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http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth_at_Linuxcon

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke

I agree - it would have been nice to have links in the article.

okay, how about 54 incidents? And that's with about 25 seconds of searching.

You are not even wrong. First, it took much longer as you are linking to a page containing the list. Somebody else did the work and I bet that it took her more than 25 seconds. Second, the page is not a sample. It is a list of all such "incidents".

More over, your list of "54 incidents" is pathetic. For example, I would like you to defend this case as a blatant example of sexism in the Open Source Software Community.

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okay, how about 54 incidents? And that's with about 25 seconds of searching.

You are not even wrong. First, it took much longer as you are linking to a page containing the list. Somebody else did the work and I bet that it took her more than 25 seconds. Second, the page is not a sample. It is a list of all such "incidents".

More over, your list of "54 incidents" is pathetic. For example, I would like you to defend this case as a blatant example of sexism in the Open Source Software Community.

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Jari Mustonen

Seriously. Wake me up when they implement affinity or datavises.

Seriously. Wake me up when they implement affinity or datavises.

okay, how about 54 incidents? And that's with about 25 seconds of searching.

And before you respond, tell me if you'll need a tractor to help you with all the goalpost moving you're doing.

....when the sex of the contributor is more often than not completely unknown?

Sexism does not have to be directed at a particular person. For example RMS makes silly jokes about female emacs virgins:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke

which are quite annoying if you happen to be female and don't care to have your sexuality linked to whether you use a text editor in the minds of the men sitting around you in the audience. Or, as another example, this story is tagged 'sendthemtothekitchen'. This sort of juvenile joke contributes to an atmosphere in which women do not feel welcome.

I suspect there's more going on than sexism, given the huge gender imbalance in people even starting to study IT, but the sexism rife in the IT industry certainly doesn't help.

xmoto is nice, but there's so much more :)
some i have played and did like enough :

http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://www.openttd.org/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://wz2100.net/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://www.bzflag.org/
http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5
https://sourceforge.net/projects/koules/ (original page seems to be down)
http://neverball.org/

I like multiplayer networked games, especially games I can play with friends or my kids. Of course, not everyone is using Linux, so that's a hurdle too. So the 3 top ones I like to play also happen to be OSS and has multiplatform (Windows, Mac, Linux) releases.

Favorites starting from my most are:
Warzone 2100 - Think of a real-time war game such as Command and Conquer. It's not too technical, but technical enough. I like playing with a friend in a 4 on 4 game and tag-teaming the two computer players and then battling it out. Longer games, plus there is a single-player campaign mode.

BZFlag is a classic tank game with modern 3D and maps. There are a ton of online servers hosting fun maps, plus you can download the maps and host the games yourself. Virtually unlimited amount of users can connect and play. Capture the flag mode is a ton of fun (especially with 4 color teams). Great for fast matches during a lunch break.

Freeciv doesn't require a 3D engine, and is basically an Open Source version of Civilization. Also fun with many players.

A someone else posted, there are hundreds of Linux games and even better is a list of OSS games out there, but these are my favorites.

If you're into strategy and don't mind losing all of your free time and some of your work time, there's FreeCiv. Think Civilization recast as a full-on client/server multi-player setup. I've not played it recently (no time to game at all lately, too much code to write!) but the graphics requirements should be fairly modest.

I agree, NetHack - Vulture's Claw provides a nice GUI to the classic NetHack backend.

This reminds of me of a cut level from Half-Life 2, Manhack Arcarde: http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Manhack_Arcade

I'd love a peacemaker that could convert radiation directly to energy!

My dream of driving a Chryslus Motors Highwayman can now become a reality!

I LOVE them.

In the non-canon Trek novel Prime Directive, they referred to this as the Danylkiw Limit. Perhaps the Reeves-Stevens got this idea from Elite. In canon Trek, they're horribly inconsistent on this. In TMP, they "risk going to warp while still in the solar system", while in TVH they take the Klingon Bird-of-Prey to warp while inside the Earth's atmosphere. :P

the only logical conclusion: Shoe Event Horizon

Can you guess what political leanings most of the Devs of this game have based on their picture? I can. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/File:Fallout_3_devs.jpg

Not surprisingly, the game is rife with themes like this: The bad guys pretend to be very patriotic Americans, but are actually evil liars, who ultimately just want to establish a "pure" race of humans.

The game then (predictably) attacks that other familiar target of all Leftists: Southern Whites. In one of their add-ons, they make them into stereotypical moonshine-swilling, inbred doofuses - complete with overalls and hokey accents. A fate that would have been entirely unacceptable had it depicted any other race/ethnicity in similar stereotypical terms.

Fourth Law of Thermdynamics: There's always more entropy then you think there is, even when you take into account the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics.

I still wouldn't worry about the heat death of the universe, though, unlike those in the aforementioned link.

You forgot to recursively account for the fourth law, you fool! The death of the universe will now be exponentially sooner every moment that passes!

Fourth Law of Thermdynamics: There's always more entropy then you think there is, even when you take into account the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics.

I still wouldn't worry about the heat death of the universe, though, unlike those in the aforementioned link.

BTW, has any Ancient/Alteran/Lantian/Ancestor/Ascended ever come out and said that they were the gate builders?

Yes, they have.. linky for more info than you need.

If you mean a big hit that everyone knows.

I don't think that's what they meant by turning Hotel California into an adjective or analogy.

I believe the one-way street attribute would probably be the easiest way to describe it. Although there's more subtle caveats to 'Hotel California' as a lyrical work. Though interpretations have been numerous (I've heard it compared to prison), the writers describe it as an allegory about hedonism and self-destruction in Southern California--especially the music industry (that we all know and love). From the Wikipedia entry:

"Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. Coming into LA... and from that Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs."

So if I may elaborate the analogy may be trying to describe cloud computing as something you're kind of forced into and it would seem stupid not to take it ... but then you start to realize that it's not everything it was made out to be at the beginning. You are promised success and all the resources imaginary but then at the end when you realize you don't have control over the situation and your data or privacy becomes seriously important to you, it's nowhere to be found and irreclaimable. The song's final lyrics before the guitar solo and double stop bass: "You can checkout any time you like/But you can never leave."

No, this isn't unique, Lynyrd Skynyrd felt the same way as did The Kinks and I bet if I sat and thought I'd come up with much much more. I guess you'd be better off explaining it outright than calling cloud computing Hotel California but the English language allows one to play and invent I guess. The author might consider the younger crowds though for this piece.

If you mean a big hit that everyone knows.

I don't think that's what they meant by turning Hotel California into an adjective or analogy.

I believe the one-way street attribute would probably be the easiest way to describe it. Although there's more subtle caveats to 'Hotel California' as a lyrical work. Though interpretations have been numerous (I've heard it compared to prison), the writers describe it as an allegory about hedonism and self-destruction in Southern California--especially the music industry (that we all know and love). From the Wikipedia entry:

"Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. Coming into LA... and from that Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs."

So if I may elaborate the analogy may be trying to describe cloud computing as something you're kind of forced into and it would seem stupid not to take it ... but then you start to realize that it's not everything it was made out to be at the beginning. You are promised success and all the resources imaginary but then at the end when you realize you don't have control over the situation and your data or privacy becomes seriously important to you, it's nowhere to be found and irreclaimable. The song's final lyrics before the guitar solo and double stop bass: "You can checkout any time you like/But you can never leave."

No, this isn't unique, Lynyrd Skynyrd felt the same way as did The Kinks and I bet if I sat and thought I'd come up with much much more. I guess you'd be better off explaining it outright than calling cloud computing Hotel California but the English language allows one to play and invent I guess. The author might consider the younger crowds though for this piece.

You're absolutely right. No other countries have racists or xenophobes or bigots or religious nutjobs, of which Israel is totally comprised of. Nope, that's totally not biased anti-semitic (er, I'm sorry, anti-Israeli, lol) cherrypicking of the idiots that are bound to occure in any and all particular population that we should try to move beyond in order to enjoy a peaceful and fufilling relationship with all other nations and acknoledge the beauty of other lands and cultures. Hey, I think you're forgeting one more equally relevant link.

There is free support for Linux via the newsgroups, forums, Wiki sites, HOWTOs, Man pages, and many other things. But beware of the trolls that like to bite the n00bz and say RTFM. You need to have actually read the Linux manual before asking questions which consists of man pages.

Man ls

For example will display a man page for the "ls" command which functions like the MS-DOS "dir" command and some Linux distros will have a "dir" batch file to help DOS users adapt.

Judging from you attitude this sort of thing happened to you.

I understand how hard it was for him to write his books. After all, it's not every author who decides to chuck the whole language and invent his own (I'm looking at you, Tolkien).

Anyway, here's some background for anyone unfamiliar with Joyce's works. Wikipedia

First off, Tolkien didn't chuck the language and invent his own. He invented at least six.

Secondly, I didn't find his linguistic games to intrude on the story. They made it feel more realistic, if anything, because they gave you a sense of the difference. I've read plenty of scifi where the invented languages hurt the story's flow, or sometimes nearly halted it entirely. (There was an early CJ Cherryh novel where she'd sometimes manage to include two nouns and one verb in a made-up language in a single sentence, and it was nearly unreadable. I seem to remember Robert Jordan going down a similar path, but I might be wrong since I'm trying hard to forget I ever read him.)

I think that invented languages, like writing in dialect, can give a story a lot more depth. "Trainspotting", as a book, wouldn't be half the book if it were written in the same language that The New Yorker uses. It's more difficult for me to be in favor of Joyce's unusual use of English. But, hey, Shakespeare invented words in nearly every play he wrote, sometimes dozens of them, and many of them have become mainstream words. Hard to argue with that kind of success.

Why?

The Internet is for Porn!

(Thank you, Avenue Q)

I understand how hard it was for him to write his books. After all, it's not every author who decides to chuck the whole language and invent his own (I'm looking at you, Tolkien).

Anyway, here's some background for anyone unfamiliar with Joyce's works.
Wikipedia

Maybe it was the car from Project Satan

Actually the reason why most movies and video games fail is because they are crap. They aren't worth the money and the QA did a crappy job, the developers or actors did a crappy job, the script or analysis and design was crappy etc.

If they used the same process to develop a house it would catch on fire and then fall apart because the quality was so bad, it doesn't meet safety codes.

In the good old salad days, there was hardly any bugs or bloat to video games and they fit nicely within 12 megabytes of space, and ran fast without any bugs at all except for a select few that had no big effect on game play or performance. Usually color and sound bugs.

Most of the time the public or audience is not part of the QA process, which is why video games and movies fail. If they were they would point out plot problems, things that don't make the video game or movie enjoyable, things they want changed and what they expect from the movie and game. You see, instead of giving people what they want, they are instead telling people what they want. That is very bad for business.

For example: Wolverine: Origins, the fans wanted to see a movie true to the original origin of Wolverine. But instead it got Hollywoodized and changed around, Sabertooth is now Wolverine's brother and Wolverine is an American born in colonial times instead of born in Canada. Weapon-X is in the USA instead of Canada. Most of the story does not make sense when I saw it and paid my $10 to see it I was sadly dissapointed. Even this parody is more enjoyable than the original movie and it shows plot failures and things that don't make sense.

I am not sure but it seems like Hollywood and Video Game creators are on some type of illegal drugs or something that causes them to make crap this way, worse than ever before in the history of the USA. They cannot even come up with original ideas and have to borrow them from old TV shows or comic books or remakes of old Hollywood movies (sometimes remaking a Bollywood, or Thailand, or Foreign movie to a US version).

Start Talking Faster U!!!seven! (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/STFU)

So what Shuttleworth is saying is that we are all slow and need to start talking faster. Once everyone has mastered fast speech it will be the year of the linux desktop.

Dr. Alphonse Mephisto is that you? http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Alphonse_Mephisto

I believe that was implicit in the use of quotes around the word asset. Are you, perchance, this gentleman?

Apparently if enough monkeys jab at a typewriter for long enough they can write [the complete works of Shakespeare], ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

Actually in a mere two million years monkeys not only wrote the complete works of shakespeare, they invented the pen to write with, paper to write on, AND wrote the complete works of Shakespeare. And then proceeded to put monkeys on the moon.

Here's another "infinite monkeys" link.

"If an infinite number of monkeys pound on an infinite number of typewriters, you do NOT get the complete works of humanity" ~ Oscar Wilde on wikipedia

Not forgetting this little beauty...
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Steganography

Doom wasn't client server. They were all peers.

See: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_networking_component

Quake is client server.

At 1920 screen resolution...

Weren't screens made up of a 10x10 array of clay tablets back then?

No, they were hand-held, black and white, and were attached to communications devices with global range. All technology was a mixture of crazy and awesome, back then.

"Lawyers in Space"....they already did that.

First off, the fourth amendment border search exemption does not include correspondence, and only applies to people or cargo coming into the country, which was the reason for my pretzel logic comment.

Actually, yes it does. The courts deem customs officials may also search "any trunk or envelope, wherever found," in which they have "reasonable cause to suspect"9 there is merchandise imported contrary to law. The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted "any trunk or envelope" to include all international mail entering the United States. (Ramsey, 431 U.S. 606)

I call BS. I think you pulled that out of your ass. Specifically established exceptions to the 4th amendment did not enter into law until the Rehnquist court. Please cite specifically any other legislation or rulings that establish exceptions. I'm thinking you can't.

What is it with you and your inane lack of ability to do the slightest bit of searching for historically correct information. Now listen to me carefully, it's not hard to do a google search and you should at least attempt to find out if you are wrong before showing the world that you are.

FYI, the word regulated is the inflected form of regulate.

The phrase isn't regulate or regulated. It's "well regulated" (and you can add militia to it too), it's a prefatory clause, and it has the meaning I said. It's explained competently in the DC Heller case. I suggest you spend a few minute reading it before charging at windmills again.

When it comes to the DC gun case, Justice Stephens pretty much tore the ruling opinion apart with his dissenting opinion. Remember, this was a contested ruling. The right wing activists won 5-4.

Actually, no he didn't. I suggest you actually read it all, including all the references and citations. Justice SCALIA,addressed Justice Stephens dissent and actually supported his rejection of those arguments with citations not only in law, but state constitutions, english laws, and understood dictionaries as well as literature at the time the amendment was created. He even compared Justice Stephens' dissent with other provisions in the constitution which specifically mention a right held by the people and pointed to the absurdity of the clause if it were interpreted the same way. This isn't a left right political decision and it isn't some activist decision. You have been wrong about almost everything else and you are wrong here too. Again, read the fucking decision- all of it.

At the very least, no matter how much you say you think you know about civics and the law, I'm going to take a supreme court justices word over yours every time.

And Justice SCALIA, addressed those words competently and even showed how incompetent that analysis is when compared to other constitutional provisions and matters of law. Like I said, read the entire fucking opinion.

The bottom line is that Obama's only significant action as president concerning gun control up to now was to expand your rights.

He didn't do it of his own free will, and his past is competently indicative of his future. Or are you going to claim he was a liar until now that you somehow find one instance that he was pushed into politically advantageous?

Just ask you, you'll tell me, huh? What a laugh. You accuse ME of not paying attention that's a laugh and a half. Here is the video you linked to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9X2V

> it does look like a whole lot like a Barrett .50 sniper rifle

Maybe if you look at it upside down with an astigmatism. But it is similar to the French GIAT FAMAS rifle or the canceled H&K XM8.

The Seattle area was also somewhat sensitized by a guy closed down I-5 last week after firing shots from "an AK-47-style rifle." I find it interesting that the normally anti evil assault weapons Seattle Times made the distinction that it was not an actual (i.e. full automatic capable) AK-47.

Of course, Seattle is not exactly 2nd Amendment friendly under the best of circumstances.

I remember the Megatron Transformers toy being banned here (NSW, Australia). My grandmother bought it for me from Queensland.

Sorry, sharks have already beat the Navy to this.

No it's just something that neurotypicals do.

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

So you'd have to have someone paint the target before hitting it.

http://eve.wikia.com/wiki/Skills:Target_Painting

This sounds like an academic trying to make a name for himself again by labeling something that already exists with his own label. "Computational photography"? Well, how exactly did digital photography ever work without that?

Open source camera OS? Nice try, but the reason manufacturers haven't standardized on anything yet is because the technology keeps changing.

However, FWIW, Canon cameras effectively can be reprogrammed using the CHDK firmware.

This kit is FREE open source for the Cannon Powershot, with many of the features mentioned in the article, including HDR. Download it onto a cf flash, and it replaces the Cannon OS. Many amazing images 1/50,000 milkdrop captures, night scenes etc can be found at http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

None of the cameras you suggested would fit in a sane person's pocket. Pocket sized implies something more along the lines of a Canon Powershot, complete with a tiny sensor and mediocre optics.

Though, with CHDK, you can do some nifty things with them.

I haven't tried it yet, as my current camera is a Canon G5, which isn't supported, but this site really wants my next camera to be another Canon: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Not exactly revolutionary. CHDK has been adding features to Canon firmwares for years.