When setting up the KDE Win installer, I noticed that I got no list of mirrors while end-user was selected, but got a long list while configured as developer. Coincidence? I don't know, but it worked for me.
SO you posted the link to your funny little video, complete with disparaging innuendo towards white people. That's funny, hm? It's always OK to make fun of white people, isn't it? Fun to call them cracker and honkie? Fun to suggest that blacks have larger penises (even though studies (and Xaviera Hollander) say it isn't true?)
But it's totally not OK to turn that table around, is it? Not OK to laugh at blacks for their fat lips and nappy hair? Sickle-cell anemia? I don't know which pimp is my daddy? Watermelon and fried chicken anyone? Aren't those things funny too?
Still laughing? Starting to see the double standard?
If you've read the specs on the XO machines, you know that they're about as powerful as a mainstream desktop machine in about 1998.
Can you imagine how well M$'s uber-bloat OS's will run on these little boxen? If you asked me, let M$ put Windows on the XO, so that all the little children of the world can see that it's such a resource hog it converts your neato XO into a thrashing paperweight.
Nigeria, the land of scammers and con artists.
The silver lining of this truth is that the fewer computers Nigerians have the better off the rest of the world is. It would have been difficult and politically incorrect to boycott Nigeria from the OLPC, with a litle luck they just might boycott themselves.
Vista is the first OS I've even bothered setting up a new profile for my girlfriend. You have a g/f? Gotcha! You're no real geek. Seriously, Cory, if Microsoft isn't already paying you, apply for a job doing this.
Somebody should also be tolerant of the same issues in *nix vs. XP as they are in Vista vs. XP. Maybe somebody would be, if they didn't have to PAY outrageous prices for the privelege with Vista, linux is free.
No DRM headaches with linux, no product activation, no WGA.
Also, linux is screaming fast. With Vista, the only thing screaming is you (insert Soviet Russia meme here:)
Seriously. Can we stop with the Vista bashing now? Please? No, Cory, we cannot. We prefer to tell the truth about Vista, which is that it sucks at any price, and to you it sounds like bashing. I know defending Vista on Slashdot is sisyphusian task, and you can never win. Tell your boss in Redmond that you need a raise, a backrub, and maybe some counseling.
This only affects certain paths. If you're playing non-DRM files, DRM doesn't even enter into the discussion. What you're referring to is the fact that the OS has support for a fully-protected pipeline (HDCP) required for the next-generation HD disc formats (HD-DVD, Blu-Ray). If you neither have nor care about those (as I don't -- for me, the future of HD media is online, like with the Xbox Video Marketplace), you'll never notice the additional support in Vista. Wrong. Every file is checked for DRM violations. Why do you think copying (and everything else) is so slow?
Did you have to pay for the Slashdot account with the low UID, or did Microsoft buy it for you?
Not that I classify windows users as sensible people in the first place, but why oh WHY are 90% of the windows computers sold today preloaded with Vista, if so many people can't stand it???
Because Mom, Dad, Grandma, other ordinary people are clueless, don't even know what Windows IS, much less the difference between XP and Vista. So M$ nails 'em.
Slashdot Mirror
She has to leave, she has to go, the fastest way, is by Trism.
After the break...
Slashdotter discovers after years of XP bashing that he in fact is an avid XP supporter.
If it wasn't for the illegal Mexicans, nobody would want Real ID for the US.
When setting up the KDE Win installer, I noticed that I got no list of mirrors while end-user was selected, but got a long list while configured as developer. Coincidence? I don't know, but it worked for me.
SO you posted the link to your funny little video, complete with disparaging innuendo towards white people. That's funny, hm? It's always OK to make fun of white people, isn't it? Fun to call them cracker and honkie? Fun to suggest that blacks have larger penises (even though studies (and Xaviera Hollander) say it isn't true?)
But it's totally not OK to turn that table around, is it? Not OK to laugh at blacks for their fat lips and nappy hair? Sickle-cell anemia? I don't know which pimp is my daddy? Watermelon and fried chicken anyone? Aren't those things funny too?
Still laughing? Starting to see the double standard?
Cry and cry until you ruin it for the rest of us.
That tag was the best laugh I had all day.
Got pix?
If you've read the specs on the XO machines, you know that they're about as powerful as a mainstream desktop machine in about 1998.
Can you imagine how well M$'s uber-bloat OS's will run on these little boxen? If you asked me, let M$ put Windows on the XO, so that all the little children of the world can see that it's such a resource hog it converts your neato XO into a thrashing paperweight.
The man is an artiste, a craftsman, of great skill. I am most impressed by "les fingernails francaises."
For, since her own father, who, when he seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy black hand of death upon him!
He's died!
"He's getting better!"
Only we all thought they were "Jigawatts," a word that sounds politically incorrect but is actually meaningless.
The silver lining of this truth is that the fewer computers Nigerians have the better off the rest of the world is. It would have been difficult and politically incorrect to boycott Nigeria from the OLPC, with a litle luck they just might boycott themselves.
Calling David Brin a scientist is like calling Josef Stalin a humanitarian.
Brin is the King of Hacks.
Did someone photoshop that mustache on Tom's face, or is he the new Grecian Formula poster boy?
Microsoft's business is profit, fueled not by innovation, but from quashing competition, customer lock-in, bribery, intimidation, and FUD.
Microsoft has never been in the business of making innovative anything. Customer happiness is not even on their radar screen.
No DRM headaches with linux, no product activation, no WGA.
Also, linux is screaming fast. With Vista, the only thing screaming is you (insert Soviet Russia meme here:)
Did you have to pay for the Slashdot account with the low UID, or did Microsoft buy it for you?
Yes, it is, and yes, it is, Cory, King of Clowns.
No, but I can imagine Beowulff Shaffer flying the Long Shot to go have a look at one.
Because Mom, Dad, Grandma, other ordinary people are clueless, don't even know what Windows IS, much less the difference between XP and Vista. So M$ nails 'em.
With a name like REEM-A it sounds like it was made by Philip K Dick himself.