Charles Connell is right on: there's nothing more frightening than trying something totally new and having it blow up in your face. Linux needs some more work to function correctly with different combinations of hardware.. I can attest to this, after a (laughable) attempt to dual-boot RedHat6.0 and Windows95 unceremoniously dumped me into a shell prompt (or whatever the jargon for it is). I suppose playing around with no GUI would've been fun, that is if Windows hadn't stopped working...
Anyway, new users are all-important, and while I was competent enough to get it working in the end, grandma would probably be overwhelmed if she had to make user accounts and delete lock files (or whatever) to get Netscape to work, when all she wanted was to check her email.
I guess that I would comprehend the amazingly witty satire and the like found in South Park, if only I could keep myself from turning the TV off long enough to get past the first 15 minutes of any show, let alone the movie.
Strange, but I can watch something like Schindler's List or another movie that uses violence and swearing to make a point. I can see where the creativity is in South Park with some of the situations, but I can't enjoy it because matt & Trey seem intent on ruining it.
A lot of its rabid fans (and a lot of/. posters, too, apparently) have trouble understanding that a few unlucky people like me just don't enjoy humour served that way.
Usually I don't complain too much about/. 's moderating, but lumping every Christian on the face of the earth into an afraid-of-the-"outside world" group based on a review from the website of a group unaffiliated with any actual Christian church, and calling an entire religion bullshit does strike me as something worth moderating down, if just a bit..
I can understand about the quality of slashdot posts declining if all we're going to get is one-sided bashing.
When I discovered the internet, relatively late (1996), it was apparently back in the days when an ISP would include USENET software (how I love Free Agent!), and not simply a giant browser with a half-hearted "discussion groups" feature.
USENET was quite fun, but I suppose most users now can accomplish their needs for communication through ICQ, or Quake or something. USENET won't die, but having it fade away is a bit sadder..
Will someone care to indulge me with details on why Intel is sticking with 32-bit chips while Motorola and friends churn out faster offerings? Is incompatibility with older software the cause of this?
Golddang it, I like PCs, but when you need to do graphics or 3D stuff, Apples are looking pretty good...
Well, what is free speech and what is breaking the law? If comments inside the code are free speech, would the whole shebang qualify as free speech if we added a little/* at the beginning? Maybe not, but it's an idea.
Uh.. well, as with almost every other product on the face of the earth, it's not how great your product is, but how you can sell it.
The Game Boy was outdated before the first day it went on sale. Had it not gotten such great 3rd party support, the little guy would've died long ago, but it continues to sell because it simply has the games that people want to play.
Exactly, maybe we should go a little lighter on pounding Corel for this GPL violation. As pointed out earlier, it's not entirely certain that the GPL couldn't use a bit of reworking to fix that 'paradox' deal.
- Plus, I think it's fairly safe to say that a lot is riding on how Corel does in the Linux world- we can be sure many other companies are watching this, a bit hesitant on whether to jump on the wagon or not. Will they look kindly upon developing distributions (maybe even software) if Corel gets torn to pieces by holy soldiers of the GPL?
I also think it's a big advantage to include all that fancy extra stuff, but the team can't forgot what a lot of the public excitement was about: a really small and fast browser. (Maybe we'll even get some more people IRC'ing. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know.)
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What has happened to the ./ effect here, people? Their FTP server has max. 512 users, and I got through?? :P
We've got to try harder!
I can attest to this, after a (laughable) attempt to dual-boot RedHat6.0 and Windows95 unceremoniously dumped me into a shell prompt (or whatever the jargon for it is). I suppose playing around with no GUI would've been fun, that is if Windows hadn't stopped working...
Anyway, new users are all-important, and while I was competent enough to get it working in the end, grandma would probably be overwhelmed if she had to make user accounts and delete lock files (or whatever) to get Netscape to work, when all she wanted was to check her email.
Strange, but I can watch something like Schindler's List or another movie that uses violence and swearing to make a point.
I can see where the creativity is in South Park with some of the situations, but I can't enjoy it because matt & Trey seem intent on ruining it.
A lot of its rabid fans (and a lot of /. posters, too, apparently) have trouble understanding that a few unlucky people like me just don't enjoy humour served that way.
I can understand about the quality of slashdot posts declining if all we're going to get is one-sided bashing.
USENET was quite fun, but I suppose most users now can accomplish their needs for communication through ICQ, or Quake or something.
USENET won't die, but having it fade away is a bit sadder..
"Fist prost"?
"That sucks"?
That's the funnest thing I've heard all day! What a stereotypical AC post!
Golddang it, I like PCs, but when you need to do graphics or 3D stuff, Apples are looking pretty good...
Well, what is free speech and what is breaking the law? /* at the beginning?
If comments inside the code are free speech, would the whole shebang qualify as free speech if we added a little
Maybe not, but it's an idea.
The Game Boy was outdated before the first day it went on sale. Had it not gotten such great 3rd party support, the little guy would've died long ago, but it continues to sell because it simply has the games that people want to play.
As pointed out earlier, it's not entirely certain that the GPL couldn't use a bit of reworking to fix that 'paradox' deal.
- Plus, I think it's fairly safe to say that a lot is riding on how Corel does in the Linux world- we can be sure many other companies are watching this, a bit hesitant on whether to jump on the wagon or not. Will they look kindly upon developing distributions (maybe even software) if Corel gets torn to pieces by holy soldiers of the GPL?
Just a thought.
I also think it's a big advantage to include all that fancy extra stuff, but the team can't forgot what a lot of the public excitement was about: a really small and fast browser. (Maybe we'll even get some more people IRC'ing. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know.)