Maybe that's because Slashdot doesn't run PHP. Take a look at the URL. Does it say "php" anywhere? It says "pl", which indicates that these pages are being generated with Perl.
The Ubuntu logo is a registered trademark of Canonical Ltd. Debian's logo may be used in all situations, provided that the logo is used to refer to the Debian project.
Of course, that doesn't really matter. It's good fair use to put a logo of Ubuntu here.
Do you have any idea how many people went to the store to buy a PS2 for the reason that it can keep the kids happy AND play DVDs? Your previous post assumes that the largest part of the market is into this for the games; it might very well be so that this isn't true. I don't know, either, but what I do know is that not everybody is a hardcore gamer who just wants to have a console for the games.
I also don't see what's wrong with playing DVDs in the PS2. I bought a PS2 because I wanted to play games, but also because I wanted to play DVDs. The PS2 does that well enough, right?
Who cares, man? It's still an awfully bloated media player with an absolutely terrible user interface and no support for file formats that we (the Slashdot crowd, not the common user) want to be able to play.
The only thing I can see this being used for is as iTunes alternative, but I consider even that doubtful.
Okay, so now they placed the close tab button on the active tab itself. I've heard of that being planned. I, however, really don't like that myself. Does anyone know if it's possible to turn off? Because if not, I'm not switching.
There's no reason to not let the user be able to pick the old way of handling a UI functionality that a reasonable amount of people don't agree with.
I'm a regular visitor of that site. There were never any Google Ads on the forums, they only showed up on the main page which is very frequently visited by non-contributing guests from all over the world that just come over for the downloads. There's actually a very small number of people visiting (let along actively contributing) to the forums.
Pretty much all hate campaigns I've seen against another product just didn't work out. Logically, I'd also think that showing people how good your product is (rather than how bad the other product is) has a much more positive effect. But really, I'm not an expert on commercials. Anybody who can point me to some hate campaigns by major companies that seem(ed) to be effective?
One thing that's always bothered me about movies is the fact that the visuals are terrible. Like stated in the summary, an e-mail will transform into an envelope, and when someone tries to hack into a system, the "ACCESS GRANTED" text fills up the entire screen.
I also love how, even when the movie is trendy and has its actors use iMacs, people seem to always TYPE everything because a mouse isn't computer-ish enough. Sometimes, the computers are even green text-mode terminals, even in modern TV shows.
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You know, what I actually hate most about it is the fact that the image buttons (Web, News, Images, etc.) are not links. Only the text is a link. I wonder why they forgot to make the images links, since it's rather confusing that the images DO have a special roll-over image.
This is exactly why citing sources is so important!
Wal-mart is bad! - Maybe. Wal-mart treats its employees badly! - Maybe. Wal-mart has been said to treat its employees badly because the New York Times has written an elaborate article about it with interviews of ex-employees. (link) - Yes. It may or may not be true that Wal-mart treats its employees badly, but there's no discussion about whether the New York Times has stated its opinion on the matter. That's truth, and that's how you can make articles NPOV.
It seems that according to the US government, everything that opposes the benefit of the few is ultimately one of the many forms of terrorism. This is the regime that the people you voted for are upholding. It bothers me that they can get away with it, but I guess that it's not possible for America to start using a pluriform multi-party system which I firmly believe would help keep the amount of insane propositions like this one at bay, like it effectively does in the Netherlands.
I guess that at this point there is not much pouting is going to do to help!
"The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. If you tried to place the entire contents of the archive onto floppy disks (we don't recommend this!) and laid them end to end, it would stretch from New York, past Los Angeles, and halfway to Hawaii."
One thing I've never understood is how someone can become a Mac "hater". What's there to hate about it? In fact, I also don't see how someone can be a Windows "hater" (since hating something is different from simply disliking it). Maybe someone could elaborate?
Myself, I've been on computers ever since MS-DOS, of which I've used the initial versions. I've used every iteration of Windows as well. Since a few years, I've been exposed to Mac OS, mainly due to my graphic designer uncle, and after using it for a while, I concluded that it's simply a better system. My next computer will probably be a MacBook.
That's a great thing. Personally, I haven't had that luck. My iMac suddenly died two weeks ago. Thankfully, the guys over at Apple were able to give me a DVD with the contents of my desktop so that I could continue working, but it's still not back from repairs. A dead-on-arrival PowerBook couldn't be replaced until three weeks later.
I guess support just isn't as good here in Rotterdam.
Yeah, that's right. Seriously. You'd think that after getting their questions answered, those guys would just know that there are indeed good reasons to run Windows on a Mac. It seems that there's just an endless supply of people who are unwilling to listen to good reason.
Anyway, having said that, let me say this one last time:
Some.
People.
NEED.
Windows.
Nobody's said that this is being done because Mac OS is inferior or anything of the sort. The only big reason is because there are people who are stuck on Windows boxes for work or other mission-critical applications that they simply cannot live without. Before you, for the so-manyth time, complain that this is nonsense and that people should just use Mac OS if the possibility exists, consider the fact that not everybody is as carefree as you and that there could be very good reasons that simply don't apply to you.
I cannot join. I need to enter a valid US zip code and state. I don't live in the United States. Are they expecting me to fill in arbitrary numbers if this is the case? What a worthless system.
This is awful. I really wanted to be able to run both systems on my future system. However, instead of making me want to get a Windows computer, this simply means I won't be able to run any of the Windows applications; Microsoft aimed for the goal of me giving all my money to them, but ends up getting the opposite. In my case, that is, and I'm not sure about the others. I assume, however, that I'm not alone in this.
Seems broken already; too much "loading" and "try again at a later time". It's hard to believe that this is because of their Live.com page being Slashdotted. The reason I like Google is because of how fast it is. I wouldn't tell people to go "Google it" when they need to know something if it took them more than 10 seconds to do so.
Okay, so it's a beta. I still expected a little more responsiveness from Microsoft's newest ace-in-the-hole.
Nonsense. Ubuntu is free, and will always be free. Their principles state that there can't be "extra" versions that cost money in addition to the free version, too. CNR is nice, but it's not Ubuntu.
The thing is, society will always have a scapegoat. First books corrupted children, then it was rock and roll, then violent movies, and now it's video games. Every single time that people complained about all of these things, they used the same arguments. And yet all of these activities are now normal forms of entertainment.
This will indeed stop after a while. Until there's a more viable choice for a scapegoat, that is.
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Yeah, me too! Man, they totally stole that extension from Blizzard.
Maybe that's because Slashdot doesn't run PHP. Take a look at the URL. Does it say "php" anywhere? It says "pl", which indicates that these pages are being generated with Perl.
No, actually, it's orange. We changed the official color for this release.
The Ubuntu logo is a registered trademark of Canonical Ltd. Debian's logo may be used in all situations, provided that the logo is used to refer to the Debian project.
Of course, that doesn't really matter. It's good fair use to put a logo of Ubuntu here.
Pardon?
Do you have any idea how many people went to the store to buy a PS2 for the reason that it can keep the kids happy AND play DVDs? Your previous post assumes that the largest part of the market is into this for the games; it might very well be so that this isn't true. I don't know, either, but what I do know is that not everybody is a hardcore gamer who just wants to have a console for the games.
I also don't see what's wrong with playing DVDs in the PS2. I bought a PS2 because I wanted to play games, but also because I wanted to play DVDs. The PS2 does that well enough, right?
Who cares, man? It's still an awfully bloated media player with an absolutely terrible user interface and no support for file formats that we (the Slashdot crowd, not the common user) want to be able to play.
The only thing I can see this being used for is as iTunes alternative, but I consider even that doubtful.
Okay, so now they placed the close tab button on the active tab itself. I've heard of that being planned. I, however, really don't like that myself. Does anyone know if it's possible to turn off? Because if not, I'm not switching.
There's no reason to not let the user be able to pick the old way of handling a UI functionality that a reasonable amount of people don't agree with.
I'm a regular visitor of that site. There were never any Google Ads on the forums, they only showed up on the main page which is very frequently visited by non-contributing guests from all over the world that just come over for the downloads. There's actually a very small number of people visiting (let along actively contributing) to the forums.
Pretty much all hate campaigns I've seen against another product just didn't work out. Logically, I'd also think that showing people how good your product is (rather than how bad the other product is) has a much more positive effect. But really, I'm not an expert on commercials. Anybody who can point me to some hate campaigns by major companies that seem(ed) to be effective?
One thing that's always bothered me about movies is the fact that the visuals are terrible. Like stated in the summary, an e-mail will transform into an envelope, and when someone tries to hack into a system, the "ACCESS GRANTED" text fills up the entire screen.
I also love how, even when the movie is trendy and has its actors use iMacs, people seem to always TYPE everything because a mouse isn't computer-ish enough. Sometimes, the computers are even green text-mode terminals, even in modern TV shows.
And don't forget the comma after "always".
You know, what I actually hate most about it is the fact that the image buttons (Web, News, Images, etc.) are not links. Only the text is a link. I wonder why they forgot to make the images links, since it's rather confusing that the images DO have a special roll-over image.
This is exactly why citing sources is so important!
Wal-mart is bad! - Maybe.
Wal-mart treats its employees badly! - Maybe.
Wal-mart has been said to treat its employees badly because the New York Times has written an elaborate article about it with interviews of ex-employees. (link) - Yes. It may or may not be true that Wal-mart treats its employees badly, but there's no discussion about whether the New York Times has stated its opinion on the matter. That's truth, and that's how you can make articles NPOV.
It seems that according to the US government, everything that opposes the benefit of the few is ultimately one of the many forms of terrorism. This is the regime that the people you voted for are upholding. It bothers me that they can get away with it, but I guess that it's not possible for America to start using a pluriform multi-party system which I firmly believe would help keep the amount of insane propositions like this one at bay, like it effectively does in the Netherlands.
I guess that at this point there is not much pouting is going to do to help!
Let's see how fast the Wikipedia article will grow now that it has been released...
"The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. If you tried to place the entire contents of the archive onto floppy disks (we don't recommend this!) and laid them end to end, it would stretch from New York, past Los Angeles, and halfway to Hawaii."
Internet Archive Frequently Asked Questions
One thing I've never understood is how someone can become a Mac "hater". What's there to hate about it? In fact, I also don't see how someone can be a Windows "hater" (since hating something is different from simply disliking it). Maybe someone could elaborate?
Myself, I've been on computers ever since MS-DOS, of which I've used the initial versions. I've used every iteration of Windows as well. Since a few years, I've been exposed to Mac OS, mainly due to my graphic designer uncle, and after using it for a while, I concluded that it's simply a better system. My next computer will probably be a MacBook.
That's a great thing. Personally, I haven't had that luck. My iMac suddenly died two weeks ago. Thankfully, the guys over at Apple were able to give me a DVD with the contents of my desktop so that I could continue working, but it's still not back from repairs. A dead-on-arrival PowerBook couldn't be replaced until three weeks later.
I guess support just isn't as good here in Rotterdam.
Yeah, that's right. Seriously. You'd think that after getting their questions answered, those guys would just know that there are indeed good reasons to run Windows on a Mac. It seems that there's just an endless supply of people who are unwilling to listen to good reason.
Anyway, having said that, let me say this one last time:
Some.
People.
NEED.
Windows.
Nobody's said that this is being done because Mac OS is inferior or anything of the sort. The only big reason is because there are people who are stuck on Windows boxes for work or other mission-critical applications that they simply cannot live without. Before you, for the so-manyth time, complain that this is nonsense and that people should just use Mac OS if the possibility exists, consider the fact that not everybody is as carefree as you and that there could be very good reasons that simply don't apply to you.
I cannot join. I need to enter a valid US zip code and state. I don't live in the United States. Are they expecting me to fill in arbitrary numbers if this is the case? What a worthless system.
This is awful. I really wanted to be able to run both systems on my future system. However, instead of making me want to get a Windows computer, this simply means I won't be able to run any of the Windows applications; Microsoft aimed for the goal of me giving all my money to them, but ends up getting the opposite. In my case, that is, and I'm not sure about the others. I assume, however, that I'm not alone in this.
Seems broken already; too much "loading" and "try again at a later time". It's hard to believe that this is because of their Live.com page being Slashdotted. The reason I like Google is because of how fast it is. I wouldn't tell people to go "Google it" when they need to know something if it took them more than 10 seconds to do so.
Okay, so it's a beta. I still expected a little more responsiveness from Microsoft's newest ace-in-the-hole.
Nonsense. Ubuntu is free, and will always be free. Their principles state that there can't be "extra" versions that cost money in addition to the free version, too. CNR is nice, but it's not Ubuntu.
The thing is, society will always have a scapegoat. First books corrupted children, then it was rock and roll, then violent movies, and now it's video games. Every single time that people complained about all of these things, they used the same arguments. And yet all of these activities are now normal forms of entertainment.
This will indeed stop after a while. Until there's a more viable choice for a scapegoat, that is.
What makes you think a forum with around 40 members deserves a mentioning in a Wikipedia article?