Sadly, the Centrino support will most likely be a proprietary driver, but it's better than nothing.
What do you care, Cowboy Neal? You Slashdot editors don't even USE Linux anymore; you've all "switched" to Mac OS X, and last I checked, that was a LOT more proprietary than just a driver or two. You've already said you're buying a G5; you've probably already done so. So you don't have to worry about Centrino OR Linux drivers, do you. How does Linux run on that G5? That's what I thought. Mac OS X for Cowboy Neal. And that makes Slashdot 100% Mac. Hope VA Software doesn't find out you guys are pimping the competition's product here on Slashdot. VA's close enough to bankruptcy without their own employees turning against them, which is what you're doing, btw.
I've lost all respect for Slashdot since I found out you don't eat your own dog food. Slashdot has no integrity.
p.s. I used to work at Apple, and I am telling you the truth when I tell you that your mind is not your own. There are subliminal messages in OS X. Enjoy.
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According to his webblog, in the last few months, this poor bugger got his ass fired from TechTV, only to be replaced by the uber-knowledgeable (*snicker*) Leo Laporte; gotten sick; gotten food poisoning; has a conspiracy theory that Doc Searls is actually Colonel Sanders; has a beef with hydrogenated oils in soda crackers; has sunk to the oh-so pathetic level of doodling on his own body in order to get hits to his website, "C:\PIRILLO.EXE -- Getting Screwed While Everybody Else is Getting Laid".
And to top it all off, he writes a newsletter called "Windows Fanatics". I feel so bad for this guy. World Vision should add this guy to their client list, he's at least as pathetic as the starving AIDS-ridden African child with flies crawling on his face.
Slashdot needs a new Java icon. The one they have seems to be a cup of coffee with a piece of poop floating in it -- which, come to think of it, may actually be an accurate depiction of Java. Hmmm... forget I said anything. The icon is fine as it is.
Well, actually, with my Discman I only carried around one disk, so I made sure that it was my favorite one. With my MP3 player, I can hold 500 complete CD's, so it's statistically much less likely for a hot woman (as if) to stumble upon a song that's truly meaningful to me at any given moment. Right now, I'm listening to Santana from some instrumental album, which is nowhere near defining of who I am. I've set my player to purposely avoid songs I've listened to recently...
Robots. One acts as a wheelchair to carry handicapped people around, walking up stairs, etc., while the other plays the flute in a band. Every time I see the useful functions of robots I get worried. I'm a Luddite -- or should I say somewhat self-protective of the human race. I'm not scared of Aibo or the Honda Sapien, they just walk around and look human. But when I see robots replacing human beings, I worry that we're one step closer to obsolesence. We are replaceable by robots which will soon be superior to us in every way. I just hope they don't think like humans, or they will perform ethnic cleansing on us. Will robots have their own Darwinian philosopher advocating survival of the fittest?
... now that the OS war is heating up whether the open-source community thinks they're at war or not. Linus thinks he's not at war even though rockets are smashing in walls all around him.
It's not possible to kill the Free Software business model directly because of its global nature -- so more underground, guerrilla methods are required. Keep your eyes open and watch them go. They're determined little buggers. But then again, to retain ownership of what will be a trillion dollar market over the next 20 years, I would be too.
Follow the money. Who benefits from rooting Debian, trojaning the Linux kernel, hacking Slashdot, then massively astroturfing against Free Software here on its home turf? Yes, you are correct, my twin former employers - whose technology sharing initiative is largely based around mutual self-defense...
I hope he's learned his lesson. All the private-time code I write is not attributed directly to *me*, but to my friends who have no relation to my employer and don't even actually code.... otherwise, I'm basically working unpaid overtime without even knowing I'm giving my free time to the company! I wised up to this scam a long time ago. I'm willing to code in my own time on a free software project that I'm passionate about, but I'm not interested in seeing my work get rolled into another watered-down corporate monopolization bundling attempt as is happening here.
The more interesting question, however, is the legal status of the code were it licensed under the GPL in this situation. I've heard an interesting strategy mentioned by some business acquaintances who are very threatened by the GPL and are interested in subverting it by whatever means necessary (back-doors in the kernel sound familiar?). One of their ideas for corrupting the GPLed code base (which is their eventual goal, in order to destroy Free Software) is to code a great deal for major free software projects, license it under the GPL, and then announce that they had coded it while at work and using their employers equipment. This would instantly transfer the ownership to the corporation, who could then announce that the original coder had *no legal authority* to put the software under the GPL against their wishes. This would create massive trouble for the FSF and Linux projects in general if done correctly. And trust me, it is the intention of these corporate killers to do it correctly.
I know I'm incredibly unpopular here at Slashdot, but ignore my warnings at your own peril. Think it through and come to your own conclusions as to the possibilities I'm revealing. The battle is not between Microsoft/Apple/Linux, it is between OpenSource/Proprietary. Think about it. The lines have been drawn and the battle is on, though most Slashdotters don't even know it yet. And unfortunately, most don't even care.
"We don't want an election without a paper trail...all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration. Is this not corruption?"
Well, it's not any more corrupt than one company owning the platform that 90% of the world operates on, then claiming that all the little fish can compete fairly against them and that they have no advantage owning the system....
If the Republicans own the voting system (and yes, I *know* they don't legally own the system, just as Microsoft doesn't *legally* own SCO), I highly doubt that they would use it to benefit themselves. I mean, come on! Thatwouldbeunethical.
Good post, but one small correction: IMPETUS deals with motivation, while IMPOTUS, I assume, is something that deals with the lack of motivation --specifically in the male of the species....
Of course you are correct, kind sir. Please forgive my bitter trollosity. Ease of use is good. Software and hardware which is well-designed is good. Although Anime *IS* still one step away from paedophilia, on that I shall not recant.
MPlayerOSX kicks ass. MPlayer rules on every platform I use it on and plays nearly every format possible, especially with the add-on codecs (soon to be Slashdotted). I don't even need Quicktime anymore except for sentimental reasons.
... when being a geek meant NOT being interested in having the tiniest, most feminine MP3 player (or having one at all); NOT choosing an OS for its "ease of use", or its "candy-coated GUI"; when supporting proprietary software was LESS ethical than open-source, not MORE ethical (same goes for hardware lockins); and when we didn't spend our hard-earned cash buying hats and shirts with logos of our favorite multinational all over them. That was the good old days. Now, I can't tell the difference between a geek on Slashdot and my mother. Honestly. Both use the same tools for the same tasks, but the geek still thinks he's superior for some reason. Strange... my little brother watches cartoons, but he's not "geek chic" like CmdrTaco with his anime fetish, either. The real Geeks here have been replaced by consumers. That's what we are, arguing about the best product to buy all the time -- we're just consumers. Corporate drones, defending our tribe -- "The Rotten Apples" versus "The Blue Screens of Death". My mom wonders which MP3 player to buy. She reads the same articles we do. But she's not a geek. What makes us geeks? My mom owns and uses more high-tech gizmos than I do. Think about it. The culture is changing, and it's not a good thing.
This gives us a good opportunity to look back at the previous Slashdot story announcing the McDonalds deal and examine our own prejudices. Looking back at the things we as a community wrote before, and more importantly, modded up before, gives us a real insight into our own pro-Mac bias. We really _DO_ want to believe. And we are willing to mod down anyone who says, "This is just a rumor, people."
It's about time Slashdot grows out of this infantile hero worship, especially when its undeserved and directed towards a corporation.
A) Try pricing out some Opterons yourself. Be honest, and leave your fanatical Macintosh Religion at the door.
B) If this guy was honest and NOT looking for some much-needed $FUNDING$ ("Apple gave us no discount on our Macs, however they did donate $2.5 million dollars to build us a new library"), he could have had the same or better Supercomputer for less money with AMDs. You obviously don't know how we grownups play the game.
C) I don't talk to Anonymous Cowards, I believe you are all trolls and aren't worth my time. And you've just proved me right. And telling me to shut up doesn't prove your argument, it proves you try to censor the truth by silencing critics instead of learning and improving from criticism. That's the mark of a complete failure in life.
...so you're saying that the ONLY reason this article is such a macintosh worship-fest is because this moron just HAD to order his stuff in the two week period that G5's were "out" (announced, but not shipping yet) and the AMD's weren't. Poor fool, his two week rush probably cost him another million dollars.
My local computer guy can build me an AMD Opteron system for far less than a G5. I know, I've got one, and it kicks ass.
And this Mac shill Varadarajan (and he is definitely receiving SOMETHING for his PR efforts, that's how the world works -- duh) could have bought an AMD system WITHOUT any of the extra "goodies" Apple forces on you, so the price difference would be greater still. Do the math. This is Mac propaganda, and everybody's lapping it up.
NO discounts offered by Apple? They give ME one, and I'm just buying one little computer. A loaded G5 is CHEAPER than a barebones AMD Opteron? Discount Dell is quoting $9000 per PC, even when they know the PR value in getting this deal? What else on their site shows up at $9000 per box?
If you guys don't smell something fishy with these numbers, Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is a lot more mind-numbing than originally thought. I pity you.
... so all you have is the blogger's WORD that it's taken at Microsoft -- not that I doubt it, of course. Steve Jobs used to love his IBM ThinkPad (still may, I don't know), there's the famous picture of Bill Gates with a Mac Classic on his desk behind him, and Microsoft buying a few G5's is CERTAINLY no more incriminating than the Linux-loving Slashdot editors all abandoning Free Software and buying into proprietary Mac OS X in such a big way. Oh, and Doc Searls, editor of Linux Journal, uses his TiBook to write articles about GNU/Linux. I guess NOBODY eats their own dog food except RMS, and that's because he's got ethical reasons to use it. The rest of us are just whores selling out to the prettiest GUI and most mindless (ie., 'ease-of-use') interface we can afford.
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Sadly, the Centrino support will most likely be a proprietary driver, but it's better than nothing.
What do you care, Cowboy Neal? You Slashdot editors don't even USE Linux anymore; you've all "switched" to Mac OS X, and last I checked, that was a LOT more proprietary than just a driver or two. You've already said you're buying a G5; you've probably already done so. So you don't have to worry about Centrino OR Linux drivers, do you. How does Linux run on that G5? That's what I thought. Mac OS X for Cowboy Neal. And that makes Slashdot 100% Mac. Hope VA Software doesn't find out you guys are pimping the competition's product here on Slashdot. VA's close enough to bankruptcy without their own employees turning against them, which is what you're doing, btw.
I've lost all respect for Slashdot since I found out you don't eat your own dog food. Slashdot has no integrity.
p.s. I used to work at Apple, and I am telling you the truth when I tell you that your mind is not your own. There are subliminal messages in OS X. Enjoy.
www.google.com.
Enjoy.
Feast your eyes on what good Slashdot Karma and a penchant for self-doodlation can get you! She's no Missus Scooby, but I suppose she'd do in a pinch for the unwashed geek masses.
According to his webblog, in the last few months, this poor bugger got his ass fired from TechTV, only to be replaced by the uber-knowledgeable (*snicker*) Leo Laporte; gotten sick; gotten food poisoning; has a conspiracy theory that Doc Searls is actually Colonel Sanders; has a beef with hydrogenated oils in soda crackers; has sunk to the oh-so pathetic level of doodling on his own body in order to get hits to his website, "C:\PIRILLO.EXE -- Getting Screwed While Everybody Else is Getting Laid".
And to top it all off, he writes a newsletter called "Windows Fanatics". I feel so bad for this guy. World Vision should add this guy to their client list, he's at least as pathetic as the starving AIDS-ridden African child with flies crawling on his face.
BSD isn't dying, this guy is.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature."
Slashdot needs a new Java icon. The one they have seems to be a cup of coffee with a piece of poop floating in it -- which, come to think of it, may actually be an accurate depiction of Java. Hmmm... forget I said anything. The icon is fine as it is.
Well, actually, with my Discman I only carried around one disk, so I made sure that it was my favorite one. With my MP3 player, I can hold 500 complete CD's, so it's statistically much less likely for a hot woman (as if) to stumble upon a song that's truly meaningful to me at any given moment. Right now, I'm listening to Santana from some instrumental album, which is nowhere near defining of who I am. I've set my player to purposely avoid songs I've listened to recently...
Robots. One acts as a wheelchair to carry handicapped people around, walking up stairs, etc., while the other plays the flute in a band. Every time I see the useful functions of robots I get worried. I'm a Luddite -- or should I say somewhat self-protective of the human race. I'm not scared of Aibo or the Honda Sapien, they just walk around and look human. But when I see robots replacing human beings, I worry that we're one step closer to obsolesence. We are replaceable by robots which will soon be superior to us in every way. I just hope they don't think like humans, or they will perform ethnic cleansing on us. Will robots have their own Darwinian philosopher advocating survival of the fittest?
I'd better ask Cory Doctorow, or better yet, Ray Kurzweil.
... they offer a monkey with four asses.
It's not possible to kill the Free Software business model directly because of its global nature -- so more underground, guerrilla methods are required. Keep your eyes open and watch them go. They're determined little buggers. But then again, to retain ownership of what will be a trillion dollar market over the next 20 years, I would be too.
Follow the money. Who benefits from rooting Debian, trojaning the Linux kernel, hacking Slashdot, then massively astroturfing against Free Software here on its home turf? Yes, you are correct, my twin former employers - whose technology sharing initiative is largely based around mutual self-defense...
I hope he's learned his lesson. All the private-time code I write is not attributed directly to *me*, but to my friends who have no relation to my employer and don't even actually code.... otherwise, I'm basically working unpaid overtime without even knowing I'm giving my free time to the company! I wised up to this scam a long time ago. I'm willing to code in my own time on a free software project that I'm passionate about, but I'm not interested in seeing my work get rolled into another watered-down corporate monopolization bundling attempt as is happening here.
The more interesting question, however, is the legal status of the code were it licensed under the GPL in this situation. I've heard an interesting strategy mentioned by some business acquaintances who are very threatened by the GPL and are interested in subverting it by whatever means necessary (back-doors in the kernel sound familiar?). One of their ideas for corrupting the GPLed code base (which is their eventual goal, in order to destroy Free Software) is to code a great deal for major free software projects, license it under the GPL, and then announce that they had coded it while at work and using their employers equipment. This would instantly transfer the ownership to the corporation, who could then announce that the original coder had *no legal authority* to put the software under the GPL against their wishes. This would create massive trouble for the FSF and Linux projects in general if done correctly. And trust me, it is the intention of these corporate killers to do it correctly.
I know I'm incredibly unpopular here at Slashdot, but ignore my warnings at your own peril. Think it through and come to your own conclusions as to the possibilities I'm revealing. The battle is not between Microsoft/Apple/Linux, it is between OpenSource/Proprietary. Think about it. The lines have been drawn and the battle is on, though most Slashdotters don't even know it yet. And unfortunately, most don't even care.
Well, it's not any more corrupt than one company owning the platform that 90% of the world operates on, then claiming that all the little fish can compete fairly against them and that they have no advantage owning the system....
If the Republicans own the voting system (and yes, I *know* they don't legally own the system, just as Microsoft doesn't *legally* own SCO), I highly doubt that they would use it to benefit themselves. I mean, come on! That would be unethical.
Good post, but one small correction: IMPETUS deals with motivation, while IMPOTUS, I assume, is something that deals with the lack of motivation --specifically in the male of the species....
Damn, I'm a pompous ass!
Of course you are correct, kind sir. Please forgive my bitter trollosity. Ease of use is good. Software and hardware which is well-designed is good. Although Anime *IS* still one step away from paedophilia, on that I shall not recant.
MPlayerOSX kicks ass. MPlayer rules on every platform I use it on and plays nearly every format possible, especially with the add-on codecs (soon to be Slashdotted). I don't even need Quicktime anymore except for sentimental reasons.
... when being a geek meant NOT being interested in having the tiniest, most feminine MP3 player (or having one at all); NOT choosing an OS for its "ease of use", or its "candy-coated GUI"; when supporting proprietary software was LESS ethical than open-source, not MORE ethical (same goes for hardware lockins); and when we didn't spend our hard-earned cash buying hats and shirts with logos of our favorite multinational all over them. That was the good old days. Now, I can't tell the difference between a geek on Slashdot and my mother. Honestly. Both use the same tools for the same tasks, but the geek still thinks he's superior for some reason. Strange... my little brother watches cartoons, but he's not "geek chic" like CmdrTaco with his anime fetish, either. The real Geeks here have been replaced by consumers. That's what we are, arguing about the best product to buy all the time -- we're just consumers. Corporate drones, defending our tribe -- "The Rotten Apples" versus "The Blue Screens of Death". My mom wonders which MP3 player to buy. She reads the same articles we do. But she's not a geek. What makes us geeks? My mom owns and uses more high-tech gizmos than I do. Think about it. The culture is changing, and it's not a good thing.
This gives us a good opportunity to look back at the previous Slashdot story announcing the McDonalds deal and examine our own prejudices. Looking back at the things we as a community wrote before, and more importantly, modded up before, gives us a real insight into our own pro-Mac bias. We really _DO_ want to believe. And we are willing to mod down anyone who says, "This is just a rumor, people."
It's about time Slashdot grows out of this infantile hero worship, especially when its undeserved and directed towards a corporation.
Don't read at 0. I don't, and thus never see crap like this -- or my own pathetic posts.
I, for one, shall reserve my opinion until I hear the official word from Steve Jobs.
A) Try pricing out some Opterons yourself. Be honest, and leave your fanatical Macintosh Religion at the door.
B) If this guy was honest and NOT looking for some much-needed $FUNDING$ ("Apple gave us no discount on our Macs, however they did donate $2.5 million dollars to build us a new library"), he could have had the same or better Supercomputer for less money with AMDs. You obviously don't know how we grownups play the game.
C) I don't talk to Anonymous Cowards, I believe you are all trolls and aren't worth my time. And you've just proved me right. And telling me to shut up doesn't prove your argument, it proves you try to censor the truth by silencing critics instead of learning and improving from criticism. That's the mark of a complete failure in life.
...so you're saying that the ONLY reason this article is such a macintosh worship-fest is because this moron just HAD to order his stuff in the two week period that G5's were "out" (announced, but not shipping yet) and the AMD's weren't. Poor fool, his two week rush probably cost him another million dollars.
My local computer guy can build me an AMD Opteron system for far less than a G5. I know, I've got one, and it kicks ass.
And this Mac shill Varadarajan (and he is definitely receiving SOMETHING for his PR efforts, that's how the world works -- duh) could have bought an AMD system WITHOUT any of the extra "goodies" Apple forces on you, so the price difference would be greater still. Do the math. This is Mac propaganda, and everybody's lapping it up.
NO discounts offered by Apple? They give ME one, and I'm just buying one little computer. A loaded G5 is CHEAPER than a barebones AMD Opteron? Discount Dell is quoting $9000 per PC, even when they know the PR value in getting this deal? What else on their site shows up at $9000 per box?
If you guys don't smell something fishy with these numbers, Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is a lot more mind-numbing than originally thought. I pity you.
... the advances in Religious Fundamentalism have far outstripped our scientific achievements.
"I am right, you are wrong; god told me, simple as that. You must die."
Darl McBride with a penis for a head.
... so all you have is the blogger's WORD that it's taken at Microsoft -- not that I doubt it, of course. Steve Jobs used to love his IBM ThinkPad (still may, I don't know), there's the famous picture of Bill Gates with a Mac Classic on his desk behind him, and Microsoft buying a few G5's is CERTAINLY no more incriminating than the Linux-loving Slashdot editors all abandoning Free Software and buying into proprietary Mac OS X in such a big way. Oh, and Doc Searls, editor of Linux Journal, uses his TiBook to write articles about GNU/Linux. I guess NOBODY eats their own dog food except RMS, and that's because he's got ethical reasons to use it. The rest of us are just whores selling out to the prettiest GUI and most mindless (ie., 'ease-of-use') interface we can afford.