How have they "excelled" at blogging? All they did was buy out Pyra Labs and Blogger came along for the ride. That's true for a lot of their products (or components thereof).
Political contributions are not the same as "bribing judges". Perhaps you'd like to make the same assertions about Google and IBM. Or any other corporation for that matter.
doesn't mean we're all idiots
If you are indeed trying to convince someone that Microsoft is "bribing" judges or politicians based on what's in that link of yours, as opposed to playing the lobbying game the same way everybody else does, then I'd have to disagree with that.
It is a well-known fact that the only two things that can damage a Model M are a Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 and a tyrannosaurus rex with a shoulder-mounted particle beam. So I wouldn't worry about it.
This continuous need to overplay and exaggerate meaningless statistical points has always been puzzling to me. Firefox is clearly (subjectively and otherwise) superior to IE6 and 7 in most aspects. Why the desperation? It's dumb and it detracts from the project's real achievements.
Please don't use your sockpuppets to reply to me. It's not my fault that all of your accounts can only post twice a day. You should have thought about that before you started running around Slashdot shilling your own comments with twelve accounts or however many you have now.
The thing that bothers me is the lack of a crater or rim. The impact would have to have happened when Mars was much more geologically active than it is now, thus erasing the hypothetical rim.
I read about the simulations but they seem too dependent on everything happening so perfectly. A few more mega joules and you slag the planet, and a few less and you don't get the effect. At that scale the odds of that exact event happening don't seem very good. The simulations merely prove that it's possible - I just don't think it's particularly feasible.
The only reason that works on GAH/Linsux* is because you get all your software from a centralized location using distro-specific install scripts. The day you get Corel to port their software, do you think they're going to ask Ubuntu for permission to include their software in their repository? No, they're not. And because KDE changes pretty much every major version, a previous version of Corel software that worked great because it installed itself under "Graphics" will be out of place because someone at KDE decided to include "large graphics apps" under the "Productivity" menu and so on. And good luck getting Adobe to name their icon using some generic label like "PDF Reader".
The menu approach has been broken since Apple came up with the Finder. It's not uncommon to see a Start menu in Windows XP that fills up the entire screen when deployed, because people can't be bothered to organize it. I always move things under generic folders I keep, like "Tools", "Games" and "Applications", but I'm the exception and hardly the rule. Microsoft understands this, which is why they came up with the MRU list in the XP start menu, which works fairly well. As for the "I don't know what Corel does and I'm confused" argument, assuming I didn't just finish installing Corel DRAW to begin with, at least the XP start menu highlights new entries and tells you something was installed.
The Vista start menu is another attempt to make the (still broken) menu approach work, which sort of works because all you have to do is type a few characters of the thing you're looking for and it will find it. It's a power user's dream but I'm not sure if it's at all beneficial for normal ones. I think that whole paradigm is starting to reach the end of the line. Maybe Windows 7 will have something new, who knows. And I'm sure KDE and GNOME will copy it immediately as well.
Also, can you elaborate on the "mindless changes and permutations" thing? It seems to me that other than the MRU list in XP and the quick find functionality in Vista, the Windows start menu has hardly changed at all since 1995.
The only thing worse is DRM
I'm sorry, I don't understand this or what it has to do with the subject. Can you elaborate?
When you combine that with all of the different default locations for finding programs or saving files
There is default location per user. Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you actually used Windows?
you end up what Bill Gates described.
What Bill Gates described was a problem with finding something in the Microsoft.com download area, and something to do with the Add/Remove programs. Did you read the email at all?
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* I'm sure you don't mind me calling it "GAH/Linsux", or something silly like that. Right? After all, you do the "M$ Windoze" thing very naturally. I'd normally avoid that kind of infantile approach to trying to call attention to myself, but I'll humour you.
If you didn't happen to have said the same thing five years ago, I'd be inclined to take you seriously, even with the creative spelling and obvious name troll complete with links to my comments.
Oh, and here's a clickable link to your sig URL. Really twitter, if you need help figuring out how to create an anchor tag in HTML, let me know.
But I was at the airport this morning dropping off a friend who was getting on a US Airways flight to the States. It turns out that you now have to pay $25 for the second check-in bag, where before both were free of charge as long as they were under 50lb.
The more the goddamn airlines nickel and dime us to death, the less we'll fly, and the less money they'll make. Hello vicious circle. And screw the damn airlines. I haven't enjoyed getting on a plane since the early 80s when I proudly flew Braniff...
Sybase has no ownership of the code they licensed to Microsoft, nor does Microsoft have any stake or ownership in Sybase's current products. The purchase of the old Sybase code was a one-time deal with no future involvement or collaboration clauses whatsoever. Microsoft just took a snapshot of the Sybase code along with technical documentation, and that was it.
And I'd challenge your claim that Sybase is doing badly. I'm not seeing that out there, especially in the OLAP niche where they are cleaning Microsoft's clock left and right.
Hahah, oh my god twitter, you're such a riot. But hey, pretty soon all your sockpuppets will be at negative karma, and who knows? Maybe you'll learn that having conversations with yourself on a public forum is not healthy.
Probably not though. After all, all those people are still the same infantile moron.
It was not good enough for them to answer him in an open way
Discarding your paranoid fantasies of my employment by Microsoft, it's important to note that for years you were called once and again on the lies and fabrications you post to Slashdot, and all you did was insult everyone that questioned your righteousness, or simply try to ignore anything that made you uncomfortable. If anyone wants proof of this outside of Slashdot all they need to look at is this. You never did reply to Bruce Byfield there, did you? Of course not, because he ripped you a new one.
It's always the same, except that now you have to add the "I have no sockpuppets" byline.
he would have been spared the trouble if he had the skill and nerve to use GNU/Linux
Riiight, which is why you were rightfully modded down as the troll you are, "freenix".
I then gave some solid reasons for being allowed to do so.
The "you've never had a real job at a real company" thing repeated by all these people is not sinking in, is it.
because people like you feel threatened by people like me
Hahaha! I dare say it works the other way around, twitter. Most people can dismiss mindless extremism like yours offhand, but have a hard time doing the same to well-reasoned arguments.
and say bad things
It's weird that you are not 13 years old. Has anyone else ever said that to you? If they have, you should be worried.
Slashdot Mirror
How have they "excelled" at blogging? All they did was buy out Pyra Labs and Blogger came along for the ride. That's true for a lot of their products (or components thereof).
Political contributions are not the same as "bribing judges". Perhaps you'd like to make the same assertions about Google and IBM. Or any other corporation for that matter.
If you are indeed trying to convince someone that Microsoft is "bribing" judges or politicians based on what's in that link of yours, as opposed to playing the lobbying game the same way everybody else does, then I'd have to disagree with that.
It is a well-known fact that the only two things that can damage a Model M are a Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 and a tyrannosaurus rex with a shoulder-mounted particle beam. So I wouldn't worry about it.
I love that someone actually modded your post down as "flamebait". The Slashbots never cease to amaze me.
Cite please?
How am I not "letting you forget" again?
This continuous need to overplay and exaggerate meaningless statistical points has always been puzzling to me. Firefox is clearly (subjectively and otherwise) superior to IE6 and 7 in most aspects. Why the desperation? It's dumb and it detracts from the project's real achievements.
You can't even lie correctly anymore.
Please don't use your sockpuppets to reply to me. It's not my fault that all of your accounts can only post twice a day. You should have thought about that before you started running around Slashdot shilling your own comments with twelve accounts or however many you have now.
I read about the simulations but they seem too dependent on everything happening so perfectly. A few more mega joules and you slag the planet, and a few less and you don't get the effect. At that scale the odds of that exact event happening don't seem very good. The simulations merely prove that it's possible - I just don't think it's particularly feasible.
The menu approach has been broken since Apple came up with the Finder. It's not uncommon to see a Start menu in Windows XP that fills up the entire screen when deployed, because people can't be bothered to organize it. I always move things under generic folders I keep, like "Tools", "Games" and "Applications", but I'm the exception and hardly the rule. Microsoft understands this, which is why they came up with the MRU list in the XP start menu, which works fairly well. As for the "I don't know what Corel does and I'm confused" argument, assuming I didn't just finish installing Corel DRAW to begin with, at least the XP start menu highlights new entries and tells you something was installed.
The Vista start menu is another attempt to make the (still broken) menu approach work, which sort of works because all you have to do is type a few characters of the thing you're looking for and it will find it. It's a power user's dream but I'm not sure if it's at all beneficial for normal ones. I think that whole paradigm is starting to reach the end of the line. Maybe Windows 7 will have something new, who knows. And I'm sure KDE and GNOME will copy it immediately as well.
Also, can you elaborate on the "mindless changes and permutations" thing? It seems to me that other than the MRU list in XP and the quick find functionality in Vista, the Windows start menu has hardly changed at all since 1995.
I'm sorry, I don't understand this or what it has to do with the subject. Can you elaborate?
There is default location per user. Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you actually used Windows?
What Bill Gates described was a problem with finding something in the Microsoft.com download area, and something to do with the Add/Remove programs. Did you read the email at all?
* I'm sure you don't mind me calling it "GAH/Linsux", or something silly like that. Right? After all, you do the "M$ Windoze" thing very naturally. I'd normally avoid that kind of infantile approach to trying to call attention to myself, but I'll humour you.
An impact in that scale would have surely destroyed the entire planet.
I'd rather they tell me upfront and add it to the cost of the ticket than nail me when I'm at the counter.
Oh, and here's a clickable link to your sig URL. Really twitter, if you need help figuring out how to create an anchor tag in HTML, let me know.
The more the goddamn airlines nickel and dime us to death, the less we'll fly, and the less money they'll make. Hello vicious circle. And screw the damn airlines. I haven't enjoyed getting on a plane since the early 80s when I proudly flew Braniff...
And I'd challenge your claim that Sybase is doing badly. I'm not seeing that out there, especially in the OLAP niche where they are cleaning Microsoft's clock left and right.
twitter, is it safe to assume that proof of your claim that Microsoft is somehow involved in this will be forthcoming?
Probably not though. After all, all those people are still the same infantile moron.
Discarding your paranoid fantasies of my employment by Microsoft, it's important to note that for years you were called once and again on the lies and fabrications you post to Slashdot, and all you did was insult everyone that questioned your righteousness, or simply try to ignore anything that made you uncomfortable. If anyone wants proof of this outside of Slashdot all they need to look at is this. You never did reply to Bruce Byfield there, did you? Of course not, because he ripped you a new one.
It's always the same, except that now you have to add the "I have no sockpuppets" byline.
You kid, but I've known "project managers" who have been hired solely on their ability to move little bars around in MS Project.
Like "developers" who are hired (or used to be hired) based on their acumen with HTML, these are the people who give the profession a bad rap.
twitter, please tell us what this place "stands for". Please, I'd love to hear it from you.
Riiight, which is why you were rightfully modded down as the troll you are, "freenix".
The "you've never had a real job at a real company" thing repeated by all these people is not sinking in, is it.
Hahaha! I dare say it works the other way around, twitter. Most people can dismiss mindless extremism like yours offhand, but have a hard time doing the same to well-reasoned arguments.
It's weird that you are not 13 years old. Has anyone else ever said that to you? If they have, you should be worried.
You really are so far gone that you don't see the problem with what you're saying here.
Here's a clickable link for the URL in your sig, twitter. That's so anyone who is interested can easily click on it and read it.