Johnson was impeached for being the right guy from the wrong place. Being Southern during Reconstruction isn't exactly the position you want to be in when you're in Congress.
Let me guess, you think you're funny. Once, in an article about Stephen Hawking, somebody took some Chuck Norris list and replaced every instance of "Chuck Norris" with "Stephen Hawking". I mentioned how Chuck Norris jokes are old and tired and ought to be put in the old joke retirement home(which is probably some Korean email service) and somebody took the same list except they put "WilliamSChips" in there. That AC probably thought the same thing as you.
This isn't just "one guy". This is a political criminal, who had fled Russia. Bush may be bad but out of the 100000 Iraqis(and 3000 US soldiers) he killed he doesn't go after ex-Americans who say horrible things about the US.
I hate Corporate America more than the next guy but malfy.org makes me want to become a corporatist. Seriously, if that's the best they have than corporations are fucking benevolent.
The ability to administer and fix a machine without having 20 years worth of Unix experience. I haven't even been alive 20 years and I'm doing fine.
A sane release schedule (not every 6 months). I use Gentoo which updates constantly. I can't stand Microsoft's method of taking 500 years to get to each new release.
Complete and seamless ability to integrate with Windows. I've had less problems configuring Samba on Linux than I've had with SMB on Windows. What else is there? No, seriously, what else is there?
Reasonable pricing. You consider "$300" more reasonable than free(or, at the very most, $5)?
Some kind of liability insurance. Liability with commercial vendors is a sham anyways. The EULAs in commercial software absolve them of responsibility, they just do it with more doubletalk.
Distributions that work with as much hardware as Windows currently does. Linux works with much more hardware than Windows. It has shoddy support in some places, sure, but much of that is in places Windows doesn't even run at all on.
As a representative of the Linux community, participate in mailing list and newsgroup discussions in a professional manner. Refrain from name-calling and use of vulgar language. Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer. Your words will either enhance or degrade the image the reader has of the Linux community.
Fuck you and fuck Linus Torvalds as CEO. Linus is just the wrong man in the right place.
Avoid hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims at all costs. It's unprofessional and will result in unproductive discussions.
Slashdot? Professional? Productive? That's like claiming that the Bush Administration is honest.
A thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a posting will not only provide insight for your readers, but will also increase their respect for your knowledge and abilities.
The first good piece of advice here, and it's fucking obvious
Always remember that if you insult or are disrespectful to someone, their negative experience may be shared with many others. If you do offend someone, please try to make amends.
Well, it obviously was shared with whoever runs the botnet you're posting from.
Focus on what Linux has to offer. There is no need to bash the competition. Linux is a good, solid product that stands on its own.
Sorry, I'm going to bash M$ every chance I get. It's not enough that good wins. The fight for quality in software requires the ultimate death of Micro$oft. It may be hard to believe but it is true.
Respect the use of other operating systems. While Linux is a wonderful platform, it does not meet everyone's needs.
I'm not going to respect the single greatest roadblock in the highway of quality in the developed world. If Micro$oft meets your needs, reconsider your needs.
Refer to another product by its proper name. There's nothing to be gained by attempting to ridicule a company or its products by using "creative spelling". If we expect respect for Linux, we must respect other products.
Do you really think Ballmer is going to ever give Linux respect? Requesting Slashdot not use M$ is like requesting Ballmer to kiss an iPod. This is not a forum where Linux bigwigs reasonably communicate with Microsoft representatives. This is CmdrTaco's fucking playground, and if you do not play by his rules he has every right to kick you out. If you don't like it you leave and go to Digg which is supposed to be "user-focused" or to Micro$oft.com where you can meet with people who love M$ as much as you do. This is mostly populated by the Linux community, and I'm going to talk like there's nobody else around. If you don't like it, go back to your botnets.
Give credit where credit is due. Linux is just the kernel. Without the efforts of people involved with the GNU project , MIT, Berkeley and others too numerous to mention, the Linux kernel would not be very useful to most people.
This has no place in this list. Anybody who even cares about who made what in the kernel, already knows. Again, another piece of useless advice.
Don't insist that Linux is the only answer for a particular application. Just as the Linux community cherishes the freedom that Linux provides them, Linux only solutions would deprive others of their freedom.
Sorry, but software developers only providing software for Windoze is the very enemy of quality in software and it must be ridiculed and stopped.
There will be cases where Linux is not the answer. Be the first to recognize this and offer another solution.
This just sounds like a repeat of the last item.
I'm not sure how much of that I believe, but either way, lists like that piss me off. Anybody who doesn't al
Yes, but that's not the USAF's, that's the Doctor's. Although, then again, who knows what we picked up from the Goa'uld? Besides Samantha Carter, I mean.
I have pirated music exactly once and it was a CD from a band whose other two albums I already bought but this CD I didn't see on the stores(and I don't have a credit card so I can't use iTunes Store). In addition, I got it from a friend and if I ever got the chance I would pay them(I can't use the mail because it'll just get sent back). I have also never pirated movies and the one time I tried to use a keygen it was for a game which I had already bought and played and wanted to replay but lost the original key for.
And yet your type claims that just because I am an opponent of the MAFIAA's legal tactics and hate the patently untrue rhetoric about how nobody would make music anymore I obviously have to be a rampant pirate.
Wait, how dare I bring facts into mindless Slashdot community bashing! TEH EVIL PIRATE SLASHDTO IS EIVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF But it's still a damn good argument against those ridiculous 5-blade razors.
Interesting, I've found more truth on Wikipedia than anywhere else, literally. Show me one place which has a smidgen more truth than Wikipedia. Oh wait, those sites don't exist.
Interesting. I've seen the exact opposite. Abject hatred of Wikipedia is the second-easiest way to get free karma on Slashdot. (The easiest is abject hatred of "the evil Slashdot moderation system" and stating that you'll surely get modded down for your next post.)
Just because you got modded down for supporting Naziism doesn't mean that they're censoring your opinions.
As it should be. Patriotic speech doesn't need to be protected. It's not the people saying patriotic things that need to be protected from military intervention. It's the Communists, the terrorists, the "un-American" people, those are the ones that need their freedom of speech. Freedom isn't the freedom to say two plus two is four. It's the freedom to say it's three.
Well, he's really talking about places where immigrants would actually go, Eastern Europe isn't one of them. And the lack of Chinese in Eastern Europe has no bearing on the fact that a lot of Chinese have left China.
The money that goes into nuclear power plants doesn't go into the coffers of Big Oil. It also doesn't go into the coffers of Big Coal. That's a pretty good thing.
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Johnson was impeached for being the right guy from the wrong place. Being Southern during Reconstruction isn't exactly the position you want to be in when you're in Congress.
Unless you audit every line in every piece of code you ever use you have some degree of faith.
A giant pyramid is even cooler. Especially if you(not Lord Yu, you) are the one impersonating the god.
Let me guess, you think you're funny. Once, in an article about Stephen Hawking, somebody took some Chuck Norris list and replaced every instance of "Chuck Norris" with "Stephen Hawking". I mentioned how Chuck Norris jokes are old and tired and ought to be put in the old joke retirement home(which is probably some Korean email service) and somebody took the same list except they put "WilliamSChips" in there. That AC probably thought the same thing as you.
And then 300 years later somebody uses advanced elliptic curves to figure it out.
This isn't just "one guy". This is a political criminal, who had fled Russia. Bush may be bad but out of the 100000 Iraqis(and 3000 US soldiers) he killed he doesn't go after ex-Americans who say horrible things about the US.
I hate Corporate America more than the next guy but malfy.org makes me want to become a corporatist. Seriously, if that's the best they have than corporations are fucking benevolent.
Fuck you and fuck Linus Torvalds as CEO. Linus is just the wrong man in the right place.
Slashdot? Professional? Productive? That's like claiming that the Bush Administration is honest.
The first good piece of advice here, and it's fucking obvious
Well, it obviously was shared with whoever runs the botnet you're posting from.
Sorry, I'm going to bash M$ every chance I get. It's not enough that good wins. The fight for quality in software requires the ultimate death of Micro$oft. It may be hard to believe but it is true.
I'm not going to respect the single greatest roadblock in the highway of quality in the developed world. If Micro$oft meets your needs, reconsider your needs.
Do you really think Ballmer is going to ever give Linux respect? Requesting Slashdot not use M$ is like requesting Ballmer to kiss an iPod. This is not a forum where Linux bigwigs reasonably communicate with Microsoft representatives. This is CmdrTaco's fucking playground, and if you do not play by his rules he has every right to kick you out. If you don't like it you leave and go to Digg which is supposed to be "user-focused" or to Micro$oft.com where you can meet with people who love M$ as much as you do. This is mostly populated by the Linux community, and I'm going to talk like there's nobody else around. If you don't like it, go back to your botnets.
This has no place in this list. Anybody who even cares about who made what in the kernel, already knows. Again, another piece of useless advice.
Sorry, but software developers only providing software for Windoze is the very enemy of quality in software and it must be ridiculed and stopped.
This just sounds like a repeat of the last item.
I'm not sure how much of that I believe, but either way, lists like that piss me off. Anybody who doesn't al
Yes, but that's not the USAF's, that's the Doctor's. Although, then again, who knows what we picked up from the Goa'uld? Besides Samantha Carter, I mean.
Evacuation doesn't matter if the Goa'uld or Ori invade us. The Alpha Site won't be able to hold all of humanity.
This is game code from a Real Programmer.
I'm American and learned calculus in sixth grade. :P
I have pirated music exactly once and it was a CD from a band whose other two albums I already bought but this CD I didn't see on the stores(and I don't have a credit card so I can't use iTunes Store). In addition, I got it from a friend and if I ever got the chance I would pay them(I can't use the mail because it'll just get sent back). I have also never pirated movies and the one time I tried to use a keygen it was for a game which I had already bought and played and wanted to replay but lost the original key for.
And yet your type claims that just because I am an opponent of the MAFIAA's legal tactics and hate the patently untrue rhetoric about how nobody would make music anymore I obviously have to be a rampant pirate.
Wait, how dare I bring facts into mindless Slashdot community bashing! TEH EVIL PIRATE SLASHDTO IS EIVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's "1.0f / sqrt( v.x*v.x + v.y*v.y + v.z*v.z )"?
YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT ___!
Because the Japanese all got their Wiis three weeks ago from Hiro Nakamura.
Interesting, I've found more truth on Wikipedia than anywhere else, literally. Show me one place which has a smidgen more truth than Wikipedia. Oh wait, those sites don't exist.
Interesting. I've seen the exact opposite. Abject hatred of Wikipedia is the second-easiest way to get free karma on Slashdot. (The easiest is abject hatred of "the evil Slashdot moderation system" and stating that you'll surely get modded down for your next post.)
Just because you got modded down for supporting Naziism doesn't mean that they're censoring your opinions.
How interesting, I don't see you getting a -1. You haven't even been modded yet, and chances are, when you're modded, it'll be +5 Insightful.
As it should be. Patriotic speech doesn't need to be protected. It's not the people saying patriotic things that need to be protected from military intervention. It's the Communists, the terrorists, the "un-American" people, those are the ones that need their freedom of speech. Freedom isn't the freedom to say two plus two is four. It's the freedom to say it's three.
Well, he's really talking about places where immigrants would actually go, Eastern Europe isn't one of them. And the lack of Chinese in Eastern Europe has no bearing on the fact that a lot of Chinese have left China.
The money that goes into nuclear power plants doesn't go into the coffers of Big Oil. It also doesn't go into the coffers of Big Coal. That's a pretty good thing.