You've been able to do something similar to this for months. Thinking Universal wrote this on purpose to force MySpace into doing what they want isn't only naive, it's an indication that your tin foil hat is on far too tight.
Regardless of what you consider "fairly small", the reality is pretty far from your delusional world.
Can you cite this? If not, it's just opinion - just like everything else you assume to be fact. It's obvious to me that you're completely clueless about operating systems that aren't Linux and you like to throw out stereotypes as facts when you start losing arguments in forums like this. Tell me... when will you graduate high school?
Your typical user mostly, won't notice...which is true for Linux users too.
Your typical user will notice big time when you take their working Windows desktop away and replace it with a Linux desktop that only sort of works. They'll want to play mp3s, and when you tell them that mp3s aren't "free" enough, they'll just want Windows back since it works. Getting back to the entire point of this thread, they'll notice even more when you tell them they have to write a 20 page long config file to get that media player to work, and that doesn't even let them play the mp3s they just asked you for. Yes, you're right - users won't ever notice.
Frankly, the fact that Linux works differently, and you're angry about it, is yet more proof that you're an idiot.
How is that proof I'm an idiot? It's simply proof that I think Linux could work better (or differently), which is not proof I'm an idiot. It is, though, proof that you're an idiot, since you think it's proof I'm an idiot when it clearly isn't. Understand? If not, leave you home address here for me and I can FedEx you some charts to help explain it.
Windows and *nix have completely different philosophies of design, and generally the changes between releases of Windows are fairly small. The amount of time needed to retrain someone to use XP when they've been used to using 98 or 2000 is much, much smaller than the amount of time needed to retrain them to use *nix when they've been on Windows their entire life. It's the differing design philosophy that makes the jump different.
On a side note, assholes like you are the reason why Linux will never make it on the desktop; Apple and Microsoft will dominate desktops for the immediate future. Perhaps one day when your kind have all went to their graves, Linux will have a chance (but I doubt it).
You're completely unrealistic and way out in left field if you don't understand all of this. There's an article somewhere out there that basically says Windows != Linux; go read that, and perhaps when you've been brought up to speed on things, perhaps you can participate in intelligent discussion (I doubt it though).
I have a Windows box sitting in my basement that isn't connected to the Internet, running XP without any service packs - it runs and runs and runs, and there are no viruses (you can virus scan it if you want). How do you want to pay me that $50 you owe me?
Why is it that every anti-Microsoft article/comment is labeled as truth by idiots like you, but when someone criticizes Linux or open source even lightly, you label the entire thing as a troll?
This is pure bullshit. I have iTunes 6.0.5.20 installed on this machine and there are no such services, and I monitor my network traffic regularly. Now, I know you'll counter with "you don't know what you're talking about," since idiots like you can't stand to admit when you're wrong, but......you're wrong.
Most Linux users say that this allows the system to be more customizable, but I call that a bunch of crap. All of these apps could detect reasonable defaults (like you suggest) and then allow the same configuration that they do now, to customize to the advanced user's tastes.
The entire Linux mentality, that is, that the user knows what they're doing, is a good thing - forcing people to become more educated never hurt anyone, and helps to keep the idiots out. However, it shouldn't come at the price of convenience - because, like you said, the computer should work for you, not against you.
1. Health class would be replaced by a programming class, since Linux users dwell in the basement and have no need for exercise of hygiene. 2. Sex-ed? You're kidding, right? Linux users don't have sex; they recompile their kernel instead. 3. Phys-ed? Another joke, right? Replaced with another programming class. 4. The school's entrance policy would only permit autistic students or those with asperger's syndrome. 5. Lunch would be Doritos and Jolt cola. 6. No girls allowed. Period. 7. The school's IT policy would never take hold, since the autistic IT staff would be constantly bickering over how to best set the servers up, with System V init scripts or that other kind of init script. 8. Daily "pride marches" for those who only use free (as in freedom) software. Here they can parade around in knee-high socks and quote poetry written in Welsh or some shit. 9. Classes on how socialism is better than capitalism, even though everyone knows that without capitalism the computer wouldn't exist, thus preventing this social subculture (Linux user, that is) from ever existing. 10. Classes on how to avoid shaving and taking showers, even when the itch from your beard and smell of your own stench begins to convince you to do so.
I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them now.
...how this is for XP and not your random Linux distribution of the week. Some of us like to actually do something with our computer rather than perpetually set it up and recompile software.
This is a fucking stupid story. Slashdot "original" content would be a good idea if it wasn't for the fact that the editors are so fucking stupid and the average user is even dumber.
I see where you're coming from - but consider, if you're in a position where you need a certain amount of control over the software you're running, then nothing but F/OSS is going to cut the mustard.
Maintaining a certain amount of control doesn't mean you have to have all the damn source code. Many, many school districts in the US run Windows and things operate just fine. So, in short... you're an idiot.
No; the problem is that Ubuntu markets itself as "Linux for Humans," which gives users a false sense of how easy it is to use the operating system. When something blows up (as did today for Ubuntu), Linux drops to a command prompt, and people don't know what to do.
This wouldn't be an issue if Ubuntu marketed itself more like Gentoo does, or perhaps Debian.
...Microsoft has a security problem, which most people will acknowledge is a constant thing. They release patches, which everyone will acknowledge happens pretty much monthly. There's a story on the/. front page complaining about how they botched the patch.
Ubuntu has a problem today, which basically renders machines inoperable that update their X software today. Ubuntu doesn't have as many security problems as Microsoft (for a lot of reasons, I imagine, but I'm tend to think it's because of the much smaller installation base). Heck, this issue doesn't even affect security - which isn't quite as important as functionality (seriously; the number of exploits for this Microsoft problem will be small, and the number of Ubuntu users locked out of their machines is probably something like 60%, given the small numbers of their user base).
Given all of this information, there is no front page story on the Ubuntu fuck up of today. Biased? Of course. Unexpected? Definitely not; this is Slashdot; News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, assuming you use Linux. Everyone else need not apply.
Moderators: how is this a troll? It's a valid counterpoint to the general opinion here that Windows is always worse than Linux in every way.
If there was a flaw in Windows (a hypothetical one, I don't mean the one from today), and someone posted "Haha! This sort of thing would never happen if you used Ubuntu!" without the link to Ubuntu's screw up, it would moderated up - maybe not to 5, but it sure as hell wouldn't be moderated as a troll.
I was about to say "you must be new here," but your uid is much smaller than mine; so, suffice to say that Slashdot is pretty much one big advertisement anymore. That's why nobody reads the stories before they post; they figure they're just blogvertising/astroturfing/something else.
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Kids are growing up so fast that they don't know when to use "too" instead of "to."
More like K-Dupe!
I run only Ginuwine Microsoft Windows.
You've been able to do something similar to this for months. Thinking Universal wrote this on purpose to force MySpace into doing what they want isn't only naive, it's an indication that your tin foil hat is on far too tight.
Regardless of what you consider "fairly small", the reality is pretty far from your delusional world.
Can you cite this? If not, it's just opinion - just like everything else you assume to be fact. It's obvious to me that you're completely clueless about operating systems that aren't Linux and you like to throw out stereotypes as facts when you start losing arguments in forums like this. Tell me... when will you graduate high school?
Your typical user mostly, won't notice...which is true for Linux users too.
Your typical user will notice big time when you take their working Windows desktop away and replace it with a Linux desktop that only sort of works. They'll want to play mp3s, and when you tell them that mp3s aren't "free" enough, they'll just want Windows back since it works. Getting back to the entire point of this thread, they'll notice even more when you tell them they have to write a 20 page long config file to get that media player to work, and that doesn't even let them play the mp3s they just asked you for. Yes, you're right - users won't ever notice.
Frankly, the fact that Linux works differently, and you're angry about it, is yet more proof that you're an idiot.
How is that proof I'm an idiot? It's simply proof that I think Linux could work better (or differently), which is not proof I'm an idiot. It is, though, proof that you're an idiot, since you think it's proof I'm an idiot when it clearly isn't. Understand? If not, leave you home address here for me and I can FedEx you some charts to help explain it.
Windows and *nix have completely different philosophies of design, and generally the changes between releases of Windows are fairly small. The amount of time needed to retrain someone to use XP when they've been used to using 98 or 2000 is much, much smaller than the amount of time needed to retrain them to use *nix when they've been on Windows their entire life. It's the differing design philosophy that makes the jump different.
On a side note, assholes like you are the reason why Linux will never make it on the desktop; Apple and Microsoft will dominate desktops for the immediate future. Perhaps one day when your kind have all went to their graves, Linux will have a chance (but I doubt it).
You're completely unrealistic and way out in left field if you don't understand all of this. There's an article somewhere out there that basically says Windows != Linux; go read that, and perhaps when you've been brought up to speed on things, perhaps you can participate in intelligent discussion (I doubt it though).
This technique beats Wi-Fi Fingerprints by a country mile.
A country mile is about the width of CmdrTaco's wife's ass. Which is, needless to say, pretty wide.
I have a Windows box sitting in my basement that isn't connected to the Internet, running XP without any service packs - it runs and runs and runs, and there are no viruses (you can virus scan it if you want). How do you want to pay me that $50 you owe me?
Why is it that every anti-Microsoft article/comment is labeled as truth by idiots like you, but when someone criticizes Linux or open source even lightly, you label the entire thing as a troll?
This is pure bullshit. I have iTunes 6.0.5.20 installed on this machine and there are no such services, and I monitor my network traffic regularly. Now, I know you'll counter with "you don't know what you're talking about," since idiots like you can't stand to admit when you're wrong, but... ...you're wrong.
Most Linux users say that this allows the system to be more customizable, but I call that a bunch of crap. All of these apps could detect reasonable defaults (like you suggest) and then allow the same configuration that they do now, to customize to the advanced user's tastes.
The entire Linux mentality, that is, that the user knows what they're doing, is a good thing - forcing people to become more educated never hurt anyone, and helps to keep the idiots out. However, it shouldn't come at the price of convenience - because, like you said, the computer should work for you, not against you.
1. Health class would be replaced by a programming class, since Linux users dwell in the basement and have no need for exercise of hygiene.
2. Sex-ed? You're kidding, right? Linux users don't have sex; they recompile their kernel instead.
3. Phys-ed? Another joke, right? Replaced with another programming class.
4. The school's entrance policy would only permit autistic students or those with asperger's syndrome.
5. Lunch would be Doritos and Jolt cola.
6. No girls allowed. Period.
7. The school's IT policy would never take hold, since the autistic IT staff would be constantly bickering over how to best set the servers up, with System V init scripts or that other kind of init script.
8. Daily "pride marches" for those who only use free (as in freedom) software. Here they can parade around in knee-high socks and quote poetry written in Welsh or some shit.
9. Classes on how socialism is better than capitalism, even though everyone knows that without capitalism the computer wouldn't exist, thus preventing this social subculture (Linux user, that is) from ever existing.
10. Classes on how to avoid shaving and taking showers, even when the itch from your beard and smell of your own stench begins to convince you to do so.
I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them now.
...how this is for XP and not your random Linux distribution of the week. Some of us like to actually do something with our computer rather than perpetually set it up and recompile software.
This is a fucking stupid story. Slashdot "original" content would be a good idea if it wasn't for the fact that the editors are so fucking stupid and the average user is even dumber.
This honestly seems to stupid to actually be real. Anyone know for sure?
You forgot an 'o', dumbass. I guess Linux doesn't have a spell checker yet, does it?
Starting a BitTorrent tracker in the default installation - oh, I'm sorry. That was a "feature" of Dapper.
I don't think anyone still thought this game was ever going to be released anyway.
...Vista supported OpenGL.
I see where you're coming from - but consider, if you're in a position where you need a certain amount of control over the software you're running, then nothing but F/OSS is going to cut the mustard.
Maintaining a certain amount of control doesn't mean you have to have all the damn source code. Many, many school districts in the US run Windows and things operate just fine. So, in short... you're an idiot.
I bet stories like these make the collective Slashdot hivemind get a huge woody.
No; the problem is that Ubuntu markets itself as "Linux for Humans," which gives users a false sense of how easy it is to use the operating system. When something blows up (as did today for Ubuntu), Linux drops to a command prompt, and people don't know what to do.
This wouldn't be an issue if Ubuntu marketed itself more like Gentoo does, or perhaps Debian.
...Microsoft has a security problem, which most people will acknowledge is a constant thing. They release patches, which everyone will acknowledge happens pretty much monthly. There's a story on the /. front page complaining about how they botched the patch.
Ubuntu has a problem today, which basically renders machines inoperable that update their X software today. Ubuntu doesn't have as many security problems as Microsoft (for a lot of reasons, I imagine, but I'm tend to think it's because of the much smaller installation base). Heck, this issue doesn't even affect security - which isn't quite as important as functionality (seriously; the number of exploits for this Microsoft problem will be small, and the number of Ubuntu users locked out of their machines is probably something like 60%, given the small numbers of their user base).
Given all of this information, there is no front page story on the Ubuntu fuck up of today. Biased? Of course. Unexpected? Definitely not; this is Slashdot; News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, assuming you use Linux. Everyone else need not apply.
Moderators: how is this a troll? It's a valid counterpoint to the general opinion here that Windows is always worse than Linux in every way.
If there was a flaw in Windows (a hypothetical one, I don't mean the one from today), and someone posted "Haha! This sort of thing would never happen if you used Ubuntu!" without the link to Ubuntu's screw up, it would moderated up - maybe not to 5, but it sure as hell wouldn't be moderated as a troll.
I was about to say "you must be new here," but your uid is much smaller than mine; so, suffice to say that Slashdot is pretty much one big advertisement anymore. That's why nobody reads the stories before they post; they figure they're just blogvertising/astroturfing/something else.
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