I live in Romania, and the fact is that many people here, after spending 500$ on a decent PC, find it hard to pay another 400$ on software (cheap computers here come with no software, or FreeDOS or Linux, and in some cases illegal Windows).
you're an idiot, and it's people like you that give us a bad name
FWIW, we ALSO pay the Microsoft tax. even back in '98 Windows came bundled when I bought a PC. this FreeDOS/Linux shit is a new trend just to lure suckers into buying "cheaper" computers.
there's student editions for everything, the prices are adapted to the market (somewhat), the posibilities ARE there.
let's face it, this "pirating" shit is a global thing. we romanians, with our crappy limp-dick-"broadband" can't even hold a candle to the amount of warezing most of slashbots do.
things are looking up, but people are reluctant to change. news flash!
and before you start pointing fingers, try to realize that we're a faint blip on the radar, when it comes to the amount of spam/viruses/trojans you non-third-world-country-advancely-technologized people (oh, and those damn russians too!) spew.
1) An admin utility (no, phpmyadmin doesn't count for crap) that doesn't suck. Please, just take pgadmin and make it connect to mysql. PLEASE. MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser work very poorly.
I find it curious that, on Slashdot, every armchair-software-engineer keeps slamming MySQL, yet in the real world it seems to be working just fine. and please, no stupid "everyone uses Windows too, so it must be GREEEEEAT" analogies. you know what I mean.
Calling these people stuipd only makes you look like an arrogant asshole. For most people, a microwave is a black box contraption in their kitchen that makes food hot.
no, they're not stupid. they put shit in a "black box that makes food hot" and it caught fire. WOW! color me surprised. I'd say that's pretty stupid. just yet another case of RTFM.
*sigh*
I'm pretty ignorant regarding lots of things, but I don't stick my fingers in an outlet, then act all surprised and shocked (pun intended?) that it zapped the shit out of me.
It MUST NOT have options like a CLI or flexibility.
yes, dumb it down as much as you can. a bit more and it's gonna be like Windows. "easy to use" and "fool proof". can hardly wait for the "Linux Kernel Internals" audiobook.
Because this is slashdot, and perl is one of the Chosen Few Languages, along with C, Ruby, Python and PHP. Java, being both closed (for the moment) and slow (5 years ago on the client side) is not.
I believe you mean "Chosen-Few-Languages-for-Slamming". they all get it from the slashcrowd, in no particular order:
Java - slow, bloaty
C - old and krusty, pointers baaaad, get with the times
One particular report offered statistics showing that most spam-advertised goods were bought by people in the Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Missouri region of the US. Another major area for the purchasers of spam-advertised items was London, England.
BadAnalogyGuy would be spinning in his grave, if he were dead now. people *love* their keyboards. I curse and moan every time I have the misfortune of using one of the L-shaped-enter ones and the backslash suddenly isn't *there* anymore. I won't even mention the lappy/desktop switching. drives me crazy. give the guy a break, and let him have his keyboard back. as someone stated above, he should beat you over the head with the new fancy one.
Slashdot Mirror
In American English, closing quotes always go after commas and periods.
I believe slashdot uses hacker english. your american english is semantically ambiguous and is constantly crashing our parsers.
Ergo, a phrase can be meant literally and figuratively at the same time.
Schroedinger's cat[chphrase]?
*whoosh*
I live in Romania, and the fact is that many people here, after spending 500$ on a decent PC, find it hard to pay another 400$ on software (cheap computers here come with no software, or FreeDOS or Linux, and in some cases illegal Windows).
you're an idiot, and it's people like you that give us a bad name
FWIW, we ALSO pay the Microsoft tax. even back in '98 Windows came bundled when I bought a PC. this FreeDOS/Linux shit is a new trend just to lure suckers into buying "cheaper" computers.
there's student editions for everything, the prices are adapted to the market (somewhat), the posibilities ARE there.
let's face it, this "pirating" shit is a global thing. we romanians, with our crappy limp-dick-"broadband" can't even hold a candle to the amount of warezing most of slashbots do.
things are looking up, but people are reluctant to change. news flash!
and before you start pointing fingers, try to realize that we're a faint blip on the radar, when it comes to the amount of spam/viruses/trojans you non-third-world-country-advancely-technologized people (oh, and those damn russians too!) spew.
/rant
we are also known to drink the blood of every fat american that makes the mistake to walk the streets at night.
What's really funny is that it can't really stand for (G)erman- Mail, as if it was tailored to actual Germans, wouldn't it be (D)eutschland-Mail?
I was thinking more like Z-Mail, as in mail for zee germans
Sex sells, and nerdy boys don't need much because they only know girls from .jpg
get with the times, you old fart (.mpg/.avi)
Fair enough, but I've still got a 5 year old G4 sitting in a corner at home. It runs Linux just fine... ;-)
you'll get double chaired!
1) An admin utility (no, phpmyadmin doesn't count for crap) that doesn't suck. Please, just take pgadmin and make it connect to mysql. PLEASE. MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser work very poorly.
HeidiSQL. it's sexy.
I find it curious that, on Slashdot, every armchair-software-engineer keeps slamming MySQL, yet in the real world it seems to be working just fine. and please, no stupid "everyone uses Windows too, so it must be GREEEEEAT" analogies. you know what I mean.
Hans shot first? /ducks
your comment doesnt make it quite clear, have you evaluated the GoogleSearchAppliance?
As soon as they implement a package management
I'm not sure, but you probably can run pkgsrc on it.
XS4ALL also has a droid
I spent two frickin' hours cleaning and protecting my sister's and niece's XP laptops over xmas [...] What can you do?
this
Not to mention that all ended up in romania... Sorry for sarcasm, but do you have *ANY* laws?
yes
No. The media told them "if you put shit into a black box that makes food hot it will sterilize it".
the media told them soaked shit. that's pretty wet, no?
So they did. And it caught fire... because the media forgot to mention that you should use *wet* shit.
good excuse. "tv told me to. not my fault!"
too bad none of these idiots hurt themselves seriously (yet?) so a bunch of frivolous lawsuits could ensue. I always get a kick out of that.
Calling these people stuipd only makes you look like an arrogant asshole. For most people, a microwave is a black box contraption in their kitchen that makes food hot.
no, they're not stupid. they put shit in a "black box that makes food hot" and it caught fire. WOW! color me surprised. I'd say that's pretty stupid. just yet another case of RTFM.
*sigh*
I'm pretty ignorant regarding lots of things, but I don't stick my fingers in an outlet, then act all surprised and shocked (pun intended?) that it zapped the shit out of me.
all of that emphasis is hurting my eyes!
It MUST NOT have options like a CLI or flexibility.
yes, dumb it down as much as you can. a bit more and it's gonna be like Windows. "easy to use" and "fool proof". can hardly wait for the "Linux Kernel Internals" audiobook.
*sigh*
the support center phone numbers all start in 976, and they charge $14.99 per minute.
sneak in to MS campus, and call them from there
Because this is slashdot, and perl is one of the Chosen Few Languages, along with C, Ruby, Python and PHP. Java, being both closed (for the moment) and slow (5 years ago on the client side) is not.
I believe you mean "Chosen-Few-Languages-for-Slamming". they all get it from the slashcrowd, in no particular order:
One particular report offered statistics showing that most spam-advertised goods were bought by people in the Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Missouri region of the US. Another major area for the purchasers of spam-advertised items was London, England.
Axis of Stupid?
This "LOL GUYS I BLEW BEVERAGE OUT OF MY NOSE" shit got old a really long, long time ago. I don't welcome our new beverage spilling overlords.
in soviet russia, beverage blows you!
What browsers need is a way to lauch an external text edit for editing form fields.
MOFO has extensions that allow this.
BadAnalogyGuy would be spinning in his grave, if he were dead now. people *love* their keyboards. I curse and moan every time I have the misfortune of using one of the L-shaped-enter ones and the backslash suddenly isn't *there* anymore. I won't even mention the lappy/desktop switching. drives me crazy. give the guy a break, and let him have his keyboard back. as someone stated above, he should beat you over the head with the new fancy one.