Ruby is far from perfect, and it's not for everyone, but that can be said for any language. You could at least try to criticize it for its faults, not some guy who programs like a moron.
OMFG!!!1 C is a bastardization. Only crazy zealots program in C, cause they're always doing stuff like this or this. You'd have to be a zealot to use C!
I agree with the GP. People doing that are more annoying than the spam articles. It's spamming Firefox. Nobody ever posts "What ads? I'm using Opera's built in ad-blocker!" or "What ads? But I'm using privoxy!"
The only reason those posts aren't modded to -1 offtopic instantly is because it's Firefox. Pretty lame, since its ad-block plugin isn't even that good.
If they think slapping a fancy title on it will spark everyone to transition to their new search products, they should think again. I suspect Google will simply roll out there 2.0 option at some point and kick everyone else's butt.
None of the search engines use the term "Search 2.0." That's the author of the article. I agree it's stupid, but you're blaming the wrong party.
The article is also incorrect in stating that the testing was done with the latest version. The testing was done with build 5270 which was a CTP build from back in March. At the end of the day, I'd have been amazed if Symantec hadn't found security problems with a interim build dating to before the public release of Beta-2.
Yeah, it may be an old release, but if Vista is as secure as MS wants people to believe, there shouldn't be any security problems with any of the released builds. For two reasons. They don't want the public seeing articles like this, for one. And security isn't something you add in after the fact. If they're going back, "adding security" to the code they've already made, they're more fucked than they know. Especially since they claim to have rewritten major portions of the code. At least the old code had years of security fixes.
"If I don't want to see it, how does it affect you?"
That's hilarious coming from a Mormon. If I want to buy alcohol on Sunday, how does that affect you? If I want to marry a person of the same sex, how does that affect you? If my girlfriend needs/wants an abortion, how does that affect you? If I want to have sex before marriage, how does that affect you?
Christians are constantly pushing their views onto others and pressuring law makers to criminalize behavior they disagree with, even when it has nothing to do with them. So it seems a bit ironic that you would use "If I don't want to see it, how does it affect you?' in your defense of this.
This was a clear case of a commercial company profiting from derivative works of copyrighted material. That's exactly the thing copyright law was created to prevent.
The purpose of the super-chicken is to flip out and kill people.
Super-chickens can kill anyone they want! Super-chickens cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These chickens are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this super-chicken who was eating at a diner. And when some dude bit into a drumstick the super-chicken killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a super-chicken totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
I know there's not one solve all, but for the sake of argument, suppose you wanted to stay on the forefront of Java based web development, what would you do?"
Shoot myself.
More seriously, trying to stay up to date on every new trend is pointless. You're better off picking a few things and learning them well.
And how fitting that Google, of all companies, has provided this free of charge to everyone on Earth.
This is no offense to you, personally, but how sad is it that, in our modern era, we can create stunning accomplishments that overshadow any and all accomplishments in the entirety of human history and so many of us still have the lack of appreciation to say "That's it?".
This is no offense to you, peronally, but how sad is it that, in our modern era, a company can release software that doesn't achieve anything new, slap on an intuitive interface, and people will act like it's one of the greatest accomplishments in the entirety of human history?
Software like Google Earth has been around for a while. Most of it isn't free, but you can certainly buy a copy. And before you go off on how free Google Earth is, consider that it's free only after you've already shelled out the cash for a computer and internet access. For a large percentage of the earth's population, a $500 computer might as well be a $5000 computer, as they're both impossibly out of reach.
How can so many people be so brain washed by Google?
Some peolpe are forced to use Windows in the workplace. That's just the kind of location where spurious piracy messages on a copy of Windows you know is legal, but might've been installed from an image.
And it's also the one place where users should not be updating their computers. That's what admins are for. That's what WSUS, and a dozen other software packages are for.
Besides, they're not paying you to like or dislike the operating system they use, they're paying you to do your job.
You can do nothing. There is no alternative. All of your base are belong to Microsoft.
Seriously, if you've been reading/. for more than about 30 seconds, you know exactly what you can do about it. You're basically whining that although there are dozens of worthy alternatives, you'd rather sit there and take it than do anything.
People like you make me laugh. Microsoft is making you its bitch, you hate it, you know there are alternatives, yet all you do is complain. At this point, people like you deserve all you're getting.
If you're running Windows, there's Foxit Reader. It's a 1.5 MB download, uses less memory, and loads almost instantly. In about 2 years of use, I've only encountered a single PDF that it wouldn't open.
If you're not on Windows, there's xpdf, Evince, kpdf, gv, and probably a dozen others.
The one app they run is heavily used (dispatch for a 911 center).
What really scares me about your post, even more than running Windows, is that you implied 911 service for your area uses a single box for the dispatching. There is a redundant box in case that one goes down, right? Some kind of fail safe? It's going to happen. The hard drive will fail, memory will burn out, the power supply will fail, a fan will stick...
Uh, before you brag too much, you might want to check this out.
$800 a month in India is more than 3 times more than the income of an average person in India.
$732 a week is only 20% higher than the average Canadian. So imagine making 3 times more than you do right now, and you'll have some idea of how well that guy's doing in India.
That's why outsourcing is so popular. In theory, companies can hire 4 people in India for the cost of one co-op student here. And to top it off, all 4 of the Indians will be living like kings.
I want an operating system to install, by default, just those programs which are needed to run the software that I put on there. If I'm confronted with nine million icons before I even install any software, that's just clutter.
This is mind blowing, but here's an idea: If you don't want a billion things installed by default then...here's the crazy part... don't use a distro that comes with a billion things you don't want. Or - careful, this is really crazy - deselect everything you don't want when the installation asks what you want to install. Whoa! I'm going to have to sit down after that.
Seriously. It's not rocket science. If you want to install every open source program known to man when you install the OS, do a full Debian install. If you want to install everything yourself use something like Ubuntu, select no extras when you run the install, and install what you want afterwards. Shit, why stop there? Download a DamnSmall Linux mini-CD iso and go from there.
Because of this dependency issue, it actually hurts Linux's usability if it comes with too many tools. Developers can assume that a user has GIMP and POV-ray on their Linux system. So some software will likely have GIMP and POV-ray as operating requirements. But the user probably doesn't want them.
But developers can't (and don't) assume that. I was pointing out that the huge Linux distros will likely have those in the full install, not that most people actually install all of it. Most people don't use the huge Linux distros, and the ones that do are usually smart enough to only install what they're going to use.
Every distro I've tried (at least half a dozen), gives an option for a bare minimum installation, where nothing that isn't required gets installed. We're talking the kernel, glibc, maybe an x server, a window manager and the required libraries. 300 or 400 MB installation at most.
Comparing full install size of Vista to a large Linux distro is apples to oranges.
Yes, some of the large Linux distros are huge, multi-CD behemoths. But they include just about every piece of free software under the sun. For your comparison convenience, here's a list of programs usually included with a mega-distro:
Basic drivers (See/. article from a week or two ago)
Graphics (paint)
Internet (Internet Explorer)
Email (Outlook express)
Word processing (Wordpad)
Text editor (Notepad)
Multimedia (Windows Media Player)
Notice something? Nobody uses Paint. Nobody uses Wordpad. Nobody uses Notepad. Nobody uses Outlook Express. Nobody plays Solitaire and Minesweeper. For most intents, Windows is just a 10 gig OS. If you want to do anything useful, you have to install other programs.
A full install of a large Linux distro has programs for just about anything someone might want to do on a computer, and it's actually useful software. If it didn't include AbiWord already, I'd go download it. If Windows didn't have Wordpad, I wouldn't care.
But I run Slackware. It's 2 CDs - a full install is less than 3 GB, and comes with word processors, latex, compilers, debuggers, network tools, 4 window managers, XMMS, and some other stuff. It's very useable, comes with a hell of a lot more stuff than Windows, and is less than 1/4th the size for a full install.
As if "Captain Copyright" wasn't funny enough, what really got me laughing was the fact that enough people actually thought it was a good idea to go ahead and make a few of the comics. How can anyone be so out of touch? Could this be the real reason music sales are decreasing?
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You, sir, are an asshole.
And you, sir, have no sense of humor and exaggerated self-importance.
Around 150,000 people die every single day. In the 5 minutes it will take me to post this, 500 people around the world will die. With all those people dying, I don't feel bad when one of them does it in a way I find amusing. In the grand scheme of things, a single person dying isn't that important.
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Everyone is having a nice laugh right now, but it won't seem so funny if this guy commits suicide.
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Give me a break. Nobody writes Ruby that way.
Ruby is far from perfect, and it's not for everyone, but that can be said for any language. You could at least try to criticize it for its faults, not some guy who programs like a moron.
OMFG!!!1 C is a bastardization. Only crazy zealots program in C, cause they're always doing stuff like this or this. You'd have to be a zealot to use C!
See how stupid that looks?
I agree with the GP. People doing that are more annoying than the spam articles. It's spamming Firefox. Nobody ever posts "What ads? I'm using Opera's built in ad-blocker!" or "What ads? But I'm using privoxy!"
The only reason those posts aren't modded to -1 offtopic instantly is because it's Firefox. Pretty lame, since its ad-block plugin isn't even that good.
Thanks, I didn't know about audiocd:/
I don't normally use KDE, but that's pretty sweet. I also agree on K3b.
MST3K was great, but the hillariously bad movies were half the fun.
None of the search engines use the term "Search 2.0." That's the author of the article. I agree it's stupid, but you're blaming the wrong party.
Yeah, it may be an old release, but if Vista is as secure as MS wants people to believe, there shouldn't be any security problems with any of the released builds. For two reasons. They don't want the public seeing articles like this, for one. And security isn't something you add in after the fact. If they're going back, "adding security" to the code they've already made, they're more fucked than they know. Especially since they claim to have rewritten major portions of the code. At least the old code had years of security fixes.
I think you mean "Fixed in CVS!"
That's hilarious coming from a Mormon. If I want to buy alcohol on Sunday, how does that affect you? If I want to marry a person of the same sex, how does that affect you? If my girlfriend needs/wants an abortion, how does that affect you? If I want to have sex before marriage, how does that affect you?
Christians are constantly pushing their views onto others and pressuring law makers to criminalize behavior they disagree with, even when it has nothing to do with them. So it seems a bit ironic that you would use "If I don't want to see it, how does it affect you?' in your defense of this.
This was a clear case of a commercial company profiting from derivative works of copyrighted material. That's exactly the thing copyright law was created to prevent.
No.
Possibly, but in any case, here are some facts:
Super-chickens can kill anyone they want! Super-chickens cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These chickens are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this super-chicken who was eating at a diner. And when some dude bit into a drumstick the super-chicken killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a super-chicken totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
Haven't you seen the infomercial? That guy's made millions! And it couldn't be on an infomercial if it weren't true, right?
And I've heard criminals can use pencils to stab people. What does your law breaking have to do with freedb?
Shoot myself.
More seriously, trying to stay up to date on every new trend is pointless. You're better off picking a few things and learning them well.
This is no offense to you, peronally, but how sad is it that, in our modern era, a company can release software that doesn't achieve anything new, slap on an intuitive interface, and people will act like it's one of the greatest accomplishments in the entirety of human history?
Software like Google Earth has been around for a while. Most of it isn't free, but you can certainly buy a copy. And before you go off on how free Google Earth is, consider that it's free only after you've already shelled out the cash for a computer and internet access. For a large percentage of the earth's population, a $500 computer might as well be a $5000 computer, as they're both impossibly out of reach.
How can so many people be so brain washed by Google?
And it's also the one place where users should not be updating their computers. That's what admins are for. That's what WSUS, and a dozen other software packages are for.
Besides, they're not paying you to like or dislike the operating system they use, they're paying you to do your job.
You can do nothing. There is no alternative. All of your base are belong to Microsoft.
Seriously, if you've been reading /. for more than about 30 seconds, you know exactly what you can do about it. You're basically whining that although there are dozens of worthy alternatives, you'd rather sit there and take it than do anything.
People like you make me laugh. Microsoft is making you its bitch, you hate it, you know there are alternatives, yet all you do is complain. At this point, people like you deserve all you're getting.
If you're running Windows, there's Foxit Reader. It's a 1.5 MB download, uses less memory, and loads almost instantly. In about 2 years of use, I've only encountered a single PDF that it wouldn't open.
If you're not on Windows, there's xpdf, Evince, kpdf, gv, and probably a dozen others.
What really scares me about your post, even more than running Windows, is that you implied 911 service for your area uses a single box for the dispatching. There is a redundant box in case that one goes down, right? Some kind of fail safe? It's going to happen. The hard drive will fail, memory will burn out, the power supply will fail, a fan will stick...
Well, since nobody else has said it: Opera. I didn't get a single advertisement or pop-up on that page. No plugins necessary.
Uh, before you brag too much, you might want to check this out.
$800 a month in India is more than 3 times more than the income of an average person in India.
$732 a week is only 20% higher than the average Canadian. So imagine making 3 times more than you do right now, and you'll have some idea of how well that guy's doing in India.
That's why outsourcing is so popular. In theory, companies can hire 4 people in India for the cost of one co-op student here. And to top it off, all 4 of the Indians will be living like kings.
This is mind blowing, but here's an idea: If you don't want a billion things installed by default then...here's the crazy part... don't use a distro that comes with a billion things you don't want. Or - careful, this is really crazy - deselect everything you don't want when the installation asks what you want to install. Whoa! I'm going to have to sit down after that.
Seriously. It's not rocket science. If you want to install every open source program known to man when you install the OS, do a full Debian install. If you want to install everything yourself use something like Ubuntu, select no extras when you run the install, and install what you want afterwards. Shit, why stop there? Download a DamnSmall Linux mini-CD iso and go from there.
But developers can't (and don't) assume that. I was pointing out that the huge Linux distros will likely have those in the full install, not that most people actually install all of it. Most people don't use the huge Linux distros, and the ones that do are usually smart enough to only install what they're going to use.
Every distro I've tried (at least half a dozen), gives an option for a bare minimum installation, where nothing that isn't required gets installed. We're talking the kernel, glibc, maybe an x server, a window manager and the required libraries. 300 or 400 MB installation at most.
Comparing full install size of Vista to a large Linux distro is apples to oranges.
Yes, some of the large Linux distros are huge, multi-CD behemoths. But they include just about every piece of free software under the sun. For your comparison convenience, here's a list of programs usually included with a mega-distro:
That's a fraction of what you get with a distro like Suse, Mandriva, or Debian.
Now, a list of what you get with a full Vista install:
Notice something? Nobody uses Paint. Nobody uses Wordpad. Nobody uses Notepad. Nobody uses Outlook Express. Nobody plays Solitaire and Minesweeper. For most intents, Windows is just a 10 gig OS. If you want to do anything useful, you have to install other programs.
A full install of a large Linux distro has programs for just about anything someone might want to do on a computer, and it's actually useful software. If it didn't include AbiWord already, I'd go download it. If Windows didn't have Wordpad, I wouldn't care.
But I run Slackware. It's 2 CDs - a full install is less than 3 GB, and comes with word processors, latex, compilers, debuggers, network tools, 4 window managers, XMMS, and some other stuff. It's very useable, comes with a hell of a lot more stuff than Windows, and is less than 1/4th the size for a full install.
As if "Captain Copyright" wasn't funny enough, what really got me laughing was the fact that enough people actually thought it was a good idea to go ahead and make a few of the comics. How can anyone be so out of touch? Could this be the real reason music sales are decreasing?
And you, sir, have no sense of humor and exaggerated self-importance.
Around 150,000 people die every single day. In the 5 minutes it will take me to post this, 500 people around the world will die. With all those people dying, I don't feel bad when one of them does it in a way I find amusing. In the grand scheme of things, a single person dying isn't that important.
I believe the word for that would be "hilarious."