...supporting and financing terrorism is. Not to mention violating UN resolutions. You know, remember that? The thing that got violated which gives right to invasion and disabling of Saddam? What's the point of having resolutions if nobody enforces them for a decade?
Europeans can locate things in Europe. Guess what, Europe is a collection of countries. The United States can be thought of as a group of areas as well. It's the same thing.
Europeans not knowing where Florida is is not different from knowing where Sweden is. Florida is part of the US, and Sweden is over in Europe.
Doom 3isn't an apt comparison, but you'd be offended if Christian religious chanting were used as background music in a fighting game? Are you saying Doom 3 doesn't have disembowled crucified people on upside-down crosses (it does)?
Except MSDN is clearly marked as Microsoft Developer Network.
Slashdot is billed as a "hobby" site that posts tech "news." Meanwhile, there is a company that owns it which has an incentive to use their news site to bash competitors like Microsoft.
I don't care if the grandparent believes there is no tech news or that there was bias before the buyout. Malda and the editors are OSDN employees now. I don't know about you, but the anti-Microsoft articles have *definitely* been kicked up a notch in the past few years. You used to go for days without one, and now it's about three or four a day. In fact, there is more Microsoft news posted on Slashdot than Linux or OSS news. Honestly, count 'em and see for yourself.
*Anyone* who likes Big Macs even a little bit should catch Supersize Me, in which a documentary filmmaker does nothing but eat McDonald's food for an entire month.
Just before release of the film, McDonald's suddenly removed the supersize option from their menus. "Menu simplification," they called it. Tee hee.
People take religions, er, operating systems entirely too seriously here on Slashdot. Out in the real world, it's all about what you like that works already. Here, it's "Microsoft is the enemy but we can afford them this one victory." Enemy? Victory? Scary.
Neither is Linux, or Slashdot, or a whole bunch of other things. Hell, there isn't even a desktop standard or API in the OSS world for Linux desktops to comply to.
I love how people keep saying Microsoft has already done this when the product won't be out for another 2 - 3 years.
It doesn't matter, the beta is out and the WinFS API is in it and works perfectly.
I think it is more correct to say, "Microsoft is trying to do this with WinFS."
Download the latest beta and try it yourself.
Stop believing the hype. Longhorn is NOT a product yet.
But the technology exists in the developer preview betas. That's why I said they had it in the present tense. I'm not "believing the hype," I'm stating a real fact.
When people talk about Longhorn features, I often see Linux enthusiasts pointing to 0.1 version product after 0.1 version product to say "See, we're already doing this too!" The difference here is that WinFS already does exist in the betas.
Most of the search results I get are either from online stores or from those_annoying_underscore_urls.
Google's algorithm places higher priority on hits that have the search term in their URLs. What should matter is the content, not the URL! Why Google doesn't tweak this, I don't know. I guess that's what annoys me about Google now--you don't really know what they're thinking and why anymore.
Well, it's not damning to you, but to the "Linux on the desktop will over take Mac within a year" people, it's a damning statistic. I believe the article was accepted as a general discrediting of that statistic. We don't know why Google removed the statistic or how accurate or innaccurate it was. The implication by this article is that the statistic was meaningless or somehow so faulty that Google felt the need to remove it. Unless Google officially states such, I think it's premature to make such assumptions. Just my opinion.
Back when Slashdot still had public statistics, as well as what Malda and crew said in a past IRC conversation (so keep in mind the stats are a few years old), Windows and IE were the dominant environments.
Choice that hurts the opposition IS good. Any choice is good. If a certain choice is so good that people are willing to choose it over other alternatives, they should have the right to be able to choose it. It seems like you're suggesting people shouldn't have that choice because it "hurts the opposition." Whose fault is that?
As for funding smear books and movies, name one. We have 20 liberal smear books on the market as well as Fahrenheit 9/11. There is clear liberal media bias. Ever read the L.A. Times?
You may consider it "vapid" (probably because you hold liberal views), but I base my opinions on facts and not reversal posts.
When put through a hyperbole filter, Slashdot as of late has been like this:
- SP2 is bad - SP2 has bugs - Microsoft is evil and funded a study - SP2 is a joke and you hate it - The latest bad news on SP2 - Our Savior Linus Torvalds is a benevolent dictator using trust and friendship to spread joy through the world - A random Star Wars DVD article with info we already knew
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I reply to every one of these, because each one is no less retarded then the one before.
There are TWO editions of each film. Just two. The theatrical release, which comes out first. Then, the excruciating 3+ hour extended version that comes out months later for the hardcore fans.
New Line and Peter Jackson have been open about this since the beginning. They are not ripping anyone off. Even the extras are different on both releases. Both release dates are announced before the first DVD hits shelves.
Yet, time after time, someone on Slashdot still feels the need to use a lot of adjectives to describe it and pretend that makes it a witty joke. "It's the super mega 13-dvd extended ultra edition! Mod me up!" The implication is that they're fleecing people with multiple editions, which is simply not true. Standard and extended. This isn't a hard concept to grasp.
This is Slashdot, where every little thing must be made into a juvenile jab at Microsoft. Because Microsoft is bad! The OSDN-owned website told you so...:)
The Hobbit wasn't as hugely popular as Lord of the Rings. Those books didn't take off until ten years later. So when Tolkien was changing The Hobbit, it was still a "minor" revision to a children's book.
Once the Lord of the Rings became hugely popular, Tolkien was very open about the fact that he would have done things differently in retrospect (off the top of my head, he believes the story is too short). But he never touched the manuscripts except to fix very minor technical mistakes.
You can buy the theatrical versions quite easily. There's even a small trilogy boxset with all three. Did you even bother looking in the store?
Nothing was filmed "exclusively" for DVD. Peter Jackson just happened to film a LOT of shit. Much of ROTK's footage still won't be on the Extended DVD in November.
These extended editions are being driven by fan demand. No fleecing going on. They've been open about the two versions since the very beginning.
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This is what, the fourth SP2 article in two days? Look, we get it already, OSDN wants you to disregard SP2. Every single other place on the web, feedback has been extremely positive. If you come to Slashdot, it's almost entirely negative. This place is like a bizarro-Fox News of the tech sector.
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...supporting and financing terrorism is. Not to mention violating UN resolutions. You know, remember that? The thing that got violated which gives right to invasion and disabling of Saddam? What's the point of having resolutions if nobody enforces them for a decade?
Europeans can locate things in Europe. Guess what, Europe is a collection of countries. The United States can be thought of as a group of areas as well. It's the same thing.
Europeans not knowing where Florida is is not different from knowing where Sweden is. Florida is part of the US, and Sweden is over in Europe.
Ever heard of a compass? The Earth's magnetic field points it north. On a compass, that was made to be "up."
Doom 3isn't an apt comparison, but you'd be offended if Christian religious chanting were used as background music in a fighting game? Are you saying Doom 3 doesn't have disembowled crucified people on upside-down crosses (it does)?
Fair enough, then Apple already has an implementation as well. *shrug*
This whole thread strikes me as just Longhorn bashing.
Except MSDN is clearly marked as Microsoft Developer Network.
Slashdot is billed as a "hobby" site that posts tech "news." Meanwhile, there is a company that owns it which has an incentive to use their news site to bash competitors like Microsoft.
I don't care if the grandparent believes there is no tech news or that there was bias before the buyout. Malda and the editors are OSDN employees now. I don't know about you, but the anti-Microsoft articles have *definitely* been kicked up a notch in the past few years. You used to go for days without one, and now it's about three or four a day. In fact, there is more Microsoft news posted on Slashdot than Linux or OSS news. Honestly, count 'em and see for yourself.
This is all off-topic.
*Anyone* who likes Big Macs even a little bit should catch Supersize Me, in which a documentary filmmaker does nothing but eat McDonald's food for an entire month.
Just before release of the film, McDonald's suddenly removed the supersize option from their menus. "Menu simplification," they called it. Tee hee.
People take religions, er, operating systems entirely too seriously here on Slashdot. Out in the real world, it's all about what you like that works already. Here, it's "Microsoft is the enemy but we can afford them this one victory." Enemy? Victory? Scary.
Neither is Linux, or Slashdot, or a whole bunch of other things. Hell, there isn't even a desktop standard or API in the OSS world for Linux desktops to comply to.
I love how people keep saying Microsoft has already done this when the product won't be out for another 2 - 3 years.
It doesn't matter, the beta is out and the WinFS API is in it and works perfectly.
I think it is more correct to say, "Microsoft is trying to do this with WinFS."
Download the latest beta and try it yourself.
Stop believing the hype. Longhorn is NOT a product yet.
But the technology exists in the developer preview betas. That's why I said they had it in the present tense. I'm not "believing the hype," I'm stating a real fact.
When people talk about Longhorn features, I often see Linux enthusiasts pointing to 0.1 version product after 0.1 version product to say "See, we're already doing this too!" The difference here is that WinFS already does exist in the betas.
Most of the search results I get are either from online stores or from those_annoying_underscore_urls.
Google's algorithm places higher priority on hits that have the search term in their URLs. What should matter is the content, not the URL! Why Google doesn't tweak this, I don't know. I guess that's what annoys me about Google now--you don't really know what they're thinking and why anymore.
Microsoft has already done this with WinFS, and Apple has their own solution in the works.
Well, it's not damning to you, but to the "Linux on the desktop will over take Mac within a year" people, it's a damning statistic. I believe the article was accepted as a general discrediting of that statistic. We don't know why Google removed the statistic or how accurate or innaccurate it was. The implication by this article is that the statistic was meaningless or somehow so faulty that Google felt the need to remove it. Unless Google officially states such, I think it's premature to make such assumptions. Just my opinion.
The Canadian and other international versions of Google. Their Zeitgeist pages haven't changed (yet).
Back when Slashdot still had public statistics, as well as what Malda and crew said in a past IRC conversation (so keep in mind the stats are a few years old), Windows and IE were the dominant environments.
http://www.google.ca/press/zeitgeist.html
...was so people can't refer to Zeitgeist's damning 1% Linux usage statistic anymore when discussing desktop Linux. If you disagree, let me know why.
Choice that hurts the opposition IS good. Any choice is good. If a certain choice is so good that people are willing to choose it over other alternatives, they should have the right to be able to choose it. It seems like you're suggesting people shouldn't have that choice because it "hurts the opposition." Whose fault is that?
As for funding smear books and movies, name one. We have 20 liberal smear books on the market as well as Fahrenheit 9/11. There is clear liberal media bias. Ever read the L.A. Times?
You may consider it "vapid" (probably because you hold liberal views), but I base my opinions on facts and not reversal posts.
When put through a hyperbole filter, Slashdot as of late has been like this:
- SP2 is bad
- SP2 has bugs
- Microsoft is evil and funded a study
- SP2 is a joke and you hate it
- The latest bad news on SP2
- Our Savior Linus Torvalds is a benevolent dictator using trust and friendship to spread joy through the world
- A random Star Wars DVD article with info we already knew
I reply to every one of these, because each one is no less retarded then the one before.
There are TWO editions of each film. Just two. The theatrical release, which comes out first. Then, the excruciating 3+ hour extended version that comes out months later for the hardcore fans.
New Line and Peter Jackson have been open about this since the beginning. They are not ripping anyone off. Even the extras are different on both releases. Both release dates are announced before the first DVD hits shelves.
Yet, time after time, someone on Slashdot still feels the need to use a lot of adjectives to describe it and pretend that makes it a witty joke. "It's the super mega 13-dvd extended ultra edition! Mod me up!" The implication is that they're fleecing people with multiple editions, which is simply not true. Standard and extended. This isn't a hard concept to grasp.
This is Slashdot, where every little thing must be made into a juvenile jab at Microsoft. Because Microsoft is bad! The OSDN-owned website told you so... :)
He still shoots first, but the sequence has been cleaned up to make it look much less fake and jerky.
The Hobbit wasn't as hugely popular as Lord of the Rings. Those books didn't take off until ten years later. So when Tolkien was changing The Hobbit, it was still a "minor" revision to a children's book.
Once the Lord of the Rings became hugely popular, Tolkien was very open about the fact that he would have done things differently in retrospect (off the top of my head, he believes the story is too short). But he never touched the manuscripts except to fix very minor technical mistakes.
You can buy the theatrical versions quite easily. There's even a small trilogy boxset with all three. Did you even bother looking in the store?
Nothing was filmed "exclusively" for DVD. Peter Jackson just happened to film a LOT of shit. Much of ROTK's footage still won't be on the Extended DVD in November.
These extended editions are being driven by fan demand. No fleecing going on. They've been open about the two versions since the very beginning.
This is what, the fourth SP2 article in two days? Look, we get it already, OSDN wants you to disregard SP2. Every single other place on the web, feedback has been extremely positive. If you come to Slashdot, it's almost entirely negative. This place is like a bizarro-Fox News of the tech sector.