The quality on YouTube varies wildly because of the sheer number of videos on there. Some are pretty good and some are really bad. Google Video on the other hand has far less content (and far less interesting content, AFAIC) and maybe on average the people who upload to it tend to have higher-quality original material.
I rarely care about the quality on YouTube. After all, if I'm looking at an 80s commercial I haven't seen in 20+ years I don't expect HD quality. The obscure cool stuff is why I find YouTube compelling, not the "lonelygirl15"-like crap. YouTube is to video what Napster was to music in the early 00s. It's the most amazing collection of obscure crap you thought you had forgotten or really never thought you'd find. I really like it.
What an ignorant flame disguised as a thoughtful and informed reflection
I don't know exactly how you expect to get this to stick, here. Anyone can read the parent post and figure out that there's nothing there that constitutes a "flame". Do you figure someone will look at the jumble of important-sounding words and poetic phrases like "Non free software is the dead hand of the past clinging to control" and go wow, this guy deserves to be modded up? I simply don't understand what else you could possibly be expecting.
Do posts like these infuriate you? They obviously do. Do they not meet your standards for sufficient pointless Microsoft bashing or requirement for unequivocal adoration of free software based on ideology rather than technical merit and practicality? If that's the case, you really need to think about why you post here. You seem to take it very seriously and dedicate large amounts of time to it (6,000+ posts) yet usually just go about it all wrong.
You know, maybe you should start paying attention to the advocacy post that seems to follow you around. Hyperbole and mischaracterizations (not to mention that childish "M$" thing that seems to get you off) help absolutely no one, especially yourself. More importantly, understand that there are people who will disagree with you, and they have as much a right to post on Slashdot as you do. It's unsettling to see someone who takes someone else's opinion as a personal insult. That always reminds me of people like Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh.
You know, I thought about the same thing when Microsoft was forced to unbundle WMP from XP. I mean, one of the first things I do when I set up a new XP box is install Winamp. I never use WMP. Yet in their infinite wisdom, the EU decided that I was being "harmed" because RealAudio can't convince people to download their spyware vehicle enough to make a profit. And that cost Microsoft a good couple of billion.
If they had been serious about controlling Microsoft they would have gone after the unholy PC maker/Microsoft alliance. But no, that would probably have affected more European companies. So, we have Windows XP N. I for one find it hilarious that pretty much the same demographic that whines about government involvement in their lives were more than happy to see Microsoft get the shaft. Whatever makes you tick, I guess.
These things have a root in protectionism, as always. Europeans just love to dilute markets enough through regulation that consumers end up with less and no one makes any money. The idea that people would go to another player/music service out of choice because they have realized that DRM is bad for them is completely foreign to our pseudosocialist European friends. Competition is good only as long as the they have control over it.
No, I am not "overly defensive". Look through twitter's posting history. He in on record stating that the Xbox is "shit" and a "failure", and he would like nothing more than for "everyone" to stop using XBox and go to PS3. Not because of the relative technical merits of the platforms (to your point), but because he "hates" Microsoft. Or "M$", as he likes to call them.
As far as twitter is concerned, choice and competition are good as long as "M$" isn't involved.
And to answer your point, I don't think one platform will become dominant. Microsoft does not have the same (unfair) leverages here they have on the PC platform, and even though they might have some technical advantages, Nintendo and Sony have the brand and game ecosystems to gain enough counterbalance. So I think they'll continue to compete in a level playing field, and that's good for everyone.
But of course twitter can't deal with that concept. His infantile hatred of "M$" dictates that he must find a way to wax poetic about how we are all blind to their "technical inferiority".
Only twitter can take an article that commends Microsoft and criticizes Sony into a "praise of M$" one-liner and "wow, the PS3 is cool". It just hurts like hell, doesn't it twitter?
but that doesn't mean he has any influence over how the entire computer club organises itself and its internet connection.
I don't give a fuck what the relationship is. You really don't grok this, do you? I mean, you're not acting like a retarded calf on purpose? As far as I care, if he is associated with a website running "M$ Windoze" then he's not being true to his purported infantile dogma of not installing "M$ junk". Why don't you write that down a few hundred times with a crayon on a big piece of paper. That helps sometimes.
Now do me a favor and go fuck yourself with the sharpest rusted farm implement you can find.
Are you telling me that they purposefully go out of their way to make awful, cluttered, unreadable MySpace pages, where the graphics and the links to not match up, where some buttons are just impossible to press, with thumping rap music?
That's my take. Surely MySpace allows anyone to design their web pages in many ways, so the fact that *so many* of them suck twelve ways from Sunday is an indication that such "design" is a choice, and not a directive. I'm sure they have templates, and the templates cater to different "tastes", but I'd be surprised if MySpace doesn't let you create a simple page, regardless of whether or not it passes the W3C validator.
Blogo ergo sum, that's what these people like and enjoy.
ROFLMAO! Are you serious? WTF? What the hell is the difference if clickers.org and lists.clickers.org are hosted in two different cities or two different countries? Do you not understand the concept of pointing out that 'twitter' here can blabber about "M$" 24/7 and then happily make use of a domain that is run from a Windows (or "Windoze" as he calls it) box? Hell, you know what? Here's a page on clickers.org that points back to the other domain, and even has twitter's real name (or so I understand) on it. There, happy? You really should work on your reading comprehension.
Every single time I see a MySpace "analysis" there's that snide, bloghorati uber-alles comment about "web standards" and "lack of design". Holy crap. I am no fan of MySpace, but at least I'm mature enough to realize that people (normal people) don't give a dead rat's ass about CSS, DOM, XHTML, microformats, "mashups" or any of that other stuff that the self-appointed standards nannies of teh interwebs have decided everyone should observe closely or face death. A standardized and structured semantic web space is important, but please rent a fucking clue. They don't care. MySpace is never going to fix something that in their opinion is quite certainly not broken, because their users love it, and they get to dance with it all the way to the bank.
Just fucking deal with it and stop pointing out that ==--~~L0N3rz1124~~--=='s blog does not validate. We know, and they don't give a shit.
The first time I ever read a post by twitter I swear to God I thought he was kidding. I didn't understand how Slashbork worked very well, but after I read though his posting history I remember thinking that no one could think that way. More importantly, no one could possibly express themselves that way. No way. I thought maybe he was some sort of troll, or someone who wanted to discredit people who dislike Microsoft.
I guess for him that's the same thing as that old joke about a woman being described as the "ugliest transvestite in the world".
You really opened my eyes up to the wonder of DNS. Now if you don't mind, I'll nitpick that as much as I fucking want. Apparently 'twitter' failed to follow his own rule of not letting friends install "M$ junk".
Definitely tell them - in a nice, constructive way - that they sucked. Just do it afterwards, in a post-interview follow up email. You should always do this anyway, as it is the right thing to do. Even if they simply weren't a fit for the job and didn't necessarily suck. But don't do it immediately after the interview.
When I was starting out I would have appreciated employers contacting me after an interview and telling me "you're good, but you got to get better at X and Y". I do the same now every time I go through a hiring cycle. I've found that most developers (that's who I hire, obviously) are by and large grateful at you for doing that. There's always going to be the occasional dick that replies with "well fuck you I didn't want to work at your stupid company anyway", but I could really care less.
Contradicted and confirmed, that's how it is with buggy shit.
Wow, that's rich. When you're proved wrong, the only thing you can do is drop to the floor and dribble foam. And you wonder why people call you on your bullshit.
Hate? No, more like contempt. Maybe pity. Hate I reserve for things that are important. You are not - not even remotely.
Given your tenacity
Yes, I spend all my waking hours on Slashdot, replying to you.
When others use terms like "godawful"
Maybe there's a reason. It does not give you a license to insult. Why don't you address my point instead of whining like a child about how unfair it is that people reply to you?
By the way, to repeat myself, you should really find another link to "prove" that I'm "stalking you". It makes you look even more ridiculous, if that is at all possible.
I don't play games on Linux (duh), but I think the nVidia drivers I've used so far in RedHat/Fedora are perfectly acceptable. As long as they give me the resolution I want and are stable, I'm jiggy. No worse and no better than any other driver I've used in Windows (not including when actually playing games, of course). I don't think nVidia will ever open up their code, and I think that's a "problem" the GPL crowd will probably have to live with unless they start making their own hardware. I realize there are issues with binary blobs in an OS like Linux, but I think most people can live with them. They seem to, so far.
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We're ALL sockpuppets of Steve Ballmer!!1! =)
Thanks for linking to that again. Don't ever stop.
I rarely care about the quality on YouTube. After all, if I'm looking at an 80s commercial I haven't seen in 20+ years I don't expect HD quality. The obscure cool stuff is why I find YouTube compelling, not the "lonelygirl15"-like crap. YouTube is to video what Napster was to music in the early 00s. It's the most amazing collection of obscure crap you thought you had forgotten or really never thought you'd find. I really like it.
I don't know exactly how you expect to get this to stick, here. Anyone can read the parent post and figure out that there's nothing there that constitutes a "flame". Do you figure someone will look at the jumble of important-sounding words and poetic phrases like "Non free software is the dead hand of the past clinging to control" and go wow, this guy deserves to be modded up? I simply don't understand what else you could possibly be expecting.
Do posts like these infuriate you? They obviously do. Do they not meet your standards for sufficient pointless Microsoft bashing or requirement for unequivocal adoration of free software based on ideology rather than technical merit and practicality? If that's the case, you really need to think about why you post here. You seem to take it very seriously and dedicate large amounts of time to it (6,000+ posts) yet usually just go about it all wrong.
You know, maybe you should start paying attention to the advocacy post that seems to follow you around. Hyperbole and mischaracterizations (not to mention that childish "M$" thing that seems to get you off) help absolutely no one, especially yourself. More importantly, understand that there are people who will disagree with you, and they have as much a right to post on Slashdot as you do. It's unsettling to see someone who takes someone else's opinion as a personal insult. That always reminds me of people like Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh.
If they had been serious about controlling Microsoft they would have gone after the unholy PC maker/Microsoft alliance. But no, that would probably have affected more European companies. So, we have Windows XP N. I for one find it hilarious that pretty much the same demographic that whines about government involvement in their lives were more than happy to see Microsoft get the shaft. Whatever makes you tick, I guess.
These things have a root in protectionism, as always. Europeans just love to dilute markets enough through regulation that consumers end up with less and no one makes any money. The idea that people would go to another player/music service out of choice because they have realized that DRM is bad for them is completely foreign to our pseudosocialist European friends. Competition is good only as long as the they have control over it.
Has the molecule indicated he wants to form a union?
As far as twitter is concerned, choice and competition are good as long as "M$" isn't involved.
And to answer your point, I don't think one platform will become dominant. Microsoft does not have the same (unfair) leverages here they have on the PC platform, and even though they might have some technical advantages, Nintendo and Sony have the brand and game ecosystems to gain enough counterbalance. So I think they'll continue to compete in a level playing field, and that's good for everyone.
But of course twitter can't deal with that concept. His infantile hatred of "M$" dictates that he must find a way to wax poetic about how we are all blind to their "technical inferiority".
Only twitter can take an article that commends Microsoft and criticizes Sony into a "praise of M$" one-liner and "wow, the PS3 is cool". It just hurts like hell, doesn't it twitter?
I don't give a fuck what the relationship is. You really don't grok this, do you? I mean, you're not acting like a retarded calf on purpose? As far as I care, if he is associated with a website running "M$ Windoze" then he's not being true to his purported infantile dogma of not installing "M$ junk". Why don't you write that down a few hundred times with a crayon on a big piece of paper. That helps sometimes.
Now do me a favor and go fuck yourself with the sharpest rusted farm implement you can find.
That's my take. Surely MySpace allows anyone to design their web pages in many ways, so the fact that *so many* of them suck twelve ways from Sunday is an indication that such "design" is a choice, and not a directive. I'm sure they have templates, and the templates cater to different "tastes", but I'd be surprised if MySpace doesn't let you create a simple page, regardless of whether or not it passes the W3C validator.
Blogo ergo sum, that's what these people like and enjoy.
ROFLMAO! Are you serious? WTF? What the hell is the difference if clickers.org and lists.clickers.org are hosted in two different cities or two different countries? Do you not understand the concept of pointing out that 'twitter' here can blabber about "M$" 24/7 and then happily make use of a domain that is run from a Windows (or "Windoze" as he calls it) box? Hell, you know what? Here's a page on clickers.org that points back to the other domain, and even has twitter's real name (or so I understand) on it. There, happy? You really should work on your reading comprehension.
But that's the problem - pink twinkly pimped pages is what MySpace's user demographics enjoy. That's my point.
Just fucking deal with it and stop pointing out that ==--~~L0N3rz1124~~--=='s blog does not validate. We know, and they don't give a shit.
I guess for him that's the same thing as that old joke about a woman being described as the "ugliest transvestite in the world".
You really opened my eyes up to the wonder of DNS. Now if you don't mind, I'll nitpick that as much as I fucking want. Apparently 'twitter' failed to follow his own rule of not letting friends install "M$ junk".
It just doesn't get any better than that.
Unfortunately they got to him first.
When I was starting out I would have appreciated employers contacting me after an interview and telling me "you're good, but you got to get better at X and Y". I do the same now every time I go through a hiring cycle. I've found that most developers (that's who I hire, obviously) are by and large grateful at you for doing that. There's always going to be the occasional dick that replies with "well fuck you I didn't want to work at your stupid company anyway", but I could really care less.
And going with Apple will prevent this how?
Hookay, I can see this in my MacBook. How do you fix it manually? By resetting the permissions? Won't that break something else?
Wow, that's rich. When you're proved wrong, the only thing you can do is drop to the floor and dribble foam. And you wonder why people call you on your bullshit.
You got me there =)
Hate? No, more like contempt. Maybe pity. Hate I reserve for things that are important. You are not - not even remotely.
Yes, I spend all my waking hours on Slashdot, replying to you.
Maybe there's a reason. It does not give you a license to insult. Why don't you address my point instead of whining like a child about how unfair it is that people reply to you?
By the way, to repeat myself, you should really find another link to "prove" that I'm "stalking you". It makes you look even more ridiculous, if that is at all possible.
Yes! You know why? BECAUSE IT'S 10-BASED!!! That's why! It's natural! Unlike imperial, which is consistently inconsistent! =)
I don't play games on Linux (duh), but I think the nVidia drivers I've used so far in RedHat/Fedora are perfectly acceptable. As long as they give me the resolution I want and are stable, I'm jiggy. No worse and no better than any other driver I've used in Windows (not including when actually playing games, of course). I don't think nVidia will ever open up their code, and I think that's a "problem" the GPL crowd will probably have to live with unless they start making their own hardware. I realize there are issues with binary blobs in an OS like Linux, but I think most people can live with them. They seem to, so far.