In the original trilogy, people were so happy there was a Star Wars that they were happy to overlook any and all flaws in the dialogue, storyline, plot elemenets, etc. They didn't mind that the Ewoks could defeat an elite stormtrooper legion, that an enormous Imperial fleet could simply go missing at the ROTJ, that Luke could become a full Jedi Knight in just a few years time. They didn't mind any of it, because the 70s and 80s were the time of action movies where Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood were major stars, followed by the Governator, Van Damme, etc. And all they had to do was either shoot people or beat the shit out of them. Rambo, Dirty Harry, Rocky, the Terminator, take your pick.
But times changed in the 90s. Moviegoers became a lot more critical, demanded more from filmmakers. Particularly once the internet came to be widely used, everybody and their brother became armchair film critics. Everybody suddenly was an expert on filmmaking, writing, acting, producing (especially Slashdotters)though most had no clue what it all entailed. Movie audiences steadily got spoiled over time by some truly great epics until finally, these days, very few if any movies are good enough anymore.
Thus the complaints about the plot holes in the Prequels, questions regarding the acting, the dialogue, etc. All things that could have come up while critiquing the OT, but which didn't for one reason. Because once upon a time, people went to a movie and simply enjoyed it for what it was. They didn't spend the entire time ripping it to pieces and then running home to post on their lame websites every flaw that they perceived and how they themselves could have done it better people.
Think about people. You're spoiled to the point where you are unlikely to ever enjoy many movies in the future. Any movie you can think of, I can find someone on the internet who will be happy to rip it to shreds. Because it deserves it? No, because people just like to bitch and whine. It doesn't matter what the topic is, and it's what keeps internet forum from becoming totally deserted.
Now why would trade secrets be protected so extensively when journalists are free to publish governments secrets (Daniel Ellsberg) and then of course you have some dipshit like Nixon trying to discredit him. Once a secret's out, it's out. Tough shit.
Some of you Mac users are so paranoid. Other posters are right. Apple can only gain from this early leak and probably does the leaks intentionally at least some of the time.
If it's not backward compatible, what will be the motivation to NOT make the jump to PS3 when it comes out? X Box Next sounds faster than the current X Bob, but that's about it. Doesn't sound like it's going to hold a candle to PS3 and even getting it out the door first (always a dubious concept for Microsoft) might not be encouragement enough.
"They can, of course, query your computer and ask if you have, say, Matrix 2 shared on KaZaA (something Warner Bros. busted me for:) ), but that's a tap no more than calling someone up on the phone is."
Querying my computer without my knowledge or permission is not a tap? What exactly would be the difference? If they call me on the phone, I can tell them what I like or nothing at all. Certainly I wouldn't have to submit to interrogation by a business group. The fact of the matter is even the guilty are entitled to a fair legal process, and that simply has been cast aside by a group of Congresspeople for whatever price they were bought at.
The fact is they have been issuing subpoenas left and right, and they do apparently spy on people at their leisure. And no, I don't believe this falls within the confines of discovery.
The point is not the filing of lawsuits, it's of a business group essentially having police powers and apparently a blank warrant for electronic wiretaps. Again, this should be for the Feds to investigate. Afterall, shouldn't the real point be to go after the people doing the UPLOADING rather than 12 year old kids doing the DOWNLOADING? All the griping going about how the Patriot Act is taking away our rights, but at least that's in the name of terrorism. This is in the name of what?
Exactly how is this insightful? If the pictures of Gates made up to look like a Borg are not enough of a clue then all the open source links at the top of the page should be. Is it possible people still come to this site and feel sorry for MS because they are "picked on" here?
Am I the only one who thinks that the subpoena powers granted to the RIAA are too broad? If a crime has been committed, fine. Then let the F.B.I. handle it and let the courts issue subpoenas where necessary. How in hell did private citizens come to be a the mercy of a trade group? I don't download files off Kazaa or anything, but nor do I like the idea of the RIAA being able to spy on people at its leisure. If there's need of an electronic wiretap, then let the Feds get a warrant for it. But this business of them serving subpoenas to whomever they like makes a complete mockery of the right to privacy. We have police agencies to investigate alleged criminal offenses. Since when did we start bypassing them for the convenience of big business?
The hardware companies are still are not taking Linux seriously despite it have a marketshare relative to the Mac, and so we still have to rely on the efforts of people like this guy. The kernel team is annoyed, the developer is annoyed, the users are annoyed, and still the corporations are either too lazy or too stupid to port drivers for their products, as if the porting of those drivers would seriously inconvenience them. What's it going to take before they get on the bandwagon? Linux is not just going to go away. It's not shrinking in marketshare, it's growing. It has the backing of many corporations and even gets contributions from the likes of the NSA. What's it going to take for them to stop pretending Linux doesn't exist?
We Linux users ought to take to heart the warning being issued by the multitude of Windows fanatics that have apparently descended on Slashdot despite the image of Bill Gates made up to look like Locutus. Because a warning is exactly what they're offering amid all their griping about user friendliness...we shouldn't wish too hard for Linux to take the greater marketshare away from Windows. Not at the cost of having Linux distros BECOME the new Windows. Not at the cost of sacrifing those things about Linux and Open Source apps which we find most desirable...choice, versatility, etc. No, let Windows be the choice for the common man, and let Linux be only for those who want it bad enough to seek it out.
"The proof of this is that he messed the design up."
Notice he never says, "I simply disagree with Linus". With Tannenbaum, it's never a matter of opinion... he's just right, and everybody else is wrong. Minix is apparently a work of genius, everything else is mediocre at best in his world.
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In the original trilogy, people were so happy there was a Star Wars that they were happy to overlook any and all flaws in the dialogue, storyline, plot elemenets, etc. They didn't mind that the Ewoks could defeat an elite stormtrooper legion, that an enormous Imperial fleet could simply go missing at the ROTJ, that Luke could become a full Jedi Knight in just a few years time. They didn't mind any of it, because the 70s and 80s were the time of action movies where Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood were major stars, followed by the Governator, Van Damme, etc. And all they had to do was either shoot people or beat the shit out of them. Rambo, Dirty Harry, Rocky, the Terminator, take your pick. But times changed in the 90s. Moviegoers became a lot more critical, demanded more from filmmakers. Particularly once the internet came to be widely used, everybody and their brother became armchair film critics. Everybody suddenly was an expert on filmmaking, writing, acting, producing (especially Slashdotters)though most had no clue what it all entailed. Movie audiences steadily got spoiled over time by some truly great epics until finally, these days, very few if any movies are good enough anymore. Thus the complaints about the plot holes in the Prequels, questions regarding the acting, the dialogue, etc. All things that could have come up while critiquing the OT, but which didn't for one reason. Because once upon a time, people went to a movie and simply enjoyed it for what it was. They didn't spend the entire time ripping it to pieces and then running home to post on their lame websites every flaw that they perceived and how they themselves could have done it better people. Think about people. You're spoiled to the point where you are unlikely to ever enjoy many movies in the future. Any movie you can think of, I can find someone on the internet who will be happy to rip it to shreds. Because it deserves it? No, because people just like to bitch and whine. It doesn't matter what the topic is, and it's what keeps internet forum from becoming totally deserted.
You kind of missed the point there. Konqueror has more features than Firefox and always will be better integrated than it.
Now why would trade secrets be protected so extensively when journalists are free to publish governments secrets (Daniel Ellsberg) and then of course you have some dipshit like Nixon trying to discredit him. Once a secret's out, it's out. Tough shit.
Some of you Mac users are so paranoid. Other posters are right. Apple can only gain from this early leak and probably does the leaks intentionally at least some of the time.
If it's not backward compatible, what will be the motivation to NOT make the jump to PS3 when it comes out? X Box Next sounds faster than the current X Bob, but that's about it. Doesn't sound like it's going to hold a candle to PS3 and even getting it out the door first (always a dubious concept for Microsoft) might not be encouragement enough.
"They can, of course, query your computer and ask if you have, say, Matrix 2 shared on KaZaA (something Warner Bros. busted me for :) ), but that's a tap no more than calling someone up on the phone is."
Querying my computer without my knowledge or permission is not a tap? What exactly would be the difference? If they call me on the phone, I can tell them what I like or nothing at all. Certainly I wouldn't have to submit to interrogation by a business group. The fact of the matter is even the guilty are entitled to a fair legal process, and that simply has been cast aside by a group of Congresspeople for whatever price they were bought at.
The fact is they have been issuing subpoenas left and right, and they do apparently spy on people at their leisure. And no, I don't believe this falls within the confines of discovery.
The point is not the filing of lawsuits, it's of a business group essentially having police powers and apparently a blank warrant for electronic wiretaps. Again, this should be for the Feds to investigate. Afterall, shouldn't the real point be to go after the people doing the UPLOADING rather than 12 year old kids doing the DOWNLOADING? All the griping going about how the Patriot Act is taking away our rights, but at least that's in the name of terrorism. This is in the name of what?
Exactly how is this insightful? If the pictures of Gates made up to look like a Borg are not enough of a clue then all the open source links at the top of the page should be. Is it possible people still come to this site and feel sorry for MS because they are "picked on" here?
Am I the only one who thinks that the subpoena powers granted to the RIAA are too broad? If a crime has been committed, fine. Then let the F.B.I. handle it and let the courts issue subpoenas where necessary. How in hell did private citizens come to be a the mercy of a trade group? I don't download files off Kazaa or anything, but nor do I like the idea of the RIAA being able to spy on people at its leisure. If there's need of an electronic wiretap, then let the Feds get a warrant for it. But this business of them serving subpoenas to whomever they like makes a complete mockery of the right to privacy. We have police agencies to investigate alleged criminal offenses. Since when did we start bypassing them for the convenience of big business?
The hardware companies are still are not taking Linux seriously despite it have a marketshare relative to the Mac, and so we still have to rely on the efforts of people like this guy. The kernel team is annoyed, the developer is annoyed, the users are annoyed, and still the corporations are either too lazy or too stupid to port drivers for their products, as if the porting of those drivers would seriously inconvenience them. What's it going to take before they get on the bandwagon? Linux is not just going to go away. It's not shrinking in marketshare, it's growing. It has the backing of many corporations and even gets contributions from the likes of the NSA. What's it going to take for them to stop pretending Linux doesn't exist?
We Linux users ought to take to heart the warning being issued by the multitude of Windows fanatics that have apparently descended on Slashdot despite the image of Bill Gates made up to look like Locutus. Because a warning is exactly what they're offering amid all their griping about user friendliness...we shouldn't wish too hard for Linux to take the greater marketshare away from Windows. Not at the cost of having Linux distros BECOME the new Windows. Not at the cost of sacrifing those things about Linux and Open Source apps which we find most desirable...choice, versatility, etc. No, let Windows be the choice for the common man, and let Linux be only for those who want it bad enough to seek it out.
"The proof of this is that he messed the design up."
Notice he never says, "I simply disagree with Linus". With Tannenbaum, it's never a matter of opinion... he's just right, and everybody else is wrong. Minix is apparently a work of genius, everything else is mediocre at best in his world.