Suddenly, it's not illegal to purposely reload a page over and over in order to take down a website? That's like asking, "what's wrong with pinging someone?" When you DDOS a site, you're using legimate traffic methods to saturate their pipes and take them down. Give me a break.
If these were conservatives taking down the DNC website, you'd see a lot of viewpoints around here changed. Probably would see articles in the L.A. Times as well--"Conservative Hackers Attack Democratic Websites." I doubt you'll hear a peep about this. Hell, the only real coverage you could find about the laughable, fenced-off "free speech zone" at the Democratic Convention was Fox News, and most liberals hate them anyway, despite not citing a single reason or example. This will fade away, and we'll continue to hear about the supposed "Republic attack machine" despite all the liberal smear books and movies and Hitler ads out there.
He responded to Bush's challenge a few weeks ago and stated he would vote for the War in Iraq again if given the chance.
This is why he gets accused of pandering. It's unclear what his positions on anything are. All I really know is that he's a Vietnam veteran, since he brings it up approximately every 30 seconds.
Is this the new liberal idea of free speech and choice? Block people from seeing Republican websites, and block them from entering Republican headquarters?
I know it's not all liberals/Democrats, but some of them are completely insane. If they're not actively blocking Ralph Nader from being on the ballot (after all, nobody should have any choices), they're funding smear books and movies. I constantly hear about this "Republican attack machine," but honestly all I ever see is a liberal attack machine.
It is owned by a company, shops banner ads, and has user subscriptions. It's not a "fan-run advocacy site," it's a business.
It's surprising that you find it "ludicrous" for a news portal to remain neutral and unbiased. This place is the PRIME SOURCE of all the immature attitude out there in the OSS community. False memes propagate through this thing like STDs in high school. People repeat the same unproven facts in +5 posts, which causes other people to believe it.
I think this release of SP2 has really illustrated a lot of things fundamentally wrong with this community's attitude, but in particular, the attitudes of the editors. Not to mention the horrible, overly broad "IT" section and its garish color scheme.
microsoft.com is a corporate website, slashdot is an unofficial messageboard for geeks...
Unofficial? This place is considered the peak of geek community chatter on the 'net. If you ignore that, you are putting your head in the sand.
As far as it not being a corporate site--ROFL. It's owned by OSDN, a Linux company. Malda posts these Microsoft articles to get more page hits that he can report to OSDN to use for shopping to banner advertisers. The day Slashdot instituted banner ads should have been the first big sign. The day pointless subscriptions came into play should have been the second. And when you realized they don't even listen to the subscribers despite what Malda originally said, that should have been the last straw.
You're actually asking why an operating system would have the ability to throttle its own speed? Have you ever heard of, say, a laptop battery, or seen the same feature in the Linux kernel? Do you know what Standby is?
Yes, because after all, when an app doesn't work because the firewall blocks a port it needs, it's all due to anti-competitive behavior and not because THAT'S HOW FIREWALLS WORK.
Yours is the second post whining and blaming Republicans. Why don't you pin the blame on the late night morons like Leno who repeat it every time Gore gets in the news?
Oh, I forgot, everything is a vast, right-wing conspiracy. Democrats never smear their opponents or say a negative word about them. You know, like having divorce records released to the public forcing the candidate to resign, or filming entire "documentaries" that stretch the truth to bash someone. It's all flowers and innocence over on the left.
The next question centered on pirating, and of course much was made of copies downloaded a couple of days before the release. In fact id staff was in Hong Kong a few days before the US release and they found pirated copies being sold with full packaging.
CEO Todd Hollenshead particularly hit away at this issue. It is his belief that pirating only hurts the industry particularly as game production becomes more expensive. He feels studios like Looking Glass may be around if it wasn't for pirating. He worries that continued pirating will lead to a gaming world of movie games and focus group games only which is not good for anyone.
Any justifications for your behavior now now? Todd Hollenshead pretty much blamed you guys for Looking Glass not being around. Also said you're making it riskier to even make games in the first place, with all the rising development costs but decreased returns on the investment.
It sickens me when over half of Slashdot's readership justifies all the music, movie, and software piracy and tries to shrug off the effects. Note, if you're not one of those people, then I'm not talking about you.
The attitude of entitlement that exists these days because of broadband Internet amazes me.
Not to mention his infamous "gameplay innovation is overrated" quote. Pretty much sums up the approach behind id Software's tech demos, er, games, doesn't it?
From a disappointed Doom fan who thought the third one would finally break the trend...
Somehow, I can't imagine Bill reacting that way to an Apple product launch, at least not publicly.
How is what Bill Gates might or might not say at all relevant to this story in any way, shape, or form?
Sometimes I think Slashdotters spend 90% of their lives just thinking about Bill Gates (I'm sorry--I forgot it's hip now to refer to him as just Bill or Billy).
No, it's not. Hell, Moore even completely faked a newspaper article. He took a letter to the editor from the Pantagram that said "Gore Won The Election," retyped it and made it look like a front page hard news article, then plastered it on the screen as backup evidence. That's right, he just used some yahoo's letter to the editor and made it look like a major headline from the paper.
If you were a student in journalism class, that trickery would get you flunked. There are endless examples of these kinds of editing tricks. Moore lives in his own world of "truth."
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They have stated emphatically on their messageboards that they are not switching engines again. Right now, they are merely in the content creation process. George wouldn't do another engine switch this late in the game, and he has already said so.
You basically admitted that nobody will use it because copyrights are enforced. Heaven forbid people respect copyrights. You know, like we demand with the GPL. I actually got accused of trolling the other day because of my sig.
Id should start concentrating on the gameplay as their new breakthrough elements, rather than YANE (Yet Another New Engine).
Personally, I think it would be cool to play as a cop. Actually answering patrol calls and doing shit, following some major plot that unravels through the game. I don't know. I guess it's just that all the cop games out there typically involve you being framed or renegade or something. It would be neat to have a game that actually rewarded playing on the legal side for a change. Imagine the cool patrol car chases and shootouts.
But, I'm not expecting much. I'm sure it will be yet another futuristic space shooter.
It's quite clearly broken. You can see the jagged pieces and cracks. If it's stained glass, it's the worst stained glass ever and must have been made to conveniently look like broken glass...
The editors don't give a shit if they're getting played. They know every SCO article generates thousands of page hits and hundreds of posts of discussion from loyal Slashdotters, which means more advertising revenue for OSDN.
That's right. Slashdot is a corporate-owned site. That very fact when placed alongside the various philosophies Slashdot typically espouses is very amusing and contradictory. It is the users here who are getting played, every time they excitedly click "Read more" on an SCO article so they can post their knee-jerk response and see another ad in the process, they add another hit to the site logs for Rob Malda to report back to OSDN, so they can use them when shopping for more advertisers. This site is a business now making money off a lot of gullible people. Why should they care if they're getting played by SCO's media schemes?
Note--if you disagree, fine, but reply and tell me. Don't mod me down for it.
All these people are supposed to be reporting major problems, yet the links point to sites with mostly positive reviews. Not to mention, I've been running SP2 since RC2 with not a single problem whatsoever.
Slashdot and its juvenile broken window graphic just wanted a FUD article to meet the daily quota for the garish-looking IT section.:)
You know, instead of magically pulling absolutely random numbers out your ass like "49% of installers have problems." I'd particularly like to hear about this mysterious "non-Microsoft browser incompability."
For some reason, people are incredibly willing to believe without question absolutely anything printed on this site, whether in an article summary or a random post.
So, that RC2 was soooo unstable (3 of 5 machines wouldn't boot afterwards) and now the release is stated as "stable" ?
No, it was 3 out of 5 machines at some online magazine's website whic was already debunked as a faulty configuration. But, Slashdot linked to it with the big headline, and now everybody thinks that it is universal truth that SP2 RC2 only booted up 2 out of 5 machines even though it happened in one instance at one company with the faulty configuration. Yours is already the third regurgitation of that false meme I've seen in Slashdot discussions, and on Slashdot, when things get repeated over and over, they magically become "fact."
Few people had problems with RC2. Actually, everyone who had it installed was already protected from the Download.Ject trojan and never needed to download the interim patch update that Microsoft put out.
The point is, don't believe something just because it had a flamebait Slashdot headline and you once saw it repeated in some random "+5 Funny" Slashdot post.
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Suddenly, it's not illegal to purposely reload a page over and over in order to take down a website? That's like asking, "what's wrong with pinging someone?" When you DDOS a site, you're using legimate traffic methods to saturate their pipes and take them down. Give me a break.
If these were conservatives taking down the DNC website, you'd see a lot of viewpoints around here changed. Probably would see articles in the L.A. Times as well--"Conservative Hackers Attack Democratic Websites." I doubt you'll hear a peep about this. Hell, the only real coverage you could find about the laughable, fenced-off "free speech zone" at the Democratic Convention was Fox News, and most liberals hate them anyway, despite not citing a single reason or example. This will fade away, and we'll continue to hear about the supposed "Republic attack machine" despite all the liberal smear books and movies and Hitler ads out there.
He responded to Bush's challenge a few weeks ago and stated he would vote for the War in Iraq again if given the chance.
This is why he gets accused of pandering. It's unclear what his positions on anything are. All I really know is that he's a Vietnam veteran, since he brings it up approximately every 30 seconds.
Is this the new liberal idea of free speech and choice? Block people from seeing Republican websites, and block them from entering Republican headquarters?
I know it's not all liberals/Democrats, but some of them are completely insane. If they're not actively blocking Ralph Nader from being on the ballot (after all, nobody should have any choices), they're funding smear books and movies. I constantly hear about this "Republican attack machine," but honestly all I ever see is a liberal attack machine.
Okay, so this is off-topic.
It is owned by a company, shops banner ads, and has user subscriptions. It's not a "fan-run advocacy site," it's a business.
It's surprising that you find it "ludicrous" for a news portal to remain neutral and unbiased. This place is the PRIME SOURCE of all the immature attitude out there in the OSS community. False memes propagate through this thing like STDs in high school. People repeat the same unproven facts in +5 posts, which causes other people to believe it.
I think this release of SP2 has really illustrated a lot of things fundamentally wrong with this community's attitude, but in particular, the attitudes of the editors. Not to mention the horrible, overly broad "IT" section and its garish color scheme.
microsoft.com is a corporate website, slashdot is an unofficial messageboard for geeks...
Unofficial? This place is considered the peak of geek community chatter on the 'net. If you ignore that, you are putting your head in the sand.
As far as it not being a corporate site--ROFL. It's owned by OSDN, a Linux company. Malda posts these Microsoft articles to get more page hits that he can report to OSDN to use for shopping to banner advertisers. The day Slashdot instituted banner ads should have been the first big sign. The day pointless subscriptions came into play should have been the second. And when you realized they don't even listen to the subscribers despite what Malda originally said, that should have been the last straw.
...but I took it away because I kept getting marked down for no reason. It read: "Slashdot is the Ain't-It-Cool-News of the tech sector."
Anyone who has been to AICN knows exactly what I'm talking about.
You're actually asking why an operating system would have the ability to throttle its own speed? Have you ever heard of, say, a laptop battery, or seen the same feature in the Linux kernel? Do you know what Standby is?
They're apps that are blocked by a firewall. You know, since firewalls block ports and all. SP2 immediately asks if you want to unblock.
Yet another non-issue posted to the front page for page hits...
Yes, because after all, when an app doesn't work because the firewall blocks a port it needs, it's all due to anti-competitive behavior and not because THAT'S HOW FIREWALLS WORK.
The FUD on Slashdot has reached an all-time high.
Yours is the second post whining and blaming Republicans. Why don't you pin the blame on the late night morons like Leno who repeat it every time Gore gets in the news?
Oh, I forgot, everything is a vast, right-wing conspiracy. Democrats never smear their opponents or say a negative word about them. You know, like having divorce records released to the public forcing the candidate to resign, or filming entire "documentaries" that stretch the truth to bash someone. It's all flowers and innocence over on the left.
The next question centered on pirating, and of course much was made of copies downloaded a couple of days before the release. In fact id staff was in Hong Kong a few days before the US release and they found pirated copies being sold with full packaging.
CEO Todd Hollenshead particularly hit away at this issue. It is his belief that pirating only hurts the industry particularly as game production becomes more expensive. He feels studios like Looking Glass may be around if it wasn't for pirating. He worries that continued pirating will lead to a gaming world of movie games and focus group games only which is not good for anyone.
Any justifications for your behavior now now? Todd Hollenshead pretty much blamed you guys for Looking Glass not being around. Also said you're making it riskier to even make games in the first place, with all the rising development costs but decreased returns on the investment.
It sickens me when over half of Slashdot's readership justifies all the music, movie, and software piracy and tries to shrug off the effects. Note, if you're not one of those people, then I'm not talking about you.
The attitude of entitlement that exists these days because of broadband Internet amazes me.
Not to mention his infamous "gameplay innovation is overrated" quote. Pretty much sums up the approach behind id Software's tech demos, er, games, doesn't it?
From a disappointed Doom fan who thought the third one would finally break the trend...
From the summary:
Somehow, I can't imagine Bill reacting that way to an Apple product launch, at least not publicly.
How is what Bill Gates might or might not say at all relevant to this story in any way, shape, or form?
Sometimes I think Slashdotters spend 90% of their lives just thinking about Bill Gates (I'm sorry--I forgot it's hip now to refer to him as just Bill or Billy).
No, it's not. Hell, Moore even completely faked a newspaper article. He took a letter to the editor from the Pantagram that said "Gore Won The Election," retyped it and made it look like a front page hard news article, then plastered it on the screen as backup evidence. That's right, he just used some yahoo's letter to the editor and made it look like a major headline from the paper.
If you were a student in journalism class, that trickery would get you flunked. There are endless examples of these kinds of editing tricks. Moore lives in his own world of "truth."
They have stated emphatically on their messageboards that they are not switching engines again. Right now, they are merely in the content creation process. George wouldn't do another engine switch this late in the game, and he has already said so.
You basically admitted that nobody will use it because copyrights are enforced. Heaven forbid people respect copyrights. You know, like we demand with the GPL. I actually got accused of trolling the other day because of my sig.
Id should start concentrating on the gameplay as their new breakthrough elements, rather than YANE (Yet Another New Engine).
Personally, I think it would be cool to play as a cop. Actually answering patrol calls and doing shit, following some major plot that unravels through the game. I don't know. I guess it's just that all the cop games out there typically involve you being framed or renegade or something. It would be neat to have a game that actually rewarded playing on the legal side for a change. Imagine the cool patrol car chases and shootouts.
But, I'm not expecting much. I'm sure it will be yet another futuristic space shooter.
Did you check the Penny Arcade cartoon he was linking to? It's about the term "M$"--hence his use of the term "M$" to link to it.
Sigh.
It's quite clearly broken. You can see the jagged pieces and cracks. If it's stained glass, it's the worst stained glass ever and must have been made to conveniently look like broken glass...
The editors don't give a shit if they're getting played. They know every SCO article generates thousands of page hits and hundreds of posts of discussion from loyal Slashdotters, which means more advertising revenue for OSDN.
That's right. Slashdot is a corporate-owned site. That very fact when placed alongside the various philosophies Slashdot typically espouses is very amusing and contradictory. It is the users here who are getting played, every time they excitedly click "Read more" on an SCO article so they can post their knee-jerk response and see another ad in the process, they add another hit to the site logs for Rob Malda to report back to OSDN, so they can use them when shopping for more advertisers. This site is a business now making money off a lot of gullible people. Why should they care if they're getting played by SCO's media schemes?
Note--if you disagree, fine, but reply and tell me. Don't mod me down for it.
All these people are supposed to be reporting major problems, yet the links point to sites with mostly positive reviews. Not to mention, I've been running SP2 since RC2 with not a single problem whatsoever.
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Slashdot and its juvenile broken window graphic just wanted a FUD article to meet the daily quota for the garish-looking IT section.
You know, instead of magically pulling absolutely random numbers out your ass like "49% of installers have problems." I'd particularly like to hear about this mysterious "non-Microsoft browser incompability."
Hey, it got you modded up at any rate.
For some reason, people are incredibly willing to believe without question absolutely anything printed on this site, whether in an article summary or a random post.
So, that RC2 was soooo unstable (3 of 5 machines wouldn't boot afterwards) and now the release is stated as "stable" ?
No, it was 3 out of 5 machines at some online magazine's website whic was already debunked as a faulty configuration. But, Slashdot linked to it with the big headline, and now everybody thinks that it is universal truth that SP2 RC2 only booted up 2 out of 5 machines even though it happened in one instance at one company with the faulty configuration. Yours is already the third regurgitation of that false meme I've seen in Slashdot discussions, and on Slashdot, when things get repeated over and over, they magically become "fact."
Few people had problems with RC2. Actually, everyone who had it installed was already protected from the Download.Ject trojan and never needed to download the interim patch update that Microsoft put out.
The point is, don't believe something just because it had a flamebait Slashdot headline and you once saw it repeated in some random "+5 Funny" Slashdot post.
Now I definitely won't have to actually pay for this software. Information wants to be fr33.
Signed,
Pirate
After all, Linux kernels never get patches and updates. Please.