1. Slashdot posts a story about developers who use Microsoft
2. Someone replies saying they use Microsoft..
3. Everyone on slashdot goes berserk, accuses poster of being a troll, shill or whatever.
I know the majority of people on slashdot feel that using Microsoft products is about on a par with raping baby pandas, but the fact is that there are a lot of people who write Windows software and use Microsoft software to do it, and they're not being forced to do so at gunpoint. So what else do you expect them to say? "I write Windows software, but it it is all total crap and I would stop tomorrow if only they released my wife and children ?
The lesson I got from Jurassic Park was - Don't clone the meat eaters. Brontosuars and Siplodocis may not be as excitinfg as T-Rex, bit they won't eat you.
is a fucking ratbag who is wealthy enough for the fucking idiots of the media to hang off his every word. He was even given the title of "a queensland gem" or some such utter crap, probably because he is a fat ugly cunt with money and an ego to match.
Stop beating around the bush and tell us what you really think of him.
Nevertheless, if I were a billionaire intent on blowing money, I could think of worse ways to spend it than a dinosaur hunting expedition to Antarctica.
I think I'd have to get tired of coke-fuelled orgies with a few dozen of my favourite pornstars first, but each to his own.
Nope. I own a B&N Nook and a HP tablet, both running hacked up Android. This level of tech is not only for "neck-beards". My mom uses a hacked HP. If she can figure it out then anyone can!
What's the point of "hacking up" Android if you're just going to watch YouTube videos on it like everyone else does?
Oh, let me guess, your Android tablet is in act used to remotely control the nuclear power station where you are Chief (Imaginary) Operating Officer.
I still don't get the idea of a pen-based or touch-based laptop.
It's simple: capacitative touchscreens are the work of the devil. They are slow and unwieldly and inaccurate and frustrating and annoying.
A device for looking at pictures or playing videos isn't a computer. Personally, I find those electronic photoframes easier to navigate than a fucking iPad.
I'm with you all the way on the stylus. I'd much rather have a stylus than a bastard capacitative touch screen which gets smudgy as fuck and has the precision of a brick in a sock.
Not the one that really counts: the iPad 3 has a 9.7-inch screen with a 2048x1536 resolution (264 ppi), while the Nexus 7 has a 7-inch screen with a 1280x800 resolution (216 ppi).
You realize most people aren't even going to be able to tell the difference between 216 and 264 ppi? And i'll bet it didn't really 'count' before the ipad3, it certainly hasn't been a driver in the PC market either and now all of a sudden it's the be all and end all to have the highest pixel density!
I'm reminded of the digital camera megapixel gold rush a few years ago. Never mind that your camera had a tiny plastic lens and was made out of milk carton quality materials, as long as it had +1m more megapixels than another camera it had to be better.
Incidentally, now that the cameras in smartphones are better quality than 99% of people need, I assume the whole market for cheap digital cameras has evaporated except for throwaway priced kids' cameras?
1280x880 resolution is fine on a 10 inch screen, never mind a 7 inch.
You're basically using it to look at pix and videos. I don't care if you've got a 20 inch screen with 4096 x 3072 resolution, the YouTube vid your friend links to from facebook is not going to look any better.
But that raises the obvious question: why would home/casual users want to choose the Surface over the iPad?
Speaking personally, the answer would be "because it's not made by fucking Apple" which I don't suppose is going to down too well in the apple.slahdot.org section.
LOL only old people use desktops, us young hipsters don't want to carry like a big old-fashioned TV down to the coffee shop on the back of our electric Vespas.
Sharing is how we're able to make awesome ideas become a reality so quickly these days.
And sharing money around is how we could make the awesome idea of true liberty, equality, fraternity work.
But in the last forty years, Western society has moved back towards the false idols of selfishness and the love of money.
I don't care how cool smartphones are, as a sign of true awesomeness they lag far behind the geniuses who first thought up the National Health Service.
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1. Slashdot posts a story about developers who use Microsoft
2. Someone replies saying they use Microsoft..
3. Everyone on slashdot goes berserk, accuses poster of being a troll, shill or whatever.
I know the majority of people on slashdot feel that using Microsoft products is about on a par with raping baby pandas, but the fact is that there are a lot of people who write Windows software and use Microsoft software to do it, and they're not being forced to do so at gunpoint. So what else do you expect them to say? "I write Windows software, but it it is all total crap and I would stop tomorrow if only they released my wife and children ?
Make something really good and you will get paid.
Most people who play Angry Birds haven't paid a penny for it.
Just because one uses Apple, does not mean they are gay. They are predominately metrosexual. There's a difference.
Yes, the difference is that there is no such thing as a metrosexual. You're either gay or bi.. One or the other.
How can this be flamebait in a thread about Windows developers?
It has been pointed out many times here that there is no "-1 I disagree with your opinion" moderation option.
The lesson I got from Jurassic Park was - Don't clone the meat eaters. Brontosuars and Siplodocis may not be as excitinfg as T-Rex, bit they won't eat you.
The lesson I got was that nature will find a way.
Imagine a Brontosaurus gone man-eater!
is a fucking ratbag who is wealthy enough for the fucking idiots of the media to hang off his every word. He was even given the title of "a queensland gem" or some such utter crap, probably because he is a fat ugly cunt with money and an ego to match.
Stop beating around the bush and tell us what you really think of him.
Does anyone have an update as to how the Titanic project is now doing?
Sunk without trace.
Nevertheless, if I were a billionaire intent on blowing money, I could think of worse ways to spend it than a dinosaur hunting expedition to Antarctica.
I think I'd have to get tired of coke-fuelled orgies with a few dozen of my favourite pornstars first, but each to his own.
It's not the scientists who cause the problem in Jurassic Park, it's the selfish, money-obsessed fat-arsed geek who fucks everything up.
But I can see why most slashdotters would not like this interpretation.
P.S. MS has re-branded the giant table product as "PixelSense".
Might as well have called it PixieDust, it's got about the same likelihood of ever appearing in shops.
Nope. I own a B&N Nook and a HP tablet, both running hacked up Android. This level of tech is not only for "neck-beards". My mom uses a hacked HP. If she can figure it out then anyone can!
What's the point of "hacking up" Android if you're just going to watch YouTube videos on it like everyone else does?
Oh, let me guess, your Android tablet is in act used to remotely control the nuclear power station where you are Chief (Imaginary) Operating Officer.
I still don't get the idea of a pen-based or touch-based laptop.
It's simple: capacitative touchscreens are the work of the devil. They are slow and unwieldly and inaccurate and frustrating and annoying.
A device for looking at pictures or playing videos isn't a computer. Personally, I find those electronic photoframes easier to navigate than a fucking iPad.
No problem, just as long as you end up with the right one...
For "right one" you can presumably read "expensive one".
I'm with you all the way on the stylus. I'd much rather have a stylus than a bastard capacitative touch screen which gets smudgy as fuck and has the precision of a brick in a sock.
Not the one that really counts: the iPad 3 has a 9.7-inch screen with a 2048x1536 resolution (264 ppi), while the Nexus 7 has a 7-inch screen with a 1280x800 resolution (216 ppi).
You realize most people aren't even going to be able to tell the difference between 216 and 264 ppi? And i'll bet it didn't really 'count' before the ipad3, it certainly hasn't been a driver in the PC market either and now all of a sudden it's the be all and end all to have the highest pixel density!
I'm reminded of the digital camera megapixel gold rush a few years ago. Never mind that your camera had a tiny plastic lens and was made out of milk carton quality materials, as long as it had +1m more megapixels than another camera it had to be better.
Incidentally, now that the cameras in smartphones are better quality than 99% of people need, I assume the whole market for cheap digital cameras has evaporated except for throwaway priced kids' cameras?
1280x880 resolution is fine on a 10 inch screen, never mind a 7 inch.
You're basically using it to look at pix and videos. I don't care if you've got a 20 inch screen with 4096 x 3072 resolution, the YouTube vid your friend links to from facebook is not going to look any better.
But that raises the obvious question: why would home/casual users want to choose the Surface over the iPad?
Speaking personally, the answer would be "because it's not made by fucking Apple" which I don't suppose is going to down too well in the apple.slahdot.org section.
If you make equal bets on every space in roulette, you're guaranteed to lose.
Yes, but you're guaranteed to not lose everything.
So why the fuck is this under apple.slashdot.org? Maybe it's time for /. to be slightly less biased and add a ms.slashdot.org?
You're a funny guy. Have a cigar.
LOL only old people use desktops, us young hipsters don't want to carry like a big old-fashioned TV down to the coffee shop on the back of our electric Vespas.
does anyone even believe there is going to be people queuing up to get a surface? not like they did to get an ipad for sure!
course there are those shills who spend their time wanking to ballmer's photo, those will be seen right there, like a damn gay parade.
Talk about people in glass houses not throwing stones...
An Apple fanboy using being gay and a member of a personality cult as an insult? Priceless.
Sigh.
"Hear, hear!"
Not:
"Here, here"
Where?
There, there.
Or my favorite "it comes with office", because that is really a fun factor... .
This may come as a surprise but businesses are not about fun.
The fact that Microsoft's tablet will come with Office IS a big deal to a lot of businesses.
I'm not saying this is good, only that it is the case.
Sharing is how we're able to make awesome ideas become a reality so quickly these days.
And sharing money around is how we could make the awesome idea of true liberty, equality, fraternity work.
But in the last forty years, Western society has moved back towards the false idols of selfishness and the love of money.
I don't care how cool smartphones are, as a sign of true awesomeness they lag far behind the geniuses who first thought up the National Health Service.
Certainly even Window's has done away with the reboot anytime you install anything mentality by now, right?
Wrong.