Uh, cars aren't copyrighted, and you can't trivially make a backup of your car. Copyright applies to ideas; physical items don't need copyright since we don't have any matter-copiers in existence.
Who modded this insightful? It's a joke, people! The GP misspelled "indie" as a shortened form of "independent" and instead somehow implied Indian. Blargh, stupid mods.
But what if your home directory is mounted as noexec? I'm pretty sure there's an equivalent to that for Windows (at least via some advanced administration tool).
Dude, D2 is in beta; it was finally released to all users; and as Taco said, IE is totally in the minority here. Firefox is the top priority as that's the majority here at Slashdot. Besides, the normal discussion viewing is still available, so if you're stuck using IE, you can just use Slashdot statically.
Flash doesn't come installed with Windows. MP3 and DVD support doesn't come with Windows. If you install another media player, different audio and video formats open in different programs.
All your complaints hold true to Windows. I'd argue that Windows isn't ready for the desktop...
At least you didn't have to write a gazillion different ethernet drivers and a TCP/IP stack. Imagine if they wanted IPv4 and IPv6! Make that a 3-4 month project if you want anything remotely usable to come out of it.
Same thing happened to me with Wikipedia. Maybe you could try filtering the out traffic (don't allow connections to certain sites) if your server resides on the same IP address as you.
I'd recommend giving troll posts a +3 bonus; that seems to be the most abused negative mod out there, and at least 75% of the time (in my experience M2'ing) are given unfairly.
Otherwise, I've found that most moderations are fine. Maybe I luck out while M2'ing?
If you post your opinion enough (e.g. like twitter does, although I agree with him), there just aren't enough mod points to go around to mod you down all the time. A lot of people's comment history seem to be a lot of +1 comments, even those with excellent karma.
Then it isn't a wiki anymore. I'm sure a lot of edits these days are clarifications, typo fixes, and other minor modifications. Having to approve them all would be tedious and would grind Wikipedia to a halt.
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Uh, cars aren't copyrighted, and you can't trivially make a backup of your car. Copyright applies to ideas; physical items don't need copyright since we don't have any matter-copiers in existence.
Who modded this insightful? It's a joke, people! The GP misspelled "indie" as a shortened form of "independent" and instead somehow implied Indian. Blargh, stupid mods.
But what if your home directory is mounted as noexec? I'm pretty sure there's an equivalent to that for Windows (at least via some advanced administration tool).
Dude, D2 is in beta; it was finally released to all users; and as Taco said, IE is totally in the minority here. Firefox is the top priority as that's the majority here at Slashdot. Besides, the normal discussion viewing is still available, so if you're stuck using IE, you can just use Slashdot statically.
Ooh, WMA, like we even need support for that crap. The iPod supports all of the others mentioned.
Flash doesn't come installed with Windows. MP3 and DVD support doesn't come with Windows. If you install another media player, different audio and video formats open in different programs.
All your complaints hold true to Windows. I'd argue that Windows isn't ready for the desktop...
John C. Dvorak, the troll from PCWorld Magazine. See dvorak.org/blog
I thought it was rot13 until you confused the hell out of me. ;p
At least you didn't have to write a gazillion different ethernet drivers and a TCP/IP stack. Imagine if they wanted IPv4 and IPv6! Make that a 3-4 month project if you want anything remotely usable to come out of it.
The DN in FQDN stands for "domain name" anyhow...
I've found it better to just add "site:wikipedia.org" to a Google search query than use Wikipedia's awful search.
Verizon happily handed over illegal phone records to the NSA; I wouldn't trust them with IP logs either...
Same thing happened to me with Wikipedia. Maybe you could try filtering the out traffic (don't allow connections to certain sites) if your server resides on the same IP address as you.
Which is especially annoying for the books that are public domain...
What's sad is that I thought you were serious for a minute there. I need a break from here...
I think they were running the wrong program. All they had to do was launch Terminal, type in "yes", press enter, and watch as their cores blew up.
I'd recommend giving troll posts a +3 bonus; that seems to be the most abused negative mod out there, and at least 75% of the time (in my experience M2'ing) are given unfairly.
Otherwise, I've found that most moderations are fine. Maybe I luck out while M2'ing?
If you post your opinion enough (e.g. like twitter does, although I agree with him), there just aren't enough mod points to go around to mod you down all the time. A lot of people's comment history seem to be a lot of +1 comments, even those with excellent karma.
Then it isn't a wiki anymore. I'm sure a lot of edits these days are clarifications, typo fixes, and other minor modifications. Having to approve them all would be tedious and would grind Wikipedia to a halt.
Too bad that link didn't exist in the late '90s. Visual Studio was released free of charge only recently (like the last year or two).
I don't think arbitrary means what you think it means...
Xfire has been around for a few years, so I doubt Sony is copying Xbox Live by keeping the same name...
I think it's a reference to CmdrTaco's original thoughts about the first iPod (less space than a Nomad, no Wifi; lame).
LimeWire uses the open protocol Gnutella.