Out of curiousity, what are they supposed to blame? The kernel itself? Are they supposed to blame their CD drive? Maybe the Internet did it?
The problem isn't that the user tried a 'bad' distro and didn't have a good experience... the problem is that there isn't a SINGLE distro for Linux that is easy altogether.
Simple. I'd rather have 25 GB and not need it than need 25 GB and not have it.
Don't ask silly questions; giving people more space also gives them more power. Maybe they'll be more bonuses on the disk. Maybe they'll do those video tutorials streamed from it. Heck, they could even stream entire TV programs to a texture in the game if they wanted... remember that movie theater in Duke Nukem 3D? You could make it really happen.
The worst people on forums like this are people who either do not get that a post is a joke, or do not care that the post is a joke, and reply to it in a serious manner anyway.
Hey, Ripley survived in Alien. That's, what, one in seven? One and a half if you count the cat. And in the second movie, Aliens, that was like 2 (humans) in like 10? That's not so bad of odds... or, wait, maybe it is...
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Are you kidding? Every time we get a minor version revision for Notes we get about 30 CDs for different client versions. There's Windows, there's MacOS, there's Solaris, there's BSD, there's about 5 different Linuxes. If you can't find a Linux version of Lotus Notes, you're not trying.
In fact, the reason it's so goddamned slow and crappy is that the whole program basically runs within a virtual machine so IBM can port it to God-knows-what more easily.
Can't find a Linux version of Notes, sheesh. I got a 5.0, 5.0.4, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.3, 6.5, 6.5.1 version for Linux and probably more that aren't in my stack right here.
I put a few screws in the bottom of my computer table and desk and just suspended my cables from it. I also screwed the power strip for my computer systems and my entertainment center into the furniture, which keeps them off the floor.
Why do these posts always get moderated +5 funny? Man. These "I read it wrong the first time" jokes are *never* funny... at least, I've yet to see a funny one.
For example, Nethack is still one of the most beloved games of all time and is still widely played, its still just ASCII (the way the hardcore play it anyways).
Oh, please. What the hell are you talking about? There are about a dozen people in the world who love Nethack, and all of them are Slashdot posters. I polled my friends and family once, and not a single person had even heard of it. (Anecdote = fact, right?)
But seriously, most people into PC gaming now started around Half-Life or later... other than the HUGE earlier games (Wolf3D, Doom, XCom: UFO Defense, SimCity, few others), they don't know anything about them. (For instance, nobody I knew except one other gamer knew that Morrowind was actually the third game in the Elder Scrolls series.)
But nobody plays Nethack. Hell, there are probably more people playing Mission: Thunderbolt than Nethack. (What!? You've never heard of Mission: Thunderbolt? But it's "one of the most beloved games of all time and still widely played!")
Yeah, graphics don't equal gameplay, yada yada yada, but for criminy's sake come up with a better example!
This article describes, basically, the perfect way to create an interface that makes use of spatial and browser metaphors without getting anything mixed up:
I really don't enjoy playing Grand Theft Auto games because they're too violent... because of this, I kept wondering what made the games so compelling that they were these huge uber-best-sellers.
Then I got a copy of Simpsons: Hit and Run, which is basically the exact same play-style as GTA games, but without any violence. Now I get it, it's pretty damned fun, very forgiving if you fail a mission, and really easy to just pick up and play even if you only have a few minutes.
Oh yeah, because as soon as "eye candy" is added to Microsoft's OS and Linux desktops, your "midnight commander", "emacs" and "vi" will instantly cease to exist leaving you forced, against your will, to stare at the hideously non-ugly "eye candy" in horror.
Or... wait a second, I just thought of something... maybe... just maybe... you'll still be able to use your computer exactly how you do now! In fact, I have come up with a plan to make this possibility a reality: Don't upgrade to the "eye candy" version. Brilliant!
The national 55 MPH speed limit was repealed ages ago. Now the speed limit is up to the individual states. Montana, which has many hundred-mile-long perfectly flat and straight freeways, has 'autobahns' in some parts of the state. Washington State has a max of 70 (60 in urban areas.) Etc.
What the hell is this post talking about? CPAN? SLOCOUNT? Red Hate 6.2? I honestly have no clue. Is lines of code measured in dollars or lines? If lines, why is there a dollar amount in the headline? If dollars, why is there a lines count in the article?
if windows hasn't written a driver for your device, you may never see a driver for that device. windows will never have drivers for apple mice/keyboards...they will continue to make their os support only what it needs to to stay on top.
First of all "Windows" doesn't write drivers; Microsoft does. Windows is the name of the product, not of the company that produces it.
What are you talking about? When I was building a new PC the only extra keyboard I had available to use with it was a USB Apple keyboard. Both the BIOS (on an MSI motherboard) and Windows itself were able to use this keyboard just fine without *any* external drivers needed. I fact, I thought it was pretty clever that Windows automatically re-routed the 'Command' key on the keyboard to be the same as the 'Windows' key.
No, Fark posts things that are *funny*. This is not funny. The only way Fark would post it is if the headline read something like, "Slashdot posts the dumbest story ever. Nerds in France surrender" (or something) and it linked to this Slashdot article. The fact that this was posted here is funny, but the article itself is not.
First of all, The Longest Journey (1999) is three times better than Syberia and if anything "brought the adventure genre back" it was that. (Although Syberia was ported to XBox, which seems like a major victory to me.)
Second of all, the adventure genre never left-- you just stopped buying adventure games. When's the last time you went to a, say, Target or Wal-Mart that had PC games and saw a copy of The Crystal Key on the shelf. Did you buy it? It's an adventure game. What about Uru? The Longest Journey? Syberia? A hundred other adventure games that have come out at the rate of 4-5 a year since 1995 or so?... yeah, thought so.
I get so pissed at people who say "the adventure genre died!" and, at the same time, don't support the developers out there who write these games all the time. If you want adventure games, BUY adventure games... simple.
At the risk of getting my voice lost in the din, this is by far the *worst* thing Slashdot has ever posted. You'd think a professional novelist would be at least slightly funny, for instance, but this isn't even close. This makes User Friendly comics look like comedy gold. This trumps every horribly misspelled article about a mundane and common hardware hack with photos hosted on a home DSL connection for the last 2 years.
Is it possible that the thing that changed isn't the gaming industry... but you?
I know I used to spend hours and hours hunting down perfect completion scores and those hidden power-ups on my Commodore 64 games, but that wasn't because the games were necessarily any better than today's-- in fact I would wager the majority were worse on average-- it's because I was younger and had tons of free time and games were still new and exciting.
Now I'm older, I have a full-time job, and the gaming industry is matured enough where I know that if I miss the next latest-and-greatest dungeon digger I can just wait a few months for a new one. The gaming industry hasn't changed, I have. And I think you have, too.
Case in point: Spacial Nautilus. It's a moronic idea. Just plain idiotic. Everyone absolutely despises it. It's a retarded throwback to file managers in 1985, which, you guessed it, sucked. This is why every major GUI switched over to a browser/tree based file manager years ago and dumped the new-window-for-everything idiocy. In fact, way back in... 1985, I seem to recall that everyone went and found replacement file managers which didn't do that, too. The two-pane ones seemed popular.
First of all, Apple supported MacOS 9 (which had a spacial finder) well into the 2000s... and I LOVED using it. Apple's removing of the spacial finder in OS X, in my opinion, is probably the *worst* mistake they made with it. (Second-worst? Removing tabbed folders.)
Hey, maybe *you* didn't like it. That's ok, but don't speak in absolutes. Don't say "everybody hates it!" say "I hate it!" See how that works? Unless you've surveyed literally everybody, you can't possibly make the first statement in an accurate way.
To quote Lister in Red Dwarf: "Don't give me that Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning."
Dude. Stop reading those moronic science fiction novels where the great relevation at the end is that the savage warlike race is humanity and the aliens were all peaceful and happy and we were wiping them out. That was old and dull in the 60s. Humans aren't so bad... remember that any other civilization we meet will have developed in the same way we did, by competing with others for resources, and the odds that they'd be some holy Godlike race with no wars, famine or greed is just stupid. We're doing just fine as a race, ok?
(The CGI is all rendered as if it's shot with a handheld video camera, which fits in perfectly with the rest of the filming which is all done on handheld cameras - it really does make you feel like the camera man is right in the middle of real action.
That's the part that turned me off on the show. That was so stupid it just boggled my mind. Where is this camera man standing? Is he just floating in space with a steadicam? How does it move the camera without any gravity to assist with it? Battlestar Galactica did the same thing.
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Out of curiousity, what are they supposed to blame? The kernel itself? Are they supposed to blame their CD drive? Maybe the Internet did it?
The problem isn't that the user tried a 'bad' distro and didn't have a good experience... the problem is that there isn't a SINGLE distro for Linux that is easy altogether.
Simple. I'd rather have 25 GB and not need it than need 25 GB and not have it.
Don't ask silly questions; giving people more space also gives them more power. Maybe they'll be more bonuses on the disk. Maybe they'll do those video tutorials streamed from it. Heck, they could even stream entire TV programs to a texture in the game if they wanted... remember that movie theater in Duke Nukem 3D? You could make it really happen.
Dear Dumbass,
The worst people on forums like this are people who either do not get that a post is a joke, or do not care that the post is a joke, and reply to it in a serious manner anyway.
Hey, Ripley survived in Alien. That's, what, one in seven? One and a half if you count the cat. And in the second movie, Aliens, that was like 2 (humans) in like 10? That's not so bad of odds... or, wait, maybe it is...
Are you kidding? Every time we get a minor version revision for Notes we get about 30 CDs for different client versions. There's Windows, there's MacOS, there's Solaris, there's BSD, there's about 5 different Linuxes. If you can't find a Linux version of Lotus Notes, you're not trying.
In fact, the reason it's so goddamned slow and crappy is that the whole program basically runs within a virtual machine so IBM can port it to God-knows-what more easily.
Can't find a Linux version of Notes, sheesh. I got a 5.0, 5.0.4, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.3, 6.5, 6.5.1 version for Linux and probably more that aren't in my stack right here.
I put a few screws in the bottom of my computer table and desk and just suspended my cables from it. I also screwed the power strip for my computer systems and my entertainment center into the furniture, which keeps them off the floor.
Why do these posts always get moderated +5 funny? Man. These "I read it wrong the first time" jokes are *never* funny... at least, I've yet to see a funny one.
For example, Nethack is still one of the most beloved games of all time and is still widely played, its still just ASCII (the way the hardcore play it anyways).
Oh, please. What the hell are you talking about? There are about a dozen people in the world who love Nethack, and all of them are Slashdot posters. I polled my friends and family once, and not a single person had even heard of it. (Anecdote = fact, right?)
But seriously, most people into PC gaming now started around Half-Life or later... other than the HUGE earlier games (Wolf3D, Doom, XCom: UFO Defense, SimCity, few others), they don't know anything about them. (For instance, nobody I knew except one other gamer knew that Morrowind was actually the third game in the Elder Scrolls series.)
But nobody plays Nethack. Hell, there are probably more people playing Mission: Thunderbolt than Nethack. (What!? You've never heard of Mission: Thunderbolt? But it's "one of the most beloved games of all time and still widely played!")
Yeah, graphics don't equal gameplay, yada yada yada, but for criminy's sake come up with a better example!
This article describes, basically, the perfect way to create an interface that makes use of spatial and browser metaphors without getting anything mixed up:
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http://arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-1.h
The true pity is that, apparently, nobody at Apple or Gnome has read the damned thing. Oh well, let's see what Microsoft does with Longhorn...
I really don't enjoy playing Grand Theft Auto games because they're too violent... because of this, I kept wondering what made the games so compelling that they were these huge uber-best-sellers.
Then I got a copy of Simpsons: Hit and Run, which is basically the exact same play-style as GTA games, but without any violence. Now I get it, it's pretty damned fun, very forgiving if you fail a mission, and really easy to just pick up and play even if you only have a few minutes.
Oh yeah, because as soon as "eye candy" is added to Microsoft's OS and Linux desktops, your "midnight commander", "emacs" and "vi" will instantly cease to exist leaving you forced, against your will, to stare at the hideously non-ugly "eye candy" in horror.
Or... wait a second, I just thought of something... maybe... just maybe... you'll still be able to use your computer exactly how you do now! In fact, I have come up with a plan to make this possibility a reality: Don't upgrade to the "eye candy" version. Brilliant!
Yet another dumbass post.
The national 55 MPH speed limit was repealed ages ago. Now the speed limit is up to the individual states. Montana, which has many hundred-mile-long perfectly flat and straight freeways, has 'autobahns' in some parts of the state. Washington State has a max of 70 (60 in urban areas.) Etc.
What the hell is this post talking about? CPAN? SLOCOUNT? Red Hate 6.2? I honestly have no clue. Is lines of code measured in dollars or lines? If lines, why is there a dollar amount in the headline? If dollars, why is there a lines count in the article?
Off the top of my head...
Fred Meyer, K-Mart (Big-K), WalMart, Target, Costco, Sam's Club.
Lemme guess, you're rich and don't shop at places like that?
Wow! Michael Moore posts on Slashdot? That's incredible, I'd think he'd have better things to do with his time.
Is this the same Rick Wallace that appeared in Pokey the Penguin? Man, that guy's famous even without the blog!
http://www.yellow5.com/pokey
http://www.rit.edu/~flf1754/pokey/pokeyfaq.html
Rock on, Rick Wallace!
if windows hasn't written a driver for your device, you may never see a driver for that device. windows will never have drivers for apple mice/keyboards...they will continue to make their os support only what it needs to to stay on top.
First of all "Windows" doesn't write drivers; Microsoft does. Windows is the name of the product, not of the company that produces it.
What are you talking about? When I was building a new PC the only extra keyboard I had available to use with it was a USB Apple keyboard. Both the BIOS (on an MSI motherboard) and Windows itself were able to use this keyboard just fine without *any* external drivers needed. I fact, I thought it was pretty clever that Windows automatically re-routed the 'Command' key on the keyboard to be the same as the 'Windows' key.
Man, that was a stupid post.
No, Fark posts things that are *funny*. This is not funny. The only way Fark would post it is if the headline read something like, "Slashdot posts the dumbest story ever. Nerds in France surrender" (or something) and it linked to this Slashdot article. The fact that this was posted here is funny, but the article itself is not.
First of all, The Longest Journey (1999) is three times better than Syberia and if anything "brought the adventure genre back" it was that. (Although Syberia was ported to XBox, which seems like a major victory to me.)
... yeah, thought so.
Second of all, the adventure genre never left-- you just stopped buying adventure games. When's the last time you went to a, say, Target or Wal-Mart that had PC games and saw a copy of The Crystal Key on the shelf. Did you buy it? It's an adventure game. What about Uru? The Longest Journey? Syberia? A hundred other adventure games that have come out at the rate of 4-5 a year since 1995 or so?
I get so pissed at people who say "the adventure genre died!" and, at the same time, don't support the developers out there who write these games all the time. If you want adventure games, BUY adventure games... simple.
At the risk of getting my voice lost in the din, this is by far the *worst* thing Slashdot has ever posted. You'd think a professional novelist would be at least slightly funny, for instance, but this isn't even close. This makes User Friendly comics look like comedy gold. This trumps every horribly misspelled article about a mundane and common hardware hack with photos hosted on a home DSL connection for the last 2 years.
This is fucking terrible.
Is it possible that the thing that changed isn't the gaming industry... but you?
I know I used to spend hours and hours hunting down perfect completion scores and those hidden power-ups on my Commodore 64 games, but that wasn't because the games were necessarily any better than today's-- in fact I would wager the majority were worse on average-- it's because I was younger and had tons of free time and games were still new and exciting.
Now I'm older, I have a full-time job, and the gaming industry is matured enough where I know that if I miss the next latest-and-greatest dungeon digger I can just wait a few months for a new one. The gaming industry hasn't changed, I have. And I think you have, too.
Case in point: Spacial Nautilus. It's a moronic idea. Just plain idiotic. Everyone absolutely despises it. It's a retarded throwback to file managers in 1985, which, you guessed it, sucked. This is why every major GUI switched over to a browser/tree based file manager years ago and dumped the new-window-for-everything idiocy. In fact, way back in... 1985, I seem to recall that everyone went and found replacement file managers which didn't do that, too. The two-pane ones seemed popular.
First of all, Apple supported MacOS 9 (which had a spacial finder) well into the 2000s... and I LOVED using it. Apple's removing of the spacial finder in OS X, in my opinion, is probably the *worst* mistake they made with it. (Second-worst? Removing tabbed folders.)
Hey, maybe *you* didn't like it. That's ok, but don't speak in absolutes. Don't say "everybody hates it!" say "I hate it!" See how that works? Unless you've surveyed literally everybody, you can't possibly make the first statement in an accurate way.
... because birds didn't exist 1000 years ago in your weird little version of reality?
To quote Lister in Red Dwarf: "Don't give me that Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning."
Dude. Stop reading those moronic science fiction novels where the great relevation at the end is that the savage warlike race is humanity and the aliens were all peaceful and happy and we were wiping them out. That was old and dull in the 60s. Humans aren't so bad... remember that any other civilization we meet will have developed in the same way we did, by competing with others for resources, and the odds that they'd be some holy Godlike race with no wars, famine or greed is just stupid. We're doing just fine as a race, ok?
That's the part that turned me off on the show. That was so stupid it just boggled my mind. Where is this camera man standing? Is he just floating in space with a steadicam? How does it move the camera without any gravity to assist with it? Battlestar Galactica did the same thing.