What in christ does that have to do with anything?
By the way twitter, your website is terrible. Making people download 4 50kb images on your wife's splash page? Are you completely unable to compress your graphics in any way or just insane? I count well over 200kb worth of photos on your homepage alone, including one 100kb image. ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS?
I don't mind the MySpace design TBH, but that's just my opinion. And individual user's profiles aren't MySpace's fault, it's that user's. My profile is just plain, no styling done, but if you so wanted you could have fluffy animated shit or whatever...and if people want that on their profiles, it's their choice. It reflects their personality in one way or another, something you would obviously want on a personal profile.
That's no reason to blame MySpace. By the same token, MySpace users could say that Slashdot's either full of egotistical nerds or people with delusions of knowledgability...
For the purposes of myself (who at first just wanted to play sudoku at WebSudoku...) and others in my class at college (who wanted MySpace) I set up a CGIproxy on my webspace. A few months later, it had to be removed; for a start, because even when password-protected, the thing sucked up about 50% of the CPU time on the (shared) server on which it was located. In the end me and my classmates were a minority, it was mostly others using it (I did get a very nice email from a US Marine in Iraq asking for the password... I wasn't horrible enough to say no:) I kinda pity the people who do the same thing, set up a proxy for their own personal use and watch it get used by just about everyone and their dog.
http://www.hillnotes.net/ is his website, found through either an old Slashdot comment or a mailing list post on a local LUG of his, I forget which. It seems to check out; he talks often about his wife and four year old and BAM there they are; not to mention he slates Cox Cable for being against sharing (i.e limiting port 80), which sounds enough like him.:)
I just love it when he calls me stalker, really. All this info is publicly available, and he uploaded that pic himself. If I was calling him at his house or workplace or whatever, he might have a point, but I wouldn't take it that far (I mean, it's just Slashdot, I don't HATE the guy, I just think he's a prick and he makes me laugh my ass off.)
No. That would confuse people, and the utmost aim of Ubuntu is for normal people who aren't devs to use it as easily as they possibly can. If they had optional CDs, people would fret over not having them/whether they need them and download them. Bam, wasted bandwidth for all concerned. Again, Ubuntu isn't aimed at developers and has no need to pander to them. It's aimed at desktop and corporate users.
BTW, Ubuntu has its own server CD seperate from the desktop one, which avoids the "should I get this/that" problem.
Wrong. If Linux would standardise a simple kernel API for drivers, something which seems to change based on what the kernel devs feel like, binary modules would work like a charm. Sadly, there's no sign of that happening any time soon.
Ubuntu isn't aimed at developers, it's aimed at people who would probably not know what a compiler is and would definitely have no need for one. Like others have said, there's nothing stopping you from just getting dev tools manually. It would just be a silly thing for Ubuntu to offer to novice users, especially when the install packages have to fit onto a single CD.
Double standards then? It's in the OSX EULA, IIRC (god my head hurts from those acronyms now). Quite explicitly, OSX has to run on Apple branded hardware. If Microsoft did such a thing you'd be screaming from the fucking rooftops. Don't try and claim ignorance, it's a well known fact.
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you sure seem to do a lot of thinking about his wife.
:)
Yeah...she gives me nightmares.
Both run Debian.
What in christ does that have to do with anything?
By the way twitter, your website is terrible. Making people download 4 50kb images on your wife's splash page? Are you completely unable to compress your graphics in any way or just insane? I count well over 200kb worth of photos on your homepage alone, including one 100kb image. ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS?
Most commercial websites "code for IE" only and therefore force it's customer base to have IE wether they want it or not.
I've not seen a page that's done this in years. Companies these days are far more aware of the use of non-IE browsers.
Stop making me agree with you.
This is a CGIproxy intended for use at a college that blocks SSH connections, and indeed anything outside ports 80 and 443. Wouldn't work.
Point taken. However, Rupert Murdoch isn't in any way responsible for much on the site, considering it's a very recent acquisition.
See, my college LIKED the proxy and told everyone the address and password. Probably explains a lot. :)
I don't mind the MySpace design TBH, but that's just my opinion. And individual user's profiles aren't MySpace's fault, it's that user's. My profile is just plain, no styling done, but if you so wanted you could have fluffy animated shit or whatever...and if people want that on their profiles, it's their choice. It reflects their personality in one way or another, something you would obviously want on a personal profile.
That's no reason to blame MySpace. By the same token, MySpace users could say that Slashdot's either full of egotistical nerds or people with delusions of knowledgability...
seriously myspace is worse than microsoft!
Why? Just, why?
For the purposes of myself (who at first just wanted to play sudoku at WebSudoku...) and others in my class at college (who wanted MySpace) I set up a CGIproxy on my webspace. A few months later, it had to be removed; for a start, because even when password-protected, the thing sucked up about 50% of the CPU time on the (shared) server on which it was located. In the end me and my classmates were a minority, it was mostly others using it (I did get a very nice email from a US Marine in Iraq asking for the password... I wasn't horrible enough to say no :) I kinda pity the people who do the same thing, set up a proxy for their own personal use and watch it get used by just about everyone and their dog.
free software like the Gimp and Unreal Tournament
Since when was UT free in any sense of the word?
They tend to go hand in hand. :)
(Seriously, my bad.)
I'll cheer the day their CEO dies, and may even travel to Japam to piss on his grave.
All a little harsh for some software, don'tcha think?
24/7? Pah. With Cher, I think it would take 12 or so seconds before I went postal and murdered everyone.
No, the only thing keeping the above from working is ECONOMICS AND FUCKING COMMON SENSE.
I completely agree. They never fail to make me spit coffee all over everything through laughing so goddamn hard.
My point was you can buy CDs (and rip them) and not get rooted. It's not an either-or thing as the pro-piracy crowd like to make out. :)
That said, most of my music collection isn't copy controlled; the few CC CDs I have were painless to rip.
http://www.hillnotes.net/ is his website, found through either an old Slashdot comment or a mailing list post on a local LUG of his, I forget which. It seems to check out; he talks often about his wife and four year old and BAM there they are; not to mention he slates Cox Cable for being against sharing (i.e limiting port 80), which sounds enough like him. :)
I just love it when he calls me stalker, really. All this info is publicly available, and he uploaded that pic himself. If I was calling him at his house or workplace or whatever, he might have a point, but I wouldn't take it that far (I mean, it's just Slashdot, I don't HATE the guy, I just think he's a prick and he makes me laugh my ass off.)
No. That would confuse people, and the utmost aim of Ubuntu is for normal people who aren't devs to use it as easily as they possibly can. If they had optional CDs, people would fret over not having them/whether they need them and download them. Bam, wasted bandwidth for all concerned. Again, Ubuntu isn't aimed at developers and has no need to pander to them. It's aimed at desktop and corporate users.
BTW, Ubuntu has its own server CD seperate from the desktop one, which avoids the "should I get this/that" problem.
And who needs all of the features of MS Office?
Translation: "I don't need all the features of MS Office, so nobody else does either."
Wrong. If Linux would standardise a simple kernel API for drivers, something which seems to change based on what the kernel devs feel like, binary modules would work like a charm. Sadly, there's no sign of that happening any time soon.
Ubuntu isn't aimed at developers, it's aimed at people who would probably not know what a compiler is and would definitely have no need for one. Like others have said, there's nothing stopping you from just getting dev tools manually. It would just be a silly thing for Ubuntu to offer to novice users, especially when the install packages have to fit onto a single CD.
I own about 150 CDs and exactly 0 rootkits. Your point?
Double standards then? It's in the OSX EULA, IIRC (god my head hurts from those acronyms now). Quite explicitly, OSX has to run on Apple branded hardware. If Microsoft did such a thing you'd be screaming from the fucking rooftops. Don't try and claim ignorance, it's a well known fact.