This sort of thing should be fatal for the argument that "if anyone can see the source, anyone can find exploits", but for now at least, Microsoft has the stronger orbital mind-control ray.
Who said they were surprised?
exactly. what a prat. just because something gets into the news doesn't make it a surprise. i think someone just reeled off a random figure of speech quickly to get near the top of the comments
nothing wrong with what you're saying, I just wish you hadn't confused "it was a commentary on the fact that we seem to find them INDISPENSABLE" by starting your first comment with a quote from the article. as a general point about society, i agree with you mate, but this has been a great waste of time over the fact that your comment seemed more closely related to the article than it actually was.
ok, i'm now wondering if i'm feeding a troll.
lets requote, this time without my moronic screw up on the formatting:
It's an indispensable general tool for communicationandcomputation.
go and look around your house (or underneath your bridge if you are a troll as i suspect), for some other devices you can use to communicate and process, then come back and tell me that computers aren't indispensable for those two tasks
a phone can transmit voice signals but doesn't work so well for processing data, and a gameboy is great for gaming but you can't talk to somebody on it.
the we-use-a-lot-of-crap argument is true but tired and in this case totally irrelevant
its even in your quote:
It's an indispensable general tool for communication
and don't come back saying that you meant the bit about "needing them every day", because it was the word "indispensable" you were rubbishing.
I truly would like to believe that a new OS like the one you hypothesise about could appear. You're right about old roots and baggage.
It's hard to imagine or believe such a thing could happen, but that's just because of the sheer nature of it - it would be so new and unprecedented that obviously it feels like a strange concept.
Sadly, I can easily imagine such an OS being produced by GoogleZon -http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/randommirror.php or by Walmart-General-Motors
By now, we've all pretty much accepted that linux still has the huge advantage of being free. If the/. editors could remove themselves from their rich country mindset for a second to understand this, they would stop posting these damn mactel stories because nobody cares any more.
Or, to put it another way, hypothetically, the mexican govt is considering replacing some IT infrastructure. Here are their options:
1. $300 hardware/$300 software - windows
2. $400 hardware/$200 software - mac
3. $300 hardware/$0 software - linux
*numbers fairly general
Or let's look at Brazil - they won't hardly talk to Microsoft because they won't pay for something that can be free. Are they going to turn their back on getting something for free and go back to shipping billions of dollars abroad??
All this talk of bills and wasted power and bandwidth is very 1st world, don't you think? The true cost is the waste of resources and the potential worsening of what will already be an increase in power consumption thanks to the excessive processors in these new machines. It pisses me off to think of all that extra pollution just for the sake of a battle which is essentially between Idei and Gates.
well, very nice points. I have no problem accepting that it's not about spam then...
It still pisses me off that these idiots can be so far from understanding (or caring about) what we want from their site.
Unti somebody tells me of a good reason to hand over details to a news site JUST to get access to the articles, I for one will be abstaining.
Don't these people understand that the success of a site like slashdot is that you can type "slashdot.org[ENTER]" and within seconds be seeing the main latest headlines? The login process should be an optional extra step that I choose to take in order to get more from the site, not an intrusive details gathering technique. I suppose I'm meant to believe that the tick in the no-spam-please-box means something more than putting my details into a queuing system so I won't be able to trace back to who gave them away when they are later sold on.
For too long have we of the linux community suffered alone beneath the iron fist of Dvorak.
Finally, our pain is to be shared by a less minority group, hopefully with the consequence that journalists in general will be complained out of existence by the angry Mac bloggerfish of the Atlantic deep.
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first geographical place to be slashdotted?
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hmmm... i doubt that i am the only one sitting here thinking about going there... could akihabara be the first non-web entity to be slashdotted? or are we all far too much a bunch of "shut-ins" to actually leave the computer and go someplace? hehe
the problem with britain is that most of our infrastructure dates back to the roman occupation: phone lines, hospitals, transport, city structure - just about everything.
seriously though, bt is the typical sort of company - fine if you happen to be one of the 90% of people who fit perfectly into their model of how people should be, but if the slightest detail is out of sync you're in for a lot of work.
1. "A fight against their competence"
2. "A fight against their competition"
You may be right, but you have to admit that phrase two is by a huge margin the more natural looking. You can fight competition, but I've never heard of anyone "fight competence" until today, which is why I personally went for phrase 2.
i agree on this one. i think hemos didnt correct it becaus it looks so gramatically feasible either way. he might have thought that he was just not clever enough to understand some clever idea being expressed by diego. if you even have the slightest bit of doubt like that, i say it's always better to leave it as is rather than wade in with what you think the writer "meant to say".
Slashdot Mirror
This sort of thing should be fatal for the argument that "if anyone can see the source, anyone can find exploits", but for now at least, Microsoft has the stronger orbital mind-control ray.
Who said they were surprised?
exactly. what a prat. just because something gets into the news doesn't make it a surprise. i think someone just reeled off a random figure of speech quickly to get near the top of the comments
nothing wrong with what you're saying, I just wish you hadn't confused "it was a commentary on the fact that we seem to find them INDISPENSABLE" by starting your first comment with a quote from the article. as a general point about society, i agree with you mate, but this has been a great waste of time over the fact that your comment seemed more closely related to the article than it actually was.
ok, i'm now wondering if i'm feeding a troll.
lets requote, this time without my moronic screw up on the formatting: It's an indispensable general tool for communication and computation.
go and look around your house (or underneath your bridge if you are a troll as i suspect), for some other devices you can use to communicate and process, then come back and tell me that computers aren't indispensable for those two tasks
a phone can transmit voice signals but doesn't work so well for processing data, and a gameboy is great for gaming but you can't talk to somebody on it.
the we-use-a-lot-of-crap argument is true but tired and in this case totally irrelevant
its even in your quote: It's an indispensable general tool for communication and don't come back saying that you meant the bit about "needing them every day", because it was the word "indispensable" you were rubbishing.
I truly would like to believe that a new OS like the one you hypothesise about could appear. You're right about old roots and baggage. It's hard to imagine or believe such a thing could happen, but that's just because of the sheer nature of it - it would be so new and unprecedented that obviously it feels like a strange concept. Sadly, I can easily imagine such an OS being produced by GoogleZon -http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/randommirror.php or by Walmart-General-Motors
nice straw-man argument there
By now, we've all pretty much accepted that linux still has the huge advantage of being free. If the /. editors could remove themselves from their rich country mindset for a second to understand this, they would stop posting these damn mactel stories because nobody cares any more.
Or, to put it another way, hypothetically, the mexican govt is considering replacing some IT infrastructure. Here are their options:
1. $300 hardware/$300 software - windows
2. $400 hardware/$200 software - mac
3. $300 hardware/$0 software - linux
*numbers fairly general
Or let's look at Brazil - they won't hardly talk to Microsoft because they won't pay for something that can be free. Are they going to turn their back on getting something for free and go back to shipping billions of dollars abroad??
All this talk of bills and wasted power and bandwidth is very 1st world, don't you think? The true cost is the waste of resources and the potential worsening of what will already be an increase in power consumption thanks to the excessive processors in these new machines. It pisses me off to think of all that extra pollution just for the sake of a battle which is essentially between Idei and Gates.
http://www.morrowind.com/
well, very nice points. I have no problem accepting that it's not about spam then... It still pisses me off that these idiots can be so far from understanding (or caring about) what we want from their site.
Unti somebody tells me of a good reason to hand over details to a news site JUST to get access to the articles, I for one will be abstaining. Don't these people understand that the success of a site like slashdot is that you can type "slashdot.org[ENTER]" and within seconds be seeing the main latest headlines? The login process should be an optional extra step that I choose to take in order to get more from the site, not an intrusive details gathering technique. I suppose I'm meant to believe that the tick in the no-spam-please-box means something more than putting my details into a queuing system so I won't be able to trace back to who gave them away when they are later sold on.
someone always manages to find Ask Slashdots insulting. so nobody cares that you feel that way.
not so ironic since bungie use macs to make halo anyway
Dude, you misunderstood every single word I wrote
For too long have we of the linux community suffered alone beneath the iron fist of Dvorak. Finally, our pain is to be shared by a less minority group, hopefully with the consequence that journalists in general will be complained out of existence by the angry Mac bloggerfish of the Atlantic deep.
NM means no message
hmmm... i doubt that i am the only one sitting here thinking about going there... could akihabara be the first non-web entity to be slashdotted? or are we all far too much a bunch of "shut-ins" to actually leave the computer and go someplace? hehe
the problem with britain is that most of our infrastructure dates back to the roman occupation: phone lines, hospitals, transport, city structure - just about everything. seriously though, bt is the typical sort of company - fine if you happen to be one of the 90% of people who fit perfectly into their model of how people should be, but if the slightest detail is out of sync you're in for a lot of work.
1. "A fight against their competence" 2. "A fight against their competition" You may be right, but you have to admit that phrase two is by a huge margin the more natural looking. You can fight competition, but I've never heard of anyone "fight competence" until today, which is why I personally went for phrase 2.
i agree on this one. i think hemos didnt correct it becaus it looks so gramatically feasible either way. he might have thought that he was just not clever enough to understand some clever idea being expressed by diego. if you even have the slightest bit of doubt like that, i say it's always better to leave it as is rather than wade in with what you think the writer "meant to say".
they seem to be paying the price for trying to feed off google's fame now. it appears that they've been /.ed