You quite clearly do give a shit about getting us to look at you, son. If you didn't care you wouldn't be here begging us for our attention. Or have you convinced yourself that you're somehow 'controlling' people just because you know one way to get one type of response out of them? When you see that you're not even managing to carry out that simple process, son, surely it must bring a tear to your eye to think of what a failure you are? I suppose that next you'll convince yourself that you're actually trolling me by eliciting this response, and the illusion of control you'll get from that might even keep you going for a while longer. Gook luck with that, son. You = pathetic
Okay, there's no chance of anyone being as stupid as this, so even though you're a troll, I'm replying because nobody else ever does for you, son. Looking through your comment history, you've only managed to get 7 replies and 7 negative moderations out of 13 posts. You're a failure of a troll, son. You really think anyone is going to be taken in by shit like this, or this or this? Go home and be a family man, son. YOU FAIL IT
No, it doesn't, and you're right. Here's the deal though: the rest of your post is the same old stuff we see every time this global warming story comes back around on the Slashdot Wheel of Topics, whereas I actually feel that the mixing-in of irrelevant politics is something that's going relatively unnoticed. In fact, you yourself missed this point and let this corker slip into your post:
The question you/ (science) needs to answer
Your distancing of yourself from science is irrelevant to the debate
And undermines your subsequent attempt to talk science
For the record, I agree with the other 80-90% of what you said.
Doesn't make any difference. Once the energy's gone into your body, you have to release it at some point, even if it's when you die. A short term release of heat is easy to bear, volcanoes are a good example of that. The real issue would be that the exercise would make lots of people need more food, which really would be an extra load to bear for our dying planet. On the other hand, anyone whose energy throughput is going to be noticeably increased by a quick bit of clapping would benefit from the exercise anyway. In fact, clapping would contribute to getting them into better shape, which would make their energy use much more efficient in the long term.
No, I'm saying that having 63,564 people working on an OS is better than only 2000.
Why reply to such an obvious troll? Because tonight I'm trying to kill some stress by being a pompous egomaniac and grabbing at every opportunity to be right. Which is still a few rungs above you, no matter which one out of troll and moron you happen to be.
Everyone, the earth is dying because not enough people believe in global warming! Perhaps if we all clapped real hard to show it we believe, it might survive! Quick! If you believe in global warming, clap your hands!
If you don't believe that Microsoft is passionate about building tools to help customers solve their business problems through the use of technology, then you don't stand a chance in hell of beating them.
Where do you get off making such a bizarre assumption? Of course Microsoft are hustling. That's business.
To be honest, that ugly-ass contrivance, the fact that this is your first post, and your use of a phrase like "passionate about building tools to help customers solve their business problems through the use of technology" make me think you're just the latest astroturfing account.
And hey, if you're not, at least you now get to write a journal entry bitching about how just because your first post wasn't anti-MSFT you got accused of astroturfing. It will be a lie, but at least you'll sound cool.
I don't even see why I should argue your 'points'. Even Microsoft disagrees with you in that they admit that they are in competition with FOSS and the rest of the software industry. That, and you don't actually make any real points anyway. Seriously, your first sentence tells me that I'm wrong, your second one doesn't even make sense, and the rest of your post is irrelevant. Go home.
I'm prepared to be labeled a mindless republican bushite and modded down for this but..
Maybe this is just a technique to groom readers and prepare them to be sympathetic to your point. Maybe it's a legitimate concern.
Either way, my experience of the ever-repeating global warming debate on Slashdot is that people leave politics out of proper discussion (like the last 2 paragraphs of your post). You'll see plenty of people saying similar things to your post in this story, talking about the ins and outs of pattern-spotting, leaving politics out of it quite happily. Many of them might even be... liberals!
Please leave your particular country's ideological distinctions out of this scientific debate that they have nothing to do with. Also please acknowledge that there is more to the world than your narrow-minded battle against an ideological perspective that you happen disagree with.
Please at least learn to control your memes to the point that they no longer lead you to infer things that clearly aren't being implied. A phrase like "Please accept that Global Warming Exists." does not imply a belief that ""global warming" is conclusively linked to man [or] oil", or even a preference for left-wing politics.
Your little political campaign has taken your bigotry to the point where you sign yourself off as "The Voice of Fairness and Reason", which is so intellectually dishonest that my dog just read this page and went and took a shit on an encyclopedia in one of his usual crude but poignant symbolic gestures.
Signed, Fuck You
PS: In case you missed it, I was implying that my dog is smarter than you.
Also, I've just noticed that someone has taken the time to draw a swastika in usernames on his fans page, an honor usually reserved for people like CmdrTaco
The good pragmatic folk of the real world will continue to use the tools best suited for the task at hand.
Well done, dipshit, at least you were right about something. Thing is, this "war" happens to be a competition to build the best tools.
You know perfectly well that FOSS is competing to build better tools than Microsoft, and that the "fronts" vary greatly depending on whether you look at servers or desktops.
Please try not to post anything this stupid again.
Also, imagine how much ass Windows would kick if it were all Microsoft made. Instead, effort spread out making videogame hardware, writing a browser, videogames, office software, and so on and so on.
A useful, stable OS with lots of well-documented interfaces. It'd be kind of like Linux except with decent 3rd party driver support.
Instead we have this lurching monstrosity of an OS. It includes 'everything you need' in the same way as a microwaveable meal does. In the words of Mick Dundee, "You can eat it, but it tastes like shit".
Take your Google-isn't-free axe and go grind it somewhere else. Apple and Java would have made better examples anyway, even if it wasn't already obviously about the main title, Software Wars. In fact, until Steven Hilton updated it and republished his own version with the inaccurate HTML blurb at the top of the page, there was no FOSS vs MSFT angle.
I think you mean "Pardon my poorly thinly veiled bias". But yes, there is a lot of ignorance in there as well. From wikipedia:
. The patent concerns primarily relate to technologies developed by Microsoft on top of the.NET Framework, such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows Forms, i.e. parts composing Mono's Windows compatibility stack. These technologies are today not fully implemented in Mono and not required for developing Mono-applications. Not providing a patented capability would weaken the interoperability, but it would still provide the free software / open source software community with good development tools, which is the primary reason for developing Mono.
The mouse is more of a middle ground. The true lazy man's input device is a pointing stick. Just rest your finger on it and apply pressure. After a few weeks with one of these, even a laptop touchpad feels like work.
Wow, how on earth did you ever come up with such an idea? I mean, sure, the fact that the whole thing revolves around tablet PCs in the first place was probably a useful starting point, but still... damn!
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You quite clearly do give a shit about getting us to look at you, son. If you didn't care you wouldn't be here begging us for our attention. Or have you convinced yourself that you're somehow 'controlling' people just because you know one way to get one type of response out of them? When you see that you're not even managing to carry out that simple process, son, surely it must bring a tear to your eye to think of what a failure you are? I suppose that next you'll convince yourself that you're actually trolling me by eliciting this response, and the illusion of control you'll get from that might even keep you going for a while longer. Gook luck with that, son. You = pathetic
Okay, there's no chance of anyone being as stupid as this, so even though you're a troll, I'm replying because nobody else ever does for you, son. Looking through your comment history, you've only managed to get 7 replies and 7 negative moderations out of 13 posts. You're a failure of a troll, son. You really think anyone is going to be taken in by shit like this, or this or this? Go home and be a family man, son. YOU FAIL IT
Copyrighted media detected. Burn aborted.
- Your distancing of yourself from science is irrelevant to the debate
- And undermines your subsequent attempt to talk science
For the record, I agree with the other 80-90% of what you said.Doesn't make any difference. Once the energy's gone into your body, you have to release it at some point, even if it's when you die. A short term release of heat is easy to bear, volcanoes are a good example of that. The real issue would be that the exercise would make lots of people need more food, which really would be an extra load to bear for our dying planet. On the other hand, anyone whose energy throughput is going to be noticeably increased by a quick bit of clapping would benefit from the exercise anyway. In fact, clapping would contribute to getting them into better shape, which would make their energy use much more efficient in the long term.
SO GET CLAPPING!!!!!
No, I'm saying that having 63,564 people working on an OS is better than only 2000.
Why reply to such an obvious troll? Because tonight I'm trying to kill some stress by being a pompous egomaniac and grabbing at every opportunity to be right. Which is still a few rungs above you, no matter which one out of troll and moron you happen to be.
Everyone, the earth is dying because not enough people believe in global warming! Perhaps if we all clapped real hard to show it we believe, it might survive!
Quick! If you believe in global warming, clap your hands!
[monty python foot icon]
Where do you get off making such a bizarre assumption? Of course Microsoft are hustling. That's business.
To be honest, that ugly-ass contrivance, the fact that this is your first post, and your use of a phrase like "passionate about building tools to help customers solve their business problems through the use of technology" make me think you're just the latest astroturfing account.
And hey, if you're not, at least you now get to write a journal entry bitching about how just because your first post wasn't anti-MSFT you got accused of astroturfing. It will be a lie, but at least you'll sound cool.
I don't even see why I should argue your 'points'. Even Microsoft disagrees with you in that they admit that they are in competition with FOSS and the rest of the software industry. That, and you don't actually make any real points anyway. Seriously, your first sentence tells me that I'm wrong, your second one doesn't even make sense, and the rest of your post is irrelevant. Go home.
Maybe this is just a technique to groom readers and prepare them to be sympathetic to your point. Maybe it's a legitimate concern.
Either way, my experience of the ever-repeating global warming debate on Slashdot is that people leave politics out of proper discussion (like the last 2 paragraphs of your post). You'll see plenty of people saying similar things to your post in this story, talking about the ins and outs of pattern-spotting, leaving politics out of it quite happily. Many of them might even be... liberals!
Please leave your particular country's ideological distinctions out of this scientific debate that they have nothing to do with. Also please acknowledge that there is more to the world than your narrow-minded battle against an ideological perspective that you happen disagree with.
Please at least learn to control your memes to the point that they no longer lead you to infer things that clearly aren't being implied. A phrase like "Please accept that Global Warming Exists." does not imply a belief that ""global warming" is conclusively linked to man [or] oil", or even a preference for left-wing politics.
Your little political campaign has taken your bigotry to the point where you sign yourself off as "The Voice of Fairness and Reason", which is so intellectually dishonest that my dog just read this page and went and took a shit on an encyclopedia in one of his usual crude but poignant symbolic gestures.
Signed,
Fuck You
PS: In case you missed it, I was implying that my dog is smarter than you.
Don't know, but I friended him just in case.
Also, I've just noticed that someone has taken the time to draw a swastika in usernames on his fans page, an honor usually reserved for people like CmdrTaco
Well done, dipshit, at least you were right about something. Thing is, this "war" happens to be a competition to build the best tools.
You know perfectly well that FOSS is competing to build better tools than Microsoft, and that the "fronts" vary greatly depending on whether you look at servers or desktops.
Please try not to post anything this stupid again.
Also, imagine how much ass Windows would kick if it were all Microsoft made. Instead, effort spread out making videogame hardware, writing a browser, videogames, office software, and so on and so on.
A useful, stable OS with lots of well-documented interfaces. It'd be kind of like Linux except with decent 3rd party driver support.
Instead we have this lurching monstrosity of an OS. It includes 'everything you need' in the same way as a microwaveable meal does. In the words of Mick Dundee, "You can eat it, but it tastes like shit".
Oh, and I just happen to be in a bad mood, so please ignore any unexpected anger in the previous post. Sorry.
What a crappy little explosion. It deserves at least two explosions in this post-13/12 world (that page nearly crashes my browser, it's that long).
What's a wikipedia link?
Take your Google-isn't-free axe and go grind it somewhere else. Apple and Java would have made better examples anyway, even if it wasn't already obviously about the main title, Software Wars. In fact, until Steven Hilton updated it and republished his own version with the inaccurate HTML blurb at the top of the page, there was no FOSS vs MSFT angle.
What? You're unable to spot jokes for yourself? 100% dependant on CmdrTaco remembering to include the foot icon? It's funny. Laugh.
What happened to the in-fighting between KDE and GNOME? It was included in the old version.
The mouse is more of a middle ground. The true lazy man's input device is a pointing stick. Just rest your finger on it and apply pressure. After a few weeks with one of these, even a laptop touchpad feels like work.
Wow, how on earth did you ever come up with such an idea? I mean, sure, the fact that the whole thing revolves around tablet PCs in the first place was probably a useful starting point, but still... damn!
Not only can transmissions not trespass, but is it even possible to trespass on public property?