I'm not a programmer. I don't give a damn about source code.
I'm willing to pay money for a well made product.
I hate Internet Explorer.
I don't like Mozilla, Netscape, Phoenix, etc...
I like Opera.
Opera IS a facist about HTML. All browsers should be! The fact that a browser holds your hand and doesn't force you to do it right is a huge disservice to the web. Opera does not put up with incompitent/lazy coders and no one else should.
It's not the cost that makes a product worthwhile, but the value. If a resonably priced product does a better job than a free one then it has more value. I'm willing to pay for value.
It is long past time for the OSS/Linux community to grow up and act like adults. If you want non-Linux zealots to listen to what you have to say then you all need to grow up and present yourselves as reasonable human beings. Otherwise people just ignore you for the intellctual children you present yourselves to be.
If you want the fence-sitters to listen you should stop the folowing activities:
Spelling Microsoft "M$", Micro$oft". "Microshaft", "Microshit", etc... It doesn't make you look like you are standing up to the man!. It makes youi look like an infantile jerk who has to resort to name calling.
Ditch the Billgatus of Borg icon. The joke is old and tired. And again makes you look like a child.
For the love of God, stop spelling it "Windoze"! From my parent's basement in Toledo I stab at thee!, indeed.
Sorry, but the trolls created their own mess. People get modded down for a reason. Sure, sometimes elitists will mod down a post they don't agree with (asy, almost anything pro-Microsoft) but for the most part the things that get modded down are either stupid, inflamitory, insulting, off-topic etc...
If these people didn't want their posts to get modded down they'd find a contructive soultion to their problems. Say, staying on topic, or abiding by basic rules of etiquette (by saying "I don't agree with your position" rather than "U R a dumass!").
This is not like life where one can born be into poverty. The problems anyone has here are of their own creation.
Losely throwing out a word such as "dark energy", pretty much spells "we really have no fucking clue why to me".
Why? It's just as good a term as Einstein's cosmological constant. It's just a label.
And the "blackbox" approach is part of figuring out what is going on. We don't know how gravity works. Does that stop us from knowing that it does work, or what effects it has on the universe? This is no different.
If we had to wait until we had a nuts-and-bolts answer for every question we'd never get anywhere.
And these people feel that Linux users are cheap, elsfish, childish, music-stealing hippies. And why? The zealots. And "Windoze" comments definately hurt the Linux community.
And how many mid-tower boxes do yuo want floating around your house? And monitors, keyboards and mice for them? It's trivial to swap out consoles on the TV. Swapping out PCs is a pain in the ass. And, as I said to someone else, most people do not do whole-body transplants when they upgrade, they replace piece by piece, leaving you with a growing collection of parts that *might* someday be slapped together into a system.
My system doesn't have ROOM for a Voodoo card. Every usable slot is already taken. And I already have enough computer around. I don't have room in my house to keep older monstrocities piled up all over the place.
Your upgrade analogy is flawed. You are assuming that I'm replacing a N64 with a Gamecube. I'm not. I'm adding the Gamecube to the collection. But that's irrelevant because that's different from upgrading yuor computer. Very few of us simply replace our entire computers when we upgrade. We upgrade a few components at a time.
And more to the point, none of expect new consoles to run older console games (the Playstation 2 being one of the few exceptions). We do NOT expect that a simple upgrade to our computers will break what was working just fine.
Actually, the life-span of consoles is about five years. And even when no one makes new games for those older consoles, the games all still work (baring damage to the console or the media).
The paren post has a valid point. Like a lot of people I know, I am getting sick of the hell that is the constant Upgrade Cycle. I'm tired of upgrading my system to play the latest and greatest only to find that my favorite games no longer work. Upgraded your video card? Oops. All those old 3DFX-specific games no longer work. New processor? Too bad it's too fast and a whole batch of games (thanks a pantload, Origin) run too damned fast. Opps! Looks like that new soundcard killed off a few games. New version of Windows? Guess what? Yep. More games died.
Three years worth of upgrades (and often less) seems to kill most of the games I have. (Save Quake and it's kin.)
Compare that to the consoles. All of my old Playstation games still work (save the one I ran over with my chair, but that's my fault). Some of those games were made in 1996/1997. Most games for the PC from those days no longer work.
Is that a "So what? Thems is old games!" I hear? Bite me. I spent money on those games and it annoys the hell out of me that this sad state of affairs has come to pass.
Comics became "kid stuff" at the hands of the Comic Codes Authority. They decided that comics were for kids and passed an amazing number of restrictions on comic books, making them sterile and worthless to most adult readers. Mad Magazine started out life as a comic book but moved to the magazine format (ie: it got a touch bigger) in order to escape from the clutches of the CCA. Most other comics published by the very same publisher died painful and ignomiuos deaths due to the CCA.
It wasn't until the 1980's that the CCA was widely ignored. But by then the damage was already done. To too many people comics were simply crap-tacular kid stuff.
There have been a LOT of good comics that have been aimed squarly between the eyes of adults: Brat Pack, Bone, Cerebus, Sandman, etc... but they are few and far between.
As far as most us comic readers being dorks, well, it's not entirely untrue. Most comic book readers I know are the kind of dorks that make your skin crawl. I'm talking people like the "Comic Book Guy" and the obsessed Itchy and Scrathy fan from The Simpsons.
Last piece of software I wrote I built to the users' (my boss) needs and skill level. I checked my ego at the door and built a program that she could use without any help at all. It wasn't dumbed down by any means. It was written to suit the needs of the user and when the conflicts between what I thought was the best way to do things and the way the user needed to get things done came up I gracefully followed their orders.
But, I wrote the program with the expressed purpose to make her job easier (it reduced a three-week project to a two-hour task, I shit you not).
I really doubt it's an accident as Opera7 renders the page perfectly when fed the IE6 CSS file.
But this doesn't prove that management dictated this. It could have been some jackass web monkey deciding to Fight The Good Fight. Especially as it looks like it's been fixed already.
Not everything a huge company does is dictated from the top. Sometimes you get overzealous jerks in the lower ranks trying to be cute.
My ISP doesn't care how many machines I have on my side of teh cable modem. They will give me a maximum of eight IP addresses if I let my systems talk directly to the cable modem. My ISP activley promotes the use of NAT boxes in order to help provide better security for the customers and to decrease the demand for IP addresses.
All they care about is that I pay my bill online, that I don't exceed my bandwidth allowance, and I don't share my connection with other people (ie: run my own ISP).
*counts on fingers* Server Primary workstation Secondary workstation Wife's computer Laptop XBox ReplayTV
That's seven. Well, six as the server can not talk to the Internet (it has no default route installed and its IP addresses (yes, two) are blocked at the firewall in both directions). But still...
Slashdot Mirror
No, not really. It looks like a two-tone stylized representation of a certain part of a woman's body, though.
If you want the fence-sitters to listen you should stop the folowing activities:
- Spelling Microsoft "M$", Micro$oft". "Microshaft", "Microshit", etc...
- Ditch the Billgatus of Borg icon.
- For the love of God, stop spelling it "Windoze"!
In short, stop the name calling.It doesn't make you look like you are standing up to the man!. It makes youi look like an infantile jerk who has to resort to name calling.
The joke is old and tired. And again makes you look like a child.
From my parent's basement in Toledo I stab at thee!, indeed.
Drop the "M$" name calling and I might be willing to listen to you.
And yet you insist on calling them "M$". How about really growing up and dropping the childish name calling?
No, pig shit is energy!
If the new Deus Ex game lives up to the orignal it will be pretty sweet.
Sorry, but the trolls created their own mess. People get modded down for a reason. Sure, sometimes elitists will mod down a post they don't agree with (asy, almost anything pro-Microsoft) but for the most part the things that get modded down are either stupid, inflamitory, insulting, off-topic etc...
If these people didn't want their posts to get modded down they'd find a contructive soultion to their problems. Say, staying on topic, or abiding by basic rules of etiquette (by saying "I don't agree with your position" rather than "U R a dumass!").
This is not like life where one can born be into poverty. The problems anyone has here are of their own creation.
The ugly truth of the matter is that life isn't fair. It never has been and it never will be.
There isn't an "into". The Universe is "creating" space as it expands. There is no "outside". There is no "other side".
Sure it can!
Q: Why did the universe come into being?
A: Because it did.
There you go. But that's not the answer people want, is it?
Why? It's just as good a term as Einstein's cosmological constant. It's just a label.
And the "blackbox" approach is part of figuring out what is going on. We don't know how gravity works. Does that stop us from knowing that it does work, or what effects it has on the universe? This is no different.
If we had to wait until we had a nuts-and-bolts answer for every question we'd never get anywhere.
And these people feel that Linux users are cheap, elsfish, childish, music-stealing hippies. And why? The zealots. And "Windoze" comments definately hurt the Linux community.
Performance metrics for DOOM3 are worthless at this point in time. The leaked alpha is filled with debug code and is nowhere near being optimised.
And how many mid-tower boxes do yuo want floating around your house? And monitors, keyboards and mice for them? It's trivial to swap out consoles on the TV. Swapping out PCs is a pain in the ass. And, as I said to someone else, most people do not do whole-body transplants when they upgrade, they replace piece by piece, leaving you with a growing collection of parts that *might* someday be slapped together into a system.
My system doesn't have ROOM for a Voodoo card. Every usable slot is already taken. And I already have enough computer around. I don't have room in my house to keep older monstrocities piled up all over the place.
Your upgrade analogy is flawed. You are assuming that I'm replacing a N64 with a Gamecube. I'm not. I'm adding the Gamecube to the collection. But that's irrelevant because that's different from upgrading yuor computer. Very few of us simply replace our entire computers when we upgrade. We upgrade a few components at a time.
And more to the point, none of expect new consoles to run older console games (the Playstation 2 being one of the few exceptions). We do NOT expect that a simple upgrade to our computers will break what was working just fine.
Actually, the life-span of consoles is about five years. And even when no one makes new games for those older consoles, the games all still work (baring damage to the console or the media).
The paren post has a valid point. Like a lot of people I know, I am getting sick of the hell that is the constant Upgrade Cycle. I'm tired of upgrading my system to play the latest and greatest only to find that my favorite games no longer work. Upgraded your video card? Oops. All those old 3DFX-specific games no longer work. New processor? Too bad it's too fast and a whole batch of games (thanks a pantload, Origin) run too damned fast. Opps! Looks like that new soundcard killed off a few games. New version of Windows? Guess what? Yep. More games died.
Three years worth of upgrades (and often less) seems to kill most of the games I have. (Save Quake and it's kin.)
Compare that to the consoles. All of my old Playstation games still work (save the one I ran over with my chair, but that's my fault). Some of those games were made in 1996/1997. Most games for the PC from those days no longer work.
Is that a "So what? Thems is old games!" I hear? Bite me. I spent money on those games and it annoys the hell out of me that this sad state of affairs has come to pass.
Yeah, but how many times can you play Photoshop? I mean, the final map is pretty weak and that last boss is a major disapointment.
Comics became "kid stuff" at the hands of the Comic Codes Authority. They decided that comics were for kids and passed an amazing number of restrictions on comic books, making them sterile and worthless to most adult readers. Mad Magazine started out life as a comic book but moved to the magazine format (ie: it got a touch bigger) in order to escape from the clutches of the CCA. Most other comics published by the very same publisher died painful and ignomiuos deaths due to the CCA.
It wasn't until the 1980's that the CCA was widely ignored. But by then the damage was already done. To too many people comics were simply crap-tacular kid stuff.
There have been a LOT of good comics that have been aimed squarly between the eyes of adults: Brat Pack, Bone, Cerebus, Sandman, etc... but they are few and far between.
As far as most us comic readers being dorks, well, it's not entirely untrue. Most comic book readers I know are the kind of dorks that make your skin crawl. I'm talking people like the "Comic Book Guy" and the obsessed Itchy and Scrathy fan from The Simpsons.
Last piece of software I wrote I built to the users' (my boss) needs and skill level. I checked my ego at the door and built a program that she could use without any help at all. It wasn't dumbed down by any means. It was written to suit the needs of the user and when the conflicts between what I thought was the best way to do things and the way the user needed to get things done came up I gracefully followed their orders.
But, I wrote the program with the expressed purpose to make her job easier (it reduced a three-week project to a two-hour task, I shit you not).
Luddite.
I really doubt it's an accident as Opera7 renders the page perfectly when fed the IE6 CSS file.
But this doesn't prove that management dictated this. It could have been some jackass web monkey deciding to Fight The Good Fight. Especially as it looks like it's been fixed already.
Not everything a huge company does is dictated from the top. Sometimes you get overzealous jerks in the lower ranks trying to be cute.
My ISP doesn't care how many machines I have on my side of teh cable modem. They will give me a maximum of eight IP addresses if I let my systems talk directly to the cable modem. My ISP activley promotes the use of NAT boxes in order to help provide better security for the customers and to decrease the demand for IP addresses.
All they care about is that I pay my bill online, that I don't exceed my bandwidth allowance, and I don't share my connection with other people (ie: run my own ISP).
*counts on fingers*
Server
Primary workstation
Secondary workstation
Wife's computer
Laptop
XBox
ReplayTV
That's seven. Well, six as the server can not talk to the Internet (it has no default route installed and its IP addresses (yes, two) are blocked at the firewall in both directions). But still...