Linux is an unusable piece of crap just like Slashdot. The reason 95% of computers run Windows is because it's 100% better than Linux. Get over it, grow up and get a real job, and quite reading Slashdot all day.
Are you saying that if bill gates wanted to spend $500,000,000.00 in advertising on google, amazon, ebay, msn, slashdot, etc., that you'd be able to match him to express _your_ opinion?
Think of it like karma. Bill Gates just has a lot more karma than you do so he gets more mod points.
If this goes more widespread (eg. GM trees for paper production) we can expect weird things happening (eg. say we remove some substance from trees to make them easier to process but that gene provides disease resistance etc. If that crosses into wild populations then we end up with sick forests etc).
No. The genetically engineered trees (being disease susceptible) would die out and the wild populations would not. This is called natural selection.
Trade deficits are self-correcting. The outflow of currency depresses the value of the dollar against foreign currencies, lowering the cost of US goods and services in the world market. The trick (just as in stock prices) is to avoid wild swings from one side to the other. On the bright side, if your job has been outsourced then a weakened dollar is just what you're looking for to bring it back here.
Until recently microsoft.com was un-usable in Firefox (I assume deliberately). Now I notice that it renders perfectly in Firefox. If you pull it up in Firefox and IE side by side, you cannot tell the difference. This tells you something.
I think that that needs to be our argument: "IE is a capable-enough browser, a bit like wordpad or the Windows firewall, but a power-use like you would probably want to upgrade to a proper browser"... or something similar.
Until they go to one of many major websites that do not render properly in Mozilla. Then they don't trust your advice anymore. I use Firefox and I hid the IE icon on my wife's computer, but that doesn't change the facts. I told my wife that I'd rather a few sites look screwy than she get spyware or trojans installed through Internet Explorer and she agrees. Most people would go back to using IE though.
As far as I can tell this only affects sites that are "protected" by Windows logon security. You really shouldn't be using that on public sites (or any sites IMHO). Mis-typed URL's will not get through properly written login validation code that gets checked at the top of every page in a site.
this was immediately marked as a blocker, so the official (initial) release of Firefox was NOT going to go out with this bug, anyway, no matter what
After 2 years or pre-releases that argument won't fly anymore. There are MILLIONS of FireFox users and the general public has been encouraged to use it by most of the OSS community. We have seen dozens of posts from/.'ers who routinely load Firefox on their mother/sister/uncle's computer.
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This gets repeated over and over on/. "Now that XYZ Corp is giving away their software they'll really gain marketshare."
News-Flash: If you never pay for a companies products and only use the free downloads then you are not their customer, you are a leech and they don't care what you think.
I've got the same old hardware, it just works better under Linux. It does more for me too.
No. It doesn't "do more". It may or may not be a more stable OS, but there are exponentially more applications written for Windows. You are right about the registry though. IMHO 90% of the problems with Windows sofware are caused by the registry. It is beyond stupid to put information for hundreds of unrelated programs into a single database so that the entire system can be brought to it's knees by one corrupted file.
What's wrong with "War for Oil"? Is it worse than "War for Land" (Isreal,Palestine), "War for Ethinic Cleansing" (Balkins), "War for Genocide" (Africa), "War for Theology" (Ireland). If you have to fight a war, oil is one of the least crazy of all the crazy reasons. But the Iraq war is no more about oil now than Vietnam was in 1965 or 1928.
US analyst Ludwell Denny in his book "We Fight for Oil" (1928) noted the domestic oil shortage and says international diplomacy had failed to secure any reliable foreign sources of oil for the United States. Fear of oil shortages would become the most important factor in international relations, Denny said.
"That empire in Southeast Asia is the last major resource area outside the control of any one of the major powers of the globe....I believe that the condition of the Vietnamese people, and the direction in which their future may be going, are at this stage secondary, not primary." (Senator McGee, D-Wyo., in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 17, 1965)
We'd be happy yo have Microsoft move here.
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If the fine citizens of Washington state don't want evil ol' Microsoft around anymore, we'd be happy to have them move here. Of course so would 48 other states.
You sir are entirely too well educated to be posting on Slashdot. You will be as appreciated here as a straight-A's curve buster is in a high school classroom.
If that's where fairness leads, then so be it. If equal voting power and equal ability to participate in the free market aren't enough to give those towns viability, then let them die.
Wow! That's just the most short sighted statement I have ever heard. Whose gonna make your Corn Flakes Bunkie? Not a lot of corn fields in LA. Fortunately the founding fathers forsaw that there would be people with your attitude and they made it very difficult to change the constitution.
This is not surprising for two reasons: first, Bill O'Reilly saying something derogatory about anyone is about as novel as shit coming out of my ass. He's the Rush Limbaugh of TV: extremely close minded and very inflammatory to those who don't agree with him
This is modded 5 Insightful???????
I have thoroughly studied the moderation system and I have a developed an evolutionary theory about Slashdot.
In the beginning the founders where the only moderators and they mostly only mod'ed up people they agreed with. Those people accumulated karma and eventually became moderators themselves. They also (mostly) only mod up what they agree with and the cycle repeats. After just a few generations of moderators all objectivity has been culled from the herd. The "genetic marker" carried in the karma ensures that all following generations will agree with the founders. In this way Slashdot can never deviate from that which it was intended by the founders no matter how diverse a community of people attempt to participate. That is a friggin brilliant design if you ask me.
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Linux is an unusable piece of crap just like Slashdot. The reason 95% of computers run Windows is because it's 100% better than Linux. Get over it, grow up and get a real job, and quite reading Slashdot all day.
How is this not offtopic? I've said it many times and it keeps getting re-proven. If you bash Bush you can say anything and get modded up.
Are you saying that if bill gates wanted to spend $500,000,000.00 in advertising on google, amazon, ebay, msn, slashdot, etc., that you'd be able to match him to express _your_ opinion?
Think of it like karma. Bill Gates just has a lot more karma than you do so he gets more mod points.
A disease comes along, which only plants with Gene A can fight off.
Or a disease comes along that only kills plants with gene A.
Now we can genetically modify species on the brink of extinction to give them a competitive advantage.
If this goes more widespread (eg. GM trees for paper production) we can expect weird things happening (eg. say we remove some substance from trees to make them easier to process but that gene provides disease resistance etc. If that crosses into wild populations then we end up with sick forests etc).
No. The genetically engineered trees (being disease susceptible) would die out and the wild populations would not. This is called natural selection.
United States 2000 Census Average household size - 2.59 Don't just make up stuff. It makes you look bad.
Trade deficits are self-correcting. The outflow of currency depresses the value of the dollar against foreign currencies, lowering the cost of US goods and services in the world market. The trick (just as in stock prices) is to avoid wild swings from one side to the other. On the bright side, if your job has been outsourced then a weakened dollar is just what you're looking for to bring it back here.
Wow! An even handed story in the Politics section. Hope springs anew.
Until recently microsoft.com was un-usable in Firefox (I assume deliberately). Now I notice that it renders perfectly in Firefox. If you pull it up in Firefox and IE side by side, you cannot tell the difference. This tells you something.
I don't know. Dinosaurs are extinct but I see butterflies all the time.
I think that that needs to be our argument: "IE is a capable-enough browser, a bit like wordpad or the Windows firewall, but a power-use like you would probably want to upgrade to a proper browser"... or something similar.
Until they go to one of many major websites that do not render properly in Mozilla. Then they don't trust your advice anymore. I use Firefox and I hid the IE icon on my wife's computer, but that doesn't change the facts. I told my wife that I'd rather a few sites look screwy than she get spyware or trojans installed through Internet Explorer and she agrees. Most people would go back to using IE though.
As far as I can tell this only affects sites that are "protected" by Windows logon security. You really shouldn't be using that on public sites (or any sites IMHO). Mis-typed URL's will not get through properly written login validation code that gets checked at the top of every page in a site.
this was immediately marked as a blocker, so the official (initial) release of Firefox was NOT going to go out with this bug, anyway, no matter what
/.'ers who routinely load Firefox on their mother/sister/uncle's computer.
After 2 years or pre-releases that argument won't fly anymore. There are MILLIONS of FireFox users and the general public has been encouraged to use it by most of the OSS community. We have seen dozens of posts from
This gets repeated over and over on /. "Now that XYZ Corp is giving away their software they'll really gain marketshare."
News-Flash: If you never pay for a companies products and only use the free downloads then you are not their customer, you are a leech and they don't care what you think.
It would be more honest if you would change the name of this section from "Politics" to "Bush Sucks. Vote for Kerry."
Once again it is okay to be OFF TOPIC if the moderators agree with you.
I would opt out in a New York minute. If I had all the money I've paid in to SS invested it would produce far more than I will ever get back.
This is not a Troll. It is a legitimate viewpoint held by many people.
Yeah! Wow. NASA only achieved sub-orbital manned flight 44 years ago.
I've got the same old hardware, it just works better under Linux. It does more for me too.
No. It doesn't "do more". It may or may not be a more stable OS, but there are exponentially more applications written for Windows. You are right about the registry though. IMHO 90% of the problems with Windows sofware are caused by the registry. It is beyond stupid to put information for hundreds of unrelated programs into a single database so that the entire system can be brought to it's knees by one corrupted file.
What's wrong with "War for Oil"? Is it worse than "War for Land" (Isreal,Palestine), "War for Ethinic Cleansing" (Balkins), "War for Genocide" (Africa), "War for Theology" (Ireland). If you have to fight a war, oil is one of the least crazy of all the crazy reasons. But the Iraq war is no more about oil now than Vietnam was in 1965 or 1928.
US analyst Ludwell Denny in his book "We Fight for Oil" (1928) noted the domestic oil shortage and says international diplomacy had failed to secure any reliable foreign sources of oil for the United States. Fear of oil shortages would become the most important factor in international relations, Denny said. "That empire in Southeast Asia is the last major resource area outside the control of any one of the major powers of the globe....I believe that the condition of the Vietnamese people, and the direction in which their future may be going, are at this stage secondary, not primary." (Senator McGee, D-Wyo., in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 17, 1965)
If the fine citizens of Washington state don't want evil ol' Microsoft around anymore, we'd be happy to have them move here. Of course so would 48 other states.
You sir are entirely too well educated to be posting on Slashdot. You will be as appreciated here as a straight-A's curve buster is in a high school classroom.
If that's where fairness leads, then so be it. If equal voting power and equal ability to participate in the free market aren't enough to give those towns viability, then let them die.
Wow! That's just the most short sighted statement I have ever heard. Whose gonna make your Corn Flakes Bunkie? Not a lot of corn fields in LA. Fortunately the founding fathers forsaw that there would be people with your attitude and they made it very difficult to change the constitution.
This is not surprising for two reasons: first, Bill O'Reilly saying something derogatory about anyone is about as novel as shit coming out of my ass. He's the Rush Limbaugh of TV: extremely close minded and very inflammatory to those who don't agree with him
This is modded 5 Insightful???????
I have thoroughly studied the moderation system and I have a developed an evolutionary theory about Slashdot. In the beginning the founders where the only moderators and they mostly only mod'ed up people they agreed with. Those people accumulated karma and eventually became moderators themselves. They also (mostly) only mod up what they agree with and the cycle repeats. After just a few generations of moderators all objectivity has been culled from the herd. The "genetic marker" carried in the karma ensures that all following generations will agree with the founders. In this way Slashdot can never deviate from that which it was intended by the founders no matter how diverse a community of people attempt to participate. That is a friggin brilliant design if you ask me.