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Friedman on Linux Desktop Expectations
An anonymous reader writes "SearchEnterpriseLinux.com is featuring an interview with Novell/Ximian's Nat Friedman on the increasing interest about the Linux desktop. Quote from the interview - "A day doesn't go by when I don't talk to a Fortune 1000 customer from the financial services market, automotives or others that are not looking at dipping their feet into the Linux desktop."
And by the way, both Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza's April 12th blog entry have a picture of Miguel and Nat dancing with David Vaskevitch, CTO of Microsoft. Now that's something you don't get to see everyday!"
God Nat Friedman is a sexy piece of ass.
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see my most recent journal entry :)
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
Blimey! Everytime I cross the pond I have to get fingerprinted? I'd better stop wearing women's clothing. Bloody 'ell, those damn Yanks. Well, I best be catching me a lorry so I can have tea with me mum. Hope I don't break me arm cause I'd hate to have to wait 18 hours in searing pain in the emergency loo. 4 pounds sterling for a petrol of gas? Well, at least it isnt 4 pounds 50 like last year. God hail the Queen for providing for us. Bob's your uncle and all that. Cheerio.
Ever dance with the Devil by the pale moonlight?
Microsoft Office and any application that makes Microsoft Office files by default. Think about it.
"How Do You Know?"
by Janis Cortese
This has got to be one of the most common of the Questions That Have No Neat Answer. Bandied by heterosexuals and gay people alike, wondered at by disquieted people late at night, it's surprising just how fuzzy a question it can be.
Part of the confusion lies in the way that homosexuality is presented in the culture at large -- a homosexual is defined as "one who has sex with a member of the same sex." It seems simple enough, and to say that it's not that easy can at first glance appear crazy. What do you mean it's not that easy? Come on, that's what homosexuality is all about! Who you have sex with -- no grey areas at all.
Well, as with most things, the reality isn't as easy as the ten-second quiz that is often used to study it, and while most heterosexuals would be quite ready to agree to this definition of homosexuality, you would find damned few lesbians, bisexuals, or gay men who would be so ready to reduce so complicated an issue to a ten-second sound bite.
What I'd like to do here is address a few of the more common misconceptions about a person's discovery that they are in fact, lesbian, bisexual, or gay and explain why these issues are in fact much more complex than they would appear at first.
What Does Gay Mean?
Before you go too much further with this question, it's important to understand what you are thinking when you say "gay." For a lot of people, the word means different things, and you need to know what you are thinking when you ask "Are you gay?" You need to know what you are calling gay before you can determine whether or not you or anyone else meets the criteria.
A very important thing to remember for the arrow-straight person who is trying to learn more about what "gay" means is not to attempt to define it too rigorously yourself. Listen to lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men when they tell you what the words means from inside their own skulls. One of the most irritating things I've ever experienced was attempting to discuss this topic with a woman who would not admit to homophobia who nonetheless felt that, as a straight woman, she had the right to veto my definition of bisexuality, along with my experience of it. Remember all of those times when women would read books written by male doctors that defined "what it means to be pregnant?" Very often, not only would these men act as if they had the right to define something that they never experienced, they also considered that they had the right to tell us that we were wrong when we tried to tell them what it was really like.
Similarly, if you are interested in really learning what it means to be lesbian, bisexual, or gay, you have to admit to yourself that lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men will know more about this than you, assuming you are straight. If they tell you what it is like to realize that you are LBG, or what their personal definition of it is, they are telling you how they feel, and they know that best. A straight person taking issue with a lesbian's explanation of what it means to be lesbian is similar to a woman explaining what it's like to have cramps only to have a man say back, "Well, you see, I disagree completely . . . " If a LBG is taking the time to explain something to you that is very personal, be polite and thoughtful -- and be reasonable. They understand it better than you, and you can safely take their word for it regards what it means. They may still be in the process of thinking it out for themselves, though, so try not to treat them like a textbook.
For a lot of people, straight people and LBG's who are still learning about the concept themselves, the definition of LBG is a complicated thing:
* Some people consider that everyone, including straight people, have the potential to love a member of the same sex sexually.
* Others consider that homosexuality is an innate thing, and that you're born th
In response to your sig; [great conversation piece BTW]
You are absolutely correct. I guess they only give mod points to Zionist Bushites. Every single time I post a religious comment on slashdot, it is modded as a troll/flamebait - and here's why~
God is your own personal thing and no policy should ever be based on the word of God. I find it particularly ironic that Islamic fundamentalists are being fought with an Army (of which I am a veteran) led by a Christian fundamentalist with a Zionist leaning. If we keep it up, "God" will kill us all.
Face it. Instead of what would Jesus do, ask "What the fuck has Jesus done?" besides become a martyr. Hmmm, aren't we killing those pesky martyrs now? I guess the Jews HAVE been doing it for years. First Jesus, now the Palestinians. Of course it is OK to kill the unwashed who get in the way of their Zionist agenda. Then we got those perfect Christians gassing Jews by the millions. You'd figure if God was anywhere near any of this, he would see all of these idiots blowing themselves up, building walls, assassinating cripples and decide this faith bullshit is just that bullshit. Think about it, if God just showed up one afternoon, made a 30 second speech, this shit would be all over. There would be no more religious wars or the like, we would all be one unified faith living in peace. Well, since that hasn't happened, I guess we'll have to all renounce religion and become peaceful without it ~ makes more sense anyway.
Flame on bitches, I say fuck you and your sheepish mentality. A wise governor of Minnesota once made the insightful remark: Religion is a crutch for the weak. You, mister "Let's argue through mod points", are the weak.
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When I was an undergraduate, I presented at an image processing/image understanding conference at the U. of Texas in Austin. Someone presented a paper the idea of using mountains or buildings to determine position. There was a demo program done on an SGI, where a long distance rover could recognize its position from Martian topography.