This was the most moronic thing I've read. Figures it'd get modded up.
If you gave away 10,000 copies, why would anybody buy it? They already have it, and they got it without paying for it.
File-sharing isn't a medium for marketing. It's copyright infringement. Nobody gave permission for you to be trading artists' material, and you DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT to decide for them, either. Legally...or morally.
Of course you think file-sharing has more positives than negatives. You obviously are a downloader, used to the convenience of years of mp3-downloading. Meanwhile, you're grabbing people's music without compensation. I'm sure they don't share your appreciation for that idea, seeing as how they make they're living and all through it.
People have twisted file-sharing into some anti-RIAA movement, trying to push out the artist in the equation, forgetting that it's their material you're getting for free, illegally. That's why you see so many anti-RIAA posts. It's everyone trying to justify this thing in their minds. It's sad. It degenerates to the point where you get crap like what you wrote--file-sharing being another form of "marketing." Yeah, some marketing. They've already gotten the product!
Offtopic, but when else can you bring this up?
An example of the epic feel of the third movie, of which the sequel was merely a "pop action" setup for according to Joel Silver:
http://dondavis.filmmusic.com/audio.html
It's called Neodammerung, which means, you guessed it, "New Dawn." Very creepy. It's like you can hear the series winding down to conclusion.
Amusingly enough, Keanu Reeves gave up millions of his salary to the special effects team on the Matrix sequels when the studio was concerned that ticket sales wouldn't cover the cost.
Perhaps it doesn't look real because a thousand copies of the same guy battling a helicopter-spinning guy in a trenchcoat doesn't look very real to start with.
Nothing is really supposed to look all that real in the Matrix.
But they were too busy trying to top their CGI that they forgot to come up with a good plot.
The plot was there. It was very, very symbolic. We've been told Revolutions caps it all off.
Seriously, visit some Matrix forums and find out all the symbolism behind every scene, including the action.
Matrix Reloaded is just one big setup for the third film, the "true" sequel we've been waiting for since the first one, the battle between the humans and machines.
It's call intellectual property theft, moron. It's what this whole thing's about.
Did you not read the parent?
Next.
Bah, I declare shenanigans on your bullshit.
Declare it bullshit because you disagree. The Slashbot way.
First, there's no WAY you were running Windows XP "just fine" on 64MB.
Compaq 500mhz, 64MB of RAM, 5GB hard drive. I later upgraded to 128MB of RAM three months later.
No modern OS, be it Linux, FreeBSD, or Windows XP, can run with a full graphical interface and still be "just fine" on 64MB of RAM.
That must be a reflection on the resource-hogging of Linux desktop environments then because I did it just fine. I don't know what else to tell you. It was quite usable. I even used it to run 3D Studio Max 3.1.
In the .01 percentile maybe.
Next.
If the Major Lables start reacting to what the public is actualy listening to...
...instead of trying to convince people to buy a product thaey have produced.
Um, guess what people are buying? Why do you think certain artists appear in top 10 spots? Because people buy that shit. Regardless of whether or not the geek clique at Slashdot approves of it or not.
It's called advertising and distribution. You did realize that's what record labels are for, right?