If you do that, why would ATI bother? You'd just make it look like they already lost the market and should focus on Windows where they're doing well.
The correct feedback is this: When you find a bug in their driver, send in a bug report. When you find a missing feature, send in a feature request. Don't send in a feature request that reads, like, "open source your drivers, dumbasses!" as that will be ignored.
It's not hard. It's the same process you do with every other piece of software in the world. If ATI gets 30,000 bug reports, to fix them they'll either need to hire more Linux staff (thereby making the driver quality better) or open-source the drivers.
I know you're going for a joke here, but it stands to reason the game allows playing with a female avatar, which means that statement makes perfect sense.
Man pages are impossible to read. Don't be silly; there's no real information there. I don't even know why people bother to maintain them.
Here's an example, I want to use tar to gzip a directory and put it in a file. Using the man page to find the syntax involves scrolling through 30 pages of worthless shit before finding the examples, and THEN you can work out what to do. By contrast, I can get the answer with Google using "I'm Feeling Lucky" in like a 10th the time.
You can't search man files like you can Windows Help and OS X Help files (or if you can, I haven't figured out how.) Man files never cover processes that involve more than one command, while Windows and OS X help files frequently do.
If this guy had spent even 5 seconds on Google, he'd KNOW there are free virus scanners for Windows all over the place. The first entire page of results for "free virus scanner" are all free virus scanners for Windows.
This guy just didn't put in any effort at all.
For the record, I recommend AVG Antivirus and Sygate Personal Firewall. ZoneAlarm might look pretty, but it's hard to configure and has some incompatibilities.
The original poster was kind of an idiot, so let me use a better example. Mystery Science Theater 3000 often makes fun of movies that don't proof-read their credit sequences. One of these movies was titled:
Attack Of The The Eye Creatures!
(Ok, not a great example... in the movie's title still, the repeated word was almost impossible to notice because of the font sizes and style used, but on Slashdot it's relatively easy to see.)
The running joke was that they were riffing on a movie called "Attack Of The The Eye Creatures."
Unlike what the original poster asserted, it has nothing to do with sentences, but with lines. If the title had read:
"Attack Of The. The Eye Creatures"
It would have been extremely easy to see the error as we space out and capitalize sentences. However, as:
Attack Of The The Eye Creatures
It's much harder to notice this error.
If you look for errors like this, you'll start to notice them all over the place. Many, many proofreaders skim right past repeated words if one is at the end of a line and the other is at the beginning of the next line. If your spell-checker has a warning about repeated words, it might be a good idea to turn that on to reduce these kinds of errors.
2) They released the technology to a non-profit organization which makes the information available to all fireworks shows interested. Maybe not the public domain, but pretty close to it.
Of course, the open source program doesn't have the feature, so the Slashdot commenter says, "well, nobody should use grammar checker anyway, it's a terrible feature and horrible and no product can do it right!"
Fast forward five years when the first open-source word processor has a grammar checker, suddenly it'll be an important feature that will draw people to the product.
Revision tracking. If you can use Revision Tracking in OO 1.1.2 without OO mangling the document, you're one-up on me. I couldn't get it to work worth crap.
Hah. Try opening a Word document with a revision history in OpenOffice and see what happens. POOF corruption in.2 seconds. Meanwhile, all versions of Word can open and use it just fine.
The MS Office and Windows teams don't really talk to each other that much, so I doubt there's a TON of code in Windows that only Office uses. And if the shared code the 'system' owns he's referring to is used by other applications as well, then it's just a system library and you can't use that for memory comparisons.
I just started up my Word XP Developer Edition and it's taking slightly over 12 MB idle with no documents open. Their number was over twice that...
I went to school in Ellensburg, Washington USA. I left my door unlocked all the time because I trusted people. Now I moved to a small town, and I still leave my door unlocked. I like trusting my neighbors.
At my school, the dorms were significantly cheaper than living off-campus, even in run-down apartments. Also, at the time, broadband hadn't penetrated very far into the town and the school offered the highest speed internet connection in town. Not to mention that you find the greatest friends and the community is beyond compare... if I could be living in a dorm right now, I would be.
Remember, when you're in an apartment, your phone, cable, internet, utilities, etc are all separate bills... don't just look at the rent and determine it's a ripoff, total it all up.
The only part of that entire rant that strikes me as being 'wrong' is the plagerism. Do you have an example of this?
If Slashdot wants to post links to a blog, that's the business of the editors... I'm not a fan of these press release postings, but I'm also not an editor so I don't know what even worse crap is in the submission queue.
I don't know whether you considered it a 'modern operating system' or not, but BeOS stored each email as an individual file, and each address book entry the same way.
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Yes, yes, anyone on Slashdot who has read ANY comments has seen that quote about a bazillion times.
At least give a reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niemoller
If you do that, why would ATI bother? You'd just make it look like they already lost the market and should focus on Windows where they're doing well.
The correct feedback is this: When you find a bug in their driver, send in a bug report. When you find a missing feature, send in a feature request. Don't send in a feature request that reads, like, "open source your drivers, dumbasses!" as that will be ignored.
It's not hard. It's the same process you do with every other piece of software in the world. If ATI gets 30,000 bug reports, to fix them they'll either need to hire more Linux staff (thereby making the driver quality better) or open-source the drivers.
to appear on the screen is as good as the help in MacOS X or Windows, you're failing
Yeah, ok, you need to get out a bit more. And try some of those deep breathing exercises... in... out... in... out... in... out... ok good.
Now remember the Golden Rule of all pointlessly stupid Slashdot rants:
"If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it."
When you realize the inherant truth in that statement, your soul will find peace.
I know you're going for a joke here, but it stands to reason the game allows playing with a female avatar, which means that statement makes perfect sense.
Man pages are impossible to read. Don't be silly; there's no real information there. I don't even know why people bother to maintain them.
Here's an example, I want to use tar to gzip a directory and put it in a file. Using the man page to find the syntax involves scrolling through 30 pages of worthless shit before finding the examples, and THEN you can work out what to do. By contrast, I can get the answer with Google using "I'm Feeling Lucky" in like a 10th the time.
You can't search man files like you can Windows Help and OS X Help files (or if you can, I haven't figured out how.) Man files never cover processes that involve more than one command, while Windows and OS X help files frequently do.
There's a difference between:
"Are there any free virus scanners?"
And:
"Which free virus scanners do you recommend?"
If this guy had spent even 5 seconds on Google, he'd KNOW there are free virus scanners for Windows all over the place. The first entire page of results for "free virus scanner" are all free virus scanners for Windows.
This guy just didn't put in any effort at all.
For the record, I recommend AVG Antivirus and Sygate Personal Firewall. ZoneAlarm might look pretty, but it's hard to configure and has some incompatibilities.
http://www.google.com/search?q=free+virus+scanner& sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Holy christ, use Google first. Criminy. These questions get dumbver every day.
Ok, so where's your website with the better article? And if you have one, why didn't you submit it to Slashdot? Huh? Huh? Thought so.
He's referring to the repeated word "the."
The original poster was kind of an idiot, so let me use a better example. Mystery Science Theater 3000 often makes fun of movies that don't proof-read their credit sequences. One of these movies was titled:
Attack Of The
The Eye Creatures!
(Ok, not a great example... in the movie's title still, the repeated word was almost impossible to notice because of the font sizes and style used, but on Slashdot it's relatively easy to see.)
The running joke was that they were riffing on a movie called "Attack Of The The Eye Creatures."
Unlike what the original poster asserted, it has nothing to do with sentences, but with lines. If the title had read:
"Attack Of The. The Eye Creatures"
It would have been extremely easy to see the error as we space out and capitalize sentences. However, as:
Attack Of The
The Eye Creatures
It's much harder to notice this error.
If you look for errors like this, you'll start to notice them all over the place. Many, many proofreaders skim right past repeated words if one is at the end of a line and the other is at the beginning of the next line. If your spell-checker has a warning about repeated words, it might be a good idea to turn that on to reduce these kinds of errors.
1) "Disney goes Boom," not "Disney Goes Bust."
2) They released the technology to a non-profit organization which makes the information available to all fireworks shows interested. Maybe not the public domain, but pretty close to it.
How about hard-to-swallow pills?
Or a human pincusion suit.
Oh, shut up. Christ. Get a goddamn grip.
You don't have to use it if you don't want to. Sheesh, whine whine.
Ok, but you have the OPTION of keeping it on. With Abiword there's no choice if you want to use it... it's not there.
Of course, the open source program doesn't have the feature, so the Slashdot commenter says, "well, nobody should use grammar checker anyway, it's a terrible feature and horrible and no product can do it right!"
Fast forward five years when the first open-source word processor has a grammar checker, suddenly it'll be an important feature that will draw people to the product.
This crap is so predictable it's sad.
Revision tracking. If you can use Revision Tracking in OO 1.1.2 without OO mangling the document, you're one-up on me. I couldn't get it to work worth crap.
Hah. Try opening a Word document with a revision history in OpenOffice and see what happens. POOF corruption in .2 seconds. Meanwhile, all versions of Word can open and use it just fine.
The MS Office and Windows teams don't really talk to each other that much, so I doubt there's a TON of code in Windows that only Office uses. And if the shared code the 'system' owns he's referring to is used by other applications as well, then it's just a system library and you can't use that for memory comparisons.
I just started up my Word XP Developer Edition and it's taking slightly over 12 MB idle with no documents open. Their number was over twice that...
What's the problem here? If you don't want it indexed, say so in a robots.txt file... Google respects those if they're present.
Off-topic, but I got 6 gmail invites I'll never use. If you want any, blakeyrat -at- gmail.com with the email you want the invite to go to.
I went to school in Ellensburg, Washington USA. I left my door unlocked all the time because I trusted people. Now I moved to a small town, and I still leave my door unlocked. I like trusting my neighbors.
At my school, the dorms were significantly cheaper than living off-campus, even in run-down apartments. Also, at the time, broadband hadn't penetrated very far into the town and the school offered the highest speed internet connection in town. Not to mention that you find the greatest friends and the community is beyond compare... if I could be living in a dorm right now, I would be.
Remember, when you're in an apartment, your phone, cable, internet, utilities, etc are all separate bills... don't just look at the rent and determine it's a ripoff, total it all up.
The only part of that entire rant that strikes me as being 'wrong' is the plagerism. Do you have an example of this?
If Slashdot wants to post links to a blog, that's the business of the editors... I'm not a fan of these press release postings, but I'm also not an editor so I don't know what even worse crap is in the submission queue.
I don't know whether you considered it a 'modern operating system' or not, but BeOS stored each email as an individual file, and each address book entry the same way.