Comment: Re:Screenshots... (Score 4, Funny) 266
Again with the goatse? We get it guy, you're edgy and cool because you're ten years late to a meme.
Comment: Re:Screenshots (Score 2) 266
Goatse warning.
You only altered your nick by a character and posted the same message and link?.. I expect more from trolls. At least change up the wording or something. This is sheer laziness.
You only altered your nick by a character and posted the same message and link?.. I expect more from trolls. At least change up the wording or something. This is sheer laziness.
Comment: Re:I ca see why (Score 4, Insightful) 417
The point he's trying to make is that no IT person has ever solved a problem that has occurred during a deployment. The only way anything ever gets put into production is specifically by paying someone to walk them through it over a landline phone.
FUDspeak aside, I would imagine they would go here to ask for help.
FUDspeak aside, I would imagine they would go here to ask for help.
Comment: Re:I've got a better deal (Score 2) 261
In fairness, at least Eric Schmidt has a PhD in a real major.
Comment: Re:38 page click through article (Score 1) 85
+1 on that; added this a while ago to my /etc/hosts.
127.0.0.1 phoronix.com
127.0.0.1 www.phoronix.com
Comment: Re:Rapidly Rising Minor Version Numbers... (Score 2) 175
KDE 4.2
I don't think one implies the other. KDE reaching 4.7 has more to do with the fact that they consistently release about every 6 months, and 4.0 was released about three and a half years ago. I wouldn't read any more into the numbers than that.
Comment: Re:Cue Mark of beast comments (Score 1) 349
A mark of the beast this is!!!!!!!
Comment: Re:The media moved on to Twitter already (Score 3, Funny) 265
Can we tell these social network scenes to slow down a bit? I haven't even caught up to friendster yet!
Comment: Re:liberal BS (Score 1) 591
what sort of Liberal entitlement BS is this...
The very same liberal entitlement BS of a business plan that made Valve software a stupid amount of money with a comfortable monopoly on the video game online distribution market. I know it's against conventional business logic, but it is possible to make money and not be a petty sociopath.
If I make something, it's MY right to set a price for how it sells. If I want to set a low price and go for volume, my decision. If I want to set a high price and go that way, still, my decision. The point is, I GET TO SET THE PRICE FOR WHAT I MAKE.
You're absolutely right, it is completely your decision. Just as it is the decision of the rest of the internet to decide if your terms are reasonable. If the consensus is no, hive-mind behavior will kick in, and the internet will provide your widget at a more reasonable cost. Trying to claim some higher moral ground won't shame the process to a halt.
If I made bird houses and charged $20,000 for each one, but you decided that's too high and you stole one... Guess what. YOU FREAKIN STOLE IT. I don't care what country you came from, and what the poverty level is there.
Also, your analogy doesn't work. If you made a $20k birdhouse and someone stole it, that's not a pirate, that's a thief. A pirate looks at a birdhouse that someone bought from you and recreates it with their own materials. You're not actually out any raw materials or labor, only a hypothetical sale. That's kind of a big difference.