Hell, they could have done a better job with a rewrite by simply using WordPress.... Oh well, a roll of the Dice, it comes up snake-eyes... users lose!!!
Apparently Dice subscribes to the Microsoft/Canonical "Do what we want.. FUCK the users of our product" schoool of thought.. Witness Windows 8 for Microsoft, and Unity for Canonical/Ubuntu... "We know what's best for you, and you'll use it and LIKE it!!".. ummm... No we won't.. For my (shudder) occassional use of Windows, its Windows 7 till hell freezes over, and, though I used to swear by Ubuntu, now I swear AT it.. Moved without regret to Debian... Wonder where I'll go when Slashdot takes the "dirtnap"... Been here since 1998 or so.. Lost my original account, thus the larger UID...
That's because in the US people are citizens, in the UK they are subjects.
You're a little behind the times, US people are subjects now, too.. Our 238 year old Constitution has been run thru the shredder by the last several administrations and many of us are sick and tired of it...
Here's a quick fix.. Move OUT of that bat-shit insane state.. Then let those insane asylum inmates running that state try to shut you down.. These coding academies are pretty much web-based anyway, so all they have *in* California are the offices.. Those could quickly be moved out to say, Texas or Nevada, with little or no impact on the company.. I was born and raised in California, but the wife and I got out of there in the mid-90s, and moved to Nevada. Unfortunantly, we still have relatives there, so I have to make trips yearly to that nuthouse...
ABOUT DAMN TIME!! Snowden is in my opinion, not only an American hero, but a worldwide hero.. If that pile of excrement who is currently occupying the Whitehouse can get one for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to foster world peace, Snowden deserves one FAR MORE!! Go right ahead and mod me down, Slashlibtards... You know you want to... I'm not a republican nor a democrat, I'M A FLIPPIN' AMERICAN, AND I'M PISSED!!
An interesting thought experiment.. suppose a large computer vendor, say Dell, was to *really* stick its finger in Microsofts eye and basically say "ALL of our computers will run Linux, both laptops, desktops, and servers.. Windows will be an added cost extra.".. Say a nice lightweight display manager and Ubuntu (L/XUbuntu) on the desktops/laptops, with a theme that closely mimics Windows, and CentOS on all of their servers/workstations. IF somebody just absolutely HAS to have Windows, Dell essentially puts a retail Windows 7 (or 8) on it and charges up the wazoo for it.. They would certainly HAVE to do Windows *that* way as Microsoft would have a stroke, and remove any OEM pricing.. BUT.. Since Dell is now essentially owned by Micheal Dell, he could do that, without the stockholders going for his scalp. Dell has made a lot of moves in the Linux direction, this would certainly be right up their alley..
Sure would be interesting if you had the guts to put your handle out there when making these claims of "Not one of these hopeful wannabe astronaut will even step aboard something remotely similar to a rocket." so come 2023-2024, when the first four colonists land on Mars, we can show you what a doubting Thomas you were back in 2014.. Frankly, I believe Mars-one has a FAR better chance of accomplishing this than any government or consortium of governments.. Anyway, I wish them all the luck in the world and look forward to seeing the telecast of the landing of four humans on Mars in 2024.. I should still be around then, hopefully (74 then)... Anyway I prefer to think positive, and I think Basdorp and his advisors have an excellent plan to accomplish this...
Have seen senior managers (CEO-level) saving their daily-to-do's emails in the TRASH!!
Back in the 90s, the company I worked for at the time, was a Novell+Groupwise shop, and we discovered that the company CEO was saving important email to the Groupwise trash. Found this out when we did a trash purge over a weekend and come Monday morning, CEO's executive assistant was on the phone to support saying that the "big-boss" lost a LOT of important email... I was the foot-soldier on call that day, so I had to run down to his office, and investigate. I had to fight hard to keep from laughing out loud when the assistant (big-wig was out of the office, but assistant had big-wigs password(s)) showed me just WHERE the emails had been stored, after a lot of prodding and question-asking.. Since I knew there had been a Groupwise trash purge over the weekend, I knew exactly where the mail had gone, but hoping against hope that the Novell salvage had not been cleared yet, I called the desk admin, and fortuantly he was JUST getting ready to clear salvage.. I managed to stop him, and we were able to recover the big-wigs email.. Being I was the new-guy, there was NOOOOO way I was gonna tell the CEO and his assistant "you DO NOT PUT EMAIL YOU WANT TO KEEP IN THE TRASH!!!".. I left that up to my big-boss, the CIO... Needless to say we had many chuckles at the next months team meeting...
It's better than nothing though - as the American public's response to the absolute outrage that is this whole affair has only been a big, fat, shameful nothing.
What do you expect from what has become the defacto US Department of Propaganda? With little Jay Carney as Secretary.. He lies really good, but of course, he *has* to, to be able to cover up the lies his boss tells..
I understand GPL allowing CentOS and Scientific Linux to use Redhat in their respective products, but I find it really puzzling that they would actively *help* CentOS... Doesn't make a lot of sense to me...
I think this purchase of McAfee *is* their "security" department.... Now if we could just get Adobe Reader to stop pushing that McAfee "security scanner" that is checked by default and 95% of everybody who downloads/installs Reader installs AND which totally fucks up the machine and is a MAJOR pain to get off.. I've made a fair amount of $$$ removing that crap from neighbors machines, not to mention weaning them off of Adobe Reader..
They're using the government playbook.. Completely disrupt the best medical system on the planet, shove a brain-dead replacement thru in the dead of night THAT nobody (nobody who doesn't drink the left's koolaide, that is) wants, in the end fucking up everybody in the process.. Even a lot of the "koolaide-drinkers" are beginning to see the writing on the wall... Good job, Microsoft, maybe you can get a job with the government, as your software stinks.. (Linux user since 1995)..
Yeah.. I picture it like this.. America got kicked in the shins by a punk on 9/11/01, but since then she's shot herself in both feet, come close to severing both hands, given herself a good concussion,stabbed herself in several places, and put herself on lifesupport. That punk on 9/11 could not have done as much damage to America as she's done to herself in the 12 years since 9/11. DOES ANYONE DOUBT AMERICA IS NOW ESSENTIALLY A POLICE STATE?? (sorry about the caps, but wanted to emphasize that.. There is absolutely NO doubt in my mind..). I once was a republican, but after about 1/2 of BushJrs second term, I'd had enough and reregistered as Independent. It was a good move on my part after seeing how the republican party is trying (abeit unsuccessfully) to destroy the Teaparty, which is precisely what the republican party *should* be.. Nowadays, the (R)'s are just (D)-lite... Makes this 63 year old America VERY sick to his stomach...
OR do what I did on the new laptop I got for Christmas.. Booted the thing up to make sure it worked, then pulled the original drive out, and slapped a spare drive in and installed Debian Linux.. If perchance the machine gives me the finger some time during the warrantee period, I can pull the Linux drive out and avoid all the "We don't support Linux" crap from support... Actually beginning to like Gnome3 on Debian 7.. Since the machine has 8GB of ram, I went with 64 bit (why would ANYone in 2013 still use a 32 bit OS???), but, unbeknownst to me, the old way of running 32bit apps (ia32-libs) on a 64 bit OS has been replaced on the newer distros with multiarch.. Alas some 32bit apps are not multiarch-aware and makes for a really fun bit of work to get them to play nicely.. Takes me back to the mid 90s with Linux and Xfree86...
I believe if you think of the mainstream media as a defacto US Department of Propaganda, you'll begin to clearly understand how far America has gone down the drain.. The government desparately wants to contain/control/destroy talk radio and any alternate source of information, and they won't give up till they silence anyTHING that doesn't toe the "party-line"... It is VERY ironic that the remanants of the old USSR Pravda has been running editorials warning Americans about where we're headed.. I watch the RT network often and have heard several of these editorials and it really brings it all home...
The king of "spokesweasels".. the one, the only, secretary of the US Department of Propaganda, none othen than little Jay Carney... Do you get the idea he took lessons from Bagdad Bob?? They both have a really firm grip on reality...
Whats even more astounding than this iconic photo is the tiny pinpoint of light that is Earth seen in pictures from the Mars rovers, or how about the picture from one of the deep space probes looking back at the the Earth-Moon system (was it NewHorizons, I forget).. THOSE picture blow my mind even more than this one..
Or more likely, the US Department of Propaganda... Doesn't it seem that little Jay Carney, being the White House Press Secretary, wouldn't also be the Secretary of that "Department of Propaganda"??
He's got lying down to a science, almost as good as his boss. Every time I see him speaking, I picture ole "Bagdad Bob", who, as I recall, was Sadam's Propaganda minister... Everytime either he or his boss open their mouth, I hear another lie...
You don't want to know just how stupid *they* think we are.. And the really sad part?? *They* are absolutely right on a large percentage of the American people.. The ones who drink the koolaide that comes from BOTH parties.. Its becoming apparent that none of the media, better known now as the defacto US Department of Propaganda, is telling the truth.. oh sure, they tell *their* "version" of the "truth", but not the TRUTH.. We are well and truly screwed...
Well, Win7 may not have the XP update problem, but it sure the HELL has another one that is beyond annoying.. When you, the computer owner, decide *you* want to shutdown *your* computer, and you issue the shutdown command, and Windows, in its infinite wisdom says "Installing updates.. please do not turn off or unplug your computer"... So, you have to sit there and *wait* for the abysmally ssslllooowww update process to complete before you can turn *your* computer OFF.. I had that crap happen to me the other day.. I usually just hibernate the laptop at the end of my lunch break, but for some unknown reason, I decided to shutdown that time... BAD DECISION!! 40 updates and about 15 minutes of *waiting* for MY COMPUTER to turn off...I came soooooo close to saying FU MS, pushing the power button, and taking the Win7 disk out of the laptop and putting the Linux disk in, and then DBAN'ing the flippin' Windows disk... This kind of crap does NOT happen on Linux...
....In addition, if 'the whole thing falls apart' then we as a nation are fucked.
As far as I'm concerned "we as a nation" ARE ALREADY fucked... When both parties shit on the Constitution, and any amount of truth from the government is non-existant, we are swirling down the toilet... I'm a Army vet, and love this country and the Constitution, and before anybody decides to label me, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN, NOT A DEMOCRAT, NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I AM AN AMERICAN!!. What is happening to the country I love makes me absolutely sick... Frankly, I'm glad I'm in my 60s, and not a young'un anymore, as I don't want to see where this country will be in 10-20 years.....
Too bad us eBay sellers ended up having to endure Meg Whitman.
You think *she* was bad?? Her successor, John Donahoe is MUCH MUCH worse.. I'd sold on eBay since around 1998, and Meg's tenure was positively refreshing compared to Donahoes.. Her mantra was "eBay is just a venue", and pretty much stuck to it.. With Donahoe, its ALL about the buyers now, they can do no wrong.. He seems to convieniently forget that it is the SELLERS who pay the ever-growing fees that keep eBay running. The sellers, who stick around, now have a not-so-silent partner in their business, butting in with endless new rules and requirements, where he has NO business.. He seems to be trying to rid eBay of all small sellers, such that unless you peddle millions of $$ of cheap Chinese crap each month, eBay doesn't want you.. From about 1998 to 2008, I sold probably 2-3K/mo, as a nice sideline business.. Since 2008, I no longer sell there, and if you read the eBay forums, you'll see I sure *aint* the only one...
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Hell, they could have done a better job with a rewrite by simply using WordPress.... Oh well, a roll of the Dice, it comes up snake-eyes... users lose!!!
damn.. forgot the main thrust of my post...
FUCK THE BETA!!!
Apparently Dice subscribes to the Microsoft/Canonical "Do what we want.. FUCK the users of our product" schoool of thought.. Witness Windows 8 for Microsoft, and Unity for Canonical/Ubuntu... "We know what's best for you, and you'll use it and LIKE it!!".. ummm... No we won't.. For my (shudder) occassional use of Windows, its Windows 7 till hell freezes over, and, though I used to swear by Ubuntu, now I swear AT it.. Moved without regret to Debian... Wonder where I'll go when Slashdot takes the "dirtnap"... Been here since 1998 or so.. Lost my original account, thus the larger UID...
That's because in the US people are citizens, in the UK they are subjects.
You're a little behind the times, US people are subjects now, too.. Our 238 year old Constitution has been run thru the shredder by the last several administrations and many of us are sick and tired of it...
Here's a quick fix.. Move OUT of that bat-shit insane state.. Then let those insane asylum inmates running that state try to shut you down.. These coding academies are pretty much web-based anyway, so all they have *in* California are the offices.. Those could quickly be moved out to say, Texas or Nevada, with little or no impact on the company.. I was born and raised in California, but the wife and I got out of there in the mid-90s, and moved to Nevada. Unfortunantly, we still have relatives there, so I have to make trips yearly to that nuthouse...
ABOUT DAMN TIME!! Snowden is in my opinion, not only an American hero, but a worldwide hero.. If that pile of excrement who is currently occupying the Whitehouse can get one for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to foster world peace, Snowden deserves one FAR MORE!! Go right ahead and mod me down, Slashlibtards... You know you want to... I'm not a republican nor a democrat, I'M A FLIPPIN' AMERICAN, AND I'M PISSED!!
An interesting thought experiment.. suppose a large computer vendor, say Dell, was to *really* stick its finger in Microsofts eye and basically say "ALL of our computers will run Linux, both laptops, desktops, and servers.. Windows will be an added cost extra." .. Say a nice lightweight display manager and Ubuntu (L/XUbuntu) on the desktops/laptops, with a theme that closely mimics Windows, and CentOS on all of their servers/workstations. IF somebody just absolutely HAS to have Windows, Dell essentially puts a retail Windows 7 (or 8) on it and charges up the wazoo for it.. They would certainly HAVE to do Windows *that* way as Microsoft would have a stroke, and remove any OEM pricing.. BUT.. Since Dell is now essentially owned by Micheal Dell, he could do that, without the stockholders going for his scalp. Dell has made a lot of moves in the Linux direction, this would certainly be right up their alley..
Sure would be interesting if you had the guts to put your handle out there when making these claims of "Not one of these hopeful wannabe astronaut will even step aboard something remotely similar to a rocket." so come 2023-2024, when the first four colonists land on Mars, we can show you what a doubting Thomas you were back in 2014.. Frankly, I believe Mars-one has a FAR better chance of accomplishing this than any government or consortium of governments.. Anyway, I wish them all the luck in the world and look forward to seeing the telecast of the landing of four humans on Mars in 2024.. I should still be around then, hopefully (74 then)...
Anyway I prefer to think positive, and I think Basdorp and his advisors have an excellent plan to accomplish this...
Have seen senior managers (CEO-level) saving their daily-to-do's emails in the TRASH!!
Back in the 90s, the company I worked for at the time, was a Novell+Groupwise shop, and we discovered that the company CEO was saving important email to the Groupwise trash. Found this out when we did a trash purge over a weekend and come Monday morning, CEO's executive assistant was on the phone to support saying that the "big-boss" lost a LOT of important email... I was the foot-soldier on call that day, so I had to run down to his office, and investigate. I had to fight hard to keep from laughing out loud when the assistant (big-wig was out of the office, but assistant had big-wigs password(s)) showed me just WHERE the emails had been stored, after a lot of prodding and question-asking.. Since I knew there had been a Groupwise trash purge over the weekend, I knew exactly where the mail had gone, but hoping against hope that the Novell salvage had not been cleared yet, I called the desk admin, and fortuantly he was JUST getting ready to clear salvage.. I managed to stop him, and we were able to recover the big-wigs email.. Being I was the new-guy, there was NOOOOO way I was gonna tell the CEO and his assistant "you DO NOT PUT EMAIL YOU WANT TO KEEP IN THE TRASH!!!" .. I left that up to my big-boss, the CIO... Needless to say we had many chuckles at the next months team meeting...
It's better than nothing though - as the American public's response to the absolute outrage that is this whole affair has only been a big, fat, shameful nothing.
What do you expect from what has become the defacto US Department of Propaganda? With little Jay Carney as Secretary.. He lies really good, but of course, he *has* to, to be able to cover up the lies his boss tells..
I understand GPL allowing CentOS and Scientific Linux to use Redhat in their respective products, but I find it really puzzling that they would actively *help* CentOS... Doesn't make a lot of sense to me...
I think this purchase of McAfee *is* their "security" department.... Now if we could just get Adobe Reader to stop pushing that McAfee "security scanner" that is checked by default and 95% of everybody who downloads/installs Reader installs AND which totally fucks up the machine and is a MAJOR pain to get off.. I've made a fair amount of $$$ removing that crap from neighbors machines, not to mention weaning them off of Adobe Reader..
Don't you mean Krakatoa? I think that eruption makes Pinatubo look like a firecracker...
They're using the government playbook.. Completely disrupt the best medical system on the planet, shove a brain-dead replacement thru in the dead of night THAT nobody (nobody who doesn't drink the left's koolaide, that is) wants, in the end fucking up everybody in the process.. Even a lot of the "koolaide-drinkers" are beginning to see the writing on the wall... Good job, Microsoft, maybe you can get a job with the government, as your software stinks.. (Linux user since 1995)..
Yeah.. I picture it like this.. America got kicked in the shins by a punk on 9/11/01, but since then she's shot herself in both feet, come close to severing both hands, given herself a good concussion,stabbed herself in several places, and put herself on lifesupport. That punk on 9/11 could not have done as much damage to America as she's done to herself in the 12 years since 9/11. DOES ANYONE DOUBT AMERICA IS NOW ESSENTIALLY A POLICE STATE?? (sorry about the caps, but wanted to emphasize that.. There is absolutely NO doubt in my mind..). I once was a republican, but after about 1/2 of BushJrs second term, I'd had enough and reregistered as Independent. It was a good move on my part after seeing how the republican party is trying (abeit unsuccessfully) to destroy the Teaparty, which is precisely what the republican party *should* be.. Nowadays, the (R)'s are just (D)-lite... Makes this 63 year old America VERY sick to his stomach...
Ever since Dice got their dick in Slashdot, its gone down the crapper.. I keep asking myself why I still come back here.. Force of habit I guess..
OR do what I did on the new laptop I got for Christmas.. Booted the thing up to make sure it worked, then pulled the original drive out, and slapped a spare drive in and installed Debian Linux.. If perchance the machine gives me the finger some time during the warrantee period, I can pull the Linux drive out and avoid all the "We don't support Linux" crap from support... Actually beginning to like Gnome3 on Debian 7.. Since the machine has 8GB of ram, I went with 64 bit (why would ANYone in 2013 still use a 32 bit OS???), but, unbeknownst to me, the old way of running 32bit apps (ia32-libs) on a 64 bit OS has been replaced on the newer distros with multiarch.. Alas some 32bit apps are not multiarch-aware and makes for a really fun bit of work to get them to play nicely.. Takes me back to the mid 90s with Linux and Xfree86...
I believe if you think of the mainstream media as a defacto US Department of Propaganda, you'll begin to clearly understand how far America has gone down the drain.. The government desparately wants to contain/control/destroy talk radio and any alternate source of information, and they won't give up till they silence anyTHING that doesn't toe the "party-line"... It is VERY ironic that the remanants of the old USSR Pravda has been running editorials warning Americans about where we're headed.. I watch the RT network often and have heard several of these editorials and it really brings it all home...
The king of "spokesweasels".. the one, the only, secretary of the US Department of Propaganda, none othen than little Jay Carney... Do you get the idea he took lessons from Bagdad Bob?? They both have a really firm grip on reality...
Whats even more astounding than this iconic photo is the tiny pinpoint of light that is Earth seen in pictures from the Mars rovers, or how about the picture from one of the deep space probes looking back at the the Earth-Moon system (was it NewHorizons, I forget).. THOSE picture blow my mind even more than this one..
The media has become the Ministry of Truth.
Or more likely, the US Department of Propaganda... Doesn't it seem that little Jay Carney, being the White House Press Secretary, wouldn't also be the
Secretary of that "Department of Propaganda"??
He's got lying down to a science, almost as good as his boss. Every time I see him speaking, I picture ole "Bagdad Bob", who, as I recall, was Sadam's Propaganda minister... Everytime either he or his boss open their mouth, I hear another lie...
... how stupid do they think we are?
You don't want to know just how stupid *they* think we are.. And the really sad part?? *They* are absolutely right on a large percentage of the American people.. The ones who drink the koolaide that comes from BOTH parties.. Its becoming apparent that none of the media, better known now as the defacto US Department of Propaganda, is telling the truth.. oh sure, they tell *their* "version" of the "truth", but not the TRUTH.. We are well and truly screwed...
Well, Win7 may not have the XP update problem, but it sure the HELL has another one that is beyond annoying.. When you, the computer owner, decide *you* want to shutdown *your* computer, and you issue the shutdown command, and Windows, in its infinite wisdom says "Installing updates.. please do not turn off or unplug your computer"... So, you have to sit there and *wait* for the abysmally ssslllooowww update process to complete before you can turn *your* computer OFF.. I had that crap happen to me the other day.. I usually just hibernate the laptop at the end of my lunch break, but for some unknown reason, I decided to shutdown that time... BAD DECISION!! 40 updates and about 15 minutes of *waiting* for MY COMPUTER to turn off...I came soooooo close to saying FU MS, pushing the power button, and taking the Win7 disk out of the laptop and putting the Linux disk in, and then DBAN'ing the flippin' Windows disk... This kind of crap does NOT happen on Linux...
....In addition, if 'the whole thing falls apart' then we as a nation are fucked.
As far as I'm concerned "we as a nation" ARE ALREADY fucked... When both parties shit on the Constitution, and any amount of truth from the government is non-existant, we are swirling down the toilet... I'm a Army vet, and love this country and the Constitution, and before anybody decides to label me, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN, NOT A DEMOCRAT, NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I AM AN AMERICAN!!. What is happening to the country I love makes me absolutely sick... Frankly, I'm glad I'm in my 60s, and not a young'un anymore, as I don't want to see where this country will be in 10-20 years.....
Too bad us eBay sellers ended up having to endure Meg Whitman.
You think *she* was bad?? Her successor, John Donahoe is MUCH MUCH worse.. I'd sold on eBay since around 1998, and Meg's tenure was positively refreshing compared to Donahoes.. Her mantra was "eBay is just a venue", and pretty much stuck to it.. With Donahoe, its ALL about the buyers now, they can do no wrong.. He seems to convieniently forget that it is the SELLERS who pay the ever-growing fees that keep eBay running. The sellers, who stick around, now have a not-so-silent partner in their business, butting in with endless new rules and requirements, where he has NO business.. He seems to be trying to rid eBay of all small sellers, such that unless you peddle millions of $$ of cheap Chinese crap each month, eBay doesn't want you.. From about 1998 to 2008, I sold probably 2-3K/mo, as a nice sideline business.. Since 2008, I no longer sell there, and if you read the eBay forums, you'll see I sure *aint* the only one...