Thank you thank you! I had to go almost a third of a way down through the comments before finally getting the Token 1984 Comparison. I was beginning to get a little bit worried!
Wow. Proof you've read 1984. At least, a few pages of it. Your parents must be proud. It gets a little tiring to see people cite 1984 regardless of it's actual relevance to the situation, just to show the world that yes, they've read it. Good for you. Most high school students have.
It's a conspiracy! The DOJ and Micro$shaft are in collusion! They're brainwashing kids into using Micro$uck so that things will get to a point where the DOJ can eventually win their suit with Micro$hit and thereby not look absolutely stupid like they do now! Nobody has sincere motives! It's 1984! BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING%@!*&(%&(!#*&
It sounds to me like you should swallow your pride about being an illiterate and learn a few basics of the English language if you're planning on doing any serious work (such as making an argument) with it. If that's too much to ask, I'd suffice with your merely dropping the smug, superior attitude you carry about people who are as disinterested about learning the technical details of computers as you obviously are about your writing mechanics.
This article is a good example of the typical GPL tripe that comes out any time one of these self-proclaimed h4x0rs wants to work on a particular project but doesn't get to. They find a project, demand open-source, and when they don't get it, they demonize the entire project. They accuse them of being "Afraid of the truth." They're threatened by real coders. What garbage. They just don't want to release the source -- some claim they could do a better job of writing it.. they don't care, nor should they. This is SETIs project, it's their code; if they wanted your help, they'd ask for it. In the meantime, it's not like they're taking food out of our mouths. Those of us who use the program choose to use the program. I'd never hesitate to turn my computer off when I want to just because I owe SETI that time. If you want to volunteer your time for SETI, volunteer it in the ways they're asking you to. If that rubs you the wrong way, don't freakin volunteer! Go find your own project to work on. Seems a lot more reasonable than smearing the project and putting this rabid spin on it just because they didn't let you help in the way you wanted to.
Oh, and I love the offhand and offtopic stab at slashdot, too. Perhaps it's gossipy, but that's alright. That's the point behind it. It's a news site, not a church for your particular brand of activism. I guess if they put a bigger spin on their stories, hyped them more in tune with your own ideology, they'd then become a more "caring" resource for "linux and coders." Of course I, for one, would stop visiting it. Thankfully, they aren't so limited in scope.
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Thank you thank you! I had to go almost a third of a way down through the comments before finally getting the Token 1984 Comparison. I was beginning to get a little bit worried!
Wow. Proof you've read 1984. At least, a few pages of it. Your parents must be proud. It gets a little tiring to see people cite 1984 regardless of it's actual relevance to the situation, just to show the world that yes, they've read it. Good for you. Most high school students have.
It's a conspiracy! The DOJ and Micro$shaft are in collusion! They're brainwashing kids into using Micro$uck so that things will get to a point where the DOJ can eventually win their suit with Micro$hit and thereby not look absolutely stupid like they do now! Nobody has sincere motives! It's 1984! BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING%@!*&(%&(!#*&
It sounds to me like you should swallow your pride about being an illiterate and learn a few basics of the English language if you're planning on doing any serious work (such as making an argument) with it. If that's too much to ask, I'd suffice with your merely dropping the smug, superior attitude you carry about people who are as disinterested about learning the technical details of computers as you obviously are about your writing mechanics.
This article is a good example of the typical GPL tripe that comes out any time one of these self-proclaimed h4x0rs wants to work on a particular project but doesn't get to. They find a project, demand open-source, and when they don't get it, they demonize the entire project. They accuse them of being "Afraid of the truth." They're threatened by real coders. What garbage. They just don't want to release the source -- some claim they could do a better job of writing it.. they don't care, nor should they. This is SETIs project, it's their code; if they wanted your help, they'd ask for it. In the meantime, it's not like they're taking food out of our mouths. Those of us who use the program choose to use the program. I'd never hesitate to turn my computer off when I want to just because I owe SETI that time. If you want to volunteer your time for SETI, volunteer it in the ways they're asking you to. If that rubs you the wrong way, don't freakin volunteer! Go find your own project to work on. Seems a lot more reasonable than smearing the project and putting this rabid spin on it just because they didn't let you help in the way you wanted to.
Oh, and I love the offhand and offtopic stab at slashdot, too. Perhaps it's gossipy, but that's alright. That's the point behind it. It's a news site, not a church for your particular brand of activism. I guess if they put a bigger spin on their stories, hyped them more in tune with your own ideology, they'd then become a more "caring" resource for "linux and coders." Of course I, for one, would stop visiting it. Thankfully, they aren't so limited in scope.
Some think all three suck and use explorer.exe :>
Variety indeed.