I pick a different OS. Any OS, as long as it's not Vista. If I used Vista, I certainly wouldn't anymore after this; it's rare that I don't have some music playing when I'm using my computer. How the hell does this even happen, anyway? Seriously, how do you manage to fuck up the OS so much that simple audio playback pretty much breaks an entirely unrelated (or so one would hope) part of it?
I've used both 2000 and XP. I still wince whenever I have to use someone else's computer and they use Windows, because I can't do even half of the stuff I can on a *nix box.
it sure as fuck beats using Linux for a desktop machine.
It doesn't even come close to Linux for anything.
Please note that I ran Linux as my only OS from 1997 through 2002 and then went back and haven't returned.
Please note that I dual-booted Linux since 2001 and have been using it exclusively with no problems for the last few years, and I'll never return.
they have made some OSs that... work just fine for the majority of users
If by "work just fine" you mean "are riddled with massive security holes through which countless malware comes" then yes, they do.
I don't think Microsoft should be hailed for their business practices but they certainly haven't always made "shitty" software.
No, they've been making shitty software since approximately forever. Sure, not all of their software has been shitty, but the vast majority has and continues to be.
I'm supposed to respect them because they're bigger than everyone else and thus can put more money into marketing and abuse their monopoly to crush competitors with underhanded tactics? How about they stop making shitty software and play nice with everyone else? Maybe I'd respect them then, but I'll certainly not respect them for what they do now.
Yes, it does. As both the literal and most popular interpretation of the phrase, you can't really argue that it's wrong (at least, not without looking like an idiot). If you don't like it, make your own language so you can ensure that nobody ever corrupts your precious idioms.
Of course, the English language has no words for the horrors Anonymous gets off to; I was merely using a rough approximation. (Note, however, that the vastly superior Japanese language has a wide variety of terms for such things, like "kawaii", "moe", and "loli"). And I was speaking of dedicated fap time, not including when you're doing other things.
Anonymous's power is so great that he need not abide by logic (and generally does not), but yes, and most often in the context of threads started with this image.
Two completely different people. Anonymous Coward is a normal Slashdot user who merely has perpetually bad karma. Anonymous is, as the video states, an "Internet hate machine". He is the very personification of the deepest, darkest desires of the Internet. Which, of course, means he spends half of his time masturbating to strange pornography, the other half attacking easily-angered idiots for his personal amusement, and the other other half debating Bush, pedophilia, and quantum mechanics.
Dictionaries often ignore common terms until they have some air of legitimacy. I won't even touch on shit like usage guides, for obvious reasons. And I'll say it once again, dictionaries and such do not define language, how people use it does. Unless you've been living under a rock for years now or simply ignoring the parts of reality you don't like, it's obvious from, well, just about everything that no matter how much you like it, the 'correct' meaning has long since been supplanted.
The use of a term incorrectly does not become valid just because the author deliberately used it that way.
No, but it does when many authors use it that way. Regardless, this is utterly irrelevant because they are not using it incorrectly. They are using the literal meaning of the phrase, not the idiomatic one, which is arguably more correct than the 'correct' definition because it actually makes sense.
I'll give an example for you, since you seem to be having trouble with this concept: The phrase "coming out of the closet" is often used to mean revealing one's homosexuality to some person or group, which had been previously kept secret from them, or by extension any such secret which would likely be met with disapproval. However, were someone to describe a person who was leaving a real, specific closet as "coming out of the closet", would you go into a rant on how they're using it wrong and should stick to the idiomatic usage? No, you would not, because the words making up the idiomatic phrase were around long before it was, the phrase when taken literally makes sense, which one is being used can be easily determined with minimal context, and most importantly of all, you'll come across as someone with a gigantic stick up their ass who mindlessly follows the rules given to him by those smart people that write fancy and make big, authoritative-looking books.
Point to some dictionary or other usage guide that supports your view. Because I've only seen such authorities state that this usage is incorrect.
Prescriptivism is fucking stupid. Language is defined by how people use it, not by the illogical, contradictory edicts handed down by a moron who doesn't even understand them.
you must also believe we should swap the meaning of "it's" and "its", make "loose" synonymous with "lose", and get rid of "too", right?
This is a straw man. There is a big difference between typing B instead of A whether by accident (as in the case of loose/lose) or due to laziness (it's/its) and intentionally using B to mean A, which is what is happening here.
No, it begs the question. This usage is well-established, and just because you are too stupid to handle phrases having multiple meanings, even when it's painfully obvious from context which is being used, does not mean everyone else should have to change to accommodate you.
I don't think it is. While the main site has been having some problems for a little while now, I haven't had any trouble reaching db.gamefaqs.com (the domain for the actual FAQs and such), which seems to be on the same server.
Should be "Do 'Illegal' Codecs Actually Scare Potential Linux Users?", because that's what the article's about. I don't think most actual Linux users (myself included, though I don't live in the US, so it's not even illegal for me) care about the legality of the codecs. They just want to listen to the music and watch the movies they paid for.
I mean, with so many people screaming "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" all the time, you'd think they'd be happy to have someone finally actually listening and doing it. But no, they ban them all? None of this makes sense.
If nobody buys these, I seriously doubt they'll keep them around. And if Dell drops them due to lack of demand (in real life, not on the Internet), Linux will end up farther from getting on the average person's desktop than before.
Only one tack? I'd have thought Microsoft would be able to afford far more than that. Tacks aren't even effective weapons anyway; sure, with its resources, Microsoft could probably get some really big ones, but then it'd be cheaper and easier to just trade in your obscenely oversized tacks for knives or something. And who the hell verbs 'tack'? Really, none of this makes any sort of sense.
How the fuck did this get modded insightful? Funny maybe, but insightful? I seriously doubt they'd go that far; if it ever got out that they did such, they wouldn't even be able to convince the average sheeple that they were the good guys anymore. And shutting down one of the myriad BitTorrent sites, no matter how large it is, wouldn't be a big enough prize to justify that kind of risk.
So, uh, movies of me sodomizing the body of a baby I just microwaved would be ok? Or step by step illustrated instructions on how to carve grandma for dinner are cool?
They should be. You should be locked up for the rest of your life for the good of society for committing those acts, but you shouldn't be punished just for copying some particular bit pattern.
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The monkey can probably write more readable code.
I pick a different OS. Any OS, as long as it's not Vista. If I used Vista, I certainly wouldn't anymore after this; it's rare that I don't have some music playing when I'm using my computer. How the hell does this even happen, anyway? Seriously, how do you manage to fuck up the OS so much that simple audio playback pretty much breaks an entirely unrelated (or so one would hope) part of it?
I'm supposed to respect them because they're bigger than everyone else and thus can put more money into marketing and abuse their monopoly to crush competitors with underhanded tactics? How about they stop making shitty software and play nice with everyone else? Maybe I'd respect them then, but I'll certainly not respect them for what they do now.
Seriously, who the fuck buys porn?
Of course, the English language has no words for the horrors Anonymous gets off to; I was merely using a rough approximation. (Note, however, that the vastly superior Japanese language has a wide variety of terms for such things, like "kawaii", "moe", and "loli"). And I was speaking of dedicated fap time, not including when you're doing other things.
Anonymous's power is so great that he need not abide by logic (and generally does not), but yes, and most often in the context of threads started with this image.
Two completely different people. Anonymous Coward is a normal Slashdot user who merely has perpetually bad karma. Anonymous is, as the video states, an "Internet hate machine". He is the very personification of the deepest, darkest desires of the Internet. Which, of course, means he spends half of his time masturbating to strange pornography, the other half attacking easily-angered idiots for his personal amusement, and the other other half debating Bush, pedophilia, and quantum mechanics.
I'll give an example for you, since you seem to be having trouble with this concept:
The phrase "coming out of the closet" is often used to mean revealing one's homosexuality to some person or group, which had been previously kept secret from them, or by extension any such secret which would likely be met with disapproval. However, were someone to describe a person who was leaving a real, specific closet as "coming out of the closet", would you go into a rant on how they're using it wrong and should stick to the idiomatic usage? No, you would not, because the words making up the idiomatic phrase were around long before it was, the phrase when taken literally makes sense, which one is being used can be easily determined with minimal context, and most importantly of all, you'll come across as someone with a gigantic stick up their ass who mindlessly follows the rules given to him by those smart people that write fancy and make big, authoritative-looking books.
No, it begs the question. This usage is well-established, and just because you are too stupid to handle phrases having multiple meanings, even when it's painfully obvious from context which is being used, does not mean everyone else should have to change to accommodate you.
I don't think it is. While the main site has been having some problems for a little while now, I haven't had any trouble reaching db.gamefaqs.com (the domain for the actual FAQs and such), which seems to be on the same server.
Should be "Do 'Illegal' Codecs Actually Scare Potential Linux Users?", because that's what the article's about. I don't think most actual Linux users (myself included, though I don't live in the US, so it's not even illegal for me) care about the legality of the codecs. They just want to listen to the music and watch the movies they paid for.
No, ¥ is anime for \.
I don't. Perhaps you'd like an adjective to go with that sentence?
I mean, with so many people screaming "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" all the time, you'd think they'd be happy to have someone finally actually listening and doing it. But no, they ban them all? None of this makes sense.
Wow! Just like web applications!
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm quite adept at facilitating my own pleasure. And for free, too.
If nobody buys these, I seriously doubt they'll keep them around. And if Dell drops them due to lack of demand (in real life, not on the Internet), Linux will end up farther from getting on the average person's desktop than before.
Only one tack? I'd have thought Microsoft would be able to afford far more than that. Tacks aren't even effective weapons anyway; sure, with its resources, Microsoft could probably get some really big ones, but then it'd be cheaper and easier to just trade in your obscenely oversized tacks for knives or something. And who the hell verbs 'tack'? Really, none of this makes any sort of sense.
How the fuck did this get modded insightful? Funny maybe, but insightful? I seriously doubt they'd go that far; if it ever got out that they did such, they wouldn't even be able to convince the average sheeple that they were the good guys anymore. And shutting down one of the myriad BitTorrent sites, no matter how large it is, wouldn't be a big enough prize to justify that kind of risk.