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Geeks in Suits
This weekend Hemos & I went to California for
Chris and Christine's
wedding. Congratulations to both of them. It was a great ceremony and we're both super happy for ya... buuuut that's not the point of this story. What follows may frighten you, but it must be exposed. Geeks in Suits. Yes it's
Rasterman,
Mandrake (with Tammy)
NeTTwerk,
Horms,
Kevin,
Hemos and yes it's true, me:
CmdrTaco (note: this is the first time I have ever worn a suit). Thanks to OctobrX for the pics, you can see more
on his site. Update: 01/25 01:49 by CT : And sorry about those broken links. Email x@themes.org and tell him he's dumb ;)
Can I get his number he is a hunk!
This has gotta be a preview to the Open Source Honeymoon Videos sure to be coming down the pike.
E.
Own nothing, be unoriginal, copy it all and they'll call you a saint.
A wedding? So?
Monica Lewinski!
Chris
Chrinstine
Wedding
Rasterman
Mandrake
NeTTwerk
Hormes
Kevin
Hemos
CmdrTaco
thank you.
Was he too busy [driving his yellow (red) cars, posting inappropriate articles on slashdot, and crying about being flamed] to make it?
I love the scoring system for this one. the first person to complain about a 404 gets a 0, everyone else gets a 1, and the one guy who pointed out that this is 'stuff that matters' gets a one, while the guy who points out that our lovely webmasters are a bit homely gets a 2. Is there any rhyme or reason, or are these scores entirely ex rectum?
actually, seems like i recall such a thing. i promise if used enlightenment there would be!
Wow I didn't know you guys were such dorks. Should have stayed underground.
dear god, you should be shot.
It's not as if you're a crack addict, and you're looking for the slash code to use as your next fix -- though I wouldn't put it past you.
...may the bus that hits you not kill you on impact.
404'd. Nice one.
Hey CmdrTaco, i think you missed a spot with the razor this morning. :-P
d00d, t4c0 is t00 k3wl 2 b an 4g3n7!!!
First reply to comment 150.
Not Found
/photos/Chris_and_Christinas-Wedding/ was not found on this server.
The requested URL
Care to fix this?
First reply to comment 160.
First reply to comment 170.
All of those links are broken.
... and i have the perfect gift idea... AN AIBO!
PID=999
this is only a test
wouldn't that be a petrified and naked AIBO???
Quick note... I moderated this comment as funny, and I just didn't want you to think that I thought you weren't serious or something. It really was quite insightful. However, your comment did make me laugh, and I figured it was better than whatever negative label had been slapped on it.
damn! I forgot this would undo my moderation... oh, woe is me. anyway, sorry about that, chief.
mae young is gross. I wanted to see ivory's puppies.. anyone else think that christine looks like luna from wwf?
Imagine them having sex, that's worse than mae young at the royal rumble.
Dude, your mullet kicks ass!
More information is available regarding your soulmates.
..marry him, I'm definately doing something wrong.
Hello All, I've just come home from the pub, and read this before going to bed (UK time). I think it's really fantastic that Chris and Christine have found someone that they really love. Brilliant. Beats a millenium's worth of compsci stories!
..what geeks wear at a wedding?
AINT IT JUST AMAZING. ./ PISSES AND WHINES AND BITCHES AND INSULTS ANYTHING CLOSE SOURCE WHILST ./ IS AS CLOSED SOURCE AS MICROSOFT
JUST HOW MUCH FUCKING STOLEN CODE IS MALDA [AB]USING??
I always liked the "Ladies and Germans" the Red Guy does in Cow and Chicken...
Did quite well for himself.
I wear a suit every day. Why are so-called geeks incompatible with suits? In fact, why must computer types be "geeks" who don't wear suits? I find this stereotype grossly offensive.
"eye"
Slashdot in "full of useless, irrelevant shite" *unshocker*
... aND pETRIFIED!@#!@#!@#
oH, aND mAYBE tHE cHEEKY sUCKE^H^H^H^H^HgROOM tOO!
I think the entire net could be run on transparent boxes running linux, but beige ones would overheat due to um, rays from Venus.
Is CmdrTaco an Agent?
You know, you would probably be a lot happier if you got one of those blow-up dolls and shot it full of expanding foam; Great Stuff is a good brand.You could actually live your fantasy.You could run your hands all over something that is just as compliant, unresisting, and lifeless as a marble statue.That's what you want, isn't it?Something compliant and lifeless, because you've been dissed by everything that lives?
I hate to tell you this, but some things come about for a reason.Okay, I lied about hating it.Sue me.
Rocker was wrong!
and I do my thing on the catwalk, yeah the catwalk
I always like my version better....
In the catbox! yeah in the catbox, I do my little thing in the catbox.
Nice way to promote using bandwidth for totally stupid stuff. If you wonder why we're all in the slow lane on the internet, just thank stupid sites like this.
yay!
... is she open sourced? Please please tell me she is! I'd love to see her... uhm... "sources".
THIS IS JUST FUCKING SADNESS WITH GEEKS INDULGING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR LITTLE NET ARRANGED WEDDINGS. SICKENING. LETS HAVE SOME REAL NEWS PLEASE? WHAT NEXT? RECEIPES?
Slashdot is a joke, not a news site. No self respected news site would _ever_ feature something like this.
Hey Hemos, are you married? What a good looking bunch of geeks! (Christine)
Gentleman?????
:o) But, a cute bitch. There is a difference! Accept only the real deal!
LADIES and gentleman. *shrug*
and btw, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*WARNING! CRAPPY SIG BELOW*
Me is a serious biiiitch
See the little faggot with the web page and IPO
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire
(hint: informative)
Block the damn ads and they will be losing money everytime you visit!
Are the pic's that embarassing?
oops... shoulda double checked those...
Friends, this evening when I brought up Slashdot, I had mentally prepared myself for the type of socialist dreck that usually finds its way onto the front page of our once-beloved web site. Instead, I find all of these revolting photos that demonstrate just how liberal our Slashdot has become. Never before have I seen such a congregation of slick, well-financed liberals. Everything is there, from the thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes to the trendy Eurotrash sunglasses and fancy-schmancy lapel pins that so many liberals hold dear. Join with me, friends, and weep for our once-great Slashdot: she is beyond hope, and is quickly spiraling down into the fetid sewer of cultural decay.
In particular, CmdrTaco looks like a very well-financed drug dealer; with his Antonio Banderas-style goatee and dark glasses, one can imagine going up to him and asking if he can "score some blow." Hemos appears to be very pimp-like; the only elements necessary to complete the illusion are a pair of scantily-clad prostitutes named "Cherry Forever" and "Wanda Quiverbush" hanging on each arm. Friends, these are the men that run Slashdot. They are in charge of selecting the editorial content that appears on this web site day in and day out.
It is not surprising that this change of attire comes after the acquisition by Andover.Net. Andover is a well-known Washington liberal think tank, and it produces more liberals on a yearly basis than the National Organization for Women and CNN combined. If you need any proof of this fact, you must only look at the photos; no more questions will be necessary. Friends, I am confident that you will be seeing these photos show up in post offices across the nation within a year or so. "WANTED: FOR CORRUPTION OF CHILDREN", the posters will say. And I will be there to say "I told you so."
These are dangerous liberals, my friends, and we must keep an eye on them. Thank you for your time.
Please post the story. I want to know if Geeks can be happily married.
Apparently CmdrTaco bears a striking resemblance to one of those "HTTP 404 Not Found" error messages. Oh the humanity!
http://octobrx.com/photos/Chris_and_Christines-Wed ding/640/p1010073.640.jpg I got $50 that says Mandrake was stoned when this picture was taken.
I think that most readers don't give a shit about the lame-ass editors/founders and their equally lame friends.
HINT: Slashdot is interesting IN SPITE OF Hemos, Taco, Roblamo, and friends. The handful of intelligent posters and the truly creative minds like Meept and the guy that write about statue porn are what is truly cool about Slashdot.
Rob Malda wants to be a nigger, too?
Relax people. I'm a nigger so I can say the word.
...Andover.Net: We masturbate more by 5 a.m. than most people do all day.
It is a sad fact of marriages in the United States that 50% of them end in divorce - that was until now. No, until now a GPL'd marriage has never taken place. This union will no doubt prove the power of the open source movement as this young couple grows old together.
Oh, and taking pictures of pasty-faced geeks in the sun is a no-no. Only indoors.
aye. just remind me.
News flash, "CmdrTaco": We don't fucking care.
I wouldn't fuck her with a stolen dick
-2
-2 troll
-2 tr0ll
What did you wear to 8th grade graduation?
This is the first post, but already the pictures are slashdotted
5th???? TROLL FUCK IT!!
http://octobrx.com/photos/Chris_and_Christines-Wed ding/
very good... now what?
:)
Yo, Taco
Change Christinas-Wedding
To Christines-Wedding
OK I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS GLP STUFF IS AND WHAT IS THE SOURCE BUT IS IT THE BUG GULP AND THE FORCE I DONT KNOW THESE THINGS ALL I KNOW IS LINUX TORVALDS IS MY HERO AND I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE HIME AND IF THAT MEANS HE WILL FORCE ME TO GULP THAN SO BE IT AND CAN I BOYCOTT SLASHDOT EVEN IF I DONT KNOW WHAT THE SOURCE IS CAUSE I REALLY LIKE SLASHDOT AND WANT TO HELP AND I THINK TACO LOOKED TOTALLY HOT IN HIS TUXEDO AND I WOULD JUST LOVE TO HELP IN ANY WAY I CAN JUST LET ME KNOW OK
JUGHEAD
-2trol1
-2 -2 -2
ARRG! I mean, Linux.com -- shoot!
mmmmmmm..... X10 Quickcam babe........
Relax people. I'm a nigger so I can say the word.
Too bad I'm not a nigger, otherwise I could say that word.
natalie portman's clitoris
CNN Entertainment Story here Don Knots plays hacker Emmanuel Goldstein in the soon to be released movie.
A bitch-slapping contest between Knots and JonKatz over who plays a hacker better in the entertainment world, ended in a simulated lesbian-lovemaking session and was declaired a draw.
The wedding party is now officially slashdotted! Congratulations and champagne!
typical broken link. correct link
Here are the pics
I never thought I'd see the day...
------ 24.5% slashdot pure
To actually see the pictures the "a" in Christinas needs to be changed to an "e"...
Here's the link I found to view all of the pictures...
Wedding Pictures
Nemo
So E is relatively prime to (P-1)(Q-1)... Odd, that.
Why the fuck was I moderated down for this?
At the time I posted this there were no replies
which mentioned the correct URL.
Thanks alot...
The correct Link
someone PLEASE moderate this down before my eyeballs glaze over
mas cerveza, por favor politically incorrect stu
meaningless drivel like this gets a score 1?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
WHATS W1TH THU BIG 4OO K JPEG FILES?!?!!?
.BAS 1NSTRUKT10N C0DE W1TH THU SYSTEM KUZ L0W LEVEL STUFFS IS FASTUR AND THATZ WHUT IT RUNZ AND NETWURKING WUZ REAL HARD T0 D0
THEY DOWNL0AD REALLY SL0W ON MY 24OO BAUD K-K00L M0DEM AND EVEN 0N MY FR1ENDS 69OO M0DUM 0R SUMTHIN
AND MY V1C-2O CLUSTUR DOESNT KN0W AB0UT JPEGS 0R WHATEVER I NEVUR G0T WHUT HUFFMAN C0D1NG WUZ 1 0NLY RITE 1T 1N THAT
S0 MY FR1END W1LL HAVE T0 C0NVURT 1T T0 A K-K000L SECRUT PCX FIUL S0 1 KAN SEE 1T BUT 1 BET SHES A T0DAL BABE AND THATS WHY 1T WUZ S0 HARD T0 F1ND S0 1TLL BE WURTH 1T
1LL TELL U H0W 1T GOEZ T0M0RR0W
I LEFT MY CELL FONE IN PRISON! KAN U HELP???
did she put out?
Chris DiBona works at VA and was one of the editors of the 'Open Sources' book. Nettwerk is San Mehat, architect of the Corel Netwinder and now working at VA also. Kevin is Kevin Lenzo, organizer of the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) and a member of the Perl Mongers. Horms is Simon Horman of VA, who works on Fault Tolerance/High Availability and is speaking at the Linux Expo in Paris I think...
Correction, it started ON Rob's personal homepage -- it since moved to its own site which is theoretically its own business interest, and Rob maintains a separate personal homepage still (linked from the front of Slashdot, no less) where this kind of thing would seem more appropriate.
To me, at least, but who am I? I mean after all, it's not like this is supposed to be a _Community_ or anything. I keep forgetting that blind-faith hero worship of the infallible editors is not only de riguer here, it's actually heresy to suggest any other way of thinking.
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Heh. I wasn't talking about Microsoft. Not even close. But you can make believe I was if you like. When what you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (*grin)
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That having been said, you should caption this picture with "Andover.Net Hitmen" and hang it up somewhere.
From what I heard, Andover has pulled someone from their regular line of duty to work on nothing but getting the Slash code ready for public release, so don't think it's not important to them.
> It's just the editors using Slashdot as a personal homepage
Um, dude...
You seem to be under the impression that slashdot *is* something other than a personal homepage grown past all reasonable size.
It isn't. Chill out.
-Mars
About that "human experience" thing, I just wrote a few paragraphs and it is way off topic. We'll save it for another time. Sufficed to say, that while relevant is relevant, I'm feel that everything is equally relevant. (which of course destroys the concept, I realize)
As for a general editorial decline in /. , that may or may not be. But Rob posted this thread. As he has posted personal events in his and Jeff and the rest of the gang's life time and time again. And while there is nothing wrong with putting it on his homepage, there is nothing wrong with putting it up here either. You feel differently, which is fine. I can see your point. But my point is it is exactly having the /. crew posting what interests them on home site, including personal stories, that caused the success of /.
As for the nation turning to Walter C for news, it was exactly this sort of television reporting style that persuaded the entire world that you could learn everything about a particular event in under 10 min. The fact is, you learn less about something because you saw it on TV news.(I.e. you think you understand it so you rarely go learn more about it. I could spend hours discussing why.)
Maybe the /. gang needs to create a "personal story" icon and allow people not to read it. But I'm positive those who do not will loose something very wonderful about /.
Crulx crulx@iaxs.net
I was going to reply with a little story about my geeky marriage, but apparently that would be self-congratulatory, offtopic grandstanding, judging by the posts in these threads.
If anyone really would liketo see it, just say so and i'll post the whole thing (although i think most of the old SlashNET crew, many of whom I recognized in the article (been a while, how ya'll are?) have already heard it.).
Posted with Mozilla
Taco can post whatever he wants, but if we're all to be subjected to it, could we at least get a clue as to who these people are?
"Hakeem and I took a sloppy dump today in Govind's outhouse. Click here for pictures." That's fine, but give us some background on Hakeem and Govind.
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#19845
First suite eh? Looks good. Lets here the /. suit story. Where, what, how, etc. ? :)
I dunno about a Hall of Fame, but for future reference, I've mirrored it. I wish there was some way to find the original author, but sadly, it was an AC. Oh well.
http://cdslash.tdhosting.com/misc/too sexy.txt
~Sentry21~
I'm just curious what kind of a person's life revolves around getting the ever important next release of /. source. The only reason I can think of that it is imperative that this person gets the code immediately is if s/he operates a mirror /. site, which if anybody ever visited it & made it known to the real /., would get it ko'd pretty quick. I'm also sure that CmdrTaco is plenty smart enough to write ALL his own code & not borrow from anyone not employed on the team. Which would mean that they're not violating anything. Besides, he didn't make millions from us. THEY made millions WITH us. We didn't give them anything personally, besides a dozen or so clicks per person per day. I could keep going for a while, but I think staring at my monitor and waiting for my eyes to start noticing the refresh rate is more interesting than replying to your post.
Well, let's see. I know a Sylvan & Sylvia (not married, but together ~4 yrs), a Phil & Phyllis (my gf's parents, happily married 25+ years), and an Alan and Keiko (which I guess don't sound that similar when you say them out loud, but they're married too).
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
I demand satisfaction! Or at least a better picture.
-S. Louie
"I may be Love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."
Tammy's the coolest!!! I went to high school with her. She was always quiet, but cool... nuff said!
Tammy Rocks!!!
-whyDNA?
I heard it was three people.
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how to invest, a novice's guide
Hehehe. Looks like he had a great time. :) Good for him.
This sig is false.
That's nothing. The average Microsoft fanatic not only thinks that the entire 'Net could be run on beige x86 boxes, but that Windows NT 4.0 could be used 'for extra reliability'.
-BrentNope, I took you to be brighter then that. I just thought that that was a natural extension to your statement.
Of course, any reasonable person would use no less then Solaris to run the 'Net, myself included.
-BrentWhat seems to have happened is that Rob has put together slashdot in a rather hackish manner, and as such, the code is relatively undocumented, and with little directory structure. Commenting and cleaning code can take a long time, and with the relative complexity of /., it's taking a little while.
Oh yeah, he still has a life (see this story), and you expect him to post stories all day. There are only 24 hours in a day, and believe it or not, we need sleep and some time to do other things.
Get over it.
slash v.4 will come. Have a little patience.
Jeff
Which one of you had the better hoops skills?
There are at least two reasons why this is beneficial.
This posting of pictures is akin to making a personal appearance-- we are told when Linus does so, even if it is (or was, in this case) to simply delay the announcement of Transmeta's chips. It adds a personal flavor to that which we want to know.
And closer to home; being hackers, we are interested in how stuff works. This gives us a much better insight into how slashdot works-- the people responsible for it.
Maybe a better question would be, "Do anti-social people with highly focused lives have successful marriages?" And that's a question I think you could guess the answer to yourself.
By the definition I just mentioned, though, I'm not a geek and my anecdotal evidence has no relevance to this thread.
I know it's been said before, but here is wishing you two a happy life filled with love and joy!
-Master Switch
-Master Switch, one more element in the machine
Durst has a lil' more meat on his bones... Rob's too skinny.
I just had to begin singing out loud and all of a sudden I get these dirty looks. Why?
First, congrats!
:)
Guys, why don't you upload the files to Philip Greenspun's server? See if his HP/AOLserver/tcl setup can be slashdotted!
http:// octobrx.com/photos/Chris_and_Christines-Wedding/64 0/p1010091.640.jpg
Who is she?
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to the world of adults where sometimes you have to dress appropriately.
hahaha. I had a rough day and that made me laugh out loud.
thanks.
http://octobrx.com/photos/C hris_and_Christines-Wedding/
I mean, really: who cares? I'm just reading this page in the seemingly useless hope that something relative to anything tech might come across and I have to see this? I have to spend more time reading user comments to find out stuff like "Sun is giving away Solaris 8" because the "powers that be" are stoned on the smell of the new leather interior of their lear jet.
Is anyone listening?
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The average Slashdotter seems genuinely to think that the entire 'Net could be run on beige x86 boxes running Linux.
Nonsense! Haven't you read all the stories about cool cases?
How would you have taken it if good old Walter had taken a quick minute to tell the country about the wedding of a friend that he attended over the weekend, complete with pictures? Would it have felt out of place? Would you have thought to yourself "What is he doing? He's flipped his lid!"
When you watch, you are pretty much forced to see it. In this case, however, you could have just read the summary and skipped it. It takes no more than 3 seconds just to read and pass over it. He's definitely not forcing you to see it.
Nevertheless, I see what you're getting at.
Stuff that matters...
DrLunch.com The site that tells you what's for lunch!
I would have to agree. I don't know if any of you still watch the local news station that is in your area. But when I watch mine I get a dose of "un-news". Every so often the anchors interject that a member of the News 9 (the channel I watch) team has just got married or just had a baby. Now this isn't news and they could have filled those couple of seconds (which usually are complimented with footage of the event) with "real" news, but they don't. It just brings some humanity into the community these types of media try to foster between their viewers/readers/listeners. The run the show and call the shots. If you don't like it ... skip it. Who cares, move on. No one forces you to read any of the articles on /., choose the ones you like and quit complainign about the ones you don't.
half of the content of American Psycho.... fashio tips from the 80s... (not that Zegna is, but you get the point) :)
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Did it ever occur to you that Slashdot started out as Rob's personal homepage? Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Rob would continue to post anything and everything that interests him (not necessarily you)? *smack*
(see my other comment)
Rob looks more like my neighbor.
sup
No offense intended, of course :)
here
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Now, being a guy, I'm no expert on how attractive other males are, but I'd have to say that these are some pretty styling geeks.
Ladies out there, tell us, is the long haired look of Mr. Mittnik sexy, or does the close cropped hemos look do it for you?
Do the suits *really* do as much for you as you say they do?
I'm asking for... uh... academic purposes, of course.
No personal interest in picking up the H0tt-Chicks(tm) at all.
Yeah.
is not a hot topic of today's journalists... but it should be. All of us who've ever been in a UNIX lab know that there are times when violence is necessary.. say, in the case of errant MCSE's who decide to "reboot" machines when their monitors go awry. Or, when print jobs pile up because no one decided to check for error messages. Or, when people touch the monitors and get grease spots all over them. Or...
Insert mind here.
Bang. (or for you perl fans "!")
It's funny, laugh.
The subject of this message is the rising frequency of posts decrying the criticism that message posters level at every kind of topic posted.
"If you are posting a message on here complaining about the signal/noise ratio on Slashdot, think it over first." they say.
"If you don't like slashdot, be our guest and leave. nobody is forcing you to come here." others intone.
well, remember:
you are about to become an emu, or maybe a wombat. Think it over. Check http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~makino/ for more information on wombats and why they are dangerous, or why it is dangerous to become one.
Um, as far as the signal noise ratio, seriously, it is too bad the petrified natalie portman grit pants person/people came over here once segfault stopped accepting comments.
Juln
Do people regularly go around introducing themselves as "CmdrTaco" and "Mandrake"?
I'd die before I posted something about myself, calling myself "Elbereth" or something stupid like that.
"Here are pics of Elbereth, naked and wet! Gross!" Nonono. I'm "Matt", not "Elbereth". Call me Elbereth in real life and you die.
Why do geeks have this obsession with "cool" handles? How come nobody is ever "Mr. Pink"? Oh well.
Why did I pick Elbereth? Because I was too bored to be creative and Melkor was already taken.
you know, your e-mail address would run faster if you used tail recursion.
Aye,
I think you should boycott slashdot. Please take your post with you.
mark
HERE is a URL that actually works for the pictures :>
Well, well, well! Hemos and CmdrTaco in *suits*? Will wonders never cease? :-)
:-) Hope you had fun at the wedding, and good luck and best wishes to the happy couple!
Serriously, y'all clean up real nice. This here geekgirl thinks you guys looked pretty darn cute.
- Asparagirl
- Asparagirl
asparagirl at dca dot net
Most geeks aren't anti-social -- they don't go around killing people, or trying to disrupt society. Some are asocial, which simply means they tend to prefer being alone to socializing more than the "average" person.
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The shareholder is always right.
Damn straight!
There's no reason in the world a geek can't be dished out in Armani when going out for the evening. =)
Seriously though, the jean and t-shirt thing is a bit played out. I own only one pair of jeans (for painting) and the only t-shirts I wear are undershirts. Usally it's slacks and polos, maybe a sweater... sometimes a sweatshirt, for when it's nippy out. It's not hard to look good and feel good in your clothes and not look like a uber-geek at the same time.
Especially since everybody's rich from their IPOs =).
Jay
Ok, fine- I realize that my karma is a large negative number. What is this a result of? It is largely from making dumb-ass comments like this one. But maybe, could it be that you bastards are prejudiced against me? I admit it, I don't read the articles before I post, I write too much, and i try to throw in cute catch-phrases and knee-jerk arguments on the off chance soem modertators will get their jollies off my comment. So BE IT!! I guess I will gladly and remaina bottom feeder. I guess I shoud have realized that I'm not cool here when I noticed that I am one of the few people who has not even STARTED my work on a masters in computer whateverthehell. Oh bloody, bloody... stomp upon my ego and consience- down moderate me now.
The "Uni" in my name doesn't even have to do with UNIX!! It only looks liekt hat, and i chose it because I am a Unitarian!!!
Oh well, I suck. Thanks for paying attention.
This story was already on TacoHell.
Where is my mind?
Check out Project Upper/Mute, an all-around awesome compiler fra
But it's already archived! For the first time I can think of, there is NO WAY TO POST ON TACOHELL right now!
:v) .
I guess now Malda's feeling the 14-day rule
Where is my mind?
Check out Project Upper/Mute, an all-around awesome compiler fra
Aye. So: on Friday, I won't read /.
No comment at this time
HA! This is your best yet! I am in awe. But.. what is a Harma?
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
Key word, started.
Thanks for coming out.
Being a commited non-suit wearer, I had to respond. Okay I got the humour in the post, and this reply is maybe a bit pedantic, but I got sick a long time ago of hearing that I'd need to get a suit for interviews, to get a decent job, or whatever.
Ive never worn a suit (I'm 33), and Im never going to. Full stop. I get married this summer, and I'm dressing the way I want to for that as well. Ive never wanted to work anywhere that meant I'd need to wear a suit, and I wont compromise on that. I can dress smartly but Ive never had to wear a suit to do it.
Why do so many geeks/nerds/hackers/etc. dislike wearing suits?Or is there just a conspiracy among the media to make that seem so? ;-) (And yes, I've read the jargon files, among others.)
Its probably real. But suits are nothing more than uniforms, and I'd guess that most hackers/geeks/nerds are pretty much non-conformists
It seems like suits would be much sought after for a few reasons:
1) Quality: Your OS is custom tailored, why aren't your clothes?
They are custom-tailored; to my preference for comfortable, durable clothes
2) Slickness: Your GUI is fashionable, why aren't you?
Suits have been the 'business uniform' for decades. My clothes are might not be fashionable (although I'd dispute that suits actually are..) but they do refelect my own personal style
3) Reuse: Your processes rarely raise a stink after running for days/weeks/months/years on end, but after 24hrs. those jeans and t-shirts are another story.
Actually suits tend to get worn all week, dont they? And Ive known more than one person ware the shirt under it for days on end. Meanwhile, Im grown-up enough to remember to change my shirt every day, what makes you think that hackers/nerds/geeks aren't?
4) Modularity: 2+ piece suits can load or unload modules as needed. Processor too hot? rmmod coat. Packets lost in the stream? rmmod necktie. Change in environment? insmod coat. Expecting PHB attack on port *:brainbox insmod necktie.
Too hot? (Tis in this bloody room, the Origin server acts like a massive bloody radiator) Just wear a T-shirt...
5) Efficiency: Since suits/shirts/accessories are interchangeable, there's no need to make your apparel statically linked. (Leave that space on /dev/closet for important things like hardwear^H^H^Hare)
Everything goes with black... Black boots, black combat pants, black shirt. Viola...
6) Emulation: Fool your boss, get a raise.
But I want him to love me for my mind. Plus, he rarely wears a suit anyways.
To me suits are a way of making staff into drones; interchangable lookalike units that fit into the company mechanisms. I value my independence and individuality too much to want to be part of that kind of machine. Whatever hacker/geek/nerd gene there is, in me its tied to the one that makes me want to behave, dress, think, work, believe in my terms, not somebody else's...
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Gee I wish I had a site that hundred of thousands of people watched for news. Perhaps I should create a geek gossip site for just this kind of stuff.
If you think you can do better, be our guest and leave.
I'm telling you. Either they're clones, or Rob
lives a double life!
Just picture Rob in a red hat turned backwards, and rapping about perl code.....
PS: I think LB sucks, but Slashdot is pretty cool.
thats why the links are broken.
Hmmm, sounds like the title to a Jon Katz article, doesn't it?
While some of us may not appreciate ALL the articles posted on Slashdot, and may indeed feel that Slashdot has gone downhill in the past X months/years, please spare the rest of us the torture of reading the same comments everytime one of these articles is posted. We have been hearing the same things for a while now, like "This isn't news for nerds!" etc.
If you do not like Slashdot anymore, don't visit. If you think it's still worth saving, consider whether or not posting comments like these is the best way to do this. Maybe a polite email to CmdrTaco is the best way to do things, instead of a flaming comment. Or at least indicate your support of some solution, like topic moderation, etc.
And on the subject of the slashdot source, I realize that many people are getting quite upset, and with good reason. However it is their choice to release the source, and when they will do it. To CmdrTaco, Hemos, and all: please remember when posting stories criticizing the big companies, like Corel, for not sticking to Open Source ideals, that you are equally guilty.
Thank you and good night.
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pdubroy AT yahoo DOT com
This is what an IPO can do to people. I've noticed that the News is slower and the Stuff matters not so much. I suppose it's fine if people want to celebrate the moments of thier lives with others especially when they have a platform to do it. TV networks do this same kinda thing all the time; some jerk gets married, some pig is having puppies, blah blah. BFD, give me something useful or quit wasting bandwidth (I'm quite aware of the irony of decrying the waste of bandwidth by wasting some myself).
AMEN!
Lord knows that my stupid web site contains plenty of silly photos of me and my friends. I happen to enjoy the occasional post that lets me see what these people that I'm constantly reading about, actually look like. It makes this impersonal form of communication a little more personal.
I've been told way too many times by people that think they're 'normal' that the internet is too impersonal and that I must be some sort of 'closet-case' for actually enjoying it. When that happens I can actually point to photos like these and pretend I actually know them! :-)
(I'm kidding of course, a mere mortal like me could never be lucky enough to know someone as cool as CmdrTaco and Hemos.)
Keep those photos coming. But at the risk of souding like my father, a visit to the barber (for some of the others) wouldn't hurt! ;-)
(DUCK!)
Ignore Alien Orders
What is a "Chris"? what is a "christine"? I have never heard of such things
Does anyone else find it funny when two people with names like Chris and Christine get married? I guess it makes me a hick, but I get a chuckle out of that.
Why don't you try this for the base URL.
Now I gotta sit here and figure out who is who in the pics. AS if I didn't have enough time to waste at work today.
am I the only one getting all the 404s?
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I'm sure congratulations are in order, but am I the only one who thinks that half of these guys look like ex-Def Leppard roadies?
Imagine if this sort of thing gave way to like, action cards. "Geeks in Suits".. and kids in schoolyards started having fights over who got to be their favourite slashdot personality.. i can see it now. "I wanna be hemos!" "ah man, i had to be taco last time.. it's your turn!"
fprintf(stderr,"poogas %d life",4);
Tnx for pointing out it's hot&sunny in California, it's freezing here (Belgium)!!! ;-)
But anyway... best wishes for the the happy couple
The geeks in suits could've worn a Tux-tie
Mike
Surely someone is giving CmdrTaco a serious ration of poop for posting a bad link. I don't mean this as mean spirited, it's just all the "Check those links!!!" admonishments in the posting area..heeheehee Coming soon to a browser near you http://www.straightpoop.org (it's totally broken right now, but I have a full time job anjd all...)
mas cerveza, por favor politically incorrect stu
Of course geeks have successful marriages. There are two reasons for this...
1. We need someone to cook for us while were hacking away at the kernel.
2. We need to have baby geeks to help us rid the world of idiots (or at least keep them dependant on us).
Munky_v2
"Warning: you are logged into reality as root..."
Jay
Looks like someone saw themselves linked on /. and pulled their pictures.
Naughty-naughty. We know they were there!
Failure isn't falling. Failure is staying down.
Geeks do just as well as anyone else simply because they are real people behind their reclusiveness. Unless, of course, you are really screwed up in which case you're unlikely to find a mate anyway :^)
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. -- Linus's Law
Only geeks would have put the photos with different resolutions. I thought that was the first thing that tipped me off. As for geeks in cool threads. Must we as all geeks always be seen in T-Shirts and Jeans? I mean hey it's the apple way (erm thanks pirates of silicon valley) or heck even the regular athome geek way. But really are suits that bad. When you put on a suit are you less of a geek? Do you loose your geeknesshood (an ordained status among geeks granted through a ritual of sitting in front of the computer for days on end coding).
Personally I don't mind getting all dressed up. Chicks dig guys in suits (thank you ZZtop). And well for girls I prefer a girl dressed up in a nice outfit to that of jeans and a T-Shirt.
What you really don't want to see is geeks in swimming suits (many unmentioned use your own imagination reasons here)
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
actually, last i recall there have been tarballs of the slash source kicking around, but i may have been hallucinating again. while i agree that the /. software should be open source (especially if it's "inspired" by GPLed software), calling the code "stolen" is rather reactionary. after all, if it weren't for code-reuse there wouldn't be much 'open source software'. borrowing, extending, alterating, and adapting old code is a time-honored tradition -- it's just that with OSS/Free software, the right to do this is recognized and protected. it's only amongst the "closed source", proprietary software cultures that you have a notion of code being "stolen": that is, being owned by anyone in particular. isn't OSS supposed to be about freeing us from these stupid notions of "intellectual property"? (moderators: yeah, offtopic, i know. i had to...)
You can "Command" my "Taco" any day!
Many congratulations to both of you!
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We have fought the AC's, and they have won.
Mom always told me life was like a BETA release...OK, so maybe I'm lying about that. While congratulations are in order, I fail to see where this has any realavence to anything even remotely related to geek news. I mean, it's nice and everything to see that two more people are happily married, but to the rest of us, it doesn't make a lick of difference. Post somthing interesting, intelligent and informative, not this "ball and chain" stuff that I see has made the top of the list. What's next guys? You gonna start a marital section?
This is about as interesting as a Mac user web designing with pagemill.
It is a little known fact that Geeks make the best husbands. There is an amusing article about this topic here.
I just love Hemos. He's my favorite. CmdrTaco is nice too, but Hemos is nicer. Yes, in case your wondering, I have almost completed my set of Slashdot trading cards!
Gentlemen,
It is already the 24th of January, and the Slashdot source code is still nowhere in sight. For too long now, we have borne the unbearable. We have endured enough.
I propose a Slashdot boycott, starting 12.01am lasting till 11.59pm, this Friday the 28th of January, Pacific Standard time. For the chance to change history, we shall for a day forsake our geek news.
This being a revolution led by an AC, shall truly be an uprising of the masses. Come on all ye faceless ones, this is your chance to change history.
All in favor say "Aye"
AC
Can we get a new topic, "self-aggrandizing non-news for rabid Andover-worshipping fanboyz?"
Just so I could filter it out.
. o O ( Wow, this'll probably get my first flamebait points, fun! Still, this is SUCH non-news or things-that-matter. It's just the editors using Slashdot as a personal homepage. What's next, "Rob's Aibo matures to 'Adult' Level -- click here for cute pix!!!?" )
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In the URL, replace the string "Christinas" with "Christines" ('a' to 'e'). This will get you started.
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Was I the only one thinking a visit by photo.net would have helped a couple of those photos?
The joys of marriage. I have never seen a married couple which was happy. They work their asses off to appear happy but never are. For 4 years of engagement the wife has the whole patriarchy system structured like a swiss watch and the husband has spent 4 years of engagement trying to synthesize the financial resources of two. Then the certificate is signed, the husband continues to work like mad to impress the wife and provide, and the economy changes. One day the husband comes home with some bad news. The wife has to get a BSEE at the age of 40. The relationship goes down hill and it's another engineering student ranting about how life sucks da daaa.
Here it is in a point and click link.
Actually, I agree with the first post...I couldn't figure out why this was on here, except as another ego spasm from Taco.
/. was chips and dips, but those days are long gone, especially since they buyout by andover.
/., I still love the site...it just seems like this is out of place that's all).
Yeah I remember when
What do you think tacohell and cmdrtaco.net are for?
(This is not a flame against Rob or
Brian
I imaging there's already a Natalie Portman theme for Enlightenment, oui?
Graham
Graham
Linux - Fast Pane Relief
Rob, are you sure you didn't mean to post this to Taco Hell instead?
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
I have been married for just shy of a decade and I have to tell you that you are wrong. Sure, if you buy into a set of social roles and just live that - well people aren't cardboard cut-outs. But if you realize that and work to keep a relationship alive - well I know people who are going strong for a lot longer than I have been married!
Of coure you only get out what you put in...
Cheers,
Ben
My usual seat in the cluetrain is at A HREF="http://pub4.ezboard.com/biwethey.ht
For you Slashdotters out there, here are some pics of my wedding originally for Lewie, my best man (because we live so far apart)
I'm sorry. What I meant to say was 'please excuse me.'
what came out of my mouth was 'Move or I'll kill you!'
Contrast this with a party-mad jock type of personality and you'll see my point.
Also Geeks tend to improve with age, as they pick up more "normal" people skills and become generally less awkward to the point where you can't even tell they are Geeks. So basically if you marry a Geek he/she will only improve with age unlike some OTHER demographics out there. (Where are all those 'cool guys' fron high school now?)
Thats my basic thesis, although I have no data.
Obviously there are a lot of other factors involved, I just think that Geeks posses a lot of the qualities that could help in marriage.
PS: I am thinking of someone like WOZ here not Kevin Mitnick.
The only reason all cover-ups appear to fail is that you never hear about the ones that succeed.
Hi, I'm the "Who Cares?" guy. You make some very good points, and none that I can really argue with, except to say that I disagree with your statement that Slashdot is about the "human experience." You're getting a little close to demonstrating Heisenberg's Uncertainity Principle there. Show me an active web site that isn't an example of the human experience. But that's irrelevant here.
My beef is with the editorial style used to decide what gets posted and what doesn't. I read this site daily for news. Just like we, as a country (US), used to watch Walter Cronkite for the nightly news. How would you have taken it if good old Walter had taken a quick minute to tell the country about the wedding of a friend that he attended over the weekend, complete with pictures? Would it have felt out of place? Would you have thought to yourself "What is he doing? He's flipped his lid!"
Now, I agree that this whole internet deal is a "brave new frontier" and that all of the old rules don't apply, but please, God, tell me that relevance is still relevant! There are days that I have to check that I'm reading Slashdot and not Segfault.org!
I don't know what the CNN tech editor's favorite technology is, but I know Hemos is all over nanotech - and I'm with him all the way. That's the kind of thing I love this place for - very real world stuff, like breakthroughs and news, not just stuff. Rob's got a home page, what's wrong with putting this story there? I'm sure he gets lots of hits every day since he's linked to right from the front page.
If this story had been posted as something other as news I probably wouldn't have flown off the handle, but it was and I did. Maybe if Rob and Hemos spent more time actually running the site and not delegating the editorial duties to so many others, thereby diluting the quality, I'd just shut up.
Anyway, I hope that the cloning technology hurries up and gets here so that we can have Rob and Hemos doing both the editorial work, site development and source release.
Mike "insert smilies where appropriate" Loseke
THE DORKS IN BLACK !!!
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
Chris DiBona?
Are NeTTwerk, Hormes and Kevin geek celebrities that I should know?
God, that was funny.
Ceterum censeo Microsoftam esse delendam.
Man, that's hilarious! Is there any way we can enshrine this? It would be a shame to forget about it just a few days later.
-Ted
Four photo sizes just in case you want some of those beautiful pictures on the background of your computer!!
Wow. You're depressing. All the married people I know are happy.
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
Boy, Nitrozac really prettyed you boys upo for your appearances in After Y2K, didn't she?
And the brethren went away edified.
The practice of geeks 'mating' for life may not be dangerous in itself, but it is often a 'gateway' to more harmful activities. "Geek Breeding" has been a hot topic recently, and is often a consequence of geek mating. While some people allege that it will throw our society into social chaos, others insist that as long as the child can be provided with loving parents and high-bandwidth connection and its own static IP, it is a fundamental right of all bipeds (including geeks) to breed. A story off of the AP wire reports that Rep. Jean McGrath (R-Glendale, AZ) will introduce a bill tomorrow morning which will outlaw geek-mating in order to pre-empt the battle of geek-breeding and the "moral downfall which it represents."
"The very fact that that a 'geeks' social nature precludes them from mating makes these very unnatural and unholy acts," she said.
The NORN Organization for Recursive Names has called the proposed bill "outrageous". "If AOL/Time Warner/EMI users are protected by the law, we feel geeks should have the same right to repackage their DNA and release it under any license and name that they see fit." In this spirit, NORN is holding a 'Pro-Geeks 2.0' rally on the steps of the state capitol tomorrow.
(Although this reporter, as all media analysts today, has no idea what any of this story is about, I will use my Word spellchecker, "save as HTML", and then ask our technology expert to place it on our website, despite his warning that by doing so I will only deepen the resentment and disdain that the online community has for me and the paper by displaying the lack of knowledge I have on the subject.
.sig last updated Jan. 14, 2000
instead of a long winded counter-counter-counter-argument, i'll just refer you back to the last counter-argument...if you just want straight news, why not read the other weblogs that do basically the same stuff?
:) even if it isn't strictly technological news, it's definitely _community news_ and for some of us here, it's most definitely stuff that matters.
/. has never had the motto "news for nerds: purely technological stuff that bugzilla wants to see"
there are those of us in the community who love seeing this stuff (btw, congrats chris
afaik,
-dk
-dk
Dream with the feathers of angels stuffed beneath your head.
Gee I wish I had a site that hundred of thousands of people watched for news so that I could grandstand any ol' time I wanted. Perhaps I should create a geek gossip site for just this kind of stuff. ("Did you hear? Cowboy Neal went on a date! With a REAL WOMAN! Rumor has it was with the X10 QuickCam ``Babe''!")
The subject of this message refers not to the news item, but to the non-stop and ever inceasing volume of ctiticism from message posters leveled at every kind of topic posted.
"Less personal info. Less legal stuff. Less stuff about commercial software. Less opinion pieces from [whoever]."
What are we left with? A bunch of dry news items about kernel releases and KDE upgrades. I much prefer the occasional personal piece from our online friends, or the occasional humourous new topic.
If you are posting a message on here complaining about the signal/noise ratio on Slashdot, think it over first. You are about to become the noise, not the signal.
Hotnutz.com
Now please realize that I am not commenting one way or the other. For all I know, geek marraiges could be twice as successful as "normal folks" weddings (hey cleetus, where's that woman?). What I am wondering is if geeks do better, if so, why? If not why? And if you have no clue, what do you predict?
To start things off, my theory. I predict that geeks do just as well as anyone else - no better no worse. There are those that succeed because two highly reclusive people fit well togethor and an equal amount that fail based on the same reasoning. I have absolutely NO hard data to back this up, but that's the point.
14 digits of Pi are all we need.
Replace "Chris_and_Christinas-Wedding" with "Chris_and_Christines-Wedding" in all cases.
And the brethren went away edified.
I'm too sexy for this site
Too sexy for this site
Too sexy, daaaaamn right
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
And I'm, too sexy for JonKatz,
Too sexy for JonKatz,
what's he think about that?
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
I'm too sexy for you trolls
Too sexy for you trolls
Go back into your holes.
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
And I'm to sexy for AC's
Too sexy for AC's
They wish they could write posts like these
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
I'm too sexy for Roblimo
Too sexy for Roblimo
Nobody ever liked himo.
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
And I'm too sexy for RedHat
Too sexy for RedHat
It is bloated dumb and fat
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
I'm too sexy for Trollmastah
Too sexy for Trollmastuh
His posts are inferior to mine, basta'
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
And I'm too sexy for your karma
Too sexy for your karma
Go post at ZD-net you harma
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
I'm too sexy for Signal11
Too sexy for Signal11
He dies but he doesn't go to heaven.
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
I do my sexy thing here at Slashdot.
Yeah here at Slashdot, yeah
I post a lot of posts here at Slashdot.
Let me make a few points.
- The web is about communication. Pure and simple. It really doesn't do anything else except transmit knowledge from one place to another. CmdrTaco wished to communicate something about his life. This is no less, and no more, relevant than the DeCSS injunction posts because they both deal with the human experience.
- No one will argue that Hemos and CmdrTaco and the rest of the
/. gang have given vast chunks of their life up to this website. In their little remaining time they do non /. things. They have in the past, and will continue to in the future hopefully, posted several of the (remaining after /. work ) personal events in their lives. This fosters a sense of community and gives greater value to all the posts because it gives you a connection to the crew that makes this possible. Again, they are communicating the human experience through mostly news, but other tidbits as well. - If you come to
/. for a good spot to stay current in technology, great. But ask yourself, why not the hundreds of other weblogs that do the same thing? Why not the major news outlets? It is probably the /. community itself. The monster of this site's editors sick and twisted minds. *grin* This community was created because we knew we could get the technical information we want and need, but without the dissatisfying taste that we get when we go to other, blander, less human web sites.
SoI'll conclude with this exercise
What is the CNN tech new editor's favorite technology?
What is Hemos' favorite technology?
The proof is in the pudding.
Crulx
crulx@iaxs.net
Why do so many geeks/nerds/hackers/etc. dislike wearing suits? Or is there just a conspiracy among the media to make that seem so? ;-) (And yes, I've read the jargon files, among others.)
/dev/closet for important things like hardwear^H^H^Hare)
/dev/closet :-)
It seems like suits would be much sought after for a few reasons:
1) Quality: Your OS is custom tailored, why aren't your clothes?
2) Slickness: Your GUI is fashionable, why aren't you?
3) Reuse: Your processes rarely raise a stink after running for days/weeks/months/years on end, but after 24hrs. those jeans and t-shirts are another story.
4) Modularity: 2+ piece suits can load or unload modules as needed. Processor too hot? rmmod coat. Packets lost in the stream? rmmod necktie. Change in environment? insmod coat. Expecting PHB attack on port *:brainbox insmod necktie.
5) Efficiency: Since suits/shirts/accessories are interchangeable, there's no need to make your apparel statically linked. (Leave that space on
6) Emulation: Fool your boss, get a raise.
Well, enough of that list. Now I'll try to predict some replies (R) and answer (A) them:
1) Quality:
(R) Sure, you jerk! Not everyone can afford that!
(A) You're in the computer industry and can't afford two good suits, shirts, and dry-cleaning? Either think of them as supplements instead of complements, or get a job that pays you what it should.
2) Slickness:
(R) According to the numbers, MS's GUI is fashionable. I like to express my individuality.
(A) Fashion isn't about popularity/market-appeal. If you're thinking this way, you're probably missing the point of being an individual.
3) Reuse:
(R) I can wear my clothes for days and noone complains.
(A) They are being polite, but probably stop that when you're not around. Beside badly affecting you in ways you may not know, it's unhealthy.
4) Modularity:
(R) Yeah, and I can do the same thing with a regular jacket and so forth.
(A) Sure, but a suit opens more doors.
5) Efficiency:
(R) What could be easier than jeans and a t-shirt? How often do you mix-and-match coats and trousers? That sounds like a static link to me.
(A) OK, you got me here. But you still can save closet space (and I can pretend I have a
6) Emulation:
(R) As if that ever really happens.
(A) Try it.
OK, I'm done. Now I'm going to put on my flame-retardant SUIT and wait for replies. In the mean time perhaps someone will come up with open source clothing designs and a sewing machine device driver. Either that or I'll wait for jokes about keyRINGs, softWEAR, jeans, genomes, gnomes; or at least for the server load to drop so I can see the photos.