Maybe you should learn not to believe everything that a RETIRED ASTRONAUT has to say about the END OF THE WORLD. Seriously, did anyone not just simply laugh at this?
Glad to see I don't have to read the tabloids at the checkout aisle anymore to see this kind of nonsense.
> This is the news from some guy with a filefront
> account, so take it with a grain of salt.
Dear Slashdot,
WHY ARE YOU PUTTING THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF SLASHDOT?
This is happening more and more often lately. Please wake up - bloggers are not journalists. I already consider you to be a fairly unreputable source of news because you seem to think otherwise, and because you check stories without checking it out first (case in point: the Fallujah Google Images thing). Eventually if this shit continues, the rest of your reader base may think the same.
>Oh, and Opera has always rendered Slashdot
> correctly too!
I'm not sure what you refer to here. Firefox *does* render Slashdot correctly. If Opera is rendering it anything like IE, than it is actually rendering it *incorrectly*. This misconception probably stems from the mistaken idea that Slashdot's html meets standards, which is not true AT ALL.
You are an ignorant moron, and have no idea what you are talking about. DragonFlyBSD is based on FreeBSD 4. This is FreeBSD 5.3, completely different. FreeBSD will never copy DragonFlyBSD's model. In fact, DragonFlyBSD directly copied, literally, FreeBSD's model. Next time do a little reading before you try to represent DragonFlyBSD.
Actually, there is an extension on Mozilla Update called IEView (I think) that allows you to right click on a page and have the option "view in IE" appear. Maybe not applicable to code so malformed it will crash the browser, but certainly useful for sites that don't display nicely in Firefox.
Actually, unlike IE, pages render correctly in Firefox, including Slashdot. Just because a site isn't done properly and thus isn't displayed in Firefox as it is IE (which apparently will accept horseshit for HTML), doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with Firefox. I understand that this is not exactly what you implied, but it is a common misconception nonetheless.
On the other hand, there are VERY few pages that display weird in Firefox, with Slashdot being the only prominent example that I can come up with. However, many people are still only developing for IE, which is shit, and thus their pages are shit, and look like shit when rendered correctly in Firefox (though this is rare).
The bottom line is that you can't wait for the web to change. You have to make it change. Go
download Firefox and at some point when browser usage is no longer 95% IE (and it already is much less on some sites), the web will change.
Actually, when Mirrordot started, I submitted to slashdot about it, only to be rejected within about an hour. So, I assumed this meant that someone else had done a better job than I and that it would be posted shortly. NEVER HAPPENED. The fact is, Slashdot just doesn't give a fuck. Their quality of service sucks. Their webpage sucks so bad that it would look right at home in 1995 and by the way, don't try to validate them for XHTML, because they fucking block the validator. Hopefully at some point browsers will fail to support Slashdot so that they will get up off their ass and fix their broken website.
a search
on google.com will bring up relevant news articles, and yet also displays ads just like any other search...
How is that any different than displaying ads on news.google.com itself? In any case, because they are already displaying these News Results, seems to me that they are *already* profiting from Google News.
I personally think that is slashdot's fault for not using a cache instead of just linking. THEY can obviously handle the bandwidth. Half the sites that can linked to, however, cannot. Yeah, I guess they've got a right to link, but if they had any considerations at all for their readers, they would consider using a cache. After all, if we can't read the news, what good is it to link to it... And yeah, they've got a right to link, but if they know that its going to take down a site, why not find another way?
Therac-25 ring any bells? Errors like these are not unprecedented. People have died from programmers' mistakes and now that we are relying on technology more than ever, there is more risk than ever before. No link between emergencies and MS security support? Have you ever been in a hospital?! The number of tasks that are now done via computers in our health care facilities is staggering. The worst thing that we can possibly do is put peoples' lives in the hands of companies like Microsoft by trusting them to harden security. And btw, how safe would you feel driving a car running on windows?
Actually, I believe when MS flew Miguel in for his job interview, he used the opportunity to tell them how flawed their business model was and why open-source is a superior approach. You can read it here
. (registration required though)
So no, from that article, my feeling is that Icaza does not have a "hardon" for microsoft but actually hates their business model and all that they represent.
Not true, although this used to be the case. With the switch to socket 939, the FX no longer requires registered RAM. The Opterons have always required this.
This article appears to be nothing more than speculation on the part of some disgruntled third party app user who, for some reason beyond me, is annoyed that a *BETA* service is changing things up a bit. It doesn't even have a link to a real news story to back it up. Slashdot, you should be ashamed for approving this crap, it does nothing but tarnish your name.
In short, to BSD users your argument is laughably silly and makes you look like an ignoramus.
I may be wrong, but I honestly think that most reasonable people will not interpret a cartoonish picture of a devil-like creature wearing sneakers as any indication of satan worship
I myself have walked into my church (I'm Catholic) wearing a FreeBSD daemon shirt.
>Its a shame most people don't see that as meaning, "I'm big on censorship."
Yeah, what a fucking shame that maybe they'll finally be able to do something about ten year olds watching this crap. You know, I completely agree that it is the parents' responsibility to monitor and control what their children watch, but the reality is that many ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB. So what's the result? The result is that we have kids that watch nothing but violence on tv and movies and video games. I actually work with children and it is shocking and startling how many children are exposed to this nowadays. They suffer and society suffers.
Actually, FreeBSD is increasing it's market share, as mentioned here,
here, and here. You really should know a little about what you're talking about before you talk about it.
As for one BSD hating another, that is utterly ridiculous to the point that I laughed at you when I read it.
Finally, I don't know what you define as "success" but the way I see it, microsoft still has the dominant desktop operating system in both quality (IMHO) and popularity (statistically) and IMHO FreeBSD still has the upper hand over Linux in the server department. So, if you follow that, that still leaves linux behind both of them.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you should learn not to believe everything that a RETIRED ASTRONAUT has to say about the END OF THE WORLD. Seriously, did anyone not just simply laugh at this?
Glad to see I don't have to read the tabloids at the checkout aisle anymore to see this kind of nonsense.
I tend to agree. I'm 20 now and I've been playing Civilization and its various sequels since the original came out.
I have learned more from that game than I have ever learned from any textbook, history or otherwise.
> This is the news from some guy with a filefront > account, so take it with a grain of salt. Dear Slashdot, WHY ARE YOU PUTTING THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF SLASHDOT? This is happening more and more often lately. Please wake up - bloggers are not journalists. I already consider you to be a fairly unreputable source of news because you seem to think otherwise, and because you check stories without checking it out first (case in point: the Fallujah Google Images thing). Eventually if this shit continues, the rest of your reader base may think the same.
>Oh, and Opera has always rendered Slashdot > correctly too! I'm not sure what you refer to here. Firefox *does* render Slashdot correctly. If Opera is rendering it anything like IE, than it is actually rendering it *incorrectly*. This misconception probably stems from the mistaken idea that Slashdot's html meets standards, which is not true AT ALL.
Its not like Google is the default search engine now...And yet everyone still uses it.
Because it interests the readership?
It's not even technically on campus. Its at the nearby Virginia Tech Corporate Research Facility. And in any case, you can arrange a tour if you want.
You are an ignorant moron, and have no idea what you are talking about. DragonFlyBSD is based on FreeBSD 4. This is FreeBSD 5.3, completely different. FreeBSD will never copy DragonFlyBSD's model. In fact, DragonFlyBSD directly copied, literally, FreeBSD's model. Next time do a little reading before you try to represent DragonFlyBSD.
Actually, there is an extension on Mozilla Update called IEView (I think) that allows you to right click on a page and have the option "view in IE" appear. Maybe not applicable to code so malformed it will crash the browser, but certainly useful for sites that don't display nicely in Firefox.
Actually, unlike IE, pages render correctly in Firefox, including Slashdot. Just because a site isn't done properly and thus isn't displayed in Firefox as it is IE (which apparently will accept horseshit for HTML), doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with Firefox. I understand that this is not exactly what you implied, but it is a common misconception nonetheless.
On the other hand, there are VERY few pages that display weird in Firefox, with Slashdot being the only prominent example that I can come up with. However, many people are still only developing for IE, which is shit, and thus their pages are shit, and look like shit when rendered correctly in Firefox (though this is rare).
The bottom line is that you can't wait for the web to change. You have to make it change. Go download Firefox and at some point when browser usage is no longer 95% IE (and it already is much less on some sites), the web will change.
Too bad Slashdot did not think of it either.
Slashdot should not be exempt from such criticism.
Actually, when Mirrordot started, I submitted to slashdot about it, only to be rejected within about an hour. So, I assumed this meant that someone else had done a better job than I and that it would be posted shortly. NEVER HAPPENED. The fact is, Slashdot just doesn't give a fuck. Their quality of service sucks. Their webpage sucks so bad that it would look right at home in 1995 and by the way, don't try to validate them for XHTML, because they fucking block the validator. Hopefully at some point browsers will fail to support Slashdot so that they will get up off their ass and fix their broken website.
a search on google.com will bring up relevant news articles, and yet also displays ads just like any other search...
How is that any different than displaying ads on news.google.com itself? In any case, because they are already displaying these News Results, seems to me that they are *already* profiting from Google News.
I personally think that is slashdot's fault for not using a cache instead of just linking. THEY can obviously handle the bandwidth. Half the sites that can linked to, however, cannot. Yeah, I guess they've got a right to link, but if they had any considerations at all for their readers, they would consider using a cache. After all, if we can't read the news, what good is it to link to it... And yeah, they've got a right to link, but if they know that its going to take down a site, why not find another way?
would this give my plants cancer?
Therac-25 ring any bells? Errors like these are not unprecedented. People have died from programmers' mistakes and now that we are relying on technology more than ever, there is more risk than ever before. No link between emergencies and MS security support? Have you ever been in a hospital?! The number of tasks that are now done via computers in our health care facilities is staggering. The worst thing that we can possibly do is put peoples' lives in the hands of companies like Microsoft by trusting them to harden security. And btw, how safe would you feel driving a car running on windows?
Actually, I believe when MS flew Miguel in for his job interview, he used the opportunity to tell them how flawed their business model was and why open-source is a superior approach. You can read it here . (registration required though) So no, from that article, my feeling is that Icaza does not have a "hardon" for microsoft but actually hates their business model and all that they represent.
Not true, although this used to be the case. With the switch to socket 939, the FX no longer requires registered RAM. The Opterons have always required this.
Apple refused. It was covered previously
Actually, its not Opteron, its Athlon 64 FX-53. Its pretty overpriced.
I would mod this up again, but its already a five.
This article appears to be nothing more than speculation on the part of some disgruntled third party app user who, for some reason beyond me, is annoyed that a *BETA* service is changing things up a bit. It doesn't even have a link to a real news story to back it up. Slashdot, you should be ashamed for approving this crap, it does nothing but tarnish your name.
Read this and this.
In short, to BSD users your argument is laughably silly and makes you look like an ignoramus.
I may be wrong, but I honestly think that most reasonable people will not interpret a cartoonish picture of a devil-like creature wearing sneakers as any indication of satan worship
I myself have walked into my church (I'm Catholic) wearing a FreeBSD daemon shirt.
>Its a shame most people don't see that as meaning, "I'm big on censorship." Yeah, what a fucking shame that maybe they'll finally be able to do something about ten year olds watching this crap. You know, I completely agree that it is the parents' responsibility to monitor and control what their children watch, but the reality is that many ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB. So what's the result? The result is that we have kids that watch nothing but violence on tv and movies and video games. I actually work with children and it is shocking and startling how many children are exposed to this nowadays. They suffer and society suffers.
Actually, FreeBSD is increasing it's market share, as mentioned here, here, and here. You really should know a little about what you're talking about before you talk about it.
As for one BSD hating another, that is utterly ridiculous to the point that I laughed at you when I read it.
Finally, I don't know what you define as "success" but the way I see it, microsoft still has the dominant desktop operating system in both quality (IMHO) and popularity (statistically) and IMHO FreeBSD still has the upper hand over Linux in the server department. So, if you follow that, that still leaves linux behind both of them.