I'm so sick of seeing people bitch and call the button order "wrong." It immediately singles out all the ignorant people for me.
It's not wrong. It's just the Microsoft order you've been conditioned on. You guys claim that people prefer Windows simply because they're used to it, then bitch about Gnome's button order being "wrong." Apparently none of you realize it's been Apple's button order for quite some time and that you only think it's wrong because you a.) have been conditioned because of Windows, and b.) you haven't bothered using the damn thing for more than five minutes (where you'll immediately get used to it and realize why the order is more intuitive that way).
It was a fucking joke. "-1 Flamebait?" Geez, I even referenced Barney Doom for the old players around here. I've been a Doom fan longer than a lot of you have been playing Counterstrike.
Pull your head out of your ass. I look forward to the reverse meta-moderations on this one.
It's to meet the daily bash-Microsoft quota. Along with the pointless Shared Source article earlier intended to generate endless OSS vs. Shared Source comparisons, the entire point of this article is to have endless antitrust discussion that has already been had countless times before, mixed in with the occasional vaporware jokes and basless government insults (like yours...they'd get liquored up and discuss golf? Get real).
But hey, this is Slashdot. I've already gotten modded down just for making a joke in the Doom 3 article. Facts, objectivity, and a real sense of humor have no place here.
Yes, Microsoft has created an initiative whose sole purpose is to hopefully inject proprietary code into an OSS project somewhere down the line in order to sue them.
And people wonder why Slashdot is considered a poor source of fringe journalism.
Why won't it work for Microsoft? Because someone on Slashdot arbitrarily said so?
Microsoft already shares its source with many education and government institutes, and Shared Source is a way for private companies to get in on it.
Yeah, IBM understands what OSS is all about, because it's all they had left after losing out to Microsoft. Of course they'd embrace it. IBM is as self-serving as any other company, and I find it highly amusing that people have forgiven all their past evils simply because they throw the word "Linux" around.
Get it through your skulls, guys. Source code is not a right. Microsoft can give it out however they want.
First off, your argument consists of vague claims. They're "generally considered the most successful band." They make millions of profits in "various sales." Which likely means t-shirts, movies, posters, and ticket sales. Surprise, surprise, the band makes money from the stuff that isn't pirated.
What you seem to be saying is that bands don't have any control over their music. They must be forced to tour endlessly, more than any other group, to make a profit, just to appease the pirates who have decided that's what a band should do to make money.
How are the claims of the RIAA magically false just because a band tours a lot and makes a profit from it? Which of their claims are you saying is false? The Grateful Dead's touring profits don't have anything to do with the RIAA claims of music sales going down from illegal downloading.
This "happy middle ground" you speak of is bogus. It's an imaginary concept you've concocted thatthe artist is forced into because of people illegally pirating their music and not paying for it. Artists can choose not to give their music away for free. It's their right. No matter what you think of Metallica, you can't argue their stance--Lars simply said they have the right to control their music. It's true.
People don't have the right to violate copyright holder rights. I get the impression pirates are freeloaders who get bitter when the free ride is taken away, and have invented every justification under the sun for it. They never hold up logically or factually...they're just vague rallying cries to stir up fellow college dorm room pirates against the evil RIAA that dares sue the illegal downloaders (which is what Slashdotters were saying they should do years ago during the Napster lawsuit...funny how viewpoints change).
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Because liking popular music means you watch MTV, or you're dumb. Not to mention, bands like Rush and Guns 'n' Roses feature so prominently on MTV these days. Sigh.
Except no one is forced to use GPL software. If you don't like it, use something else.
That doesn't have anything to do with his point. The point was that if you do use GPL software, GPL is less free because it compels a course of action in order to use it. Other licenses mentioned do not have those restrictions. The GPL is not the free-as-in-speech license it's made out to be.
* More combinations of black, silver, and brown. Using primary colors would unfortunately require another 512MB. * More darkness. * An electrical simulation that emulates poor electrical conditions. This will be used to flicker lights on and off randomly. * More wasted bullets. * More random metal plating on the letters of the Doom logo. * A somersault animation. When the Doomguy jumps, he'll backflip now. * Crates. Lots of crates. With UAC logos on them for variety. * Shiny metal pipes. Lots of them. At least one will explode as you walk by it; another will have steam coming out of it for a volumetric effect. * At least one level will have you walking down a hallway only to hear a.) a human scream, b.) demonic growling, or c.) eerie whistling wind coming from an unseen source. * A hidden TC of Barney Doom, for old time's sake. Destroy Barney in true 3D now. * Did I mention black, gray, brown, and darkness?
Get real. They have the right to protect the copyrighted materials that they own. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who understands this. They're even offering a legal alternative to avoid suing the university. That sounds like a good deal to me.
But what do I know. I don't have blind, unending hatred for companies that end in *AA simply because they dare go after individual pirates--which is exactly what people here on Slashdot were saying the *AA companies should do during the Napster lawsuit. It's funny how viewpoints can suddenly change when it comes to protecting a free ride that freeloaders get used to and get bitter over when it's taken away.
..Can't the RIAA, MPAA, and everyone else just realize that there is an efficient medium for distributing music, movies, and any other digital/converted to digital media, and WORK WITH IT?
You mean P2P? Like Napster?
People will find better, more secure ways to transfer music/movies over the net, these associations need to embrace these technological advances and come up with an updated business model for them to profit off of.
Ah, the "new business model" argument. Isn't that what Napster's pay-for-P2P service is? Isn't that what iTunes is? The days of claiming the record labels aren't embracing these technologies is over. They are. It's the pirates who aren't embracing these technologies.
It's funny when people say the RIAA is insulting their "customer base." People who illegally pirate copyrighted materials aren't customers.
And it's silly that the article summary tries to paint this as evil. It's supposed to be bad that the RIAA is trying to offer a legal alternative (you know, the "new business model" we hear being postulated here all the time) and give the university a way out of being sued for illegal activities. If the RIAA went ahead and sued, they'd also be criticized. Obviously the only thing that would make the submitter happy is if the RIAA sat by and did nothing while college students illegally downloaded their materials. Pirating music without paying for it is bad, right? I guess I was raised with a different set of morals--one that lacked a neverending sense of entitlement.
This article is basically what people here on Slashdot have already said ad nauseum. Microsoft is struggling to compete with something free, and Microsoft is struggling to compete with itself. I already knew that from countless discussions on the subject beforehand.
I never got this argument. It always seemed like sour grapes to me. What's so generic about "Microsoft Windows XP" or "Microsoft Office 2003?"
I don't think it's so much that some here actually believe it's too generic to be trademarked--they just want to strike back at Microsoft in some way out of some bizarre vindictiveness.
You're like the typical Slashdotter who thinks everything Microsoft does is evil and everything a professor or college kid does for OSS is golden. That entire post was hyperbolic spin that didn't actually illustrate anything other than your bias. You have no facts to assert your arguments any more than the opposing viewpoint. You just happen to have the majority viewpoint of Slashdot on your side who are very willing to moderate you up for writing yet another Microsoft-bash on Slashdot.
Well, you obviously didn't read the manuals or the between-episode text then.
Doom 1 was about the UAC's bases on Mars accidentally opening a portal to hell. You even went to hell and fought the boss. Doom 2 was about your return to Earth, only to find that hell came with you and has taken over.
You fight a giant pseudo-Satan in the wall at the end of that one. Still the freakiest boss ever.
I always find it funny when people disappointingly describe the similarities between Doom 3 and Half-Life's storylines, when meanwhile people who played Half-Life back in 1998 were commenting on how it took from Doom way back in 1994. Oh, well, some people will always choose to remain ignorant.
I resent the 35 year old comment, because I'm 21, and the games I grew up on weren't "streetcore" either. What on earth is the guy talking about? I don't know anyone in the 19-35 year old age range that is hip-hop hardcore. That shit resides in the high schools and malls. I like to refer to it as "mallcore," and it's pushed by Viacom affiliates like MTV controlled by rich executives who laugh at the very culture they propagate onto the kiddies, because it makes them money.
Fuck this rap-wannabe bullshit. It's hysterical. This musical fad is as long-lasting as glam was, disco was before it, and doo-wop was before that. The culture has already saturated itself--it's become the joke that glam was in the early 90s. Every rap video has the same oversaturated high-contrast video filters, the same sports jersey-wearing rappers, the same lyrics. It's around so much because it's extremely easy to produce this music. Just click in some drumbeats with your mouse in a tracking program and have someone write rap lyrics in 5 minutes, featuring today's flavor-of-the-month rapper. Bam, new single.
Midway, and any other companies getting into this, are making a huge mistake and will be laughed at in five years. Meanwhile, I'll play something that doesn't date itself so badly, like Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 (I still play Doom 1 now and then!).
Do you not get it?
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Speaking for myself: It's not crap just because I hate it. I hate it because it's crap.
Did you know Rolling Stone said the same thing about every Led Zeppelin album released? You're going on the assumption that your OPINION is suddenly a fact that everyone else must go by.
You may think it's crap. That has absolutely no bearing on what everyone else thinks of it (hint: most of the public likes today's music). I know the popular bands around here are either garage electronic acts or really old bands like The Who, but that doesn't mean your opinions are set in stone to cast judgement on us all.
You don't hate it because it's crap. You think it's crap because you hate it. How this simple fact escapes you, I don't know. But next time I hear my country music-listening neighbor driving down the street, I'll be sure to tell him his music is crap, and that I hate it because it's crap, and therefore it is crap.
I'm sorry, but have you listened to some of the crap that is getting a lot of airplay?
Again, you need to step out of your own perspective. Why is it crap just because you don't like it? I guarantee a lot more people do.
Bad music?
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Why is music bad if he doesn't like it?
I know lots more people who do like today's music. People claim bad music is the reason for increased piracy, which doesn't make sense. Why are people pirating music they don't like?
When the UN's members are taking oil for food from Iraq in violation of sanctions and ethics, meanwhile blocking you from removing a dictator because it would affect their bottom line, it's kind of hard to respect them.
Oh, I forgot, anti-greed rants only apply when we're criticizing the U.S., because you're a more enlightened individual if you hate the big guy, or something like that.
Sucking a dick isn't intercourse with a person?
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If you can't go by the judge's definition of a term then what can you go by?
How about society's common sense definition of what sexual relations are? Oral sex is sexual and it is an act performed in relation to another person. Come on.
I visited France one time. We went to a restaurant, and my wife ordered something on the menu, doing her best to pronounce the word. The waiter actually made fun of her "American perversion" of the French language and mocked her pronunciation. When she reached the point where she started to cry and I was up in his face about it, he started apologizing profusely.
It's been my experience that most countries out there just hate Americans because it's the thing to do. Somehow you're enlightened if you dislike the big guy (an attitude I sense in most liberals). Obviously there is meaningful criticism, but for the most part, people are just jealous because we really are the #1 superpower in the world, and as a result we're put in the position of policing parts of the world, much to the chagrin of those who already despise us. It's cool to hate America. You're somehow an intellectual if you do, because you think you're going against the grain or something. I find it all rather silly. We're all just stinking human beings on the same planet.
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I'm so sick of seeing people bitch and call the button order "wrong." It immediately singles out all the ignorant people for me.
It's not wrong. It's just the Microsoft order you've been conditioned on. You guys claim that people prefer Windows simply because they're used to it, then bitch about Gnome's button order being "wrong." Apparently none of you realize it's been Apple's button order for quite some time and that you only think it's wrong because you a.) have been conditioned because of Windows, and b.) you haven't bothered using the damn thing for more than five minutes (where you'll immediately get used to it and realize why the order is more intuitive that way).
It was a fucking joke. "-1 Flamebait?" Geez, I even referenced Barney Doom for the old players around here. I've been a Doom fan longer than a lot of you have been playing Counterstrike.
Pull your head out of your ass. I look forward to the reverse meta-moderations on this one.
It's to meet the daily bash-Microsoft quota. Along with the pointless Shared Source article earlier intended to generate endless OSS vs. Shared Source comparisons, the entire point of this article is to have endless antitrust discussion that has already been had countless times before, mixed in with the occasional vaporware jokes and basless government insults (like yours...they'd get liquored up and discuss golf? Get real).
But hey, this is Slashdot. I've already gotten modded down just for making a joke in the Doom 3 article. Facts, objectivity, and a real sense of humor have no place here.
Yes, Microsoft has created an initiative whose sole purpose is to hopefully inject proprietary code into an OSS project somewhere down the line in order to sue them.
And people wonder why Slashdot is considered a poor source of fringe journalism.
Why won't it work for Microsoft? Because someone on Slashdot arbitrarily said so?
Microsoft already shares its source with many education and government institutes, and Shared Source is a way for private companies to get in on it.
Yeah, IBM understands what OSS is all about, because it's all they had left after losing out to Microsoft. Of course they'd embrace it. IBM is as self-serving as any other company, and I find it highly amusing that people have forgiven all their past evils simply because they throw the word "Linux" around.
Get it through your skulls, guys. Source code is not a right. Microsoft can give it out however they want.
First off, your argument consists of vague claims. They're "generally considered the most successful band." They make millions of profits in "various sales." Which likely means t-shirts, movies, posters, and ticket sales. Surprise, surprise, the band makes money from the stuff that isn't pirated.
What you seem to be saying is that bands don't have any control over their music. They must be forced to tour endlessly, more than any other group, to make a profit, just to appease the pirates who have decided that's what a band should do to make money.
How are the claims of the RIAA magically false just because a band tours a lot and makes a profit from it? Which of their claims are you saying is false? The Grateful Dead's touring profits don't have anything to do with the RIAA claims of music sales going down from illegal downloading.
This "happy middle ground" you speak of is bogus. It's an imaginary concept you've concocted thatthe artist is forced into because of people illegally pirating their music and not paying for it. Artists can choose not to give their music away for free. It's their right. No matter what you think of Metallica, you can't argue their stance--Lars simply said they have the right to control their music. It's true.
People don't have the right to violate copyright holder rights. I get the impression pirates are freeloaders who get bitter when the free ride is taken away, and have invented every justification under the sun for it. They never hold up logically or factually...they're just vague rallying cries to stir up fellow college dorm room pirates against the evil RIAA that dares sue the illegal downloaders (which is what Slashdotters were saying they should do years ago during the Napster lawsuit...funny how viewpoints change).
Because liking popular music means you watch MTV, or you're dumb. Not to mention, bands like Rush and Guns 'n' Roses feature so prominently on MTV these days. Sigh.
Except no one is forced to use GPL software. If you don't like it, use something else.
That doesn't have anything to do with his point. The point was that if you do use GPL software, GPL is less free because it compels a course of action in order to use it. Other licenses mentioned do not have those restrictions. The GPL is not the free-as-in-speech license it's made out to be.
The extra memory might be used to store:
* More combinations of black, silver, and brown. Using primary colors would unfortunately require another 512MB.
* More darkness.
* An electrical simulation that emulates poor electrical conditions. This will be used to flicker lights on and off randomly.
* More wasted bullets.
* More random metal plating on the letters of the Doom logo.
* A somersault animation. When the Doomguy jumps, he'll backflip now.
* Crates. Lots of crates. With UAC logos on them for variety.
* Shiny metal pipes. Lots of them. At least one will explode as you walk by it; another will have steam coming out of it for a volumetric effect.
* At least one level will have you walking down a hallway only to hear a.) a human scream, b.) demonic growling, or c.) eerie whistling wind coming from an unseen source.
* A hidden TC of Barney Doom, for old time's sake. Destroy Barney in true 3D now.
* Did I mention black, gray, brown, and darkness?
Get real. They have the right to protect the copyrighted materials that they own. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who understands this. They're even offering a legal alternative to avoid suing the university. That sounds like a good deal to me.
But what do I know. I don't have blind, unending hatred for companies that end in *AA simply because they dare go after individual pirates--which is exactly what people here on Slashdot were saying the *AA companies should do during the Napster lawsuit. It's funny how viewpoints can suddenly change when it comes to protecting a free ride that freeloaders get used to and get bitter over when it's taken away.
..Can't the RIAA, MPAA, and everyone else just realize that there is an efficient medium for distributing music, movies, and any other digital/converted to digital media, and WORK WITH IT?
You mean P2P? Like Napster?
People will find better, more secure ways to transfer music/movies over the net, these associations need to embrace these technological advances and come up with an updated business model for them to profit off of.
Ah, the "new business model" argument. Isn't that what Napster's pay-for-P2P service is? Isn't that what iTunes is? The days of claiming the record labels aren't embracing these technologies is over. They are. It's the pirates who aren't embracing these technologies.
It's funny when people say the RIAA is insulting their "customer base." People who illegally pirate copyrighted materials aren't customers.
And it's silly that the article summary tries to paint this as evil. It's supposed to be bad that the RIAA is trying to offer a legal alternative (you know, the "new business model" we hear being postulated here all the time) and give the university a way out of being sued for illegal activities. If the RIAA went ahead and sued, they'd also be criticized. Obviously the only thing that would make the submitter happy is if the RIAA sat by and did nothing while college students illegally downloaded their materials. Pirating music without paying for it is bad, right? I guess I was raised with a different set of morals--one that lacked a neverending sense of entitlement.
This article is basically what people here on Slashdot have already said ad nauseum. Microsoft is struggling to compete with something free, and Microsoft is struggling to compete with itself. I already knew that from countless discussions on the subject beforehand.
I never got this argument. It always seemed like sour grapes to me. What's so generic about "Microsoft Windows XP" or "Microsoft Office 2003?"
I don't think it's so much that some here actually believe it's too generic to be trademarked--they just want to strike back at Microsoft in some way out of some bizarre vindictiveness.
You're like the typical Slashdotter who thinks everything Microsoft does is evil and everything a professor or college kid does for OSS is golden. That entire post was hyperbolic spin that didn't actually illustrate anything other than your bias. You have no facts to assert your arguments any more than the opposing viewpoint. You just happen to have the majority viewpoint of Slashdot on your side who are very willing to moderate you up for writing yet another Microsoft-bash on Slashdot.
ASP.NET is any .NET language, or VB.NET or C#. If you'd like, you can even use C/C++.
ASP.NET doesn't just run on IIS either. Apache runs it along with Mono.
Well, you obviously didn't read the manuals or the between-episode text then.
Doom 1 was about the UAC's bases on Mars accidentally opening a portal to hell. You even went to hell and fought the boss. Doom 2 was about your return to Earth, only to find that hell came with you and has taken over.
You fight a giant pseudo-Satan in the wall at the end of that one. Still the freakiest boss ever.
I always find it funny when people disappointingly describe the similarities between Doom 3 and Half-Life's storylines, when meanwhile people who played Half-Life back in 1998 were commenting on how it took from Doom way back in 1994. Oh, well, some people will always choose to remain ignorant.
I resent the 35 year old comment, because I'm 21, and the games I grew up on weren't "streetcore" either. What on earth is the guy talking about? I don't know anyone in the 19-35 year old age range that is hip-hop hardcore. That shit resides in the high schools and malls. I like to refer to it as "mallcore," and it's pushed by Viacom affiliates like MTV controlled by rich executives who laugh at the very culture they propagate onto the kiddies, because it makes them money.
Fuck this rap-wannabe bullshit. It's hysterical. This musical fad is as long-lasting as glam was, disco was before it, and doo-wop was before that. The culture has already saturated itself--it's become the joke that glam was in the early 90s. Every rap video has the same oversaturated high-contrast video filters, the same sports jersey-wearing rappers, the same lyrics. It's around so much because it's extremely easy to produce this music. Just click in some drumbeats with your mouse in a tracking program and have someone write rap lyrics in 5 minutes, featuring today's flavor-of-the-month rapper. Bam, new single.
Midway, and any other companies getting into this, are making a huge mistake and will be laughed at in five years. Meanwhile, I'll play something that doesn't date itself so badly, like Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 (I still play Doom 1 now and then!).
Speaking for myself: It's not crap just because I hate it. I hate it because it's crap.
Did you know Rolling Stone said the same thing about every Led Zeppelin album released? You're going on the assumption that your OPINION is suddenly a fact that everyone else must go by.
You may think it's crap. That has absolutely no bearing on what everyone else thinks of it (hint: most of the public likes today's music). I know the popular bands around here are either garage electronic acts or really old bands like The Who, but that doesn't mean your opinions are set in stone to cast judgement on us all.
You don't hate it because it's crap. You think it's crap because you hate it. How this simple fact escapes you, I don't know. But next time I hear my country music-listening neighbor driving down the street, I'll be sure to tell him his music is crap, and that I hate it because it's crap, and therefore it is crap.
I'm sorry, but have you listened to some of the crap that is getting a lot of airplay?
Again, you need to step out of your own perspective. Why is it crap just because you don't like it? I guarantee a lot more people do.
Why is music bad if he doesn't like it?
I know lots more people who do like today's music. People claim bad music is the reason for increased piracy, which doesn't make sense. Why are people pirating music they don't like?
He wasn't charged "for simply playing chess." He violated a sanction and knew the consequences.
When the UN's members are taking oil for food from Iraq in violation of sanctions and ethics, meanwhile blocking you from removing a dictator because it would affect their bottom line, it's kind of hard to respect them.
Oh, I forgot, anti-greed rants only apply when we're criticizing the U.S., because you're a more enlightened individual if you hate the big guy, or something like that.
If you can't go by the judge's definition of a term then what can you go by?
How about society's common sense definition of what sexual relations are? Oral sex is sexual and it is an act performed in relation to another person. Come on.
I visited France one time. We went to a restaurant, and my wife ordered something on the menu, doing her best to pronounce the word. The waiter actually made fun of her "American perversion" of the French language and mocked her pronunciation. When she reached the point where she started to cry and I was up in his face about it, he started apologizing profusely.
It's been my experience that most countries out there just hate Americans because it's the thing to do. Somehow you're enlightened if you dislike the big guy (an attitude I sense in most liberals). Obviously there is meaningful criticism, but for the most part, people are just jealous because we really are the #1 superpower in the world, and as a result we're put in the position of policing parts of the world, much to the chagrin of those who already despise us. It's cool to hate America. You're somehow an intellectual if you do, because you think you're going against the grain or something. I find it all rather silly. We're all just stinking human beings on the same planet.