Slashdot Mirror

Steve Jobs would not be an evil mastermind who sat in a chair and stroked a pet. He'd be the kind who flew through the air, blowing stuff up with lasers coming out of his nostrils, but not letting anyone know because of the distortion field.

If anything, he'd be more like Zod. And people would be told to kneel before him, not bow.

I mean hey, he even looks like Zod!

is that you?

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/movies.php?topic=m-movie3

Having now taken a job as a computer programmer at Webscoe Industries, Gus Gorman is extremely disappointed when he sees his first paycheck. "Where did it all go?" he asks. During lunch, Gus and a friend discuss all the percentages taken from a paycheck. When Gus tells him that there has to be fractions of cents left over, Gus's friend tells him that the checks are rounded down to the nearest "half-cent". "Where do those half-cents go?" asked Gus. Suddenly, another light bulb goes on above Gus's head. When everyone else is leaving, Gus is still busy programming.

This is what Open Source software is up against. It's truly brutal. That said, never give up fighting, but it has to be done at the highest levels.

From the sounds of things, trying to do it at the highest levels, is exactly the *wrong* way to go about it.

UNIX was originally developed, so the story goes, with a couple of PDP-11s in an abandoned corner somewhere. Cheap, low profile, inconspicuous.

Likewise, if you're a sysadmin trying to get FOSS in the door, don't make a big noise about it. Go to a garage sale on the weekend, or a used electronics place, and buy a $200-$300 headless 3 ghz box, and then install FreeBSD on it at home over the weekend. Sneak it into the office next morning, and leave it quietly near your desk, hooked up to your other systems.

If the boss asks any questions, it's just a little something that you've got there, to pull out of your hat if the main system goes to hell, and you need to get back on your feet in a hurry. That's how most shops I've read about use OpenBSD. It might not be part of their standard deployment, but they have a single box sitting quietly and vigilantly in a corner somewhere; it's the proverbial phone booth system.

Fear of change can be a healthy thing, if not taken to excess...but once management has seen Puffy save the day a couple of times, they'll come around. ;)

Like this one perhaps?
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/phonebooth/movie-phonebooth.jpg
Or is that an elephant's phone booth.

Maybe this has something to do with Bush's apparent love of killing Canadians. Case in Point

For slightly more in-depth reviews, see, e.g.:

Comics in Context #66: A Christmas Potpourri (starts about halfway down the page)

Mild Mannered Reviews - Specials

blogcritics

and for a list of additional 'It sucked!'/'I liked it!' comments: Comic Book Resources

Everyone's talking about the Reeve(s) that have played Superman, what about Kirk Alyn? He played Superman in the 1948-1950 serials. I met him in '92 or '93 in Dallas and got his autograph. I had a nice conversation with him about the making of the old serials. He also played "Blackhawk".

For example, it's pretty well established in the DC unverse that humans can receive a blood transfusion from Superman, and they don't die of hemorrhage from super blood cells perforating their arteries and veins.

So every Kryptonian cell is not "super"-harmful.

Also, Superman is not a total idiot, so he'll undoubtedly be watching a pregnant wife very closely for possible complications from a super-fetus (X-ray vision's better than ultra-sound!). And take action at the first sign of a problem. It's not like they don't have an inkling that it's a high-risk pregnancy.

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)