Every time someone posts something like this I go to Digg... and see dozens of examples completely inane/utterly worthless/disgustingly badly-reported shit I'd rather not slog through.
Seriously, this is like going to church to go tell everyone how awesome atheism is.
(also, your post kind of doesn't make any sense. you simultaneously expect slashdot to produce a story like this and expect it to be better? what?)
*burns karma*
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That movie is flat out ridiculous.
"The flag is waving in the wind! No, it's not because the guy is rapidly spinning its pole! CONSPIRACY!!!!!!"
Yup, everyone with a different opinion is a paid shill.
It's comments like these that got me started on my intense dislike for some portions of the F/OSS community. I dared to post that Windows has gotten fairly stable, and is actually a reasonable operating system. Not a safe thing to say.
I don't personally know much about Linspire, but I do know that this community has to get rid of whatever's attracting so many people with this offensive elitist attitude. The very existance of the word "luser" makes me feel bad for the perversion of the principles behind free software.
It isn't every day you can read in a news article how to use windows calculator to make your computer output incorrect math... I remember being tickled to death about it being what the article said it would be.
Unfortunately, the floppy is disappearing. I miss it- my recent computer I bought doesn't have a floppy drive. While I haven't run into any problems because of it, it makes me kind of uneasy.
Of course, if one of the optical drives fails, I still have another one already in the machine, and then the four or so in other computers at home... and now that I think about it, floppies were ridiculously unreliable...
"Many so-called "ordinary" users think that they prefer a power vs time curve that grows logarithmically"
In other words, those lusers don't know what they really want. They just THINK they know what they want.
Reminds me of what my father (once a programmer for IBM) used to say once in a while... "Look at those people. They think they're having fun... they're not."
Honestly, user interface in F/OS software tends to suck. There are exceptions- Firefox isn't too bad. OpenOffice, however... well, let's compare one thing to MS Word. Headers. In both Word and Writer, you go to the page formatting dialog box, then go to the part where you fiddle with header settings. In Word, everything is right there. Want a different header on the first page? Check the box. Want a different header on even vs. odd pages? Check the box. In Writer, the even vs. odd check box is there, and you can format the header with your various visual styles and so on... but how do you make a different header on the first page? Well, let's see, everything else for headers is here, let's try to find it... no, it's not on this page. Maybe under "more"? Nope, not there. Read the help file- hm, it doesn't say. There is a hint, for the "same content left/right" check box. "Adds the header to both even and odd pages. This option is only available for the Default page style." Hmm, I wonder what the "Default page style" is.
Eventually you end up having to open up the "styles and formatting" box. There is an unmarked button that displays the tooltip "Page styles". And one of those styles is "First Page". You have to apply that style to the first page, then add a header to both the default style pages and the first page style pages.
Seriously, what the hell. If I wanted to go on a hunting expedition I'd be out in the woods, not writing a paper.
And while I can't be bothered to write down more examples (/rant), this sort of thing, in my experience (and that of friends), plagues F/OS software to a much greater extent than it does commercial, proprietary software.
I just went to Digg.com, and... EVERY article is less news-worthy, on the front page. And lower-quality writing, to boot. I personally like the articles about "Amazing pictures of sand!" and "Web Will Run Out of Addresses by 2012"
People who aren't ass-backwards and try keeping any mention of sex five miles from children.
Seriously, the sex in that game is-
Spouse: What, aren't you going to come to bed? You: (yes | no) (insert black screen with ridiculous giggling and spouse saying "ooh") (return to game with spouse making some sort of lame joke)
Twelve-year-olds might get all giggly about it, but it's nothing new. Hell, if you're not loitering around your house for no reason all the time it's not even very likely to happen...
Nevermind theories about that other stat, your character's sexuality...
Usage Note: Flaunt as a transitive verb means "to exhibit ostentatiously": She flaunted her wealth. To flout is "to show contempt for": She flouted the proprieties. For some time now flaunt has been used in the sense "to show contempt for," even by educated users of English. This usage is still widely seen as erroneous and is best avoided.
Uhhh, Windows already has a shell. It's called cmd.exe. It's the barebones method for user interaction with the OS- this PS thing is some sort of super-duper-crazy-scripty-shell, which, believe it or not, the average person doesn't need or want.
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Every time someone posts something like this I go to Digg... and see dozens of examples completely inane/utterly worthless/disgustingly badly-reported shit I'd rather not slog through.
Seriously, this is like going to church to go tell everyone how awesome atheism is.
(also, your post kind of doesn't make any sense. you simultaneously expect slashdot to produce a story like this and expect it to be better? what?)
*burns karma*
That movie is flat out ridiculous.
"The flag is waving in the wind! No, it's not because the guy is rapidly spinning its pole! CONSPIRACY!!!!!!"
All your Windows platform are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time.
Ha ha, you made fun of Americans! How original and ballsy! *mods funny*
Yup, everyone with a different opinion is a paid shill.
It's comments like these that got me started on my intense dislike for some portions of the F/OSS community. I dared to post that Windows has gotten fairly stable, and is actually a reasonable operating system. Not a safe thing to say.
I don't personally know much about Linspire, but I do know that this community has to get rid of whatever's attracting so many people with this offensive elitist attitude. The very existance of the word "luser" makes me feel bad for the perversion of the principles behind free software.
Hell, I was a little kid and I remember that bug.
It isn't every day you can read in a news article how to use windows calculator to make your computer output incorrect math... I remember being tickled to death about it being what the article said it would be.
Buy one with a DVD player and upgrade it if either of these formats gets a hold. Maybe they'll even fall in price by then.
"...just as the floppy is still around today."
...
Unfortunately, the floppy is disappearing. I miss it- my recent computer I bought doesn't have a floppy drive. While I haven't run into any problems because of it, it makes me kind of uneasy.
Of course, if one of the optical drives fails, I still have another one already in the machine, and then the four or so in other computers at home... and now that I think about it, floppies were ridiculously unreliable
"Many so-called "ordinary" users think that they prefer a power vs time curve that grows logarithmically"
In other words, those lusers don't know what they really want. They just THINK they know what they want.
Reminds me of what my father (once a programmer for IBM) used to say once in a while... "Look at those people. They think they're having fun... they're not."
Honestly, user interface in F/OS software tends to suck. There are exceptions- Firefox isn't too bad. OpenOffice, however... well, let's compare one thing to MS Word. Headers. In both Word and Writer, you go to the page formatting dialog box, then go to the part where you fiddle with header settings. In Word, everything is right there. Want a different header on the first page? Check the box. Want a different header on even vs. odd pages? Check the box. In Writer, the even vs. odd check box is there, and you can format the header with your various visual styles and so on... but how do you make a different header on the first page? Well, let's see, everything else for headers is here, let's try to find it... no, it's not on this page. Maybe under "more"? Nope, not there. Read the help file- hm, it doesn't say. There is a hint, for the "same content left/right" check box. "Adds the header to both even and odd pages. This option is only available for the Default page style." Hmm, I wonder what the "Default page style" is.
Eventually you end up having to open up the "styles and formatting" box. There is an unmarked button that displays the tooltip "Page styles". And one of those styles is "First Page". You have to apply that style to the first page, then add a header to both the default style pages and the first page style pages.
Seriously, what the hell. If I wanted to go on a hunting expedition I'd be out in the woods, not writing a paper.
And while I can't be bothered to write down more examples (/rant), this sort of thing, in my experience (and that of friends), plagues F/OS software to a much greater extent than it does commercial, proprietary software.
Of course, unless you happen to have some sort of irrational clown phobia. But that's just silly.
Hahahahahahaha.
I just went to Digg.com, and... EVERY article is less news-worthy, on the front page. And lower-quality writing, to boot. I personally like the articles about "Amazing pictures of sand!" and "Web Will Run Out of Addresses by 2012"
Fail.
People who aren't ass-backwards and try keeping any mention of sex five miles from children.
Seriously, the sex in that game is-
Spouse: What, aren't you going to come to bed?
You: (yes | no)
(insert black screen with ridiculous giggling and spouse saying "ooh")
(return to game with spouse making some sort of lame joke)
Twelve-year-olds might get all giggly about it, but it's nothing new. Hell, if you're not loitering around your house for no reason all the time it's not even very likely to happen...
Nevermind theories about that other stat, your character's sexuality...
I'm really, really, really surprised you didnt spell it "Micro$oft"
From Dictionary.com:
Usage Note: Flaunt as a transitive verb means "to exhibit ostentatiously": She flaunted her wealth. To flout is "to show contempt for": She flouted the proprieties. For some time now flaunt has been used in the sense "to show contempt for," even by educated users of English. This usage is still widely seen as erroneous and is best avoided.
He is a celebrity... just a very specialized one.
Seriously, if these tags are going to be useful at all (which is really kind of doubtful now that I think about it) the taggers need to grow up.
Uhhh, Windows already has a shell. It's called cmd.exe. It's the barebones method for user interaction with the OS- this PS thing is some sort of super-duper-crazy-scripty-shell, which, believe it or not, the average person doesn't need or want.
Yes.
Although, we're not so prejudiced as to just hate China. We hate America too. And Europe. And you.
The list of things we like is short: Google, Open Source, talking about complicated things, and CowboyNeal.
Except Canada.
Ummm... what the hell? Who modded this interesting?
Yeah, seriously, "chocolate eggs" sound SO disgusting.
The rest of the world must have lost its sense of taste, if they eat something that sounds that nasty.
Myspace is dead.
(had to say it...)
I figured babies had something to do with kissing.
I had a really good reason to be majorly grossed out by kissing as a little boy, I think...
"though I doubt you can send them any more"
Don't worry, you can just send them from someone else's hotmail account.
Considering s/he's posting about how nobody honest needs privacy, it's kind of funny s/he posts as AC...
Something to hide, probably.