I have no dog in this fight but this post is three lines, two of which are off-topic.
66.6% off-topic is not a good ratio.
I have noticed that in your comments here and at the Reg you come off as a jerk.
Quoting yourself only reinforces that perception.
PS Notice I did not say you were a jerk but your compulsive need to argue instead of discuss and to have the last word make you come off as a jerk...
I ran OS/2 Warp and you are correct that were were very few native applications.
You could run Windows 16 apps but could not run Windows 32 apps because Microsoft kept making changes that broke Win32 on OS/2.
You could go to the Hobbes Archive and download a whole lot of ported open source software, that is what I did when I needed an app.
In fact being exposed to all that open source software is the main reason that I skipped Windows 95 and went straight to Red Hat Linux when OS/2 died.
One thing that I loved about OS/2 version 3 (Warp) was that the TCP/IP stack was an integral part of it. It made getting on the internet easy.
Windows had TCP/IP grafted on to with with the Winsock package. If you needed it you could get it by installing AOL.
LOL I thought it was pretty funny that to fix a broken Winsock on your Windows all you had to do was reinstall AOL!
I never used Windows 95, I went straight from OS/2 version 3 (Warp) to Red Hat Linux. I had no problems with Linux because I learned how to use Sun Workstations while at Rice University.
OS/2 Warp ran 16-bit versions of Windows 3.1 perfectly fine. Another way Microsoft screwed with IBM was by constantly changing the 32-bit version of Windows just enough where it broke on OS/2.
There were no technical reasons for Microsoft to make to those changes. It was just business, Microsoft figured why split the revenue with IBM when they can get 100% of the pie.
Microsoft sucked back then and they still suck today. I can't wait for support to end on Windows 10 so I can go 100% Linux. There will be some apps I will miss but not many.
LOL as an aside, I still do 90% of my image editing with JASC Paint Shop Pro 6 running on Wine. I actually paid for Crossover to make that run more smoothly.
I love PSP 6, the entire program is only 300 MB in size and lets you do stuff like layering. While there are some file formats it does not support (SVG) Gimp 3.0 works well when I can't do it in PSP 6.
But I will probably have to keep a Windows VM around to watch English Premier League soccer on Peacock. While every other streaming service works fine on Firefox in Linux Peacock actively checks to see if you run Linux and refuses to start a stream if you do.
They say it is because they don't want to support Linux even though in general Linux users usually need less support for simple stuff like that. NBC is run by idiots, a lot of their content can be found on Hulu which runs on Linux perfectly fine.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour, 8 hours is $58 a day so in reality it is two days worth of minimum wage.
But seeing as how most people making minimum wage are barely able to put a roof over their heads and still have enough left over to eat I think getting a computer is the least of their problems.
By flower they are probably referring to cannabis.
For $50 a half-ounce they probably mean Mexican sativa obtained on the street, for any sort of primo indica from a dispensary $50 will only get you a gram or two.
Some friends and I were going to the movies thinking of seeing one film that looked like it was suppose to be pretty good and found out that it wasn't out yet and we had seen all the other movies that were out that we wanted to so we decided to give it a try and went in expecting a crap story that was little better than a romantic comedy but with fun action (brain melt is fun if that is what you expect, I liked the Expendables for what it was).
Uhh dude, that is a heck of a run-on sentence. LOL did you forget to take your ADD meds today?
Pretty sure i have a 5 digit UID but i only post as AC anymore.
Pretty sure i have a 5 digit UID but i only troll as AC anymore.
FTFY
Well this is a whole new breed of cunt... In other words, the old cunts were hecklers, the new cunts are self-righteous assholes.
Hmm... are you totally oblivious to the irony of this statement? That complaining about "self-righteous assholes" makes you one too?
In fact, here's a video of what it's like to be assaulted by a hoard of these cunts:
So who actually is collecting and storing these so-called cunts? Oh you meant horde!
Funny, maybe. Insightful? Definitely not!
Getting rid of anonymous posting, or even just requiring accounts, will kill off this site nearly immediately.
Maybe Slashdot in its current form SHOULD be killed off.
I would come here all the time if you got rid of anonymous cowards completely. They hardly bring anything useful to the table anyway.
A better idea is to stop posting politics and culture news, there are better sites for that type of news anyway.
I USED to to come here for tech news all the time as Slashdot used to be the BEST tech site out there, these days tech seems like an afterthought around here.
PS At least Noah Haders had the balls to log in to post, notice it was the anonymous coward calling him stupid.
- This site is a kook magnet. No doubt about it. It can be charming at times, but can also be a problem when the content to noise ratio gets too low. The last thing we need is for the kooks to see who downmodded them so they can go on a vendetta. They do that enough as is with people who try to talk sense to them.
Hey new owners,
You thought you were buying a tech website, not Reddit light with a shitter commenting and moderation system.
1) As far as the commenting system, everybody has mentioned unicode. Not being able to include images? Tres lame!
As far as the mod system, I get mod points when there are a lot of crap articles, when there are cool articles I have none available. When I run into a particularly good comment I have no mod points available.
Why do mod points expire? Why can't old timers like me, still hanging around in spite of this site being a pale shadow of its former self, not get a permanent pool of mod points to use in these situations?
If the old timers abuse this then you can remove their permanent mod points, but I have no axe to grind it will not happen in my case. I just get tired of having to scroll down through the 100s of racist, sexist, anti-gay posts without being able to do something to do something about them in order to make this a better site for all.
2) If you want to make this a great tech site why don't you test the users on their IT knowledge and give them privileges accordingly? A 15 minute test with 60 randomized questions about OSes, networking, databases, cloud, etc. If you do well you get a Ferrari license, if not you get a Yugo license.
Those with the Ferrari licenses will drive better and will tend to have more important things to say, those with the Yugo licenses can at least be identified more easily so us Ferrari drivers do not have to waste our time and energy on all the loony racist, sexist, and anti-gay trolls.
A new user with a Ferrari license should also get a permanent mod points unless they abuse the privilege. So together all those with the Ferrari licenses could collectively mod down the trash and up mod the gems.
But like socialism in the US this will never happen because it would mean Slashdot would need to get a better class of users. Which totally goes against Market-Droid 101 more is better than less, which implies that quality should not matter at all at least when it comes to stuff like ad impressions.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
