Slashdot SUCKS

[kilowatt]

for the longest time, I've had slashdot.org as my homepage.

But I've had it up to here (points to head). Those Apple-bashing nuts just have no clue at all. They have obviously NEVER used Mac OS X. Yet they make utterly stupid comments like this one:

When evaluating OSX for some Mac users I support I ran into serious difficulties in how to make basic changes to the GUI. Dumb things, like the background graphic, system colors, and other stuff along them lines.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25225&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=2742702

I mean, what a freakin' moron. I want to seriously grab him by the ear and show him how to click
'Desktop' in the System Preferences.
And get a load of this freak:

...OSX provided no options for selecting your own background graphic. I understand that this got fixed in the newer release. At that time you could only pick from the themes that Apple put together from anywhere in the control panels.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25225&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=2743118

That just really pisses me off to no end.

On the other hand, my first experience with KDE (back on 1.12 as I recall) I managed to locate all kinds of tweaks to the UI with mostly all the control center objects being where I expected to find them. Add to this seemless multiple desktop support and I just don't see the all the phu phu graphical effects from Aqua comparing.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25225&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=2742702#2743025

WTF? Don't even try to compare KDE or GNOME with Aqua. Its utterly stupid. I've been using linux for at least three years, and just started BSD yesterday (needed something new). Although they have 'pretty' interfaces, and very customizable thingys, it doesn't even come close. X11 sucks, every developer admits it.

Actually if you look at the core of OS X (Darwin), you'll find that it's based on a FreeBSD kernel
--reply--
Um, no, you won't. You'll find a Mach-microkernel based Darwin. They took parts of the Userland from FreeBSD, but not the kernel.

Guess neither of them have ever watched Mac OS X boot verbosely. BSD this, Darwin that. And they took much more from BSD the BSD kernel than the BSD userland. BSD means Berkely Software Distribution. And Berkely wrote Mach.

1. Unless Motorola (ha!) or IBM (more likely, but still ... ha!) can close the performance gap with commodity x86 hardware, the scientific computing market will stick with the bang for the buck that the beige box world provides.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25225&cid=2742407

Once again, this guy has no prospective. My father operates a major scientific research facility at a university, and trust me, they don't waste their time with those silly beige box's. They have dual processor G4's with cinema displays. They have a few rather old pc's running mudane processes like gigacounters and stuff. The scientific world has allways looked towards Sun, SGI, and Apple. PC's have come from their typists ;-).

Seriously, if you look at the micro-arcetecture of, say a SPARC processor (64 bit) and the Intel processor (16 or 32, depends on which one, and of course, the Itanium is 64 bit, but that was later down the road), you will find that intel has allways optimized their stuff for multimedia. Like 3Dnow (AMD) and XMS or whatever intel puts on those stupid little logos.

SPARC, PPC, and the SGI processors have been optimized for pure number crunching.

Here's another cake-taker:

Who the hell needs MS Office except business zealots? Nobody needs anything more than vi or emacs and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the command line.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25225&cid=2742419
Business Zealots? WTF? I use office for SCHOOL... Ever heard of POWER POINT? Honestly, we don't need MS office specifically, but you need to be able to create and open spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and *formatted* text documents.
Sure, emacs has built-in tetris, but ms office has the paper clip ;-) (ok, so that was a stretch...)

And the things I want to do to this F*#%

the fact that you get a unix shell in Mac OS X is nothing special... it's really limited to what you can and can't do in the shell... hell you can't even use make... i guess it's Apple's way of saying "hey... in windows you can run a DOS prompt... why don't we let our users run a BSD shell"

What a f#%# moron. 'limited'? I'll tell you what is limited. First off, the (thought as) holy GNU. That is limited. It limits users to licensing any use of the code from anything but GNU. Its viral. And it speaks 'conformity'. Linux can't play quick time files, divix, or dvd's without HUGE undertaking by all but the most experienced linux hackers. Linux can't read/write NTFS. Well, it can, but if you read the how-to, its filled with "WARNING" and "..NOT FOR PRODUCTION ENVIROMENTS" and "MAY CAUSE DATA LOSS" and of course "RE-COMPILE YOUR KERNEL NOW".

Apple doesn't bundle make because almost all developers are going to do all of their compiling in Project Builder

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25225&cid=2742506

WTF? Apple *does* bundle make with the developer tools.... this guy's just a wack.

That said, there are a few people on slashdot that actually know what they are talking about, and I give em their props. But the vast majority of slashdot users are STUPID PEOPLE. Utterly stupid. I'm not even 25% done with that slashdot thread...

Anyone else sick of ignorant slashdot users that need slashing?....

 

[blb]

That's a very big part of the reason why I just read the main page and any interesting offsite links, while avoiding the rant pages (as they seem these days, "What?? It's not 100% free? It must suck"...).

 

[chemistry_geek]

I read these comments very early this morning at Slashdot, like 4:00AM. I was surprised and I wasn't surprised by the comments. Just keep in mind that slashdot is for the true blue NERD who has no other life outside a 3 foot radius of a computer running Linux. They were just very cleverly bashing and flamming OS X. For the everyday user, Linux is simply too difficult to run as a desktop OS, it's not for consumers, OS X is. I wouldn't get pissed about it too much, does it really affect your life THAT much what is said at Slashdot? If you want to bitch back, and I'd like to as well, get an account on Slashdot AND SHOW them they are wrong. I cannot, for the life of me, get an account created on Slashdot - it keeps telling me "I forgot something" in the regisstration process. I wonder if they are a little anti-Mac over there playing browser games like M$ does between Netscape and Internet (Security Hole) Explorer.

 

[tagliatelle]

My 460 was so good that the monitor was smoking!
So I have also a 5260 with CD and speakers!
JUST FORGET SUCH COMPUTER!