It's a total flamebait article. This sort of article would have gotten modded down if it was a comment. It's just an attempt to bog people down with anti-"M$" links. I could create an article with just as many positive SP2 ariticles--and believe me, the response to SP2 was very positive and not at all this phony letdown that Slashdot is trying to put out to its readers--but it would never get posted on the front page of Slashdot.
The entire summary is inflammatory. "Did Slashdotters call this one?" Well, gee, I'm so surprised that Slashdotters think SP2 is a failure. And then it even links to the widely criticized "Windows Secure In 10 Years, Says MS" article.
I am fully convinced there is a smear campaign going on against Microsoft that goes beyond merely being a pro-Linux site--as in, it is going beyond normal levels of criticism. I suspect it has to do with the fact that this website is corporate-owned, an entity of OSTG which is a company that makes money off of selling OSS and Linux products. The rate of anti-Microsoft articles has increased dramatically with the release of SP2, and headlines/article summaries are often wildly exaggerated or even completely false. If Microsoft owned a tech news site, and the articles it posted were inflammatory and exaggerated in the same way Slashdot's are, you know that Slashdot itself would be all over it with criticism! But Slashdot's misleading "news" is given a pass because a lot of people here have chosen this website as the haven for their frustrations with Microsoft. This place is the Ain't-It-Cool-News for IT nerds.
I'm sure many of you will disagree, and I respect that because I used to like Slashdot too back in the 90s when it was still a good place to find cool science and computer news, but since the corporate buyout, it has been a major source for three major things--anime news, anti-Microsoft news, and OSS project releases. In between those are scattered various articles intended to generate page hits by inciting emotions in the majority viewpoint of Slashdot--anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, left-leaning computer geeks (which makes it all the more amusing that Slashdot is actually corporate-owned, displays large banner ads, and sells subscriptions). That's why we get "More Automated DMCA Lies" articles--as if an automated system was an actual live being that could "lie" to you, when it's really just some automated system that made a mistake--and anti-RIAA, anti-SCO, and anti-copyright articles. We all know the formula for those articles.
Finally, it does not surprise me one bit that this article was posted by michael. Plenty of others have said enough about him. Even Jon Katz's articles were at least genuine in their subject matter. Michael's are almost always a cynical backslap against someone. Let's not forget his all-caps "ANTI-INTEL" troll in the 64-bit chip article, which would have been modded down had it been a normal comment and not an article on the front page.
If you disagree, reply and let me know why you do. But this whole obsessive-compulsive desire to bash and bash and bash Microsoft is just boring me to death. This is supposed to be a LINUX site, remember? Isn't there anything cool going on in OSS lately? I miss the old articles we used to get on Slashdot, and the fascinating discussions that used to take place (as opposed to the karma point games that go on now as everyone plays comedian and makes +5 Funny jokes that aren't funny). Do we really need yet ANOTHER SP2-bashing article?
Not to mention that most of those vandalizing sports fans are drunk. Yet alcohol is legal while marijuana is not. As Bill Hicks said--two people are loud, obnoxious, and fighting at a football game. Are they drunk, or are they high? You know the answer.
Yet, alcohol, which is the cause of so much pain and misery in so many families' lives, is legal while marijuana, a much more peaceful drug with no real documented evidence of negative side effects, is banned. If people can stay home drinking beer all day, why can't people stay home smoking pot all day?
Sorry, off-topic tangent there. But it kind of relates to the way people blame one thing while allowing another for no logical reason.
Because it's mistakes from a heated enemy, it becomes "lies." Didn't you know? Lying is a question of intent, but since this is the evil DMCA, the automated systems don't make mistakes--they are living beings that actually "lie" to you.
Also, because michael posted it, which always means it will be an emotionally charged post with little basis in rational common sense.
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What part of free speech confuses you?
Free speech rights have to do with preventing the government from censoring you, not the public. People constantly misuse the term "free speech." Slashdot has every right to refuse advertising any content that they want, and this is just a simple question of standing behind your standards. You know...integrity. I just pointed out that it seems rather silly and double-sided to constantly post anti-Microsoft articles, meanwhile running their advertisements.
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There's no "balance" on Slashdot. Everything Microsoft does is bad, and everything OSS does is good. Referencing banner ads doesn't prove your point other than to point out the hypocrisy of a website that decries the evils of money-grubbing companies like Microsoft, meanwhile taking money from them to run their advertisements!
Black & White was rushed by the publisher to beat Tribes. Peter Molyneux has stated this on every occasion. It was essentially an unfinished game. He set out to address every one of its issues in the sequel.
To be fair, that doesn't matter to the gamer who shelled out money for the thing, but you can't just pin it on Molyneux when he was against releasing it before it was even finished.
The "Death" whisper was removed in the very first patch. Molyneux has been completely open about the faults of the first game (they were rushed to beat Tribes in time), and has made sure to address them in the sequel...which now really does have RTS elements (civilizations can fight each other now).
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After all, IBM, OSTG, and other Linux organizations don't commission studies or anything...
Just another daily bash-Microsoft article. The rate is 3-4 a day now.
Mr. Sinus uses no characters from MST3K. If MST3K thought the idea of making fun of movies was original, they should have filed a business method patent.
Maybe that's why they're only suing for trademark infringement and not for anything else?
I think it's great when people cite Slashdot articles as proof for their points in other Slashdot articles.
Kind of a circular logic there, don't you think? Of course Slashdot is going to claim Hollywood is "afraid" of Microsoft. Of course this article is going to make it seem like Microsoft's codec is the only codec for Blu-Ray (it's not, there are plenty).
This isn't even news. It's been known for a long time that VC-1 was part of the Blu-Ray spec. But hey, we needed yet another bash-Microsoft article. I'm telling you, as I've been saying in prevoius posts, it's 3-4 a day now.
Yeah, the weekly boycotts announced by Slashdot posters in these kinds of discussions always seem to take off and have an effect, right? Boycotting has become the standard fallback insult. "I don't like this, I suggest a boycott!" It gets people +5 posts, and then everyone quickly forgets about it.
It *doesn't* say "WINDOWS XP THE MOST SECURE OS." It just say, XP will make your computer more secure and reliable than previous versions of Windows. Which is arguably true.
Wasn't the Famicom billed as a "family computer" complete with keyboard and disk drive? Didn't they sell endless add-on accessories to extend the functionality of the NES? I can even use my Gamecube as a Gameboy if I want to.
Unless you mean that they don't like putting it all in one product because then they can't sell seperate add-ons--in that case, you would be right.
All opinion on his past movies notwithstanding, the reason he's an obvious sellout/hack is that up to the release of Jersey Girl, he was insistent that he was maturing and was done with the previous universe of characters. He was going to make more serious, mainstream films now because he had "grown up." J&SB Strike Back was supposed to be the last film of the old Kevin Smith. Anyone who didn't like Jersey Girl was just "immature" and obsessed with dick and fart jokes.
Then Jersey Girl tanked at the box office.
Suddenly, he passes on directing the Green Hornet (because he's afraid of how the action sequences would turn out with him directing...way to branch out, man), and we get an announcement that he's doing a sequel to CLERKS of all films, the one movie that even passing Kevin Smith fans consider sacred.
He's also the one who wanted the gay robot after seeing the gay black man in Chasing Amy. And he insisted that there be polar bears guarding the Fortress of Solitude, or someone had to fight a polar bear.
He's a high school dropout, former hairdresser to Barbara Streisand, so what do you expect? Yep, he went on to produce Wild, Wild West as well.
Actually, it's nothing more than yet another completely exagerrated headline on Slashdot. Microsoft didn't say Windows wouldn't be secure until 2011. A security guy there, talking about the browser timeline, mentioned 10 years as a timeline for clamping down software.
He doesn't "reveal" that he uses Firefox either. Nowhere in the article does it state such.
What really happened is some L00nux d00d fanboy caught wind of this Wired sidebar "interview," drew conclusions that had nothing to do with the content of it, wrote up a Slashdot summary with a completely biased headline with the knowledge that Slashdot's editors would jump on it, then just kicked back and waited. Viola, instant typical Microsoft Slashdot article.
I don't like Microsoft's tactics any more than the next guy, but honestly this website has degenerated into complete biased silliness with regards to its Microsoft coverage. No Microsoft-owned "tech news" site would be able to get away with this if they did this to Linux, but when an OSTG-owned "tech news" site does it, it's all right...interesting, seeing as how OSTG sells and makes money off of OSS products and all.
...of the now obsessive Microsoft article rate on Slashdot. What is this, four Longhorn articles a day now? Even the Microsoft mouse article had a pointless bash of Microsoft Bob for no reason!
SURELY there is something interesting going on with GNOME, or something on the kernel mailing list? Where is the OSS news?
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It's a total flamebait article. This sort of article would have gotten modded down if it was a comment. It's just an attempt to bog people down with anti-"M$" links. I could create an article with just as many positive SP2 ariticles--and believe me, the response to SP2 was very positive and not at all this phony letdown that Slashdot is trying to put out to its readers--but it would never get posted on the front page of Slashdot.
The entire summary is inflammatory. "Did Slashdotters call this one?" Well, gee, I'm so surprised that Slashdotters think SP2 is a failure. And then it even links to the widely criticized "Windows Secure In 10 Years, Says MS" article.
I am fully convinced there is a smear campaign going on against Microsoft that goes beyond merely being a pro-Linux site--as in, it is going beyond normal levels of criticism. I suspect it has to do with the fact that this website is corporate-owned, an entity of OSTG which is a company that makes money off of selling OSS and Linux products. The rate of anti-Microsoft articles has increased dramatically with the release of SP2, and headlines/article summaries are often wildly exaggerated or even completely false. If Microsoft owned a tech news site, and the articles it posted were inflammatory and exaggerated in the same way Slashdot's are, you know that Slashdot itself would be all over it with criticism! But Slashdot's misleading "news" is given a pass because a lot of people here have chosen this website as the haven for their frustrations with Microsoft. This place is the Ain't-It-Cool-News for IT nerds.
I'm sure many of you will disagree, and I respect that because I used to like Slashdot too back in the 90s when it was still a good place to find cool science and computer news, but since the corporate buyout, it has been a major source for three major things--anime news, anti-Microsoft news, and OSS project releases. In between those are scattered various articles intended to generate page hits by inciting emotions in the majority viewpoint of Slashdot--anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, left-leaning computer geeks (which makes it all the more amusing that Slashdot is actually corporate-owned, displays large banner ads, and sells subscriptions). That's why we get "More Automated DMCA Lies" articles--as if an automated system was an actual live being that could "lie" to you, when it's really just some automated system that made a mistake--and anti-RIAA, anti-SCO, and anti-copyright articles. We all know the formula for those articles.
Finally, it does not surprise me one bit that this article was posted by michael. Plenty of others have said enough about him. Even Jon Katz's articles were at least genuine in their subject matter. Michael's are almost always a cynical backslap against someone. Let's not forget his all-caps "ANTI-INTEL" troll in the 64-bit chip article, which would have been modded down had it been a normal comment and not an article on the front page.
If you disagree, reply and let me know why you do. But this whole obsessive-compulsive desire to bash and bash and bash Microsoft is just boring me to death. This is supposed to be a LINUX site, remember? Isn't there anything cool going on in OSS lately? I miss the old articles we used to get on Slashdot, and the fascinating discussions that used to take place (as opposed to the karma point games that go on now as everyone plays comedian and makes +5 Funny jokes that aren't funny). Do we really need yet ANOTHER SP2-bashing article?
Not to mention that most of those vandalizing sports fans are drunk. Yet alcohol is legal while marijuana is not. As Bill Hicks said--two people are loud, obnoxious, and fighting at a football game. Are they drunk, or are they high? You know the answer.
Yet, alcohol, which is the cause of so much pain and misery in so many families' lives, is legal while marijuana, a much more peaceful drug with no real documented evidence of negative side effects, is banned. If people can stay home drinking beer all day, why can't people stay home smoking pot all day?
Sorry, off-topic tangent there. But it kind of relates to the way people blame one thing while allowing another for no logical reason.
Because it's mistakes from a heated enemy, it becomes "lies." Didn't you know? Lying is a question of intent, but since this is the evil DMCA, the automated systems don't make mistakes--they are living beings that actually "lie" to you.
Also, because michael posted it, which always means it will be an emotionally charged post with little basis in rational common sense.
What part of free speech confuses you?
Free speech rights have to do with preventing the government from censoring you, not the public. People constantly misuse the term "free speech." Slashdot has every right to refuse advertising any content that they want, and this is just a simple question of standing behind your standards. You know...integrity. I just pointed out that it seems rather silly and double-sided to constantly post anti-Microsoft articles, meanwhile running their advertisements.
There's no "balance" on Slashdot. Everything Microsoft does is bad, and everything OSS does is good. Referencing banner ads doesn't prove your point other than to point out the hypocrisy of a website that decries the evils of money-grubbing companies like Microsoft, meanwhile taking money from them to run their advertisements!
Black & White was rushed by the publisher to beat Tribes. Peter Molyneux has stated this on every occasion. It was essentially an unfinished game. He set out to address every one of its issues in the sequel.
To be fair, that doesn't matter to the gamer who shelled out money for the thing, but you can't just pin it on Molyneux when he was against releasing it before it was even finished.
The "Death" whisper was removed in the very first patch. Molyneux has been completely open about the faults of the first game (they were rushed to beat Tribes in time), and has made sure to address them in the sequel...which now really does have RTS elements (civilizations can fight each other now).
After all, IBM, OSTG, and other Linux organizations don't commission studies or anything...
Just another daily bash-Microsoft article. The rate is 3-4 a day now.
Mr. Sinus uses no characters from MST3K. If MST3K thought the idea of making fun of movies was original, they should have filed a business method patent.
Maybe that's why they're only suing for trademark infringement and not for anything else?
I swear, people really need to think about RTFA.
You know what happens if you don't defend a trademark, right?
Prove it.
You know, it's not like MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 aren't patented codecs, either.
I think it's great when people cite Slashdot articles as proof for their points in other Slashdot articles.
Kind of a circular logic there, don't you think? Of course Slashdot is going to claim Hollywood is "afraid" of Microsoft. Of course this article is going to make it seem like Microsoft's codec is the only codec for Blu-Ray (it's not, there are plenty).
This isn't even news. It's been known for a long time that VC-1 was part of the Blu-Ray spec. But hey, we needed yet another bash-Microsoft article. I'm telling you, as I've been saying in prevoius posts, it's 3-4 a day now.
Yeah, the weekly boycotts announced by Slashdot posters in these kinds of discussions always seem to take off and have an effect, right? Boycotting has become the standard fallback insult. "I don't like this, I suggest a boycott!" It gets people +5 posts, and then everyone quickly forgets about it.
MPC is perhaps the best audiophile compression format out there. I was quite happy to delete my OGG files and reencode my CDs to MPC.
It *doesn't* say "WINDOWS XP THE MOST SECURE OS." It just say, XP will make your computer more secure and reliable than previous versions of Windows. Which is arguably true.
Nice strawman.
The article is merely the opinion of an "analyst" guessing that the DS will support VoIP. There is no official confirmation or news.
Well, except on Slashot where it gets reported as such...
It's been like this day after day--at least one or two articles posted in which the headline and summary are 100% exagerrated or downright wrong.
I'm still laughing over "MS Says Windows Not Secure Until 2011." Geez.
Wasn't the Famicom billed as a "family computer" complete with keyboard and disk drive? Didn't they sell endless add-on accessories to extend the functionality of the NES? I can even use my Gamecube as a Gameboy if I want to.
Unless you mean that they don't like putting it all in one product because then they can't sell seperate add-ons--in that case, you would be right.
Yes, but they're a LINUX company now! You hear that? LINUX!
You can opt-out of being listed in the phone book. These people weren't given a choice.
All opinion on his past movies notwithstanding, the reason he's an obvious sellout/hack is that up to the release of Jersey Girl, he was insistent that he was maturing and was done with the previous universe of characters. He was going to make more serious, mainstream films now because he had "grown up." J&SB Strike Back was supposed to be the last film of the old Kevin Smith. Anyone who didn't like Jersey Girl was just "immature" and obsessed with dick and fart jokes.
Then Jersey Girl tanked at the box office.
Suddenly, he passes on directing the Green Hornet (because he's afraid of how the action sequences would turn out with him directing...way to branch out, man), and we get an announcement that he's doing a sequel to CLERKS of all films, the one movie that even passing Kevin Smith fans consider sacred.
He's also the one who wanted the gay robot after seeing the gay black man in Chasing Amy. And he insisted that there be polar bears guarding the Fortress of Solitude, or someone had to fight a polar bear.
He's a high school dropout, former hairdresser to Barbara Streisand, so what do you expect? Yep, he went on to produce Wild, Wild West as well.
Actually, it's nothing more than yet another completely exagerrated headline on Slashdot. Microsoft didn't say Windows wouldn't be secure until 2011. A security guy there, talking about the browser timeline, mentioned 10 years as a timeline for clamping down software.
He doesn't "reveal" that he uses Firefox either. Nowhere in the article does it state such.
What really happened is some L00nux d00d fanboy caught wind of this Wired sidebar "interview," drew conclusions that had nothing to do with the content of it, wrote up a Slashdot summary with a completely biased headline with the knowledge that Slashdot's editors would jump on it, then just kicked back and waited. Viola, instant typical Microsoft Slashdot article.
I don't like Microsoft's tactics any more than the next guy, but honestly this website has degenerated into complete biased silliness with regards to its Microsoft coverage. No Microsoft-owned "tech news" site would be able to get away with this if they did this to Linux, but when an OSTG-owned "tech news" site does it, it's all right...interesting, seeing as how OSTG sells and makes money off of OSS products and all.
...of the now obsessive Microsoft article rate on Slashdot. What is this, four Longhorn articles a day now? Even the Microsoft mouse article had a pointless bash of Microsoft Bob for no reason!
SURELY there is something interesting going on with GNOME, or something on the kernel mailing list? Where is the OSS news?