You must be referring to the part of the article where the Australians claimed that
We're putting everything into this technology. Fuck the Brazilians. What do they know anyway? All their skill and passion is no match for our computer program! We'll destroy you all! We are the best, and it's because of technology!
Meanwhile, we who live in the real world can see a country that's an underdog of the football world trying a new idea to help tip the balance back their way a bit.
Stay in your little fantasy world isolated from reality and keep believing you are superior to everyone else.
Microsoft 'leans on its entrenched install base to survive' in the same way that Rupert Murdoch 'would be nothing without his billions of dollars and his global media network'. You're right, but it's not very meaningful.
And how impressive would that sound? In reality they have several "white hats" working for them in the form of regular security people, I presume. But if you say you got an ex-bankrobber in to check out your security, it sounds a lot more impressive than just saying "we think we've done a pretty good job", even if the bankrobber is in a worse position to evaluate the security.
I noticed in this article that they're treading on our acronyms.
SDL - Security Development Lifecycle
Relatively inconspicuous. Simple DirectMedia Layer has nothing to fear from this in terms of mindshare. But then again, they knew that SDL was in use. Why not show a bit of cooperation?
RMS - Rights Management Something
This one is amazing, because it's basically DRM named after Richard Stallman. Someone at Microsoft either has a sense of humor, or is a complete prick. I really doubt that this was accidental.
It's superficial, but I think both examples are very symbolic.
According to this data, those figures put Vista somewhere above Piccolo after merging with Kami, with Red Hat at the level of Super Saiyan Vegeta (after time chamber). In the words of the late great Leonard Nimoy, fascinating.
Also, what bracketing convention does each of those use? Are Red Hat artificially inflating their count with 15,000,000 lines consisting of
Admittedly, this essay would be easier written for Slashdot, where taut lines divide the world crisply into black and white. "Vista is a bloated piece of crap," my furry little penguin would opine, "written by the bumbling serfs of an evil capitalistic megalomaniac." But that'd be dead wrong. The truth is far more nuanced than that. Deeper than that. More subtle than that.
Far more nuanced. Some parts of Vista are bloated pieces of crap. Some, on the other hand, won't even ship. And still others will be incredibly efficient, presumably the important stuff like federal backdoors and DRM.
I don't see things in black and white! There are shades of grey in there too!
(I'm only kidding by the way, and in reality don't give a shit about Vista)
> hwd -xa
(probes monitor, writes xorg config)
> startx... hey its working now (not ONCE has this failed me on multiple monitors including laptop LCDs and otherwise.
Well it failed me only an hour or so ago. Post-reboot I did an update, installed hwd, xorg and windowmaker, did a hwd -xa, and got a beautiful crash-to-console from startx. The best part is that a few hours earlier the same steps on the same computer had worked just fine. Arch gives new meaning to the word unstable.
Wrong again fatty. The real hurdle that's keeping Linux off the desktop is that people even need to ask for help so much in the first place. The people who make it to the forums are a minority, with most people either getting out-of-the-box perfection or switching straight back.
Also, the Windows communities are no different, and in case you are referring to Official Microsoft We Love You Now Pay Us Support, well uh, we have that in Lunix too.
Once one person downloads the docs, they can distribute them.
That would be fine if they were writing homebrew XBox games. Maintainers of major operating system distributions, on the other hand, have to be very careful about complying with licenses.
And did you even read the email? Hifn wants de Raadt to play along and pretend that their docs are open. They think that they deserve special treatment over all the other manufacturers in the industry, probably in order to collect data to sell on to marketers.
Is that worth throwing a hissy fit over? No, but then your choice of phrase is poor, and gives away how little attention you payed to the content of the email itself. It's certainly worth telling Hifn to go screw themselves over, which is what de Raadt is doing.
Who do you think you're kidding? The vast majority of the things that you do are geared towards advancing the species in some way. Your job, your wife, your kids, your hobbies - they're all about having a good environment for humans and then putting humans into that environment. Or have you unlocked the secret to inner peace and overturned instincts millions of years old?
The achievements of man will lose all meaning if we die out and nobody is left to hear the tree fall.
What a perfectly self-contradictory idea. You say going into space to get away from problems is bad, then you say that as a solution to overpopulation it'd be okay.
Slashdot Mirror
Meanwhile, we who live in the real world can see a country that's an underdog of the football world trying a new idea to help tip the balance back their way a bit.
Stay in your little fantasy world isolated from reality and keep believing you are superior to everyone else.
Strategy:
"Sorry lads, a few more bugs to work out! Lads? Nooooooo..."
Netscape confirms it.
Or something.
A very good start, but yes, the small one looks more like a satellite. You almost make my attempt look like less than a masterpiece!
I have prepared a prototype.
Microsoft 'leans on its entrenched install base to survive' in the same way that Rupert Murdoch 'would be nothing without his billions of dollars and his global media network'. You're right, but it's not very meaningful.
You left out 'shapes computing the world over' (on the desktop).
Gates kicks ass. He'd be the perfect role model if it weren't for some of his less savoury feats.
Just a picture of a chair. It'd be beatifully subtle, but sufficiently childish.
You must be a Slashdotter, trying to pigeonhole someone you disagree with off into a group you feel superior too.
Dumbass. That post was part of the joke.
And how impressive would that sound? In reality they have several "white hats" working for them in the form of regular security people, I presume. But if you say you got an ex-bankrobber in to check out your security, it sounds a lot more impressive than just saying "we think we've done a pretty good job", even if the bankrobber is in a worse position to evaluate the security.
Actually it was for dramatic effect. I was using my artistic license. Apparently it worked, and gave somme people quite a scare.
I noticed in this article that they're treading on our acronyms.
SDL - Security Development Lifecycle
Relatively inconspicuous. Simple DirectMedia Layer has nothing to fear from this in terms of mindshare. But then again, they knew that SDL was in use. Why not show a bit of cooperation?
RMS - Rights Management Something
This one is amazing, because it's basically DRM named after Richard Stallman. Someone at Microsoft either has a sense of humor, or is a complete prick. I really doubt that this was accidental.
It's superficial, but I think both examples are very symbolic.
According to this data, those figures put Vista somewhere above Piccolo after merging with Kami, with Red Hat at the level of Super Saiyan Vegeta (after time chamber). In the words of the late great Leonard Nimoy, fascinating.
Also, what bracketing convention does each of those use? Are Red Hat artificially inflating their count with 15,000,000 lines consisting of
and another 15,000,000 consisting of ?Far more nuanced. Some parts of Vista are bloated pieces of crap. Some, on the other hand, won't even ship. And still others will be incredibly efficient, presumably the important stuff like federal backdoors and DRM.
I don't see things in black and white! There are shades of grey in there too!
(I'm only kidding by the way, and in reality don't give a shit about Vista)
Holy shit, I hadn't even realised. You make a good point, gave me a good laugh at myself.
That's right, it works both ways.
Wrong again fatty. The real hurdle that's keeping Linux off the desktop is that people even need to ask for help so much in the first place. The people who make it to the forums are a minority, with most people either getting out-of-the-box perfection or switching straight back.
Also, the Windows communities are no different, and in case you are referring to Official Microsoft We Love You Now Pay Us Support, well uh, we have that in Lunix too.
You must have a better box than me or something, because I have the exact same issue with konsole as with cmd.exe
That would be fine if they were writing homebrew XBox games. Maintainers of major operating system distributions, on the other hand, have to be very careful about complying with licenses.
And did you even read the email? Hifn wants de Raadt to play along and pretend that their docs are open. They think that they deserve special treatment over all the other manufacturers in the industry, probably in order to collect data to sell on to marketers.
Is that worth throwing a hissy fit over? No, but then your choice of phrase is poor, and gives away how little attention you payed to the content of the email itself. It's certainly worth telling Hifn to go screw themselves over, which is what de Raadt is doing.
And on another day I might have posted something very similar to what you have just wrote.
Who do you think you're kidding? The vast majority of the things that you do are geared towards advancing the species in some way. Your job, your wife, your kids, your hobbies - they're all about having a good environment for humans and then putting humans into that environment. Or have you unlocked the secret to inner peace and overturned instincts millions of years old?
The achievements of man will lose all meaning if we die out and nobody is left to hear the tree fall.
What a perfectly self-contradictory idea. You say going into space to get away from problems is bad, then you say that as a solution to overpopulation it'd be okay.