I had a girlfriend who had a (very brief) job working at the Disney Store. She said that at the Disney Store, if a patron was referred to as a "customer," that meant someone suspected them of shoplifting. Everyone else was a "guest."
Yes, and also they're not employees - they're "Cast members".
And this is my favourite - can you guess what their IT support people are called? Yes, the Rescue Rangers.
Ironically I have never worked with such a miserable, humourless bunch of tossers.
I think that if programemrs were as efficient at programming as nintendo iss then we wouldn't need such advances. The gamecube ran software almost on par with an xbox 360 with processor specs at almost have the speed. Why can't programemrs just be more efficient at what they do and hwo they use the computers rescources?
I was going to flame you for your apalling spelling, typing and grammar. But having thought about it, I've decided we should really only flame people for that when it detracts from their message.
Since your message is, "I'm a retarded 12 year old skipping English class to post on Slashdot" there is no need.
Yay for you. Now go back to masturbating over pictures of tux and stop posting trolls with links that are 5 years old.
Now this is what bugs me. Why do you always assume that it's Linux users trolling you? As you have demonstrated, BSD zealots are so eminently trollable that literally anyone can have a go. Even an MCSE could probably generate tens of angry replies with a cut & pasted troll.
It's quite likely that you are in fact trying to insult a script. Have some self respect for fuck's sake.
Compiling software should also be much quicker, which is another gripe I have.
I expect that's exactly why they put a faster HDD in there. I bet Apple were just sick of getting thousands of support calls from first time buyers about how slowly Emacs was compiling.
In fact, that's probably why they sacrificed a better graphics chip. They just had to get those compile times down for the end user.
Btw, read my my last 3 blog entries about some Linux problems: my blog
I hope you don't mind, but I'm just reposting part of your blog here, as I think it deserves a wider audience.
The way I see things, Linux has much to learn and improve. It can be secure and fast, it is and and I never told you it weren't in this whole article! The problem is that people mix the words and concepts, Linux=The Kernel and that is fast and secure, Linux Software=THE PROBLEM. Yet, my opinion (shared with some friends) is that even the kernel is becoming obsolete and its not envolving to the Desktop as Linus promissed for 2.7. And without proper software and standarts that could kill and fire a lot of people... I see Mono as a performance boost, security boost and standartization boost in Linux world. We only need to learn by the past mistaques and try to fix them, then more and more people will help and use.
Ladies and gentleman, there is no point in trolling anymore. The art has been perfected. You will never better what alexmepigo has acheived here. Linux needs to switch to Mono now or people will die! Linux is slow because it doesn't use enough Mono and Java! Seriously people, alexmepigo has taken things to the next level and left you in the dust. He's even perfected the whole "I donta speeka very good Eeeeenglish" thing.
I thought it was very reminiscent of some of Trollaxor's finest work. Go check out alexmepigo's blog - there's much more quality material where that came from.
*shrug* you can believe what you wan't, but in the end when Microsoft change tack mid stream don't come running to me for support.
Several people have accused you of trolling. I think that's incredibly unfair. A quick glance at your posting history would have been sufficient to convince anyone that you simply don't have the intellectual capacity for trolling.
Every single person who has accused you of trolling should apologise right now for the lazy assumption that you are anything other than a slack jawed, drooling retard who lacks the skills needed to annoy people on purpose.
I can only apologise on behalf of Slashdot for misrepresenting you so badly. I just pray this incident doesn't put you off posting again. Your carers believe that it is a much more positive activity for you than licking windows and we would hate to impede your development.
The large cylindrical objects that are part of computer power supply cables are attempts at filtering the noise, but they really only work for very high frequencies.
No. The large cylindrical objects (most people call them capacitors) are for smoothing the rectified AC supply. It's the small ones that filter the high frequency noise - large electrolytic caps aren't good at that. Oh, and they're not usually cylindrical either. Other than that, you're spot on.
I love how the above summary completely leaves out the reasons for the review. From the article:
The objections by the FBI and Pentagon were partly over specialized intrusion detection software known as "Snort," which guards some classified U.S. military and intelligence computers.
That's interesting to know. I'm surprised that they would release that information. Perhaps they think it's difficult to DoS a Snort box out of existence? Someone should send them the copy of Phrack with that anti-Snort tool in it. The one that just fires off packets containing every single signature that Snort looks for. I think it was called Sneeze.
Ok, now let's see the Intel vs. G5 benchmarks -- that's what I really curious about
Oh, come on. Everyone already knows that the G5 with its RISC ISA is vastly more efficient than the P4 with its nasty segmented CISC ISA. That's why you can get a 3.2Ghz P4 in a laptop but not a G5. Oh wait...
ok audiophile man. FYI, you cant HEAR compression. It takes out sound under 20hz and above 20khz.
I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that you may not be an expert on audio compression. But it's good that you don't let your total lack of knowledge about a subject prevent you from making such emphatic statements. After all, just because your opinions are so laughably ill informed doesn't mean that they're any less valid. In future, try and mock the original poster a little more. Slashdotters are very forgiving about that kind of thing.
After observing that W32.Mytob didn't run under Windows 95, I read up Symantec's page on it. Appearently, it can figure out if it's running in VMWare, and terminates if it does. I consider that inventive on the writer's part.
It's not really that hard. You just query the name of the CDROM/IDE driver. If it's called something like "VMWare Virtual CDROM" then that's a small clue right there.
Ive also heard a rumor that the Rev controller will have a mic on it.
I've heard it will have a camera on it so you can all film yourself jerking off over the new Mario. It will truly be a "revolution" in human-computer interaction.
Yes it does, but if it also happens when you ship a product to just a few thousand people and under reproductible conditions to anyone who tries, then that is definitely _not_ a feature (to put it into rather mild words). If one in 100,000 PS2 units shipped turns out to be defective, that's one thing, but if one in 1000 Xbox2 units (let's not follow the naming propaganda, it's not like there have been 359 generations of Xboxen before...) is faulty and has to be returned because of repeated overheating and crashing, then you might look like a fool by stating that well, all consoles have had their share of technical problems. If there was no quality assurance eager enough to eradicate issues like that before they were delivered to everyone's living rooms, then that can only mean one thing: invasion! - no, errh, I mean, that was a rushed launch.
This is one of the most confused, retarded and badly written paragraphs I have ever seen on the Internet.
Is there any way I can persuade you to commit suicide with just words? Please confirm asap.
This means Microsoft won; you had other options available, but you went with their product, even though you haven't given a clear reason to.
Your obsession with other peoples choice of gaming device makes me strongly suspect that you have never been intimate with a lady.
I also suspect that you will reply flaming me for being a "fanboy" of some variety. This will tend not to disprove the above statement.
Your sentence structure is a little hard to read here, but it sounds like you said that despite there being no real reason to own a 360 game-wise, you still bought one despite not being a hardcore gamer (who would buy it if it had nothing for it).
While I suspect that we do need a spokesman for digitial rights, I am absolutely certain that it shouldn't be you. Please don't publish anything else on the Internet about this subject. It would be much better for everyone if you let someone coherent do it instead.
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I had a girlfriend who had a (very brief) job working at the Disney Store. She said that at the Disney Store, if a patron was referred to as a "customer," that meant someone suspected them of shoplifting. Everyone else was a "guest."
Yes, and also they're not employees - they're "Cast members".
And this is my favourite - can you guess what their IT support people are called? Yes, the Rescue Rangers.
Ironically I have never worked with such a miserable, humourless bunch of tossers.
Do you really think Open Source AV can't fsck up your PC if there are bugs in it?
Do you really think it's better to have your system trashed and pay for the privilege?
Along with that, I always wait three to four days before pushing the updates out.
Doesn't it cost a lot to educate your users to not download viruses that are less than four days old?
Why don't you just educate them to not download viruses at all? Then you could do without the Anti-virus. You pretty much are anyway.
Anyone else having problems or a solution to this?
Since you have given us such a wealth of information with which to diagnose your problem, I am going to try to be equally illuminating in my answer.
The solution is for you to fix your system. Maybe try and work out what changed a few months ago and then reverse it.
Hope this helps - no need to thank me.
I think that if programemrs were as efficient at programming as nintendo iss then we wouldn't need such advances. The gamecube ran software almost on par with an xbox 360 with processor specs at almost have the speed. Why can't programemrs just be more efficient at what they do and hwo they use the computers rescources?
I was going to flame you for your apalling spelling, typing and grammar. But having thought about it, I've decided we should really only flame people for that when it detracts from their message.
Since your message is, "I'm a retarded 12 year old skipping English class to post on Slashdot" there is no need.
Yay for you. Now go back to masturbating over pictures of tux and stop posting trolls with links that are 5 years old.
Now this is what bugs me. Why do you always assume that it's Linux users trolling you? As you have demonstrated, BSD zealots are so eminently trollable that literally anyone can have a go. Even an MCSE could probably generate tens of angry replies with a cut & pasted troll.
It's quite likely that you are in fact trying to insult a script. Have some self respect for fuck's sake.
How is this any different from DRBD (http://www.drbd.org./
Just to save anyone else having to reply - this is for BSD and therefore automatically better.
Note: to most slashdot users, this sex thing I refer to is like compiling a kernel on Gentoo using -O3 and having it be stable.
Note: to all Slashdot users. When a Mac zealot talks about sex, it's probably between two guys.
Compiling software should also be much quicker, which is another gripe I have.
I expect that's exactly why they put a faster HDD in there. I bet Apple were just sick of getting thousands of support calls from first time buyers about how slowly Emacs was compiling.
In fact, that's probably why they sacrificed a better graphics chip. They just had to get those compile times down for the end user.
Btw, read my my last 3 blog entries about some Linux problems: my blog
I hope you don't mind, but I'm just reposting part of your blog here, as I think it deserves a wider audience.
The way I see things, Linux has much to learn and improve. It can be secure and fast, it is and and I never told you it weren't in this whole article! The problem is that people mix the words and concepts, Linux=The Kernel and that is fast and secure, Linux Software=THE PROBLEM. Yet, my opinion (shared with some friends) is that even the kernel is becoming obsolete and its not envolving to the Desktop as Linus promissed for 2.7. And without proper software and standarts that could kill and fire a lot of people...
I see Mono as a performance boost, security boost and standartization boost in Linux world. We only need to learn by the past mistaques and try to fix them, then more and more people will help and use.
Ladies and gentleman, there is no point in trolling anymore. The art has been perfected. You will never better what alexmepigo has acheived here. Linux needs to switch to Mono now or people will die! Linux is slow because it doesn't use enough Mono and Java! Seriously people, alexmepigo has taken things to the next level and left you in the dust. He's even perfected the whole "I donta speeka very good Eeeeenglish" thing.
I thought it was very reminiscent of some of Trollaxor's finest work. Go check out alexmepigo's blog - there's much more quality material where that came from.
*shrug* you can believe what you wan't, but in the end when Microsoft change tack mid stream don't come running to me for support.
Several people have accused you of trolling. I think that's incredibly unfair. A quick glance at your posting history would have been sufficient to convince anyone that you simply don't have the intellectual capacity for trolling.
Every single person who has accused you of trolling should apologise right now for the lazy assumption that you are anything other than a slack jawed, drooling retard who lacks the skills needed to annoy people on purpose.
I can only apologise on behalf of Slashdot for misrepresenting you so badly. I just pray this incident doesn't put you off posting again. Your carers believe that it is a much more positive activity for you than licking windows and we would hate to impede your development.
Do not install all the entrants at once. It would be bad.
My God! It looks like IE. Except that he actually deliberately installed all of those extensions and none of them are malicious.
The large cylindrical objects that are part of computer power supply cables are attempts at filtering the noise, but they really only work for very high frequencies.
No. The large cylindrical objects (most people call them capacitors) are for smoothing the rectified AC supply. It's the small ones that filter the high frequency noise - large electrolytic caps aren't good at that. Oh, and they're not usually cylindrical either. Other than that, you're spot on.
I love how the above summary completely leaves out the reasons for the review. From the article:
The objections by the FBI and Pentagon were partly over specialized intrusion detection software known as "Snort," which guards some classified U.S. military and intelligence computers.
That's interesting to know. I'm surprised that they would release that information. Perhaps they think it's difficult to DoS a Snort box out of existence? Someone should send them the copy of Phrack with that anti-Snort tool in it. The one that just fires off packets containing every single signature that Snort looks for. I think it was called Sneeze.
Ok, now let's see the Intel vs. G5 benchmarks -- that's what I really curious about
Oh, come on. Everyone already knows that the G5 with its RISC ISA is vastly more efficient than the P4 with its nasty segmented CISC ISA. That's why you can get a 3.2Ghz P4 in a laptop but not a G5. Oh wait...
Turn the passenger compartment into a Faraday cage.
We're talking about aeroplanes! How exactly are you going to ground your Faraday cage when it's at 30,000 feet?
ok audiophile man. FYI, you cant HEAR compression. It takes out sound under 20hz and above 20khz.
I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that you may not be an expert on audio compression. But it's good that you don't let your total lack of knowledge about a subject prevent you from making such emphatic statements. After all, just because your opinions are so laughably ill informed doesn't mean that they're any less valid. In future, try and mock the original poster a little more. Slashdotters are very forgiving about that kind of thing.
After observing that W32.Mytob didn't run under Windows 95, I read up Symantec's page on it. Appearently, it can figure out if it's running in VMWare, and terminates if it does. I consider that inventive on the writer's part.
It's not really that hard. You just query the name of the CDROM/IDE driver. If it's called something like "VMWare Virtual CDROM" then that's a small clue right there.
There are more complicated ways, but why bother?
Ive also heard a rumor that the Rev controller will have a mic on it.
I've heard it will have a camera on it so you can all film yourself jerking off over the new Mario. It will truly be a "revolution" in human-computer interaction.
Yes it does, but if it also happens when you ship a product to just a few thousand people and under reproductible conditions to anyone who tries, then that is definitely _not_ a feature (to put it into rather mild words). If one in 100,000 PS2 units shipped turns out to be defective, that's one thing, but if one in 1000 Xbox2 units (let's not follow the naming propaganda, it's not like there have been 359 generations of Xboxen before...) is faulty and has to be returned because of repeated overheating and crashing, then you might look like a fool by stating that well, all consoles have had their share of technical problems. If there was no quality assurance eager enough to eradicate issues like that before they were delivered to everyone's living rooms, then that can only mean one thing: invasion! - no, errh, I mean, that was a rushed launch.
This is one of the most confused, retarded and badly written paragraphs I have ever seen on the Internet.
Is there any way I can persuade you to commit suicide with just words? Please confirm asap.
This means Microsoft won; you had other options available, but you went with their product, even though you haven't given a clear reason to.
Your obsession with other peoples choice of gaming device makes me strongly suspect that you have never been intimate with a lady.
I also suspect that you will reply flaming me for being a "fanboy" of some variety. This will tend not to disprove the above statement.
Your sentence structure is a little hard to read here, but it sounds like you said that despite there being no real reason to own a 360 game-wise, you still bought one despite not being a hardcore gamer (who would buy it if it had nothing for it).
Irony++
Oh yea, me see Microsoft in article and me think: will bash Microsoft and get cool points on Slashdot! So here what me say:
I was going to congratulate you on pulling off such a fine impression of a retard. Then I checked your posting history.
It doesn't count if you're not even trying.
While I suspect that we do need a spokesman for digitial rights, I am absolutely certain that it shouldn't be you. Please don't publish anything else on the Internet about this subject. It would be much better for everyone if you let someone coherent do it instead.
Ooh, look, A vulnerability. Another example of why OS X is way behind Windows...
Maybe behind in numbers, but in terms of sheer forehead slapping stupidity this vuln has certainly done a lot to level the playing field.
Nothing happened and even when I clicked on the file.
Maybe you clicked with the wrong mouse button?