Someone mod this guy up. I mean that is the most insightful, original post I have seen yet.
If Linux suddenly got a real UI and gained the ability to run industry standard applications, it's popularity would likely increase to the level where malware authors would notice it.
From what I understand, by the time RIM fought this and won, they would be so outta business it really wouldn't matter much anymore. This was an ass saving move, regardless of how right or wrong it was.
You are not required to be a part of it. This site isn't a fundamental part of your life, there would be no economic hardship on you if you were to stop coming here, if nothing else this is entirely a pull medium; nothing happens until you type in the URL and try to access it.
Nor are you required to be a part of it, so why are you complaining about my post? Because you appreciate most of what is said here and that makes it worth being a part of. I'm not going to boycott a site because I disagree with the format of some of it.
If you want a slashdot.ca, host it yourself. To my knowledge the folks who designed this site do not object to the use of the "Slashdot" name in sites hosted by other people in other national TLDs (e. g. slashdot.jp).
Why duplicate the service? Why thin the population? Sites are made better and friendlier by user input, not from splintering.
Most importantly, what does it take away from YOUR experience if you have to read "President of the United states" as opposed to "The President"? Why wouldn't you want to be more inclusive? In what way does it detract from your ability to participate?
Probably, but that doesn't change the fact that I am not requiring you to view any of that content. In a web browser, you are not required to view material you find objectionable, and if you insist on visiting URLs you find offensive, then the onus is on you, not the hosts (unless they install spyware that resets your home page or something similar).
And yet, how do you know a URL is objectionable until you go there? I know you comment on articles all the time. Why? Because you are bored at work? You need to wear down the cartilage in your fingers a bit more? Of course it can't be to contribute to the community could it?
And yet this international audience developed with no apparent effort by the editors to pander to one. Why suddenly change now? Is there some "critical density" of international readers that, upon being reached, demand change in the content provided for (voluntary) download?
Why do you think there would be references to it in the FAQ? Obviously I'm not the only one to see it this way - not all that sudden, really.
What about my "right" to participate without having to cater to your tastes? Why must yours take priority simply because of your country of origin? Are you a hypocrite as well as being egocentric?
Again, that goes both ways. Why should I have to cater to your tastes??
For the record, I am not complaining about quantity of American posts I'm complaining that American news is not posted as such, so the RTFAQFCS comment is not relevant. My post might have been offtopic, and maybe even flamebait granted, but holy shit, your answer is fucking brilliant
"You are here of your own volition and should yourself
adjust yourself to the site and the community"
Tell me this is a joke. As part of a community I should accept assimilation and never ask questions, or try to change things I see as wrong? Or according to you, being non-american I am a second-class member of this "community"? WTF?
For the sake of your argument I'll try slashdot.ca or slashdot.com.au - hmmm nope. Nothing there. Let me try slashdot.fr - Nope not there either. OK, let me try msn.ca - strange, nothing here but Harisson Ford and Lindsey Lohan. yahoo.ca? Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson - doesn't sound Canadian to me. So americans are allowed infiltrate the.ca domain and spew their SHIT all over us but I'm not allowed to participate in fucking slashdot? YOU ARE A FASCIST.
Seeking an international audience doesn't preclude it's
existance. This IS an international audience whether you like it or not.
Mod me however you want, since apparently I'm not allowed to participate in/. it doesn't matter.
Let me get this straight... Nasa says "this is a growing environmental problem" and "we know it will only get worse". I would like NASA to tell me what I am supposed to do about that?? Who the hell put it up there in the first place?
I purchased an HP-UX server last year from an asset recovery company in the US. Upon recieving the machine and not having my copy of HP-UX handy, I fired the thing up in single user mode. The machine turned out to be the DNS master for the uspto.gov domain, which I thought was interesting.
Unfortunately nothing other than DNS records and a few applications licensed to the USPTO were on the disk. I just always wondered what happened to the rest of their off lease hardware, I mean there has GOT to be some confidential stuff there.
Yes, but we ARE talking about making linux more accessible to everyone. Remember the "year of the desktop" he was talking about?
You have to decide: do you want linux to remain obscure and bleeding edge? or do you want linux to be available to the masses?
Personally, I used linux on the desktop for 8 years, then realised that a huge amount of time was being wasted learning how to do stuff I didn't need to do, I coulnd't ever GET to my real work. I got tired of running obscure commands, editing config files, or README files that treat the end user like an asshole who knows less than the author, just enable me to get my work done.
Remember, we aren't even talking about just newbies anymore. Experienced and smart people are switching to OSX or windows. In fact, many of the linux zealots that I worked with circa 199x are now using windows. In other words, if the goal is to make linux MORE accessible to newbies, linux is failing miserably because it cant even keep the zealots.
The worst part is, I don't even miss using linux. not one bit.
Regardless of whether they have a point or not, I gave up reading after the first contradictory couple sentences:
"If there's anything anyone in this field is chasing, it's Apple's quality and simplicity. Pick up an iPod, and you get it, you feel it, you sense it. But let's not forget that these things are made in China. It's nothing different from what everybody else is doing."
HUH???
To paraphrase: Everyone is chasing apple, which is doing the same as everyone else?
Why so much attention to a very badly written article?
Here is a summary of Mr. Rubens masterwork:
-Computers are very complex.
-No one wants to fix them.
-Mr. Rubens will fix them.
-Lots of people fix them.
-People who support them are unqualified amateurs.
Ergo:
Mr. Rubens is an unqualified amateur (Computer technician & author).
-P
Slashdot Mirror
Go back in time and convince your parents...
I guess we know which side of the debate you're on...
Autographed by who? John, Mark, Luke, and John? Nope - never seen that. What's your point?
If Linux suddenly got a real UI and gained the ability to run industry standard applications, it's popularity would likely increase to the level where malware authors would notice it.
What of your "process" then?
Hey! You were modded up! Congratulations. You must be Naive and idealistic.
God is an Anonymous Coward? I always suspected that...
Can you say "backdoors a plenty"???
I thought only the USA was allowed to be protectionist, antagonist, and non-competitive... Who allowed this?
It must be stopped.
followed quickly by:
Not very disabled.You ends in eu.
are ends in eu.
an ends in eu.
idiot ends in eu.
From what I understand, by the time RIM fought this and won, they would be so outta business it really wouldn't matter much anymore. This was an ass saving move, regardless of how right or wrong it was.
I'm glad to know that there aren't really people like that in the world.
good joke.
ha.
Nor are you required to be a part of it, so why are you complaining about my post? Because you appreciate most of what is said here and that makes it worth being a part of. I'm not going to boycott a site because I disagree with the format of some of it.
If you want a slashdot.ca, host it yourself. To my knowledge the folks who designed this site do not object to the use of the "Slashdot" name in sites hosted by other people in other national TLDs (e. g. slashdot.jp).
Why duplicate the service? Why thin the population? Sites are made better and friendlier by user input, not from splintering.
Most importantly, what does it take away from YOUR experience if you have to read "President of the United states" as opposed to "The President"? Why wouldn't you want to be more inclusive? In what way does it detract from your ability to participate?
Probably, but that doesn't change the fact that I am not requiring you to view any of that content. In a web browser, you are not required to view material you find objectionable, and if you insist on visiting URLs you find offensive, then the onus is on you, not the hosts (unless they install spyware that resets your home page or something similar).
And yet, how do you know a URL is objectionable until you go there? I know you comment on articles all the time. Why? Because you are bored at work? You need to wear down the cartilage in your fingers a bit more? Of course it can't be to contribute to the community could it?
And yet this international audience developed with no apparent effort by the editors to pander to one. Why suddenly change now? Is there some "critical density" of international readers that, upon being reached, demand change in the content provided for (voluntary) download?
Why do you think there would be references to it in the FAQ? Obviously I'm not the only one to see it this way - not all that sudden, really.
What about my "right" to participate without having to cater to your tastes? Why must yours take priority simply because of your country of origin? Are you a hypocrite as well as being egocentric?
Again, that goes both ways. Why should I have to cater to your tastes??
For the record, I am not complaining about quantity of American posts I'm complaining that American news is not posted as such, so the RTFAQFCS comment is not relevant. My post might have been offtopic, and maybe even flamebait granted, but holy shit, your answer is fucking brilliant
"You are here of your own volition and should yourself adjust yourself to the site and the community"
Tell me this is a joke. As part of a community I should accept assimilation and never ask questions, or try to change things I see as wrong? Or according to you, being non-american I am a second-class member of this "community"? WTF?
For the sake of your argument I'll try slashdot.ca or slashdot.com.au - hmmm nope. Nothing there. Let me try slashdot.fr - Nope not there either. OK, let me try msn.ca - strange, nothing here but Harisson Ford and Lindsey Lohan. yahoo.ca? Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson - doesn't sound Canadian to me. So americans are allowed infiltrate the .ca domain and spew their SHIT all over us but I'm not allowed to participate in fucking slashdot? YOU ARE A FASCIST.
Seeking an international audience doesn't preclude it's existance. This IS an international audience whether you like it or not.
Mod me however you want, since apparently I'm not allowed to participate in /. it doesn't matter.
The Union of South Africa is never refered to as the USA.
You have an international audience, quit staring in the bleeding mirror all day FCS!a djectve.html
PS: Because I know you forgot what an adjective is:
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/
Let me get this straight... Nasa says "this is a growing environmental problem" and "we know it will only get worse". I would like NASA to tell me what I am supposed to do about that?? Who the hell put it up there in the first place?
Off topic??? Off topic??? and i suppose the following post of "Yeehaw!" was ON TOPIC???
I'll off topic you!
ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz....
Exactly... and Yahoo, and Google talk, and skype. What EXACTLY is so revo-freaking-lutionary here? JAIMC - just another instant messaging client.
Unfortunately nothing other than DNS records and a few applications licensed to the USPTO were on the disk. I just always wondered what happened to the rest of their off lease hardware, I mean there has GOT to be some confidential stuff there.
You have to decide: do you want linux to remain obscure and bleeding edge? or do you want linux to be available to the masses?
Personally, I used linux on the desktop for 8 years, then realised that a huge amount of time was being wasted learning how to do stuff I didn't need to do, I coulnd't ever GET to my real work. I got tired of running obscure commands, editing config files, or README files that treat the end user like an asshole who knows less than the author, just enable me to get my work done.
Remember, we aren't even talking about just newbies anymore. Experienced and smart people are switching to OSX or windows. In fact, many of the linux zealots that I worked with circa 199x are now using windows. In other words, if the goal is to make linux MORE accessible to newbies, linux is failing miserably because it cant even keep the zealots.
The worst part is, I don't even miss using linux. not one bit.
Regardless of whether they have a point or not, I gave up reading after the first contradictory couple sentences: "If there's anything anyone in this field is chasing, it's Apple's quality and simplicity. Pick up an iPod, and you get it, you feel it, you sense it. But let's not forget that these things are made in China. It's nothing different from what everybody else is doing." HUH??? To paraphrase: Everyone is chasing apple, which is doing the same as everyone else?
Why so much attention to a very badly written article? Here is a summary of Mr. Rubens masterwork: -Computers are very complex. -No one wants to fix them. -Mr. Rubens will fix them. -Lots of people fix them. -People who support them are unqualified amateurs. Ergo: Mr. Rubens is an unqualified amateur (Computer technician & author). -P
Sounds like you slept through school too.
Holy sheit dude. I'd like to see you survive 5 minutes in a room full of homicidal/suicidal/hormonal maniacs.
I know I couldn't do it, but if I did - I would want to be damn well paid for it!!!