Troll is a person posting an inflammatory message with the deliberate intent of exciting readers into a controversial response. This is the exact definition.
But the word is misused a lot, indeed. For example, just writing hateful comments, or messages with disinformation, is not trolling.
GP's claim was that it is "very easy to choose a stable distro that doesn't live on the bleeding edge". For many people Ubuntu LTS is an obvious choice. If there suddenly comes a rule that Ubuntu cannot be used, then the choice is obviously not very easy.
It's a bit amateurish to dismiss the parent with the classic "it works for me, there must no problem". For example, maybe your university machines were mostly the same brand of conservative desktop machines which had quite basic hardware with well-tested interoperability with Windows Update? I mean, if you have a bunch of HP or Dell machines with Intel integrated graphics, the chances of things exploding are probably lower than with some more hot rod hardware.
The nice thing about Windows Update drivers is that they sometimes allow you to install the the sole driver instead of the 300MB garbage pack from the vendor.:)
The definition of trolling is to post messages with the deliberate intent of exciting readers into an emotional response, so I'm not sure if it's the correct term to use here. I don't think that was the main motivation of the writer of the review.
When will people learn that trying to take down negative reviews just gets you more negative reviews and the spotlight.
You have to remember that there might be many cases like this where the negative review gets successfully removed and gets no public attention. That might be the reason why "they won't learn" -- because the trick might actually work.
There are other parameters by which mod points are handed out than just pure randomness. For example, a couple of years ago it worked for me so that if I had a couple of days of break from Slashdot (didn't load any pages), it often gave me a 5-pack of modpoints, but it didn't if I browsed constantly. Today even that trick does not work at all for me.
But comparing to the old days, there is a clear difference how much mod points there is in circulation in general. Look at this How Do Geeks Exercise article from 2008, and see how the comments are modded.
Meanwhile, many other words and phrases over the centuries have lost the original meaning while "gaining nothing" and yet we're all still here!
Yes, by some miracle we are here... But how many disasters have those language changes caused along the way?
- As you are my main commander, I consult you: should we ignite a World War in the current situation?
- I could care less about that idea!
- Aha, so you care a fair amount. Well, roll out the troops!
What barrier is this? Is there some reason why getting below $0.50/GB is difficult, or is it merely the result of gradually falling prices?
How can people be so worked up about this "barrier" thing? It was obviously chosen as an interesting goal as it is exactly half a dollar per gigabyte. That's all there is to it.
The rest of us could pull open the customization menu and remove the icons we didn't need (or simply those we didn't understand what they did, I suppose) and add in just the ones we wanted. With 'The Ribbon' we're forced to do whatever we're steered into doing by a broken design forced on us by 'Experts' who know better than us how we should be using the software.
I actually like the Ribbon. Before I had a jumble of tiny icons of which most I have no idea what they did, unless I explicitly hovered over them to see the tooltip. With Ribbon I have a toolbar which is nicely organized into tabs and the icons have clear labels showing what they do.
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Troll is a person posting an inflammatory message with the deliberate intent of exciting readers into a controversial response. This is the exact definition.
But the word is misused a lot, indeed. For example, just writing hateful comments, or messages with disinformation, is not trolling.
GP's claim was that it is "very easy to choose a stable distro that doesn't live on the bleeding edge". For many people Ubuntu LTS is an obvious choice. If there suddenly comes a rule that Ubuntu cannot be used, then the choice is obviously not very easy.
Are you aware that the fan bug slipped right into the main kernel of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was finally fixed in July in Ubuntu kernel 3.13.0-31.
It's a bit amateurish to dismiss the parent with the classic "it works for me, there must no problem". For example, maybe your university machines were mostly the same brand of conservative desktop machines which had quite basic hardware with well-tested interoperability with Windows Update? I mean, if you have a bunch of HP or Dell machines with Intel integrated graphics, the chances of things exploding are probably lower than with some more hot rod hardware.
The nice thing about Windows Update drivers is that they sometimes allow you to install the the sole driver instead of the 300MB garbage pack from the vendor. :)
The scary thing about Linux is that they can do sometimes platform updates which suddenly break fundamental things like keyboard or ACPI fan control.
But then again, the bleeding-edge development process also allows to get all the new cool features quickly into the kernel.
Umm, looking at the replies to the parent comment shows a bit different picture. They seem to have pondered it seriously.
The definition of trolling is to post messages with the deliberate intent of exciting readers into an emotional response, so I'm not sure if it's the correct term to use here. I don't think that was the main motivation of the writer of the review.
When will people learn that trying to take down negative reviews just gets you more negative reviews and the spotlight.
You have to remember that there might be many cases like this where the negative review gets successfully removed and gets no public attention. That might be the reason why "they won't learn" -- because the trick might actually work.
It's like Flingo with some features adopted from Tamber. I mostly use it to manage my BerrySpring feeds.
I think it's a Slashdot editor trying to spin 500rpm in an office chair and publish articles at the same time.
There are other parameters by which mod points are handed out than just pure randomness. For example, a couple of years ago it worked for me so that if I had a couple of days of break from Slashdot (didn't load any pages), it often gave me a 5-pack of modpoints, but it didn't if I browsed constantly. Today even that trick does not work at all for me.
But comparing to the old days, there is a clear difference how much mod points there is in circulation in general. Look at this How Do Geeks Exercise article from 2008, and see how the comments are modded.
I was just trying to crack a joke, but I guess it didn't work out too well.
Meanwhile, many other words and phrases over the centuries have lost the original meaning while "gaining nothing" and yet we're all still here!
Yes, by some miracle we are here... But how many disasters have those language changes caused along the way?
- As you are my main commander, I consult you: should we ignite a World War in the current situation?
- I could care less about that idea!
- Aha, so you care a fair amount. Well, roll out the troops!
I don't even remember when I have got mod points the last time. It's been over a year at least. :smoke:
Good decision. Only dickheads clog cellular radio frequencies with torrents. If you love pirating so much, you can obtain a wired connection for that.
It's a deal!
Wow. I wonder if that man-in-the-middle attack could have been prevented if Slashdot used HTTPS by default.
It can be $0.40/GB, but some might think that it's too fine-grained and we are almost past that point anyway. How about $0.25/GB (quarter dollar)?
After the Toshiba acquisition, the designs and quality assurance procedures for OCZ drives have most likely been completely revamped.
What barrier is this? Is there some reason why getting below $0.50/GB is difficult, or is it merely the result of gradually falling prices?
How can people be so worked up about this "barrier" thing? It was obviously chosen as an interesting goal as it is exactly half a dollar per gigabyte. That's all there is to it.
The rest of us could pull open the customization menu and remove the icons we didn't need (or simply those we didn't understand what they did, I suppose) and add in just the ones we wanted. With 'The Ribbon' we're forced to do whatever we're steered into doing by a broken design forced on us by 'Experts' who know better than us how we should be using the software.
The Ribbon can also be fully customized.
I actually like the Ribbon. Before I had a jumble of tiny icons of which most I have no idea what they did, unless I explicitly hovered over them to see the tooltip. With Ribbon I have a toolbar which is nicely organized into tabs and the icons have clear labels showing what they do.
Uhh... if US has only 13% blacks, it does not mean that that is the maximum percentage of blacks that you can hire into your company.
How much time and money does it take?