I usually find comments like the one I'm about to write annoying, but... you're a dumbass.
Re-read the damn summary
The CSS files are already totally available. View the source for yourself.
What? Do you even know what CSS is? The only way you could possibly cause a problem this way would be by setting the Coca Cola logo as the background image.
Nope, it wouldn't be possible to display: none the ads. I think they use the exact same divs. Maybe there's a way to hide flash in CSS, but the perl wizards of Slashdot can easily ban that. Banning ads is trivial anyway.
That reboot dialog comes back again and again until you reboot. Since it automatically reboots unless you click cancel, one of the later dialogs will have rebooted your computer. The best bet is to make it prompt you before installing updates.
And just how do you plan to put an overpoliticised counterculture spin on that? Feminist literature won't just write itself you know.
Seriously though, I'd take your point even further, and say that "final girl" is just a rebranding of the word "hero". At best, this article creates a trivial class of female hero which basically extends class hero in some superficial ways, and tries to pass it off as a clever new concept.
I cheered at the end of Texas Chainsaw massacre because that meant the movie was almost over
Hi, this is Chronos the Bear, Master of All Time. Your perspective of the continuum seems to be a bit wonky. We'd be grateful if you could reboot your watch or clock so as we can run a few diagnostics on your temporal v-hold.
Keep challenging yourself is definitely the machine. This is your head, or half-crouch position. The best dancers use only does require at:up::right:. You would I see what looks a good doing crazy if you're a result. Add your head bobbing in the Philippines did this trick to hold onto. of breakdancing/b-boy'ing competitions. Those help with your performance. If the beat, instead of the dance. When you have in places where the point of the people who are citing BSB, N-SYNC videos has very simple leg work, but if don't have fun. Second, by going in special spots, throw a spin on one is in times in case you play.
Just wait until you see the new malware interface they've made for Vista. It'll have spinning buttons, bouncing widgets, gradient font colours, and a full 3d image of a chip made to look like a bug scuttling around a motherboard.
And once again Microsoft will show themselves to be the innovators, as Linux plays catch up, only just breaking into the malware market at a time when Microsoft is taking it places nobody had even imagined. All this fuss over a multiplatform virus? A "proof-of-concept"? Dream on! Windows is where it's at, man!
John Q. User doesn't want to have to run a virus scanner, or guage his computer's decreasing performance. Those things are for Linux nerds with too much time on their hands and so on. OK I can't keep up the pro-MS thing any longer. It hurts my brain too much to imitate that kind of stupidity.
Further still: they don't even care about their browser. That's the level of success Microsoft has had with IE. People think of notepad and solitaire as "programs" that they "open". Internet Explorer is "the internet", and you "go on" it.
The level of ignorance that this creates is astounding, but it's like a dam: Within months of being delivered from IE, I started asking other questions. It didn't take long before I found out about Linux. Here I am today, about two years later, writing a comment on Slashdot from my Slackware-only laptop.
I'm sure it was brilliant, but it didn't sell so well. So Gates being the marketing genius that he is decided to lower the quality of the software Microsoft produced, and the rest is history!
Yes, that's true. But now you need to fill in the "???" part:
Take over the desktop
Use monopoly to influence web development
???
Profit!!!
I don't know of any Microsoft courses named "Dealing with the shortcomings of our software". I do hear a lot of "I keep Windows for testing sites in IE" though. Is that the sort of thing you mean?
You have a real point there, in amongst all the swearing and irrational flaming. This guy is like a broken record (1, 2,
3). Even so, despite the fact that I read at -1 with score display turned off, I checked to see that you'd been modded down, and I wasn't disappointed with what I saw. Rants like don't go down well here.
But by dimming the metal used to create the hats, you reduce this effect. It only takes a small reduction in shine to make the numbers visible again. Suspiciously, just before Iraq, the Bush administration spent a couple of billion dollars on nickel, which was then shared around the payload of the US' missile array.
The obvious reason is that the nickel impurity will contaminate Iraq's less well-known secondary export - tin. Each explosion spreads a little more nickel underground, reducing the shine of the eventual tin foil hats to be made from the metal there. Coincidence? I think not!
As a journalist, it's his job, nay, his duty to inform the likes of us mere readers of our most shameful shortcomings. I don't understand why people like you are always wasting our time with these 'independent thoughts', when people like this are already being paid to pre-fabricate opinions and ideas for us.
Get over your stupid little philosophy, sit down, shut up and consume. Maybe if you weren't such an ideological insurgent, the elders would have already picked you out to work as a supplier of opinions alongside the eminent Mr. Parish.
You go ahead and come up with some 'original idea' to counter my arguments, I'm not afraid. My masters in the gaming press will protect me from tyrants like you! Your military training and superhuman strength (apparently you everynerds are all soldiers now) are no match for my robot-like obedience!
They actually do this now with the tags. And it's getting kind of pathetic - every other article gets tagged as flamebait or troll just because it's a little controversial. An interesting parallel with the moderation system.
Quick! You'd better email them at their office and tell them that all the money they've made is only phantom money. They'll be glad that someone with a bit more insight was able to warn them in time!
I'm going to reply to this to pre-empt other potentially more aggressive replies. But I'm not going to rehash the information that I already got some karma out of last night, so instead here's a link the comment.
While I can understand where your impression comes from, especially given the collective mistrust of Linspire here on Slashdot, wrong is wrong.
Tim you daft Tosser, there's a reason Linux desktops behave the way they do. Their purpose isn't to replace Windows, but to be good Linux desktops in their own right. There are many scores of happy happy Linux users for whom the Linux desktop is already familiar and friendly.
Even so, I'm not disagreeing with you. This is exactly the reason that Linspire is so good. By hacking up KDE to make it more Windows-like, along with all that other stuff they do, Linspire means that the rest of us have even less reason to care about pretending to be like Windows! It's already being taken care of!
I'm pretty damn glad that someone out there is scratching that itch, because otherwise I'd be concerned that the KDE in my Slackware might slowly turn into the Vista interface!
If you don't want to read the article, that's fine. But at least read the summary. It's a community distro that "includes all of the fully-licensed proprietary apps, drivers, and codecs in Linspire". So far community distros generally haven't had the balls to do this.
I don't get it. Why do people always piss on Linspire for selling Free Software, when so many others had already been doing it for so long? Is it because of a perceived lack of contribution back into Open Source on the part of Linspire? From a slightly biased Wikipedia article:
Linspire has contributed millions of dollars in direct funds and contributed code to several open source projects. For a company of Linspire's size, their contributions have been quite admirable. With very few exceptions, all code that is developed by Linspire is contributed back to the open source community. Linspire is also the lead maintainer for important projects such as Nvu, Lsongs, Lphoto, and an important contributor to other projects such as Mozilla Firefox, Gaim, Reiser FS, and many others.
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Nope, it wouldn't be possible to display: none the ads. I think they use the exact same divs. Maybe there's a way to hide flash in CSS, but the perl wizards of Slashdot can easily ban that. Banning ads is trivial anyway.
That reboot dialog comes back again and again until you reboot. Since it automatically reboots unless you click cancel, one of the later dialogs will have rebooted your computer. The best bet is to make it prompt you before installing updates.
Seriously though, I'd take your point even further, and say that "final girl" is just a rebranding of the word "hero". At best, this article creates a trivial class of female hero which basically extends class hero in some superficial ways, and tries to pass it off as a clever new concept.
Oh, and the word is gradumatated.
And once again Microsoft will show themselves to be the innovators, as Linux plays catch up, only just breaking into the malware market at a time when Microsoft is taking it places nobody had even imagined. All this fuss over a multiplatform virus? A "proof-of-concept"? Dream on! Windows is where it's at, man!
John Q. User doesn't want to have to run a virus scanner, or guage his computer's decreasing performance. Those things are for Linux nerds with too much time on their hands and so on. OK I can't keep up the pro-MS thing any longer. It hurts my brain too much to imitate that kind of stupidity.
The level of ignorance that this creates is astounding, but it's like a dam: Within months of being delivered from IE, I started asking other questions. It didn't take long before I found out about Linux. Here I am today, about two years later, writing a comment on Slashdot from my Slackware-only laptop.
I'm sure it was brilliant, but it didn't sell so well. So Gates being the marketing genius that he is decided to lower the quality of the software Microsoft produced, and the rest is history!
I don't know of any Microsoft courses named "Dealing with the shortcomings of our software". I do hear a lot of "I keep Windows for testing sites in IE" though. Is that the sort of thing you mean?
You have a real point there, in amongst all the swearing and irrational flaming. This guy is like a broken record (1, 2, 3). Even so, despite the fact that I read at -1 with score display turned off, I checked to see that you'd been modded down, and I wasn't disappointed with what I saw. Rants like don't go down well here.
The obvious reason is that the nickel impurity will contaminate Iraq's less well-known secondary export - tin. Each explosion spreads a little more nickel underground, reducing the shine of the eventual tin foil hats to be made from the metal there. Coincidence? I think not!
No no, not at all. The tags are great, it's the people using them. They aren't being whipped hard enough.
Get over your stupid little philosophy, sit down, shut up and consume. Maybe if you weren't such an ideological insurgent, the elders would have already picked you out to work as a supplier of opinions alongside the eminent Mr. Parish.
You go ahead and come up with some 'original idea' to counter my arguments, I'm not afraid. My masters in the gaming press will protect me from tyrants like you! Your military training and superhuman strength (apparently you everynerds are all soldiers now) are no match for my robot-like obedience!
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They actually do this now with the tags. And it's getting kind of pathetic - every other article gets tagged as flamebait or troll just because it's a little controversial. An interesting parallel with the moderation system.
As good as it sounds, I bet I could find a lot of passwords written on the backs of notepads.
Quick! You'd better email them at their office and tell them that all the money they've made is only phantom money. They'll be glad that someone with a bit more insight was able to warn them in time!
While I can understand where your impression comes from, especially given the collective mistrust of Linspire here on Slashdot, wrong is wrong.
Even so, I'm not disagreeing with you. This is exactly the reason that Linspire is so good. By hacking up KDE to make it more Windows-like, along with all that other stuff they do, Linspire means that the rest of us have even less reason to care about pretending to be like Windows! It's already being taken care of!
I'm pretty damn glad that someone out there is scratching that itch, because otherwise I'd be concerned that the KDE in my Slackware might slowly turn into the Vista interface!
Why? Do feel free to explain.
If you don't want to read the article, that's fine. But at least read the summary. It's a community distro that "includes all of the fully-licensed proprietary apps, drivers, and codecs in Linspire". So far community distros generally haven't had the balls to do this.