All this proves is how global our community has become... and how Egypt can be just as susceptible to a bunch of overhype about pseudo-philosophy in a movie as a bunch of AintItCool.com readers...
"Matrix Reloaded" has as much to do with philosophy and religion as my dog's yawns. There are so many already well documented gaping holes and problems with the Matrix universe, that to read a search for God into this extremely Hollywood-ish movie--Keanu Reeves is our new Messiah? spare me--is only indicative of the starvation for spiritual themes that our culture is undergoing. It's like seeing God on the back of a cereal box--or getting God as the prize at the bottom.
Which would suck, because the coolest thing I ever got was a propeller-helicopter toy that got stuck on the roof. Bummer. What kind of a Neo would let a little boy down?
Well, there's one thing about the new religion, and I don't know if it's cool or not... but at least the new Messiah can have hot monkey love with Carrie Anne Moss...
After all, Microsoft did evolve the PC and the age of computing as we know it. As the most important company in the software business, they're just pursuing legal routes to ownership of technologies in which they've invested hundreds of millions of dollars.
So good for them. If they're supposed to be challenged, they will be. But if not, then they will prevail. Let's hear it for the free market.
Throughout the threads on this post a recurring theme occurs questioning the relevance of the story, which is dutifully answered by Javaphants who assure us that, oh yes indeedy, this is very relevant.
But I think the question stands, because it's being asked of a language (Java) that compiles to an intermediate code interpreted by an abstraction layer that requires yet another platform (JBoss) that is also compiled to intermediate code which in turn requires another layer of abstraction to be useful. And that's just for the platform. Never mind the abstractions of the application, the database, and so forth. My question is, why is anything so obtuse, so utterly corporate, so totally and completely dedicated to over-documentation, so much so that it has its own documentation API built into the platform, relevant to anyone other than the government, from which one would be inclined to expect such a monstrosity? My answer? I don't have one. I really don't know.
As far as I've ever been able to tell, Java is for developers that love to use the word "enterprise" 147 times minimum per any given page of documentation, which, by the way, must be written so that though you may read it any given number of times, and you may be apprised of the technologies involved, all of which contain the letter "J" somehow (except for Ant, which really should be "JAnt", you will never truly be able to tell, concisely, what the documentation actually details. Unless it's rendered by the Javadoc system which, to its credit, is actually the most concise part of Java.
JBoss has been forked. The Core Developers Network built an entire e-commerce site in a number of hours. Well, whoop-de-doo.
Obviously, WarGrandmas are going to need a way to conduct their business underground more effectively. But instead of having to invent their own means of supporting their illicit WarQuilting, they already have a body of Warchalkers and Wardrives who's experience they can draw on.
Now here's the scenario: Wardrivers and Warchalkers need money, right? Otherwise they'd just purchase their own damned bandwidth, outside of any other nefarious reason they may have for surfing illicit waves. Well, here's the catch: Grandmas have money! And who has more money than a WarGrandma? No one!, except for Bill Gates, but any grandma could kick Gates' ass anyway. So that's the new mantra... WarGrandmas and Warchalkers Unite!
... FutureMark and NVidia stated that they were proud to announce that former President Bill Clinton had joined their boards and had assumed management responsibilities.
Well, firstly, it depends on the app, but C++ affords a helluvalot more than a 0.2ms improvement for most things. As for delivery times, it's what your shop is used to, and that's just the fact. I'm quite sure that a Java team would take an extra three months to deliver a C++ app, but a C++ team would be right at home. For me, I head a C++ team, and our clients are quite pleased. So far we have no requests Java.
Secondly, please don't try to say that Java isn't Sun's property, because it is. Yes, there are many members of the JCP, because Microsoft has many competitors. But this proprietary platform biz is about competition, not about excellence. If it were about language expressiveness and efficiency, then we'd all be using Common Lisp. If it were about the best OOP platform, then we'd all be using Smalltalk or Eiffel. The fact remains, however, very, very few of us are using those platforms, even though they're so great at what they do. Instead, we're using languages like C++, which significantly complicates C with OOP features, and Java and C# which tie the developer DOWN to one company's or, if it'll make you happy, one group of companies' way of working. Money, money, money. Java is crap, buddy. It's just another piece of software that some company desperately wants you to embrace. It's not altruism, it's not brilliance, it's not "the future".
Don't believe me? Let's have a little contest: Take two programmers sitting down at some keyboards, coding from scratch a given system requiring OOP (to be fair to Java, which is so freakin' imperative there should be a new category for it) and have one use Java and the other use Eiffel. Given equal ability, let's see who finishes first. Let's see who has fewer bugs. Let's see who's code is more readable.
Java is just some load of marketing crap that you've been taught to believe is great. Still don't believe me? Well, put your money where your mouth is. I've learned Java. Have you learned Eiffel?
Java is flippin' slow and you know it, if you've worked with it all. If IBM's JVM outperformed your optimized C++, then you didn't do a good job of optimizing your C++.
Safety and security, whatever. Somehow the world still turns with all of the ruined software in it. Besides, there are a great many assumptions made about the security of the Java platform, assumptions that are supported by Sun's heavily marketed assertions that Java is oh-so-secure. But security has as much to do with trust as it has to do with pointer arithmetic and bounds checking--which you can't do in Java because they're TOO DANGEROUS--and what makes a better target than a platform that everyone KNOWS is secure? Heh.
Besides, if you want your hand held for you, and I'm not knocking that really, then why not C#? Like I said before, Sun and Microsoft are the same frickin' thing. At least go with the company that got their completely proprietary C++ replacement implemented better from the start...
Arguing that Java is superior because there are more Java jobs out there, which I don't even know is true, is like arguing Nazi fascism is superior because, hey, the entire German nation adopted it. When scads of people are doing something stupid, it just means they're a whole big bunch of stupid people. It happens. Frequently.
Other than that your arguments just parrot Sun's market-blather. Cheaper and quicker results my ass. It totally depends on how familiar your developers are with your application and with their development environment. All right, I'll grant that C++ takes a bit more know-how in the security department, but it's not like Java isn't a strongly typed language. Good, talented developers are good at what they do, in the language they choose to do it in.
If my app uses SQL? Uh, what? There are many different kinds of apps out there, dude. It's typical of a Java developer, however, to once again parrot the argument of database latency, because the Java world is hugely defined by server-based development and so therefore Java developers feel the programming world is defined by server-based development. What defines the latency in a game? Framerates aren't hobbled by Oracle SQL calls. What defines the latency in an embedded app? And so on...
Eiffel Software's EiffelStudio 5.2. There ya go. Eiffel comes in a few free flavors, too, that compile just fine on Unix and Linux boxen, including your YOPY. Graphical libraries are just that, libraries, and can be called from C and whatever else. It's about as difficult, once you've done the detective work, as writing one of those stupidly long Java strings that constitutes a statement in that language.
I would argue that yes, in fact, C++ does have all the features Java has that are worth having. With C++ you certainly have access to all kinds of libraries that implement all the stuff that Java implements in multithreading, garbage collection, blah, blah, blah, but faster, and just as free. I might point out, as well, that libraries are not language features, bud. And Java, also, does not have anything, to my knowledge I'll admit, like the STL which, when you know how to use it, is key to C++'s power. I'm always impressed at how many people fire away at C++, driven often by Sun's huge shove-it-down-your-throat marketing campaign for Java, and then go on to state completely incorrect "facts" about C++'s capabilities or the operations of the STL. I'm quite sure now that Java will have generics Sun will begin to work on something comparable, and when it is released thousands of Java sycophants will herald it's genius and utility while C++ programmers will yawn and set the snooze alarm.
Anyone still convinced that Java is neato needs another viewpoint; Paul Graham's is reasonable.
Anyone convinced that Sun is anything different than Microsoft, oh, except for being less successful, is delusional. How's that Java standard comin'?
Avoid this crap. Go C++, or better yet Eiffel with C, and stop kidding yourself that Java getting a shiny "for" syntax is a reason for celebration.
"What's that? Oh yes sir! I'll have those UML diagrams detailing the Bloggorgian-Rienmarch Reverse Upside-Down Cake Factory Singleton Dweeboid Pattern for you by next month! Then we can start coding!"
You've got nothing better to do than try to insert yourself into corporate litigation between a bunch of incredible ASSHOLES? Do you have any freakin' fuckin' clue about some of the things that IBM has done over the years, not only to other business and in the corporate sector, where IBM is known to make Microsoft look like an organization of fluffy pink bunnies, but also to private and occasionally non-profit interests where IBM has seen fit to enforce highly political agendas of its own?
And you believe that helping IBM is important because they've embraced Linux? Dude, you are one stupid, stupid, sad butthole.
You know what SCO is doing? They're following a program of corporate litigation that, given today's economy and trends that have evolved over the past five years, is a fairly standard way of conducting business right now. So many companies that are in a bid for acquisition, or who are legitimately suffering because of downturns in the economy are choosing litigation to help cope with their difficulties because it's a strategy that may help position them to stay alive or to be acquired. It's just business. It's not an attack on anyone, dipshit, it's not personal, it's not an effort to DESTROY LINUX. It's just a strategy. If Linux can't survive with IBM's massive backing, well, then what is it that you're purporting so much faith in anyway?
The shocker is that this gets posted on Slashdot's front fucking page. All Slashdot has become is a forum for open source and Linux advocacy. It used to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" and now it has become "One Linux to Rule Them All, One Linux to Bind Them, Oh, And Fuck Microsoft". Most of you little Slashdot readers buy into this movement like it is, in fact, even a movement. Here's a clue for you idiots. Linux is an OS. It's a tool for doing business and as such is relavant to businesses doing business with businesses. If you're a hobbiest and think Linux is cool, fine, me, too (although personally I think FreeBSD kicks ass all over it). But otherwise, OSes aren't created for geeks with WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS, but for businesses who need to leverage computing power as a tool for doing business. Get it?
I'm angry because this kind of story, this kind of idiotic hysteria is promoted on Slashdot over and over again, and I used to love Slashdot. But now it's just another political forum, full of little nerdgeekrejectodorks that believe they owe to themselves to protect and address, what? Illiterate children within a ten-mile radius of their hometown? People that might benefit from time spent teaching about technical issues that could help them get jobs? Important social issues close to home? Nooooo... WE NEED TO PROTECT LINUX AND IBM. LET'S SPEND TIME DOING THIS.
Fuck all you people. I'm never coming back to Slashdot again. You're all a bunch of loser geeks, and I swear to God, every time every one of you got pounded in high school, it was a small victory for humanity. Thank God girls shun you, as that may help to limit the ability for you idiotic corporate Linux sycophants to reproduce.
Slashdot gives so much freakin' free publicity to Microsoft, that it's only obvious that there must be some ties. I mean, really, Slashdot's tagline is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." If Slashdot editors feel a primary interest of nerds is Linux/BSD/Unix related, well, fine, there's an argument for that. But if what Slashdot really wants to do is online advocacy--and that is what it really is all about--then some of the best work they could do would be just to ignore Microsoft completely. As it is, if an employee at Microsoft has a problem with indigestion, Slashdot posts a story: "MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE PURCHASES ANTACID--SUN RESPONDS BY INVESTING IN PIZZA HUT".
What's most interesting is how so many little Slashdot geeks read this stuff and then take action, DDOSing SCO's servers, signing people up for massive snailspam attacks. They're like a little pocket protector mob, asserting all the kinds of bullying and enforcing of their views on the world that happened to them in high school--and middle school--and elementary school.
So yes, Slashdot is Microsoft's bitch. But what is more interesting to me, is how many Slashdot readers are, by proxy, also Microsoft's bitches, as they loudly gather and proclaim otherwise. Quick! Let's all go read what Microsoft did now!
People who love computers are fuckin' weird. They need girlfriends, but they'll never get them BECAUSE THE LOVE COMPUTERS.
They also need to learn, usually, how to wash and interact with other humans, but they'll never learn these things because after they're done whacking off to Interporn they load up Counter-Strike for a few hours and then finish off the day by watching videos online and working through their Python exercises, oh and don't forget to read up on the GAMING INDUSTRY, which is so sickly in love with itself it's, well, sickly. After all that, they're bored, so they whack off some more.
This is a problem of large corporations who have to worry about government compliance. There aren't going to be any government officials knocking on my business's door. So what do I care if IBM, Microsoft, and Exxon have to purchase more RAID so they can store resumes? Big frickin' deal. Hell, it creates more jobs, probably, to fill the positions required to maintain the storage, and, which will be a big Slashdot plus, it'll probably create more Linux jobs.
I could be wrong. Perhaps throngs of G-Men are going to be canvassing the neighborhood urgently nabbing resume storage violators, the filthy rotten criminals that they are, but this doesn't seem like much of a post. For the large businesses for which this is a problem, my response, gosh, guys, sucks being you.
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! AAAUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.
I. CAN. NOT. WAIT.
Seriously, this trilogy has been freakin' awesome. Peter Jackson and a few other directors, like Bryan Singer, have captured their subjects about as well as could be expected from big budget movie studios. I know the all caps post above is overly enthusiastic, but I don't think many would disagree that for a long, long time, there's been little to be very excited about, movie-wise.
Gaming reduces productivity as much as sex leads to pregnancy and cigarettes lead to cancer, which is to say, not always, but frequently enough that you should watch your habits, be honest about your participation and be willing to deal with it.
Only game industry pundits, who comment on an industry currently over-romanticized in the media and over-in-love-with-itself, would ask itself this question and include with that query the following: "Naturally, part of the question here is how one defines productivity..." Yeah, no duh, nimwit. Let's just call advocacy "advocacy" and not couch it in pseudo-dialectic, 'k? Otherwise let's just all quit this bullshit and go make real money selling cigarettes to kids...
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Yeah, because Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, and Soren Kirkegaard were all a bunch of idiots. Nice observation there, jack.
All this proves is how global our community has become ... and how Egypt can be just as susceptible to a bunch of overhype about pseudo-philosophy in a movie as a bunch of AintItCool.com readers ...
... but at least the new Messiah can have hot monkey love with Carrie Anne Moss ...
"Matrix Reloaded" has as much to do with philosophy and religion as my dog's yawns. There are so many already well documented gaping holes and problems with the Matrix universe, that to read a search for God into this extremely Hollywood-ish movie--Keanu Reeves is our new Messiah? spare me--is only indicative of the starvation for spiritual themes that our culture is undergoing. It's like seeing God on the back of a cereal box--or getting God as the prize at the bottom.
Which would suck, because the coolest thing I ever got was a propeller-helicopter toy that got stuck on the roof. Bummer. What kind of a Neo would let a little boy down?
Well, there's one thing about the new religion, and I don't know if it's cool or not
Coincidentally, this is the exact same number of Americans who don't use deodorant.
That was a funny Joke.
After all, Microsoft did evolve the PC and the age of computing as we know it. As the most important company in the software business, they're just pursuing legal routes to ownership of technologies in which they've invested hundreds of millions of dollars.
So good for them. If they're supposed to be challenged, they will be. But if not, then they will prevail. Let's hear it for the free market.
It sounds like they're bi-curious. Jesus.
Throughout the threads on this post a recurring theme occurs questioning the relevance of the story, which is dutifully answered by Javaphants who assure us that, oh yes indeedy, this is very relevant.
But I think the question stands, because it's being asked of a language (Java) that compiles to an intermediate code interpreted by an abstraction layer that requires yet another platform (JBoss) that is also compiled to intermediate code which in turn requires another layer of abstraction to be useful. And that's just for the platform. Never mind the abstractions of the application, the database, and so forth. My question is, why is anything so obtuse, so utterly corporate, so totally and completely dedicated to over-documentation, so much so that it has its own documentation API built into the platform, relevant to anyone other than the government, from which one would be inclined to expect such a monstrosity? My answer? I don't have one. I really don't know.
As far as I've ever been able to tell, Java is for developers that love to use the word "enterprise" 147 times minimum per any given page of documentation, which, by the way, must be written so that though you may read it any given number of times, and you may be apprised of the technologies involved, all of which contain the letter "J" somehow (except for Ant, which really should be "JAnt", you will never truly be able to tell, concisely, what the documentation actually details. Unless it's rendered by the Javadoc system which, to its credit, is actually the most concise part of Java.
JBoss has been forked. The Core Developers Network built an entire e-commerce site in a number of hours. Well, whoop-de-doo.
Obviously, WarGrandmas are going to need a way to conduct their business underground more effectively. But instead of having to invent their own means of supporting their illicit WarQuilting, they already have a body of Warchalkers and Wardrives who's experience they can draw on.
Now here's the scenario: Wardrivers and Warchalkers need money, right? Otherwise they'd just purchase their own damned bandwidth, outside of any other nefarious reason they may have for surfing illicit waves. Well, here's the catch: Grandmas have money! And who has more money than a WarGrandma? No one!, except for Bill Gates, but any grandma could kick Gates' ass anyway. So that's the new mantra ... WarGrandmas and Warchalkers Unite!
... FutureMark and NVidia stated that they were proud to announce that former President Bill Clinton had joined their boards and had assumed management responsibilities.
Dude. Jesus.
What? Are the editors bored beyond belief?
New Story: Dam Fills Up With Water
In Later News: Paint Dries.
Highly Modded Slashcomment: SCO's behind this. DDOS 'em.
Well, firstly, it depends on the app, but C++ affords a helluvalot more than a 0.2ms improvement for most things. As for delivery times, it's what your shop is used to, and that's just the fact. I'm quite sure that a Java team would take an extra three months to deliver a C++ app, but a C++ team would be right at home. For me, I head a C++ team, and our clients are quite pleased. So far we have no requests Java.
Secondly, please don't try to say that Java isn't Sun's property, because it is. Yes, there are many members of the JCP, because Microsoft has many competitors. But this proprietary platform biz is about competition, not about excellence. If it were about language expressiveness and efficiency, then we'd all be using Common Lisp. If it were about the best OOP platform, then we'd all be using Smalltalk or Eiffel. The fact remains, however, very, very few of us are using those platforms, even though they're so great at what they do. Instead, we're using languages like C++, which significantly complicates C with OOP features, and Java and C# which tie the developer DOWN to one company's or, if it'll make you happy, one group of companies' way of working. Money, money, money. Java is crap, buddy. It's just another piece of software that some company desperately wants you to embrace. It's not altruism, it's not brilliance, it's not "the future".
Don't believe me? Let's have a little contest: Take two programmers sitting down at some keyboards, coding from scratch a given system requiring OOP (to be fair to Java, which is so freakin' imperative there should be a new category for it) and have one use Java and the other use Eiffel. Given equal ability, let's see who finishes first. Let's see who has fewer bugs. Let's see who's code is more readable.
Java is just some load of marketing crap that you've been taught to believe is great. Still don't believe me? Well, put your money where your mouth is. I've learned Java. Have you learned Eiffel?
Dude, you're stoned.
...
Java is flippin' slow and you know it, if you've worked with it all. If IBM's JVM outperformed your optimized C++, then you didn't do a good job of optimizing your C++.
Safety and security, whatever. Somehow the world still turns with all of the ruined software in it. Besides, there are a great many assumptions made about the security of the Java platform, assumptions that are supported by Sun's heavily marketed assertions that Java is oh-so-secure. But security has as much to do with trust as it has to do with pointer arithmetic and bounds checking--which you can't do in Java because they're TOO DANGEROUS--and what makes a better target than a platform that everyone KNOWS is secure? Heh.
Besides, if you want your hand held for you, and I'm not knocking that really, then why not C#? Like I said before, Sun and Microsoft are the same frickin' thing. At least go with the company that got their completely proprietary C++ replacement implemented better from the start
Arguing that Java is superior because there are more Java jobs out there, which I don't even know is true, is like arguing Nazi fascism is superior because, hey, the entire German nation adopted it. When scads of people are doing something stupid, it just means they're a whole big bunch of stupid people. It happens. Frequently.
Other than that your arguments just parrot Sun's market-blather. Cheaper and quicker results my ass. It totally depends on how familiar your developers are with your application and with their development environment. All right, I'll grant that C++ takes a bit more know-how in the security department, but it's not like Java isn't a strongly typed language. Good, talented developers are good at what they do, in the language they choose to do it in.
If my app uses SQL? Uh, what? There are many different kinds of apps out there, dude. It's typical of a Java developer, however, to once again parrot the argument of database latency, because the Java world is hugely defined by server-based development and so therefore Java developers feel the programming world is defined by server-based development. What defines the latency in a game? Framerates aren't hobbled by Oracle SQL calls. What defines the latency in an embedded app? And so on ...
Eiffel Software's EiffelStudio 5.2. There ya go. Eiffel comes in a few free flavors, too, that compile just fine on Unix and Linux boxen, including your YOPY. Graphical libraries are just that, libraries, and can be called from C and whatever else. It's about as difficult, once you've done the detective work, as writing one of those stupidly long Java strings that constitutes a statement in that language.
I would argue that yes, in fact, C++ does have all the features Java has that are worth having. With C++ you certainly have access to all kinds of libraries that implement all the stuff that Java implements in multithreading, garbage collection, blah, blah, blah, but faster, and just as free. I might point out, as well, that libraries are not language features, bud. And Java, also, does not have anything, to my knowledge I'll admit, like the STL which, when you know how to use it, is key to C++'s power. I'm always impressed at how many people fire away at C++, driven often by Sun's huge shove-it-down-your-throat marketing campaign for Java, and then go on to state completely incorrect "facts" about C++'s capabilities or the operations of the STL. I'm quite sure now that Java will have generics Sun will begin to work on something comparable, and when it is released thousands of Java sycophants will herald it's genius and utility while C++ programmers will yawn and set the snooze alarm.
Uh ... What?
Oh, and dude, learn to spell. Naive is not spelled 'Niave'.
With none of the performance.
Anyone still convinced that Java is neato needs another viewpoint; Paul Graham's is reasonable.
Anyone convinced that Sun is anything different than Microsoft, oh, except for being less successful, is delusional. How's that Java standard comin'?
Avoid this crap. Go C++, or better yet Eiffel with C, and stop kidding yourself that Java getting a shiny "for" syntax is a reason for celebration.
"What's that? Oh yes sir! I'll have those UML diagrams detailing the Bloggorgian-Rienmarch Reverse Upside-Down Cake Factory Singleton Dweeboid Pattern for you by next month! Then we can start coding!"
You've got nothing better to do than try to insert yourself into corporate litigation between a bunch of incredible ASSHOLES? Do you have any freakin' fuckin' clue about some of the things that IBM has done over the years, not only to other business and in the corporate sector, where IBM is known to make Microsoft look like an organization of fluffy pink bunnies, but also to private and occasionally non-profit interests where IBM has seen fit to enforce highly political agendas of its own?
... WE NEED TO PROTECT LINUX AND IBM. LET'S SPEND TIME DOING THIS.
And you believe that helping IBM is important because they've embraced Linux? Dude, you are one stupid, stupid, sad butthole.
You know what SCO is doing? They're following a program of corporate litigation that, given today's economy and trends that have evolved over the past five years, is a fairly standard way of conducting business right now. So many companies that are in a bid for acquisition, or who are legitimately suffering because of downturns in the economy are choosing litigation to help cope with their difficulties because it's a strategy that may help position them to stay alive or to be acquired. It's just business. It's not an attack on anyone, dipshit, it's not personal, it's not an effort to DESTROY LINUX. It's just a strategy. If Linux can't survive with IBM's massive backing, well, then what is it that you're purporting so much faith in anyway?
The shocker is that this gets posted on Slashdot's front fucking page. All Slashdot has become is a forum for open source and Linux advocacy. It used to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" and now it has become "One Linux to Rule Them All, One Linux to Bind Them, Oh, And Fuck Microsoft". Most of you little Slashdot readers buy into this movement like it is, in fact, even a movement. Here's a clue for you idiots. Linux is an OS. It's a tool for doing business and as such is relavant to businesses doing business with businesses. If you're a hobbiest and think Linux is cool, fine, me, too (although personally I think FreeBSD kicks ass all over it). But otherwise, OSes aren't created for geeks with WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS, but for businesses who need to leverage computing power as a tool for doing business. Get it?
I'm angry because this kind of story, this kind of idiotic hysteria is promoted on Slashdot over and over again, and I used to love Slashdot. But now it's just another political forum, full of little nerdgeekrejectodorks that believe they owe to themselves to protect and address, what? Illiterate children within a ten-mile radius of their hometown? People that might benefit from time spent teaching about technical issues that could help them get jobs? Important social issues close to home? Nooooo
Fuck all you people. I'm never coming back to Slashdot again. You're all a bunch of loser geeks, and I swear to God, every time every one of you got pounded in high school, it was a small victory for humanity. Thank God girls shun you, as that may help to limit the ability for you idiotic corporate Linux sycophants to reproduce.
Well, obviously.
Slashdot gives so much freakin' free publicity to Microsoft, that it's only obvious that there must be some ties. I mean, really, Slashdot's tagline is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." If Slashdot editors feel a primary interest of nerds is Linux/BSD/Unix related, well, fine, there's an argument for that. But if what Slashdot really wants to do is online advocacy--and that is what it really is all about--then some of the best work they could do would be just to ignore Microsoft completely. As it is, if an employee at Microsoft has a problem with indigestion, Slashdot posts a story: "MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE PURCHASES ANTACID--SUN RESPONDS BY INVESTING IN PIZZA HUT".
What's most interesting is how so many little Slashdot geeks read this stuff and then take action, DDOSing SCO's servers, signing people up for massive snailspam attacks. They're like a little pocket protector mob, asserting all the kinds of bullying and enforcing of their views on the world that happened to them in high school--and middle school--and elementary school.
So yes, Slashdot is Microsoft's bitch. But what is more interesting to me, is how many Slashdot readers are, by proxy, also Microsoft's bitches, as they loudly gather and proclaim otherwise. Quick! Let's all go read what Microsoft did now!
People who love computers are fuckin' weird. They need girlfriends, but they'll never get them BECAUSE THE LOVE COMPUTERS.
They also need to learn, usually, how to wash and interact with other humans, but they'll never learn these things because after they're done whacking off to Interporn they load up Counter-Strike for a few hours and then finish off the day by watching videos online and working through their Python exercises, oh and don't forget to read up on the GAMING INDUSTRY, which is so sickly in love with itself it's, well, sickly. After all that, they're bored, so they whack off some more.
This is a problem of large corporations who have to worry about government compliance. There aren't going to be any government officials knocking on my business's door. So what do I care if IBM, Microsoft, and Exxon have to purchase more RAID so they can store resumes? Big frickin' deal. Hell, it creates more jobs, probably, to fill the positions required to maintain the storage, and, which will be a big Slashdot plus, it'll probably create more Linux jobs.
I could be wrong. Perhaps throngs of G-Men are going to be canvassing the neighborhood urgently nabbing resume storage violators, the filthy rotten criminals that they are, but this doesn't seem like much of a post. For the large businesses for which this is a problem, my response, gosh, guys, sucks being you.
You are a moron.
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! AAAUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH. I. CAN. NOT. WAIT. Seriously, this trilogy has been freakin' awesome. Peter Jackson and a few other directors, like Bryan Singer, have captured their subjects about as well as could be expected from big budget movie studios. I know the all caps post above is overly enthusiastic, but I don't think many would disagree that for a long, long time, there's been little to be very excited about, movie-wise.
So we're all a bunch of homos?
Gaming reduces productivity as much as sex leads to pregnancy and cigarettes lead to cancer, which is to say, not always, but frequently enough that you should watch your habits, be honest about your participation and be willing to deal with it.
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Only game industry pundits, who comment on an industry currently over-romanticized in the media and over-in-love-with-itself, would ask itself this question and include with that query the following: "Naturally, part of the question here is how one defines productivity..." Yeah, no duh, nimwit. Let's just call advocacy "advocacy" and not couch it in pseudo-dialectic, 'k? Otherwise let's just all quit this bullshit and go make real money selling cigarettes to kids
Plus, if you use new and improved Glade II, your UIs won't smell like shit.