'Windows XP Starter Edition' will be limited to low-res graphics, limited networking, and will be hobbled to prevent more than three applications running concurrently.
That will give new users a taste of how bad XP is, before making the choice between Linux (full res, full net, great multitasking) and XP (low res, limited net, 3 apps).
Yes, but even with full res, full net, great multitasking, will it have XP GUI?
Of course it must have bothered you and that is why it made me mad. I'm glad you enjoyed reading my comments. You not only have nothing to be ashamed of, but actually should be very proud of yourself. I seriously admire your strength and courage. I'm very serious and I'm saying it as someone who fail every time I try to do something with my life even when nothing really serious is against me.
(You can read about it in these journal entries of mine, if you want to:
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
but don't waste your time on anything else, as there is nothing serious in my journal other than the links above. By the way, I feel better right now.)
Once again, your strength is beyond my imagination. I wish you best luck with your transition.
You seem to be seriously obsessed, answering every comment in this thread, posting no less than five of your moronic "warnings" under my comment alone. I guess I should thank you for directing me to the website Madison has personally linked to in the post I was referring to myself. Thank you very much indeed for the enlightenment.
That having been said, the way Madison was born or who she once might have been is completely irrelevant to this discussion, nor does it invalidate anything I have written. Madison is not only a woman but, as I have already said, also a beautiful woman. I might have not considered her beautiful few years ago, but now I do, having seen the picture I was talking about.
Furthermore, even those few years ago when she was looking very different, she was still a woman, the same woman and the same person she is now and she always will be. I do really hope this concept is not completely beyond any understanding for such a simpleton as yourself.
I cannot even imagine how my life would look like if I had been born in a female body (or with any other serious physical defect for that matter, because that is what we are talking about, a physical defect which needs medical treatment) but I highly doubt that some infantile imbeciles foolishly pointing it out in their idiotic "warnings" would help me feel any better.
I was already apologising for things which are nothing compared to what you have just done. I am really speechless. Answering your comment was a complete waste of my time, as I am sadly quite sure you will not understand anything and will not apologise anyway. I can only hope Madison does not pay any attention whatsoever to childish excesses of such outrageously foolish cretins as yourself.
I have really no idea whether that is anything unusual, but I actually enjoy listening to women much more than listening to men. Actually, I would consider it quite natural.
Granted, I have seen your picture, so you might argue that I am no longer objective, but I can assure you that I respect every woman, even not as beautiful as yourself, generally much more than I respect men, including myself, however strange that might sound.
I always anjoy interacting with women, anytime and everywhere, more than men, be it in the store, in a server room or on the road (yes, I do consider women better drivers, because having the same technical skills as men, they are additionally nice and kind).
Sadly, I don't think that it all makes me any more cute, no matter how much I would want it. I never act like a macho, I believe I am kind, I like being kind to women, and lots of women I know consider me a nice guy and a good friend, but that's it. I don't make them weak-kneed
just because I am nice.
How about just respecting women?
So many times I talk or I see another woman talk to you guys and your eyes just gloss over like you go into some standby mode until we finish. Then many of you keep right on as if we said nothing at all.
Just a thought.
Our eyes only seem to gloss over but in fact this is an internal battle. Believe me, it is very hard to stand in front of a beautiful woman and avoid looking at her breast, especially when one is an unattractive sociopath, like most of us in computer science are, as I am sure you have already noticed. This is hardly a disrespect. This is libido. Additionally, when we are showing off with our knowledge it is not because we want to prove we are smarter, not at all, but because in our laughable naïvete we foolishly assume that smart and beautiful women might find us attractive just because we are so intelligent. Sadly, it doesn't work. But what else can we do? Besides our great knowledge and impressive intelligence we have really nothing else we can be pround of, do we not? I can only assure you that not every man in computer science is a stereotypical nerd. Nevertheless, please let me sincerely apologise in the name of the entire Slashdot and scientific community. It is outrageously shameful that women feel disrespected only because of their beauty and the very fact that we are nothing but a bunch of miserable loosers. I perfectly realise that our high IQ and a bunch of fancy PhDs and Mensa membership cards doesn't make us any more attractive, but again, what else can we do? I believe I speak in the name of every Slashdotter. The very important problem you are talking about might actually be more depressing to us then to you. Believe me.
Actually many of the GIFs were actually replaced with PNGs
GIFs and PNGs support transparency (something JPEGs can't do)
In any case many of had followed history and not only changed our GIFs, but also our JPEGs to PNG. PNG is a powerful open standard for image compression that is supported by our internet overlords.
Changing every GIF to PNG on a site like Slashdot might have been easy even years ago when it was done, but some of us have quite a lot of important data stored in the JPEG format, which does not compress well with lossless PNG (e.g. anatomical photographs for scientific purposes). Just as an example:
pth@ph9:28:/etc/X11$ du -sh ~/work/projects/.linuxx/.a/xxx/jpegs
127G/home/pth/work/projects/.linuxx/.a/xxx/jpegs
pth@ph9:28:/etc/X11$
...to Repeat It. We all remember the problems with GIF just few years ago. We solved them changing every single image on the Internet to JPEG. We all have to admit that it was foolish. We're weak on logic, that's the trouble with us. We're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one.
there: a location other than here; that place; "you can take it from there"
their: of or relating to them or themselves especially as possessors, agents, or objects of an action.. you even got it wrong twice!
This is completely irelevant. The point is that Gates and Ballmer with they're billions in the bank are atacking Linux right now. We should of already been prepared for that, but no, we waste our time on stupid nickpicking and grammer NSDAP bullshit. Don't you care about Linux and it's future at all?
While I can't explain the 180 easily, this line here says it all. Is brain surgery easy for a brain surgeon? Somewhat. For me? Impossible. Should brain surgery be easy for me? Only if I want to take the time to be a bain surgeon.
Most people don't. Microsoft claims they can make brain surgery easy, with their "Windows Brain-Surgery-Made-Easy robot", and sure sometimes it works. Those initial incisions, cutting with the bonesaw... and then it slices the cerebrum into ribbons like a maniac. And people say "Gee, I hope when it's my turn to have the tumor removed, it get's it right."
I think you lost me with your analogy... Maniac is a Mac, right? And Gee, what, GNU?
In summary, Microsoft has been paying some big names to use them as poster children of their "Linux is too messy and difficult adn thus expensive campaign". We need to create a site where we exposed Microsoft lies and we need to do it soon.
That's a great idea. I know, let's call it Slashdot!
It would be great to finally have such a site.
Microsoft's strategy so far is to find people who used to be proponents of Linux and other open source products and get them to do a 180, possibly as a result of a very fat paycheck though who knows.
A very fat paycheck, you say? Where do I sign up?!
Well, assuming a 3 minute call... you can store voice data in about 8k/second. 3 * 60 * 8 = 1440... meaning the 'average' telephone call is going to take almost exactly one floppy disk to store.
Storage is somewhere around a buck a gig, so that means I could store a thousand average calls for about a buck.
Let's say that everyone in the country makes five 'average' calls a day. That's 250 million people, or about 1.25 billion calls a day.
[...]
OK, I think I already got it. It would be impossible to store that many floppy disks even in the Library of Congress, so we have nothing to worry about.
Jam one point of the scissors into the rectangular hole on the circumference of the circular key slot. Twist the scissors so that the inner part of the lock turns into the 'open' direction. Keep applying a gentle pressure, and use the paperclip to push in the little pins in the circular groove, one by one. Push down lightly and slowly until you feel the pin 'snap'.
In other words, lock picking 101. How impressive. This news is really worth posting on the Slashdot frontpage under the security topic.
We'll give you $1500 if someone steals your laptop' guarantee doesn't apply -- because the process of opening the lock doesn't damage the lock or cable.
After your lock has been cleanly picked, go to your local Home Depot, get a cable cutter and cut the cable yourself. Make sure you make a real mess of it. Then send back to Kensington and claim the $1500.
Better yet, do it even before your lock has been cleanly picked, get $1500, sell the laptop, 2. repeat, 3. profit!!!
"This setback should keep them from flying for about five weeks, but will give them a chance to make some design changes. I'm sure they will be back better than ever."
OK, I've seen the movie. I must say I was really surprised that they have somehow managed to survive, let alone want to fly in few weeks. These people are true heroes. No question. I wish them to get out of the hospital in even less than five weeks and be back better than ever. Good luck!
Compare this engineering to software engineering.
[...]
So, I really don't get why the disconnect. It's engineering! Products are seldom viable in the first design attempt, but a basically workable design is tweaked until it's ready.
No different here.
Well, there is this minor difference that you can die in the process, so I would rather-- oh, I just remembered how I almost choked to death with cappuccino the other day. Not to even mention how I fell asleep waiting for a "make test" to finish and fell off my chair, only inches from a razor sharp pencil laying on the floor. You're right, no difference.
"Davis is threatening pocketpctools.com with legal action for posting a snippet from and link to a Ziff Davis story. Is it just me, or is this sort of the IDEA of the internet?"
You just don't get it, do you? That Ziff Davis website (which I haven't ever heard before) gets posted on the Slashdot front page every bloody time they change a little miserable bit of their laughable license. They get more of our attention than Linux kernel point releases did in 1995, for God's sake. That doesn't sound like someone who doesn't get the "IDEA" of Internet, does it? The sad think is that they only have to say "don't link to us, or else!" and we all, myself included, promptly do what? Of course we link to them! Why not! We post their link on the front page of one of the most visited sites on Earth, we give them publicity and all the traffic other honest people have to pay lots of money for. We act like some childish morons, which I feel we all are. What next? Someone will start shouting "don't send me money, or I'll sue you!" and Slashdot will gladly spend all of their money on them and proudly say: "Heh, we showed them!" What a waste of time.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but even with full res, full net, great multitasking, will it have XP GUI?
pth@ph9:31:~/work/projects/.linuxx$ ps aux | wc -l
3685
pth@ph9:31:~/work/projects/.linuxx$ _
Err, no.
I think three applications running concurrently should be enough for anybody.
(Remember that it is more than 200kB per application.)
I have lots of messages hidden in executables. Observe:
pth@ph9:31:~/work/projects/.linuxx$ strings /usr/bin/*
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
/tmp
libc.so.6
textdomain
printf
stdout
geteuid
getopt_long
__fpending
__ctype_b
getenv
[...] (sorry, I have to remove 1099503 lines because of stupid lame filter)
can't create a temporary filename
%s exited with status %d
open decompressed file: %s
%s:%d: %s
TMPDIR
XXXXXX
memory exhausted
%s:
: %s
pth@ph9:31:~/work/projects/.linuxx$ _
Some of them even seem to be encryptioned. Old news.
Of course it must have bothered you and that is why it made me mad. I'm glad you enjoyed reading my comments. You not only have nothing to be ashamed of, but actually should be very proud of yourself. I seriously admire your strength and courage. I'm very serious and I'm saying it as someone who fail every time I try to do something with my life even when nothing really serious is against me. (You can read about it in these journal entries of mine, if you want to: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] but don't waste your time on anything else, as there is nothing serious in my journal other than the links above. By the way, I feel better right now.) Once again, your strength is beyond my imagination. I wish you best luck with your transition.
You seem to be seriously obsessed, answering every comment in this thread, posting no less than five of your moronic "warnings" under my comment alone. I guess I should thank you for directing me to the website Madison has personally linked to in the post I was referring to myself. Thank you very much indeed for the enlightenment.
That having been said, the way Madison was born or who she once might have been is completely irrelevant to this discussion, nor does it invalidate anything I have written. Madison is not only a woman but, as I have already said, also a beautiful woman. I might have not considered her beautiful few years ago, but now I do, having seen the picture I was talking about.
Furthermore, even those few years ago when she was looking very different, she was still a woman, the same woman and the same person she is now and she always will be. I do really hope this concept is not completely beyond any understanding for such a simpleton as yourself.
I cannot even imagine how my life would look like if I had been born in a female body (or with any other serious physical defect for that matter, because that is what we are talking about, a physical defect which needs medical treatment) but I highly doubt that some infantile imbeciles foolishly pointing it out in their idiotic "warnings" would help me feel any better.
I was already apologising for things which are nothing compared to what you have just done. I am really speechless. Answering your comment was a complete waste of my time, as I am sadly quite sure you will not understand anything and will not apologise anyway. I can only hope Madison does not pay any attention whatsoever to childish excesses of such outrageously foolish cretins as yourself.
I have really no idea whether that is anything unusual, but I actually enjoy listening to women much more than listening to men. Actually, I would consider it quite natural.
Granted, I have seen your picture, so you might argue that I am no longer objective, but I can assure you that I respect every woman, even not as beautiful as yourself, generally much more than I respect men, including myself, however strange that might sound.
I always anjoy interacting with women, anytime and everywhere, more than men, be it in the store, in a server room or on the road (yes, I do consider women better drivers, because having the same technical skills as men, they are additionally nice and kind).
Sadly, I don't think that it all makes me any more cute, no matter how much I would want it. I never act like a macho, I believe I am kind, I like being kind to women, and lots of women I know consider me a nice guy and a good friend, but that's it. I don't make them weak-kneed just because I am nice.
Our eyes only seem to gloss over but in fact this is an internal battle. Believe me, it is very hard to stand in front of a beautiful woman and avoid looking at her breast, especially when one is an unattractive sociopath, like most of us in computer science are, as I am sure you have already noticed. This is hardly a disrespect. This is libido. Additionally, when we are showing off with our knowledge it is not because we want to prove we are smarter, not at all, but because in our laughable naïvete we foolishly assume that smart and beautiful women might find us attractive just because we are so intelligent. Sadly, it doesn't work. But what else can we do? Besides our great knowledge and impressive intelligence we have really nothing else we can be pround of, do we not? I can only assure you that not every man in computer science is a stereotypical nerd. Nevertheless, please let me sincerely apologise in the name of the entire Slashdot and scientific community. It is outrageously shameful that women feel disrespected only because of their beauty and the very fact that we are nothing but a bunch of miserable loosers. I perfectly realise that our high IQ and a bunch of fancy PhDs and Mensa membership cards doesn't make us any more attractive, but again, what else can we do? I believe I speak in the name of every Slashdotter. The very important problem you are talking about might actually be more depressing to us then to you. Believe me.
Is "attracting woman" the same as "attractive woman" or is it the opposite?
It actually might work, beacause people might stop to think that this patent really is important to their lives. Good idea.
Everyone who has ImageMagick installed can do it with:
Changing every GIF to PNG on a site like Slashdot might have been easy even years ago when it was done, but some of us have quite a lot of important data stored in the JPEG format, which does not compress well with lossless PNG (e.g. anatomical photographs for scientific purposes). Just as an example:
It is not a simple matter of:
Well, actually it is, but it would take O(n) time (at least).
...to Repeat It. We all remember the problems with GIF just few years ago. We solved them changing every single image on the Internet to JPEG. We all have to admit that it was foolish. We're weak on logic, that's the trouble with us. We're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one.
Possibly, but nevertheless I admire the robot/reboot pun. Trully brilliant.
They already have. (In November 2003.)
This is completely irelevant. The point is that Gates and Ballmer with they're billions in the bank are atacking Linux right now. We should of already been prepared for that, but no, we waste our time on stupid nickpicking and grammer NSDAP bullshit. Don't you care about Linux and it's future at all?
I think you lost me with your analogy... Maniac is a Mac, right? And Gee, what, GNU?
That's a great idea. I know, let's call it Slashdot! It would be great to finally have such a site.
A very fat paycheck, you say? Where do I sign up?!
OK, I think I already got it. It would be impossible to store that many floppy disks even in the Library of Congress, so we have nothing to worry about.
In other words, lock picking 101. How impressive. This news is really worth posting on the Slashdot frontpage under the security topic.
Better yet, do it even before your lock has been cleanly picked, get $1500, sell the laptop, 2. repeat, 3. profit!!!
OK, I've seen the movie. I must say I was really surprised that they have somehow managed to survive, let alone want to fly in few weeks. These people are true heroes. No question. I wish them to get out of the hospital in even less than five weeks and be back better than ever. Good luck!
Well, there is this minor difference that you can die in the process, so I would rather-- oh, I just remembered how I almost choked to death with cappuccino the other day. Not to even mention how I fell asleep waiting for a "make test" to finish and fell off my chair, only inches from a razor sharp pencil laying on the floor. You're right, no difference.
"Davis is threatening pocketpctools.com with legal action for posting a snippet from and link to a Ziff Davis story. Is it just me, or is this sort of the IDEA of the internet?"
You just don't get it, do you? That Ziff Davis website (which I haven't ever heard before) gets posted on the Slashdot front page every bloody time they change a little miserable bit of their laughable license. They get more of our attention than Linux kernel point releases did in 1995, for God's sake. That doesn't sound like someone who doesn't get the "IDEA" of Internet, does it? The sad think is that they only have to say "don't link to us, or else!" and we all, myself included, promptly do what? Of course we link to them! Why not! We post their link on the front page of one of the most visited sites on Earth, we give them publicity and all the traffic other honest people have to pay lots of money for. We act like some childish morons, which I feel we all are. What next? Someone will start shouting "don't send me money, or I'll sue you!" and Slashdot will gladly spend all of their money on them and proudly say: "Heh, we showed them!" What a waste of time.
It will disappear now, just like Marijuana.