thank you for your lengthy and insightful comment.
Anyway I know why communism doesn't work in practice, what is annoying me is that communism has become a negative word like dictatorship which I think is unwarranted.
I agree with most of your post but not all it. For instance in many countries not everyone can be become a doctor. First of all people who are not good with books will almost always end up with the shitty jobs. Another problem are the poor people who can't afford becoming a doctor. My problem is with the "fatcats on the top". I think they're a much larger problem that you seem to believe. Besides my rant is more on a philosophical level. I know that commmunism isn't the perfect solution for all the world, it isn't even a solution as of right now. BUT capitalism sure as hell isn't "the right way" either. I mean what is just and right about a world where you have people as rich as say, Bill Gates and several thousand children dying of hunger each day?. I don't know the answers and I can offer no solution. My gripe was with the fact that from a moral and ethical standpoint, there is nothing wrong with the basis off thought on which communism is founded. Actually I think its one of the more noble thoughts we as a race have ever come up with.
Judging by the usual comments found under a youtube video I wouldn't like to attend that party;). I don't know why but I always have to read the first page of comments.. and then I get sad.
Sorry to disappoint you, but guns are illegal like in most of Europe and we already have way to many rich senior citizens. Don't worry our social program is very well funded, thats why I pay half of what I earn in taxes (and rich people pay even more, although they usually find a way to dodge it). Anyway im not saying our way is the right, but it has "worked" for many years and we are not exactly a poor country. (oh and we have no natural resources btw).
I agree but since when have communism been about one or a few people being in power? (oligarchy) besides I live in a country (Denmark) which by many people is defined as a variant of socialism so I am a bit curious as to why you think socialism can't work?.
Sorry at least it wasn't my attention to troll. I know that all implementations of communism so far have failed and turned into dictatorships. Thats probably why the term communism is so hated in the western world.
What I basically can't get my head around is why its perceived as bad to have a society where every one is equal and the wealth is distributed equally.
Can someone please point out whats so bad about communism?
From wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism) Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production.
Whats wrong with you people? its been stated several times that this is a hoax, why do you people keep falling for it? does no one read the existing comments before they post?. Besides this isn't viral marketing, its just lying and a hoax.
whether the sign belongs in a public school isn't really the problem.. the problem here is involving the legal system because some teen punk wrote something stupid.. I mean come one we all did stupid signs back in school.. Why couldn't it just be removed and the student asked not to do that again?. I think someone needs to chill.
I'd like to add: this is my experience after running firefox on 4 different distributions and having compiled it myself once, since it wasn't called firefox and the version numbers started with 0.
why does it have to be so damn slow under linux?
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Before you instantly flamebait me for critizing a high profile OSS project please let me briefly explain my background.
I am an almost 100% Linux user simply because its the OS which works best for me. I keep a spare windows partition only for playing games. Also I try to suggest OSS solutions in my dayjob and have so far succeeded in getting my company dependent on Apache/MySQL, Imagemagick, Ghostscript, PHP etc (unfortunately all on windows servers, which I loathe).
Anyway allow me to get to the point: Can anyone tell me why Firefox both starts and run so much slower on linux than windows. It almost feels like its made for windows and the linux version is running on some emulation layer. Now I know thats not the case, I know about their XUL platform and all of that. The very slow loading could have something to do with the dynamical linker being somewhat slower on linux?, or is the instantiation of lots and lots of objects? slow memory allocation. But I seem to recall linux being much faster at that although I can't point you at any graphs or papers.
Why is it slower than the windows version when you have lots of open tabs?. I've seem to recall hearing that this is due to the flashplugin for linux being slow and since almost every page have flash everywhere yadda yadda.. Haven't tried to compare the two using pages with no flash objects so that sounds quite reasonable.
Why is it slower doing DHTML? again I don't really know if that is the case but try opening http://dojotoolkit.org/ "See it in action"->General widgets->Fisheye (sorry but I can't be bothered to try and dig out a direct link into that steaming pile of javascript (no offense dojo devs)) and compare the rendering speed in firefox/win32 vs. firefox/i386?
This isn't meant as a whining post. Im genuinely interested in why there is such a huge different between the windows and linux firefox experience, I've been wondering about that simple fact for several years now.
and no I can't provide sources and all that crap but being developer myself and having used the software for a long time, I sure can tell when an application is noticeable faster on the same machine.
if any firefox dev is reading this: don't get me wrong im grateful for what I got, firefox is a great browser. I just think its sad that the greatest OSS browser runs worst on the greatest OSS OS (GNU/Linux).
I don't think it looks bad if they have gadgets and bells and whistles along with them while they're at war. These are some of the things they're fighting for them and their children to keep.
So we are fighting a war to keep gadgets? sounds like a noble cause...
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because their leader is a fucking religious nutjob unlike the us republican administration and.. oh.. nevermind
on a more serious note, I'd prefer insane christian fundamentalism to islamic insane fundamentalism
thank you for your lengthy and insightful comment.
Anyway I know why communism doesn't work in practice, what is annoying me is that communism has become a negative word like dictatorship which I think is unwarranted.
I agree with most of your post but not all it. For instance in many countries not everyone can be become a doctor. First of all people who are not good with books will almost always end up with the shitty jobs. Another problem are the poor people who can't afford becoming a doctor.
My problem is with the "fatcats on the top". I think they're a much larger problem that you seem to believe. Besides my rant is more on a philosophical level. I know that commmunism isn't the perfect solution for all the world, it isn't even a solution as of right now. BUT capitalism sure as hell isn't "the right way" either. I mean what is just and right about a world where you have people as rich as say, Bill Gates and several thousand children dying of hunger each day?. I don't know the answers and I can offer no solution. My gripe was with the fact that from a moral and ethical standpoint, there is nothing wrong with the basis off thought on which communism is founded. Actually I think its one of the more noble thoughts we as a race have ever come up with.
Judging by the usual comments found under a youtube video I wouldn't like to attend that party ;).
I don't know why but I always have to read the first page of comments.. and then I get sad.
Sorry to disappoint you, but guns are illegal like in most of Europe and we already have way to many rich senior citizens.
Don't worry our social program is very well funded, thats why I pay half of what I earn in
taxes (and rich people pay even more, although they usually find a way to dodge it).
Anyway im not saying our way is the right, but it has "worked" for many years and we are not exactly
a poor country. (oh and we have no natural resources btw).
I agree but since when have communism been about one or a few people being in power? (oligarchy)
besides I live in a country (Denmark) which by many people is defined as a variant of socialism so I am a bit curious
as to why you think socialism can't work?.
Sorry at least it wasn't my attention to troll.
I know that all implementations of communism so far have failed and turned into dictatorships.
Thats probably why the term communism is so hated in the western world.
What I basically can't get my head around is why its perceived as bad to have a society where every one is equal
and the wealth is distributed equally.
Can someone please point out whats so bad about communism?
From wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism)
Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production.
whats so terrible wrong about that?
Your geekbadge have been revoked (as well as the people who modded you insightful)
good to see im not the only one browsing slashdot a new years eve. Happy new year fellow /.'ers :D
Whats wrong with you people? its been stated several times that this is a hoax, why do you people keep falling for it? does no one read the existing comments before they post?. Besides this isn't viral marketing, its just lying and a hoax.
oh he started it? hehe sorry then.. I need to RTFA :(.. was short on time and getting tired of hearing about all these school lawsuits
whether the sign belongs in a public school isn't really the problem.. the problem here is involving the legal system because some teen punk wrote something stupid.. I mean come one we all did stupid signs back in school.. Why couldn't it just be removed and the student asked not to do that again?. I think someone needs to chill.
now that is just sad..
I'd like to add: this is my experience after running firefox on 4 different distributions and having compiled it myself once, since it wasn't called firefox and the version numbers started with 0.
Before you instantly flamebait me for critizing a high profile OSS project please let me briefly explain my background.
I am an almost 100% Linux user simply because its the OS which works best for me. I keep a spare windows partition only for playing
games. Also I try to suggest OSS solutions in my dayjob and have so far succeeded in getting my company dependent on Apache/MySQL, Imagemagick, Ghostscript, PHP etc (unfortunately all on windows servers, which I loathe).
Anyway allow me to get to the point:
Can anyone tell me why Firefox both starts and run so much slower on linux than windows. It almost feels like its made for windows and the linux version is running on some emulation layer. Now I know thats not the case, I know about their XUL platform and all of that.
The very slow loading could have something to do with the dynamical linker being somewhat slower on linux?, or is the instantiation of lots and lots of objects? slow memory allocation. But I seem to recall linux being much faster at that although I can't point you at any graphs or papers.
Why is it slower than the windows version when you have lots of open tabs?. I've seem to recall hearing that this is due to the flashplugin for linux being slow and since almost every page have flash everywhere yadda yadda.. Haven't tried to compare the two using pages with no flash objects so that sounds quite reasonable.
Why is it slower doing DHTML? again I don't really know if that is the case but try opening http://dojotoolkit.org/ "See it in action"->General widgets->Fisheye (sorry but I can't be bothered to try and dig out a direct link into that steaming pile of javascript (no offense dojo devs)) and compare the rendering speed in firefox/win32 vs. firefox/i386?
This isn't meant as a whining post. Im genuinely interested in why there is such a huge different between the windows and linux firefox experience, I've been wondering about that simple fact for several years now.
and no I can't provide sources and all that crap but being developer myself and having used the software for a long time, I sure can tell when an application is noticeable faster on the same machine.
if any firefox dev is reading this: don't get me wrong im grateful for what I got, firefox is a great browser. I just think its sad that the greatest OSS browser runs worst on the greatest OSS OS (GNU/Linux).
dumbass parents...Perhaps I can sell them some snakeoil to bathe little Sebastion in, to shield him from the evil wifi radiation.
thanks for clarifying. I won't hold my breath then ;)
I missed Tom Bombadil and the other leftout's as well, but face it he would look stupid on film :) (probably in some obscure Jar Jar Bings CG way)
The books were written in the 30s and 40s. I thought they would be in the public domain by now?
I forgot our opinion doesn't count
But will it run Neverwinter Nights 2 above 20 FPS? ;)
thank you for shattering my vision of the future, oh great oracle of slashdot. Wanna elaborate on how you arrived at that conclusion?
yet another 3d penis modeller..
Please let me summarize your post:
cry cry cry whine why isn't linux exactly like windows!!one
because it wasn't made to provide you with a free windows clone.
So we are fighting a war to keep gadgets? sounds like a noble cause...