Is anyone else bothered by the idea that an article entitled "Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals" is posted that compares 5 million lines of code that make up just a kernel to 40 million lines of code that make up a kernel, an operating system, a desktop, its integrated components, and its included applications? 40 million lines has more bugs than 5 million? Who'd have thunk it?
Why does "Linux is just a kernel" suddenly not apply here? Is it because we're bashing Microsoft? This is kind of lame and makes the community look silly and vitriolic.
I don't know, but it annoys me to, in the year 2004, still see the term "M$" being thrown around like it's 1998 when it was witty and cool and anti-establishment. Just because you have some arbitrary definition of what a Service Pack "should" do doesn't make you right. I think you're bitching just to find something to bitch about. This is a good thing, and you'd be bitching if they didn't do this.
Any changes that require applications to work around them are worth it in the name of security. Security in Windows is something most Slashdotters have been wanting for years. It's also no different than the kinds of changes that have been made in Open Source when the kernel changes things around in the name of improvement (for instance, udev). Fault Microsoft for not getting it right in the first place, but don't fault them for fixing it despite pressure from apps vendors who I'm sure would be more than happy for Microsoft to twiddle its thumbs and do nothing so the vendors don't have to update their applications.
Another new version of KDE, but I still see none of the changes that people have been requesting for years that would make Linux an actual usable operating system for the desktop. These range from a universal binary installation/uninstallation API (Windows 95 had this ten years ago) to a hardware-accelerated graphics/audio API akin to DirectX (whatever it takes to do this...replace X11 if you need to). A redesigned interface that is much less cluttered and confusing--taskbars and start menus are horrendous interface choices that have only been implemented to rip off Windows. And a much-needed improvement in responsiveness. Both KDE and GNOME are so incredibly slow compared to OSX and Windows. Again, Windows 95 provided the same level of functionality we're finally reaching ten years later, yet Windows 95 was much snappier and easier to use and ran on 8MB of RAM.
We don't need more cute little sidebar buttons and more esoteric features that few use. We need basic revisions to the fundamental design. Gnome seems to be the only project concerned with this. Y-Windows is the most promising project when it comes to actually PROGRESSING THE DESKTOP ON LINUX.
Note that I respect if you disagree and think KDE/X11 is the greatest. Just offering my views, because I really love the idea of using a Linux desktop everyday like I use Windows XP and OS X. But come on, every year I get tired of waiting for the much-heralded "year of desktop Linux" that never comes. People post the obvious reasons why it doesn't take off, and elitist dorks just dismiss it and go back to arguing about completely meaningless things like Emacs versus vi.
The "rest of the world" uses Quicktime. You say it like Quicktime is some sort of niche, and you are the majority. Sorry, the rest of the world looks at you as the niche.
The point is that he DIDN'T think they were optional. Unfortunately, he was forced to cut things to meet New Line's time demands. Luckily he can release this stuff on DVD.
The "Bush camp" is taking this as seriously as the "Kerry camp" is. Each has rabid, stupid defenders who trot out and talk about coincidences.
Your demonization of only the Bush camp, however, clearly reveals who you're voting for on Tuesday. Incidentally, did you know a study released today revealed that brain scans showed that when people were shown a picture of the candidate they supported, blood flowed to the empathy portion of the brain, and when showed a picture of the candidate they disliked, blood flowed to the region that controlled emotion?
He won by about 200 votes according to a joint recount by several major papers, any way the votes would have been counted. Perhaps you're citing a different recount.
Another question could be--was it in the best interest of the Iraqi people to remove Saddam? We could have just left him there until he died and passed on his leadership to his sons. It would have gone on forever.
I don't see anything about "lying" in this article. "White House Uses Faulty Evidence" or something would be more appropriate. Saying they lied reveals a certain bias. You may as well say Dan Rather "lied" as well--he used evidence others were saying looked flawed. Yet I doubt we'll see anything about that (and for the record, I submitted a story about the Memogate thing when it was happening, and Slashdot rejected it).
And so, with one last nail in the coffin--the addition of the "politics" section--Slashdot finally completes its spiraling downturn into the frothing, anti-corporate/anti-Bush slant that was Kuro5hin last time I bothered visiting. What once was a fantastic alternative tech news site because an endless Bush-bashing hatehole. If it's not corporations that are evil, or lawmakers, or the law in general, or the **AA (because they're protecting their copyrights and that's wrong!), it's George Bush. B-because he's George Bush. You're intellectual if you think you're anti-establishment, so join the anti-Bush parade! Bash bash bash.
We could always just trust the New York Times. A month before the election, this article mysteriously hits. After all, they never have a slant to the left or anything. Just ask them about the before and after of their reporting on the uranium in Africa after it came out that foreign intelligence did say it was so. What? You never heard about that? Big surprise.
Or, ask them about the difference in reporting between the Abu prison and the beheading of Nick Berg and other hostages by terrorists. Hint--the first got front page after front page, day after day, long after the story was dead. The other didn't.
Since the New York Times is firmly committed to a policy of bad news from now until election day, the only place to turn to for information from all sides is online. "Memogate" pretty much proved that. Hell, the other night 60 Minutes aired a story on the draft, based on a debunked chain e-mail, centered on an "apolitical" Republican. Except that the story conveniently left out that she was the local chapter head of the town's anti-war and anti-draft organizations, which mysteriously had only Democrats in their leadership.
Hell, where's the New York Times on the voter fraud investigation being conducted in Florida by the State Election committee and the US Justice Department regarding a front group whose leader actually admitted to tossing out Republican registrations? You don't hear about these stories because right now it's all about the "Kerry comeback" (even though the Rasmussen poll says otherwise). These are the stories you only find out online. Slashdot ain't the place you're gonna see it (hint, such submissions get rejected...in favor of headlines that use the word "Lied").
Sorry. Off-topic rant and I accept any such mods. It just makes me queasy to see Slashdot heading full-on into the political arena--you can pretty much guess with 100% certainty that only anti-Bush articles will ever get posted (notice this one is by michael) but no anti-Kerry/pro-conservative viewpoints will get posted. Guaranteed. There are two sides to every viewpoint, and the other side has their articles and accusations and evidence and whatever just as well. But you won't get to see it here.
For the record, I run Gentoo on my laptop, I prefer GNOME, and I voted for Nader in 2000. His name is on the ballot in my state so I'm voting for him again.
I have never, ever seen a single cited example of how Fox News is biased. They always present an issue, have pundits from both sides debate it, then move on to the next segment.
I'm getting to the point where I think some people just hate Fox News because they dare air the opposing viewpoint, unlike CNN and our beloved CBS.
Give that man some mod points--that's an excellent question people haven't even considered. Our precious Linux-backing IBM holds even more useless patents than Microsoft does. But they're given a pass because they support Linux.
Logic is definitely more popular than Cubase, especially when Logic had a PC version. Cubase SX always looked pretty, but the interface was a confusing mess of symbols, and it's infamous for being an unstable piece of software. I tried it on my laptop, and it crashed my system.
On the PC side, Cakewalk Sonar is definitely gaining ground, particularly with the release of Sonar 4 (track folders, track layering, and the Overview mode are a godsend). But the best reason of all? No godawful USB dongle copy protection! Simple serial number, less hassle for us legitimate users.
Nobody played it; that was the point. Half-Life multiplayer is dominated by Day of Defeat, Counterstrike, etc. Back when HL came out, Quake 3 was the big multiplayer thing (until Unreal Tournament came out). Mods are what HL multiplayer is known for.
This is a non-issue. Modders will easily come up with a "Deathmatch Classic" mod, if Valve doesn't first...just like Doom 3's limited four-player has been expanded by modders. There's already an HL2 coop mod. I guarantee at least five mod groups have started work on a "Deathmatch Classic" mod after reading this news.
What's funny is that Slashdotters criticize Microsoft constantly for not innovating and for ripping others off. Meanwhile, we're discussing C# and a.NET clone, running on a UNIX clone, which runs desktop environments that have Start menus, taskbars, integrated file/net browsers, and more.
The power of all the volunteers in the world, and all we can come up with is a UNIX clone with a Windows clone running on top of it.
Come on, that's just a tagline that shows at the beginning, because this film series is an homage to the storytelling of old serials like Flash Gordon. It's a sci-fi fantasy adventure film, and referring to "the future" in this case refers to the fictional futuristic environment it takes place in. Don't be so anal...
Is it necessary for people, in every single Microsoft article, to make a completely random reference to Microsoft Bob and expect to get skyrocketed up to "+5 Funny"?
We get it. Microsoft Bob, haha. That shell add-on software from '94. 10 years ago.
Not really. Microsoft and Apple pioneered certain features and innovations in their products. What does Linux have? Its desktop environments are emulations of those competing environments, mashed together into something called "KDE" or "GNOME." And beneath that is a complete UNIX-clone system.
Facts and reason in a Slashdot discussion? Nay, I say! We must emotively bitch about M$ "ripping off users" some more, not inject logical reasoning into this, I implore you.
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Is anyone else bothered by the idea that an article entitled "Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals" is posted that compares 5 million lines of code that make up just a kernel to 40 million lines of code that make up a kernel, an operating system, a desktop, its integrated components, and its included applications? 40 million lines has more bugs than 5 million? Who'd have thunk it?
Why does "Linux is just a kernel" suddenly not apply here? Is it because we're bashing Microsoft? This is kind of lame and makes the community look silly and vitriolic.
I don't know, but it annoys me to, in the year 2004, still see the term "M$" being thrown around like it's 1998 when it was witty and cool and anti-establishment. Just because you have some arbitrary definition of what a Service Pack "should" do doesn't make you right. I think you're bitching just to find something to bitch about. This is a good thing, and you'd be bitching if they didn't do this.
Any changes that require applications to work around them are worth it in the name of security. Security in Windows is something most Slashdotters have been wanting for years. It's also no different than the kinds of changes that have been made in Open Source when the kernel changes things around in the name of improvement (for instance, udev). Fault Microsoft for not getting it right in the first place, but don't fault them for fixing it despite pressure from apps vendors who I'm sure would be more than happy for Microsoft to twiddle its thumbs and do nothing so the vendors don't have to update their applications.
Another new version of KDE, but I still see none of the changes that people have been requesting for years that would make Linux an actual usable operating system for the desktop. These range from a universal binary installation/uninstallation API (Windows 95 had this ten years ago) to a hardware-accelerated graphics/audio API akin to DirectX (whatever it takes to do this...replace X11 if you need to). A redesigned interface that is much less cluttered and confusing--taskbars and start menus are horrendous interface choices that have only been implemented to rip off Windows. And a much-needed improvement in responsiveness. Both KDE and GNOME are so incredibly slow compared to OSX and Windows. Again, Windows 95 provided the same level of functionality we're finally reaching ten years later, yet Windows 95 was much snappier and easier to use and ran on 8MB of RAM.
We don't need more cute little sidebar buttons and more esoteric features that few use. We need basic revisions to the fundamental design. Gnome seems to be the only project concerned with this. Y-Windows is the most promising project when it comes to actually PROGRESSING THE DESKTOP ON LINUX.
Note that I respect if you disagree and think KDE/X11 is the greatest. Just offering my views, because I really love the idea of using a Linux desktop everyday like I use Windows XP and OS X. But come on, every year I get tired of waiting for the much-heralded "year of desktop Linux" that never comes. People post the obvious reasons why it doesn't take off, and elitist dorks just dismiss it and go back to arguing about completely meaningless things like Emacs versus vi.
The "rest of the world" uses Quicktime. You say it like Quicktime is some sort of niche, and you are the majority. Sorry, the rest of the world looks at you as the niche.
The point is that he DIDN'T think they were optional. Unfortunately, he was forced to cut things to meet New Line's time demands. Luckily he can release this stuff on DVD.
The "Bush camp" is taking this as seriously as the "Kerry camp" is. Each has rabid, stupid defenders who trot out and talk about coincidences.
Your demonization of only the Bush camp, however, clearly reveals who you're voting for on Tuesday. Incidentally, did you know a study released today revealed that brain scans showed that when people were shown a picture of the candidate they supported, blood flowed to the empathy portion of the brain, and when showed a picture of the candidate they disliked, blood flowed to the region that controlled emotion?
He won by about 200 votes according to a joint recount by several major papers, any way the votes would have been counted. Perhaps you're citing a different recount.
Another question could be--was it in the best interest of the Iraqi people to remove Saddam? We could have just left him there until he died and passed on his leadership to his sons. It would have gone on forever.
I don't see anything about "lying" in this article. "White House Uses Faulty Evidence" or something would be more appropriate. Saying they lied reveals a certain bias. You may as well say Dan Rather "lied" as well--he used evidence others were saying looked flawed. Yet I doubt we'll see anything about that (and for the record, I submitted a story about the Memogate thing when it was happening, and Slashdot rejected it).
And so, with one last nail in the coffin--the addition of the "politics" section--Slashdot finally completes its spiraling downturn into the frothing, anti-corporate/anti-Bush slant that was Kuro5hin last time I bothered visiting. What once was a fantastic alternative tech news site because an endless Bush-bashing hatehole. If it's not corporations that are evil, or lawmakers, or the law in general, or the **AA (because they're protecting their copyrights and that's wrong!), it's George Bush. B-because he's George Bush. You're intellectual if you think you're anti-establishment, so join the anti-Bush parade! Bash bash bash.
We could always just trust the New York Times. A month before the election, this article mysteriously hits. After all, they never have a slant to the left or anything. Just ask them about the before and after of their reporting on the uranium in Africa after it came out that foreign intelligence did say it was so. What? You never heard about that? Big surprise.
Or, ask them about the difference in reporting between the Abu prison and the beheading of Nick Berg and other hostages by terrorists. Hint--the first got front page after front page, day after day, long after the story was dead. The other didn't.
Since the New York Times is firmly committed to a policy of bad news from now until election day, the only place to turn to for information from all sides is online. "Memogate" pretty much proved that. Hell, the other night 60 Minutes aired a story on the draft, based on a debunked chain e-mail, centered on an "apolitical" Republican. Except that the story conveniently left out that she was the local chapter head of the town's anti-war and anti-draft organizations, which mysteriously had only Democrats in their leadership.
Hell, where's the New York Times on the voter fraud investigation being conducted in Florida by the State Election committee and the US Justice Department regarding a front group whose leader actually admitted to tossing out Republican registrations? You don't hear about these stories because right now it's all about the "Kerry comeback" (even though the Rasmussen poll says otherwise). These are the stories you only find out online. Slashdot ain't the place you're gonna see it (hint, such submissions get rejected...in favor of headlines that use the word "Lied").
Sorry. Off-topic rant and I accept any such mods. It just makes me queasy to see Slashdot heading full-on into the political arena--you can pretty much guess with 100% certainty that only anti-Bush articles will ever get posted (notice this one is by michael) but no anti-Kerry/pro-conservative viewpoints will get posted. Guaranteed. There are two sides to every viewpoint, and the other side has their articles and accusations and evidence and whatever just as well. But you won't get to see it here.
This is off-topic. But prove that I am:
:)
1.) "Right wing"
2.) A "Microsoft apologist"
For the record, I run Gentoo on my laptop, I prefer GNOME, and I voted for Nader in 2000. His name is on the ballot in my state so I'm voting for him again.
Plonk!
I have never, ever seen a single cited example of how Fox News is biased. They always present an issue, have pundits from both sides debate it, then move on to the next segment.
I'm getting to the point where I think some people just hate Fox News because they dare air the opposing viewpoint, unlike CNN and our beloved CBS.
Give that man some mod points--that's an excellent question people haven't even considered. Our precious Linux-backing IBM holds even more useless patents than Microsoft does. But they're given a pass because they support Linux.
Usually, we never ever get DAW release news on Slashdot. Why now? Is it because this is Apple?
In that case, you also need to report that Steinberg Cubase SX 3 and Cakewalk Sonar 4 were both release this month.
Is this kind of like Fruity-Loops by FL Studio?
Not at all. FruityLoops is a click-the-dots looping sequencer program. Its professional counterparts are Project 5, Reason, Digital Performer, etc.
Logic competes with Pro Tools, Cubase, Sonar, SawStudio, etc.
Logic is definitely more popular than Cubase, especially when Logic had a PC version. Cubase SX always looked pretty, but the interface was a confusing mess of symbols, and it's infamous for being an unstable piece of software. I tried it on my laptop, and it crashed my system.
On the PC side, Cakewalk Sonar is definitely gaining ground, particularly with the release of Sonar 4 (track folders, track layering, and the Overview mode are a godsend). But the best reason of all? No godawful USB dongle copy protection! Simple serial number, less hassle for us legitimate users.
Nobody played it; that was the point. Half-Life multiplayer is dominated by Day of Defeat, Counterstrike, etc. Back when HL came out, Quake 3 was the big multiplayer thing (until Unreal Tournament came out). Mods are what HL multiplayer is known for.
This is a non-issue. Modders will easily come up with a "Deathmatch Classic" mod, if Valve doesn't first...just like Doom 3's limited four-player has been expanded by modders. There's already an HL2 coop mod. I guarantee at least five mod groups have started work on a "Deathmatch Classic" mod after reading this news.
What's funny is that Slashdotters criticize Microsoft constantly for not innovating and for ripping others off. Meanwhile, we're discussing C# and a .NET clone, running on a UNIX clone, which runs desktop environments that have Start menus, taskbars, integrated file/net browsers, and more.
The power of all the volunteers in the world, and all we can come up with is a UNIX clone with a Windows clone running on top of it.
Then why the "+5 Informative"?
That was uttered in a film that came out 15 years ago. Why would we believe a sequel was in the works just because of a Lucas-merchandising joke?
Incidentally, last year the rumor was that the sequel would be called "Spaceballs 3: The Search For Spaceballs 2."
Come on, that's just a tagline that shows at the beginning, because this film series is an homage to the storytelling of old serials like Flash Gordon. It's a sci-fi fantasy adventure film, and referring to "the future" in this case refers to the fictional futuristic environment it takes place in. Don't be so anal...
Too much red? Too saturated?
All I do is just move those sliders down in WinDVD. Ever consider that it's your TV's settings/DVD player configuration?
Is it necessary for people, in every single Microsoft article, to make a completely random reference to Microsoft Bob and expect to get skyrocketed up to "+5 Funny"?
We get it. Microsoft Bob, haha. That shell add-on software from '94. 10 years ago.
Not really. Microsoft and Apple pioneered certain features and innovations in their products. What does Linux have? Its desktop environments are emulations of those competing environments, mashed together into something called "KDE" or "GNOME." And beneath that is a complete UNIX-clone system.
Facts and reason in a Slashdot discussion? Nay, I say! We must emotively bitch about M$ "ripping off users" some more, not inject logical reasoning into this, I implore you.