Your post is probably going to warrant those same sort of comments.
Choices have consequences, intended and unattended, deal with it.
You've heard the saying 'You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.", right? Ever figure out what it means?
Its funny that you're implying people are bad for name calling when they don't agree with someone, and then you do pretty much exactly that in a subtler form yourself as you end your message.
So basically the only difference between you and Linus is that Linus doesn't hide his opinion and you don't have the conviction to actually say yours. Yea, your post definitely warrants those same comments.
Is the direction in which Linux is driven simply the whim of people like Linus and Lennart who dictate "my way or the highway"?
So... uhm... The Linux kernel has *ALWAYS* been Linus's way or the highway. That is how it got to where it is today. Before you go off sounding like an idiot, keep in mind that Linux exists BECAUSE OF Linus. It's far from only Linus of course, but he has ALWAYS been the deciding factor.
If you'll follow the full thread, you'll see that Linus had made his point before that message was sent. He doesn't fly off the handle on every message when he disagrees with something. He tends to get more and more irritated when you continue to do things he's said no to or asked you to do differently.
He has never bitched about anyone 'forking' the kernel. The worst thing he says off the cuff is 'this a dumb idea', to get worse than that you have to provoke him.
And then of course, he's Finnish, so the behavior isn't really that out of the ordinary:)
... So you mean its like every other farm commodity on the planet?
Don't give me that bullshit. Its no different than several other 'inventories', like tobacco... which its exactly like where it is legal or many chemicals or any prescription drug after its made.
What you're referring to is nothing more than the wake of legalization. In a few years, it will flatline and be as stable as every other produce.
You would be wise to stop your whining and enjoy the fact that you're getting paid more than its worth in all scenarios you're experience currently.
You would do well to remain silent on subject matters with which you clearly have no familiarity, rather than criticizing people whom you falsely assume are not smarter than you
Are you stoned? Acting like you have a clue doesn't make you right. Acting like you have a clue and the other guy is an idiot just makes you look stupid to everybody who knows you're talking out your ass.
So just taking your bitchy ass back in side, STFU and get ready for the reality that is 5 years from now when you're little grow no longer exists because the real farmers made you look silly over night.
Growing pot isn't special. Only a moron would be so naive.
Did it ever occur to you fat fucks designing the sensor that the reason these 65-70 year old men are maintaining many rice paddies is BECAUSE they walk them, instead of sitting on their ass and withering away.
This is one of those 'inventions' that sound like a good idea until you look outside your tiny ass little scope. It reminds me of the idiots who thought you could lock the Japs up in camps and feed them bleached white rice all the time and nothing else for nutrition instead of whole rice which is actually useful to the body unlike white rice
You may make it easier on them, but end up with them dying younger instead! Not my idea of a good trade off considering walking isn't exactly bad for you. America needs to try less to be lazy, you're killing yourselves to do it.
I woudn't at all be surprised if drinking sugary sodas is the number one cause of diabetes.
That's just because you're ignorant and don't realize that you don't cause it in any way due to how much sugar you intake, but go on continue being stupid and using that as an excuse to try and control the behavior of others.
Get a clue before you make such ignorant statements. Sugar intake itself has no effect in causing diabetes, and the problem is never too much sugar, it's not enough. Don't mention diseases you've got no clue at all about.
Android is only the dominate player because everyone stopped writing their own software and started freeloading off of Google.
Now they want to freeload off of Google AND not allow Google to profit from it.
If it doesn't benefit Google, why exactly does Google want to support Android?
Android isn't free, thats the first mistake people make. It just doesn't cost any cash up front, but you pay by turning your data/customers over to Google right out of the box. At no point was this hidden from anyone.
I really don't see how Samsung has a leg to stand on, they don't have to run Android. Apple doesn't. Windows phones don't. Samsung didn't use to run Android or have a Google Play store so its hard to argue that they can't find an alternative considering they used to use alternatives until... they all agreed to use Android under terms and conditions they've been using for years. Now suddenly its a problem?
Google could just drop Android support entirely and the field could devolve into even more chaos than the Android landscape already is, is that a bright idea for Samsung? Do they want to let MS regain a foothold again?
Samsung gave up control over the OS when it stopped paying for the OS under its terms and instead started freeloading off of Google and became bound by their terms.
They did this to themselves, intentionally. Fuck'em.
Yea, he figured if you're going to be such a douche that you buy that sort of monstrosity... everyone should be able to spot you from a long way off so they can point and laugh. He really was just being mean to the Aztek owners.
Before you get to cocky there, remember which brands from GM were actually profitable and which ones were failures instead of comparing which ones they kept and which ones they closed.
GM closed their only profitable brands. Pontiac and Saturn. They were profitable in a large part due to Bob Lutz and the Kappa chassis, otherwise known as the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky which were on back order the entire time they were produced.
that Apple switched from GCC to LLVM specifically to avoid copyleft.
Yea, they wanted an open source compiler instead of the GPL crap. So they went from GPL to BSD... are you seriously trying to claim thats proprietary? If so you're just making yourself look retarded. Not stupid, flat out retarded.
You probably meant "Xcode is free as in without charge." That's true if your home Internet lacks a quota or has dozens of GB per month.
Apple will allow you to download it in their stores for free.
But if you're stuck behind cellular or satellite Internet, such as in a rural area or urban Seattle, multiple gigabytes can become very expensive to download.
And that changes any of this how? Regardless of where you download it from, you're going to be downloading it and thats going to cost. You've not described anything that justifies downloading it from someone other than the source.
You're just a shitty hater, you can't even find actual flaws to pick on.
You know what they are going to do, there is no confusion, you can simply choose not to use their product or pay in a different way for a version that doesn't sell your info.
You can make an informed choice, which makes it fair, and imo, acceptable to do so.
Which is ironic considering they'll continue on using all the services that hide or lie about the fact that they do this very thing.
NOTHING is free. The laws of physics simply don't work that way, and they do apply to people and behavior as well. People will move on to another product... which is selling their information due to a clause that sounds completely benign in paragraph 12 of page 43 of the EULA.
*sigh*
People will cut off their nose to spite their face at the drop of a hat.
- Don't they know some of us are bored at work and don't want to get caught by the boss??:D
While you're half joking, you are pointing out exact why so many non-techies would use ad blockers as well. Its about respect.
Those ads are rude and thats why you don't like them, even if its only subconsciously that you realize it. They don't give a shit what you're preferences are, or even that they aren't the only ad on the page. They are going to broadcast and spam you with their wares weather you like it or not because god damn it you will like it if you hear their ad.
FUCK THOSE ADVERTISERS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THEM.
It is nothing more than total and complete disrespect.
If you have no respect for me, why the fuck do I want to buy your product?
Solution: I will never buy from anyone/thing/company that does any of the things you've mentioned as well as several others where its clear that they have no respect for me at all.
I concur with you 100% Respect me in your advertising or go fuck yourself.
Note: I PREFER targeted ads, done right. Its nice to be introduced to a competitors product thats just as good but cheaper or easier to obtain, or maybe (for things like food and music) just different. I do not prefer to see the same ad on every website I visit for the product I JUST BOUGHT AND WON'T NEED AGAIN FOR 10 YEARS (refrigerator in the most recent round)
If CNN provides malware through their ad system, it reflects on CNN, not on the 3rd party ad provider and thus those provider have no incentive nor intention to provide safer content.
Thats completely untrue.
CNN provides ads on its site through some provider, then CNN serves a bunch of malware and gets a bad rep...
CNN isn't going to use that ad provider for long if it continues.
Ad provider goes out of business because websites stop using them since they have a bad ratio of good to bad ads.
This is simple every day business at work, ad companies most certainly care what gets served on their network.
He can still improve it without it being sold you know?
Sometimes an App gets on the store and its just broken. Not in the way that testing noticed, but it really isn't doing what its supposed to do and instead of continuing to do bad things to new people, you stop selling it. Fix it. Return it to the store.
If you read what he said, thats pretty much a given that he's doing just that.
Its not that he didn't know his website's ads would be blocked, its that he didn't realize how dramatic the effect would be for his revenue stream.
Once he realized that it would crush his revenue stream completely, he then realized that 'hey... blocking all ads may not be the best idea, it might actually be bad for some people and legitimate products because... I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE IT HURT'
He just had a realization when he felt the effects himself. When he realized he was shafting himself out of cash when he wasn't being an 'evil advertiser' or anything, he realized that he was nuking it from space instead of maybe a pistol or two.
Sometimes we don't immediately fully realize the effect we have on others until we see it directly for ourselves. Thats all this was.
You can simply not click on the ads, and you get a website for free. Whats going to replace it is a website that doesn't exist. You won't pay for it, so it won't have any money to operate, so it won't exist.
Do you pay for a slashdot account or use an ad-blocker?
Yea... I thought so.
You'll cut off your own nose to spite your face, jackass.
Linux powers a lot of things that its not the best choice for simply because they hired some Linux fanboy so thats all he'll suggest. Doesn't mean its the best at the job, just means they picked it. Spending an extra $20k/year on someone with a clue could save them millions on hardware.
Rendering farms aren't indented to be fast at routing packets, they're intended to use CPU cycles to render, which any OS that gets out of the way ASAP is probably good for, here its more important that the application you want to use runs on the OS you want to use. So its not surprising the more cluster apps run on Linux any more surprising that more Desktop apps run on Windows.
So while there may be a lot of Linux rendering clusters, still doesn't make it the right choice. Do you think that because a lot of people do Cocaine that its the right thing to do too? Or do you actually evaluate the situation and make a sane decision?
This was just a bad choice. If they wanted a proper software defined network, they'd have selected FreeBSD since it has the fastest, most compact networking stack in the world and its well known/accepted fact by anyone who does high-end networking, hence why Microsoft ALREADY has a fuck ton of FreeBSD installs on their core network labeled... Juniper Networks... or F5... or any of the other ones.
Someone deserves to get fired for this. Not because they picked Linux, but because Linux simply wasn't the right choice in any way shape or form as every other major company doing networking has illustrated.
Wow, could you have shown any better just how ignorant you were?
undersocialized
By definition of what these people are doing, they are more socialized than you, someone no one outside your house probably even remembers your name.
steroid-sozzled jock dopes
The NFL has been steroid testing players for almost 30 years, so no, no steroid's involved in the NFL.
dopes can grasp anything other than their playbook?
Another years pay says you couldn't memorize and understand their playbook given 6 months time to do so. I'd bet my life you're too slow to even come close to executing one of the simple plays against actual NFL players.
And, especially, the commentators?
Comms are generally retired quarterbacks, the smartest people on the field. As I've said before, I'd bet a years pay that every starting NFL quarterback on the field is at least twice as smart as you are. You're a fucking idiot who doesn't know anything about a whole bunch of shit making ignorant statements about people you've never met... and acting like you're better than others.
Just like, down south, all cola is "A Coke".
No, moron. 'down south' people drink Coke, not other cola's. Just because you're too stupid to pick up on the fact that when people ask for a coke, they mean a fucking coke, not a pepsi, or an RC, or some shitty knock off.
Take your ignorance and STFU, you're nothing more than a douche who thinks he knows way more than anyone else, and in reality all your post did was show exactly how little you do know about things.
Everything is an iPad because thats what people prefer. But hey, don't let reality get in the way of your own stupidity.
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No, it isn't, to both your statements. Not in any country I'm aware of
Still not a full OS like emacs.
Your post is probably going to warrant those same sort of comments.
Choices have consequences, intended and unattended, deal with it.
You've heard the saying 'You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.", right? Ever figure out what it means?
Its funny that you're implying people are bad for name calling when they don't agree with someone, and then you do pretty much exactly that in a subtler form yourself as you end your message.
So basically the only difference between you and Linus is that Linus doesn't hide his opinion and you don't have the conviction to actually say yours. Yea, your post definitely warrants those same comments.
Seriously, grow a spine ffs.
Is the direction in which Linux is driven simply the whim of people like Linus and Lennart who dictate "my way or the highway"?
So ... uhm ... The Linux kernel has *ALWAYS* been Linus's way or the highway. That is how it got to where it is today. Before you go off sounding like an idiot, keep in mind that Linux exists BECAUSE OF Linus. It's far from only Linus of course, but he has ALWAYS been the deciding factor.
Lennart is irrelevant.
Or they just got tired of it and the rage quit is part of their childish personalities that caused Linus to be aggressive in the first place.
If you'll follow the full thread, you'll see that Linus had made his point before that message was sent. He doesn't fly off the handle on every message when he disagrees with something. He tends to get more and more irritated when you continue to do things he's said no to or asked you to do differently.
He has never bitched about anyone 'forking' the kernel. The worst thing he says off the cuff is 'this a dumb idea', to get worse than that you have to provoke him.
And then of course, he's Finnish, so the behavior isn't really that out of the ordinary :)
... So you mean its like every other farm commodity on the planet?
Don't give me that bullshit. Its no different than several other 'inventories', like tobacco ... which its exactly like where it is legal or many chemicals or any prescription drug after its made.
What you're referring to is nothing more than the wake of legalization. In a few years, it will flatline and be as stable as every other produce.
You would be wise to stop your whining and enjoy the fact that you're getting paid more than its worth in all scenarios you're experience currently.
You would do well to remain silent on subject matters with which you clearly have no familiarity, rather than criticizing people whom you falsely assume are not smarter than you
Are you stoned? Acting like you have a clue doesn't make you right. Acting like you have a clue and the other guy is an idiot just makes you look stupid to everybody who knows you're talking out your ass.
So just taking your bitchy ass back in side, STFU and get ready for the reality that is 5 years from now when you're little grow no longer exists because the real farmers made you look silly over night.
Growing pot isn't special. Only a moron would be so naive.
The article shows that in this radically employee-centric environment, many if not most employees are thrilled and fulfilled
These are the worthless fucks you don't want anyway.
while others worry that self-organization in practical terms means chaos and a Maoist culture of "coercive positivity."
The ones doing the actual things that need to get done in order for people to get pay checks
Did it ever occur to you fat fucks designing the sensor that the reason these 65-70 year old men are maintaining many rice paddies is BECAUSE they walk them, instead of sitting on their ass and withering away.
This is one of those 'inventions' that sound like a good idea until you look outside your tiny ass little scope. It reminds me of the idiots who thought you could lock the Japs up in camps and feed them bleached white rice all the time and nothing else for nutrition instead of whole rice which is actually useful to the body unlike white rice
You may make it easier on them, but end up with them dying younger instead! Not my idea of a good trade off considering walking isn't exactly bad for you. America needs to try less to be lazy, you're killing yourselves to do it.
I woudn't at all be surprised if drinking sugary sodas is the number one cause of diabetes.
That's just because you're ignorant and don't realize that you don't cause it in any way due to how much sugar you intake, but go on continue being stupid and using that as an excuse to try and control the behavior of others.
Get a clue before you make such ignorant statements. Sugar intake itself has no effect in causing diabetes, and the problem is never too much sugar, it's not enough. Don't mention diseases you've got no clue at all about.
Android is only the dominate player because everyone stopped writing their own software and started freeloading off of Google.
Now they want to freeload off of Google AND not allow Google to profit from it.
If it doesn't benefit Google, why exactly does Google want to support Android?
Android isn't free, thats the first mistake people make. It just doesn't cost any cash up front, but you pay by turning your data/customers over to Google right out of the box. At no point was this hidden from anyone.
I really don't see how Samsung has a leg to stand on, they don't have to run Android. Apple doesn't. Windows phones don't. Samsung didn't use to run Android or have a Google Play store so its hard to argue that they can't find an alternative considering they used to use alternatives until ... they all agreed to use Android under terms and conditions they've been using for years. Now suddenly its a problem?
Google could just drop Android support entirely and the field could devolve into even more chaos than the Android landscape already is, is that a bright idea for Samsung? Do they want to let MS regain a foothold again?
Samsung gave up control over the OS when it stopped paying for the OS under its terms and instead started freeloading off of Google and became bound by their terms.
They did this to themselves, intentionally. Fuck'em.
Yea, he figured if you're going to be such a douche that you buy that sort of monstrosity ... everyone should be able to spot you from a long way off so they can point and laugh. He really was just being mean to the Aztek owners.
Before you get to cocky there, remember which brands from GM were actually profitable and which ones were failures instead of comparing which ones they kept and which ones they closed.
GM closed their only profitable brands. Pontiac and Saturn. They were profitable in a large part due to Bob Lutz and the Kappa chassis, otherwise known as the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky which were on back order the entire time they were produced.
Disclaimer: Solstice owner
that Apple switched from GCC to LLVM specifically to avoid copyleft.
Yea, they wanted an open source compiler instead of the GPL crap. So they went from GPL to BSD ... are you seriously trying to claim thats proprietary? If so you're just making yourself look retarded. Not stupid, flat out retarded.
You probably meant "Xcode is free as in without charge." That's true if your home Internet lacks a quota or has dozens of GB per month.
Apple will allow you to download it in their stores for free.
But if you're stuck behind cellular or satellite Internet, such as in a rural area or urban Seattle, multiple gigabytes can become very expensive to download.
And that changes any of this how? Regardless of where you download it from, you're going to be downloading it and thats going to cost. You've not described anything that justifies downloading it from someone other than the source.
You're just a shitty hater, you can't even find actual flaws to pick on.
Exactly.
You know what they are going to do, there is no confusion, you can simply choose not to use their product or pay in a different way for a version that doesn't sell your info.
You can make an informed choice, which makes it fair, and imo, acceptable to do so.
Which is ironic considering they'll continue on using all the services that hide or lie about the fact that they do this very thing.
NOTHING is free. The laws of physics simply don't work that way, and they do apply to people and behavior as well. People will move on to another product ... which is selling their information due to a clause that sounds completely benign in paragraph 12 of page 43 of the EULA.
*sigh*
People will cut off their nose to spite their face at the drop of a hat.
- Don't they know some of us are bored at work and don't want to get caught by the boss?? :D
While you're half joking, you are pointing out exact why so many non-techies would use ad blockers as well. Its about respect.
Those ads are rude and thats why you don't like them, even if its only subconsciously that you realize it. They don't give a shit what you're preferences are, or even that they aren't the only ad on the page. They are going to broadcast and spam you with their wares weather you like it or not because god damn it you will like it if you hear their ad.
FUCK THOSE ADVERTISERS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THEM.
It is nothing more than total and complete disrespect.
If you have no respect for me, why the fuck do I want to buy your product?
Solution: I will never buy from anyone/thing/company that does any of the things you've mentioned as well as several others where its clear that they have no respect for me at all.
I concur with you 100% Respect me in your advertising or go fuck yourself.
Note: I PREFER targeted ads, done right. Its nice to be introduced to a competitors product thats just as good but cheaper or easier to obtain, or maybe (for things like food and music) just different. I do not prefer to see the same ad on every website I visit for the product I JUST BOUGHT AND WON'T NEED AGAIN FOR 10 YEARS (refrigerator in the most recent round)
If CNN provides malware through their ad system, it reflects on CNN, not on the 3rd party ad provider and thus those provider have no incentive nor intention to provide safer content.
Thats completely untrue.
CNN provides ads on its site through some provider, then CNN serves a bunch of malware and gets a bad rep ...
CNN isn't going to use that ad provider for long if it continues.
Ad provider goes out of business because websites stop using them since they have a bad ratio of good to bad ads.
This is simple every day business at work, ad companies most certainly care what gets served on their network.
He can still improve it without it being sold you know?
Sometimes an App gets on the store and its just broken. Not in the way that testing noticed, but it really isn't doing what its supposed to do and instead of continuing to do bad things to new people, you stop selling it. Fix it. Return it to the store.
If you read what he said, thats pretty much a given that he's doing just that.
I think it does.
Its not that he didn't know his website's ads would be blocked, its that he didn't realize how dramatic the effect would be for his revenue stream.
Once he realized that it would crush his revenue stream completely, he then realized that 'hey ... blocking all ads may not be the best idea, it might actually be bad for some people and legitimate products because ... I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE IT HURT'
He just had a realization when he felt the effects himself. When he realized he was shafting himself out of cash when he wasn't being an 'evil advertiser' or anything, he realized that he was nuking it from space instead of maybe a pistol or two.
Sometimes we don't immediately fully realize the effect we have on others until we see it directly for ourselves. Thats all this was.
You sir are an idiot.
You can simply not click on the ads, and you get a website for free. Whats going to replace it is a website that doesn't exist. You won't pay for it, so it won't have any money to operate, so it won't exist.
Do you pay for a slashdot account or use an ad-blocker?
Yea ... I thought so.
You'll cut off your own nose to spite your face, jackass.
And guess why people buy Juniper at the high end instead of Cisco? Because Cisco is no longer king of the hill.
Linux compatibility is irrelevant to this discussion.
Linux powers a lot of things that its not the best choice for simply because they hired some Linux fanboy so thats all he'll suggest. Doesn't mean its the best at the job, just means they picked it. Spending an extra $20k/year on someone with a clue could save them millions on hardware.
Rendering farms aren't indented to be fast at routing packets, they're intended to use CPU cycles to render, which any OS that gets out of the way ASAP is probably good for, here its more important that the application you want to use runs on the OS you want to use. So its not surprising the more cluster apps run on Linux any more surprising that more Desktop apps run on Windows.
So while there may be a lot of Linux rendering clusters, still doesn't make it the right choice. Do you think that because a lot of people do Cocaine that its the right thing to do too? Or do you actually evaluate the situation and make a sane decision?
This was just a bad choice. If they wanted a proper software defined network, they'd have selected FreeBSD since it has the fastest, most compact networking stack in the world and its well known/accepted fact by anyone who does high-end networking, hence why Microsoft ALREADY has a fuck ton of FreeBSD installs on their core network labeled ... Juniper Networks ... or F5 ... or any of the other ones.
Someone deserves to get fired for this. Not because they picked Linux, but because Linux simply wasn't the right choice in any way shape or form as every other major company doing networking has illustrated.
Wow, could you have shown any better just how ignorant you were?
undersocialized
By definition of what these people are doing, they are more socialized than you, someone no one outside your house probably even remembers your name.
steroid-sozzled jock dopes
The NFL has been steroid testing players for almost 30 years, so no, no steroid's involved in the NFL.
dopes can grasp anything other than their playbook?
Another years pay says you couldn't memorize and understand their playbook given 6 months time to do so. I'd bet my life you're too slow to even come close to executing one of the simple plays against actual NFL players.
And, especially, the commentators?
Comms are generally retired quarterbacks, the smartest people on the field. As I've said before, I'd bet a years pay that every starting NFL quarterback on the field is at least twice as smart as you are. You're a fucking idiot who doesn't know anything about a whole bunch of shit making ignorant statements about people you've never met ... and acting like you're better than others.
Just like, down south, all cola is "A Coke".
No, moron. 'down south' people drink Coke, not other cola's. Just because you're too stupid to pick up on the fact that when people ask for a coke, they mean a fucking coke, not a pepsi, or an RC, or some shitty knock off.
Take your ignorance and STFU, you're nothing more than a douche who thinks he knows way more than anyone else, and in reality all your post did was show exactly how little you do know about things.
Everything is an iPad because thats what people prefer. But hey, don't let reality get in the way of your own stupidity.