I refer to X the system. I know it's just a protocol; I can blame X for KDE and GNOME because they are forced to run on top of the XFree86 system. I have to run X->xlib->window manager->windowing library->desktop environment->various daemons just to get a desktop equivalent to Windows 95. It all feels cobbled together to me, and I get sluggish performance. Not to mention conflicting interfaces, dependencies, and so forth. You've all heard the standard complaints.
I say start over. X compatibility can be added on, but enough with this obsession over legacy. People complain about Windows being held back by this. There is always a point where it is too much and is stifling progress without forcing hacks and workarounds to avoid breaking something. It's like people are afraid of change or something. I guess the idea is just too ambitious, which is too bad, because Linux really needs this.
Remote X is not as widely used as it is endlessly hyped to be. If you want that, use the normal XFree86 project. Linux needs a real, innovative desktop environment. If you really need remote capabilities, can't it be added on or kept as a separate build option?
This is so what we need. Starting over. Nobody wants to do it and hides behind the excuse of a veil of "volunteer work" that somehow implies nobody can criticize even if what you put out is inadequate.
Yes, people realize it's volunteer work. But there need to be results, or just keep everything on your private network and never publicly release anything for fear that people will criticize it. The time for endless projects with lofty goals and ideals but substandard output is over. We're in that phase where we need to just get shit finished and done, and get it done right the first time.
There will be the standard "So where is your project?" replies. They are no less ineffective and pointless than they have ever been. I'm simply stating an opinion, and as "volunteers" you can choose to disregard it. But that simply means the stagnation will continue, and criticisms like mine will continue.
There are entire open source 3D engines, kernels, raytracers, and more that are excellently designed and work well, but we still don't have a decent graphical user interface desktop solution for Linux.
"Either shit or get off the pot." - Randall, Clerks
A participant of an EA focus group session posted to a SimCity board and mentioned that EA has several expansion packs planned. The first is a transportation expansion that adds multi-lane roads, bike paths, better bus, subway, and railway controls, and one way traffic.
The other expansions involved a terrain expansion, adding snow-capped mountians and ski slopes, surface water, weather, and more. Another involved more disasters, police and fire control, and SWAT teams. The final one was a futurist expansion that changed building graphics, added hoverrails, etc.
Here's an idea: Read the article. He was selling derivatives of the copyrighted BIOS. That's illegal. It's incredibly simple, but you seem to have missed it. Instead, you launched into a pointless tirade about hardware rights.
The sheepish Slashbots will jump on your post like wild, ravenous wolves and won't be able to mod your post up to "+5" soon enough. You'll get extra brownie points among them for using a car analogy. Meanwhile, the real reason he was arrest--illegally selling the hacked BIOS--will go unnoticed.
Must you post about it? Do we care that you looked forward to reading about C++? What crackhead moderator thought there was any humor in your post? Gee, you misread it and thought it said "constructors" so you thought the article would be about C++, but it turned out it wasn't. And that's "Funny?"
The change to Mandrake happened because I wanted things to just work. I neglected to mention I set up an LFS system between using Slackware and Mandrake. After doing everything manually, you kinda just want to sit back, relax, and have everything there already for you.
This incredibly clever and original attempt at referencing OS X certainly deserved to be modded all the way up to +5 Funny. Because, it is just that funny. Just like all the Windows 3.11 reference jokes whenever something reaches 3.0. Never gets old, and required much forethought before conceptualizing into words.
That's why you shouldn't prejudge something without using it.
I last used Red Hat when it was 6.0. Since then, I've been a loyal Slackware, and more recently, Mandrake user.
Most people around here who give Red Hat crap haven't used it in years and know little about it. Its just easier to parrot stupid comments like "Red Hat is bloated" or "Red Hat is like M$" then to take the time to use it and learn about it.
The nonstop "Is Red Hat the M$ of Linux?" comments bug the crap out of me. Especially when websites write entire articles based on that question. Clearly just filler material meant to be controversial for the sake of more hits. Red Hat is far from being the Microsoft of the Linux world.
Red Hat may sometimes do things "their own way", but so does every other distro. The difference is Red Hat, unlike say Gentoo, gets no slack(no pun intended) for changes they want to make. Everyone like to assume the worst and give them crap.
I like Red Hat because they get the job done, even if they have to do it their own way.
I know there are those around here who think I am a Microsoft shill or whatever, but I have to admit my recent installation of Red Hat 8 on my laptop impressed me, from the installer to the professional documentation. A few minor errors (and no sound in TuxRacer for some reason), but all in all, the very nice look of the GUI and usable configuration tools means I will be trying 9...as soon as I can get it downloaded...
Wow. And you used your Karma Bonus modifier to post this drivel?
Microsoft has given out CD's at 'events' and used the list of attendees( actually, company names ) at trade events to show they are developing for Microsofts products. Even when those companies went just to see what Microsoft was doing and had no intention of developing software on Microsofts platform. Get the book "Startup".....
So?
It's not likely that this is trick to prosecute these students but Microsofts past and present dealings easily can lead to this conclusion. EASILY.
It might "EASILY" lead to that conclusion if you're a paranoid raving lunatic who takes to making tinfoil hats and wearing "Trust No One" t-shirts.
Yes. Microsoft will give out software to students so they can later prosecute them. Yes. Say it enough times, it must be true!
Do you have any idea how insanely paranoid you sound?
Yes, "M$" is going to hand out software at an event so they can make a list of people to audit.
Slashbots and their lack of limits when it comes to anti-Microsoft mindsets never cease to amaze me. I don't know what's worse: your comment, or the fact that some brainless crackhead thought you were "Informative."
No it doesn't it only annoys the astro turfers. If it annoyed most people there would be a crapflood of protests. As it is you are the only one who said anything.
You are right; the quantity of posts to your inane comment determines the amount of annoyance level among the general populace. The amount of replies to your post is the bastion by which we determine the amount of abhorrence to it among those who use the Internet. Revel in the logic!
No it has nothing to do with it. It's a double entendre. One of course is that it indicts Bill gates as being the richest person on the planet and M$ as being the richest corporation on the planet (40 billion in cash!!!! it's unheard of).
Everybody knows that already.
Secondly it refers to Visual Basic where you used to have to put a $ after your string variable declarations. I think VB still maintains backwards compatibility so that M$ = "Evil Empire" and Gate$ ="Antichrist" are syntactically correct VB code. Try it for yourse
It has nothing to do with Visual Basic. It's just a vindictive, childish label Slashdotters use to feel l33t.
No really, people do it because the astro turfers throw fits. It's really funny to watch you guys go into convultions about the $. It's hilarious.
Wow. You said "you guys" as if I am one of them. Then you mentioned how "hilarious" it is to you. That really busts my buttons. You get under my skin!
It's obvious who is astro turfing. I saw it in your first post.
Sure it can. It's a monoply and it's immune from prosecution. It can do whatever it wants. It owns the president and the attorney general. Do you really think Ashcroft would dare disobey Bill gates? History shows that he would not.
Any proof they "own" the president or the attorney general? Didn't think so. Just because the judge decided that, hey, it's not so bad for a company to be successful, doesn't mean you can make things up out of the thin blue air to gain stature amongst your fell Slashdot patrons and be right about it.
Facts show otherwise, sorry.
Actually, facts prove my side. Do a Google search sometime. Or search Slashdot's own archives.
I assumed it was implicit that we were discussing downloading mp3s without the permission of the original artist. Sigh. I have to spell everything out for you people?
You knew what I was talking about; you just needed something to fire back with. It was lame and ineffective.
Thank you for being sane with your disagreement. A Slashdot first? At least you didn't call me a "shill" as so many others do.
Of course I find it wrong and immoral; you didn't ask the artist if you could download their music without paying for it. You got it online, where it was leaked by someone who also didn't get the artist's permission to do so. You're taking their music and doing whatever the hell you want with it and not compensating the artist. Sure, you may buy the album later--which is not as prevalent a scenario as many a Slashdot poster likes to attest--but that still doesn't change the fact that you obtained their music without their permission.
But the artist typically gets left out of people's mindsets in these "discussions" because they know how immoral it is. So they choose to conveniently ignore it. I just like to point out the obvious..
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I refer to X the system. I know it's just a protocol; I can blame X for KDE and GNOME because they are forced to run on top of the XFree86 system. I have to run X->xlib->window manager->windowing library->desktop environment->various daemons just to get a desktop equivalent to Windows 95. It all feels cobbled together to me, and I get sluggish performance. Not to mention conflicting interfaces, dependencies, and so forth. You've all heard the standard complaints.
I say start over. X compatibility can be added on, but enough with this obsession over legacy. People complain about Windows being held back by this. There is always a point where it is too much and is stifling progress without forcing hacks and workarounds to avoid breaking something. It's like people are afraid of change or something. I guess the idea is just too ambitious, which is too bad, because Linux really needs this.
Remote X is not as widely used as it is endlessly hyped to be. If you want that, use the normal XFree86 project. Linux needs a real, innovative desktop environment. If you really need remote capabilities, can't it be added on or kept as a separate build option?
This is so what we need. Starting over. Nobody wants to do it and hides behind the excuse of a veil of "volunteer work" that somehow implies nobody can criticize even if what you put out is inadequate.
Yes, people realize it's volunteer work. But there need to be results, or just keep everything on your private network and never publicly release anything for fear that people will criticize it. The time for endless projects with lofty goals and ideals but substandard output is over. We're in that phase where we need to just get shit finished and done, and get it done right the first time.
There will be the standard "So where is your project?" replies. They are no less ineffective and pointless than they have ever been. I'm simply stating an opinion, and as "volunteers" you can choose to disregard it. But that simply means the stagnation will continue, and criticisms like mine will continue.
There are entire open source 3D engines, kernels, raytracers, and more that are excellently designed and work well, but we still don't have a decent graphical user interface desktop solution for Linux.
"Either shit or get off the pot." - Randall, Clerks
A participant of an EA focus group session posted to a SimCity board and mentioned that EA has several expansion packs planned. The first is a transportation expansion that adds multi-lane roads, bike paths, better bus, subway, and railway controls, and one way traffic.
The other expansions involved a terrain expansion, adding snow-capped mountians and ski slopes, surface water, weather, and more. Another involved more disasters, police and fire control, and SWAT teams. The final one was a futurist expansion that changed building graphics, added hoverrails, etc.
Patch 2 was recently released, addressing many performance issues and squashing bugs: http://www.simcity.com Still no multi-lane roads, sadly...
Yes, you are the only one who that that.
However, Slashbots will not be able to resist your poor and lazy humor. It will be "+5 Funny."
Let's take the acronym and make unrelated words out of it. Then make a sidejoke that is not clever in any way to support it. Instant "+5."
Here's an idea: Read the article. He was selling derivatives of the copyrighted BIOS. That's illegal. It's incredibly simple, but you seem to have missed it. Instead, you launched into a pointless tirade about hardware rights.
The sheepish Slashbots will jump on your post like wild, ravenous wolves and won't be able to mod your post up to "+5" soon enough. You'll get extra brownie points among them for using a car analogy. Meanwhile, the real reason he was arrest--illegally selling the hacked BIOS--will go unnoticed.
Okay. You claim to have misread the title.
Must you post about it? Do we care that you looked forward to reading about C++? What crackhead moderator thought there was any humor in your post? Gee, you misread it and thought it said "constructors" so you thought the article would be about C++, but it turned out it wasn't. And that's "Funny?"
That's okay; I probably make more a year than you do at your part-time job down at K-mart as you save up money to buy the latest Blizzard release.
Again, America has more in their prisons because of their higher population level. Has nothing to do with proportion. Think a little.
Three: We have more people.
Crap, I tore apart your tirade with a healthy injection of simple common sense. Now who will you talk down to?
Get off the podium. You're being drowned out by our Windows Media 9 movie projection.
Anyone who thinks the US is a true "police state" is automatically an intellectually devoid overreactionary. At least you didn't throw in "Nazi."
Looks like you're too late. Welcome to the consequences of these attitudes most Linux developers seem to possess. Disillusioned users.
I didn't "change allegiance."
The change to Mandrake happened because I wanted things to just work. I neglected to mention I set up an LFS system between using Slackware and Mandrake. After doing everything manually, you kinda just want to sit back, relax, and have everything there already for you.
This incredibly clever and original attempt at referencing OS X certainly deserved to be modded all the way up to +5 Funny. Because, it is just that funny. Just like all the Windows 3.11 reference jokes whenever something reaches 3.0. Never gets old, and required much forethought before conceptualizing into words.
That's why you shouldn't prejudge something without using it.
I last used Red Hat when it was 6.0. Since then, I've been a loyal Slackware, and more recently, Mandrake user.
Most people around here who give Red Hat crap haven't used it in years and know little about it. Its just easier to parrot stupid comments like "Red Hat is bloated" or "Red Hat is like M$" then to take the time to use it and learn about it.
The nonstop "Is Red Hat the M$ of Linux?" comments bug the crap out of me. Especially when websites write entire articles based on that question. Clearly just filler material meant to be controversial for the sake of more hits. Red Hat is far from being the Microsoft of the Linux world.
Red Hat may sometimes do things "their own way", but so does every other distro. The difference is Red Hat, unlike say Gentoo, gets no slack(no pun intended) for changes they want to make. Everyone like to assume the worst and give them crap.
I like Red Hat because they get the job done, even if they have to do it their own way.
I know there are those around here who think I am a Microsoft shill or whatever, but I have to admit my recent installation of Red Hat 8 on my laptop impressed me, from the installer to the professional documentation. A few minor errors (and no sound in TuxRacer for some reason), but all in all, the very nice look of the GUI and usable configuration tools means I will be trying 9...as soon as I can get it downloaded...
Very interesting information; thank you. I'll look into this when I get some time.
It's called differing opinion. Deal with it.
Wow. And you used your Karma Bonus modifier to post this drivel?
Microsoft has given out CD's at 'events' and used the list of attendees( actually, company names ) at trade events to show they are developing for Microsofts products. Even when those companies went just to see what Microsoft was doing and had no intention of developing software on Microsofts platform. Get the book "Startup".....
So?
It's not likely that this is trick to prosecute these students but Microsofts past and present dealings easily can lead to this conclusion. EASILY.
It might "EASILY" lead to that conclusion if you're a paranoid raving lunatic who takes to making tinfoil hats and wearing "Trust No One" t-shirts.
Yes. Microsoft will give out software to students so they can later prosecute them. Yes. Say it enough times, it must be true!
Welcome to Slashdot, where people maintain Microsoft opinions based on software from the early half of the past decade.
Windows 95, Visual Studio 4, and many others, to name a few.
I am not modded down for "Flamebait," "Troll," or "Offtopic"...instead, it is "Overrated." When it started at 1.
Very interesting. Someone wanted to be subtle with the fact that they mod down comments they simply disagree with.
Do you have any idea how insanely paranoid you sound?
Yes, "M$" is going to hand out software at an event so they can make a list of people to audit.
Slashbots and their lack of limits when it comes to anti-Microsoft mindsets never cease to amaze me. I don't know what's worse: your comment, or the fact that some brainless crackhead thought you were "Informative."
No it doesn't it only annoys the astro turfers. If it annoyed most people there would be a crapflood of protests. As it is you are the only one who said anything.
You are right; the quantity of posts to your inane comment determines the amount of annoyance level among the general populace. The amount of replies to your post is the bastion by which we determine the amount of abhorrence to it among those who use the Internet. Revel in the logic!
No it has nothing to do with it. It's a double entendre. One of course is that it indicts Bill gates as being the richest person on the planet and M$ as being the richest corporation on the planet (40 billion in cash!!!! it's unheard of).
Everybody knows that already.
Secondly it refers to Visual Basic where you used to have to put a $ after your string variable declarations. I think VB still maintains backwards compatibility so that M$ = "Evil Empire" and Gate$ ="Antichrist" are syntactically correct VB code. Try it for yourse
It has nothing to do with Visual Basic. It's just a vindictive, childish label Slashdotters use to feel l33t.
No really, people do it because the astro turfers throw fits. It's really funny to watch you guys go into convultions about the $. It's hilarious.
Wow. You said "you guys" as if I am one of them. Then you mentioned how "hilarious" it is to you. That really busts my buttons. You get under my skin!
It's obvious who is astro turfing. I saw it in your first post.
Sure it can. It's a monoply and it's immune from prosecution. It can do whatever it wants. It owns the president and the attorney general. Do you really think Ashcroft would dare disobey Bill gates? History shows that he would not.
Any proof they "own" the president or the attorney general? Didn't think so. Just because the judge decided that, hey, it's not so bad for a company to be successful, doesn't mean you can make things up out of the thin blue air to gain stature amongst your fell Slashdot patrons and be right about it.
Facts show otherwise, sorry.
Actually, facts prove my side. Do a Google search sometime. Or search Slashdot's own archives.
Next.
I assumed it was implicit that we were discussing downloading mp3s without the permission of the original artist. Sigh. I have to spell everything out for you people?
You knew what I was talking about; you just needed something to fire back with. It was lame and ineffective.
Thank you for being sane with your disagreement. A Slashdot first? At least you didn't call me a "shill" as so many others do.
Of course I find it wrong and immoral; you didn't ask the artist if you could download their music without paying for it. You got it online, where it was leaked by someone who also didn't get the artist's permission to do so. You're taking their music and doing whatever the hell you want with it and not compensating the artist. Sure, you may buy the album later--which is not as prevalent a scenario as many a Slashdot poster likes to attest--but that still doesn't change the fact that you obtained their music without their permission.
But the artist typically gets left out of people's mindsets in these "discussions" because they know how immoral it is. So they choose to conveniently ignore it. I just like to point out the obvious..