Would you buy a Metallica online album despite their former views?
If they don't make what they consider to be enough money, nothing prevents them from changing their mind, or what's left of it. Metallica made their position clear. I'm going to hold them to it. Sure, everyone makes mistakes. I can even forgive them. But just because they admit, tacitly or otherwise, that they made a mistake and have finally decided to enter the 21st century doesn't mean I'm going to put myself in the way of another Metallica temper tantrum.
...that would be because the Catholic praying his/her rosary is much less likely, based on the last 10 years of history, to be carrying a bomb or a box cutter onto a plane. Whether you like the truth or not, it's young Arab men (and some women, as we've seen) that carry out the lion's share of terrorist attacks. And 100% of the people who carried out the 9/11 attacks were young Arab men.
Sophistry from a porn king? I wouldn't have though porn kings were capable of something as intelligent as sophistry.
"Responsible companies in the adult industry such as ours have done a great deal to deter minors from accessing adult material," Hirsch proclaims from inside a Vivid press release. "None of the search engines and portals, but particularly Yahoo and Google, has taken any significant steps in this direction.'"
What a crock. Leaving aside the morality (or lack thereof) of pornography, blaming Google and Yahoo! for linking to the pornography Hirsch and his buddies produce makes as much sense as Bill Clinton blaming news organizations for telling the public about the blow job Monica Lewinsky gave him. Oh, wait...
Jack is breathing air that could be used by someone more deserving. Gawd, I just wasted five minutes of my life reading more of Jack's delusions. But, like a traffic accident on the freeway that you can't not slow down to gawk at, I couldn't resist the urge to see this head case's new, improved, extra-strength paranoid hallucination.
How self-absorbed and totally irrelevant. Who, besides Slashdot's founders, employees, fanboys, and wannabes give a rat's ass what it's like to do technical support for Slashdot. It's just a Web site, for cryin' out loud!
You're the moron for assuming that children only learn at school. I knew how to read and write before I got to school because, gasp!, my parents taught me. Likewise, my children knew how to read and write before they started school because, gasp!, we taught them.
de Icaza is hardly an impartial commentator on the quality of OOXML because he has a vested interest in its success. Personally, I wonder how he resolves the conflict between the principles of free software and the principles of selling out to Microsoft.
Does anyone else see the blazing hypocrisy here? de Icaza created the GNOME project in to provide a free-as-in-beer alternative to the supposed un-free-as-in-beer nature of the Qt libraries underneath KDE, and now he's telling us that binary-only codecs,.Net, Silverlight, Moonlight are acceptable?
I couldn't care less what happens at Facebook or if Microsoft gets unfairly tarred as a supporter of so-called hate speech. The fact is that what some people call hate speech others call free speech. So, in the spirit of free speech, FUCK ISLAM.
They've gotten their orders from Microsoft — don't compete with MS Exchange. I guess for $400 million , give or take, Novell will do what they are told to do.
...because two ridiculously wealth guys who happen to run a search engine many people prefer own the plane that's at the heart of the lawsuit? Google is (mostly) a media darling, granted, but I really could care less about a lawsuit involving their plane. A plane? Good grief.
This is even stupider an idea than ebonics. I'm sick to death of repeated attempts to make culture ever more common, coarse, and unrefined. Standards for academic, intellectual, and literary achievement can't be made low enough — there's always someone who will fail to meet the standard. By lowering standards and expectations, all we achieve is further dumbing down our country and culture, which is already quite coarse and crude enough as it is, thank you very much.
If Microsoft does something like this, we'd call it an anti-trust violation. I realize AMD won't be overtaking Intel in market share this week or even next year, but does Skype really want to limit their potential base this way?
Suggesting that the hospitals are at fault for failing to secure their networks adequately is assinine. The perpetrators are at fault. Adware companies might provide incentive and the hospitals evidently need to secure their networks, too, but culpability lies solely with the two defectives who committed the crime.
...SimpleKDE, an unofficial fork of KDE, were meant to be a response to those who criticise KDE as being overbloated.
Umm, "overbloated" meaning what? If something is bloated, it seems to me that it is by definition "distended beyond the natural or usual size." So how can KDE, if bloated it be, be "overly bloated."
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
If they don't make what they consider to be enough money, nothing prevents them from changing their mind, or what's left of it. Metallica made their position clear. I'm going to hold them to it. Sure, everyone makes mistakes. I can even forgive them. But just because they admit, tacitly or otherwise, that they made a mistake and have finally decided to enter the 21st century doesn't mean I'm going to put myself in the way of another Metallica temper tantrum.
...that would be because the Catholic praying his/her rosary is much less likely, based on the last 10 years of history, to be carrying a bomb or a box cutter onto a plane. Whether you like the truth or not, it's young Arab men (and some women, as we've seen) that carry out the lion's share of terrorist attacks. And 100% of the people who carried out the 9/11 attacks were young Arab men.
s/serve/screw/
Sophistry from a porn king? I wouldn't have though porn kings were capable of something as intelligent as sophistry.
What a crock. Leaving aside the morality (or lack thereof) of pornography, blaming Google and Yahoo! for linking to the pornography Hirsch and his buddies produce makes as much sense as Bill Clinton blaming news organizations for telling the public about the blow job Monica Lewinsky gave him. Oh, wait...Jack is breathing air that could be used by someone more deserving. Gawd, I just wasted five minutes of my life reading more of Jack's delusions. But, like a traffic accident on the freeway that you can't not slow down to gawk at, I couldn't resist the urge to see this head case's new, improved, extra-strength paranoid hallucination.
How self-absorbed and totally irrelevant. Who, besides Slashdot's founders, employees, fanboys, and wannabes give a rat's ass what it's like to do technical support for Slashdot. It's just a Web site, for cryin' out loud!
You're the moron for assuming that children only learn at school. I knew how to read and write before I got to school because, gasp!, my parents taught me. Likewise, my children knew how to read and write before they started school because, gasp!, we taught them.
de Icaza is hardly an impartial commentator on the quality of OOXML because he has a vested interest in its success. Personally, I wonder how he resolves the conflict between the principles of free software and the principles of selling out to Microsoft.
Does anyone else see the blazing hypocrisy here? de Icaza created the GNOME project in to provide a free-as-in-beer alternative to the supposed un-free-as-in-beer nature of the Qt libraries underneath KDE, and now he's telling us that binary-only codecs, .Net, Silverlight, Moonlight are acceptable?
Bah.
I couldn't care less what happens at Facebook or if Microsoft gets unfairly tarred as a supporter of so-called hate speech. The fact is that what some people call hate speech others call free speech. So, in the spirit of free speech, FUCK ISLAM.
Funny thing about so-called hate speech is that one person calls it "hate speech" but another calls is "free speech." So, fuck islam.
[cue joyful uproar]
SCOx is well and truly screwed. Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield. Today, SCO was the bug!
...begins in New York, evidently.
...is my own jetpack to improve my commute!
They've gotten their orders from Microsoft — don't compete with MS Exchange. I guess for $400 million , give or take, Novell will do what they are told to do.
Well, that didn't take long.
...the SEC would target SCO's "interesting" stock option arrangements.
...because two ridiculously wealth guys who happen to run a search engine many people prefer own the plane that's at the heart of the lawsuit? Google is (mostly) a media darling, granted, but I really could care less about a lawsuit involving their plane. A plane? Good grief.
This is even stupider an idea than ebonics. I'm sick to death of repeated attempts to make culture ever more common, coarse, and unrefined. Standards for academic, intellectual, and literary achievement can't be made low enough — there's always someone who will fail to meet the standard. By lowering standards and expectations, all we achieve is further dumbing down our country and culture, which is already quite coarse and crude enough as it is, thank you very much.
You know, SCO, that crater in Lindon, Utah.
Gag me with a smurfette!
If Microsoft does something like this, we'd call it an anti-trust violation. I realize AMD won't be overtaking Intel in market share this week or even next year, but does Skype really want to limit their potential base this way?
Suggesting that the hospitals are at fault for failing to secure their networks adequately is assinine. The perpetrators are at fault. Adware companies might provide incentive and the hospitals evidently need to secure their networks, too, but culpability lies solely with the two defectives who committed the crime.
Any minute now, the Chewbacca Defense.
Umm, "overbloated" meaning what? If something is bloated, it seems to me that it is by definition "distended beyond the natural or usual size." So how can KDE, if bloated it be, be "overly bloated."