The NT kernel is modular and well-design, I can't imagine that it would be more troublesome than it was for Linux (and probably significantly less work).
I have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to networking and security in NT, sure the WIN32 part is troublesome to keep secure, but NT in itself has no such problems.
Flamebait? Please mods, this is the reason slashdot is losing readership. It's difficult to have a decent discussion, when all opposing views to the group opinion (right or wrong) are essentially censored down to obscurity.
Please destroy all your commercial belonging, clearly they are worthless. This includes your house, car, TV, and computer.
> why would I want to try it
You have a valid point, in much the same why as my belief that veterinary surgical equipment is absolutely useless to everyone, given the fact I don't want to use them.
> when I already know and love the GIMP
Please leave your sick fetishes out of this
> Does it do anything the GIMP doesn't, other than install easily on newer Microsoft Windows machines?
You seem to asking a rhetorical question. When ask/state a rhetorical question, it's helpful to have some fucking knowledge on the subject!
File naming protocol ------ Characters in filename names are a rare commodity, to be used wisely. Filenames should be abbreviated to the point of obfuscating any meaning: Why use "print" when you can use "prin," why use "prin" when you can use "pin," why use "pin," when you can use "xb."
Standard output formatting protocol ------ When printing a table of data to standard output, there is no need to label rows and columns. Linux users are elite professionals, they instantly know what the endless rows and columns of hex values, abbreviated acronyms, and various other standard and non-standard variables represent.
In the rare occasion that a Linux user is unsure what some data represents, he will simply view the source, if the source is not available, he will disassemble the executable, and read the assembly code.
If you must label columns and/or rows, please follow guidelines set out by the "File naming protocol" section.
Points A, and B, would have merit if they reflected the the general modding of all comments, it doesn't. If that post was referring to Windows, and not Linux, I can guarantee it would have been modded up. Have you looked at most comments on slashdot, every other post contains a personal attack, but they are usually harmless and a form of expressing disagreement, rather than true opinions of others. Only people who are hyper-sensitive would take them seriously.
In regard to point C, if you don't realize there is a overwhelming bias towards Linux and against Microsoft on slashdot, then you're plain stupid (sorry to make it personal).
As a post note: you will notice I apologized to said submitter (before you modded me down).
Well, actually it didn't come out on my summary - but I know that HP did consider Linux, but ended up not to go with it for cost reasons. I am not a Linux zealot. I don't even run Linux myself. I'm an OSX zealot.
In that case, I apologize for my slightly knee-jerk reaction.
> They probably didn't want the support burden of bundling the PC with a Linux distribution.
To Johan (the guy who wrote the summary):
Linux is a good kernel, but you're just coming of as overzealous, plain arrogant zealot when you start making excuses on behalf of a corporation you don't speak for, and have no inside knowledge of; simply because they didn't go for your kernel of choice.
Have you considered they might prefer FreeDOS, and deem it the best solution compared with other alternatives such as Linux, irregardless of this "oh, it's only because they don't want to give support, but really they love Linux just like me, someone probably put a gun to their head to make them use FreeDOS, etc, etc" bullshit that is just something out of your head.
Please stop making plain fabricated excuses to defend Linux and try to understand that not everybody thinks Linux is the answer to everything, and even if it was, they can speak for themselves without amateur pseudo-journalists like you making shit up on their behalf.
In case this is not clear: this is not an attack on Linux, it's a criticism of the submitter, who does more harm than good for Linux by spreading his own branded, unique version of FUD.
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Nice idea, bad implementation.
The current implementation is annoying, and overzealous as far as I'm concerned. For instance the query "what" opens a endless drop down of suggestions, then fills in the most likely match, which almost always fails in to even approach a decent guess of the query I had in mind.
The only achievement in this case is to distract me, break my concentration from typing, and helpfully steal focus inside the query box.
Frankly, It's quicker for me to type the damn query myself, than search for the closest match in endless drop down of bad suggestions.
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So they are the "morons" for not wasting irreplaceable time deleting every file the might not use again, regardless of if or not they actually need the space, and despite the low cost of storage.
But you're the "smart" one for wasting time deleting stuff, only to waste more time re-downloading it later when you realise you did need it after all?
Hmm. Not sure if I agree with you there. The only thing I will agree on is that copying something you probably won't use on to CD-R is pointless.
I accidentally posted this as AC already, please mod down AC, and Mod this accordingly (if you don't believe it's my writing, please compare grammar to my previous postings):
I'm interested in precisely who is AOL's targeted demographic for this product.
The way I see it, the average totally incompetent user will just use MS Media Player given it's preinstalled, and probably does all they want (and anything it doesn't do probably won't occur to them anyway).
Then you have the more competent, slightly smarter (not that smart, still using Windows remember *cough*) user, who while looking for alternative is likely to dismiss AOL's offering simply because it's, well, made by AOL, who don't have a particularly cool aura about them. Even when their aren't good alternates around, I'd imagine even these users are more likely to stick with Media Player than migrate to AOL's You're-A-Fucking-Retard-Let-Me-Hold-Your-Hand-Whil e-People-Laugh-At-Us-Player, or they might go for WinAmp, which despite being deprecated is still popular (yes, it's owned by AOL, but I think it's still tagged NULLSOFT, which sounds better AOL/NULLSOFT? That's a rhetorical question).
The only remaining demographic is incompetent users, who choose AOL as their ISP, two problems: 1) This market is declining, especially given the fact they seem only to care about dial up users, who themselves are in rapid decline, 2) These users are the sort who use the interet at most about an hour or less a day, and are probably over 50. In short, they are the least likely people to be interested in purchasing music online.
In summary: AOL Sucks! and most people who might potentially install their product are beginning to realise they suck. Anyone left, who might install it as a tie in to this particular ISP's crap-ware, is probably not going to use it, and even less likely to purchase music from it (which is the whole point from AOL's perspective).
This will probably get modded troll, but please hear me out:
Damn it/.! Please check the definition of news:
News - Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television. - A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast. - New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.
This is not news! It's simply common sense that certain classes of people are going to conspire and associate with each other to some degree. Perhaps if the article was about a particular group of some importance, or interest it would be news, instead it's just another redundant research paper telling us what we already know. Outside of tech news, please imagine the headline "Safe crackers combine forces with bank robbers" appearing on the front page of any respectful publication, that's how stupid I think this is.
> I don't know what sand dune you've had your head in
I avoided expressing my own opinion, since I thought that would get me modded troll[1], I was more interested in other slashdotters views on the topic in general.
(Disclaimer: This is not a troll, I really think it's on-topic, and worth discussion)
Please remind why America is not at war with China? My knowledge on this subject is limited, but my checklist (based on the precedent set by the "justifications" for the war on Iraq) suggests that they should be:
(X) Totalitarian government (X) Autocracy government (X) Possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction (X) No human rights (X) Unstable, Irresponsible leadership (X) Inhumane treatment of its people (X) Government oppression and censorship
If these are the valid reasons, could someone please explain why America is not at war with China?
[...] article by a geologist which suggests that the Earth is in serious, imminent, unavoidable danger.
I grepped for occurrences of the word "years" in the article linked in the above text, but didn't manage to find the bit where it tells you how soon this serious "danger" will actually affect us. I'd prefer not to actually read the article, instead could someone (who has read it) tell me if it indeed tells us this, and if so, when is it?
"By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through this service, you are granting ACCOONA a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to:
Use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such communication. Sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted with respect to the communication.
The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such communication, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction."
Privacy issues aside, according to this retarded agreement (if it actually holds up), if their server visits, and indexes your website (which would qualify as a form of "communication"), they technically inherit full trademark, copyright, and all other rights to it. Also, I noticed it has/. indexed.
- A dedicated development box
- A dedicated server box
- A dedicated "juke" box
- A dedicated "TiVo" box
- A dedicated gaming box
- A dedicated backup box
- A dedicated firewall box
- And a general purpose box
Unfortunately due to all the money wasted^H^H^H^H^H^H spent on this essential equipment, I don't have a home to put them in.
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The NT kernel is modular and well-design, I can't imagine that it would be more troublesome than it was for Linux (and probably significantly less work).
I have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to networking and security in NT, sure the WIN32 part is troublesome to keep secure, but NT in itself has no such problems.
Flamebait? Please mods, this is the reason slashdot is losing readership. It's difficult to have a decent discussion, when all opposing views to the group opinion (right or wrong) are essentially censored down to obscurity.
> freeipods.com is not a scam, I've already received mine.
It's still a scam.
Those at the top of the pyramid get the reward (like you), and those at the bottom of the pyramid get ripped off of their invested time and/or money.
Either you're stupid, or you have an ulterior motive.
I actually thought warez meant pirated shit, after looking it up it specifically means pirated software.
The unfiltered top 10:
1. britney spears nude
2. paris hilton nude
3. christina aguilera nude
4. pamela anderson nude
5. adult chat
6. games warez
7. carmen electra nude
8. orlando bloom nude
9. harry potter warez
10. mp3 warez
> Nice troll.
It was not a troll. Some mods are very susceptible to the power of suggestion - you know this. Nice counter move.
> OK, I've determined a conflict of interest exists. Now what?
Removing the stupid pyramid scheme from your sig would be a good start.
> That was never implied.
As far is I'm concerned it was. That's a matter of opinion.
> How is being comfortable with a given piece of software a "sick fetish"?
Humour.
> How would a fellow go about obtaining such knowledge from a server that's fucking slashdotted?
Simple, if you don't have anything valid to say, shut the fuck up.
> Shut up troll.
Please do.
> If it's not free (as in speech) software
Please destroy all your commercial belonging, clearly they are worthless. This includes your house, car, TV, and computer.
> why would I want to try it
You have a valid point, in much the same why as my belief that veterinary surgical equipment is absolutely useless to everyone, given the fact I don't want to use them.
> when I already know and love the GIMP
Please leave your sick fetishes out of this
> Does it do anything the GIMP doesn't, other than install easily on newer Microsoft Windows machines?
You seem to asking a rhetorical question. When ask/state a rhetorical question, it's helpful to have some fucking knowledge on the subject!
> Is this judge not just shilling for corporate spammers
Maybe the judge should find him guilty of murder as well. After all, we don't want people to think murder is OK, do we?
File naming protocol
------
Characters in filename names are a rare commodity, to be used wisely.
Filenames should be abbreviated to the point of obfuscating any meaning:
Why use "print" when you can use "prin," why use "prin" when you can use
"pin," why use "pin," when you can use "xb."
Standard output formatting protocol
------
When printing a table of data to standard output, there is no need to
label rows and columns. Linux users are elite professionals, they
instantly know what the endless rows and columns of hex values,
abbreviated acronyms, and various other standard and non-standard
variables represent.
In the rare occasion that a Linux user is unsure what some data
represents, he will simply view the source, if the source is not
available, he will disassemble the executable, and read the assembly code.
If you must label columns and/or rows, please
follow guidelines set out by the "File naming protocol" section.
I'll respond to this myself:
Points A, and B, would have merit if they reflected the the general modding of all comments, it doesn't. If that post was referring to Windows, and not Linux, I can guarantee it would have been modded up. Have you looked at most comments on slashdot, every other post contains a personal attack, but they are usually harmless and a form of expressing disagreement, rather than true opinions of others. Only people who are hyper-sensitive would take them seriously.
In regard to point C, if you don't realize there is a overwhelming bias towards Linux and against Microsoft on slashdot, then you're plain stupid (sorry to make it personal).
As a post note: you will notice I apologized to said submitter (before you modded me down).
In that case, I apologize for my slightly knee-jerk reaction.
> They probably didn't want the support burden of bundling the PC with a Linux distribution.
To Johan (the guy who wrote the summary):
Linux is a good kernel, but you're just coming of as overzealous, plain arrogant zealot when you start making excuses on behalf of a corporation you don't speak for, and have no inside knowledge of; simply because they didn't go for your kernel of choice.
Have you considered they might prefer FreeDOS, and deem it the best solution compared with other alternatives such as Linux, irregardless of this "oh, it's only because they don't want to give support, but really they love Linux just like me, someone probably put a gun to their head to make them use FreeDOS, etc, etc" bullshit that is just something out of your head.
Please stop making plain fabricated excuses to defend Linux and try to understand that not everybody thinks Linux is the answer to everything, and even if it was, they can speak for themselves without amateur pseudo-journalists like you making shit up on their behalf.
In case this is not clear: this is not an attack on Linux, it's a criticism of the submitter, who does more harm than good for Linux by spreading his own branded, unique version of FUD.
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Nice idea, bad implementation.
The current implementation is annoying, and overzealous as far as I'm concerned. For instance the query "what" opens a endless drop down of suggestions, then fills in the most likely match, which almost always fails in to even approach a decent guess of the query I had in mind.
The only achievement in this case is to distract me, break my concentration from typing, and helpfully steal focus inside the query box.
Frankly, It's quicker for me to type the damn query myself, than search for the closest match in endless drop down of bad suggestions.
So they are the "morons" for not wasting irreplaceable time deleting every file the might not use again, regardless of if or not they actually need the space, and despite the low cost of storage.
But you're the "smart" one for wasting time deleting stuff, only to waste more time re-downloading it later when you realise you did need it after all?
Hmm. Not sure if I agree with you there. The only thing I will agree on is that copying something you probably won't use on to CD-R is pointless.
I accidentally posted this as AC already, please mod down AC, and Mod this accordingly (if you don't believe it's my writing, please compare grammar to my previous postings):
l e-People-Laugh-At-Us-Player, or they might go for WinAmp, which despite being deprecated is still popular (yes, it's owned by AOL, but I think it's still tagged NULLSOFT, which sounds better AOL/NULLSOFT? That's a rhetorical question).
I'm interested in precisely who is AOL's targeted demographic for this product.
The way I see it, the average totally incompetent user will just use MS Media Player given it's preinstalled, and probably does all they want (and anything it doesn't do probably won't occur to them anyway).
Then you have the more competent, slightly smarter (not that smart, still using Windows remember *cough*) user, who while looking for alternative is likely to dismiss AOL's offering simply because it's, well, made by AOL, who don't have a particularly cool aura about them. Even when their aren't good alternates around, I'd imagine even these users are more likely to stick with Media Player than migrate to AOL's You're-A-Fucking-Retard-Let-Me-Hold-Your-Hand-Whi
The only remaining demographic is incompetent users, who choose AOL as their ISP, two problems: 1) This market is declining, especially given the fact they seem only to care about dial up users, who themselves are in rapid decline, 2) These users are the sort who use the interet at most about an hour or less a day, and are probably over 50. In short, they are the least likely people to be interested in purchasing music online.
In summary: AOL Sucks! and most people who might potentially install their product are beginning to realise they suck. Anyone left, who might install it as a tie in to this particular ISP's crap-ware, is probably not going to use it, and even less likely to purchase music from it (which is the whole point from AOL's perspective).
This will probably get modded troll, but please hear me out:
/.! Please check the definition of news:
Damn it
News
- Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television.
- A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast.
- New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.
This is not news! It's simply common sense that certain classes of people are going to conspire and associate with each other to some degree. Perhaps if the article was about a particular group of some importance, or interest it would be news, instead it's just another redundant research paper telling us what we already know. Outside of tech news, please imagine the headline "Safe crackers combine forces with bank robbers" appearing on the front page of any respectful publication, that's how stupid I think this is.
> I don't know what sand dune you've had your head in
I avoided expressing my own opinion, since I thought that would get me modded troll[1], I was more interested in other slashdotters views on the topic in general.
[1] = As it turns out it got modded troll anyway.
(Disclaimer: This is not a troll, I really think it's on-topic, and worth discussion)
Please remind why America is not at war with China? My knowledge on this subject is limited, but my checklist (based on the precedent set by the "justifications" for the war on Iraq) suggests that they should be:
(X) Totalitarian government
(X) Autocracy government
(X) Possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction
(X) No human rights
(X) Unstable, Irresponsible leadership
(X) Inhumane treatment of its people
(X) Government oppression and censorship
If these are the valid reasons, could someone please explain why America is not at war with China?
> And what's wrong with a little redistribution of wealth ?
I'm for equality of wealth, so long as some people (me) are more financially equal than others.
I grepped for occurrences of the word "years" in the article linked in the above text, but didn't manage to find the bit where it tells you how soon this serious "danger" will actually affect us. I'd prefer not to actually read the article, instead could someone (who has read it) tell me if it indeed tells us this, and if so, when is it?
From the terms:
/. indexed.
"By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through this service, you are granting ACCOONA a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to:
Use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such communication. Sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted with respect to the communication.
The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such communication, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction."
Privacy issues aside, according to this retarded agreement (if it actually holds up), if their server visits, and indexes your website (which would qualify as a form of "communication"), they technically inherit full trademark, copyright, and all other rights to it. Also, I noticed it has
And here is your copy of a signed karma integer: 5+
I have:
- A dedicated development box
- A dedicated server box
- A dedicated "juke" box
- A dedicated "TiVo" box
- A dedicated gaming box
- A dedicated backup box
- A dedicated firewall box
- And a general purpose box
Unfortunately due to all the money wasted^H^H^H^H^H^H spent on this essential equipment, I don't have a home to put them in.