Enough like the old one to retain the brand recognition, and they can point out it is LindOS, if MS comes a-suing again.
Of course, the question is "will it keep sucking?";)
I was sixteen, I was two years from graduating high school and my brother let me use his University account. I logged in with our 386 laptop with the internal 2600 baud modem, and
used it to ftp to some university or the other
to harvest album lyrics and guitar tabs (the old
olga archive, methinks)
No, just slashdot some poor asshole's computer that was zombied by some windows worm or whatever.
Retaliatory measures will just bag some incompetent computer operator. Sorry. (and don't forget that the guy might be incompetent, but maybe his lawyer isn't and you are trying to DOS him)
Word. I got married a few months ago, and while me n' my wife did some place hunting we lived at her mother's house, and I managed to keep the computer more or less shipshape.
Two months after we moved out, we went for dinner there, I had to look up something quick in google and *OMFG* the computer is barely crawling, it has half the system tray filled with icons, and it has so much malware that adaware crashes:o
When a project turns into pure open source project, without a company backup, it becomes very very hard to beat the closed source competition. Very few projects are there that can compete with closed source, but those are not as complicated as mozilla.
You mean not as complicated, like, say, apache or linux?
It's ok. My posting was quite harsh too, I was still fuming about some unfair mods I got earlier (I mean, "redundant" when I'm the first poster to mention something? WTF?)
And yes, I could and should have said it in a civilized manner. My bad, please accept my apologies as well.
Now, on to the end of the world. Civility in slashdot! OMG!:D
To whomever moderated this as "troll": Mike Godwin is the guy who came up with what is known as
Godwin's Law that involves Hitler. In short terms, it says that long discussions often degenerate into flamewars and whomever calls the other "Hitler" or "Nazi" loses the discussion.
Of course it is better to use it in base 10. That's why calling the improvement of "an order of magnitude better" is wrong because it implies:
a) The person who made the claim does not know jack shit about what an order of magnitude is.
b) He/She meant base 2 order of magnitude, in wich case it is quite a bit misleading. Kinda like "lose 10(*) pounds in a week!" and in the small print put "10 base 2 pounds".
This is because I do not open e-mail attachments, run a hardware firewall, and keep my system up to date with the latest patches and virus definitions.
That shouldn't be a requirement to security. Unless you own cisco stock.
I guess you missed the study that Slashdot posted which stated Linux was the most breached OS on the net.
There's a *BIG* difference between "a hacker 0wn3d my b0x" and "Some VB script 0wn3d half of the windows boxen on the internet, automatically, without any manual interaction from the hacker".
then you'd have to find that "magical battery manufacturer whose products *NEVER* fail", or a laptop brand that uses them.
I recently replaced the battery on my brother's PowerBook. Apple's supposedly top-notch hardware failing less than six months from purchase.
Shit happens. And then is when you wish for good support. (My international warranty was honored, but had to wait weeks while they imported the battery)
"probably [..] games will come out with no regional coding"
Well, at least they'll get _SOMETHING_ right.
Any PSP movies, however, will probably have to remain region protected, even if Hollywood decides to back the UMD format for distribution, although there may be other incentives to buying movies this way.
I landed in the middle of a project that had been in development for TWO YEARS, and was poster child of evil software engineering malpractices: hardcoded numbers and strings, no separation of content and logic, no coding standards, no comments, no docs, no NOTHING. Mixes of PHP, javascript and HTML in the same line. Copied and pasted javascript code that nobody knew what it did, but when pasted in worked. And, of course, with fire-breathing bosses looking over your shoulder. And with crappy dell computers on 14" monitors that gave 70Hz at 800x600. I had left a job coding java in a decent environment with people from wich I could learn lots, but switched for the money. Not long after that I realized there's more than money to a job. I left that job with the begginings of stress-induced breakdown I would suffer a month later, and a vow to never again work anywhere before asking about the documentation policy.
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Enough like the old one to retain the brand recognition, and they can point out it is LindOS, if MS comes a-suing again. Of course, the question is "will it keep sucking?" ;)
This crop of young 'uns that don't remember the text-only internet!
I was sixteen, I was two years from graduating high school and my brother let me use his University account. I logged in with our 386 laptop with the internal 2600 baud modem, and used it to ftp to some university or the other to harvest album lyrics and guitar tabs (the old olga archive, methinks)
Word. Somebody plugged in an air purifier or something like that in the same power strip my computer is plugged in.
Turning on the damn shit reboots my computer. I didn't notice until today, as people usually turned it on when I was out.
No, just slashdot some poor asshole's computer that was zombied by some windows worm or whatever.
Retaliatory measures will just bag some incompetent computer operator. Sorry. (and don't forget that the guy might be incompetent, but maybe his lawyer isn't and you are trying to DOS him)
Two months after we moved out, we went for dinner there, I had to look up something quick in google and *OMFG* the computer is barely crawling, it has half the system tray filled with icons, and it has so much malware that adaware crashes :o
Self-installing and opt-out add-ons suck. Hard.
You mean not as complicated, like, say, apache or linux?
And yes, I could and should have said it in a civilized manner. My bad, please accept my apologies as well.
Now, on to the end of the world. Civility in slashdot! OMG! :D
So, a bit slow (as always ;)
Hurts their business model. (I think another poster pointed out that they sell old shows and all that)
Get it, you idiot?
a) The person who made the claim does not know jack shit about what an order of magnitude is.
b) He/She meant base 2 order of magnitude, in wich case it is quite a bit misleading. Kinda like "lose 10(*) pounds in a week!" and in the small print put "10 base 2 pounds".
Yes, it is dependent on the number system. So why is it 38 nanometer instead of 100110 nanometer?
but, in the real world, a company like pixar contracts a render farm that does a much better work than a bunch of l33t b0x3n.
That shouldn't be a requirement to security. Unless you own cisco stock.
There's a *BIG* difference between "a hacker 0wn3d my b0x" and "Some VB script 0wn3d half of the windows boxen on the internet, automatically, without any manual interaction from the hacker".
I recently replaced the battery on my brother's PowerBook. Apple's supposedly top-notch hardware failing less than six months from purchase.
Shit happens. And then is when you wish for good support. (My international warranty was honored, but had to wait weeks while they imported the battery)
I might have misread, but it seems like they were talking about BANDWIDTH NEEDED! :o
Well, at least they'll get _SOMETHING_ right.
Any PSP movies, however, will probably have to remain region protected, even if Hollywood decides to back the UMD format for distribution, although there may be other incentives to buying movies this way.
Oh well :(
D'oh!
But let's look at the bright side... I *can* join the GNAA! :D
And I bet the smell of burning karma is funnier that the string of crap that masquerades as April's fools jokes on /.
You must be (april's fools) joking. This is /. EVERYBODY didn't click but posted here.
But, even though it does top that crap, it still sucks.
I landed in the middle of a project that had been in development for TWO YEARS, and was poster child of evil software engineering malpractices: hardcoded numbers and strings, no separation of content and logic, no coding standards, no comments, no docs, no NOTHING. Mixes of PHP, javascript and HTML in the same line. Copied and pasted javascript code that nobody knew what it did, but when pasted in worked. And, of course, with fire-breathing bosses looking over your shoulder. And with crappy dell computers on 14" monitors that gave 70Hz at 800x600. I had left a job coding java in a decent environment with people from wich I could learn lots, but switched for the money. Not long after that I realized there's more than money to a job. I left that job with the begginings of stress-induced breakdown I would suffer a month later, and a vow to never again work anywhere before asking about the documentation policy.
Hmm, something's wrong here. So I closed them and opened them again. Nautilus took three seconds, Konqueror (home folder) took one. Go figure.